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Novaya-AI released Novgraph, a persistent knowledge graph engine for codebases that records why each change was made, written back by agents as they work. Novgraph syncs its dashboard with commits and updates from GitHub…
A new Java and Kotlin Model Context Protocol server runtime called Tachyon has been released, built on Netty and conformance-tested against MCP versions 2025-11-25 and 2026-07-28. Tachyon runs synchronous Java handlers o…
Duo Studio, an open-source browser-based tool, creates foldable phone mockups and folding animations from app screenshots by letting users upload inner and outer screen images, choose a device pose, and export a visual f…
An open-source project called Nova has released a personal AI agent runtime that runs a single Python agent core across four surfaces: a terminal UI, a web interface, an HTTP API, and a desktop window. All four surfaces …
ChainMemory v2.6.1, a persistent cross-model memory server for AI agents, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 and is distributed as chainmemory-mcp on npm, according to the mcpindex listing. The mcpi…
FareEagle Travel version 1.9.0 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, filed under Finance & Payments by the mcpindex leaderboard. The mcpindex index reports the …
Liniora launched an engineering workspace that connects tickets, branches, pull requests, reviews, decisions, team discussions and deployments, with AI linking records across a codebase, according to the company's launch…
The agent-exec MCP server reached version 0.2.0, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex registry index. The mcpindex semantic screen return…
Developer Reindert Pelsma released nvkvm-pv v0.2.5, an experimental open-source project that lets KVM virtual machines run unmodified CUDA, PyTorch and Vulkan workloads on an NVIDIA GPU while the Linux host keeps using t…
A training-free method called ledger-based zero-shot self-orchestration lifted open-weight Qwen3.8-27B from 69.2% to 92.4% pass@1 on the 100 latest hard LiveCodeBench problems, slightly exceeding Claude Fable 5's 90.4%, …
OpenAI recommends that developers use leaner prompts and fewer guardrails when switching to its GPT-6 Astra model, according to a blog post by OpenAI's Eric Provencher. Provencher advises reviewing skills, AGENTS.md file…
GitHub experienced a billing service disruption on August 26, 2026, that prevented users from loading billing pages and blocked Copilot CLI sessions, with the incident officially resolved by August 27. An Enterprise cust…
A developer revisits ten decades-old quotes from computer scientists including Edsger Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, Brian Kernighan, and Grady Booch, arguing they anticipated the current debate over AI-assisted coding. The pie…
The MCP server io.github.theluckystrike/timesheets reached version 0.21.0, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12, offering billable time tracking from AI chat with timers, entries, reports, and CSV export …
The MCP server io.github.theluckystrike/spreadsheet-generator reached version 0.21.0, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12, letting users open, inspect, filter, edit and convert xlsx and csv files locally…
The MCP server io.github.theluckystrike/split-pdf reached version 0.21.0, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-12, offering offline PDF merge, split, extract, rotate, reorder and stamp operations from AI cha…
A developer reports that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool cut feature development time from 4-6 hours to 1-2 hours by reading entire codebases and making coordinated multi-file changes. The engineer says the tool, which …
A fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct model compiled 170 of 184 MQL5 test prompts after one epoch of training on the author's dataset, up from 2 of 184 for the untouched base model, according to a published benchmark c…
A developer who spent 18 months building against Android's agentic APIs argues that Google's "Intelligent System" framing conflates three distinct layers — the on-device model runtime, app integration, and agent distribu…
A developer behind the Chrome extension suite Legacy Tools designed the extensions so that page content is analyzed locally in the browser rather than sent to a remote server, arguing that host permissions reveal what an…