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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…
A developer built LogSentinel, a self-hosted AI-powered log forensics workbench that treats log files as hostile input to defend against prompt injection attacks embedded in log content. The tool sanitizes log data befor…
Anthropic shipped a first-party evaluation command for Claude Code, `claude plugin eval`, that runs a test suite with a plugin loaded and again without it to report the delta the plugin actually contributes. The workflow…
Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o at refactoring legacy Python 3.7 code, according to a developer's three-day migration of a Django 2.2 project to Django 4.2 and Python 3.12, because Claude 3.5 Sonnet respects context…
GitHub rolled out three configurable tiers for Copilot auto model selection — efficiency, balance, and intelligence — letting users weigh cost, quality, and response time per prompt. The feature is currently rolling out …
The iMessage MCP server io.github.anipotts/imessage-mcp reached version 2.0.1, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14 and distributed as imessage-mcp on npm, according to the mcpindex registry index. The re…
Google has moved its Antigravity coding agent into the Gemini API and Google AI Studio as a managed agent, available through the Interactions API for both free tier and paid tier projects, according to developer docs las…
A 2025 METR study found experienced developers using frontier AI tools took 19% longer to complete tasks even though they felt 20% faster, according to the study cited in the article. The same source reports AI-generated…
Discord MCP version 0.27.0, a server providing 209 typed tools for caller-owned Discord operations by AI agents, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14 and is distributed as @discord-mcp/cli on npm. The…
GitHits version 0.17.1 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14, distributed as githits on npm and as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex server record. The mcpindex semantic s…
Akuity Inc. launched Agentic Control Plane, a governance layer that authenticates AI agents as the specific person who connected them and routes every agent request through the user's existing permissions, alongside a se…
Google Developer Groups will host nearly a million developers across more than 800 DevFest events in 115 countries from October 1 through December 31, 2026, under the theme "Build, Secure, Scale: Developers and Builders …
The chat-recall MCP server, version 0.6.6, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14 and is distributed as chat-recall on npm and as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex registry…
A security engineer built m8m, a tool for auditing the persistent memory files that AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor write automatically, after finding no way to inspect what those agents stored or wh…