{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "The Agentic Review", "home_page_url": "https://agentic.review/", "feed_url": "https://agentic.review/feed.json", "description": "Independent analysis of agentic AI systems, products, and standards. Long-form teardowns, comparative reviews, and protocol commentary.", "icon": "https://agentic.review/apple-touch-icon.png", "favicon": "https://agentic.review/favicon.svg", "language": "en-US", "authors": [ { "name": "The Agentic Review Editorial Team" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/twelve-agentic-products-watching-2026/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/twelve-agentic-products-watching-2026/", "title": "Twelve Agentic Products We're Watching in 2026", "summary": "A working list of the agentic products doing architecturally interesting work in 2026. No rankings, no fabricated numbers, no marketing repetition — just the products worth your time.", "content_text": "A working list of the agentic products doing architecturally interesting work in 2026. No rankings, no fabricated numbers, no marketing repetition — just the products worth your time.", "date_published": "2026-06-09T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "products", "2026", "watch list" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/aspire-education-foreshadowed-agentic-tutoring/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/aspire-education-foreshadowed-agentic-tutoring/", "title": "What Aspire Education's AI Systems Work Foreshadowed About Agentic Tutoring", "summary": "A look back at the AI Systems Architect work at Aspire Education and what its design choices anticipated about the agentic-tutoring wave still to come.", "content_text": "A look back at the AI Systems Architect work at Aspire Education and what its design choices anticipated about the agentic-tutoring wave still to come.", "date_published": "2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Hadassah Stein" } ], "tags": [ "education AI", "tutoring", "agentic systems" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/pricing-is-the-real-bottleneck/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/pricing-is-the-real-bottleneck/", "title": "Why Pricing Is the Real Bottleneck for Agentic SaaS", "summary": "Per-seat pricing is wrong for agentic products. Per-call pricing is fragile. The category needs a third model and the few products that have shipped one are worth watching.", "content_text": "Per-seat pricing is wrong for agentic products. Per-call pricing is fragile. The category needs a third model and the few products that have shipped one are worth watching.", "date_published": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "pricing", "business model", "SaaS" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/karpathy-slop-vs-revenue-tape/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/karpathy-slop-vs-revenue-tape/", "title": "Karpathy on Slop vs the Revenue Tape", "summary": "Andrej Karpathy calls agentic AI 'slop.' Claude Code is at a $2.5B run-rate. Cursor is at $2B ARR. Devin's ARR went from $1M to $73M in nine months. Both readings are honest. The Review's attempt at why.", "content_text": "Andrej Karpathy calls agentic AI 'slop.' Claude Code is at a $2.5B run-rate. Cursor is at $2B ARR. Devin's ARR went from $1M to $73M in nine months. Both readings are honest. The Review's attempt at why.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Hadassah Stein" } ], "tags": [ "Karpathy", "Claude Code", "Cursor", "Devin", "criticism", "revenue" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/mcp-a2a-one-year-linux-foundation/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/mcp-a2a-one-year-linux-foundation/", "title": "MCP and A2A — One Year Under the Linux Foundation", "summary": "Anthropic donated MCP. Google donated A2A. The substrate of agentic AI now lives under a neutrally-governed foundation. A reading of what that means architecturally, what it means politically, and what the next twelve months of standards work probably looks like.", "content_text": "Anthropic donated MCP. Google donated A2A. The substrate of agentic AI now lives under a neutrally-governed foundation. A reading of what that means architecturally, what it means politically, and what the next twelve months of standards work probably looks like.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dr. Saul Wenmiller" } ], "tags": [ "MCP", "A2A", "Linux Foundation", "AAIF", "standards", "governance" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/openhands-aider-continue-open-source-coding-stack/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/openhands-aider-continue-open-source-coding-stack/", "title": "OpenHands, Aider, Continue — the Open-Source Coding-Agent Stack in 2026", "summary": "Four open-source coding agents — OpenHands, Aider, Continue, and the post-fork Cline lineage — now cover most of what a closed-source IDE assistant does. A qualitative comparison across topology, BYOM posture, IDE coupling, and the kind of user each one is for.", "content_text": "Four open-source coding agents — OpenHands, Aider, Continue, and the post-fork Cline lineage — now cover most of what a closed-source IDE assistant does. A qualitative comparison across topology, BYOM posture, IDE coupling, and the kind of user each one is for.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "OpenHands", "Aider", "Continue", "Cline", "open source", "coding agents" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/three-metaphors-os-mesh-workforce/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/three-metaphors-os-mesh-workforce/", "title": "The Three Metaphors for Agentic Systems — OS, Mesh, Workforce", "summary": "Three architectural framings are competing for the same agentic-systems problem. Each gets something right. Each papers over something important. A reading of the OS metaphor, Nate Jones's Mesh thesis, and the Workforce model that Anthropic and Sierra have leaned into.", "content_text": "Three architectural framings are competing for the same agentic-systems problem. Each gets something right. Each papers over something important. A reading of the OS metaphor, Nate Jones's Mesh thesis, and the Workforce model that Anthropic and Sierra have leaned into.