2 papers
cs.AI2026
The Scaffolding Matters More Than the Interface: A Controlled Comparison of MCP and CLI Tool Use Across Seven Agent Scaffoldings, Five Language Models, and One Software Task
Marc Alier Forment, María José Casañ Guerrero, Francisco José García-Peñalvo +1
How much an AI coding agent costs to run can depend more on the agent scaffolding that drives it than on the interface through which it reaches its tools. We set out to measure the…
cs.SE2026
Agents All the Way Down; A Methodology for Building Custom AI Agents from Substrate to Production
Marc Alier Forment, Juanan Pereira, Francisco José GarcÃa-Peñalvo +1
Custom AI agents areagents that live inside their own application, talk to their own data and tools, enforce their own security boundaries, and carry their own brand and audit trai…