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Published September 17, it fixes autopilot continuing unexpectedly after a task was accepted as complete, resumes sessions from recoverably corrupt transcripts, and preserves marketplace plugins and skills across a reload when a config read fails instead of discarding active plugins. The status row now says it's waiting for background shells rather than "Working" when a turn ends with an attached dev server running. The autopilot fix is the one that costs money: an agent that kept going after the task was accepted was burning tokens against finished work.
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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...
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
Every major coding agent checks out a marketplace plugin at a pinned commit SHA. None of them verify the checkout actually landed on that SHA. Security firm AIR disclosed Plugin4Shell on September 17 and 18, covering Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and Gemini CLI. The mechanic...
5.8k stars, Rust, macOS, ~40 MB versus ~67 MB upstream, keeping full Lua customization. Command-failure recovery with suggested fixes applied via Cmd + Shift + E, natural-language-to-command via # <description>, preconfigured integration for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and...
desktop-cc-gui cut v1.0.3 on September 16, agent-of-empires cut v1.16.0 on September 10, and codeg cut v0.30.8 this morning. All three manage sessions across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and Copilot CLI from one surface, all three are in the 3-4K star range, and al...
Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
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