https://agentiloop.ai/blog/ Deep dives into AgentiLoop Agent!, the native macOS AI agent. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://agentiloop.ai/agent_icon.png https://agentiloop.ai/blog/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/back-on-hacker-news-with-auto-pilot/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/back-on-hacker-news-with-auto-pilot/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Auto-Pilot Community Hacker News Agent! is on Hacker News again as a Show HN. The April thread was about a native Mac coding harness; this one is about Auto-Pilot, the goal-driven loop that keeps running cycles until the goal is reached, and the Mario Kart-style game it has been building. Here is the post, what is behind each claim in it, and where to join the discussion. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/gokart-built-on-auto-pilot/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/gokart-built-on-auto-pilot/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Auto-Pilot Showcase Godot Give Agent!'s Auto-Pilot one goal - "create a Mario Kart clone called GoKart" - and come back to a Godot 4 racer with three tracks, eight items, AI rivals and 3,344 passing test checks. Two days and 87 agent commits later it is GoKart 0.0.2, with four courses, Battle mode, Time Trials and a Mario Kart 64 style menu. Here is what the log says actually happened, including the parts where it got stuck. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/agent-gets-a-face/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/agent-gets-a-face/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Announcement Preview Features Coming in the next Agent! pre-release, scheduled for Saturday, October 10 - an optional avatar that speaks and animates alongside the task log. Not cute, not cuddly, and not a mascot. Now in development. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/agent-1-1-87-and-agentiloop-cli-0-0-5/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/agent-1-1-87-and-agentiloop-cli-0-0-5/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Announcement Release Cross-Platform Agent! for Mac gets Auto-Pilot, six new providers, a stricter critic and macOS 14.6 support. The Rust and Go CLIs get a bigger toolbox: search, web fetch, todos, AGENTS.md, /undo, custom commands and --json. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/how-i-became-your-macs-best-friend/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/how-i-became-your-macs-best-friend/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Origins History Three years of spare parts, one missing loop, and 177 commits in under two days. The real origin of Agent!, straight from git. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/what-is-an-agent-loop/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/what-is-an-agent-loop/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Explainers Agent Loops Look, choose, act, check. A playful, illustrated guide to agent loops—simple enough for a five-year-old, with plenty for the grown-ups. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/sonoma-intel-and-the-mac-that-was-not-dead-yet/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/sonoma-intel-and-the-mac-that-was-not-dead-yet/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Release Notes Behind the Scenes Agent! for Mac now runs on macOS Sonoma 14.6 and later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. A lot of you asked for a pre-macOS 26 version. Here it is. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/a-release-on-the-first-of-every-month/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/a-release-on-the-first-of-every-month/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Release Notes Behind the Scenes Agent! now ships a stable release on the 1st of every month. Daily pre-releases (moving to weekly) are where new features and fixes get tried out, and release candidates lock things down before the big day. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/the-terminal-strikes-back/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/the-terminal-strikes-back/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Announcement Cross-Platform Engineering Agent! is a Mac app, but a coding agent belongs wherever developers work. Here's how the agent loop became two CLIs, one in Rust and one in Go, with a full-screen TUI on macOS, Windows and Linux. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/agent-now-runs-on-macos-14-6-and-intel/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/agent-now-runs-on-macos-14-6-and-intel/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Release Notes Engineering Agent! was built around Apple Intelligence on macOS 26. Here's how one day of #available gates and package bumps brought it to macOS 14.6 on Apple Silicon and Intel. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/inside-agent-shell-guardrails/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/inside-agent-shell-guardrails/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Security Internals How ShellSafetyService, the daemon-side re-check and the Jev second opinion stop an AI agent from wiping your Mac, walked through the actual Swift code. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/welcome-to-the-agent-blog/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/welcome-to-the-agent-blog/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Announcement Architecture What AgentiLoop Agent! is, why I built it the way I did, and what you'll find here, straight from the source code. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/context-compaction-half-the-window/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/context-compaction-half-the-window/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Internals Release Notes How Agent!'s context compaction decides when to summarize a long task, and the September 28 fixes for fallback models, Ollama and a 272K Codex window. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/meet-jev/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/meet-jev/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Security Announcement Agent! now asks Jev (TypeSafe System One) how destructive a shell command is before running it. Here's why Jev is an advisor and not another LLM provider. https://agentiloop.ai/blog/why-we-ripped-out-modes/ https://agentiloop.ai/blog/why-we-ripped-out-modes/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Todd Bruss Architecture Design Agent! used to guess whether you wanted coding or automation and hide tools to match. One broken Photo Booth task showed why the harness should stop second-guessing the model.