Episodes

  • Episode 51: OpenClaw 2026.5.12, Hermes Foundation, Claude Code Background Controls, and Gemini Agent Deployments

    Episode 51: OpenClaw 2026.5.12, Hermes Foundation, Claude Code Background Controls, and Gemini Agent Deployments
    May 16 2026
    AgentStack Daily EP051 opens with an agent-stack release readout: OpenClaw v2026.5.12 trims core installs, hardens Telegram, Codex, plugin, gateway, browser, and config paths, and improves reply delivery; Hermes Agent 2026.5.16 adds native Windows beta, PyPI installation, faster startup, a local OpenAI-compatible proxy, vision, video, browser, LSP, and verification upgrades; Claude Code 2.1.143 and 2.1.142 tighten plugin dependencies, background-session flags, PowerShell behavior, worktree isolation, MCP timeout handling, and agent-dashboard defaults. Then the episode turns to Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform release notes for immutable agent revisions, traffic splitting, and Priority PayGo, and to Google's Interactions API breaking-change guide for the new `steps` timeline and `response_format` migration. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-51/
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    41 mins
  • Episode 50: AgentStack Daily EP050 — What's New in Agent Releases

    Episode 50: AgentStack Daily EP050 — What's New in Agent Releases
    May 15 2026
    This AgentStack Daily episode covers what is new in LLM and agent tooling: Hermes Agent v2026.5.7 adds durable boards, worker health checks, checkpoint pruning, gateway resume, no-agent cron, provider plugins, platform allowlists, and MCP fixes; Claude Code v2.1.141 through v2.1.129 adds the agent view, hook JSON updates, plugin and workload-identity controls, MCP repairs, and background-agent permission fixes; Google ADK documents pause-and-resume agents with persisted state; and GitHub exposes Copilot agent tasks through REST endpoints. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-50/
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    42 mins
  • Episode 49: Gemini Deep Research, Agents SDK Sandbox Boundaries, vLLM Kernel Fixes, and Strands Runtime Controls

    Episode 49: Gemini Deep Research, Agents SDK Sandbox Boundaries, vLLM Kernel Fixes, and Strands Runtime Controls
    May 12 2026
    EP049 goes deep on Google’s Gemini Deep Research Agent in the Interactions API, OpenAI Agents SDK sandbox and session fixes, vLLM’s DeepSeek V4 serving patch, and Strands Agents TypeScript runtime controls for hooks, MCP, compression, retries, and human interruption. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-49/
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    38 mins
  • Episode 48: Codex Remote Control, Agent RCE Hardening, Copilot Session Hooks, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.5

    Episode 48: Codex Remote Control, Agent RCE Hardening, Copilot Session Hooks, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.5
    May 10 2026
    OpenClaw Daily EP048 opens with OpenAI Codex 0.130.0 and its remote-control app-server entrypoint, paged thread views, plugin hook metadata, config refresh, turn-diff accuracy, multi-environment image resolution, and telemetry changes. The episode then explains Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel RCE case study, GitHub Copilot SDK session hooks and diagnostics, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.5 changes around Magentic orchestration, WebBrowsingTool allowlists, reasoning events, todo-state injection, and wire-format fixes. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-48/
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    37 mins
  • Episode 47: OpenClaw v2026.5.7, Agents SDK Sandboxes, and Gemini CLI Safety Runtime

    Episode 47: OpenClaw v2026.5.7, Agents SDK Sandboxes, and Gemini CLI Safety Runtime
    May 9 2026
    OpenClaw Daily covers OpenClaw v2026.5.7, focusing on ClawHub publish recovery, `openai/chat-latest`, cron JSON status, channel listing, native-command owner enforcement, Active Memory admin scope, skills snapshot refresh, before-tool authorization for inline skill dispatch, SecretRef-backed Tavily credentials, context cache invalidation, Discord target parsing, compaction token clamping, delivery failure reporting, Discord voice probes, Telegram poller liveness, WhatsApp routing, and Codex approval handling. The episode then explains OpenAI Agents JS sandbox workspace contracts, realtime defaults, tool concurrency, MCP tool naming, and local artifact boundaries, before closing with Gemini CLI changes around shell safety evals, A2A approval races, compression queues, OAuth hangs, and Auto Memory patch allowlists. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-47/
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    37 mins
  • Episode 46: OpenClaw Codex OAuth Routing, Realtime Voice, OpenAI SDK Image Updates, and vLLM Serving Stabilization

    Episode 46: OpenClaw Codex OAuth Routing, Realtime Voice, OpenAI SDK Image Updates, and vLLM Serving Stabilization
    May 7 2026
    OpenClaw Daily examines OpenClaw v2026.5.4 through v2026.5.6, focusing on realtime Google Meet and Voice Call speech, Twilio audio backpressure, plugin migration hints, workspace-scoped metadata snapshots, SecretRef contract resolution, model auth inspection, startup phase diagnostics, rich Slack progress drafts, and compact tool-progress output. The episode then breaks down LangGraph v1.2 alpha’s node timeouts, DeltaChannel checkpointing, error handlers, and streaming API, before closing with vLLM v0.20.1’s DeepSeek V4 kernel, communication, CUDA graph, and tool-call fixes. ### Fresh May 7 Update EP046 has been refreshed for May 7 with current OpenClaw technical content. New OpenClaw coverage includes v2026.5.6 Codex OAuth route repair, plugin runtime/header normalization, debug proxy header replay normalization, and bounded guarded-fetch timeout cleanup; v2026.5.5 channel/progress/session/status fixes; and the prior v2026.5.4 realtime voice and SecretRef contract work. Sources: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases, https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.5.5, https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.5.6, https://github.com/openai/openai-python/releases, https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-46/
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    38 mins
  • Episode 45: OpenClaw File Transfer, Plugin Runtime Hardening, Codex Goal Workflows, and Agent Egress Security

    Episode 45: OpenClaw File Transfer, Plugin Runtime Hardening, Codex Goal Workflows, and Agent Egress Security
    May 4 2026
    OpenClaw Daily examines three new OpenClaw releases, focusing on file-transfer tools for paired nodes, plugin install/update hardening, startup hot-path reductions, channel delivery fixes, and runtime reliability. The episode then breaks down OpenAI Codex goal workflows, permission profiles, plugin imports, and multi-agent controls, before closing with Pipelock’s class-preserving redaction and streaming SSE scan design for agent egress security. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-45/
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    34 mins
  • Episode 44: OpenClaw v2026.4.29, Active-Run Steering, People-Aware Memory, Model Provenance, and Account Security

    Episode 44: OpenClaw v2026.4.29, Active-Run Steering, People-Aware Memory, Model Provenance, and Account Security
    May 3 2026
    The episode starts with OpenClaw v2026.4.29. The release adds active-run steering defaults, visible-reply enforcement, spawned-subagent routing metadata, opt-in follow-up commitments, people-aware memory wiki metadata, per-conversation Active Memory filters, partial recall on timeout, a bounded REM preview RPC, NVIDIA provider onboarding and catalog metadata, Bedrock Opus 4.7 thinking parity, OpenGrep scan workflows, stricter restrictive-profile tool behavior, startup diagnostics, reusable model catalogs, stale-session recovery, runtime-dependency repairs, systemd loop prevention, and many channel fixes. After the release deep dive, the episode covers Cisco’s Model Provenance Kit as a practical model-lineage and AI supply-chain tool, then OpenAI Advanced Account Security as a concrete account-hardening bundle for ChatGPT and Codex users doing high-stakes agent work. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-44/
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    36 mins