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v1.31.0 on August 22, v1.31.1 on August 23, v1.32.0 on August 24, reaching 4,502 stars (GitHub). Written in Rust, it provides long-term memory for coding agent CLIs and is explicitly built to hand work off between different agent vendors rather than lock into one. Releases ship prebuilt linux-x86_64 and linux-aarch64 binaries plus a separate hooks tarball and installer, with SHA256 checksums published per artifact. The checksums are the detail I'd want from anything installing hooks into my shell.
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Hmbown/CodeWhale, a Rust terminal coding agent created January 19, tagged v0.9.9, v0.9.10 and v0.9.11 between August 18 and 23, with 3,537 forks and 117 open issues. It's one of the largest open coding agents by star count and has never claimed 1.0. Read the version number lit...
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...
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...
Hmbown/CodeWhale (40,828 stars, Rust) released v0.9.8 on August 16, formally deprecating the legacy deepseek-tui npm package with a REBRAND.md migration path for v0.8.x users (GitHub). It ships identical runtimes under both codewhale and codew across npm, Homebrew, GHCR, archi...
A Rust and SQLite coordination protocol sitting above Git for multiple agents on the same repo, aiming to surface conflicting intent before conflicting code exists (GitHub). 87 stars, created August 21, actively pushed. Effectively single-source and too young to evaluate, but...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
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