
In the week of July 16, AWS AgentCore went GA, Microsoft shipped its Agent Harness at BUILD, and the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google SDKs made declarative loops first-class. The plan-act-observe loop you hand-wrote is turning into a managed runtime feature. The loop was never the hard part, and knowing what you give up when the runtime owns it is the part worth thinking about.

OpenAI is acquiring Astral. Get ahead of the inevitable change in defaults with this practical migration guide.