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Vercel added ChatGPT accounts as an authentication option for both Vercel and v0. The interesting part isn't convenience, it's direction: OpenAI is being wired in as an OAuth identity provider on a major developer platform, the role Google and GitHub have held for a decade. If that pattern spreads, ChatGPT account ownership becomes developer-platform infrastructure rather than a consumer subscription.
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Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
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...
Now on all plans and in v0. Instead of storing provider secrets in env vars, a deployment authenticates with its existing Vercel OIDC identity and calls getToken() for a task-scoped credential the platform refreshes and expires. Covers 100+ integrations including managed conne...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
On Latent Space July 28, OpenAI core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan said Codex and ChatGPT Work combined reached 10 million users within two weeks of the July 9 launch, with monthly actives up more than 10x since January 2026. The number that should reframe your produc...
b-nnett/codex-subscription-router, created August 16 and already past 200 stars, builds a locally patched copy of the official ChatGPT desktop app and fans its single app-server connection out to one official Codex child process per account through a Go multiplexer, each with...
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