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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…
ProGantt launched a built-in MCP server that lets AI agents read and write Gantt chart tasks, milestones, resources, tags, and dependencies, with MCP access free on every plan. The server connects to Claude (web, desktop…
Reddit's r/MachineLearning and r/LocalLLaMA, Hugging Face, official Discords for tools like Cursor and Midjourney, Stack Overflow's AI tags, PromptCube, and X are the most active communities for AI programming, according…
Botbin launched as a zero-login HTML pastebin that lets AI agents publish landing pages, interactive dashboards, charts, and visual reports as shareable links instead of dumping raw HTML into Telegram, Slack, or terminal…
Transitions.dev launched a UI transition library aimed at AI agent interfaces, offering animated components including text reveals, tab sliding, drag-and-drop with physics, shimmer text, tooltips, 3D tilt, dropdown morph…
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a faster and cheaper model than Claude 3 Opus that outperforms it on several key benchmarks, including an internal agentic coding evaluation where it solved 64% of problems versus Op…
A software engineer reports that coding agents have graduated from handling individual functions to small, self-contained features, and are now approaching larger artefacts, based on his experience moving from Anthropic'…
A developer built VBridge, a tool that runs Claude Code directly against a user's actual Excel VBA project on their own machine, letting the agent read real .bas and .cls modules and execute macros against the live workb…
A startup engineer who joined as the first engineering hire roughly 7 months ago asked Hacker News for experiences making a legacy codebase legible to AI coding agents, describing a codebase that began as a Lovable MVP b…
A software engineer argues that developers should apply Chesterton's fence when refactoring unfamiliar code, understanding why code was written before removing it. The engineer recommends documenting intent through READM…
A developer argues that the "one-shot" AI coding benchmark is misleading, citing a livestream test in which a coding agent repeatedly asked for missing context and made wrong assumptions about scope rather than building …
AI coding agent files — the cloned repos, dependency manifests, build and test output, logs, patches, and scratch notes an agent writes during a task — are lost when ephemeral sandboxes hit their duration limit or crash,…
A developer built Hestia, a household money app for the AWS Agents for Humans hackathon (Everyday Agents track), using two Strands Agents 1.53.0 agents that call Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock. The review agent reads…
A GitHub repository named strata, published by user ActuallyTaylor, lists 1,325 AI-assisted repositories mined from GitHub, according to the repository's headline. The repository page shows 0 forks, 0 stars, 0 issues, an…
A survey of dedicated forums for AI practitioners identifies Hugging Face Community, Reddit r/MachineLearning, PromptCube, Stack Overflow's AI tags, Dev.to, official model Discords from Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral, and…
A developer added x402 payment support to GrowVib, a social media marketing platform, enabling AI assistants to compare services, approve purchases within a 5 USDC budget, and track order fulfillment. The integration com…