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NemoClaw Secures Execution. RunProof Proves It.

NVIDIA just made secure agent runtimes real. Here's why that makes portable proof the next missing layer.

NVIDIA just made something very real. With NemoClaw, the conversation around AI agents shifted. We are no longer only talking about whether agents matter. We are now talking about how to run them …

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The Green Padlock Moment for AI Agents

Building trust infrastructure for the agentic web

AI agents are starting to act autonomously. They browse the web. They execute code. They manage files. They make API calls. They interact with databases. Some are beginning to hold wallets and …

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Agents With Receipts: Shipping the Substr8 Governance Plane

A working governance plane for AI agents that integrates with multiple frameworks

Today we shipped an important milestone for Substr8 Labs. A working governance plane for AI agents that integrates with multiple frameworks using MCP. Not a pitch deck. Not a design doc. Actual code …

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The Substr8 CLI: Six Primitives for Provable AI Agents

Why we built a unified toolkit for verifiable agent infrastructure

Last week, our AI agent went dark for six hours. Not a crash. Not a network issue. A corrupted context — an orphaned tool call that the API couldn’t parse. The session was bricked. Six hours of …

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Hybrid Memory Retrieval: What Actually Happens at 1,000 Documents

We benchmarked lexical (BM25), semantic (embeddings), and hybrid retrieval on agent memory at scale.

There’s a common assumption in AI agent systems: Combining keyword search with embeddings should outperform either alone. We tested that assumption under realistic noise. 30 needles (technical, …

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Your AI's Memory is a Black Box. We Fixed That.

Introducing Git-Native Agent Memory (GAM): Cryptographically verifiable memory for AI agents

Every AI agent you’ve ever used has the same dirty secret: their memory is unverifiable. When ChatGPT “remembers” something about you, can you: Prove when it learned that fact? See …

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Who Gets the Keys? Authorization for Autonomous AI

Introducing ACC — Agent Capability Control

Your AI agent can post tweets, send emails, and deploy code. But should it? Traditional permission systems were built for humans. Humans who take coffee breaks. Humans who read error messages. Humans …

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Zero-Trust for AI: Why We Verify Every Agent Skill

The 4-tier verification pipeline that catches malicious code before it runs

Would you let a stranger run code on your computer just because they promised it was safe? That’s what happens every time an AI agent loads a “skill” or “tool” from the …

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We Just Published Our First Research Paper

Introducing File-Driven Agent Architecture (FDAA)

Today we released our first piece of research: a pattern for building AI agents that are portable, persistent, and provable. We’re calling it File-Driven Agent Architecture. The Problem Most AI …

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What If Your AI Agent Had a Birth Certificate?

Introducing FDAA — File-Driven Agent Architecture

What if everything about your AI agent — its identity, memory, capabilities, and personality — lived in a single folder of markdown files? That’s FDAA. File-Driven Agent Architecture. The …

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by Raza

From Bus Routes to Agent Runtimes

Why I'm betting everything on agents — and why you should pay attention

I drive a bus for a living. And I build AI systems at night. Seven years ago, I did not know what HTML was. I did not know what a landing page was. I did not know what CSS was. I was a blank slate. …

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