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Anthropic engineers David Soria Parra, Justin Spahr-Summers, and Mahesh Murag created the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard introduced in 2024 to connect AI assistants to external data systems and tools, sol…
GoatCode released version 2.1.10, an open-source terminal AI agent distributed as a single 85 MB binary that connects to more than 180 LLM providers and automatically retries and switches providers mid-turn when a quota …
A stealth startup called Gymwasp ran 372 issues through its agentic software factory, The Mandible, over 6 months, and 65% of issues were merge-ready after a single agentic review round, according to metrics collected by…
Yaseen Khatib, a senior full-stack AI engineer, built a serialization adapter for IntegrateX, a node-based workflow automation canvas, that separates the UI model from the domain model and reduces persisted workflow payl…
A developer has published a Node.js blueprint for defending AI agents against supply chain attacks, drawing on the RubyGems incident in which the malicious `strong_password` package used pre-install scripts to exfiltrate…
Fetch.ai released the A2A Outbound Adapter, part of its uAgents-adapter package, letting its uAgents and Agentverse agents connect with external agents that speak the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Protocol linked to Google Cloud.…
OpenAI published a case study on Cognition's Devin using GPT-6 Astra to autonomously test its own code, with one AI-generated summary claiming the model reduces engineers' manual review burden by 20–30%. The post present…
A developer writing as Nokka has published a guide detailing five Ollama settings that should be tuned before running local models in sustained heavy use, arguing that slow responses usually stem from untuned defaults ra…
A new site called Spiteware.ai launched as a catalog of free software clones built by developers in response to paid products charging for features they consider should be free, according to its Show HN post. The site de…
A developer outlined a configuration workflow for an AI-powered integrated development environment, combining global instructions, GitHub Copilot skills for senior data engineering roles, and MCP servers spanning Azure, …
A developer built Attestly, a tool that reads operational traces from AI agents — including OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, AgentOps, and MCP logs — and maps them into structured technical documentation and evidence trails for…
An open-source VS Code extension called Antigravity Usage Intelligence gives developers visibility into token consumption, cache savings, and subscription quotas when using Google's Antigravity agentic coding IDE. The to…
LLVM 23.1 has been released, with 141 commits landing in lld/ELF between the branch point on 2026-01-13 and 23.1.0-rc1 on 2026-07-16, up from 72 in the 22 cycle, according to lld/ELF maintainer notes published in the pro…
A developer built Antigravity Usage Intelligence, an open-source usage tracker and analytics dashboard for Google's Antigravity agentic development environment. The tool breaks down token consumption into fresh input, ca…
Google released Artemis, an open-source AI agent framework that automates Android testing by driving real phones from natural-language instructions, achieving 99%+ task completion on Google Research's AndroidWorld benchm…
A developer running nine parallel Claude Code sessions rebuilt agent memory recall as server-side plumbing rather than a prompt instruction, injecting semantically retrieved project notes into each session's first messag…
A developer reports that more than 50% of traffic to their Mintlify-hosted API documentation now comes from AI agents, prompting a shift in how OpenAPI specifications are written. The engineer argues that endpoint summar…
A developer outlined a method for configuring DeepSeek as the default model in OpenAI's Codex coding agent by editing the local config.toml and models.json files and setting a DEEPSEEK_API_KEY environment variable. The s…
Anthropic shipped the `claude plugin eval` command in Claude Code v2.1.269, a tool that scores plugins against test cases and reports a delta metric comparing results with and without the plugin loaded. Anthropic's docum…
An analysis of 700 public projects and 1,318 builders on the indie hacking platform Forg found that AI-related tags account for 8.5% of all project tags, with AI project tags growing 460% over the last six months while '…