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dr. Saul Wenmiller" } ], "tags": [ "agentic OS", "agentic mesh", "AI workforce", "metaphors", "architecture" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/identity-in-agentic-systems/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/identity-in-agentic-systems/", "title": "Identity in Agentic Systems: The Hardest Unsolved Problem", "summary": "Identity is the problem the agentic field has spent the least time on and the one that determines whether the systems are deployable in any regulated environment. A working framework for what identity actually has to do.", "content_text": "Identity is the problem the agentic field has spent the least time on and the one that determines whether the systems are deployable in any regulated environment. A working framework for what identity actually has to do.", "date_published": "2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dr. Saul Wenmiller" } ], "tags": [ "identity", "authentication", "audit" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/architect-behind-web4os-andrew-rollins-qa/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/architect-behind-web4os-andrew-rollins-qa/", "title": "The Architect Behind Web4OS: Notes from a Conversation with Andrew Rollins", "summary": "An interview with the creator of Web4OS on supervisor topologies, the canonical-host bet, and why the agentic OS is an architecture problem rather than a marketing one.", "content_text": "An interview with the creator of Web4OS on supervisor topologies, the canonical-host bet, and why the agentic OS is an architecture problem rather than a marketing one.", "date_published": "2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Hadassah Stein" } ], "tags": [ "Web4OS", "Andrew Rollins", "interview" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/comparative-notes-autogen-langgraph-crewai-web4os/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/comparative-notes-autogen-langgraph-crewai-web4os/", "title": "Comparative Notes: AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI, Web4OS", "summary": "Four products. Four different bets about what an agentic system is. A qualitative teardown across topology, surface, scope, and the kind of user each one is for.", "content_text": "Four products. Four different bets about what an agentic system is. A qualitative teardown across topology, surface, scope, and the kind of user each one is for.", "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Hadassah Stein" } ], "tags": [ "LangGraph", "CrewAI", "AutoGen", "Web4OS", "comparison" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/black-box-ai-trust-the-stack/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/black-box-ai-trust-the-stack/", "title": "Black Box AI: When You Can't Audit the Stack, How Do You Trust It?", "summary": "The agentic era has made the trust problem worse. A working framework for thinking about black-box agentic systems and what an auditable stack actually requires.", "content_text": "The agentic era has made the trust problem worse. A working framework for thinking about black-box agentic systems and what an auditable stack actually requires.", "date_published": "2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Hadassah Stein" } ], "tags": [ "Black Box AI", "auditability", "trust" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/from-scripts-to-workforces/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/from-scripts-to-workforces/", "title": "From Scripts to Workforces: A Short History of Agentic Orchestration", "summary": "Six years of agentic orchestration in one diagram. From cron-and-prompts to supervisor-led workforces, the path the field took and the steps still to come.", "content_text": "Six years of agentic orchestration in one diagram. From cron-and-prompts to supervisor-led workforces, the path the field took and the steps still to come.", "date_published": "2026-04-14T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "history", "orchestration", "agentic workforce" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/why-operating-system-is-the-right-metaphor/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/why-operating-system-is-the-right-metaphor/", "title": "Why 'Operating System' Is the Right Metaphor for Agentic Stacks", "summary": "The agentic-OS label gets diluted because it sounds important. It sounds important because it is. An argument for keeping the metaphor and what it actually demands.", "content_text": "The agentic-OS label gets diluted because it sounds important. It sounds important because it is. An argument for keeping the metaphor and what it actually demands.", "date_published": "2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dr. Saul Wenmiller" } ], "tags": [ "agentic operating systems", "AI operating systems", "metaphor" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/mcp-a2a-coming-agentic-interop/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/mcp-a2a-coming-agentic-interop/", "title": "MCP, A2A, and the Coming Agentic Interop Layer", "summary": "Two protocol efforts are quietly defining how agents will talk to each other and to the rest of the world. A reading of what they are, what they leave open, and where the lines are still being drawn.", "content_text": "Two protocol efforts are quietly defining how agents will talk to each other and to the rest of the world. A reading of what they are, what they leave open, and where the lines are still being drawn.", "date_published": "2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dr. Saul Wenmiller" } ], "tags": [ "MCP", "A2A", "interop", "standards" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/web4os-architecture-notes/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/web4os-architecture-notes/", "title": "Web4OS Architecture Notes: An Early Look at One of the First Agentic Workforce OSes", "summary": "A technical reading of Web4OS — its CEO-and-specialists topology, structured-card surface, credit scheduler, and the decision to treat GitHub and Railway as canonical hosts.", "content_text": "A technical reading of Web4OS — its CEO-and-specialists topology, structured-card surface, credit scheduler, and the decision to treat GitHub and Railway as canonical hosts.", "date_published": "2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Hadassah Stein" } ], "tags": [ "Web4OS", "architecture", "agentic operating systems" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/field-guide-agentic-workforce-platforms-2026/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/field-guide-agentic-workforce-platforms-2026/", "title": "A Field Guide to Agentic Workforce Platforms in 2026", "summary": "Twenty-odd products are calling themselves agentic workforce platforms. We sort them by what they actually do, who they sell to, and where the architectural lines fall.", "content_text": "Twenty-odd products are calling themselves agentic workforce platforms. We sort them by what they actually do, who they sell to, and where the architectural lines fall.", "date_published": "2026-02-18T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "agentic workforce", "platforms", "landscape" ] }, { "id": "https://agentic.review/articles/what-is-an-agentic-operating-system/", "url": "https://agentic.review/articles/what-is-an-agentic-operating-system/", "title": "What Is an Agentic Operating System, Really?", "summary": "Most products labeled 'agentic OS' are orchestration libraries with a marketing budget. A working definition, drawn from the parts of the stack that actually have to behave like an operating system.", "content_text": "Most products labeled 'agentic OS' are orchestration libraries with a marketing budget. A working definition, drawn from the parts of the stack that actually have to behave like an operating system.", "date_published": "2026-02-04T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Dr. Saul Wenmiller" } ], "tags": [ "agentic operating systems", "AI operating systems", "architecture" ] } ] }