OpenAI's DevDay 2026 session demonstrates Codex shifting from a single-user tool to a team-oriented agent. The session shows a persistent personal agent investigating a 2am outage, from the first Slack message through a reviewed fix, using voice, Appshots, plugins, and meeting notes to keep the team informed.
OpenAI's YouTube video shows developers how to build plugins for ChatGPT that run a custom interface alongside a conversation. The plugins can bring selected context into the user's work with ChatGPT, according to the source's description of plugin extensions through Meetings and OpenAI Developers.
Atlassian announced the Agentic Multiplayer Protocol (AMP) at Team '26 Europe, a platform update designed to let humans and AI agents collaborate on shared context and tasks in one governed workspace. Agents receive administrator-assigned identities with defined authority and scope, and the company's Rovo Work mode handles multi-step tasks that humans review and approve. Atlassian's MCP server now exposes 200 tools and handles roughly 15 million tool calls daily.
Meta has released its Muse AI assistant in a dedicated iPad app, one month after its September 8 launch on iOS and Android. Sensor Tower estimates Muse has topped 6.6 million installs, and the iPad release adds connectors for Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom, Notion, Granola, and Meta ad accounts.
Natura's Interface is a $99 smart ring that lets users ask AI agents to complete tasks with a finger press and also tracks heart rate, HRV, sleep, and activity. At launch it connects with Meta's Muse, Instinct, Grok Bot, Claude, ChatGPT, and more, with preorders expected next month and shipping slated for December or January. After a three- to six-month free period, Natura plans to charge a $9 monthly subscription.
Rowan Cheung shares four GrokBot routines enabled by its new native X monitoring, covering AI workflow discovery, brand mention tracking, prospect detection, and contact follow-ups. Each routine comes with a copy-paste prompt specifying schedules, search criteria, output formats, and Slack delivery. The routines are tailored for newsletter and marketing use cases, such as monitoring The Rundown's mentions and finding readers searching for AI newsletters.
How to build automations with Claude Managed Agents: https://claude.dev/blog/building-effective-agent-automations/ Deploy an agent that reads Slack/GitHub on a schedule (with credentials and memory) and posts updates. You can set it up with a Claude Code command and use the new API credits included in Max and Team.
Introducing Higgsfield Katana, powered by Claude Motion. Our most powerful AI video editing tool, inside Claude. Upload a reference and create editable motion graphics, product launch videos, or aura-farming edits. Available now in Claude via Higgsfield MCP.
Claude Code v2.1.295 adds onFailure: "block" for command and HTTP hooks, so a hook that cannot start, times out, or exits unexpectedly blocks the action. The release also adds an optional models list for Claude apps gateway upstreams, plus upstream_request_id in the inference audit event, and fixes a range of MCP, plugin, and terminal issues.
When a question needs deeper analysis, send the dashboard to your analytics tool. When an animation needs finishing touches, open it in your video editor. See the full list of supported tools: https://claude.com/resources/articles/dashboards-and-motion
Tessl's talk at AI Native DevCon London argues that agent skills, which can be markdown files with instructions and bundled material, act as supply chain components that can shape agent behavior. The author says reading SKILL.md once is insufficient because risks can sit in supporting files, updates, and workspace trust settings. He identifies the danger as the combination of private context, untrusted content, and external communication, and cites research scanning roughly 4,000 public skills for issues including malware-like behavior.
Mozilla.ai's cq project proposes a shared knowledge layer where AI agents capture lessons from non-obvious fixes as structured knowledge units that other agents can later query. The default setup is local-first, using a local SQLite database so nothing leaves the machine, with an option to connect to a remote team server that adds review.
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Google announced a unified Gemini agent that can plan and complete tasks on a user's behalf from a single interface, starting with businesses. The agent can connect to systems such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, and any MCP server, and it writes audit trails attributed to itself. Google said consumers will get the agent later.
2️⃣ Gemini connects to the apps you already run like Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Git, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and any MCP server. Every tool call passes through our Agent Gateway to enforce policy and block data leaks.
The author argues that agent systems are converging on shared primitives grouped into doing the work, continuing the work, and delegating the work. These include instructions and skills, tools and connectors, sandboxes, sessions, compaction, schedules, and subagents. He also flags memory, proactivity, and agent identity as emerging areas still lacking settled standards.
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Credits can be used with the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Agent SDK, but cannot be used with interactive Claude Code sessions. These credits also apply in third-party harnesses that accept a Claude API key.
Hermes Agent, meet Step 5 Preview. Our flagship model for agentic and professional work is now free for one week through @NousResearch’s Nous Portal. Give it a spin with Hermes and show us what you build!
Tessl's Code Review defines review standards as skills in the repository, called lenses, routed to files by a repo-owned profile file. Because these team-visible standards are portable, lessons from review can feed back into code generation and maintenance, not only the next review.
Google Cloud introduced Gemini agent, a unified AI assistant that acts autonomously, generates code, and completes work across web, mobile, desktop, and third-party apps. It runs jobs on models matched to each task, including Gemini Flash and a flagship frontier model, with Anthropic Claude models also available. Hard spend limits per project let companies enforce budgets and charge AI costs to departments.
