May 31, 2026 / Daily Edition / 1 story in this issue
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Agent Tool Menus Are Becoming Runtime Infrastructure

Fresh Codex and Hermes commits show a quieter agent shift: the visible list of tools is becoming a runtime contract about what can be suggested, enabled, discovered, and checked without breaking the session.

Rough zine-style diagram showing Codex and Hermes evidence cards feeding into a circled availability contract conclusion, with a caveat stamp that the commits are independent and not a shared standard.
Diagram Punkthe tool menu is becoming part of the runtime contract.
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