@omarsar0: The agent stack is consolidating fast: thin harnesses get absorbed into model apps, while runtimes, memory, verifiers, …
Summary
The agent stack is consolidating as thin harnesses get absorbed into model apps, with runtimes, memory, verifiers, and routing surviving. This week's signals include Ponytail shipping a YAGNI plugin for coding agents and OpenRouter adding subagent delegation to its API.
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