Announced Oct 27 at IBM TechXchange, Vault ties each agent to an IBM Agent Identity record (owner, lifecycle, granted authority) and hands it short-lived, least-privilege credentials, revoking the session in real time if the agent tries something outside its permissions. Vault's agent model caps access by the human's policy, an agent ceiling policy, and per-task authorization requests (HashiCorp).
Released Oct 26, experimental createSteering() plugs into generateText , streamText and ToolLoopAgent , and steer(message) slips a user message in once the current step and its tools finish, resolving to delivered or a reason like finished or aborted . It never interrupts a running tool and doesn't work across processes yet; the same patch adds an onStepError callback for steps that fail before producing a result…
Together AI's skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, trending on GitHub this week, deals three of fifty themes, then runs sloplint at eight widths to flag tells like eyebrows over every heading or a colored word in the headline, with a fresh context subagent reviewing last. Install with npx skills add nutlope/hallmark g , or use /hallmark audit ./index.html to just get a report on an existing page…
In the Agents Window browser (Cursor 3.24.18+), click Annotate or press Cmd+Shift+D , then pick elements, box in an area, edit text or CSS in place, or dictate a note; each note sends the agent element details, a cropped screenshot and, in React, Vue and Svelte, the component stack. It only works on apps you run in Cursor's built in browser, and batched notes stay tied to the page you wrote them on (docs)…
The Information reported Oct 27 that OpenAI intends to buy Google's tensor processing units, with no terms, volumes or timeline disclosed, and OpenAI is already hiring engineers to optimize its frontier models for TPU training and inference. It lands a week after OpenAI put its models on Google Cloud and the same day Google said Oracle will offer TPUs through its cloud (The Next Web)…
Announced Oct 27 through GSA's OneGov program, the discount covers Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API for federal, state, local and tribal buyers, with cloud provider purchases following in coming months. It replaces the $1 per user deal expiring Oct 31 and mirrors OpenAI's 50% token based OneGov deal from earlier this month (GSA)…
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