Agent Frameworks

Agent frameworks are software libraries designed to build tool-using artificial intelligence agents that can execute multi-step workflows. Truncated covers framework releases, developer adoption, ecosystem integrations and tooling updates.

Thursday 5 November

Wednesday 4 November

What Is x402? How AI Agents Pay With Crypto

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AI-generated summary Coinbase launched the x402 open payment standard in May 2025 with partners including AWS, Anthropic, Circle and NEAR to let AI agents and apps pay for services in stablecoins. The Linux Foundation subsequently announced the creation of the x402 Foundation on April 2, 2026, to steward the protocol under vendor-neutral governance.

The rise of agentic AI in networking

AI-generated summary Cisco makes available a four-stage framework that helps enterprises sense, diagnose, plan, and act on network issues using artificial intelligence. Cisco states that this approach uses predefined workflows during the action stage to maintain deterministic execution rather than allowing AI agents to improvise changes.

Tuesday 3 November

CrowdStrike's AI Kill Switch stops agents, not models

CrowdStrike's AI Kill Switch stops agents, not models

AI-generated summary CrowdStrike launched an AI Kill Switch on Tuesday that it says allows security teams to stop a misbehaving AI agent, prevent it from restarting, and cut off its network access. The new tool is part of Falcon Guardian, which is CrowdStrike's product for securing AI agents and is available now following the company's announcement in Barcelona.

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Monday 2 November