Agents and tooling
Coding agents and editors, agent SDKs and the protocols they speak, evaluation and observability, serving engines and local inference.
On the register
- A2A after 1.0 watching
- AGENTS.md as the shared instruction file watching
- Agent Client Protocol in editors watching
- Agent Skills as a cross-tool format watching
- Agent frameworks consolidating watching
- Agent identity in directories and OAuth watching
- Agent payment and checkout protocols competing watching
- Agents reviewing and approving pull requests watching
- Assistant and coding plan ladders watching
- Audit access to agent sessions watching
- Bills of materials for models and datasets watching
- Cloudflare's Accountable crawler designation watching
- Coding tools changing owner watching
- Content Credentials in capture and display watching
- Gateways between agents and the model API watching
- Google's coding agents consolidating watching
- Hosted runtimes that run an agent's sessions watching
- MCP SDK tiering watching
- MCP's 2026-07-28 revision and its deprecation clock watching
- Machine-readable AI usage preferences watching
- Machine-readable marking of generated content watching
- Official MCP extensions reaching hosts watching
- Paying for crawled content watching
- Per-conversation and per-action pricing for agents watching
- Permission modes that let agents act without a prompt watching
- Plans moving from seats to usage watching
- Plugin marketplaces for coding agents watching
- Search and retrieval layers sold to agents watching
- Signed requests from agents on the open web watching
- Tools choosing the model per task watching
- Vendors retiring hosted evaluation platforms watching
- Voice in coding agents watching
- WebMCP as a browser standard watching
- Weight storage and formats on Hugging Face watching
- Worktree isolation in coding agents watching
- llms.txt files on the open web watching
Everything filed here
- 2026-09-30 Meta adds business tools to Muse and launches Muse for Small Business · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-30 OpenAI launches dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers · Agents and tooling · 2 sources
- 2026-09-29 Cognition says Devin is 15 to 70 percent cheaper to use, depending on mode. · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-28 Claude Marketplace lists over 2,000 connectors and plugins, plus agents and partners · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-27 Claude Code 2.1.280 sets Opus 5.5 as the default Opus model, with a 1M-token window · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-26 Perplexity's Portable Computer reaches AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-25 GitHub Copilot moves to a global default-enablement policy from October 22 · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-25 GitHub adds a proof-of-presence check before high-impact account actions · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-25 Adobe brings Photoshop and Firefly into Gemini, adds Acrobat to its Claude plugin · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-25 GitHub Security Lab open-sources an autonomous fuzzing pipeline · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-25 Meta opens pre-orders for Ray-Ban Meta Audio, says Muse AI is coming to glasses · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-25 Docker adds cloud sandboxes so coding agents run off the laptop · Agents and tooling · 2 sources
- 2026-09-24 GitHub Copilot app adds local sandboxing in public preview · Agents and tooling · 1 source
- 2026-09-22 GitHub Copilot weekly release rolls out tiered auto model selection · Agents and tooling · 1 source