Amp's agents can now set their own schedules and wake themselves up, continuing with full context and history. Users can schedule agents to perform tasks like monitoring database queries, checking on …
Amp launched Amp Subscriptions in Beta, offering monthly pricing with cheaper and more predictable rates, including bonus 2x usage for orbs and agents in the first month for subscribers who join by Ju…
Amp replaced its named agent modes (smart, deep, rush, large) with a dial offering low, medium, high, and ultra settings, each backed by specific models and reasoning efforts. The change simplifies mo…
Amp rewrote its read_thread tool to handle long threads, which can now exceed 21 million tokens due to compaction. The new version uses a subagent with GLM 5.2 to extract information more accurately, …
Amp launched remote 'orbs' that let AI agents run unsupervised on cloud machines with 32GB memory and 16 cores for $1.66/hour, enabling developers to spawn and manage multiple agents from the same int…
Indeed increased AI coding tool adoption from 25% to 97% across its engineering organization by implementing a structured training program called AI Coding Essentials, which reduced coding time by 35-…
A developer created amp-review, a deterministic skill review and invoker plugin for the Amp code editor. The plugin loads skills from multiple directories, parses SKILL.md files, and allows users to i…
An open-source platform for multi-agent workflows has been launched, allowing each agent to run in its own isolated container on the user's cloud. The platform supports parallel execution of 5 to 500 …
Amp announced a new feature allowing users to create custom agents via plugins, which can serve as main agents, subagents, or worker agents with custom orb colors. The Plugin API provides primitives f…
Amp introduces a new diff review feature that allows users to review code changes from agent-generated threads on desktop or mobile, with duplicate block detection to reduce cognitive load. The featur…
Plannotator, an open-source tool for annotating agent plans, diffs, and HTML, now supports nine AI agent harnesses including Claude Code and Codex. The tool, which began as a way to review Claude Code…
Here.now launched a free, instant web hosting service for AI agents, allowing them to publish websites and store files at a unique URL without requiring an account. The platform works with any AI agen…
Amp announced that its 'deep' and 'rush' modes now deliver first tokens 87% faster and overall responses 32% faster, achieved primarily through websocket communication with OpenAI and a recent platfor…
Amp released Opus 4.8, a new AI coding agent that powers its 'smart' mode, replacing Opus 4.7. The model solves 62% of tasks in internal evaluations, up from 52% for its predecessor, by making more fo…
Amp released a new UI and sidebar for monitoring and controlling multiple agents across web, mobile, and CLI, following a foundation rebuild for durable execution. The update enables remote control of…
Taste-Skill, an "Anti-Slop Frontend Framework" for AI coding agents, has reached 28.5K stars on GitHub, gaining over 2,000 stars in a single day. The open-source project provides adjustable parameters…
A developer created the open-source tool `@mongez/agent-kit` to solve the fragmentation of AI coding agent instructions across different tools. The CLI and TypeScript library derives per-agent files—i…
A developer has released an experimental plugin integrating DeepSeek V4 Pro into the Amp code editor, running on Baseten's USA-based servers. The plugin creates a coding agent with high reasoning effo…
A developer has published a plugin configuration that enables Claude Opus 4.8 in the Amp coding agent before it is officially added to the tool's `smart` mode. The configuration, placed in `.amp/plugi…
A Hacker News user posed a comparative question about the pricing and quality of Amp versus Claude Code. The post asks whether Amp is more or less expensive than Claude Code and which tool is superior…