How-Tos & Practical Guides

If you’re building agentic AI systems for a living, there’s now a formal certification for that — and the beta window is open with a significant discount. GitHub and Microsoft launched Exam GH-600: Certified Agentic AI Developer in beta on May 13, 2026, with general availability planned for July 2026. It’s the first role-based certification focused specifically on how developers build, operate, supervise, and integrate AI agents across the software development lifecycle. ...

OpenClaw is moving fast in 2026, and the latest pre-release — 2026.5.16-beta.4 — brings a cluster of improvements that multi-agent pipeline operators have been asking for. The highlights this cycle: smarter subagent handoffs, cron scheduling refinements, Grok OAuth for SuperGrok subscribers, and a Control UI that finally shows you where your quota is going. Here’s a breakdown of what changed, why it matters, and what to check after upgrading. Cleaner Subagent Handoffs (Delegated Completions) The most significant change in beta.4 is how subagent handoffs are labeled and surfaced when they complete. Previously, completions from child agents could arrive in a way that made it unclear which task was being reported — especially in long pipelines with multiple agent depths. ...

Code extracted from Google App v17.20 reveals that Gemini Spark — Google’s forthcoming always-on Android AI agent — is built around two architectural pillars: a modular skill system and a background task scheduler. If you’re building with AI agent frameworks or evaluating the agentic AI landscape ahead of Google I/O 2026 (May 19–20), understanding this architecture will help you contextualize where Google’s platform play fits relative to what already exists. ...

When people talk about multi-agent AI development teams, they usually mean two or three agents working together on a task. Peter Steinberger means something different. Steinberger — founder of OpenClaw and now an engineer at OpenAI — runs approximately 100 Codex instances in continuous operation. They write code, review pull requests, find bugs, deduplicate GitHub issues, monitor benchmarks, and even attend meetings to draft PRs for features discussed in conversation. In 30 days, his team’s OpenAI API bill hit $1.3 million for 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests. The top model powering it all: GPT-5.5. ...

If you’ve been running OpenClaw with OpenAI models and paying separately for API access, that just changed. OpenClaw now routes all OpenAI model requests through the native Codex runtime harness by default, and it’s powered by your existing ChatGPT Plus, Pro, or Team subscription. No separate API key. No double billing. Sign in via OAuth, and your ChatGPT plan funds your OpenClaw agents. What Changed OpenAI announced the Codex runtime integration in early May 2026. The key shift: instead of OpenClaw calling the OpenAI API directly with a developer API key, it now uses the Codex runtime harness — the same infrastructure powering Codex in the ChatGPT interface — accessed through your existing subscription credentials. ...

OpenClaw is running two release tracks simultaneously this week: v2026.5.12 is the latest stable release, and v2026.5.16-beta.1 is the current leading beta. Together they represent the most significant package of security and performance improvements OpenClaw has shipped since earlier this year. Here’s what’s in each track, why the changes matter for production agent deployments, and how to think about upgrading. v2026.5.12 Stable — What Changed Major Memory Leak Fix The most important change in v2026.5.12 is a fix for a memory leak that caused significant RSS (Resident Set Size) growth when processing large transcripts. ...

xAI’s Grok Build launched in early beta on May 14, 2026 — and if you’re a SuperGrok Heavy subscriber, you already have access to one of the most ambitious agentic coding CLIs in the field. This guide walks you through what you need to get started, what to expect from the parallel subagent architecture, and how to make the most of the Plan–Review–Approve workflow. Note: Grok Build is in early beta as of this writing. Some installation steps, specific commands, and configuration options may change as the product matures. Always refer to xAI’s official documentation at x.ai for the most current setup instructions. ...

If you’ve run long agentic sessions in Claude Code, you’ve probably hit this: the agent wraps up, reports success, and something is still broken. The model didn’t lie — it genuinely assessed its work as complete. But it was wrong. Claude Code v2.1.139 (shipped May 12, 2026) addresses this with the /goal command, a feature that separates the model doing the work from the model judging whether that work is done. This guide explains how it works and how to write goals that actually catch incomplete work. ...

CVE-2026-44338 is an authentication bypass in PraisonAI versions 2.5.6 through 4.6.33 that allows unauthenticated attackers to list your agent configurations and trigger arbitrary agent workflow execution. It was disclosed May 11, 2026 and was being actively exploited within 4 hours. This guide walks through: checking your installed version, patching, verifying the fix, auditing network exposure, and reviewing logs for indicators of compromise. Note: All commands in this guide are standard pip and system tools. For PraisonAI-specific configuration options and advanced deployment settings, always refer to the official PraisonAI documentation — don’t rely solely on this guide for edge-case deployment scenarios. ...

Freshworks announced Freddy AI Agent Studio at Refresh 2026 — a no-code platform for building custom AI agents on top of Freshservice, their IT service management (ITSM) platform. Alongside it: an MCP Gateway that connects Freddy agents to third-party tools including Notion, ClickUp, and Linear. This guide explains what Freddy AI Agent Studio is, what it can do, and how to approach building your first custom IT service desk agent using the platform. ...