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Simon Willison’s Weblog: I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now

Sep 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now Feedly Summary: I’ve noticed something interesting over the past few weeks: I’ve started using the term “agent" in conversations where I don’t feel the need to then define it, roll…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Piloting Claude for Chrome

Aug 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/26/piloting-claude-for-chrome/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Piloting Claude for Chrome Feedly Summary: Piloting Claude for Chrome Two days ago I said: I strongly expect that the entire concept of an agentic browser extension is fatally flawed and cannot be built safely. Today Anthropic announced their own take on this pattern, implemented as an…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

Aug 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

OpenAI : ChatGPT agent System Card

Jul 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-agent-system-card Source: OpenAI Title: ChatGPT agent System Card Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent System Card: OpenAI’s agentic model unites research, browser automation, and code tools with safeguards under the Preparedness Framework. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces OpenAI’s agentic model known as the ChatGPT agent System Card, which integrates various functionalities…

Cloud Blog: How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs

Jul 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/how-jina-ai-built-its-100-billion-token-web-grounding-system-with-cloud-run-gpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: The Jina AI Reader is a specialized tool that transforms raw web content from URLs or local files into a clean, structured, and LLM-friendly format. In this post, Han Xiao details…

Hacker News: Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free

Mar 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://github.com/gumloop/guMCP Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Gumloop Unified Model Context Protocol (guMCP) is an open-source project designed to facilitate a community-driven collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Its dual transport support and unified backend…

Hacker News: Playwright Tools for MCP

Mar 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp Source: Hacker News Title: Playwright Tools for MCP Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server which utilizes Playwright for browser automation. This server is significant for enabling Language Learning Models (LLMs) to execute interactions with web pages without relying on visual…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT Operator: Prompt Injection Exploits & Defenses

Feb 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/17/chatgpt-operator-prompt-injection/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT Operator: Prompt Injection Exploits & Defenses Feedly Summary: ChatGPT Operator: Prompt Injection Exploits & Defenses As expected, Johann Rehberger found some effective indirect prompt injection strategies against OpenAI’s new Operator browser automation agent. Operator tends to ask for confirmation before submitting any information in a form.…

The Register: OpenAI’s Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task

Jan 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/openai_unveils_operator_agent/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI’s Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task Feedly Summary: Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? OpenAI on Thursday launched a human-directed AI agent…

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