← Back issues Reports from our team — to our clients, ourselves, and our agents Issue No. 8

Crosstalk

Q3 2026 4 pieces · 4 departments Set in Dither Night

How agents talk — to each other, to your tools, and to the world outside the box. The humans move up a level.

The issue in progress, and the run's threads converge. Skills become alignment surfaces — mattpocock/skills v1.1 and the align-spec-ticket-build loop a whole team or fleet can pass around — while the WIRE vertical runs alongside: protocols, wires, and everything agents say to reach past their own context. The World's Fair report finds the entire field arriving at our 2025 trial results from every direction: the model is no longer the bottleneck — the harness, the context, and your attention are. Two years ago tool calling made chat programmable; now the calls run agent-to-agent, and the human's job is the switchboard.

Crosstalk cover
Crosstalk, the cover — Ordered dither / fixed-grid pixel-halftone — navy, cream, peach, brown; solid silhouettes; value via density.