<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Agenteer — Articles &amp; Field Notes</title><description>AI agents, voice-first, and what&apos;s next — from strategy to hands-on tutorials.</description><link>https://agenteer.com/</link><item><title>Intent Is All You Need, Still</title><link>https://agenteer.com/resources/intent-is-all-you-need-still/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/resources/intent-is-all-you-need-still/</guid><description>Why better AI execution does not guarantee the right outcome, and how questions, examples and prototypes help clarify and preserve intent.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Build an AI Customer Support Team with Grok Bot and Slack</title><link>https://agenteer.com/resources/grok-bot-ai-customer-support-team/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/resources/grok-bot-ai-customer-support-team/</guid><description>Two Grok Bots, one rulebook, three Slack channels. The routine tickets answered on their own, the decisions that are yours brought to you in #escalations — and how the same desk compares with one built on Hermes Agent.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Agents</category><category>Grok Bot</category><category>Multi-agent</category><category>Customer Support</category><category>Slack</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>What an AI Agent Can Pay With in 2026</title><link>https://agenteer.com/resources/what-an-ai-agent-can-pay-with-in-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/resources/what-an-ai-agent-can-pay-with-in-2026/</guid><description>An AI agent can now hold a bounded wallet, pay per request with a stablecoin, use a card credential scoped to it, and hire other agents through escrow. What is live, what is only announced, what the agent-token wave left behind, and the three questions still open: identity, accountability, delivery.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>crypto</category><category>Web3</category><category>tokenomics</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Set Up Your Mac for Agentic Engineering: Claude Code &amp; More</title><link>https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/mac-setup-agentic-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/mac-setup-agentic-engineering/</guid><description>Build your Mac setup for agentic engineering from reusable Nix configuration files. Install coding agents, change apps and settings, and keep changes in Git.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agentic Engineering</category><category>Claude Code</category><category>Mac Setup</category><category>Nix</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>A Swarm of AI Agents Needs Three Things</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/a-swarm-of-ai-agents-needs-three-things/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/a-swarm-of-ai-agents-needs-three-things/</guid><description>Inside the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident: how 1,200 isolated AI agents formed a swarm, and the three conditions that made it possible.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Make Videos with HyperFrames: A Beginner’s Guide</title><link>https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/hyperframes-from-zero/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/hyperframes-from-zero/</guid><description>Create a short video from a browser project, understand what each tool contributes, and learn how to direct an AI agent toward richer visual results. 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The rules file, the four commands, email both ways, and how to take it to production.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Agents</category><category>Hermes Agent</category><category>Multi-agent</category><category>Customer Support</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>How AI Agents Actually Work</title><link>https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/how-ai-agents-actually-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/how-ai-agents-actually-work/</guid><description>Context, Brain, Action, the loop that runs them, the harness that operates it, and the boundary that is yours — explained on Hermes Agent, where every part is a file you can open.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI Agents</category><category>Hermes Agent</category><category>Fundamentals</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Encrypted Reasoning Traces: What&apos;s Inside, Who Can Read It, and What It Does Next</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/encrypted-reasoning-traces-whats-inside-who-can-read-it-and-what-it-does-next/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/encrypted-reasoning-traces-whats-inside-who-can-read-it-and-what-it-does-next/</guid><description>Unreadable to you, fully readable to a model. Researchers opened 315,320 sealed AI reasoning blocks, found credentials that survive scrubbing, and planted an instruction another model obeyed as its own.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>AI Agents</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>How to Run Hermes Agent on Oracle Cloud for Free</title><link>https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/hermes-agent-oracle-cloud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/hermes-agent-oracle-cloud/</guid><description>Build a free Hermes Agent server on Oracle Cloud, connect OpenRouter or ChatGPT, add Telegram, and keep its gateway running in the background.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Hermes Agent</category><category>Oracle Cloud</category><category>Self-hosting</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Loop Engineering: Design the Loop, and AI Keeps the Work Moving</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/loop-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/loop-engineering/</guid><description>A practical framework for designing AI loops that keep work moving, stop on evidence, and hand back the decisions that still need human judgment.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Loop Engineering</category><category>AI Agents</category><category>Claude Code</category><category>Codex</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>AI for Your Small Business: What It Can Do in Your Industry — and How to Start</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/ai-for-your-small-business-what-it-can-do-in-your-industry-and-how-to-start/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/ai-for-your-small-business-what-it-can-do-in-your-industry-and-how-to-start/</guid><description>AI has crossed a line: the chatbot you ask has become an agent that does the work. A practical guide to what it can do in your industry — and how to start.