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Damo Academy unveils an AI agent able to discover superconductors
18 days ago
- Alibaba's Damo Academy unveiled the industry's first AI agent for discovering superconducting materials.
- The AI agent, named Elements Claw, identified four previously unknown superconductors, verified in lab experiments.
- The system screened 2.4 million stable crystal structures in 28 hours and narrowed down 68,000 candidates.
- It was developed in collaboration with Renmin University and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Superconductor discovery traditionally relies on trial-and-error due to incomplete theoretical frameworks.
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
15 days ago
- Claude Cowork, Anthropic's Claude Code-style agent, is expanding from desktop to web and mobile for Max subscribers, enabling cross-device task management.
- The expansion positions Cowork as an agentic administrative coworker that works in the background, requests human input when needed, and operates across devices, moving beyond a coding tool.
- Anthropic's move reflects a broader trend where AI firms like OpenAI are pushing products into everyday work surfaces, betting on owning the space where work gets done rather than just having the best chatbot.
- Anthropic also launched Claude Tag for Slack, an always-on AI teammate, and emphasizes Cowork's ability to run tasks in the background without an online device.
- Early data from Cowork sessions shows the top use cases are business process operations (33.4%) like reports and checklists, content creation and copywriting (16.4%), with software development accounting for only 8.7%.
- Anthropic aims to make Cowork a reference for integrating AI into daily work, highlighting value in handling 'work around the work' rather than core responsibilities.
Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash
14 days ago
- Knock Agent is an AI agent for managing customer messaging resources, capable of creating and updating workflows, templates, audiences, segmenting users, and answering performance questions.
- The agent was built using a virtual filesystem and bash, inspired by Vercel's approach, allowing it to explore and script on resources via a filesystem instead of exposing numerous API tools.
- A custom Elixir-based virtual bash interpreter called just-bash was developed to provide a lightweight, in-memory environment without the performance overhead of a full sandbox.
- The agent uses a durable workflow with Oban and Postgres, lazy-loading resources into the filesystem and providing tools like bash, read_file, edit_file, write_file, and upsert_resource for operations.
- Skills are introduced to teach the agent resource-specific nuances, and a CLI (knock command) is integrated for querying dynamic data like logs, reducing the need for additional tools.
- Observability is achieved through OpenTelemetry traces to Honeycomb and Braintrust, with a homegrown evals system using LLM-as-judge for testing and monitoring agent performance.
- Future improvements include better session compaction, expanded evals, and exploring subagents for focused tasks, building on the filesystem-based foundation to enhance agent capabilities.
Self-testing AI harness finds its own bugs
7 days ago
- Every morning at 9 AM, Omnideck stress-tests its browser tools on 50 real websites across categories like e-commerce and news.
- When tools fail, Omnideck uses diagnostic tools to identify root causes, such as DOM issues or race conditions, and validates them against its own source code.
- Over a week, this routine found 14 bugs across 35 sites, with examples including content selection logic and modal handling errors.
- Bugs are filed as GitHub issues with proposed fixes, creating a self-improvement loop that enhances tool reliability for future tasks.
- The process leverages existing capabilities like browser tools and code analysis to systematically reduce web chaos and improve performance.
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
6 days ago
- LM Studio Bionic is an AI agent for open models designed for tasks like coding, research, and document work.
- It offers local model usage or cloud-based open-source models with privacy controls like Zero Data Retention and no data training.
- Features include voice input with local transcription (e.g., Voxtral by Mistral AI), flexible model execution (local, LM Link, or Secure Cloud), and cost control.
- For coding, it inspects local codebases, explains code, and helps with edits and debugging using models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code.
- For productivity, it works with documents, PDFs, slides, and sheets in sandboxed environments, offering summarization, editing, and web search.
- It supports both local model downloads via the LM Studio runtime and cloud inference with transient data processing.
- Bionic is a separate app from LM Studio, requiring an LM Studio account for cloud models, and focuses on user control and privacy.
Show HN: Agent in 9 Lines Python
12 hours ago
- The script is a minimal AI agent implemented in 9 lines of Python.
- It uses a custom tool to execute shell commands via subprocess based on model requests.
- The agent interacts with the user through command-line input, sends conversation history to a GPT-5.6 model API, and displays responses along with token usage.
How we verify Cleric’s production fixes
5 hours ago
- Production verification is necessary but difficult due to delayed feedback and unreliable self-assessment by the investigation agent.
- A separate 'auditor' agent critiques the investigation process, improving acknowledgment of uncertainty.
- Verification uses a separate agent per issue that reads findings but forms its own judgment from production evidence.
- Dynamic code generation creates checks that run periodically, with the agent re-invoked only when status changes or monitoring ends.
- The verifier focuses on deeper signals (defects) rather than just alert recovery, and uses a rubric refined through failure cases.
- Learning from experience includes avoiding compounding errors from the verifier's own memory and tightening the standard of proof.
- Outcome data shows most fixes are applied on threads without human reply, and recurring alert clusters often stop after a fix is applied.
- Counterfactual analysis and user actions provide labeled data to improve suggestions and confidence scoring.
- The approach generalizes beyond fixes to verify any code or configuration change in production.

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#ai agent

Damo Academy unveils an AI agent able to discover superconductors

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash

Self-testing AI harness finds its own bugs

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

Show HN: Agent in 9 Lines Python

How we verify Cleric’s production fixes