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The release binds a machine-readable component list to each artifact's SHA-256 and signs it as a GitHub attestation, across CLI, npm, container, VS Code and JetBrains builds. 7.7.12 turns on per-subagent model, provider and reasoning-effort selection by default, and 7.8.0 blocks variable references in project MCP headers. Supply-chain provenance for a coding agent is something I expected to wait another year for.
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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...
Compaction is a summarization job that rarely needs the frontier model you're paying for, and until now it silently ran on whatever you'd selected. The same release adds a searchable @ picker for referencing other Agent Manager worktrees, sharing paths, branches and session ID...
The release adds an opt-in, one-time import of global Claude Code instructions, simple skills and disabled MCP definitions. When you send CI failures or review comments from Agent Manager, the agent is now asked to commit and push by default, with a permission prompt before ea...
A standalone macOS and Windows desktop beta released September 14, moving the open-source agent out of the VS Code extension slot; the releases page shows Desktop v0.0.26 on September 11, v0.0.27 on September 13 and v0.0.28 on September 15, so it's shipping daily (GitHub). It...
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