Newsletter

Updates and long-form essays from the Nori team on AI agents and the agent ecosystem.

• Agentics: How Corvus uses AI to remove three hidden taxes on development
  Background agents helped a four-person team in chemical manufacturing feel like twelve
  May 19, 2026
• DevLog #4: Session Transcripts, Bang Commands, and Your CLI Learns New Tricks
  Sessions ships a transcript reader. Slack gets four new bang commands. The CLI composer gains shell mode, skill discovery, and syntax-highlighted diffs. Skillsets adds symlink support and settings.json backup.
  May 18, 2026
• DevLog #3: Public API Tokens, Docker in Sessions, and Slack Stops Saying “Sprite”
  Public registrar API tokens land end-to-end across Registrar, Skillsets, and Sessions. Docker daemons are first-class on sprites. A new sessions landing page with Slack permalinks. An OAuth incident becomes proactive token refresh.
  May 11, 2026
• DevLog #2: Multi-Agent MCP, Durable Resume, and One-Click Google Workspace
  MCP works across Claude, Codex, and Gemini at the same time. Sessions resume a Slack thread after the original VM is gone. The CLI gains a transcript-backed nori resume.
  May 4, 2026
• Agentics: Using Metacognition to Get A Model Upgrade
  The industry has coalesced around a standard best practice for using coding agents. We’re calling it SPACE development.
  April 30, 2026
• DevLog #1: Skillset-Aware Sessions, MCP Catalogs, and Honest Token Counters
  Sessions gets a real MCP catalog, skillset-aware triggers and Slack threads, built-in CLIs on every VM, and Skillsets fixes its token math.
  April 27, 2026
• Agentics: AI enablement requires managed agent runtimes
  AI enablement in enterprise requires nothing less than fully managed agent runtimes.
  April 23, 2026
• DevLog #0: Multi-Provider Support, MCP Integrations, and 47 Bugfixes
  Sessions supports Claude, Codex, and Gemini. MCP integrations are live. The CLI now lets you bring your own ACP agent.
  April 20, 2026
• Agentics: I hate making powerpoints, coding agents make it better
  Using coding agents to make slide decks ~25x faster than before.
  March 31, 2026
• Agentics: 6 emerging agent dev tool categories, market map, and meditations on the AI dev tool market
  Reinventing dev tools in the age of AI.
  March 24, 2026
• Agentics: How to Effectively Use Coding Agents
  A talk at NYU Langone’s OLAB on how Nori uses coding agents.
  March 13, 2026
• Agentics: We wrote a linter for SKILL.md files
  Parsing through a sea of snake oil.
  March 5, 2026
• Agentics: PMs Should Vibe Code
  AI is making product people the MVPs of any business.
  March 4, 2026
• Agentics: Agent orchestrators are bad
  Agent orchestrators cost more, produce worse outputs, and feel productive without being productive. Here’s why.
  February 19, 2026
• Agentics: Your agent skills are all slop
  We believe in only the finest, hand crafted, barrel aged, artisanal skills.
  January 18, 2026
• Agentics: People are seeing the light on coding agents
  Year 0 of the agentic coding revolution.
  January 7, 2026
• Agentics: Coding agents suck at microservices
  Somewhat contra humanlayer on docs.
  December 10, 2025
• Agentics: Debugging when everything is on fire
  Using AI to debug critical system failures.
  November 20, 2025
• Agentics: Coding Agents can Manage Other Coding Agents
  Test Driven Development is all you need
  November 14, 2025
• Agentics: Averaging 10+ PRs a day with Claude Code
  If you use Claude Code, try nori-ai, it’s really good
  October 30, 2025
• Agentics: We’re all senior engineers now
  All problems are search problems and how that applies to coding agents
  October 1, 2025