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Arcjet launched agent runtime security on September 17, a product from founder David Mytton that observes, enforces and audits AI agent actions before they execute, available now with a free 15-day trial. The product ing…
TypeSafe AI's first System One model, Jev, is the subject of a new open-source demo called Grug that holds conversations by repeatedly selecting the next word from a compact 979-word vocabulary via the API's `choice` pri…
Developer alxcrt published is-odd-jev, an npm package that determines whether a number is odd using the TypeSafe "jev-latest" model and returns a calibrated probability rather than a boolean, e.g. { odd: true, p: 0.999, …
A developer argues that the debate over which agentic coding methodology to adopt is misguided, contending that frameworks like Superpowers, BMAD, OpenSpec, SpecKit, GSD, Ralph, and Compound Engineering each orchestrate …
Prime Intellect is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for Prime Agent, its open-source coding and research agent, at a salary of $150,000 to $300,000 per year plus equity for an on-site staff-level role in San Francisco.…
A developer has proposed a pre-flight gate for MCP server submissions to plugin stores, aimed at avoiding vague rejection feedback. The approach freezes the submitted manifest, tool list with JSON Schemas, auth scopes, a…
A developer maintains @ghilteras/opencode-agent-memory, an experimental OpenCode plugin that gives AI coding agents persistent, editable memory stored as scoped Markdown files on disk rather than an opaque remote service…
The Verax project released an open-source MCP server, Apache-2.0 licensed, that sits between an AI agent and its tools, passing every tool call through a policy gate and writing a signed decision record before execution,…
A developer built a mutation-testing harness that plants small faults in Python source code to measure whether existing test suites actually detect them, then pointed an AI agent at the surviving mutations to write targe…
Research published by Manifold Security in September 2026 documents configuration-injection flaws in several AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Goose, Qwen Code and Grok Build, tracked under identifiers such…
OpenAI's newly announced Agents API brings the managed Codex harness to developers, including long-session context management, subagents, and an OpenAI-hosted sandbox option. The guide argues that sandbox boundaries are …
A developer has shipped new approval and recovery features for Doberman, an open-source agent guardrail tool, aimed at reducing friction when coding agents request human authorization. The update adds Windows Hello as a …
Vercel posted a Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure role paying $196,000 to $294,000 per year plus equity, hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, requiring 3+ years of backend and distributed systems experience.…
A developer released Jev, a local prototype router that sends complex or uncertain coding tasks to Codex Astra and contained mechanical work to Grok Build. The router asks Jev three typed questions in one request — a cho…
Developer UribeJr built PokéDev, a free, local-first VS Code and Cursor extension that turns the editor sidebar into a Pokémon overworld where a chosen partner earns Trainer and Partner XP from real work events such as s…
GitHub's Copilot impact dashboard now reports how many active users engaged with each Copilot feature on at least two days during a 28-day period, and enterprise and organization report APIs add the same breakdown via a …
Researchers disclosed a class of configuration injection flaws in September 2026 affecting AI coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, Goose, Qwen Code and Grok Build, tracked as CVE-2026-19592, in which a crafted rep…
A developer built DevPipe, an open-source dashboard that lets users write a single Markdown draft and publish it across GitHub, Dev.to, Hashnode, and Reddit with one click. The tool uses a Groq and gpt-oss-120b engine to…
Vercel CLI version 59.16.0 and later now supports sub-second deployments of static artifacts, skipping the build step and immediately returning a live URL, Vercel announced. Eligible deployments are limited to directorie…
Attestations of agent-written code capture only the terminal verification run — the controls that ran, their results, the governing configuration, and the final commit — while discarding the failed attempts, intermediate…