Standardizing the Stack The emergence of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic kernels is transforming AI from a chat interface into a functional operating system layer.
Action-First Architecture Frameworks like smolagents are proving that code-as-action outperforms brittle JSON tool-calling, enabling agents to self-correct and solve complex logic gaps.
The Infrastructure Bottleneck As agents move local, developers are hitting the 'harness tax'—a friction between reasoning power and hardware constraints like VRAM and execution sandboxes.
Hardening Autonomy With agents gaining file-system access and zero-day hunting capabilities, the focus has shifted to 'Zero-Trust' execution gates and observability to prevent silent failure loops.