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Agents2026-07-17 · source-backed
Released July 16, the agent host runs coding agents (Copilot, Claude, Codex) in their own process via a new Agent Host Protocol, so a session lives independently and renders across multiple windows. Agents can list sessions, read conversations, spawn sub-task sessions, and send steering messages to each other, with user confirmation and burst rate-limiting as guardrails. It's gated behind chat.agentHost.enabled and supports Enterprise sign-in and BYOK. This is the same architectural move as xAI's Grok Build and Microsoft's Agent Framework: the substrate for agents-managing-agents is standardizing fast.
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I check Product Hunt maybe once a week and usually regret it. Today's board is worth reading as market structure. The July 30 leaderboard: SKI at 277 upvotes (free voice input for Claude Code and Codex). AI Search Console at 249 (prompt analytics and citation mapping). Memmy A...
The July 2026 update (v1.127-v1.131) runs each agent session against an isolated checkout, and it spans all three agents rather than being Copilot-only. Also: redesigned Agents window with side-by-side code review and chat, subagent tracking showing model, elapsed time and act...
Shipped August 12 on the Agent Host Protocol: the same agent session attaches from multiple VS Code windows, and the model picker exposes both Anthropic and Copilot options, switchable between turns and billed to the respective service. An experimental chat.agentHost.allowSign...
wanshuiyin/HERO-Anti-OverDefense went from creation to 68 stars in a single day. HERO is Hashing, Edge cases, Rubrics, Overbuild, and the claim is that agent over-engineering isn't diffuse but falls into four recognizable shapes suppressible with a portable prompt contract acr...
open-design is a local-first macOS/Windows/Linux desktop app that turns your existing coding agent into a design engine, producing prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images, and video with real HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. It runs on 25 distinct local CLI executables...
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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