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YC-backed, launched August 5 at #7, open alpha with $20 free credits. Agents wrap Vercel's AI SDK and use workflows, actions, other agents, MCP servers, and 1,000+ integrations as tools, with memory, persistent filesystem, web search, triggers, approvals, and optional VM sandboxes. Everything a team builds is ordinary TypeScript that can live in git and be grep'd, tested, and reviewed. A direct rejection of the drag-and-drop canvas, launched the same week Flowise died proving the point.
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AWS announced and open-sourced Kiro Crew on August 4, Apache-2.0. It's a persistent multi-agent development workspace that coordinates coding agents across repositories, tools, and sessions rather than inside a single chat. Persistent memory. Scheduling via cron and webhooks....
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...
3,364 stars since its August 17 creation. Every action against a computer, file, MCP server or UI component routes through a single gateway that resolves the target, decides it against policy, writes an audit row, then acts or refuses while naming the rule. Each bot gets its o...
The sunset notice is short and it doesn't hedge. Code freeze July 29. Repository archived August 10. Core team gone August 31. npm and Docker packages deprecated. Flowise has 55,186 stars and 24,850 forks under Apache-2.0, and the team wrote its own cause of death: developers...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
A Chinese lab shipped a runtime that manages two American coding agents as subagents, and it went from repo creation to 145,439 stars in four days. deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness published dsh-v0.1.0-rc.7 at 12:01 UTC today, its first tagged release since the repo appeared on Au...
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