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How to right-size the handoff between two agents

model-right-sizer-schema is a Claude Code skill that designs the typed contract between one agent and the controller that dispatches it. Point it at an agent plus its controller and it returns a JSON prescription with typed in/out fields, an exclusion list that keeps raw logs out of the reply, a before/after size delta, then writes the contract into the agent's own file. It picks from nine portable output-shape families, or your repo's own.

Stop assembling audit evidence by hand: generate it on every deploy

Somewhere in every compliance program is a person who spends the week before an audit pulling logs out of several different systems, reconstructing who had access to what, and hoping the screenshots match what the auditor actually asks for. None of this work makes the system more secure. It just makes the existing security visible to someone who's checking. That gap, between the controls that are actually in place and the evidence that proves it, is where most audit prep time goes.

The network layer securing your multicloud traffic

You migrated the workload. The app's live across clouds. But is the traffic between them actually locked down, or just assumed to be? There's a layer of the network doing the heavy lifting here, and it goes by a name that gets confused with something else constantly. Full breakdown on our blog, link in bio.

A typical day in the data centre

What does a typical day look like for the people working behind the scenes of a data centre? From hardware installations and cabling to troubleshooting, customer requests and supporting critical works, every shift brings something different. In this 'day in the life', Leon Strong, Data Centre Services Engineer for Maidenhead, shares what it’s like to work in a hands-on technical role, what they enjoy most and their advice for anyone considering a career in data centre engineering.

Shipped: Find your saved Explorer queries faster

Most people rebuild the same handful of Explorer queries: the monthly close view, spend by team for the staff meeting, the filter set that isolates a service you’ve been watching for two months. When we shipped query history and favorites earlier this year, it gave you a way to save up to 12 Explorer configurations.

n8n pricing in 2026: every plan, the execution math, and what AI agents change

n8n pricing runs €24 per month for 2,500 workflow executions (Starter), €60 for 10,000 (Pro), and €800 for 40,000 (Business), with 17 percent off on annual billing and custom Enterprise pricing above that. Every plan includes unlimited users and unlimited workflows. The self-hosted Community Edition is free with unlimited executions; you pay only for your server.

CoreWeave pricing in 2026: every GPU rate and what a node really costs

CoreWeave, a GPU cloud provider, prices start at $6.16 per GPU hour for an Nvidia H100 and reaches $8.60 for a B200, sold as fixed multi-GPU nodes: an 8x H100 node lists at $49.24 per hour on demand. Spot rates run up to 60 percent below on demand, reserved contracts discount up to 60 percent, and egress is free.