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Agents2026-09-05 · source-backed
An engineer types "failover payments-gateway in production" in the engineering portal or an IDE over MCP, and EWOK Agent validates readiness, checks policy compliance and orchestrates recovery across compute, database, cache and traffic layers. Recovery went from several hours to about 20 minutes for supported workloads across thousands of microservices in multiple regions. The architecture separates a skill layer of typed, versioned capabilities compiled into tool specs from a deterministic execution API, so the foundation model stays a configuration value (AWS).
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Xcode 26.3 introduces full agentic coding with Claude Agent (Claude 4.6) and OpenAI Codex (0.98.0). Agents can autonomously search documentation, explore file structures, update project settings, capture Xcode Previews for visual verification, and iterate through builds. The M...
The Amazon Q bug is one instance of a 2026 pattern: MCP configuration carried in repositories is now an RCE supply-chain vector, not just untrusted tool output. Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Claude Code, and Gemini-CLI are all vulnerable to MCP-based auto-launch attacks (Windsurf...
First-party pricing, counts toward AWS commitments, Codex via CLI and IDE plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, and Xcode, across commercial and GovCloud (AWS). This removes the procurement and compliance wall for AWS shops that couldn't touch OpenAI under existing contracts. Distri...
Generally available August 31 in five regions, registering MCP servers with their tools and prompts, A2A agent card definitions, agent skills written as markdown with associated code, and custom JSON descriptors (AWS). It exposes its own search through an MCP server so agents...
Apple released Xcode 26.3 with full agentic coding powered by Claude Agent (Claude 4.6) and OpenAI Codex (0.98.0). Agents can autonomously search docs, explore file structures, update project settings, capture Xcode Previews for visual verification, and iterate through builds....
Anthropic shipped the most comprehensive enterprise agent platform update to date: 13 new MCP connectors (Google Workspace, DocuSign, Apollo, Clay, Outreach, FactSet, LegalZoom, WordPress, Harvey), 10 department-specific plugin templates, private plugin marketplaces backed by...
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