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browser_start_recording and browser_stop_recording behind --caps=devtools capture manual browser actions and return them as code, which is the right answer when someone would rather show you than describe it (GitHub). The fix I care about more: browser_take_screenshot now returns original bytes instead of silently downscaling to model-specific limits, so agents had been reasoning over degraded images without knowing it.
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Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor, TaskMaster, Junie, and OpenCode, plus a web UI and headless Chromium with Playwright (GitHub). Useful if you actually want to benchmark agents head-to-head without managing seven installs. I'd use it for exactly that, then run my daily w...
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...
The maintainer shipped a full modernization on August 15: Node-only, ES6, TypeScript definitions, Playwright and Puppeteer support, node:test, Biome, and the removal of CasperJS and PhantomJS, with Opus 4.8 writing most of it (stephen-cresswell.com). The argument beyond the re...
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan open-sourced GStack and the repo hit 10,000 GitHub stars in 48 hours. That makes it one of the fastest-growing dev tools of 2026. GStack is a 23-tool MIT-licensed toolkit that turns Claude Code into role-based agents: CEO, Designer, QA, Release Manag...
Anthropic's Agent Skills standard (agentskills.io), launched December 2025, has been adopted by Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, GitHub, Atlassian, and Figma. Skills are directories with SKILL.md files that agents discover and load dynamically. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Curso...
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