Tag: AI Agents

An AI sales development rep agent sending automated outbound emails from a laptop dashboard

Best AI SDR Agents 2026: 8 Outbound Tools Ranked

The best AI SDR agents 2026 ranking that prices in the deliverability…

By Surya Koritala
24 Min Read
Line chart showing AI agent end-to-end success rate decaying exponentially as the number of steps increases, for 90, 95, and 99 percent per-step reliability
Observability

AI Agent Error Rate 2026: Why 95% Per Step Still Fails

The AI agent error rate compounding problem explains why agents fail in…

By Surya Koritala
26 Min Read
A Grafana Tempo trace waterfall showing an AI agent's invoke_agent parent span with nested chat and execute_tool child spans, self-hosted on a local LGTM stack
Observability

Self-Host LLM Observability With OpenTelemetry in 2026

Learn to self-host LLM observability with OpenTelemetry: a free Grafana LGTM stack,…

By Surya Koritala
34 Min Read
Data visualization of AI agent token cost per task rising from simple tool calls to multi-million-token agentic coding runs
Capital

AI Agent Token Cost Per Task 2026: The Real Numbers

The real AI agent token cost per task in 2026: a sourced…

By Surya Koritala
26 Min Read
Diagram of an AI agent stuck in a reasoning loop, repeatedly calling the same tool with identical arguments
Observability

Why Does My AI Agent Keep Looping? (And How to Stop It)

Why does my AI agent keep looping? Diagnose the four root causes,…

By Surya Koritala
31 Min Read
Diagram of a human-in-the-loop AI agent pausing at an approval gate before a risky tool call, with approve, reject, and edit branches
Observability

Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: Build Approval Gates (2026)

Build a human-in-the-loop ai agent that pauses for approval and resumes. Working…

By Surya Koritala
30 Min Read
Overloaded control panel with too many switches symbolizing an AI agent with too many tools
Agent Infrastructure

How Many Tools Can an AI Agent Have Before It Breaks?

How many tools can an AI agent have before accuracy collapses? The…

By Surya Koritala
28 Min Read
Data visualization comparing MCP server counts across the official registry, PulseMCP, Smithery, GitHub and Nerq census in 2026
Agent Infrastructure

MCP Server Statistics 2026: How Many Actually Exist

MCP server statistics 2026, reconciled: official registry, PulseMCP, Smithery, GitHub, Nerq, mcp.so…

By Surya Koritala
25 Min Read
Diagram-style illustration of a SKILL.md folder containing scripts, references, and assets subfolders feeding into an AI agent
Agent Infrastructure

What Are Agent Skills? The SKILL.md Open Standard Explained

What are agent skills? A SKILL.md folder that teaches an AI agent…

By Surya Koritala
6 Min Read
Diagram of an AI agent paying a paywalled API over HTTP 402 with USDC on Base, showing the request, 402 payment-required response, and X-PAYMENT retry
Commerce

x402 Payments for an AI Agent in Python: 2026 Tutorial

Add x402 payments to an AI agent in Python: a testnet-first tutorial…

By Surya Koritala
30 Min Read