DevToolsDigest: Issue #382
This week's digest includes news & resources from Root Security, Modiqo, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
SkillSpec : Make Skills Follow A Plan
Today, most skills are instructions the model may not follow. SkillSpec checks a SKILL.md and turns the important parts into a contract. It works with any agent harness, so skills run more reliably without wasting tokens.
a14y: Agent Readability for the Web
a14y is an open spec for making any website discoverable, parseable, and comprehensible to those agents, a versioned scorecard that operationalizes the spec, and a CLI plus Chrome extension that score any site against it.
Industry Research
Why Open Infrastructure Will Define the AI Era
Remember when writing code was free? AI is pushing software development into usage-billed proprietary platforms. But history repeats itself, and open foundations tend to win.
When Teams Ship What They Cannot Explain
AI lowers the barrier to produce code but not for quality, security posture, reliability engineering, or regulatory evidence. That remains the responsibility of experienced engineering and architecture leadership.
Developer Venture News
Aikido Acquires Root Security
Aikido Security announced that it acquired Root, a company that patches known vulnerabilities directly into the open source package version a team is already running, instead of forcing them to upgrade to a newer release.