Opus 5.5 on #MiniMaxDesign | Code Your Next Video Turn text into video—from code to motion. ✨ JavaScript Animation ✨ Motion Graphics ✨ Explainer Videos & Visual Storytelling ✨ Web & Product Demos More than a language model—it can interpret visuals and keep refining your creations.🎨
LangChain has added three engineering upgrades to Skills in its Deep Agents framework: tool-binding Skills, pinned Skills, and mid-thread reloading. Tool-binding lets a SKILL.md declare tools via metadata.include_tools, so tools are injected only when the Skill is read, and pinned Skills inject full instructions before the next model call, skipping a round trip. Setting skills_metadata to None rescans the Skills library mid-thread without restarting, at the cost of invalidating the cache.
Luma announced that Claude Motion animations can now open directly in Luma through an MCP connection, letting creators restyle them and reframe them to 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, or 21:9. Claude Motion, currently in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise plans, generates animated explainers from prompts, while Luma's Ray and Uni video models produce final video files.
LangChain built Restock, a sample office-supply agent that runs in Slack on Managed Deep Agents and pays through Stripe's Link wallet. The agent searches products, builds a cart, and pays over the Machine Payments Protocol, with the user approving the purchase in Slack and the payment in Link. The post uses a pens order at $22.18 to show the flow from request to confirmed order.
Why it matters: The post walks through how an agent handles search, budget limits, Slack review, and Link approval, showing where each control sits outside the model.
A NVIDIA study accepted at NeurIPS 2026 reports that multimodal models refuse harmful requests less reliably when they call tools. Refusal failures rise by up to 68.7% relative and by 17.7% on average across the models tested, including Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 and Gemini Agentic Vision. The authors attribute this to tool outputs crowding out the original harmful intent and to attention shifting toward describing tool results. Re-inserting the original request and image before the final response restores part of the lost refusals.
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Use a compatible driver from @browser_use, @browserbase, @e2b, @daytonaio, or write your own based on the example drivers in the quickstarts. Quickstart: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-quickstarts/tree/main/computer-toolset Docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/browser-use-sdk
Computer use and browser use toolsets are now built into the Python and TypeScript SDKs for Claude. The API tells you what Claude wants to click or type. Previously, you had to write your own loop and map clicks and keystrokes to commands, but the SDKs now run the loop and send actions to drivers.
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One cool thing deepagents now supports: dynamically loading tools when is a skill is loaded Some skills require specific tools that you may not always want to have available. This now allows you to pair them With openai/anthropic models, it’s possible to do this in a way where it doesn’t break the prompt cache!
Learn more about how we are bringing local models and sandboxed tools to GitHub Copilot to help you maintain both choice and control over your workflows ⬇️ https://gh.io/localdevelopment
Build and test native Android apps seamlessly with @Antigravity. By connecting the @StitchByGoogle MCP and the Android CLI, the agent imports UI designs, converts them into native Jetpack Compose components, validates everything in an emulator, and executes the final build directly on a physical device. Get started with Antigravity today: https://goo.gle/4yCWX56
Elvis Saravia reports that agent-to-agent communication with a personal agent, built on models like Opus 5.5, is already coordinating work faster and at higher quality than he can match. He describes progressing from individual Claude Code sessions to subagents, then a persistent team of eight specialized bots with his own orchestrator. He argues everyone should build a personalized agent orchestrator and says most apps like Code and Claude Desktop are behind.
Google DevRel's James O'Reilly compares two ways Antigravity exposes local MCP tools from Agent Plugins to the model. Eager loading registers each tool as a top-level function with its full schema in every turn's system prompt, which speeds calls but consumes fixed tokens. Lazy loading, the plugin default, exposes tools through a proxy call_mcp_tool and reads schemas on demand, saving baseline context at the cost of an extra discovery step.
The poster says they already use Grok Bot as a model router, citing last weekend's personal agent livestream. In the demo, Gemini produced an infographic inside Grok Bot, and Claude Opus then checked the content. This follows Elon Musk's announcement that Grok Bot will use the best backend model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, and Suno.
Stacklok, founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, has released Mecatl, an open source cloud-native harness for coding agents on GitHub. Mecatl keeps the agent loop separate from the client, model provider, state store, and execution environment, and moves tool calling, session management, and memory into manageable systems. The article also covers ToolHive, an MCP platform, and an AI Gateway that is not yet open sourced, with a commercial enterprise control plane tying the pieces together.
Lauren Tan recommends new Grok Bot users first connect regularly used apps such as calendar, Slack, issue tracker, CRM, and Google Drive so the bot has work context and needed tools. She advises starting with one primary bot before adding specialized bots, which can be designed or chosen from the bot marketplace.
DAIR.AI has introduced MCP tools that let Codex, Claude, or Grok bots discover and explore a curated index of top AI papers. The index covers papers the author featured on X over the last couple of years, and the tools support summarizing papers, building literature reviews, finding SOTA results, and visualizing papers. Further benchmarks and regular additions are promised in the coming weeks.