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Markets2026-08-25 · source-backed
A free-alpha macOS app plus GitHub extension and MCP server that answers "why" questions from a repo's own pull requests and issues, shows the evidence, and says nobody wrote this down when nobody did (Icarus). The insight underneath: merged PRs leave commits but refused ones leave nothing, so git log, git blame and the working tree are blind to every change a team tried and closed. The maker is explicit that it doesn't write code, which puts it above Cursor and Claude Code rather than against them.
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Triple-stream retrieval (BM25 keyword, vector embeddings, knowledge-graph traversal) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion on the iii engine, with SQLite for state and an in-memory vector index, no external database. The economic claim: ~170K tokens/year (~$10) versus ~650K tokens...
A multi-stage npm supply chain worm dubbed SANDWORM_MODE deploys rogue MCP servers into configurations of Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code Continue, and Windsurf. At least 19 typosquatted packages harvest npm/GitHub tokens, SSH keys, and cloud credentials, then pro...
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...
affaan-m/ECC (36.3k forks, MIT) bundles 67 agents, 284 skills, 94 legacy command shims, and "instincts", patterns learned from prior sessions with confidence scores that auto-recall when relevant, plus a .ecc/memory/ markdown vault that's explicitly cross-harness, so context s...
Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI is Apache-2.0 C#/.NET giving agents read/write control over .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx with no Microsoft Office install, no external dependencies, and no .NET runtime at execution time (GitHub). Its differentiator over python-docx-style libraries is a native f...
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