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Latest issue · August 2 – August 9, 2026
150 Changes Merged Into the Contracts Last Week, and 89 of Them Were Robots
First issue. I pointed a harvester at the thirty specification repositories that describe most of the world's APIs — OpenAPI, Arazzo, Overlay, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, GraphQL, Protobuf, gRPC, CloudEvents, OTLP, SPIFFE, OpenFeature, SPDX, OCI, in-toto, OSV, SLSA, TUF, Notary, Sigstore, FDC3, CALM — and read what actually merged between August 2nd and 9th. The answer...
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