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A developer warns that ASCII smuggling — the technique of hiding payloads in invisible Unicode tag characters — can slip past AI code reviewers because they analyze the rendered text of a diff rather than its raw bytes. …
Blue Cap Machine Commerce (io.soundiq/bluecap-evidence-verify) version 1.1.0 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-11 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex index. The mcpindex…
The CRW Web Scraper, an open-source web scraper for AI agents with scrape, crawl, and map tools, was published at version v0.35.1 to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-11 and is distributed as the Docker image ghcr.io/…
Datasette released version 1.0a39 on 11th September 2026 alongside version 0.65.4 as security releases, according to the Datasette blog. The project directed readers to its post titled "Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 securi…
Rails Baseline released a free, repo-aware architecture checkup tool for existing Rails applications that runs inside coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. The checkup flags where an app gives agents conf…
A developer built Codex Migrate, a tool that transfers portable OpenAI Codex state and selected workspaces between Macs over SSH for one-time migrations. The tool inventories dependencies, stages the transfer, preserves …
A developer published a tutorial for building a Medical RAG system that parses personal medical PDFs with Unstructured.io, stores embeddings in Pinecone, and cross-references queries against the PubMed API via LangChain …
A developer writing on tamiz.pro argues that agentic frameworks such as the OpenAI Agents SDK expose deep fragility in modern software engineering, coining the term "AI Psychosis" for the chaotic, looping behavior of LLM…
A developer built a post-session logging system for Claude Code using the Stop hook, parsing transcript JSONL files to track subagent invocation times, error rates, and costs. Measuring subagent performance revealed that…
Dam Secure launched Secure Spec, a CLI that captures coding agents' implementation plans and routes them through a security review before any code is written, using agent hooks such as Claude Code's PreToolUse hook at th…
Claude Code's plan mode, enabled via `claude --permission-mode plan`, the `/plan` prompt prefix, or Shift+Tab, lets Claude read files and run shell commands but blocks all source edits until the user approves the written…
An MCP server is a small program that exposes tools, data or prompt templates to an AI agent over the Model Context Protocol, an open standard Anthropic open sourced on 25 November 2024, according to the protocol's own s…
Netlify shipped smarter credit scoping for its Agent Runners on Sept. 4, 2026, so an ambitious prompt on a new project no longer exhausts the credit budget mid-build and dead-ends in a "Cancelled" run with nothing to sho…
Effect shipped a breaking API rename in its v4 release candidate, changing `Schema.transformOrFail` to `Schema.transformEffect`, as part of a week of release-candidate hardening that also declared `Reactivity`, `Language…
A free, MIT-licensed plugin called Quartermaster, available in the Eigenwise Toolshed marketplace, watches Claude Code sessions and proposes one workspace change at a time for user approval, then verifies on its next run…
Redis launched a development plugin that brings current Redis engineering guidance into ChatGPT Work and Codex, giving teams help writing, reviewing, and troubleshooting Redis code without switching between documentation…
Ben Houston released webgpu-bench, a WebGPU micro-benchmark suite of 71 benchmarks that runs in roughly one minute and is available on Web3D Survey and via CLI. The suite measures arithmetic throughput, memory access, op…
Wren launched Git Sync, a feature that moves an open-source Wren project's MDL context model and knowledge base into Wren Cloud as plain YAML and Markdown files in a git repository the user owns, authenticated with token…
Manticore Search released version 29.9.0, adding chunked auto-embeddings that let long documents store multiple vectors instead of one, with five chunking strategies including truncate, mean, fixed, recursive, and senten…
Bruin Academy has launched a free, locally run "SQL in the Age of AI" course that uses a coding agent as a tutor, arguing that memorizing SQL syntax is a dying skill now that agents can draft valid queries in seconds. Th…