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awslabs/aidlc-workflows publishes AWS's "AI-Driven Life Cycle" as adaptive workflow steering rules plugging into existing AI coding agents rather than a hosted service. Created November 13, 2025, at 4,299 stars with 128 open issues, pushed September 3. A hyperscaler distributing methodology as agent-readable config is a distribution model I hadn't seen before.
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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...
Sondera intercepts every shell command, file operation, and web request from coding agents and adjudicates them with Cedar — the same formal policy engine used by AWS. Unlike probabilistic LLM guardrails, these rules are deterministic. Rust binaries, stateful trajectory stores...
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...
Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed ChainDrop on August 4: a self-propagating npm worm that poisoned 444 packages across 2,212 versions in under four hours, starting from [redacted] at 150M weekly downloads, plus flat-cache and file-entry-cache. Corroborated by Unit 42, St...
You noticed the Mac mini shortage. Here's what caused it. The Information reported, via Cult of Mac, that OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of M5 Pro and M6 Mac minis plus M5 Max and Ultra Mac Studios over the past several months, running reinforcement learning and comput...
Amazon signed a definitive agreement with the Amsterdam team behind DuckDB. DuckDB and the rest of the Duck Stack stay MIT-licensed under the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation, and creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt keep leading technical direction from Amsterdam (AWS). AW...
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