YAML

Evidence (8)

• 6Hacker News·9/14/2026open_source
  dbt open-sources Charts, a YAML dashboard language

  dbt Labs announced dbt Charts, an open-source declarative YAML language for building interactive dashboards that can be governed and audited when created with chat agents. The project separates chart definition from UI-heavy BI tools by keeping SQL for data selection and YAML for dashboard structure, with outputs such as SVG, HTML, PNG, PDF, and terminal rendering.

• 4InfoQ·9/4/2026framework_update
  Kubernetes Promotes KYAML for Safer Manifests

  Kubernetes is encouraging developers to evaluate KYAML, a stricter YAML dialect intended to make configuration files more explicit and predictable. The goal is to reduce common YAML parsing mistakes and improve consistency when working with manifests.

• 4Hacker News·8/31/2026research
  Agent Memory as a File Format

  The article proposes "memoryfields," a portable file-based memory format for AI agents, arguing that memory should be treated as data rather than a multi-stage pipeline. It suggests storing memories as Markdown pages with optional YAML frontmatter and an optional SQLite vector index for semantic search, aiming for simpler and more portable agent memory systems.

• 4Simon Willison·7/31/2026open_source
  smevals: a small eval suite for models and prompts

  Simon Willison introduced smevals, a new open-source tool for running small evaluation suites across different model configurations and grading the results. The framework separates runs from grading and supports exploring results locally or exporting them as static HTML reports.

• 6Simon Willison·7/3/2026open_source
  Current AI launches open source AI Gap Map

  Current AI has released its Gap Map v0.1, an indexed view of the open source AI ecosystem covering models, tools, datasets, and hardware. The project also published the underlying MIT-licensed data and scripts on GitHub, including thousands of tracked repositories that can be explored programmatically.

• 8The New Stack·7/1/2026security
  Cordyceps flaw shows CI/CD is part of the attack surface

  Research from Novee Security describes the “Cordyceps” CI/CD weakness, which could let unauthenticated GitHub accounts hijack trusted workflows and compromise open-source supply chains. The report says it found hundreds of potentially exploitable repositories, reinforcing that CI/CD pipelines should be treated as security-critical production systems rather than mere configuration.

• 5Simon Willison·6/30/2026framework_update
  shot-scraper adds storyboard-based video recording for web demos

  shot-scraper 1.10 introduces a new `video` command that uses a YAML storyboard and Playwright to record scripted interactions with a web application. The post shows it being used to capture a demo of Datasette features, including bulk inserting rows and creating a table from pasted data.

• 6Hugging Face Blog·6/30/2026framework_update
  Every Eval Ever Results Now Appear on Hugging Face Model Pages

  Hugging Face has integrated Every Eval Ever (EEE) with Community Evals so evaluation results can be cross-posted and viewed in a more standardized format. The integration links results to model pages, leaderboards, and a shared metadata store, and includes a converter between EEE records and Hugging Face's YAML-based eval format.