The new Airbyte Agents offering brings a ton of new capabilities actually.
1. Programmatic Interfaces: Including a new REST API, SDK, and MCP Server.
2. New action verbs: Not just replication anymore. We have get/set/list/update/upload, and more!
3. New credentials passthrough: For all the above, you OAuth to Airbyte and we OAuth on your behalf to the systems your agent needs. No need to provide your agents dozens of different secrets in order to access the systems it needs.
4. Context Store. Like your agents' own data warehouse, but completely automatic and hands-free. For those use cases that just aren't possible when calling the REST API directly.
Like as in what its made out of, or what it makes? Neither really makes sense here? Lots of things are made out of code and not necessarily agents, but also (from my decidedly outside observer perspective) "agents" are not limited to being code producers either.
There's been a spat between some people on X, about how few engineers inside Google want to work with Gemini, given that it apparently is not great with code, and they would rather use Claude.
This same sentiment is there within Deepmind, except they have more power it seems. Perhaps Google is hedging their bet?
https://github.com/supabase/auth/blob/master/LICENSE
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