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Ergora Specialists v0.2.1, a hosted remote MCP server offering 17 business specialists for sales, marketing, ads, ecommerce, finance, HR, legal and PR, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-15 and is file…
BoekenBase — Nederlandse boekencatalogus v1.0.0 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-15 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, filed under Search by the mcpindex index. The index reports the tool's ver…
Java 27 was released on September 15, 2026, delivering nine JEPs, four of them final, with four preview features continuing to mature and one JEP remaining an incubator feature, according to JetBrains. IntelliJ IDEA supp…
TypeScript 6.0 introduces the --strictBuiltinIteratorReturn flag, which changes the BuiltinIteratorReturn type parameter from any to undefined for built-in iterators, closing a type hole that existed since TypeScript 2.3…
A 12-year-old developer built and ran a global coding competition, the KODA Code Jam, entirely from a $150 Android phone, using Supabase for authentication, PostgreSQL storage, and Row Level Security to manage submission…
The VMware Debug MCP server, distributed as vmware-debug on PyPI, was published at version v1.13.0 to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-15, offering 14 MCP tools for VMware incident timelines, root-cause routing, and …
The OpenShell team is applying the Z3 open source library to write formal proofs that permission changes proposed by AI agents stay within approved policies, after a demo showed an OpenClaw agent bypassing OpenShell's la…
A developer has open-sourced GraphOps, a Claude Code plugin that combines lightweight ticket management with execution graphs (DAGs) to orchestrate parallel AI agent workflows. The plugin structures each ticket's tasks i…
A developer demonstrated that Kubernetes admission and RBAC controls do not protect an LLM API key already projected into an agent pod's environment, showing that a single file read inside the container can exfiltrate th…
Oracle released Java 27, adding post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, AI integration paths via service SDKs and HTTP clients, and runtime improvements targeting memory use and throughput, Donald Smith, VP of Prod…
A developer documented that the primary cause of Model Context Protocol (MCP) server failures in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI is server code writing debug logs to stdout, which injects raw text into the JSON-RPC stream an…
A community scan by GitHub user karanb192 of 31 public Claude Code plugins found 14 can run host processes, 4 more can reach the network, and 13 see every tool call, after Anthropic shipped the plugin hooks feature behin…
OpenCode, an open-source coding agent with a terminal interface and support for multiple model providers, was last updated in September 2026 and has 208,000 stars on GitHub. The MIT-licensed tool also offers desktop and …
Ordewell launched as an open-source tool that converts a single coding goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks, each assigned its own runner, model, thinking effort and mode, then executes and verifies them. The …
A technical comparison of built-in versus custom tools in LLM agents finds that provider-run tools such as OpenAI's and Anthropic's hosted web search execute the entire tool loop inside a single API request, while custom…
A developer demonstrated that a repeated-status test, which appeared redundant across an eight-implementation mutation catalogue, became the sole check catching a ninth deliberately constructed counterexample to an order…
A guide recommends eight venues for substantive AI programming discussion, led by the Hugging Face Community, which it calls the gold standard for researchers and engineers focused on model weights and benchmarks. The ot…
Google released ADK for Kotlin 1.0 on September 9, 2026, the first general availability version of its agent framework for Kotlin and Android, headlined by compile-time function calling via Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP)…
Deoochform launched a form builder that lets users create, edit, and publish forms by describing them in plain language through ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant supporting the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The produc…
A developer has released WeavePort, an open-source plugin runtime for .NET that lets C# applications call capabilities written in Python or TypeScript without rewriting them. The project's Decision Room sample demonstrat…