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The Python 1.17.0 release restores sequence-only agent middleware inputs and removes the experimental agent-hooks core extra. It also binds approvals to stable function-call occurrences while preserving legacy compatibility, preserves provider refusals as marked text across history, replay, hosting and UI conversion, supports OpenAI SDK 3.x, and migrates Mistral chat and embedding clients to the official Mistral SDK. If you adopted agent-hooks, you need a migration before upgrading. GitHub
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Agent Framework Python 1.14.0 landed August 13 with a native Mistral chat client, workflow checkpoint/resume in AG-UI, and experimental AGENT-HOOKS-0.1 enforcement behind an opt-in extra. The spec is Apache-2.0, stewarded by a UK company, last pushed July 7, sitting at 2 GitHu...
Microsoft's update ships a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the SDK powering Copilot CLI, explicitly so behavior stays consistent across CLI, the GitHub app, VS Code and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog). It ships curated .NET and Azure skills you enable selective...
When the meter's running hot, the obvious move is a cheaper model that's actually good. Mistral shipped one. Devstral 2 (123B, modified MIT) scores 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. Devstral Small 2 (24B, Apache 2.0) hits 68.0%. Both carry 256K context. Mistral claims 7x cost effic...
Published August 4, the GitHub Copilot Agent for Agent Framework ships as Microsoft.Agents.AI.GitHub.Copilot for .NET 8+ and agent-framework-github-copilot for Python 3.11+ (Microsoft). Every shell command, file write, URL fetch, and custom tool routes through a user-defined p...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
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...
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