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Released September 15, it stops the agent looping forever on repeated malformed tool calls. The same release promotes Kilo Swarm out of Experimental into Agent Behaviour under a top-level shared_agent_board key, with experimental.shared_agent_board no longer read, and moves marketplace catalog, install and removal into the CLI backend so editor clients share one API.
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Specialized Code / Plan / Debug / Review / Ask agents across VS Code, JetBrains and CLI with terminal and browser control and a CI/CD autonomous mode. The differentiator is commercial, not technical: provider pricing with no markup, switchable mid-task, no API key to start. Pr...
Anaconda acquired Kilo Code on July 15; Kilo supplies planning, coding, and debugging agents inside VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI. Anaconda's moat is being the default Python environment in enterprises and universities, and that moat is worth very little if the agent layer a...
Cline released @cline/sdk on May 13, an open-source TypeScript agent runtime that powers their CLI, VS Code, and JetBrains extensions. Running claude-opus-4.7, Cline CLI scores 74.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Claude Code on the same model: 69.4%. Same model. Different harness. Al...
The IDE market is fragmenting, and this week drew the sharpest lines yet. Cursor 3 launched as a rebuilt agent-orchestration platform in Rust and TypeScript, replacing the VS Code fork with an Agents Window for dispatching and monitoring multiple AI coding agents. Anysphere hi...
Three companies shipped standalone agent platforms in the same week, and none of them are IDE plugins. Google launched Antigravity 2.0 at I/O with a desktop app, a Go-based CLI, and an SDK for self-hosted agent deployments. No IDE. It's conversations, projects, and multi-agent...
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...
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