Pricing Guides
GPT-6 Astra: Plus Usage Limits and Real API Costs
Why does GPT-6 Astra use up Plus limits so quickly? Compare official allowances, Fast mode, creator reports, and actual API charges from three game generations.
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Model Comparison
GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 Tested: Same 3D Game Task, Different Results
SandBase's GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 test: the same 3D game prompt, original code, startup failures, completion checks, response times and actual API charges.
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Model Comparison
Gemini 3.8 Flash Coding Costs: When Cheap Retries Pay Off
Calculate Gemini 3.8 Flash coding costs including thinking tokens, compare provider rates, and cap retries at two before escalating a failed patch.
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Developer Tools
Why Coding Agents Forget the Goal After Dozens of Tool Calls
Why coding agents forget the goal, repeat failed fixes, and skip tests—and how to recover with a task-state record, regression checks, and a bounded restart.
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Developer Tools
Fable 5.1 Long-Running Agents: Tests, Recovery and Cost
SandBase's Fable 5.1 evaluation design: test a billing-client upgrade across two repositories, recover from tool failures, cap retries, and count accepted-task cost.
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Industry Insights
OpenAI Astra: Critical Cyber Risk
OpenAI says upcoming Astra may reach its Critical cyber threshold. Here is what that claim means and the controls every high-capability coding agent needs.
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Developer Tools
Claude Agent SDK: Python, TypeScript, Pricing & Setup (2026)
Claude Agent SDK setup guide for Python and TypeScript: installation, pricing, agent loop, permissions, MCP, sessions, and production gateway choices.
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Developer Tools
GitHub MCP Server Guide (2026): Setup, Toolsets & Security
Learn how to configure GitHub's official MCP Server with toolsets, read-only mode, OAuth, and lockdown controls for Copilot, Claude, and production coding agents.
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Industry Insights
Agent Harness Performance: How to Evaluate Coding Agents
Agent harness performance guide: compare context, tools, memory, verification, retries, and permissions so coding-agent benchmarks reflect real workloads.
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Developer Tools
Agent Plugins 1.0: Portable Coding-Agent Plugins Explained
Agent Plugins 1.0 explained: GitHub Copilot plugin structure, portability across VS Code and CLI, MCP and Skills differences, and testing limits.
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Developer Tools
Multimodal Coding Agents: When Screenshot-to-Fix Actually Works
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is rolling into GitHub Copilot with image understanding. A rigorous workflow for turning screenshots into verified code fixes.
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Developer Tools
GitHub Copilot SDK Meets Agent Framework
A practical look at combining GitHub Copilot SDK with Microsoft Agent Framework: what the harness adds, where trust boundaries sit, and when to use it.
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Developer Tools
How Google Builds and Tests Agent Skills
Google's playbook for scaling Agent Skills: standard structure, CI, with-vs-without evals, accuracy and efficiency, ownership, and safe export.
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Developer Tools
Open Multi-Agent: Runtime DAGs in TypeScript
Review Open Multi-Agent's dynamic task DAGs, mixed coding-agent backends, approvals, replay, security defaults, and when the complexity pays off.
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Developer Tools
UiPath for Coding Agents: An Operator's Guide
Review UiPath for Coding Agents: how skills and the uip CLI build and operate automations, where approvals sit, and what enterprises must validate.
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Developer Tools
NVIDIA Switchyard: Run Coding Agents on Any LLM
NVIDIA Switchyard routes Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw to hosted or local LLMs. Learn how protocol translation, routing profiles, and fallback work.
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