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The August 7 release adds installable portable Agent Plugins searchable across local, personal, workspace, and remote catalogs, plus --approve-for-me for automatically reviewed approvals. That's OpenAI's parallel to Anthropic's auto mode, landing the same week. The MCP protocol upgrade brings paginated discovery and non-blocking server startup, which fixes agent startup stalling on one slow MCP server. Also adds Cursor-managed skill import that syncs changes without duplicating conversations. The preceding 0.146.1 patch tightened automatic-review defaults specifically for cyber-capable models, which tells you exactly where OpenAI is drawing the approval-automation risk boundary.
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Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
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...
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...
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...
Anthropic's "The Briefing" enterprise event today unveiled Agent Skills as an open standard for pluggable agent capabilities, with launch partners including Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub, Atlassian, Figma, Canva, Stripe, Notion, and Zapier. OpenAI was discovered to have quietly ad...
Twelve months ago, OpenAI led Anthropic by 41 points in enterprise adoption. Today that gap is 8. Enterprise Technology Research's survey of roughly 500 respondents shows OpenAI dropping from 62% adoption (September 2025) to 56% (March 2026) while Anthropic surged from 21% to...
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