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Business</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>How to Host OpenClaw 24/7 for Free on Oracle Cloud</title><link>https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/openclaw-oracle-cloud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/learn/tutorials/openclaw-oracle-cloud/</guid><description>Deploy OpenClaw on Oracle Cloud&apos;s Always Free tier — free hosting with enough resources to run multiple instances, isolated from your personal machine.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>OpenClaw</category><category>Oracle Cloud</category><category>Self-hosting</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>The Magic Is Real. 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A framework for understanding attack surfaces, root causes, and the Zero Agency principle.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Why Voice AI Agents Are No Longer Optional: A Practical Guide for Small Business Owners</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/why-voice-ai-agents-are-no-longer-optional-a-practical-guide-for-small-business-owners/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/why-voice-ai-agents-are-no-longer-optional-a-practical-guide-for-small-business-owners/</guid><description>Small businesses miss 25-62% of calls—and most callers won&apos;t leave voicemail. Voice AI Agents capture this invisible revenue loss around the clock.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Business</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Ralph Wiggum Loop: The Two Architectures You Need to Understand</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/ralph-wiggum-loop-the-two-architectures-you-need-to-understand/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/ralph-wiggum-loop-the-two-architectures-you-need-to-understand/</guid><description>Ralph Wiggum Loop lets your AI agent keep crunching for hours. Learn the two dimensions—context and enforcement—that determine which approach fits your task.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Claude Code</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Unlock Claude Code&apos;s Power through the Agent Capability Lifecycle</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/unlock-claude-codes-power-through-the-capability-lifecycle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/unlock-claude-codes-power-through-the-capability-lifecycle/</guid><description>Confused by Skills, MCP, Subagents, Commands, Plugins? The Capability Lifecycle shows you when to use each—so you get maximum value from the  agentic AI tools.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Claude Code</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>The Two Context Bloat Problems Every AI Agent Builder Must Understand</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/the-two-context-bloat-problems-every-ai-agent-builder-must-understand/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/the-two-context-bloat-problems-every-ai-agent-builder-must-understand/</guid><description>AI Agent hitting context limits too fast? Tool definition bloat and tool result accumulation are two major causes—Each needs a different solution. Here&apos;s how.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Claude Code</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Intent is All You Need: Why Everyone is Already a Programmer</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/intent-is-all-you-need-a-paradigm-shift-in-programming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/intent-is-all-you-need-a-paradigm-shift-in-programming/</guid><description>Programming has evolved from writing code to articulating human intent that AI can bring it to life. Domain expertise + AI partnership = programming power.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>AI Agent Engineering: Building Agentic Systems for Enduring Value</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/ai-agent-engineering-building-agentic-systems-for-enduring-value/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/ai-agent-engineering-building-agentic-systems-for-enduring-value/</guid><description>Introduce the Action-Brain-Context (ABC) framework for AI Agent Engineering and how to leverage it to create systems that adapt, learn and compound.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Demystifying the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - and How it Complements AI Agent Frameworks</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/demystifying-the-model-context-protocol-and-how-it-complements-ai-agent-frameworks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/demystifying-the-model-context-protocol-and-how-it-complements-ai-agent-frameworks/</guid><description>MCP is an open standard for managing context in AI systems. This article explores its core concepts and its relationship with AI agent frameworks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Voice First: The Next Paradigm Shift is Coming</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/voice-first-the-next-paradigm-shift-is-coming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/voice-first-the-next-paradigm-shift-is-coming/</guid><description>The future of interaction is here — Voice First is the Next Mobile First, AI agents are leading the charge. Are you ready to embrace it? Let&apos;s explore</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Takeaways from Anthropic&apos;s insights on building effective AI agents</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/takeaways-on-building-effective-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/takeaways-on-building-effective-agents/</guid><description>Anthropic&apos;s insights on building effective AI agents underscore balancing flexibility and simplicity that enable powerful yet practical systems.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Can Large Language Models (LLMs) Reason and Plan? 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Illuminate AI&apos;s role in cyber threats and its promise in fortifying digital defenses.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item><item><title>Can ChatGPT unlock blockchain data for the masses? Early insights from building ChatWeb3</title><link>https://agenteer.com/blog/chatcrypto-chatgpt-for-blockchain-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agenteer.com/blog/chatcrypto-chatgpt-for-blockchain-data/</guid><description>ChatWeb3 is a chatbot powered by OpenAI, Langchain, and Flipsidecrypto, we examine how it is built and its potential in AI-driven blockchain analytics for all.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Blockchain</category><author>Charles Shen, PhD, EMBA</author></item></channel></rss>