Editorial desk
Hands-on evaluations and repeatable ways to choose tools.
09 · Tested guide
A connector name hides the real action surface. A calendar integration might read events, create invitations, modify attendees, or delete meetings; those permissions require different safeguards.
9 min read
10 · Tested guide
The safest useful test environment contains realistic but fake records, reversible actions, planted prompt-injection attempts, permission traps, and complete logs.
10 min read
11 · Checklist
Authorization determines whose data a remote connector can access and which actions it can perform. Teams need to understand the client, resource server, tokens, scopes, redirects, revocation, and account boundaries.
7 min read
12 · Tested guide
A long, confident research report can still rely on stale pages, circular citations, missing counterevidence, or sources that do not support the sentence beside them.
8 min read
13 · Tested guide
Coding agents can inspect files, run commands, change dependencies, and create commits. A useful evaluation measures correctness and the safety of the path taken.
9 min read
14 · Tested guide
A tool that handles plain paragraphs may fail on scanned pages, charts, handwriting, multi-column layouts, appendices, or exceptions hidden in footnotes.
10 min read
15 · Checklist
Training use, abuse monitoring, application state, file retention, administrator access, subprocessors, deletion, and export are separate questions.
7 min read