composability

Kent C. Dodds shares an article and YouTube video arguing that the quality of AI agent outputs depends on the design of system primitives—providing agents with well-crafted, composable building blocks narrows their action space and yields reliable results.

This article introduces Onyx, a VM for programmable agent orchestration, turning agent orchestration into software engineering by providing a runtime with clear semantics and execution model. It discusses the design decisions and limitations of current agent systems, and presents the PROGRAMS specification.

The article discusses how LLMs have grown increasingly complex, moving beyond simple transformer stacks to incorporate diverse attention variants, mixture-of-experts, and multimodal encoders, drawing parallels with recommendation systems and emphasizing the need for composable kernel optimization like FlexAttention.

Phinite launches as a multi-agent OS infrastructure layer providing first-class agent identity, composable skills, behavioral evaluation, and cloud-agnostic deployment with built-in observability.

A Twitter thread discussing whether a database filesystem abstraction (PostgresFS) or a skill-based approach with local Bash is better for agent workflows. The skill approach wins on composability and speed.

The tweet discusses the problem of bloat in AI agent harnesses, agreeing with Kaffu's critique that harnesses become "rich man's toys," and advocates for a composable architecture of small, replaceable workers to reduce drift and keep systems cheap and debuggable.

This paper presents a technique for composing data types and functions from independent components, and extends the approach to combine free monads, enabling a modular structuring of Haskell's IO monad.

Matt Pocock asks for feedback on his proposed principles for skills: concise, single-responsibility, composable, progressively disclosed, and harness-agnostic.

Caidan Williams announces an upcoming update to terminal graph, highlighting improved composability.