FROM THE TRENCHES Issue №287

Practical decisions for AI and software

Technical guides to choose models, verify software and plan delivery.

Latest articles

New comparisons, practical guides and engineering lessons.

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Google AX Agent Executor: Budgets and Self-Hosting

A sandbox is not a spending cap. What Google AX really controls, what survives suspend/resume, and which dependencies matter when you want to own your AI.

Raw agent traces becoming a persistent wiki and a validated SKILL.md file AI & Agents

WikiSkill: How Agents Evolve SKILL.md from Experience

WikiSkill compiles agent traces into a persistent evidence wiki, then validates atomic changes to SKILL.md. We review the benchmarks, transfer results, limits and production architecture.

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Tencent Octop Review: What Builders Actually Get for Free

Tencent released Octop under MIT, with multi-user agents, a dashboard, automation and storage. We examine what is really included, what is not and what a production fork still costs.

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Wigolo Review: Local Web Intelligence for AI Agents

Wigolo gives AI agents local-first search, fetch, crawl and research without a paid search API. We verify the ten-tool surface, cache, privacy, AGPL license and production limits.

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Jev AI Review: Decision Models for Agent Workflows

Jev makes typed decisions instead of prose. See how it can route models, govern agent control steps and support bounded automation without replacing hard rules.

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Supermemory: AI Agent Memory, RAG and Local Setup

Give your AI agent context between sessions without building the memory pipeline yourself. A practical Supermemory guide with API code, local setup and an honest benchmark review.

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AI Agent Design Patterns: Start Simple, Verify Actions

More loops are not automatically better. Choose the smallest agent architecture that solves the failure, and separate a proposed action from permission to execute it.

Five paths for selecting an Austrian AI partner, from custom products to industrial AI and workplace platforms Business & Regulation

AI Agencies in Austria: A Project-Fit Shortlist (2026)

Compare custom AI delivery, industrial applications and workplace platforms. A commercially interested, non-ranked shortlist with dated provider sources.

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Blockchain Development Companies in Austria: 2026 Shortlist

Who should build your Web3 product? Compare four Austrian providers, their published focus and the evidence to request before commissioning development.

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