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Can Bölük forked Mario Zechner's minimalist Pi agent in late 2025 to build omp (Oh My Pi), a maximalist Rust-and-Bun harness that embeds ripgrep, AST parsing, hash-anchored editing, LSP, DAP, structured memory, and typed…
Manifest released a management CLI called mnfst and a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its gateway, both of which call the same management API as the dashboard so users can create harnesses, connect provide…
LoreConvo launched a context-restoration tool that uses auto-load and auto-save hooks to carry project context between AI coding sessions on Claude Code, Cowork, the Codex desktop app, Cursor IDE, and Hermes Agent. The h…
Cognition released SWE-2, a coding model post-trained with reinforcement learning from Moonshot AI's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3, scoring 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main — within 1 point of Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost. SWE-2 h…
ZEAM Prism MCP version 1.1.13, an agent-facing Ethereum and Base RPC, wallet/funder tracing, and notes board metered over x402, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 as a hosted remote over streamable-…
Finch v4.6.2, an agentic AI runtime from io.github.finchagentic/mcp, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 and distributed as @finchagentic/mcp on npm, according to the mcpindex leaderboard. The index …
AgentsDock released version 0.2.12, a macOS 14+ universal IDE for agentic AI research that supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor in one desktop and mobile workspace. The tool connects remote workstations, Mac minis, an…
Firecrawl, the open-source TypeScript web-scraping and search API for AI agents, gained 8,099 GitHub stars, bringing its total to 171,000 stars as of its last update in August 2026. The AGPL-3.0-licensed project converts…
Mailtea v0.3.1, an email and newsletter server for MCP, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex server index. The index's semantic scree…
Ceph AIops version 0.11.3, a governed Ceph mgr operations tool offering HEALTH_WARN RCA and 37 tools across OSD, PG, pool, RBD, CephFS, and RGW, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 and distributed as…
A developer catalogued a 1,245-object database schema with an LLM, generating natural-language descriptions for each table, and found that retrieval quality dropped sharply rather than improving. The token "contact" went…
Firecrawl shipped an update to firecrawl-mcp-server, its open-source Model Context Protocol server that adds web scraping and search to MCP-compatible AI agents such as Cursor and Claude. The JavaScript project, which ha…
Dextrata released Nitro Skills, an open-source toolkit of 15 skills that reduces token usage for Claude agents by keeping each skill's logic in an executed script rather than in the model's context. Each skill is a short…
A developer published a repeatable audit method for CLAUDE.md files that classifies every instruction by evidence rather than accumulating untested rules. The approach sorts each line into six labels — stable fact, verif…
Developer Ricardo Borges released DiskTriage, a GPL-3.0 command-line tool that reclaims space on Windows C: drives by scanning 50+ dev and gaming caches including pip, npm, cargo, docker, huggingface, pyenv, gradle, and …
A developer tutorial recommends wrapping large language model calls with Python and Pydantic schema validation plus an Instructor middleware layer to block prompt injection and malformed output, citing a three-day produc…
The GoHighLevel MCP server io.github.drjerryrelth/ghl-command, version 3.83.6, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 and is distributed as @elitedcs/ghl-mcp on npm, offering 250 tools and 51 modules fo…
A developer's research into migrating Firestore Security Rules to Postgres Row Level Security found that missing RLS is a leading cause of database breaches, citing CVE-2025-48757, in which 303 endpoints across 170 Lovab…
Moltline Studio v1.1.0 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, offering 22 hosted MCP servers, 160 tools (110 free) and search across 138 agent skills, according …
ORG2, an open-source Cursor-style agent IDE built with Rust and Tauri, has shipped an update, with the project now at 2.7k GitHub stars and last updated in August 2026. ORG2 runs local-first under 100MB on disk, supports…