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rust-v0.150.1, published August 27, fixes remote compaction ignoring retained images when computing token budget; it now trims older images as needed (GitHub). Sessions passing screenshots to a vision-capable agent were budgeting as though those images cost nothing, which produces a context overflow immediately after a compaction that reported success. Codex is simultaneously running 0.151.0 alphas, with alpha.4 and alpha.5 both cut on August 27.
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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...
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...
AMAP-ML released it August 4 (463 stars, v0.1.3 on August 7) on a strict Manager/Executor/Auditor split where, in its own words, "only results that pass independent verification enter persistent task state" (GitHub). WeaveBench 51.8% → 80.7% completion. OSWorld 2.0 2.8% → 8.3%...
mikehasa/agentacct (547 stars, MIT, Python, pushed August 7) breaks each agent task into work steps: tools used, files changed, tests run, time and tokens spent, across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and others in a local-first dashboard. The no-telemetry positioning is the diff...
b-nnett/codex-subscription-router, created August 16 and already past 200 stars, builds a locally patched copy of the official ChatGPT desktop app and fans its single app-server connection out to one official Codex child process per account through a Go multiplexer, each with...
312 stars and 24 forks within 24 hours of appearing August 11, MIT (GitHub). Notable for targeting three harnesses at once, which puts it in the emerging agent-agnostic UI layer category rather than single-vendor plugin territory. One day old, no releases, no independent verif...
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