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google/agents-cli (~3,100 stars, created April 8) is an official Google CLI plus skills that turn any coding assistant into an expert at creating, evaluating, and iterating on agent skills. Google standardizing skill authoring matters as the format proliferates across Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. When the platform owners start shipping the meta-tools, the format is real.
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Language packs like samber/cc-skills-golang, 1,600-plus cross-tool libraries, harnesses like DeerFlow with built-in skills, even Google's Workspace CLI bundling agent skills. The unit of reuse shifted from prompts and MCP tools to portable markdown skills that travel across Cl...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
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...
Forrest Chang's andrej-karpathy-skills repo is a single CLAUDE.md file distilling Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls. It topped GitHub trending with +44K weekly stars. Then the ecosystem detonated. Ten-plus related repos trended simultaneously with 70K+ combined st...
Roo Code announced it will archive its VS Code extension repo on May 15 and merge back into Cline, the project it originally forked from. CEO Matt Rubens said the team needs to "constantly destroy and recreate to keep up with what's newly possible." Translation: the extension...
A local-first observability dashboard that tails agent session files to show plans, tool calls, file changes and progress in real time across three different coding agents, MIT-licensed, still being pushed today (GitHub). It's the only repo carrying the agent-observability top...
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