# Daily AI Operator Briefing — 2026-03-14## Executive Summary• OmniCoder-9B released: a 9B coding agent fine-tuned on 425K agentic trajectories — worth testing for local coding agent work.• OpenClaw 2026.3.12: major dashboard refresh with command palette, mobile tabs, richer chat tooling — upgrade path is live.• Function calling deep dive: production scaling breaks down beyond ~20 tools; OpenAI's new tool search feature addresses this via a dynamic tool registry.• llama.cpp + Brave MCP integration is gaining traction in the community as a low-effort private search stack.• Recommended Action: prototype a tool registry for the dashboard agent using SQLite + semantic search — validate the tool search pattern before the tool list grows.