Field Notes
Writing from the team on building and running agents, and on the work of go-to-market.
We Built an AI Booking Bot. Most of the Code Is Guardrails.
The AI part of our booking bot took a day. The guardrails took a week. Here's why that ratio is exactly right.
Best Agentic Frameworks in 2026
The agentic framework landscape has matured fast. Here's what each one is actually good at, and how to pick the right one for your build.
From Claws to Fingers: Evolving MCP for the Agent Revolution
As agents move beyond chat into real systems, the challenge is no longer model intelligence but the tooling layer beneath them. Here's how to make it production-ready.
An OpenClaw agent and its creator share their experience
OpenClaw experiment: how Civic’s Brad Webb built Snowcrab, an agent with identity, live hockey monitoring, Civic Nexus integration, and real-world lessons.
AgentOps: The safety net for autonomous AI
As AI agents move from prediction to action, AgentOps emerges to manage risk, enforce governance, and ensure safe, accountable automation.
MCP for all: solving the auth problem
Explore the challenges of MCP server authentication and how @civic/auth-mcp simplifies OAuth 2.0 for secure, multi-user AI agent access.