Agentic AI
Handoffs Between Agents Are Contracts: What to Pass, What to Leave Behind
When one agent delegates to another, the handoff message is the only context the receiver has. Treat it as an interface, not a chat message.
RPA's Agentic Pivot Accelerates: UiPath's Platform Blitz and HCLTech's Robotiq.ai Deal Signal a Market in Flux
A flurry of UiPath product launches and HCLTech's acquisition of Croatian RPA vendor Robotiq.ai underscore how fast robotic process automation is merging with agentic AI.
UiPath's Analyst Day Signals RPA's Reinvention as 'Agentic' Infrastructure
UiPath's late-September product blitz and investor pitch show RPA vendors racing to reposition legacy bots as the governed backbone of enterprise AI agents.
RPA's Identity Crisis: UiPath and Automation Anywhere Bet Big on 'Agentic' Future as Wall Street Hedges
Fresh earnings, product launches, and analyst reactions this week show RPA vendors racing to rebrand as agentic AI platforms — even as investors question whether the pivot is paying off.
RPA's Next Act: Vendors Race to Bolt Governance and Conversation onto Automation Bots
This week's deals and product updates from Automation Anywhere, HCLSoftware, and UiPath show RPA is being re-architected as the execution layer beneath agentic AI.
Shipping a UiPath Agent to Production: A Checklist
UiPath's own docs set seven publishing gates for agents, with numeric thresholds. Here's the checklist, plus what 30 test cases can and can't tell you.
UiPath Maestro Explained: How Agentic Orchestration Works
UiPath's Maestro moves automation from single bots to whole processes. Here's what it's built on, how a process is built, and what you can monitor.
RPA's Agentic Makeover: HCLTech's Robotiq.ai Deal and UiPath's Cartographer Signal a Market in Transition
In the span of 48 hours, HCLTech's acquisition of Robotiq.ai and UiPath's flurry of FUSION-week announcements show RPA vendors racing to fuse legacy bots with agentic AI.
RPA's Midlife Crisis: UiPath Bets on 'Institutional Memory' as Agentic AI Reshapes Automation
UiPath's FUSION 2026 launches and fresh market data show classic RPA bots being wrapped in a new layer of AI agents, governance, and process context rather than replaced outright.
UiPath's AI Features, Explained: Coding Agents, Autopilot, and the Rest of the FUSION 2026 Lineup
UiPath's earnings and stock moves get all the coverage. Here's what the company actually shipped: coding-agent integration, a conversational agent builder, a split orchestration layer, and two more FUSION 2026 releases.
Auditing MCP Server Permissions Before You Wire Them Into an Agent
Connecting a new tool server to an agent is a permissions decision, not just an integration step. Here's a practical checklist for scoping what an MCP server can actually do before it goes live.
RPA's Identity Crisis: Automation Anywhere, UiPath, and Blue Prism All Race to Rebrand as 'Agentic' Platforms
As AI agents threaten to make rules-based bots obsolete, the three biggest RPA vendors are simultaneously overhauling their platforms — and their pitch to enterprises — around agentic automation.
RPA's Identity Crisis: UiPath Wobbles, Automation Anywhere Bets Bigger on 'Agentic' Finance
Fresh earnings turbulence at UiPath and a new agentic Procure-to-Pay launch from Automation Anywhere show how fast robotic process automation is being reframed as AI-agent orchestration.
When to Use a State Machine Instead of a Prompt for Agent Control Flow
Deterministic transitions belong in code, not in prose. Here is how Anthropic's workflow patterns help you decide what the model should and shouldn't control.
Designing the Handoff Contract Between Agents: What Actually Has to Transfer When Work Changes Hands
Splitting work across agents is easy to diagram and hard to make reliable — most of the reliability problems live in the handoff, not the split.
Designing Agent Memory: What to Persist, What to Forget, and How to Retrieve It Later
Most agent memory systems fail not because retrieval is weak, but because nobody decided what belongs in memory in the first place.
Designing Cancellation and Timeout Semantics for Long-Running Agent Tasks
A blanket timeout tells you when to give up. It doesn't tell you how to give up safely — and that's the part that causes incidents.
UiPath's Rocky Earnings Reveal the New Reality for RPA: Orchestrate or Get Left Behind
UiPath's volatile Q2 report, a leadership shake-up, and its new coding-agent orchestration tool show how fast "RPA" is being rebuilt around agentic AI.
RPA Isn't Dying — It's Being Absorbed Into the Agentic AI Stack
New market data and vendor mindshare shifts show robotic process automation surviving 2026 not by standing alone, but by fusing with agentic AI platforms.
The 'RPA Is Dead' Debate Resurfaces — But the Data Tells a Different Story
A widely shared Forbes op-ed reignites the RPA-vs-agentic-AI debate just as new market forecasts show robotic process automation growing, not disappearing.
RPA's Compliance Reckoning: EU AI Act Enforcement Lands as Vendors Race Toward 'Agentic' Automation
As the EU AI Act's high-risk AI rules take effect this week, RPA vendors and buyers are scrambling to prove their bots and AI agents can be audited, governed, and trusted.
Agentic Coding Assistants: What They Are and Why Developers Are Adopting Them
Agentic coding assistants plan, edit, run and revise in a loop. Here is why that works, where it fails, and how to get reliable results.