Block released Bird, a free, open-source desktop app that unifies multiple AI coding agent harnesses—including Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor agent, and Goose—into a single interface,…
AGENTS.md, an open format for coding-agent project context now read automatically by 23 tools, has been shown by three research groups to double as an instruction-injection vector for credential theft…
A closed feature request on Anthropic's Claude Code repository asking the tool to support the open AGENTS.md format instead of its own CLAUDE.md drew 181 points and 103 comments on Hacker News, with c…
Amp is offering students and teachers a discounted subscription at $10 per month, half the usual price, which includes access to its frontier agent, remote machines called orbs, unlimited code hosting…
Anthropic closed a feature request for Claude Code to support the emerging AGENTS.md standard as completed, according to a GitHub issue. The request argued that CLAUDE.md is too specific to Claude Cod…
Kungfu, an alpha-stage tool from Kungfu Systems, lets coding agents such as Codex, Claude, OpenCode, and Amp share durable work across sessions and handoffs, preserving objectives, progress, and evide…
Bento Term, a native tmux client for macOS, iPhone, and iPad, has been released as open-source under Apache-2.0, featuring agent states for ten AI coding agents and voice input. The app, which require…
Amp, a coding-agent company led by CEO and co-founder Quinn Slack, obtained SOC 2 Type II certification while allowing engineers to push code directly to the main branch without mandatory pull request…
Amp, a 20-person software company, has achieved SOC 2 compliance without using pull requests, a practice its auditors confirmed is not required by the standard. The company's controls include restrict…
FreeBuff, the ad-supported build of Codebuff launched on 12 February 2026, runs small text-only ads between agent turns and may analyze prompts to personalize them, while Clixad, built by the author, …
A developer explains the current state of coding agent context files, noting that AGENTS.md has become an open, vendor-neutral standard backed by OpenAI, Google, and the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI …
Centaur 2.0, announced by Paradigm, introduces company-wide context archival, granular permissions, and MCP support, enabling agents to access tools and data across platforms. Over 80% of Centaur sess…
Developer Adam Wathan predicts that within six months, AI coding models will become commoditized, comparing them to gas at a gas station. Amp, an AI coding tool, has switched its default model from Op…
Amp changed its Dial feature so that linking a ChatGPT subscription routes all low, medium, and high modes exclusively to OpenAI models billed to the subscription, eliminating credit charges for those…
GitHub began using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro and Pro+ to train its models unless users opt out, effective April 24, 2026, while Business and Enterprise plans are unaffected. The change i…
Book-to-skill, an MIT-licensed tool with 15,259 GitHub stars, converts technical books, document folders, or paper stacks into structured Agent Skills (SKILL.md plus per-chapter files) for Claude Code…
A new open-source project, readable-ad-hoc-commands, formats AI coding agents' shell commands into readable scripts with named values, comments, phase banners, and plain-English summaries, aiming to r…
Free AI coding tiers are advertised in units that cannot be converted into actual work, as one agent task involves about a dozen model calls and sends 348,600 input tokens, not the 144,000 a naive est…
Amp shipped the Dial two weeks ago, changing the default model from Claude Opus 4.8 to GPT-5.6 Sol, and 69% of Dial users never switched from the medium setting. The company received zero complaints d…
A developer released the Thorsten Prompt, a Claude Code Agent Skill that grades every non-trivial prompt against the Slack test and three checks (standard, information, definition of done), shows a re…