<![CDATA[Jigar Joshi — Blog]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog en Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Claude Code Artifacts turn terminal output into live review pages: what Team and Enterprise buyers should pilot first]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-code-artifacts-live-review-pages https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-code-artifacts-live-review-pages Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization is stable: how IdP-provisioned connector access replaces per-server OAuth hell]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/mcp-enterprise-managed-authorization-ema-guide https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/mcp-enterprise-managed-authorization-ema-guide Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Cursor cloud subagents in 2026: /in-cloud, /babysit, and /automate without losing your local guardrails]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/cursor-cloud-subagents-in-cloud-babysit-and-automations https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/cursor-cloud-subagents-in-cloud-babysit-and-automations Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Agentjacking is real: poisoned Sentry errors can hijack Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex without touching your repo]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentjacking-fake-sentry-errors-hijack-coding-agents https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentjacking-fake-sentry-errors-hijack-coding-agents Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The June 15 Claude billing change: Agent SDK credits, model retirement, and the checklist I run before anything breaks]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-agent-sdk-billing-june-15-checklist https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-agent-sdk-billing-june-15-checklist Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Governing agent autonomy in 2026: Auto-review, pre-push review, and why approval prompts are not a security model]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/governing-agent-autonomy-auto-review-and-pre-push-review https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/governing-agent-autonomy-auto-review-and-pre-push-review Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Claude Fable 5 for agent builders: when the frontier model is worth the routing change]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-fable-5-frontier-models-for-agent-builders https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-fable-5-frontier-models-for-agent-builders Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Agentic RAG vs vanilla RAG: why a Sufficient Context Agent beats retrieve-then-pray]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-rag-sufficient-context-vs-vanilla-rag https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-rag-sufficient-context-vs-vanilla-rag Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Agentic transformation is an operating-model problem, not a model problem]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-transformation-operating-model-not-bigger-model https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-transformation-operating-model-not-bigger-model Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The anatomy of an AI agent: memory, tools, the loop, and guardrails]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/anatomy-of-an-ai-agent https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/anatomy-of-an-ai-agent Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Your coding agent has amnesia. Persistent memory is the fix.]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/persistent-memory-for-coding-agents https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/persistent-memory-for-coding-agents Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Your agent's supply chain is the attack surface now]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-ai-supply-chain-security https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-ai-supply-chain-security Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[MCP just went stateless: what the 2026 spec release candidate changes for your servers]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/mcp-stateless-spec-release-candidate https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/mcp-stateless-spec-release-candidate Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Your agents aren't broken, your tools are: three questions to ask before you build one]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/your-agents-arent-broken-your-tools-are-three-questions https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/your-agents-arent-broken-your-tools-are-three-questions Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Inside Recruiting Atelier: a runnable reference for the primitives of an agentic system]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/recruiting-atelier-agentic-ai-reference-implementation https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/recruiting-atelier-agentic-ai-reference-implementation Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How an agentic studio screens, scores and shortlists candidates for your hiring team]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-ai-resume-screening-for-hr-teams https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agentic-ai-resume-screening-for-hr-teams Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Code agents vs skill agents: when to give an agent the keyboard and when to give it the toolbox]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/code-agent-vs-skill-agent-when-to-pick-which https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/code-agent-vs-skill-agent-when-to-pick-which Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Tool registry design for agentic AI: how the wrong registry kills accuracy before the prompt is read]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/tool-registry-design-for-agentic-ai https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/tool-registry-design-for-agentic-ai Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[AI agent vs agentic AI: what the distinction actually means when you ship one]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/ai-agent-vs-agentic-ai-what-the-distinction-actually-means https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/ai-agent-vs-agentic-ai-what-the-distinction-actually-means Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Sonnet 4.6: should you re-route your agent stack?]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-sonnet-4-6-routing-layer https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-sonnet-4-6-routing-layer Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[MCP governance just became a product: what Databricks Unity AI Gateway changes for enterprise agents]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/databricks-unity-ai-gateway-mcp-governance https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/databricks-unity-ai-gateway-mcp-governance Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The vector store is not your agent's memory]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/three-paradigms-of-llm-memory-implicit-explicit-agentic https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/three-paradigms-of-llm-memory-implicit-explicit-agentic Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Tool descriptions are prompts. Fix the registry, not the agent.]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/tool-descriptions-are-prompts-fix-the-registry https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/tool-descriptions-are-prompts-fix-the-registry Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The cheapest LLM call is the one you do not make. GitHub's 19-62% token cut, decoded]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/cheapest-llm-call-is-the-one-you-dont-make https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/cheapest-llm-call-is-the-one-you-dont-make Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Claude Opus 4.7's 1M context: when to RAG and when to just stuff it]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-opus-4-7-1m-context-rag-or-stuff https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/claude-opus-4-7-1m-context-rag-or-stuff Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[MCP 1.0 is here. What changes for the servers you already wrote]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/mcp-1-0-server-migration-changes https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/mcp-1-0-server-migration-changes Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Why I am replacing supervisor patterns with handoffs]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/supervisor-pattern-vs-handoffs-multi-agent https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/supervisor-pattern-vs-handoffs-multi-agent Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Prompt caching is not optional anymore. Measuring a 47% cost drop]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/prompt-caching-47-percent-cost-drop https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/prompt-caching-47-percent-cost-drop Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Tool descriptions are prompts. Stop treating them like docstrings]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/tool-descriptions-are-prompts https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/tool-descriptions-are-prompts Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The agent observability stack we ship to every client]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agent-observability-stack-clients https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agent-observability-stack-clients Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Three patterns I broke in 2025, and what I do instead now]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/three-patterns-i-broke-2025 https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/three-patterns-i-broke-2025 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Haiku 4.5 made our router 5x cheaper. The trade-off matters]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/haiku-4-5-router-cost-tradeoffs https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/haiku-4-5-router-cost-tradeoffs Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Why every team's first MCP server should be "list-files"]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/first-mcp-server-list-files https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/first-mcp-server-list-files Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Eval datasets: stop testing your agents on the happy path]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/eval-datasets-beyond-happy-path https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/eval-datasets-beyond-happy-path Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[I was wrong about JSON mode. Here is what changed my mind]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/json-mode-changed-my-mind https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/json-mode-changed-my-mind Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Why your agent keeps failing after 3 steps]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agent-failing-after-3-steps-exit-conditions https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/agent-failing-after-3-steps-exit-conditions Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The one rule for designing agent tools that actually work]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/one-rule-tool-design https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/one-rule-tool-design Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[RAG vs CAG: how to actually decide]]> https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/rag-vs-cag-decision-framework https://jigarjoshi.in/blog/rag-vs-cag-decision-framework Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT