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# Agents - New Runtime

A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about agents.

## Short 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.

## Patterns


## Field Notes

- [Agent APIs Need Fewer Magic Tricks and More Facts](https://newruntime.com/posts/agent-api-design/): 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.
- [Under the Hood: AI Engineers Need Mechanism Maps](https://newruntime.com/posts/ai-engineering-under-the-hood/): AI Engineering from Scratch is useful as a mechanism map, from math and Transformers to retrieval, agents, evals, and production infrastructure.

## Recent Raw Signals

- 2026-07-08: [Loop Engineering Treats the Agent as a Process, Not a Prompt](https://newruntime.com/signals/loop-engineering-treats-the-agent-as-a-process-not-a-prompt/)
- 2026-07-02: [AI Moves from a Separate App into the Work Environment](https://newruntime.com/signals/ai-moves-from-a-separate-app-into-the-work-environment/)
- 2026-07-02: [Loop Engineering Applies to Product Management Too](https://newruntime.com/signals/loop-engineering-applies-to-product-management-too/)

## Public Sources

- 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
- https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/2068730090457006588