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Across v4.22 to v4.24 on August 27 and 28: toolCallInvocations as a first-class measure, dashboard and widget export in the core S3 data export, evaluator version restore, MCP exposure of v4 migration data (GitHub). v4.24.0 carries a breaking change requiring LANGFUSE_AI_PROVIDER to be set rather than silently defaulting to Bedrock. If you track agent behavior rather than token spend, per-tool invocation counts were the missing metric.
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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 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...
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...
GitHub issue openai/codex#37674 documents that Codex CLI 0.147.0 running GPT-5.6-Sol on Amazon Bedrock cannot pass prompt_cache_options or prompt_cache_breakpoint, so every request performs a cache write instead of a read. August 5-8 production logs: 3,656 requests, 171.94M ca...
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 .github/workflows directory holds bump-plugin-shas.yml, owner-liveness-sweep.yml, validate-plugins.yml and close-external-prs.yml, and the commit history shows them doing real work (GitHub). An August 19 commit added a deterministic static pin check for auto-exec MCP launc...
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