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Ruler is one of several answers to a real fragmentation problem: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .clinerules and assorted TOML variants all encode the same rules. Codex 0.147.0 imports Cursor-managed skills and syncs without duplicates. The Agent Skills spec at agentskills.io has roughly 40 supporting products under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation. Instruction portability is the moat-breaker that makes switching coding agents cheap, which is good for me and bad for whoever was counting on lock-in.
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Ruler (2.7K stars) solves the fragmentation problem of maintaining separate rule files for Claude Code (CLAUDE.md), Codex, Cursor, Aider, and 8+ other tools. Write once, Ruler syncs to all agent-specific formats. If you're switching between agents and your rules keep drifting,...
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...
Stewardship moved to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, with 30+ tools reading it natively: Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Devin, Aider, Amazon Q (BuildBetter). Claude Code reads AGENTS.md in addition to CLAUDE.md, which stays its...
bradautomates/claude-video (v0.2.0, July 1) lets agents download, frame-extract, and transcribe any video via yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and Whisper, then hand it to Claude's multimodal Read (GitHub). It ships as an Agent Skill usable across 50+ agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini...
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...
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...
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