How-Tos & Practical Guides

The AI agent framework landscape looked very different eighteen months ago. In mid-2024, there were somewhere north of 14 actively-maintained frameworks competing for developer attention — AutoGen, MetaGPT, SuperAGI, AgentVerse, and a long tail of others all vying for the same mindshare. By early 2026, the field has consolidated dramatically. Three frameworks have emerged as the clear dominant players: LangGraph, CrewAI, and Pydantic AI. This isn’t a comprehensive benchmark — it’s a practical decision guide. Here’s how to choose. ...

CNCERT just flagged 135,000 publicly exposed OpenClaw instances. If yours is one of them, this guide is for you. The 2026 OpenClaw security advisory covers two CVEs and a systemic issue with weak default configurations. This guide walks you through the practical steps to harden your deployment — from critical patches to defense-in-depth practices that protect against prompt injection attacks. Time to complete: 30–60 minutes Applies to: All self-hosted OpenClaw deployments Urgency: High — patch the CVEs first ...

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan just open-sourced gstack — a Claude Code toolkit that transforms a single coding agent into a coordinated team of 8 specialist agents, each optimized for a specific phase of the software development lifecycle. He reportedly merged 100 pull requests in 7 days using it. Product Hunt is calling it “God Mode” for developers. Here’s what it is, why it works, and how to set it up. ...

If you’re building production AI agents in 2026, you’ve almost certainly encountered both MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Agent Skills as architectural options. Both are ways to extend what an AI agent can do — but they operate at fundamentally different levels of abstraction, and choosing between them (or combining them) is one of the most consequential architectural decisions you’ll make early in a project. This guide breaks down how each approach works, when each excels, the compatibility patterns for using both together, and the production deployment tradeoffs that practitioners are discovering in the field. ...

Running Claude Code in a Docker container isn’t just a development curiosity — it’s increasingly the recommended way to work with AI coding agents in a way that’s both powerful and secure. Docker published an official guide this week walking through the full workflow: local model execution with Docker Model Runner, real-world tool connections via MCP servers, and securing agent autonomy inside isolated sandboxes. This guide synthesizes that walkthrough into a practical tutorial for developers who want to get running quickly. ...

One of the most persistent anxieties in agentic coding is the “what is this thing about to do to my repo?” problem. You describe a task. The agent starts executing. And somewhere between your request and the outcome, files get modified, commands get run, and irreversible things happen — sometimes incorrectly. Google just shipped a thoughtful solution to this problem in Gemini CLI: plan mode. Plan mode restricts the AI agent to read-only tools until you explicitly approve its proposed plan. No file writes. No command execution. Just analysis and a detailed proposal — which you review, approve (or reject), and then execute with confidence. ...

Stanford researchers just released OpenJarvis — a local-first framework for building AI agents that run entirely on-device, with no cloud calls required. Tool use, persistent memory, and online learning. All on your hardware, completely private. For anyone who’s been waiting for a serious open-source alternative to cloud-hosted agent frameworks for privacy-sensitive applications — healthcare, legal work, personal data processing, enterprise environments with air-gap requirements — this is worth a close look. ...

Getting OpenClaw running locally has always required a non-trivial amount of setup — installing dependencies, configuring models, managing environment variables, and keeping the stack running reliably. With the launch of FlashClaw today, there’s now a one-click cloud path that skips all of that. This guide walks you through getting your first OpenClaw agent running in the cloud using FlashClaw, from account creation to your first autonomous workflow. What You’ll Need A FlashClaw account (sign up at flashclaw.dev) An API key for your preferred AI model (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI Grok, or others supported by OpenClaw) A workflow idea — even something simple like “monitor a URL and summarize changes daily” works perfectly for a first test Time required: 10–15 minutes for your first deployment. ...

DryRun Security’s 2026 Agentic Coding Security Report found that Claude, when operating as an autonomous coding agent, produces more unresolved high-severity security flaws than Codex or Gemini. But here’s the thing: all AI coding agents produce security vulnerabilities. The model matters less than your review process. This guide walks you through a practical security audit workflow for AI-generated code, applicable regardless of which model or agent you’re using. Before You Start: Understand the Risk Profile AI-generated code has specific vulnerability patterns that differ from human-written code. Knowing what to look for saves time. ...

DryRun Security’s 2026 Agentic Coding Security Report landed a finding that should make every engineering team pause: 87% of pull requests written by AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) introduced at least one security vulnerability. Not occasionally — consistently, across all three leading models, in real application development scenarios. This isn’t a reason to stop using AI coding agents. The productivity gains are real. But it is a strong signal that AI-generated code needs a security review process as rigorous as — or more rigorous than — what you’d apply to human-written code. ...