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block/buzz, a hive-mind communication platform in Rust under Apache-2.0, has 2,039 open pull requests against 1,538 issues, with its last desktop tag v0.5.23 on September 5. More than 10% of its fork count has an open PR against the repo. A backlog that size against a project this young is the signal to check merge velocity before taking a dependency.
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Block's buzz jumped to 10,934 stars (+2,506 in a day) as a self-hostable Apache-2.0 relay built on Nostr where every message from a human, agent, workflow, or git event is a signed event in one log. Agents get their own keypairs and audit trails and participate as first-class...
Block released it August 27 with a security section dominated by defaults that previously failed open: fail closed on malformed tool visibility, permission denies now take precedence, fail closed on invalid default GCP credentials and invalid Codex ACP mode, honor plugin enabl...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
Block's July 29 release upgrades to rmcp 2.0, adds a configurable GOOSE_DOCS_ROOT for offline documentation, and allows disabling built-in skills. Three changes that together read as a deliberate push toward locked-down enterprise deployment. Also Opus 5 support with adaptive...
AAIF will govern MCP, Block's Goose, AGENTS.md, and Google's A2A under vendor-neutral open governance. AWS, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow are participating. Both inter-agent communication and tool access protocols now have neutral stewardship. Linux...
MCP now has 97M+ monthly SDK downloads. First-class client support across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and VS Code. Governed by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. AAIF also hosts Goose (op...
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