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.june
2026, 17 tips.
Trace the agent loop, do not log it
ai-agentsobservability
Alert on what the user feels, not on what you think causes it
observabilitysre
Link headers carry the next page so the body stays clean
httpapi-design
When you compact an agent's context, keep the state
ai-agentsllm
Put the API version in the path
httpapi-design
HEAD, when you only need to know it exists
http
An on-call agent gets one action, then a human
ai-agentssre
Reuse connections for outbound HTTP
httpperformance
Fewer MCP servers, more skills
ai-agentsdeveloper-experience
The caller's timeout must be shorter than the callee's
httpreliability
The agent borrows the user's identity, scoped to the task
ai-agentssecurity
Vary tells the cache which headers change the response
httpcaching
Errors as application/problem+json
httpapi-design
Thirty real inputs before the first prompt
ai-engineeringtesting
Cursor pagination, not OFFSET, past the first few pages
httpapi-designpostgresql
An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried POST safe
httpapi-design
Tag every tool result as trusted or not
ai-agentssecurity
.may
2026, 8 tips.
202 Accepted and a status URL for anything that takes seconds
httpapi-design
Wrap the slow widget in Suspense, not the page
reactnextjs
Four Cache-Control values cover almost every case
httpcaching
ETag plus If-None-Match turns a repeat fetch into a 304
httpcaching
Read request data once, high up, and pass it down
nextjsreact
CI tokens get the permissions the job uses, and nothing else
securityci
The key goes on the element the map returns
react
Dependency alerts need one person and a weekly slot
securityengineering-practice