contracts

The article proposes that in a Coding Agent, tool invocations should be treated as contracts rather than simple functions, emphasizing the Harness's adjudication role in verification, permissions, lifecycle management, and others, and discusses in detail the composition and lifecycle of tool contracts.

A UK parliamentary committee warns that the government's growing reliance on Palantir's technology creates an unacceptable vendor lock-in risk, recommending early termination of the NHS contract due to political and ethical concerns.

C++26 is introducing standardized library hardening to catch common undefined behavior (like out-of-bounds access) at runtime, based on Google's production experience showing a mere 0.30% performance overhead and a 30% reduction in segmentation faults.