Open-source coding agents have matured to rival Claude Code in 2026, offering model-agnostic, auditable, and self-hostable alternatives. Leading projects include OpenCode (161k GitHub stars), OpenAI C…
Deputies, an open-source control plane for background coding agents, was launched on Hacker News. It runs on existing infrastructure with a Node API, Postgres database, and React frontend, allowing te…
Synaxi-predict, a new tool from Synaxi, predicts the token cost, turn count, and pass rate of a Claude Code task before execution, enabling users to select the optimal model and avoid wasted tokens. T…
An analysis of over 3,300 paired skill-eval runs across four Gemini models reveals that Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.05 per task compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro's $0.66, despite similar scores (88.6 vs 87.9).…
Researchers at iNLP-Lab have developed PACT (Protocolized Action-state Communication and Transmission), a new inter-agent communication strategy for large language model-based multi-agent systems that…
Multi-agent AI frameworks like OpenHands and MetaGPT show failure rates above 85% in production conditions, with the root cause traced to data layer issues rather than model quality. A developer found…
Sid Palas launched Deputies, an open-source control plane for self-hosted background coding agents, enabling teams to run asynchronous software engineering tasks on remote infrastructure. The platform…
Handshake Research released Gandalf the Grader, an open-source reactive agent-as-judge that evaluates AI agents against binary rubric criteria by operating inside the same environment and using the sa…