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SkillTotal v0.46.0, a deterministic security scanner for MCP servers, agent skills, and npm/PyPI packages, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-14 and is distributed as skilltotal on PyPI. The mcpindex i…
A developer built a test harness for their mcpscan security scanner that generates synthetic attack fixtures to verify each detection rule, and found that 6 of 7 fixtures fired while the secrets-detection rule completely…
AI coding agents are shifting the primary consumers of code from humans to machines, making code itself secondary to correctness, speed and judgement, according to a blog post by developer Jimmyislive. The post argues th…
SigNoz published a guide for exporting telemetry from Meta Muse Code, Meta's terminal coding agent powered by the Muse Spark model family, to SigNoz using OpenTelemetry. Because Muse Code's built-in OpenTelemetry exporte…
A developer building the Super Nintendo game Backpressure found that an AI coding agent using the PixelLab pixel-art API removed a pipe behind a door with a rectangular edit mask but left a visible mismatched wall patch,…
A developer's measurement of Claude Code subagent startup costs found the same trivial task costs between 15,746 and 38,401 tokens depending on a single dispatch field, while published figures range from 15,000 to 436,00…
A developer published `baton-agents` to npm on September 14, four days after Sophia Myang's September 10 request for a cross-platform agent orchestration harness drew 1,024 bookmarks and 340 replies. The tool addresses t…
AI coding tools have outgrown the laptop, as engineering teams still run one developer, one laptop, one agent session even though agents now work for hours, take several tasks in parallel, wait for CI, and call external …
Bruin is the most complete AI data platform and the only one with an open-source core among eight platforms compared in a 2026 guide, covering ingestion, SQL and Python transformation, orchestration, per-column quality c…
Agentic engineering in brownfield codebases requires making hidden constraints visible and cheap changes trustworthy, according to a September 14, 2026 article that recommends classifying code into green, yellow, and red…
ContextIQ's Agent Protocol Inspector now offers an x402 wire v2 endpoint at $0.02 per call that scans any URL for MCP, A2A, ARD, and llms.txt support, payable via an API key or the @x402/fetch library on Base (eip155:845…
OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent can be installed on macOS or Linux with the command `curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh`, on Windows via OpenAI's PowerShell installer, or through npm (`npm install -g @o…
Claude Code prompts for permission because sessions start in Manual mode, which gates file edits, most shell commands and web requests, according to Anthropic's Claude Code documentation checked on 14 Sep 2026 against ve…
Stripe staff engineer Cristian Rivera created Harbor, an internal AI-assisted prototyping tool, according to a Stripe post authored by technical writer Sai Samant. Rivera works on Stripe's Web Presence and Platform team,…
Google's Antigravity platform offers a $0 free plan with a desktop agent app and access to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 alongside Gemini models, while Anthropic's Claude Code has no free tier and officially runs Claude…
AMD's Helios GPU, the Instinct MI455X, packs 432 GB of HBM4, 23 TB/s of HBM bandwidth per GPU, and 40 PFLOPs of FP4 compute, according to AMD's product brochure. A new educational blog post builds a ladder of BF16 genera…
Verdant's free mode lets users run its AI coding agent without a subscription or paid credits, with an allowance that refreshes every 5 hours and is also bound by a weekly cap, according to the company. In a hands-on tes…
A GitHub project called "CUDA for AMD on Windows," built by a developer going by "speed," packages the ZLUDA translation layer with AMD's HIP SDK and ROCm to run unmodified CUDA applications on AMD GPUs through an automa…
Anthropic engineers Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag have moved away from building a separate custom agent for every use case, packaging reusable "agent skills" — folders of instructions, scripts, and reference files — that …
Nanonets released Graft, an MIT-licensed open source CLI tool that builds a queryable code graph for AI coding agents, distributed as the @nanonets/graft package and requiring Node 20 or newer, with version 0.18.0 tested…