Decision guides

Choose the right agent backend layer

Evergreen architecture guides for comparing model APIs, model routers, agent runtimes, and hosted harness backends. Product integration steps remain in Docs.

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Concepts

What is A2A?

Learn how A2A uses Agent Cards, messages, tasks, and artifacts, plus how it fits with MCP and UHP in a production agent stack.

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Concepts

What is MCP?

Learn what MCP standardizes, how its client-server architecture works, its security boundaries, and how it fits with A2A and UHP.

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Comparisons

AGI vs ASI vs ANI

Compare AGI vs ASI vs ANI by scope, performance, autonomy, examples, and current status. See where today's AI models and agents actually fit.

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Comparisons

What is ASI?

What is ASI? Learn the definition of artificial superintelligence, how it differs from AGI and narrow AI, its possible forms, risks, and limits.

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Comparisons

What is AGI?

What is AGI? Learn the mainstream definition, how AGI differs from narrow AI and ASI, how researchers measure it, and where today's agents fit.

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Comparisons

What is ANI?

What is artificial narrow intelligence? See ANI examples, limits, how narrow AI powers today's agents, and why agentic behavior is not AGI.

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Integration

Claude Code as a service

How to run Claude Code headless behind your product: the API contract, multi-tenant authorization, per-task sandbox isolation, document skills, and configuration comparison.

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Integration

Hermes API

How to run Nous Research's Hermes agent through an API: what Hermes is, the task and session contract, model pairing, and what its benchmark results show about cost and speed.

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Integration

Coding Agent API

What a coding agent API is, the three architectures on the market, and how to run complete coding agents server-side with sessions, streaming, files, and artifacts.

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Concepts

What is an agent harness

An agent harness is the runtime layer around a model that turns it into a working agent: the loop, context, tools, permissions, sandboxing, and recovery.

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Architecture

AI agent API

What a product needs when users expect completed work: sessions, streaming, files, artifacts, routing, and production controls.

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Codex

Codex API

The current Codex API reality: OpenAI's seven Codex surfaces, what the Codex SDK actually is, why there is no hosted REST API for Codex tasks in current docs, and how to run Codex over HTTP today.

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Architecture

Agent backend or model router?

Use this page to separate model access from product-facing agent work with sessions, files, artifacts, and traces.

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OpenRouter

OpenRouter for agents

Searching for an OpenRouter for agents? The pattern you want lives at the harness layer: OpenRouter for harnesses is the precise phrase, and HarnessRouter is the product. Here is why the unit matters, what OpenRouter itself ships for agents, and how the two layers stack.

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