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A developer argues that building AI agents requires a fundamentally different product mindset that reshapes the entire software development lifecycle, moving from deterministic step-by-step UI flows to intent-driven deve…
A developer has released Milldown, a native macOS app that converts PDFs, Office documents, spreadsheets, web pages and other formats into clean Markdown entirely on the local machine for LLM and RAG pipelines. The app w…
A new registry called MCP Harbor has launched, indexing 20 Model Context Protocol servers that expose 121 tools, 8 of which are hosted remotely. The directory lists servers from Brave, Cloudflare, GitHub, Hugging Face, L…
NVIDIA Transformer Engine is now integrated with JAX to accelerate dropless Mixture of Experts (MoE) training, targeting the conditional computation bottleneck in architectures used by DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mixtral. The in…
A developer built ds_usage, a free MIT-licensed VS Code extension that displays Claude Code usage limits in the status bar, showing 5-hour and 7-day percentages with amber and red warnings at 75% and 90%. After an initia…
Hugging Face released Tau, a minimalist terminal coding agent published on PyPI as tau-ai, requiring Python 3.12 or newer. Tau is structured in three layers — tau_ai for provider-neutral model streams, tau_agent for the …
A developer released neural_texture_es2, a self-contained C++ experiment that encodes an RGB image or up to four PBR material textures as a shared low-resolution latent texture plus a tiny MLP decoder, trained entirely w…
A developer released Cognition-Claude-proxy, a local proxy that lets Anthropic's Claude Code use Devin's model catalog — including SWE-2, GLM-5.2, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — as its backend by translating the Anthropic Mes…
A developer has published a step-by-step guide for building an AI customer support chatbot that both answers common support tickets and upsells higher-margin products, assembled in roughly four to six hours. The stack co…
An updated open source benchmark suite shows GraphQL is more token-efficient than REST and other JSON API technologies for connecting agents to deployed services, according to the benchmark's new numbers. The same update…
Rebuno, an open-source execution runtime for operating AI agents in production, has been released under the MIT license and is free to self-host. Rebuno runs agents as HTTP services, dispatches work through signed webhoo…
A developer demonstrated WebMCP, Chrome's experimental API that lets a web page register tools directly for AI agents via document.modelContext.registerTool(), eliminating the need for a working directory, separate MCP p…
A developer has built an open-source AWS DevOps agent for SRE on-call engineers that automatically gathers context when a Kubernetes alert fires and sends an LLM-generated root-cause hypothesis to Telegram, complete with…
A developer has published a detailed guide to building a production-grade invoice extraction pipeline using Azure AI Document Intelligence and Power Automate, arguing that most tutorials cover only the easy 20% of the wo…
The MCP server io.github.StuMason/coolify reached version 3.5.0, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14 and distributed as @masonator/coolify-mcp on npm, offering 45 optimized tools for managing Coolify inf…
A developer's census of the official Model Context Protocol registry found that its 101,219 raw entries correspond to only 31,309 distinct servers, a 3.2x inflation caused by the registry retaining every historical versi…
Grafana published version 1.4.2 of its MCP server, io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana, to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14, distributed as the Docker image docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:1.4.2 and as a hosted remote ove…
TokenCanopy opened the private beta of AgentDrive, a persistent, versioned file and workspace storage layer for AI agents, accessible via hosted MCP at drive.mcp.tokencanopy.com. AgentDrive offers versioned artifacts and…
Macaroon Network's MCP server, com.macaroonnetwork/mcp-server@0.4.0, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14 and is distributed as macaroonnetwork-mcp on PyPI, according to the mcpindex server index. The…
A developer built Noesor, an AI-powered platform that converts ambiguous text requirements and PDF documents into structured technical foundations before coding begins. The tool's contextual engine extracts entities such…