The Agentic AI Foundation (Sept 14) opened the Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA), a 120-minute Linux Foundation exam on MCP architecture, interactions, and security—aligned to the 2026-07-28 spec. It’s the first official MCP credential as Tier 1 SDK downloads near half a billion monthly.
Released this week, Droid 1.0 lets the model write a sandboxed JavaScript Script that runs many tool calls in one request (Factory says it cuts cost 15% on Opus 5.5), trims the base prompt 37%, and ships a @factory/droid sdk for building on the same harness. On Factory's own Terminal Bench 4 runs it beat Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode and Devin on the same models at lower cost, but those numbers are self reported…
Announced Oct 29, Jules keeps running sessions until Nov 11, then goes read only and shuts down Dec 31, with Google bringing its remote background tasks into Antigravity. You can now export settings, env vars, scheduled tasks, memories, setup scripts and full session history to a local folder, while code and PRs stay in GitHub (The Verge)…
Released this week under MIT, the repo packages the MiniMax Code team's SKILL.md skills for things like subagent split checks, small PRs, clean context diff review, context and tool budget audits, and long session handoffs, and it doubles as a plugin marketplace you can add from Claude Code. Most skills work in any agent that reads SKILL.md , though six engineering skills adapted from Google's practices stay under CC BY 3.0…
Released Oct 25 under Apache 2.0 ( pip install hermit harness ), Hermit runs an RL style loop that evolves an external adapter of instructions, skills, memory and tools while the model and harness stay frozen, then deploys it to Codex, Claude Code or Pi or exports it as a native plugin. Its best reported result is 0.795 on CL Bench database exploration versus a 0.580 in context baseline, but the numbers are self reported, mostly single runs, all on GLM 5.3 Flash…
Released Oct 28, it publishes new filesystem, everything, memory, fetch, git and time packages and moves the fetch Docker image to certifi 2026.10.23, which drops two eMudhra roots after the CA's Oct 20 key disclosure. The TypeScript servers trust your own Node.js, so run 24.22.1 or 26.12.1+ (npm won't warn you), and refresh older fetch installs with uvx refresh mcp server fetch…
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