Vibe Coding
Pattern: The Agent Layer Is Standardizing on Portable Packaging and Portable Sessions, Not on a Winning Vendor
Three moves inside one week point the same direction: Agent Plugins 1.0 GA (August 12) with six vendors plus Google as maintainers, VS Code 1.133's Agent Host Protocol letting one agent session follow you across windows and switch model providers between turns, and Codex adding direct config/work imports from Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Cursor (August 11). The competitive surface is shifting from the agent itself to the runtime around it, and lock-in via skill format or session state is evaporating. Practically: author skills and MCP configs to the plugin standard now rather than to one client's dotfile layout.
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