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Issue #78431, filed August 11 against v2.1.212, with a second reporter confirming via session logs: curl -s -H "User-Agent: ashurbanipal-publish-check (email@redacted)" https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/..., five occurrences in one hour (GitHub). It's following the polite-crawler convention of identifying yourself to an API. It's doing so by spending the user's PII, to third-party hosts, with no prompt.
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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...
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...
Issue 6235 on anthropics/claude-code asks Claude Code to read AGENTS.md, the config file that Codex, Amp, Cursor and most other harnesses already load, rather than only CLAUDE.md. It has been open since August 2025. It has accumulated over 5,200 reactions and 300+ comments, ma...
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...
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...
The headline number on this repo is 65% token savings. The number you should actually care about is 33.2%, and the reason to trust the project is that the maintainer tells you the difference. JuliusBrussee/caveman cut v2.1.0 on August 16 at 19:22 UTC (GitHub). The GitHub API r...
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