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• Hardening AI Workflows with the Agent Governance Framework

  Published: 1 May, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  How to use the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) and Agent Governance Toolkit to build secure, governed, and Human-in-the-Loop AI workflows.

• Inside the ReAct loop: how agents actually iterate

  Published: 19 Apr, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  What actually happens inside one iteration of the ReAct loop — why the model is stateless, how the transcript grows, when the loop exits, and why the harness around the model is where the engineering value lives.

• The Protocol Layer: Watching the Theory Play Out in Real Time

  Published: 3 Apr, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  Google's developer guide to AI agent protocols is framed as a tutorial. Read it through a Coasean lens and it's something more interesting — live evidence that the transaction costs making firms necessary are being eliminated, layer by layer, in the open.

• The Firm in 2026

  Published: 17 Mar, 2026 |  at  10:00 AM

  Returning to Coase's original question — why do firms exist? — with fifteen posts of new machinery. The answer has not changed. The composition of the costs has.