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MIT-licensed alpha. Each "coworker" gets a real browser with its own logins, its own files and only granted tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Runs on Docker Compose against your own PostgreSQL, no model ships in the box, admin credentials encrypted at rest, agents are configuration (agents.yaml) not code. (GitHub) A commit merged this morning reverts two features that only worked on one machine, which is a fair marker of how early this is.
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A bot cites a ref from a page snapshot, the server resolves it back to an element, then the boundary decides. When the lookup failed, the action proceeded with the element half of the decision empty, so a rule like "never click anything named submit" was never shown the elemen...
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...
Every browser agent you've ever used works the same way. Screenshot the page, parse the pixels, figure out what to click, click it, screenshot again. It's slow, it's brittle, and it breaks every time a site changes its layout. That entire paradigm dies on June 2. Google's Chro...
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...
funador/claude-code-merge-queue (92 stars, MIT, 39 points on HN) targets a problem you hit within a day of running agent fleets: several agents landing, building, and testing at once cause push races, redundant heavy builds, and shared-resource test flakiness. Each agent gets...
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...
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