# The latest news and updates at Guild ## Introducing Guild Software Factory Guild Software Factory is a system of specialized agents that autonomously finds, plans, implements, reviews, and maintains engineering work. 34% of Guild's merged PRs are now written autonomously by the Factory. Guild.ai Sep 03, 2026 5 min read [Product](/content/blog/product/introducing-guild-software-factory/index.html) ## Bring Your Own Agents: OpenClaw and LangChain, now on Guild Guild now fully supports running agents written for OpenClaw and LangChain. Bring the agent you already built: it keeps its shape and lands with a typed interface, versioning, and governance underneath. Cory Waddingham Sep 09, 2026 Engineering [Link](/content/blog/engineering/bring-your-own-agents-openclaw-langchain/index.html) ## Guild Optimizer: Make Your Agents Cheaper Automatically Ganesh Asapu Sep 01, 2026 5 min read [Product](/content/blog/product/optimizer-announcement/index.html) ## Survey Says: IT Leaders Are Wrong About AI Security IT leaders believe their agents are secure. The data says otherwise. Explore the widening gap between confidence and capabilities in this AI governance and security report. Tim Osborn [Link](/content/blog/agent-governance/ai-governance-report/index.html) ## The AI-Enthusiast Trap: The Hidden Reality of Vibe-Coding Free to build doesn't mean free to own. Inside the AI-enthusiast trap, and the hidden cost of vibe-coded deployments. Tim Osborn [Link](/content/blog/ai-insights/ai-enthusiast-trap/index.html) ## The AI Agent Management Gap Is Growing Enterprise AI adoption has moved into production. A new study shows how organizations face a nascent challenge: managing the agents they have already deployed. Guild AI [Link](/content/blog/news/ai-agent-management-gap/index.html) ## The Guild API is now public Guild has always been good at running agents. Now it's just as good at being run by everything else you already use. Logan Valeski [Link](/content/blog/engineering/guild-api-announcement/index.html) ## Software Factories, by the Numbers The category is filling up with autonomous-coding claims. Here is what to measure, and what each player actually puts in public. Cory Waddingham [Link](/content/blog/developer-insights/software-factories-by-the-numbers/index.html) ## Open Source Is About to Get a New Kind of Contributor We’re excited to partner with the Linux Foundation—home of the Agentic AI Foundation—to bring centralized agent control to the team at the heart of the open source community. James Everingham [Link](/content/blog/news/linux-foundation-announcement/index.html) ## A new dictionary for the ways you manage agents Agents are evolving—so we're evolving the Guild glossary. Bryce Heltzel [Link](/content/blog/engineering/guild-glossary-updates/index.html) ## See where every dollar goes for free in 2 minutes Introducing AI Spend Explorer. Find out where your tokens are going in two minutes or less. Guild.ai team [Link](/content/blog/product/spend-explorer-announcement/index.html) ## How BasicOps Turns Agents Into Team Members With Guild We recently sat down with Justin Oberbauer from BasicOps to talk with him about how he's using Agent Users to streamline the company’s work and the work of their customers. Guild.ai team [Link](/content/blog/customer-stories/basicops-case-study/index.html) ## The Age of Unmanaged AI Is Over: Introducing New Tools for Guild Insights Guild Insights unifies AI usage and spend across Cursor, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Guild, so leaders can see where every dollar goes and stop overspend before it happens. Vincent Durmont [Link](/content/blog/product/new-tools-guild-insights/index.html) ## Guild Joins the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation Guild Joins the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation. Killian Murphy [Link](/content/blog/news/aaif-announcement/index.html) ## Introducing Guild Agent Hub: One Place to Discover, Run, and Share Production-Ready AI Agents Introducing Guild Agent Hub, an open platform for discovering, running, and sharing AI agents built for real work. James Everingham [Link](/content/blog/product/introducing-guild-agent-hub/index.html) ## Agent Design Best Practices for Reliable and Secure Outcomes Tamao Nakahara [Link](/content/blog/agent-engineering/agent-design-best-practices-for-reliable-and-secur/index.html) ## Meet Smith: How Guild's Meta-Agent Works Smith is Guild's built-in assistant — the first thing you see when you open a workspace. This is what you can ask it for, and how it actually works underneath. Howard Cheng [Link](/content/blog/engineering/inside-smith/index.html) ## Build vs. Buy Guide for AI Infrastructure The build vs buy conversation isn't new, but agent sprawl has changed the equation for agent infrastructure. Tim Osborn [Link](/content/blog/ai-insights/build-vs-buy-ai-infrastructure/index.html) ## Meet Smith: A Legendary Resource to Run Your Agents at Scale Meet Smith, Guild's meta-agent for platform setup. Describe what you want to automate, and Smith builds the agent, workspace, triggers, and integrations — all governed by the same identity model and audit trail as the rest of Guild. Vincent Durmont [Link](/content/blog/product/meet-smith/index.html) ## I Rebuilt the Entire Engineering Lifecycle, One Agent at a Time Native Teams CTO Dimitris Kountanis worked through a month of automation backlog in late evenings and ended up with roughly twenty governed agents covering most of his engineering lifecycle. Here is what changed the economics. Dimitris Kountanis, CTO at Native Teams [Link](/content/blog/ai-insights/rebuilding-the-engineering-lifecycle-one-agent-at-a-time/index.html) ## Bring Your Own Agent: Guild Now Runs Goose Import, control, and scale adoption for all your agents in one place. Cory Waddingham [Link](/content/blog/product/bring-your-own-agents-goose/index.html) ## Your Authorization Platform Doesn't Govern Your Agents Teams embed WorkOS FGA, OPA, or Oso and assume agent permissions are solved. That's one layer. Who governs your agents' credentials, spend, and audit trail across systems? Cory Waddingham [Link](/content/blog/agent-governance/your-authorization-platform-doesnt-govern-your-age/index.html) ## What I Learned During My Engineering Internship at Guild Rebecca Waterson [Link](/content/blog/community/what-i-learned-during-my-guild-internship/index.html) ## What Happens When AI Stops Being Magic? When technology stops being seen as magical, it starts becoming practical. Now it's AI's turn. Cory Waddingham [Link](/content/blog/ai-insights/what-happens-when-ai-stops-being-magic/index.html)