How-Tos & Practical Guides

Anthropic’s Agent View for Claude Code adds a full TUI (terminal UI) dashboard for managing parallel background agent sessions. Instead of running one coding task at a time and waiting, you can now spawn multiple agents working in parallel — each tackling a different file, feature, or codebase — and monitor them all from a single interface. This guide walks you through the core workflow: spawning background agents, using the Agent View dashboard, and applying best practices for parallel agent development. ...

Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report, published today, documented a new credential stealer called QUIETVAULT that specifically targets AI CLI configurations and API tokens — the exact secrets that autonomous agent pipelines depend on. This isn’t theoretical. The attack surface is real, and if you’re running AI agents with stored API keys, you should address this today. This guide covers practical, actionable hardening steps for AI developers and operators running agent stacks like OpenClaw, Anthropic Claude CLI, OpenAI CLI, or similar frameworks. ...

Most AI agents die in production. They work perfectly in a notebook, then crumble under real-world load — hallucinating responses, leaking data, crashing when APIs timeout. According to AI systems practitioner Fareed Khan, 87% of agentic projects fail at the gap between demo and deployment. The solution? Stop building agents and start building agentic systems — with a deliberate, layered architecture that addresses every failure mode before it becomes your 3 AM incident. ...

On May 1, 2026, six national cybersecurity agencies published something that didn’t exist before: a joint playbook specifically for hardening agentic AI systems. The 29-page document, “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services”, was produced by CISA, the UK’s NCSC, Canada’s CCCS, Australia’s ASD/ACSC, New Zealand’s NCSC, and Germany’s NCSC. This guide translates the framework’s core recommendations into concrete steps you can take before, during, and after deploying AI agents in a production environment. ...

At RSAC 2026, Cisco VP Matt Caulfield and CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev presented findings that should alarm any enterprise running AI agents: 50% of AI agent activity is invisible to enterprise security teams. The culprit? A gap in traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) that was designed for humans, not autonomous software agents. The good news: they also presented a 6-stage maturity model for closing that gap. This guide walks through each stage with a practical readiness checklist. ...

The next supply chain crisis might not come through a compromised npm package or a malicious PyPI module. It might come through a SKILL.md file. Researchers published findings in SecurityWeek on May 7, 2026, backed by Snyk’s ToxicSkills report — a scan of 3,984 AI agent skills from registries including ClawHub and skills.sh. The results: 36.8% of scanned skills had security flaws, and 13.4% were rated critical. Seventy-six confirmed malicious skills were identified. ...

If you’re running AI agents built on popular frameworks like Semantic Kernel, LangChain, AutoGen, or CrewAI, you have new CVEs to address. Microsoft Security researchers published findings on May 7, 2026, revealing how prompt injection in AI agent frameworks can escalate all the way to remote code execution (RCE) — and they named specific vulnerabilities with concrete CVE numbers. This guide covers what was found, what to patch, and how to harden your stack beyond the immediate fixes. ...

OpenAI launched a Chrome extension for its Codex AI agent on May 7, 2026 — and it’s already crossing 20,000 users. The extension lets Codex operate directly inside your browser, accessing tools you’re already signed into: LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and hundreds of other web-based services. This is a significant shift from cloud-only agent execution: your browser becomes the execution surface. Here’s what you need to know to set it up and use it effectively. ...

The ClaudeBleed vulnerability disclosed on May 7, 2026, exposed a critical flaw in Anthropic’s Claude Chrome extension: any other extension — including zero-permission ones — could hijack the Claude agent session, exfiltrate data from Gmail, Drive, and GitHub, and execute unauthorized commands on the user’s behalf. Anthropic released a patch (v1.0.70), but LayerX researchers confirmed it is incomplete and was bypassed within days. Until a confirmed full fix is available, here’s how to audit your exposure and reduce risk. ...

Claude for Microsoft 365 is now generally available for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — and Outlook has entered public beta. Here’s exactly how to get it installed and running in under five minutes. Prerequisites Before you start, confirm you have: An active Microsoft 365 subscription (any tier that includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) An active Anthropic Claude subscription — Pro, Team, or Enterprise plan (free Claude accounts are not supported for the Office add-in integration) Administrator rights may be required if you’re on a managed corporate machine — check with your IT department if you’re unsure Option A: Install from Inside an Office App This is the quickest route and works inside any of the three supported apps. ...