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  "title": "Agents - New Runtime",
  "description": "A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about agents.",
  "answer": [
    "Agents is tracked here as an evidence-linked topic, not as a static glossary entry.",
    "The page connects raw observations to pattern hypotheses, longer analysis, and public sources.",
    "Use it as the canonical landing page before drilling into individual records."
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    "markdown": "https://newruntime.com/topics/agents.md",
    "json": "https://newruntime.com/topics/agents.json"
  },
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    "https://aiengineeringfromscratch.com/",
    "https://github.com/rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch",
    "https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/announcing-vulnhunter-ce9784834ca9",
    "https://www.freestyle.sh/blog/opinion/designing-apis-for-agents",
    "https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2074208949205881033",
    "https://x.com/karpathy/status/2069547676849557725",
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      "slug": "agent-api-design",
      "title": "Agent APIs Need Fewer Magic Tricks and More Facts",
      "description": "Agent-first APIs should return explicit fields, precise errors, raw facts, and traceable metadata so models can repair tool calls deterministically instead of guessing world state.",
      "date": "2026-07-21",
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    },
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      "title": "Under the Hood: AI Engineers Need Mechanism Maps",
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        "rag",
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      "title": "Loop Engineering Treats the Agent as a Process, Not a Prompt",
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      "date": "2026-07-08",
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      "title": "Loop Engineering Applies to Product Management Too",
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