Agent SDK

The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw

Jun 29, 2026 · 23:15

Gavriel Cohen, founder of NanoClaw, explains why he built a minimal, secure alternative to OpenClaw after feeling apprehensive about its codebase and dependencies for production use. He recounts how Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs adopted NanoClaw for a personal second-brain setup, inspiring Cohen to focus on giving every employee their own agent rather than team-managed agent factories. The episode details NanoClaw's isolation model—each agent in its own container with no credentials, a vault for credential proxying, and human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive actions. Cohen also shares the pivot from an AI-native marketing agency to nanoCo, which now deploys and manages agents for over 100 enterprise clients, and discusses the challenge of triaging AI-generated pull requests in open source.

DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever

Oct 7, 2025 · 44:52

Sherwin Wu and Christina Huang from OpenAI's platform team discuss the new AgentKit suite and Apps SDK, arguing that visual agent builders and prompt optimization remain critical for production AI. They detail AgentKit's components—Agent SDK, visual Builder, Evals, and Tool Registry—and how Apps SDK inverts the website-chatbot paradigm by embedding apps inside ChatGPT. OpenAI adopted Anthropic's MCP protocol for tool connectivity, and the team dogfoods these tools for their own customer support at openai.com. They explain that automated prompt optimization and evaluation pipelines are essential for scaling agents, and share how Codex is used internally for code generation and PR reviews. The episode also covers the Service Health Dashboard for real-time API SLO tracking, reflecting OpenAI's reliability investments.