







Microsoft shipped more concrete agent controls while Uber put coding agents on a token budget. The agent story is becoming IT management, not demos.
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.
LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...

Agents enter distribution - Sensemaker
Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.
Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior | TechCrunch
The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

Agent Skills
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...

The Rise of Agent Experience (AX)

Notion | Where teams and agents work together
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
Notion | Where teams and agents work together
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.

Notion | Where teams and agents work together
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.

Notion | Where teams and agents work together
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.

Building and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil
Agents First
Every product is getting a second customer — the human who pays, and the agent who decides. A design framework for building products that AI agents can use as primary consumers.

Track, control, and optimize for AI agents and bots | Known Agents (formerly Dark Visitors)
Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business

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