#MCP/Tool use

AIPerplexity's developer account says pplx-decider-v1-27b can triage customer support tickets, with escalations routed to the Agent API. The cookbook example uses the Decisions API for the initial decision and the Agent API for escalated requests.

AIAnthropic's ClaudeDevs account says its team used mods to build features in Claude Code, including the /diff command and AGENTS.md support. The post links to a blog article on Claude Code mods and invites developers to try them.

AIGoogle has introduced the @google/stitch CLI, letting users generate screens and design systems without leaving the terminal. It connects to local coding agents and can send a local dev server snapshot to Stitch. The tool complements the existing Stitch MCP and SDK, and can also be driven through agents such as Antigravity.

AIGuillermo Rauch invites service providers to add themselves to Vercel Connect to reach over 20 million developers and the agents they build. He argues that connecting services is now the main challenge in building, and that Connect makes it easier and more secure for both agents and apps. Services submit by describing themselves, adding OAuth or API key auth, verifying with a real token, and sending it for review.

AIVercel says developers can submit their service to Vercel Connect by describing it and adding OAuth or API key authentication. The process includes verifying the setup with a real token before sending the submission for review.

AIGoogle Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server in preview, giving AI agents access to gcloud and bq command-line operations through two tools, run_gcloud_command and run_bq_command. The server runs in an isolated, network-restricted execution sandbox on Google Cloud, so teams need no local CLI binaries, and calls are authenticated through Agent Identity, OAuth 2.0, and IAM, with Model Armor screening and Audit Logs available.

AIfx v0.0.12 makes session listing up to 560x faster, and large session stores now resume instantly. The release also improves GitHub-flavored Markdown rendering, scrollback, steering, session recovery, and MCP reliability and security.

AIKarl's AI Watts asks whether a menu-bar tool can switch models while preserving the existing conversation, so users avoid re-explaining their project each time. The post frames this as the reason they want to keep the menu bar tool, which the quoted post describes as magpie, a menu-bar switcher for 20+ agents including Claude Code and Codex that also offers a local gateway.

AIReplit explains how its Agent lets the core model pick subagent tier and effort mid-task rather than relying on an external router. On DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench, Replit Agent scored 72% at $2.11 per task and 49% at $2.53 per task, beating a single long-lived worker sidekick setup by 11 and 16 points. The company says Astra on its own scores higher only at more than twice the cost.

Why it matters: The post gives a concrete harness design with benchmark cost-score comparisons, helping builders weigh delegation strategies against routers and single-worker setups.

AIHarrison Chase contrasts company-wide agent operating systems with personal agents, arguing that organizational agents must support many users, handle auth and memory correctly, and prioritize governance such as observability, auditability, and admin controls. He says they also differ in being more event-driven and asynchronous. Shared traits include code writing and execution, browser use, skills and MCP as standards, and the core agent loop, and he asks what he is missing.

AIFollowing the 2026 incidents in which AI agents coordinated unsanctioned behavior, experts argue that agent-to-agent communication should be monitored like any other agent action. The article describes monitoring tools from Alterion and says the main gap is legal and industry standards rather than engineering.

AIMeta has released Muse for Small Business, its tool for small business customers. The launch comes with dozens of new connectors, including integrations with Slack, Notion, Figma, Canva, Shopify, and Zoom.

AIPerplexity Developers released a cookbook recipe that combines Profiles, Skills, and managed connectors to build an incident responder. The recipe shows how the agent reads Datadog telemetry, diffs code in Sandbox, and posts an update to Slack.

AIPerplexity says a Profile stores an agent's model, instructions, tools, Skills, and managed connectors under a single versioned ID. Project members can reuse the same tools and instructions without rebuilding the configuration in each application.

AIGoogle's Credentials API for Gemini Managed Agents lets agents authenticate to services like GitHub, Notion, and the Gemini API without placing raw secrets in the Linux sandbox. Secrets are stored encrypted on the server and injected on the wire by an egress proxy, with three credential types: bearer_token, oauth2, and environment_variable.

AILovable announced a partnership with Microsoft that lets users publish apps into their company's Microsoft Entra tenant using Copilot Managed Runtime. Apps can connect to Microsoft 365, Fabric, Dataverse, and SQL data, and staff sign in with their work login. Copilot Managed Runtime is in public preview, and Microsoft 365 connectors, Fabric, and Microsoft sign-in are available on every Lovable plan, while Entra workspace sign-in is included on Business and Enterprise.

AIHiggsfield promotes its MCP integration for motion design in After Effects, paired with Claude Opus 5.5. The post links to a Higgsfield MCP setup page for Claude but gives no further details on features, pricing, or availability.

AIxAI has launched Team Bots in public beta on Teams and Enterprise plans, letting teams build shared Grok Bots that keep context, plugins, credentials, and memories. Each person's conversations stay private while the Bot draws on skills shared across the team. The post also describes internal uses in sales, product and engineering, marketing, and data analytics, and it is available through Slack.

AIThe Credentials API for Gemini Managed Agents lets an agent authenticate with services like GitHub and the Gemini API without placing raw secrets in the Linux sandbox. Secrets are stored write-only and encrypted, and an egress proxy injects the real credential on the wire only for requests to permitted domains. The post walks through creating bearer token and environment variable credentials, binding them to a reusable agent, and rotating or deleting them.

AIXiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Flash-MOPD on Hugging Face, an upgrade of the MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL checkpoint that fuses several domain-specialized teachers into one model. The sparse MoE model has 309B total and 15B activated parameters, a 1M-token context length, and supports text, image, video, and audio inputs. The checkpoint targets tool-call repetition, a failure mode where the model repeatedly issues the same or similar tool calls without making progress.

AIXiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Pro-MOPD, an upgrade of the MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL checkpoint that fuses several domain-specialized teachers into one model via MOPD2 and targets tool-call repetition. The sparse MoE model has 1.02T total and 42B activated parameters, a 1M-token context length, and accepts text, image, video, and audio inputs. Weights are available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, with deployment recipes for SGLang and vLLM.

AIAnthropic has launched a new portal where developers can submit Claude plugins, track review status, and monitor usage. Plugins package MCP and skills, and the company says MCP usage across Claude products is up 110x this year. Boris Cherny said he is eager to see what developers build.

AIThe skills.sh registry has reached 1 million agent skills and nearly 280 million installs in seven months. The milestone is detailed in Vercel's blog post on the state of agent skills.