#MCP/Tool use

AIClaude Tag in Slack can now use users' personal connectors, such as Drive, Salesforce, and warehouse access, within channels. The author says Tag writes over 50% of their PRs daily and handles nearly all their data analysis and many product bug fixes. The personal connector feature is available on Teams today and Enterprise next week.

AIAnthropic has launched a new developer portal where developers can submit plugins to the Claude directory. Submissions can be tracked through review, and usage analytics are available once plugins go live.

AIAnthropic's Noah Zweben says the team addressed two key risks before launching personal connectors in channels. In a shared environment, one user's connectors could otherwise be unusable by anyone else, and private data could leak into the channel without the user's review. Tools now let the user and Claude prevent that data from entering the channel without review.

AIMicrosoft Foundry expands its agent platform with voice agents in public preview, long-running resilience for hosted agents, and tools for evaluating production agents. The post also says GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available in Foundry. Agent optimizer, Insights, and Rubric evaluator are described as tools for continuous improvement, with some reaching general availability later this month.

Why it matters: The post shows how Foundry combines model choice, voice agents, long-running resilience, and production evaluation into one agent workflow, with a customer example.

AIMicrosoft announced general availability of Routines in Foundry Agent Service, a managed way to run agents on a timer, on a recurring schedule, or in response to GitHub issue events and new Microsoft Teams channel messages. Routines keep the trigger, agent action, identity, connections, and run history in the Foundry project, and each routine can run under the creator's identity or the agent's own Microsoft Entra ID identity. A preview reminder tool lets a Hosted Agent schedule itself to resume later on the same conversation.

Why it matters: The post explains how scheduled, event-based, and self-reminding agent runs are managed in one place, along with the creator versus agent identity choice for unattended tasks.

AISimon Willison had a voice conversation with his blog's Datasette backup through datasette-mcp, which is now accessible from the ChatGPT iPhone app. The quoted post says ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins and run on GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile.

AIGoogle Cloud API Gateway now acts as a remote MCP server in Public Preview, making REST operations in an annotated OpenAPI 3.0.x or 3.1.x spec available as agent-ready MCP tools. Existing JWT or API-key authentication, quotas, and logging apply to MCP calls, so teams do not need a separate MCP server. Current limits include no support for OpenAPI 2.0, a maximum of 1,000 tools per gateway, and no MCP and model routing in the same API config.

Why it matters: The post shows how an existing OpenAPI spec becomes agent-callable MCP tools, with the same auth and quota policies applied, which helps teams avoid building a separate MCP server.

AIChatGPT Voice can now use plugins such as email, calendar, and Slack, and it can be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. It is also available in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile for creating docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets by voice, rolling out globally in the latest app version.

Why it matters: The quoted OpenAI post names the new voice tool access, supported models, and Work integration, showing how voice now acts across workflows.

AIGoogle is rolling out a new wave of Connected Apps to Gemini, letting users link tools such as Airtable, Linear, monday.com, Adobe, Webflow, Peloton and SeatGeek directly in the chat. The apps span productivity, creativity and lifestyle categories, and can be connected in Gemini settings or invoked by typing @ mention in a chat.

AIComfy Router is now live on the Comfy Developer Platform, giving developers one API to call frontier image, video, 3D, and audio models. Day one models include Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2, Kling, and Black Forest Labs, and the provider for each job is selectable. Requests fail rather than silently switching providers, and inputs and outputs are deleted after 24 hours.

Why it matters: The post shows how one API key and a provider parameter let developers swap routes for media models without rewriting calls, with failed requests reporting the provider.

AISierra says its platform makes enterprise AI agents visible and editable, with journeys, policies, and actions viewable in Agent Studio and testable through Simulations and Experiments before rollout. Customers can export agent logic in a portable structured format, access conversation logs and performance data through export APIs, and manage the agent's code in a Git repository. Sierra agents also connect to existing systems through MCP, REST, GraphQL, or custom integrations.

AIGranola announces that its connector is now live in the Muse app, which the post presents as a new integration. Alexandr Wang separately says Notion and Granola connectors are now available and easy to use from the Mac app.

AIChatGPT now supports connecting multiple accounts to most plugins, so users can bring work and personal context into one conversation. Connections are made in the plugin directory at Developers need no changes, though adding a profile tool to their MCP server lets ChatGPT label each account.

