March 23, 2026 / Daily Edition / 1 story in this issue
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Codex forks it, Gemini threads it: execution context becomes first-class

The next big agent primitive is not another tool call. It’s the bundle of permissions, environment, policy, and wiring that tells an agent how to exist for this turn, in this loop, right now.

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