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Developer Tools

ZCode and GLM-5.2: A Practical Guide to Z.ai's Open-Weight Coding Agent

A step-by-step walkthrough of installing ZCode, configuring Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 model, running Goal Mode and MCP, and calling the API directly — plus how it stacks up against Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

Jul 11, 2026· 13 min read

LLM

Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Developer's Guide

Context engineering, not prompt engineering, is what keeps AI agents coherent past a few turns. This guide covers the four core techniques (write, select, compress, isolate) with runnable Python examples for each.

Jul 10, 2026· 14 min read

AI Agents

GitHub Copilot AI Credits Explained (And How to Make Them Last)

A practical breakdown of GitHub Copilot's new AI Credits billing — how tokens convert to dollars, what every plan includes, and how to keep one agent session from eating your month's allowance.

Jul 9, 2026· 13 min read

AI Agents

MCP Authentication for Remote Servers in 2026

A practical guide to securing remote MCP servers with OAuth 2.1-style discovery, PKCE, resource-bound tokens, token validation, and production-safe scopes. Includes a checklist, runnable Express middleware, and the failure modes developers usually miss.

Jul 9, 2026· 15 min read

Free Browser-Based Developer Tools - The Complete 2026 Guide

A guide to the best free browser-based developer tools — JSON formatters, TypeScript generators, CSS visualizers, regex testers, and more. All 85+ tools run 100% client-side with no data leaving your browser.

May 23, 2026· 4 min read

Developer Tools

Your AI Coding Agent Needs a Permission Contract, Not Just a Prompt

A practical guide to writing CLAUDE.md as a permission contract for AI coding agents, covering tool tiers, hard stops, failure behavior, and MCP server security.

May 6, 2026· 10 min read

Agentic Workflows

How OpenHands Agent Skills Replace Repeated Prompts With Team-Level Workflows

OpenHands agent skills let you package repetitive coding workflows into version-controlled, team-shareable instructions that trigger automatically, ending the repeated-prompt problem across sessions.

Apr 30, 2026· 8 min read

AI Tools

AI Coding Tools Pricing in 2026 - The Flat-Rate Era Is Over

Every major AI coding tool raised its price or restructured plans in April 2026. Here is what changed, why agentic workflows broke the old economics, and how to figure out what you should actually be paying.

Apr 28, 2026· 7 min read

AI Agents

GitHub Agentic Workflows Safe-Outputs Architecture for Automated Code Review

Set up production-ready AI code review using GitHub Agentic Workflows' safe-outputs security model, threat detection, and compile-time constraints.

Apr 28, 2026· 5 min read

Developer Tools

AI code review in 2026 - a workflow that survives the PR flood

AI is generating more pull requests than humans can review. The fix isn't picking the best AI code review tool — it's combining the right ones.

Apr 27, 2026· 11 min read