AIGitHub's latest podcast episode examines five common AI hot takes, including whether developers must still read AI-generated code. It argues review effort should match risk, and that Skills and MCP solve different problems. It also says retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remains useful and works alongside agents, skills, and MCP.

AIOpenAI launched 47 community-built plugins for legal work in ChatGPT, created by legal experts from LegalQuants, Skills.law, and LECG rather than white-labeled by OpenAI. The plugins are already live in the ChatGPT plugin store, alongside 26 partner-built plugins from companies including Thomson Reuters, Harvey, Legora, and iManage.

AIThe United Nations system launched UN System Data Commons, an open-source platform built on Data Commons by Google that integrates siloed global statistics into one AI-ready knowledge graph. Users can query it in natural language, browse by location or theme, and use MCP-enabled AI agents to fetch verified figures and draft charts or reports. The UN plans to add more datasets, aiming to include 80% of UN system statistical datasets by 2027.

AIGoogle AI Studio announced that Speakeasy is open sourcing its OpenAPI client generation suite under AGPLv3, following a May 2026 vendor shutdown that disrupted Google's SDK pipeline. The suite covers SDK generation for 7 languages, an agent-native CLI generator, and a documentation MCP server generator. Google says its pipeline now serves six targets with roughly one engineer maintaining it.

AIGoogle AI Studio released antigravity-preview-09-2026, an updated harness for Gemini managed agents, now live in the Interactions API and AI Studio and running on Gemini 3.8 Flash. The release adds a Files API for moving data into and out of the agent's sandbox and a Credentials API that stores secrets encrypted so the model never sees them.

Why it matters: The post shows what changed in the agent harness and how the new Files and Credentials APIs keep secrets out of the model's context, useful for developers building agents.

AISpeakeasy is open-sourcing its full OpenAPI client suite under the AGPLv3 license, including generators for seven languages (Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby), an agent-native CLI generator, and a documentation MCP server generator. Google said the move followed the May 2026 shutdown of the SDK generation provider it had been using, which it cited as evidence that closed-source generators pose platform risk. Google's new Google GenAI SDKs for the Interactions, Agents, and Webhooks APIs were built with this pipeline across six targets.

AIBaseten has launched Hosted Tools, starting with Baseten Grounded Inference, a server-side web search capability for models hosted on Baseten. Developers enable it by adding a hosted search tool to a Messages, Chat Completions, or Responses request, and the platform runs the search loop with partners Exa, Keenable, Parallel, and You.com. In Baseten's benchmarks, agents using the hosted tools saw a 15% reduction in end-to-end latency compared with client-side tools, and the feature is in playground preview with 25 RPM rate limits and $2 of free credits.

AIGoogle has put Agent Anomaly Detection into Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a reasoning-based audit layer that reviews agent reasoning traces, tool calls, and execution flow to flag behavioral anomalies and policy violations. It runs asynchronously without adding runtime latency and publishes findings to Security Command Center. The preview requires ADK 1.2 or later.

AIGoogle AI Studio released Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with an Extended Thinking variant, and made it available through the Live API. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, released last month, supports 85+ languages with a reported 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming Word Error Rate, and accepts a custom vocabulary of up to 1,000 terms. Live API audio pricing is listed at $0.005/min for input and $0.018/min for output.

Why it matters: The post lists concrete Live API capabilities, per-minute audio pricing, and transcription accuracy figures, helping developers weigh voice agent options against their own cascaded pipelines.

AILovable and Salesforce are working together so apps and agents built with Lovable can read and write Salesforce data through Headless 360, using each user's own Salesforce permissions. Teams can publish read-only apps into Salesforce, mention @Lovable in Slack to build apps, and install agents into a Slack workspace.

AIMiniMax Design lets a single brief drive a full production workflow on one canvas, with the Astra agent working in Blender through an official connector to build the scene and camera direction. The final video is generated with MiniMax H3 from the same canvas, with outputs syncing directly onto the canvas.

AIHailuo AI promotes bringing AI tools into professional 3D production workflows. A quoted post from @akiyoshisan describes connecting MiniMax Design, using GPT-6 Astra, to Blender via MCP for direct 3D creation. The creator says this lets 3D representation in Blender be built into an AI production flow rather than relying on MiniMax Design alone.

AIOllama's cloud models are now available to Amp users through Amp's new bring-your-own-key (BYOK) model routing. Amp says BYOK carries no usage limits or fees, letting users build remote agents controllable from anywhere.