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inbox ● Morning Intel
Two-phase agents are eating single-agent workflows
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Roelof van Heeren
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7:02 AM (2 hours ago)
Morning Intel · Issue 12 · 4 min read
01Market Pulse

speedy_devv posted a two-phase security agent carousel yesterday. 162 likes, 183 comments in 8 hours. The hook: "Most SaaS apps ship with security holes nobody checks until a user finds them first."

Why it worked: specific number (5 holes), severity badges, and the architecture diagram on slide 4 showing 87 raw findings filtered to 5 confirmed bugs. Steals cleanly for any reporter + exploiter framing.

02New tools shipped

Claude Code 4.7 · 1M context, plugin marketplace, skills hot-load.
Cline 3.0 · Local-first coding agent, MCP auto-discovery.
Weights.app · Free character-consistent image gen, ~4s per image.
Sahni SkillKit · 40K installs in 72 hours. Copywriting skills.

03Watched for you

Karpathy "Software 3.0" keynote (47 min to 180 words): LLMs aren't apps, they're operating systems. Prompts are the new programs. Tool-use is the new filesystem.

His thesis: if you're building agent scaffolding, you're building PC-era abstractions on a post-PC substrate. Three bets he's making: long-context over RAG, multimodal-native over text-first, synthetic data over human annotation.

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01
Market Pulse

The 3 highest-engagement AI posts from yesterday across IG, X, and LinkedIn. The hook, why it worked, and how to steal the pattern.

02
New tools shipped

Every GitHub-trending AI repo, Product Hunt launch, and major release. One line each so you can scan in 30 seconds.

03
Watched for you

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Roelof van Heeren

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Building Elvison · AI systems for founders & operators
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