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harveyai/harvey-labs is trending again (692 stars, +47 on August 9). The README now states 1,671 tasks across 24+ legal practice areas plus contracting, up from 1,250 at the May 6 launch, which also cited 75,000+ expert-written rubric criteria (GitHub). Harvey said at launch that "initial results on LAB for leading open and closed-source models will be published in the coming weeks." Three months later the repo ships the dataset, rubrics, and execution framework with no comparative scores. If you're evaluating agents for regulated professional work, that absence is the finding. Run it yourself; the framework is there.
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An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
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...
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...
ooocooc/open-skill-sunset, created August 26 and at 84 stars, runs a local read-only audit over agent instruction files to flag stale and generic directives. (GitHub) It names a problem the skill-repo flood created and nobody was tooling for: instruction files accumulate rules...
Endokelp/Endoplexity, created August 14 and already at about 208 stars, is a Chrome side panel that clicks, types, fills forms and moves between tabs by shelling out to the claude or cursor-agent CLI you already pay for, with no API key and 156 passing tests in its bridge (Git...
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...
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