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Releasebot lists migration of settings, MCP servers, plugins, sessions, commands, and project-scoped memories, plus stabilized multi-agent V2 with per-subagent models, reasoning levels and concurrency, and Bedrock login with GPT-5.6 Sol as default. The migration path is the non-obvious win. Cross-tool config portability makes head-to-head harness evaluation cheap, so you can A/B the same MCP stack and skill set across two harnesses without rebuilding by hand.
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diegosouzapw/OmniRoute added 1,343 stars on July 20, a single MIT-licensed gateway across 268+ providers (50+ free) and 500+ models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi K3, GLM and DeepSeek, wired for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline and Copilot. Quota-aware automatic fallback...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
Everyone writing SKILL.md files has absorbed the same folklore. Keep the top file thin. Push detail into reference files. Let the agent walk the tree as needed. More layers, more context efficiency. A controlled study submitted July 20 tested that across InfiniteBench, three a...
Cross-tool standard (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, 20+ more). Add: Dos/Don'ts with version rules, file-scoped lint/test commands, project structure hints, code examples referencing real files. Meta-tip: when correcting agents, tell them "Update AGENTS.md with this rule....
First major enterprise observability platform to ship a production-grade MCP server. Feeds live logs, metrics, and traces directly into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. AI coding agents can now investigate production issues using real-time telemetry. MC...
Language packs like samber/cc-skills-golang, 1,600-plus cross-tool libraries, harnesses like DeerFlow with built-in skills, even Google's Workspace CLI bundling agent skills. The unit of reuse shifted from prompts and MCP tools to portable markdown skills that travel across Cl...
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