https://agiletechguru.com Independent Agile Consultant & Technical Advisor en-us https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/deterministic-sensors-ci-coding-agents-harness For the past several years, the engineering community has attempted to control autonomous AI agents using prompt engineering. We write long instructions telling… Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:11:57 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/deterministic-sensors-ci-coding-agents-harness Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/intelligent-modular-monolith-node-v26-ai-inference For the past decade, microservices have been the default architectural choice for scaling enterprise software systems. By decomposing large, complex codebases i… Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:11:03 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/intelligent-modular-monolith-node-v26-ai-inference Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/search-as-code-programmatic-agentic-retrieval As autonomous AI agents transition from novelty tools to enterprise-grade operators, the mechanisms they use to acquire and process knowledge must undergo a par… Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:09:50 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/search-as-code-programmatic-agentic-retrieval Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/managed-vs-self-hosted-agent-harness-tradeoffs Managed agents ship Tuesday. Self-hosted agents ship architecture. Pick wrong and portability becomes a fantasy slide. Here is how to evaluate the TCO, compliance, and coupling. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/managed-vs-self-hosted-agent-harness-tradeoffs Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/case-studies/eu-ai-act-high-risk-lending-conformity-case-study-2026 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW I led this program to 100% Conformity Ready. 100% Conformity Readiness | 45-Min Auditor Evidence Turnaround | 12% Human Override Limit Enforc… Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/case-studies/eu-ai-act-high-risk-lending-conformity-case-study-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/continuous-discovery-habits-ai-age-opportunity-solution-tree-2026 By Vatsal Shah | 2026-07-14 | 15 min read Table of Contents Introduction What is Continuous Product Discovery? Why Continuous Discovery Habits Matter in 2026 Co… Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/continuous-discovery-habits-ai-age-opportunity-solution-tree-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/designing-custom-mcp-servers-developer-agents-2026 By Vatsal Shah | 2026-07-14 | 18 min read Table of Contents Introduction What is Model Context Protocol? Why Design Custom MCP Servers? Core Concepts of Custom … Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/designing-custom-mcp-servers-developer-agents-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/dora-metrics-ai-attribution-engineering-2026 DORA metrics celebrate deployment frequency but mask massive rework rates. Here is the AI Attribution layer engineering leaders need to audit real impact. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/dora-metrics-ai-attribution-engineering-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/mcp-tool-poisoning-rug-pull-supply-chain-defense Your agent didn't get hacked in the tool code. It got hacked in the tool description — invisible to humans, authoritative to the model. Here is how to defend. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/mcp-tool-poisoning-rug-pull-supply-chain-defense Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/agent-harness-control-plane-build-buy-lock-in Same frontier model. One team ships in weeks, another burns a year in prototype. The difference isn't GPT vs Claude — it's the harness you chained yourself to. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/agent-harness-control-plane-build-buy-lock-in Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/ai-native-idp-platform-engineering-agentic-era 78% of enterprises have a platform team. Only 23% have an IDP that can govern agents. That gap is where shadow agents live. Here is how to rebuild your IDP. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/ai-native-idp-platform-engineering-agentic-era Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/cfo-os-corporate-accounting-close-reconciliation-2026 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW Practitioner breakdown of The CFO OS: Restructuring Corporate Close, Audit, and Cash Reconciliation Loops — written for CTOs, VP Engineering,… Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/cfo-os-corporate-accounting-close-reconciliation-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/reengineering-project-manager-strategic-design-2026 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW Practitioner breakdown of Re-Engineering the Project Manager: Moving from Tactical Task-Tracking to Strategic Design — written for CTOs, VP E… Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/blogs/reengineering-project-manager-strategic-design-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/case-studies/mcp-production-gateway-enterprise-case-study-2026 STRATEGIC OVERVIEW I led this program to 41% Faster Integration. 73% Integration Time Reduction | 7,000 Hours Saved | 100% Security Guardrail Coverage Client &a… Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/case-studies/mcp-production-gateway-enterprise-case-study-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/news/aws-forward-deployed-engineering-1b-2026 AWS has launched a $1 billion Forward Deployed Engineering organization that puts pods of five to six engineers directly inside enterprise customers — aiming to… Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/news/aws-forward-deployed-engineering-1b-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/news/deepfabric-supply-chain-ai-agents-ga-2026 DeepFabric, a developer of agentic enterprise software, announced on July 8, 2026, the general availability of its specialized AI agent platform for supply chai… Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/news/deepfabric-supply-chain-ai-agents-ga-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/news/windsurf-devin-desktop-cascade-eol-2026 Cognition has officially retired the Windsurf brand, transforming the popular developer tool into Devin Desktop via an over-the-air update. The rebrand, which b… Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/news/windsurf-devin-desktop-cascade-eol-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/news/jadepuffer-agentic-ransomware-langflow-sysdig-2026 The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has documented JadePuffer, a cyberattack campaign identifying the first credible instance of agentic ransomware in the wil… Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/news/jadepuffer-agentic-ransomware-langflow-sysdig-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/news/atlassian-rovo-mcp-jira-product-discovery-2026 Atlassian has announced significant updates to Atlassian Rovo, expanding its integration with Jira Product Discovery (JPD) and extending the capabilities of its… Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/news/atlassian-rovo-mcp-jira-product-discovery-2026 Vatsal Shah https://agiletechguru.com/news/agent-skills-open-standard-skills-sh-2026 The AI coding agent ecosystem has hit its "npm moment" with the rapid adoption of the agentskills.io open standard and Vercel’s skills.sh registry. Designed to … Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agiletechguru.com/news/agent-skills-open-standard-skills-sh-2026 Vatsal Shah