Agents & Agentic AI

Executive Summary Short summary: Recent agent/agentic-tooling releases (mid-July 2026) emphasize production hardening: session and subagent management, backgrounding long-running tool calls, improved observability (tracing, per-call and session usage), richer event models for deferred and streamed tool output, structured-output and schema fixes, and developer ergonomics (hooks, TUI, Skills/Flows promotion). Claude Code releases added fine-grained session limits and…