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12,094 stars under Apache-2.0, last release v0.15.6 on August 24. A local proxy on port 1355 maps named hosts like myapp.localhost onto ephemeral internal ports, and the README names "agents testing the wrong port" as a target failure mode. Ships its own agent skill and an AGENTS.md. Setting --tld to a domain you own makes local URLs structurally match production, keeping OAuth redirects and cross-subdomain cookies consistent across both. GitHub
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Vercel Labs' Zig coding agent ships as one 6.39 MiB native binary with no runtime, Apache-2.0, supporting skills, MCP servers and subagents behind an approval gate, with v0.0.5 out August 21. The ecosystem formed fast: a Windows compat-layer port, a fork called ax created Augu...
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 moves, two days, no coordination between them. August 10–11: GitHub shipped Ollama as a BYOK provider inside Copilot for JetBrains (GitHub Changelog). Unsloth released Unsloth Desktop with a command literally named unsloth start claude, which points Claude Code and Codex...
iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI is Apache-2.0 C#/.NET giving agents read/write control over .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx with no Microsoft Office install, no external dependencies, and no .NET runtime at execution time (GitHub). Its differentiator over python-docx-style libraries is a native f...
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...
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...
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