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Intermediate · 8 min

What Is Graph Engineering? An 8-Line CLAUDE.md

Graph engineering is designing an AI agent system as a graph: nodes do the work, edges decide what runs next, and state travels between them. Our take: the graph replaces the instructions file, so a CLAUDE.md can shrink to 8 lines while the process and the rules live in workflows and standards.

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Beginner · 9 min

Company Knowledge for AI Agents: One Source, Every Agent

Company knowledge for AI agents is a searchable body of decisions, procedures and facts that lets agents answer from what your company actually knows. It lives in one place, a pipeline keeps it indexed for search by meaning, and one MCP server lets any agent look it up.

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Intermediate · 9 min

How We Keep an AI Agent Inventory (and a Tested Off Switch)

An AI agent inventory is a register that lists every AI agent a company runs, with its owner, the systems it reaches, and the switch that stops it. We keep ours in ConvOps: every agent, runner, schedule and key is a record with its own switch, and we pause schedules and disable runners on purpose to check they stop what they say.

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Intermediate · 9 lessons · 72 min

Govern: one way of working for your team's AI agents

Every developer's agent on your team works a different way, and the shared instructions file grows until nobody reads it. In nine lessons you give the team one way of working, built by asking Claude Code: a short AGENTS.md that routes to your standards and docs, a locked review list, a hook, one bug-fix workflow, and three loops that keep it small. Lesson 9 checks your own repo for the certificate.

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The workflow we ship our own software with: 32 steps, 2 human decisions.
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How it runs on its own
See agents take work from start to finish, and what still needs a human.
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Workflows, agents and memory as one system. We build ours live, so you see every decision.
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Edition of Friday, November 13, 2026Catch me up

FNImportantSecurity · Nov 13

Fireworks AI Breach Reached Billing Data, Secrets and Datasets, and Exposed Notion AI Transcripts From Under 1% of Workspaces

Fireworks AI's incident update, last revised 9 November, says attackers who reached its development machines on 24 October hit account and billing information and, for a limited set of accounts, secrets, datasets and incomplete models. Notion says Notion AI chat transcripts from fewer than 1% of workspaces were exposed through Fireworks and tells teams to rotate any credentials pasted into Notion AI.

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GGImportantModels · Nov 13

OpenAI Deprecates gpt-image-2: Shutdown on 10 February 2027, Move to GPT-Image-2.6

OpenAI has deprecated gpt-image-2 and its gpt-image-2-2026-04-21 snapshot, with shutdown on 10 February 2027 and gpt-image-2.6-sunburst or gpt-image-2.6-flare as the replacement. Three older image models still shut down first, on 1 December 2026.

ImportantSecurity · Nov 10

Report: Apiiro Says Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" Exposed Passwords in 1,122 Public GitHub Files. Check .claude/settings.local.json

Claude Code's docs say "Yes, and don't ask again" saves the approval as an allow rule in .claude/settings.local.json, which it keeps out of Git only through your global git excludes. Apiiro reportedly found passwords in 1,122 public GitHub copies of that file; we could not read Apiiro's post. Anthropic's Boris Cherny said the team is looking into prevention; no fix has shipped.

CImportantProduct Launches · Nov 13

Claude Data Switches On for Enterprise on 19 November: Admins Have Six Days to Decide

On 10 November Anthropic put Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta and made Claude Dashboards generally available as Claude Data, on all paid plans. Team plans get all three on by default; on Enterprise, Claude Data turns on by default on 19 November unless an admin changes it in Organization settings > Artifacts.

ImportantModels · Nov 13

Gemini 4 Carbon Is GA on the Paid Gemini API: $2/$10 Until 30 November, Then $4/$20

Google made Gemini 4 Carbon (gemini-4-carbon) generally available to every paying Gemini API developer on 10 November, at $2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens through 30 November and $4/$20 from 1 December. Carbon for cyber work still sits behind the Fairwind Program, and every benchmark is Google's own.

