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How to connect a shopping agent to Shopify’s Shop MCP

Shopify's new Shop MCP connects catalog search, merchant carts and checkout. This documentation-based guide shows the setup, shopper approval step and order verification boundary.

Inspect an Electron app's behavior with REA

REA maps modules and Electron boundaries in a local app. This guide shows how to trace one feature through its evidence and check the behavior separately.

How to check a Spark UDF rewrite for GPU execution

A practical sequence for testing one Spark UDF, choosing SQL, cuDF or CUDA, checking for CPU fallback, and measuring the result on a GPU-capable pipeline.

How to create a Gemini Skill for a repeat writing review

Create a reusable Gemini Skill that checks text against a writing checklist. This documentation-only guide covers access, setup, a test prompt and recovery.

Continues How to move a Gemini Gem into a Skill before Google's transition

How to migrate from the GPT-4o API snapshot retiring October 23

OpenAI lists gpt-4o-2024-05-13 for API shutdown October 23, 2026, with gpt-5.6-sol as substitute. This guide covers inventory, staging checks and production verification.

How to Run Local Models With 128GB of Memory and What It Costs

A practical buying guide to 128GB unified-memory systems for local AI: what model memory actually means, dated US prices, platform choices and a check before committing to a machine.

Deploy Talorys in your Cloudflare account and check a reminder

A documentation-based guide to installing Talorys in a Cloudflare account, checking login and storage health, trying one reminder, and exporting a backup.

How to evaluate fixed-choice routing with Microsoft-Decision-1

Microsoft-Decision-1 returns probabilities or scores for bounded questions in Foundry. This documentation-only guide covers version 1 access, requests, validation, price and human review.

How to check a support ticket with Cloudflare Clef-omni

Cloudflare's Clef-omni accepts a ticket state, typed questions and optional image, audio or video input. This documentation-only guide covers its Workers AI request, response, price and limits.

Choose a GPT-6 model for a production API workflow

A task-based guide to GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and Luna, with current API rates and a worksheet for evaluating quality, latency and cost before deployment.

Continues OpenAI DevDay 2026: launches, availability and what builders can use

Build a Claude workflow that reviews documents in parallel

Anthropic’s beta Managed Agents can turn a document review into a multi-phase workflow. This guide shows how to configure a run, inspect its events and output, and account for cost and limits.

A Mac agent can point to the step you must decide

Set up Big Arrow on the Screen to give a Mac agent a temporary visual cue for a step you must inspect and perform yourself. Includes exact commands, permissions and recovery.

Run Mellum2.1 locally and check its first response

JetBrains’ current GGUF repository documents a llama.cpp path for serving Mellum2.1 locally. Install the runtime, request a completion, and check it before trying an agent.

How open-source maintainers can enroll in Anthropic’s OSS Scanner and triage its reports

A documentation-based guide to Anthropic OSS Scanner eligibility, enrollment, offline build setup, and safely validating model-generated reports that have not received human review.

ChatGPT Intelligent UI: supported plans, Simple layout and saved state

OpenAI documents which ChatGPT plans and reasoning settings support Intelligent UI, how web users can choose Simple, and when interaction state remains in a thread.

Clean up inactive VS Code agent worktrees without losing the session

A documentation-based guide to VS Code 1.141's manual worktree cleanup, including default selections, safeguards, restoration and separate preview automation.

How to set an MXC policy for agent-generated commands

Microsoft's MXC SDK lets developers declare a command and its file and network policy. This documentation-only guide shows the Node V1 authoring path, diagnostic modes and backend limits.

How to check an image, video or audio file with Google SynthID Detector

Google has opened SynthID Detector globally in English for image, video and audio checks. This documentation-based guide explains the stated workflow and what a detected or missing watermark can establish.