September’s VS Code Copilot releases (1.136–1.140) add preview automations that run agent tasks hourly/daily/weekly, agent merge that works review feedback, failed checks, and conflicts toward merge, and PR creation from Copilot, Claude, or Codex sessions—plus Dev Container sessions from the Agents window.
OpenAI’s MCP Extensions let plugins hook into ChatGPT surfaces—sidebar apps, conversation panels, file viewers/editors, composer mentions, deep links, and rich forms—via TypeScript/Python SDKs; Bits & Bolts is the kitchen sink demo, with Canva, Figma, and Adobe already shipping examples. Web extensions are coming soon to Free/Go; composer mentions stay desktop only…
Anthropic’s Code Review (research preview, Team/Enterprise) dispatches multi agent reviewers on GitHub PRs—parallel bug hunt, false positive filtering, severity ranking—then posts an overview plus inline comments; it never approves. Internally, substantive PR comments rose from 16% to 54%; reviews average $15–25 in token usage…
Earendil’s open source Pi coding agent hit 1.0 with MCP support—after creator Mario Zechner once dismissed the protocol—plus Codemode sandboxing, deferred tool loading, and a separate Pi Durable layer for long running multi conversation agents on SQLite/JSONL…
Berlin’s Restate (Apache Flink co creators) closed a $20M Series A led by Singular to scale durable execution for long running AI agents—its own distributed log resumes after crashes without an external DB. Replit already runs Replit Agent on it; the raise puts Restate up against Temporal…
Grok Build’s Agent Dashboard puts every coding session on one screen so you can peek, reply, answer approvals, and dispatch new agents in parallel—including into fresh git worktrees. Open it with grok dashboard or /dashboard ( Ctrl+\ ) from any session…
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