Agents

Agents is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 598 kept stories were about it (35% of the day, against a 7-day average of 30%). 5,517 stories in 7 days, up 27% on the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

598

Share of the day

35%

Share, 7-day average

30%

Change vs the 7-day average

+5.1 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

5,517

The 7 days before

4,341

Week over week

rising (at least 25% more than the week before)

Hands-on share

55% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Topics in this theme

The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days:

1. Claude — 1,704 stories (the 7 days before: 1,424)
2. AI agents — 1,497 stories (the 7 days before: 1,222)
3. Claude Code — 1,018 stories (the 7 days before: 883)
4. OpenAI Codex — 752 stories (the 7 days before: 721)
5. ChatGPT — 409 stories (the 7 days before: 333)
6. Meta Muse — 398 stories (the 7 days before: 115)
7. OpenAI — 380 stories (the 7 days before: 330)
8. GPT-6 Astra — 376 stories (the 7 days before: 402)
9. Cursor — 326 stories (the 7 days before: 200)
10. Model Context Protocol — 316 stories (the 7 days before: 285)
11. Jev — 293 stories (the 7 days before: 174)
12. Grok — 278 stories (the 7 days before: 193)

Also in this theme: Siri AI, GLM, Hermes Agent, Recursive self-improvement, Instinct, Mark Zuckerberg, DeepSeek, Meta Superintelligence Labs, Gemini, Cognition, Agent Skills, SF AI hackathons and events, Browser Use - browser agents, Vibe coding, Foundry, Strands, Antigravity, OpenClaw, GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna, Claude Cowork, Muse Spark, Y Combinator, GitHub Copilot, Grok Bot, OpenRouter, DeepSeek Harness, AGENTS.md, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenCode, Safe Superintelligence, Sakana AI, SpaceXAI, Agent harness, Claude Fable - Mythos 5.1, Kimi.

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (27% involve none):

• Anthropic — 25%
• OpenAI — 16%
• Other company — 13%
• Meta — 8.5%
• xAI — 3.1%

Kinds of stories

• Show and tell — 33%
• News — 23%
• Opinion — 20%
• Question — 12%
• Tutorial — 9.5%
• Research — 2.9%

Where its stories come from

Top stories on Sep 27

1. What tool have you built for yourself with Claude code that removes so much headache in your work or personal life? — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,062 · 518 comments
2. There are no "rogue" AI agents — Hacker News (eoinhiggins.substack.com) · Sep 27 · score 387 · 267 comments
3. ChatGPT added reactions to messages just now — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 27 · score 416 · 57 comments
4. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (tinyaiarena.com) · Sep 27 · score 117 · 45 comments
5. echris6/motion-video-kit: Claude Code skill kit for premium AI-assisted business videos: independent critic loop, motion principles from 28 launch films, quality bar, sound design, business offers, Three.js patterns, scripts — GitHub (echris6) · Sep 27 · score 61
6. howseen-ai/claude-motion-design: A Claude Code skill to make motion design videos in pure code: HTML + Playwright + ffmpeg. No After Effects, no Remotion license. — GitHub (howseen-ai) · Sep 27 · score 43

Stories per day, last 30 days

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