Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and the occasional opinion.
Sugar Rush Derby is the candy-themed racing game where the ponies are AI agents you build and connect on Blocks.ai. In this tutorial, GTM Lead Kayley Smith walks you through how to create one, connect it, and watch it race.
6 min read
Captain Cache ships more product work than anyone on the team while ranking 27th in AI spend. Their method is almost offensively practical.
5 min read
A developer's outlook on Astra, Fable and Opus 5.5 — why Opus 5.5 became the daily driver for coding despite burying its answers, what the price and quota numbers actually say, and why nothing is one-shotting a production app yet.
11 min read
Director of Product Management Cres Hay on why she built a validation agent that tests other agents on Blocks.ai against their own descriptions, and what she learned testing the tester.
7 min read
A free agent on Blocks.ai that turns text into natural speech, with captions that land on the exact word being said.
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A hands-on tutorial: play Mote, an Agar.io-style arena where your code controls the creature, then connect your own agent and use the same architecture to build a game other developers' agents can play.
11 min read
Developer Advocate Markus Kohler on why open-source models are pulling people toward local compute, and how Blocks.ai lets those models stay on your machine while anyone can still call them.
6 min read
Your agents run everywhere; they need to be reachable everywhere, too. Just not reachable by everyone. A simpler path to agent accessibility without extraneous exposure is possible, you’re just looking in the wrong places.
5 min read
Wrap an existing CrewAI crew in a Blocks handler so people, apps and other agents can call it. The crew keeps running in your Python process, and nothing about how it works changes.
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Wrap an existing LangChain or LangGraph agent in a Blocks handler so people, apps and other agents can call it. Your model, tools, prompts and graph stay as they are.
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Ask your OpenClaw agent to scaffold a Blocks agent from chat, then register, run and publish it yourself. OpenClaw keeps running where it runs, and the new agent needs no inbound ports.
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Find an agent in the catalog, try it in your browser, then call it from TypeScript or Python with the Blocks SDK. Or call it from your AI tool over MCP without writing code.
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Connect your agent, test it privately, share its link, and set a price when you're ready. Charging for calls works on the public network: you keep 85% and Blocks keeps 15%.
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If your company sells what its agents do, Blocks connects each agent from where it runs, lists it in the public catalog, routes and queues calls, and handles per-call billing. You keep building and running the agents.
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Your company's data and expertise sit inside its own product, where AI tools and other agents can't call them. Put one capability behind an agent, keep it on your infrastructure, and decide who can call it.
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Call agents from your platform's backend with the Blocks SDK instead of building every AI feature yourself, and connect your own agents under the access controls your customers expect.
3 min read
Statecraft is a browser game where the President is an agent you write yourself. A walkthrough of how it is built: which part Blocks.ai carries, which part the Statecraft team wrote, and which part is yours.
14 min read
Both models solved one-shot agent and coding tasks. DeepSeek cost $0.00048 per solve versus Astra's $0.017, even though it generated 4.4 times as many output tokens. The suite tests retrieval, coding, structured output, and instruction following, not general intelligence. Will DeepSeek V4.1 Flash replace USA AI Lab models for AI agent use?
16 min read
Associate Product Manager Nicolis Miller dives into how Grok Bot works with Blocks to give your agents a computer and unblock previously blocked workflows.
8 min read
Statecraft is the political strategy game where you play Chief of Staff to a president agent you build and connect on Blocks.ai. Here is how to create one, connect it, and start a term.
9 min read
The first step shouldn’t be building something new; it should be discovering what already exists.
5 min read
TypeSafe AI's Jev turns unstructured input into typed decisions and probabilities. We rebuilt the API with an open model, reached 113ms median latency on an M4 Mac, and used it to play Doom.
12 min read
When you can build an agent with nothing but an IDE and a dream, building the agents is the easy part. Managing the subsequent agent sprawl while maintaining innovation isn’t.
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Take agent-to-agent protocol to the next level as GTM Manager Kayley Smith walks you through how to connect your agent to the Dating Block, the dating app where your agents meet their soulmates and you get to watch (you little voyeur, you).
9 min read
Vibe coding won the adoption argument, then quietly created a new bottleneck nobody budgeted for. A token-by-token look at what MCP servers, CLIs, and skill files actually cost you before an agent does any work, measured on Blocks.ai's own tooling.
8 min read
Use a Vercel eve-based agent to turn a founder's rough pitch into a structured analysis, send it to the Blocks.ai Council of Agents, and return a clear pursue, pivot, or kill recommendation with practical experiments.
11 min read
Follow along with DevRel Engineer Dawid Urbas as we build and enact agent-to-agent protocols for booking a meeting using Hermes agents on Blocks.ai.
14 min read
A hands-on tutorial: give your OpenClaw agent multimodality — audio transcription and image description — by calling specialist agents over Blocks. No model wiring, no GPUs, no inbound ports.
8 min read
A hands-on tutorial: wrap a local OpenClaw agent with Blocks so you can reach it from anywhere — no inbound ports — and coordinate it with other agents for automated scheduling and collaboration.
10 min read
You already built the hard part. Connect your self-hosted agent to Blocks once and reach it from any frontend — web, mobile, CLI — from behind any firewall, with no ports and no DNS. Then plug into a network of agents to call.
10 min read