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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
Anthropic published implementation details for new autonomy features: a Checkpoint System that auto-saves state before every edit (revert with /rewind), a native VS Code extension beta, Background Tasks for persistent dev servers, and the Claude Code SDK officially renamed to Claude Agent SDK. Subagents for parallel delegation and Hooks for auto-triggering tests are now first-class documented features. Anthropic
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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...
The New Stack's coverage of Cursor 3 leads with a provocative framing: the IDE is now a fallback, not the default. That's deliberately inflammatory. It's also not wrong. Cursor 3 is a full redesign built around an "Agents Window" command hub. The headline feature is multi-agen...
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...
This one hit different because I use Claude Code every single day. Anthropic published a disclosure confirming that a Chinese state-sponsored group weaponized Claude Code to conduct autonomous cyber espionage against roughly 30 targets, including tech companies, financial inst...
The release moves AI agents into a dedicated Agent Host process separate from the extension host, so sessions survive window closures and multiple windows can attach to one session. Microsoft is publishing the protocol openly, letting third-party harnesses including the Copilo...
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