ImportantCoding Tools · Nov 13

Claude Code 2.1.323 Stops "Don't Ask Again" Saving Secrets and Closes Bash Sandbox Gaps

Claude Code 2.1.323 (12 November) is Anthropic's fix for the "don't ask again" secrets leak: an allow rule that looks like it holds a secret, or would land in a git-tracked settings.local.json, now lasts for the session only. It also fixes Bash sandbox and permission gaps and changes four defaults. Upgrading stops new leaks; it does not clean files already pushed.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro

Week 45

ConditionalAvoid

Google's Gemini API changelog (2 November 2026) says gemini-2.5-pro is deprecated and no longer selectable in Google AI Studio, and that from 1 December 2026 every API request to it routes to gemini-3.8-flash at Gemini 3.8 Flash rates, with breaking API changes. The 23 October basis (not deprecated, no shutdown date) no longer holds. Announced November 3.

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GPT-5.5-Cyber

Week 45

ConditionalCaution

OpenAI deprecated gpt-5.5-cyber-preview on 5 November 2026 and will remove it from the API on 1 February 2027, with GPT-5.6 Cyber and GPT-6 Cyber on the same price list. It still works for vetted cyber teams, so keep existing integrations only while you migrate. Announced November 6.

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Claude Opus 5

Week 44

RecommendedConditional

Anthropic's models overview groups Claude Opus 5 under legacy models and tells unsure users to start on Claude Opus 5.5, which lists at $4/$20 per 1M tokens against Opus 5's $5/$25. Its model deprecations page still marks Opus 5 Active, with no retirement before 24 July 2027, so keep it only on pipelines you have already validated. Announced October 31.

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Changelog

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What changed and how it changes our recommendations, including what we filtered out.

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Issue 31Week 45 · Nov 2–8, 2026

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Requests Reroute to Newer Models on Dec 1

This week's published stories share one problem: a model id or tool you already run changes on a date someone else set, and most of those dates fall between 30 November and 3 December. Two of our ratings moved on that basis, as Gemini 2.5 Pro dropped to avoid and GPT-5.5-Cyber to caution.

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10 min

Typeform Alternatives That Are Not Just Cheaper Typeforms

Eight Typeform alternatives sorted by the reason you are leaving, not by vendor preference. Verified pricing, standing verdicts, and the response cap that sends most people looking.

Sep 7, 2026

11 min

AI Intake Software Compared: What the Term Means and What to Buy

Search AI intake software and you get two unrelated markets in one result page. Here is the split, the four things AI can actually do to intake, and verified pricing on the tools that do it.

Sep 7, 2026

12 min

Best Conversational Form Builders in 2026: 9 Tools With Verdicts

Nine conversational form builders, each carrying a standing verdict from our directory. Verified pricing, the three products hiding behind one label, and which one wins each job.

Sep 7, 2026

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We built these because nothing else solved the problem.

Gnosari

Gnosari is a conversational data collection platform: it replaces forms with conversations. Feedback, details, contacts, anything you need to gather, you say what you want to collect and the agent drives the conversation.

"We built it because forms lose most of the people who reach a page."

ConvOps

ConvOps is the workflow engine for autonomous AI systems: describe a process once from the AI client you already use, and your agents run it as a governed workflow, step by step, run after run.

"We built it to run Neomanex itself."

NeoReader

NeoReader is a web-to-markdown API with discovery built in: point it at a URL or a whole site and get back clean, LLM-ready markdown, tuned end to end for high-throughput ingestion.

"We built it because feeding raw web pages to a model wastes tokens and drags in boilerplate."

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Fireworks AI Breach Reached Billing Data, Secrets and Datasets, and Exposed Notion AI Transcripts From Under 1% of Workspaces

OpenAI Deprecates gpt-image-2: Shutdown on 10 February 2027, Move to GPT-Image-2.6

Report: Apiiro Says Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" Exposed Passwords in 1,122 Public GitHub Files. Check .claude/settings.local.json

Claude Data Switches On for Enterprise on 19 November: Admins Have Six Days to Decide

Gemini 4 Carbon Is GA on the Paid Gemini API: $2/$10 Until 30 November, Then $4/$20

Claude Code 2.1.323 Stops "Don't Ask Again" Saving Secrets and Closes Bash Sandbox Gaps

What changed our minds

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5.5-Cyber

Claude Opus 5

The week, in one issue

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Requests Reroute to Newer Models on Dec 1

From the blog

Typeform Alternatives That Are Not Just Cheaper Typeforms

AI Intake Software Compared: What the Term Means and What to Buy

Best Conversational Form Builders in 2026: 9 Tools With Verdicts

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