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Building a production AI agent in TypeScript with Mastra: a 2026 step-by-step.

Building a production AI agent in TypeScript with Mastra: a 2026 step-by-step. I spent an afternoon last month wiring up an AI agent in raw TypeScript using the Anthropic SDK directly. The code worked, but I owned every piece of it: the tool dispatch loop, the conversation history array, the retry logic. Around 400 lines before the agent did anything interesting. Mastra cuts that to about 60. A TypeScript-first agent framework with 24k+ GitHub stars, an active release cadence (88 releases as of May 2026), and a model router that talks to 40+ providers through one API. This tutorial goes from zero to a running agent with a custom tool and persistent memory. All code in this article runs. Step What you build Time Install Scaffolded project with Mastra wired in 5 min Agent An agent with a system prompt and a model 10 min Tool A custom tool the agent calls 15 min Memory Conversation history across sessions 10 min Deploy A running HTTP server 5 min Raw SDK calls give you full control but you write the orchestration layer yourself: the tool call loop, history management, error handling, retries. Frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex solve this but lean heavily Python-first; the TypeScript ports lag the Python versions. Mastra starts from TypeScript. The primitives map directly to what TypeScript developers already know: classes, Zod schemas, async functions. No port-lag exists because the framework itself is the TypeScript version. The trade-off is the same as any framework: you trade control for speed. For prototypes and most production agents, the trade is worth it. For cases where the framework's tool dispatch or memory behavior does not match your exact needs, you can always drop a layer and call the Vercel AI SDK directly, which Mastra wraps under the hood. Mastra's scaffolder creates everything you need: npm create mastra@latest The wizard asks for a project name, model provider, and whether you want the starter example files. Pick your provider (OpenAI, Anthropi

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The AI Supply Chain: The Next Evolution of Third Party Risk

Most enterprise security teams believe they have third party risk under control. They send out questionnaires, review SOC 2 reports, and negotiate vendor contracts. In the age of enterprise AI, this traditional approach is no longer enough. It is dangerously incomplete. The real risk has shifted from vendors to dependencies. We are moving away from legal agreements to neural weights, embeddings, retrieval pipelines, and agent frameworks. You can build a textbook Zero Trust architecture in AWS, but if the models or data feeding your AI systems are compromised, your entire security perimeter can be undermined from within. This is the new reality of AI Supply Chain Risk. Traditional third party risk management focuses on SaaS applications and service providers. AI supply chain risk is fundamentally different. You are now implicitly trusting components that originate outside your own security boundary: Model weights from Hugging Face and other public repositories External embedding and inference providers Dynamic data sources feeding your RAG systems Open source orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex Even the strongest IAM policies and network controls become meaningless once poisoned data or a backdoored model enters the environment. 1. Model Provenance and Serialization Attacks Downloading pretrained models from public repositories introduces significant risk. Malicious actors can embed arbitrary code in serialized formats, especially Python pickle files, or implant subtle backdoors directly into neural network weights. 2. RAG Poisoning or Indirect Prompt Injection RAG systems depend heavily on external or semi trusted data sources. An attacker who poisons one of these sources, whether a website, PDF, wiki page, or internal document, can inject malicious instructions that are later retrieved and executed by the model. This completely bypasses traditional input guardrails. 3. External Embedding and Inference APIs Relying on third party APIs for embedding

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JavaScript Atomics and SharedArrayBuffer in 2026: Practical Patterns for Cross-Worker State

JavaScript Atomics and SharedArrayBuffer in 2026: Practical Patterns for Cross-Worker State

JavaScript Atomics and SharedArrayBuffer in 2026: Practical Patterns for Cross-Worker State This article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review. Most cross-worker communication problems stem from treating workers as isolated processes when the workload demands shared state. Teams reach for postMessage by default, serialize multi-megabyte data structures on every frame, and watch their real-time audio pipelines stutter under 100ms message latency. The browser gives developers true shared memory through SharedArrayBuffer, but production codebases rarely exploit it because the API surface feels foreign and the security requirements seem burdensome. The failure mode here is subtle but expensive. A video processing pipeline that bounces 1920×1080 frames through postMessage spends 15-20ms per transfer just copying pixels. That overhead compounds across worker boundaries until the entire system misses its 16.67ms budget. Meanwhile, a SharedArrayBuffer-backed ring buffer eliminates the copy entirely and keeps the same workload under 2ms. The correct approach places pixel data in shared memory once, then coordinates access with atomic operations. Workers read and write the same underlying bytes without serialization. The synchronization primitives—Atomics.wait, Atomics.notify, compare-and-swap—replace message passing with lock-free coordination that runs in microseconds instead of milliseconds. This distinction is critical because the web platform now ships SharedArrayBuffer with reliable cross-origin isolation in every major browser. The security requirements that blocked adoption in 2018 are solved. Production teams that master these patterns unlock performance headroom that message passing cannot match. SharedArrayBuffer eliminates serialization overhead by giving workers direct access to the same memory, turning 15ms postMessage copies into microsecond atomic operations for real-time workloads. Atomics.compareExchange and Atomics.wait/n

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Your rules file only grows. Here's how to find the rules that do nothing

This is part 3 of a series on project rules for AI coding agents. Part 1 covered how Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex load your rules. Part 2 covered enforcing rules with hooks. This one covers the part almost nobody does: figuring out which of your rules are dead weight. Nearly every long-lived rules file I've seen has the same life story. It starts as five lines. An agent does something annoying, someone adds a rule. A bug slips through, someone adds a rule. Six months later it's 40 rules, and nobody can tell you which ones still matter. The reason is an asymmetry in how it feels: deleting a rule feels risky, keeping it feels free. But keeping isn't free: Context cost. Rules ship with every request. In Claude Code, CLAUDE.md is loaded into context each session; in Cursor, alwaysApply rules ride along on everything. Tokens spent on dead rules are tokens not spent on your actual code. Dilution. Agents don't weight 40 instructions equally. Every low-value rule competes for attention with the rules that actually prevent incidents. A short file is not just cheaper — it's followed better. Rot. Rules encode assumptions about tool behavior at the time of writing. Tools change monthly. A rule that references behavior that no longer exists is worse than noise: it teaches the agent (and new teammates) something false. So the file needs an audit loop. The question is what signal to audit on. The obvious instinct is to count how often each rule fires — how often it gets attached to a request. Cursor even shows you which rules attached, so this feels measurable. After part 1 of this series, a reader (@dipankar_sarkar) pushed on exactly this point, and his framing is the right one: count outcomes-changed, not matches. A rule that attached to 200 requests but never changed what the agent did is indistinguishable from a comment. Attachment tells you the rule was present, not that it was load-bearing. The catch is that "outcomes-changed" is a counterfactual. To measure it directly yo

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