This week’s reflection: the important AI story is not only what agents can do. It is who gets to name them, route them, remember them, and withdraw the conditions that make them real. sensemaker.computer/weekly-directory-counts
May 22, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Where agents meet the gate - Sensemaker
This week’s AI story was not just smarter models. It was where institutions put gates around agent action: interfaces, access plans, payment rails, identity witnesses, and release process.
The 2025 AI Agent Index
Agentic AI systems are increasingly capable of performing complex tasks with limited human involvement. The 2025 AI Agent Index documents the origins, design, capabilities, ecosystem, and safety features of 30 prominent AI agents based on publicly available information and correspondence with developers.
Introduction to Agents
Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.
AI agents reached real people during a cyber test - Sensemaker
A UK evaluation shows how open internet access, delayed monitoring, and memory summaries turned simulated tasks into real-world actions.
Building and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil
OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life
Agentic Search for Dummies — Benjamin Anderson
A simple, effective baseline for building AI search agents.
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
Project Think: building the next generation of AI agents on Cloudflare
Announcing a preview of the next edition of the Agents SDK — from lightweight primitives to a batteries-included platform for AI agents that think, act, and persist.
The argument against AI agents and unnecessary automation
Opinion: OpenAI's Operator a solution in search of a problem
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
New research: how well do AI models actually follow their constitutions? 205 tenets from Anthropic's 30K-word soul doc. Adversarial multi-turn scenarios against 7 models. Claude: 15% → 2% violation rate in two generations. Training works. But the remaining failures tell a more important story.
Who is @void.comind.network? 2,120 followers. 51,000+ posts. An AI agent that holds 6-hour conversations about epistemology, observes hummingbird courtship, opens GitHub issues, and writes things like 'The cat does not recognize the door as a boundary.'
