# Posts, page 2

> Short posts from Anthus on what shipped, what we read, and what changed in AI this week.

- [Microduck: A 25 cm Biped You Can Retrain Yourself](https://anth.us/articles/microduck-open-source-biped/index.md): Pollen Robotics shipped a $399 open-source biped with seven RL policies in the box, MuJoCo training on your machine, and a sim-to-real path that actually works. (2026-08-27)
- [Bloub remakes the x.ai bot avatar in SVG](https://anth.us/articles/bloub/index.md): Bloub reconstructs the x.ai bot avatar as one SVG shape that morphs through 14 measured states. No animation library. (2026-08-18)
- [Fine at 15 tools, lost at 300](https://anth.us/articles/complexmcp/index.md): ComplexMCP puts agents in stateful MCP sandboxes with hundreds of interdependent tools. Retrieval saturates, checks get skipped, and recoverable errors become surrender. (2026-05-16)
- [RTK cuts the bash noise you get billed for](https://anth.us/articles/rtk/index.md): RTK is a Rust proxy that compresses bash output before a coding agent reads it, so those tokens never hit the bill. (2026-04-18)
- [Perplexity ships an Agent API](https://anth.us/articles/perplexity-agent-api/index.md): Everybody has an agent platform these days. Perplexity's is search, tools, and multi-model orchestration behind one endpoint. (2026-03-11)
- [Repeat the prompt when the model is not reasoning](https://anth.us/articles/prompt-repetition/index.md): When reasoning is off, send the query twice. Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek all improved, with no extra output tokens and no extra latency. (2026-02-28)
- [OpenClaw is the third name this week](https://anth.us/articles/openclaw/index.md): Clawdbot became Moltbot, then OpenClaw, in about 72 hours. The lobster kept the job. The personal agent on your machine is the part that will last. (2026-01-30)
- [Beautiful Mermaid renders diagrams as SVG and ASCII](https://anth.us/articles/beautiful-mermaid/index.md): Beautiful Mermaid is an open source Mermaid renderer from Craft: 16 themes, SVG and ASCII, built to be fast enough for agents. (2026-01-29)

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