Agent Infrastructure

The most expensive thing about being an AI engineer is not the model calls. It’s the meetings about the model calls. On 2026-06-18, Anthropic pushed out Claude Code Artifacts, and the timing feels deliberate. The product story they tell is small: a developer kicks off an incident investigation in Claude Code, and the agent publishes a page as it works. By the time standup starts, the page has refreshed twice, and the team is staring at the same URL instead of asking someone to walk them through what the agent found. That pitch is the entire reason I wanted to look at this. ...

On the evening of June 18, the official Model Context Protocol blog published Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP. Core maintainer Paul Carleton kept the tone measured, but the news was substantial: the EMA extension moved from draft to stable, and it crossed 226 points on Hacker News within hours. The same day, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Okta endorsed it; Asana, Atlassian, Canva, Figma, Granola, Linear, and Supabase all flipped on support, and Visual Studio Code wired it into the IDE. ...