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Agent Double-Spend: Two Agents, One Budget
Agent double-spend: two AI agents check one budget, both see room, both spend. Why provider budget alerts miss it, and how reserve-then-commit stops it.
Haitao Wang|Oct 19, 2026
The Agent Loop: Where Each Step Gets Its Context
How the agent loop works, from the ReAct paper to production code, and why each turn’s reads can describe a world that never existed by the time the agent acts.
Xiaowei Jiang|Oct 19, 2026![Agent Swarms: Many Agents, One Shared State](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 1 1"%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Agent Swarms: Many Agents, One Shared State
What an agent swarm is, from OpenAI’s Swarm library to fleets of hundreds of sub-agents, and the test that tells you when a swarm’s shared state will break under contention.
Xiaowei Jiang|Oct 19, 2026Agent Harness: What It Holds, and What It Can’t
What an agent harness is, what belongs in it (loop, tools, context assembly, guardrails), and why state shared by many agents has to live in storage instead.
Xiaowei Jiang|Oct 19, 2026Agentic Chargebacks: Who Pays When the Agent Was Wrong
Agentic chargebacks explained: who absorbs a disputed AI-agent purchase, what Visa’s rules and Amex Agent Purchase Protection say, and the record to keep.
Alex Kimball|Oct 19, 2026Agentic Fraud: Fraud by Agents, and Fraud Against Agent Commerce
The two kinds of agentic fraud, why device signals stop working when the shopper is software, and how per-agent baselines read at authorization catch them.
Boyd Stowe|Oct 19, 2026Ready to get started?
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