Herdr 0.9 Runs Your Coding Agents Across Machines
Herdr v0.9.0 lets one window hold the coding agents running on every machine you own. The enabling change is architectural, and it also defines exactly what this release cannot do.
Meta Muse Code Exits Beta With SDK and Agent Workflows
Meta pushed Muse Code out of beta on August 31, adding a TypeScript SDK, a multi-agent Workflow orchestrator, and three subscription tiers. What builders can do with it now.
GitHub Copilot Agents Come to Teams and Slack
GitHub shipped Copilot agentic coding sessions into Microsoft Teams and Slack on August 21, 2026, letting teams direct and review an agent from chat.
DeepSeek Harness: Open Agent Framework, Everything a Plugin
DeepSeek Harness is an open, MIT-licensed framework for building AI agents where every component is a plugin. Here is what shipped and how to run it.
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: Microsoft's Cheaper Copilot Model
Microsoft shipped MAI-Code-1.1-Flash on August 11, 2026, a small coding model now in GitHub Copilot at a quarter of the cost of the June release, with native vision and a 22 percent Terminal-Bench gain.
Claude Code Sessions Can Now Message Each Other
Claude Code can now pass messages between your separate sessions. Shipped in v2.1.224 on August 7, 2026, it lets one session hand a finding to another.
Amp Launches Puck, a Meta-Agent for Coding
Amp launched Puck, a meta-agent that acts as a home base for spawning and coordinating coding agents inside your harness.
Brainless: Agent UIs as Copy-Paste Shadcn Components
Ben Swerdlow's Brainless rebuilds Claude Code, Codex, and Grok interfaces as MIT-licensed shadcn components you install with one CLI command.
SWE-1.7: Cognition's Coding Model Nears Frontier
Cognition SWE-1.7 lands within a few points of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benchmarks, at a fraction of the cost. It is live in Devin at 1000 tokens per second.
How to Build an Agentic Automation Pipeline on GitHub
An agentic automation pipeline watches your repository for an event, hands the change to a model with scoped tools, and returns a reviewable pull request. Build one from scratch on GitHub in under an hour.
How to Deploy an MCP Server to Claude and ChatGPT
Take an MCP server from an empty folder to a live integration Claude and ChatGPT can both call, in about 30 minutes. Exact commands with mcp-use and Manufact Cloud.
OfficeCLI: Office Suite Built for AI Agents
OfficeCLI is an open-source binary that lets AI agents read, create, and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with no Microsoft Office installed.
ClinePass: Open-Weight Coding Models for $9.99 a Month
Cline, the open-source AI coding agent trusted by 8M+ developers, launched ClinePass, a flat $9.99/month subscription bundling curated open-weight coding models directly into its IDE, CLI, and SDK.
Cursor Origin: AI-Native Git Forge to Rival GitHub
Cursor announced Origin, a Git-compatible forge built for AI agent workloads. It is a direct shot at GitHub, with general availability set for fall 2026.
MAI-Code-1-Flash: Microsoft's New Coding Model in Copilot
Microsoft used its Build 2026 keynote on June 2 to ship MAI-Code-1-Flash, an in-house coding model that is live today inside the GitHub Copilot model picker for Free, Pro, Pro+, and Max tiers.
Anthropic Blocks OpenClaw From Claude Subscriptions
Anthropic has cut off Claude Pro and Max subscription access for OpenClaw and all third-party AI agent frameworks, forcing more than 135,000 active instances onto pay-as-you-go API pricing that can cost up to 50 times more.