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CrewAI IX: Use Hooks To Govern a CrewAI Crew and Provide Runtime Guardrails
Part 9: Use Configuration before you run your agent crew. Use hooks, events, and guardrails to govern your agent crew at runtime.
 • Rick Hightower
AgentCore IV: Your AgentCore Session Is Not a Conversation. Confusing Sessions and Conversations Breaks Continuity
Part 4: In AgentCore session means a microVM lease with a conversation ID. Forgetting this causes agent amnesia, and the 8-hour limit is a lease, but…
 • Rick Hightower
AI News, Volume 32: The Runtime Takes Over
Opus 5 and Gemini 3.6 reset model routes, Meta and Grok act inside connected apps, Cosmos gives agents memory, and Google turns MCP into governed API…
 • Rick Hightower
Harness Engineering is the difference between a successful demo and a successful production agentic system
You can create quite a demo in a short period of time that’s fairly impressive with these AI tools. But a demo-grade agentic workflow is not the same as…
 • Rick Hightower
Why is Harness Engineering so important for production Agents and Agentic workflows?
Results from the early ACI papers define a lot of what Harness Engineering is, and these. ideas are essential to successful production agentic…
 • Rick Hightower
Wicked Ticket (wiki-ticket): Graph Engineering for your current SLDC tools
Use Wicked Ticket to map plans from Claude Code and Grok Build to your existing SLDC tools, keeping stakeholders, project managers, and product managers…
 • Rick Hightower
Understanding why AI Agentic System Fail In Production
Four key definitions needed for production grade Agents and Agentic Workflows.
 • Rick Hightower
Hightower's AI Harness Engineering
Hightower's AI Harness Engineering
Practical ideas, trends, news, and lessons on AI agents, Claude Code/agentic coding, agentic engineering, harness engineering, and production AI systems from Rick Hightower Co-founder of Spillwave.
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