July 2026 Summaries

Pulumi Insights introduces a new Connect cloud accounts wizard designed to streamline the process of linking multiple cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, significantly reducing the setup time from hours to just about three minutes. This wizard automates the onboarding lifecycle by discovering all accessible accounts within a cloud organization, configuring them with short-lived credentials through OpenID Connect (OIDC), and creating Pulumi ESC environments that adhere to best practices, eliminating the need for manual configuration. The tool offers two access levels—Build & Manage and Discovery & Policy—to cater to varying security requirements, enabling organizations to decide on the degree of access per account. The setup process includes automatic application of discovery scans and policy packs to ensure compliance from the outset, with a detailed summary provided upon completion to facilitate transparency and troubleshooting. The wizard is now available to all Pulumi Cloud organizations, offering a comprehensive guide for connecting and managing cloud accounts efficiently.

Five weeks ago, a discussion highlighted the importance of memory in agent loops, specifically how a memory file outside the context window aids in tracking what has been done, what is next, and what was learned. This concept evolved when Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern, which creates interlinked markdown pages for agents to maintain current knowledge, gained traction. Subsequently, Google introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) as a standardized method for structuring such knowledge bases using simple markdown files, promoting a system where knowledge changes are reviewed like code changes. OKF’s minimalistic approach, based on markdown, frontmatter, and git, allows for easy migration and emphasizes the importance of maintaining structured, reviewable knowledge repositories that agents can utilize effectively. This initiative aims to address the problem of fragmented knowledge across proprietary systems by providing a framework that ensures knowledge is both accessible and transferable, aligning with practices already familiar to platform engineers.

Pulumi Neo is an AI agent designed to manage real infrastructure tasks, and organizations can set monthly usage limits to control expenses and manage its deployment. These limits are established through the Pulumi Cloud console under the Neo token usage settings, enabling organizations to set a single monthly dollar cap for all Neo activities. Once the limit is reached, Neo pauses its operations until the next billing cycle, although an Admin or Billing Manager can increase the limit to resume services earlier. Tasks in progress will complete their current step before the pause, potentially leading to minor overages. Additionally, individual member limits can be set, with the smaller of the member or organization limit taking precedence. Email notifications can be activated to alert billing admins at various thresholds, ensuring they are aware when limits are approaching. Usage limits are available for organizations on a paid plan, and more details can be found in the Neo usage limits documentation or by engaging with the community on Slack.

Pulumi Cloud has introduced support for passkeys, enhancing the security for users signing in with email and password by utilizing public-key credentials stored on personal devices, such as phones, laptops, and hardware keys. The system operates on the WebAuthn standard, ensuring compatibility across major browsers and operating systems. Passkeys provide a phishing-resistant and easily discoverable authentication method that does not require memorization, as they are stored and synced across devices using credential managers like Apple iCloud Keychain and Google Password Manager. While passkeys offer an additional sign-in option, they do not replace existing passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA) setups, maintaining the security boundaries of current account configurations. Users can easily set up and manage passkeys through their account settings and can continue to use their passwords alongside passkey authentication.

Pulumi has introduced a version selector feature in its CLI command reference and SDK API documentation, allowing users to access documentation that corresponds to the version they are using. This feature, which includes a dropdown menu near the top of the documentation pages, enables users to select and view the exact version of the documentation they need, with options available from the latest release back to version v3.150.0. The documentation covers the CLI command reference and SDKs for Node.js, Python, .NET, and Java, with Go SDK documentation available on pkg.go.dev. Once a version is selected, it remains active for subsequent navigation, enhancing user experience by ensuring that users consistently access the appropriate version without needing to reselect it. Feedback on this feature can be shared via Pulumi Community Slack or GitHub.