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The Rust terminal built for AI coding shipped August 2 with api_mode = "responses" for Responses-compatible endpoints and provider-hosted web search that needs no separate search key. The security-relevant change is tightened tool paths, web requests, and code search boundaries, plus incomplete streams no longer counting as successful turns. That last one is the failure mode that silently corrupts agent loops.
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5.8k stars, Rust, macOS, ~40 MB versus ~67 MB upstream, keeping full Lua customization. Command-failure recovery with suggested fixes applied via Cmd + Shift + E, natural-language-to-command via # <description>, preconfigured integration for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and...
v0.1.117, tagged August 28 one day after v0.1.116 and pushed again today, is an MIT-licensed Rust tool that turns Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode into research agents that propose an idea, change code, launch an experiment and inspect evidence in a loop. Each run gets an isolat...
CherryHQ/cherry-studio (50,068 stars) cut v2.0.0 on August 5 and reached 2.0.2 by August 7, rebuilding from chat client into a work surface with multi-window and split-view layouts. The release notes say the subscription part explicitly: OpenAI and Anthropic endpoints, reusing...
TrustMeBro is a Go tool at 327 stars, created August 26, that intercepts commands invoked by Codex, Claude Code and pi through PATH shims alone. No plugin, no hook, no MCP. Rules decide whether to fabricate output, rewrite stdout while preserving stderr and exit status, block,...
A Chinese lab shipped a runtime that manages two American coding agents as subagents, and it went from repo creation to 145,439 stars in four days. deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness published dsh-v0.1.0-rc.7 at 12:01 UTC today, its first tagged release since the repo appeared on Au...
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...
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