Shopify launched Canvas, a desktop site builder where merchants chat with Sidekick while the real theme code renders live—pan, zoom, and test interactivity as files change. Third-party themes, app blocks, and mobile are still out of scope at launch; TechCrunch frames it alongside vibe-coding tools like Lovable and Replit.
Prof. Matthew Schwartz released BootLoops 1.0 (MIT)—an open source, model agnostic harness built with Claude Code for exact quantitative calculations, starting from Feynman integrals and spanning ecology, genetics, economics, and more with domain experts. Anthropic’s Oct 1 guest post covers the workflow; code and docs are at bootloops.ai / GitHub…
Anthropic’s Claude Code 2.1.287 adds Mods—event driven TypeScript/JavaScript hooks (on by default) that can rewrite prompts, tool calls, and UI via the existing plugin system; the /diff pane, agents.md loader, and telemetry now run as mods. Early public mods already include process launching ones, so treat installs like any code with full agent privileges…
Tuskira released an open source, self hosted AI Agent Gateway that sits between coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and LLMs/MCP tools, with profile based access control, call logging, and per call token cost tracking—no Tuskira account required. Source and Docker deploy live at github.com/Tuskira/tusk ai secured gateway…
AWS Strands Labs released Strands Decider 2B—an open source 2B parameter decision model (Qwen3.5 2B torso) that picks among fixed options with calibrated confidence in 115ms on a local GPU, for agent routing, tool selection, and guardrails instead of a full LLM call. Weights, training data, and scripts ship on GitHub/Hugging Face with a strands decider CLI and Strands Harness intervention examples…
Zyte launched a hosted MCP server (mcp.zyte.com) that plugs Zyte API fetch/extract/search and Scrapy Cloud job control into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients. OAuth sign in replaces dropping a permanent API key; there is no separate MCP fee—usage bills to existing Zyte API and Scrapy Cloud…
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