Hi,

You subscribed at agentailor.com and then I went quiet for about six months. That's on me. Some of you never even got a welcome email, so: welcome, belatedly.

Here's what this list is. Agentailor is a hub for developers building AI agents. The premise is that there are four ways to build one (yourself, with a coding agent, deploying open source, or a managed service) and most of the difficulty is picking the right one. I write about what actually works in production and what's just noise. This list gets a short note roughly once a month on what shipped. No hype, no filler.

Now the part you probably don't know about.

The blog reads differently to an agent than it does to you

Last spring I noticed something in the analytics. The blog is about a year old, around 40,000 reads, roughly 3,500 a month. But a growing slice of that traffic wasn't human. It was coding assistants and AI crawlers pulling articles as context.

That seemed worth building for rather than ignoring. So I made the blog agent-native, and while I was at it, I built an agent of its own. There's a chat widget on the blog now that answers questions grounded in the articles themselves and the public GitHub org, rather than in whatever a general model half-remembers. I wrote up the whole thing, the reasoning and the concrete engineering choices, in How I Made My Blog Native to AI Agents (And Launched One).

If you'd rather point your own assistant at Agentailor, there's now a page for that at agentailor.com/for-agents — connect over MCP, or paste a prompt with no install.

What shipped while I was quiet

Cameron hit v1. A personal finance agent you own and run yourself, built in public with one tagged release per article. It never moves money without explicit approval, every capability goes through the same gate, and your financial data stays on infrastructure you control. It's the answer I kept wanting when people asked to see a real agent end to end, rather than a demo. Start with Meet Cameron.

@agentailor/mcp is on npm. An MCP server that lets any MCP client search and read the blog and the public repos.

create-mcp-server moved to MCP SDK v2. If you're scaffolding MCP servers, v0.7 templates target the new SDK. I also wrote up what's changing in MCP v2 and why, plus a TypeScript build guide.

agentailor/skills is public: skills for building agents, each one distilled from a technique I actually used on these projects.

There are around 19 new articles beyond those. If you only read one, make it In 2026, There Are 4 Ways to Build an AI Agent. Here's How to Choose.

Agent Briefings moved to Substack

The newsletter now lives at agentailor.substack.com. It's the longer, more opinionated writing: one argument per issue, worked through properly. The most recent is on recursive language models and the end of the context window.

That's a separate subscription from this one. If you want the essays, subscribe there — this list will keep doing short monthly updates either way.

Thanks for sticking around through the silence.

— Ali

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