LLMs Archives - Skyfire

AI Trends 5 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire’s KYA Protocol Is Now the Identity Layer for Experian’s Know Your Agent Framework

Today, Experian announced Know Your Agent, a trust framework for AI-driven commerce. Cloudflare is enforcing verification at the network edge. Skyfire’s open KYA protocol is providing the identity and payment infrastructure at the core of the system. This is the kind of partnership we started building Skyfire to make possible. I want to explain what […]

Uncategorized 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire, Sequentum, and the Browser as the Agentic Commerce Integration Layer

Today Skyfire is launching a production integration with Sequentum, the enterprise web automation company. Starting now, Sequentum’s new Checkout Agent can complete real purchases on real merchant sites using Skyfire for identity and payments, inside a SOC 2 Type 2 environment with full audit trails for every transaction. The first live demo runs on May […]

Uncategorized 7 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire X Rye: Universal Checkout, KYA, and What’s on the Other Side of the Agent Identity Wall

Most of the conversation about agentic commerce is still arguing about the agent tech. Which model? Which framework? Which headless browser? I haven’t found those to be the critical factors in an agent’s success.. Today he hard part isn’t the agent. The hard part is the wall the agent hits the moment it tries to […]

AI Trends 6 min read | Kevin Brown

The Trust Gap in AI Agent Payments

In February, Alipay announced that its AI Pay solution had processed more than 120 million transactions in a single week, a milestone. The number wasn’t a projection or a roadmap slide. It was an operational fact, announced via BusinessWire and covered by Morningstar, FinTech Magazine, and CoinDesk, among others. That figure captures the velocity of […]

Uncategorized 10 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire partners with F5 to bring verified AI agent identity inside the world’s largest bot defense platform

Agentic commerce has a trust problem, and it’s not the one most people expect. The challenge isn’t that merchants don’t want to transact with AI agents. It’s that the infrastructure they’ve spent decades building to protect their platforms was specifically designed to stop automated traffic. Bot defense systems, web application firewalls, and fraud detection layers […]

Technology Insights 12 min read | Ankit Agarwal

From Discovery to Execution: How AI Agents Can Dynamically Install Tools

General-purpose agents often rely on tools served by Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to accomplish things for humans. MCP has quickly become the go-to protocol for enabling AI agents to access a wide range of tools. At a high level, a large language model (LLM) acts as the agent’s “brain,” while tools give it the […]

Technology Insights 18 min read | Ankit Agarwal

Converting OpenAPI Specs to Agent Tools

Before we dive in, let’s clarify what we mean by “agent tools”. Agent tools are local functions whose descriptions and parameters are exposed to an agent. The agent can then supply all the parameters to perform a “tool call”. Then, the agent framework (CrewAI, AWS Strands, Langchain, etc.) orchestrates running the tool function with those […]

Technology Insights 22 min read | Ankit Agarwal

The Importance of Context Placement in AI Agents

When building AI agents, it’s tempting to feed the model every bit of context you have – all the tools, all the data, all the instructions – in hopes that “more context == better results.” In theory, a larger context window and more tools should make an agent more capable. In practice, we’ve learned the […]

Technology Insights 10 min read | Ankit Agarwal

Your Agent Has Amnesia: Why Short-Term Memory Matters More Than You Think

How agent frameworks like Vercel AI and Autogen approach memory and why forgetting can break reasoning. This isn’t about vector databases — it’s about the kind of memory agents need to think between runs. Short-Term Memory Keeps LLMs Thinking Straight Try solving a problem without being able to remember the last step you took. You’d […]