developer-tools
What does Claude Code 2.1.292 change about subagent effort and local MCP?
Claude Code 2.1.292 adds Agent-tool effort levels and defaults local stdio MCP negotiation to protocol 2026-07-28, with a legacy opt-out.
Where does Cursor Remote Control run the agent loop?
Cursor's changelog says Remote Control keeps agents local, while its mobile docs say the agent loop is in the cloud and tools stay local.
AI coding agent CLI pricing and usage limits, October 2026
Paid tiers start at ₹649/month in India or $10/month for Copilot Pro; heavy-use tiers reach $100–$500/month. Cursor publishes pools, not dollar allowances.
How ASC CLI 5.12.0 adds iPhone Duo and Asset Library workflows for agents
ASC CLI 5.12.0 adds iPhone Duo screenshot and preview validation alongside Asset Library image uploads and placements for automated App Store publishing.
Synara 1.0.0 moves Oh My Pi onto the stable app
Synara 1.0.0 puts Oh My Pi, Inbox, provider accounts, handoffs, and Auto-fix CI in Stable; Hubs and Tasks stay in Beta.
Devin stores what it learned in a git repo, then dreams on it
Devin stores cross-session memory in a Git repo with a MEMORY.md index, rejects stale concurrent writes, and runs a daily dreaming pass to consolidate notes.
How Cursor bills Auto after the split into Cost, Balance, and Intelligence
All Cursor Auto modes bill at the routed model's list price; eligible third-party routes add $0.25 per million tokens on Teams and Enterprise.
What does a ChatGPT plan meter when Codex and Work share it?
ChatGPT Work and Codex share one agentic allowance, with local and cloud usage, weekly limits, and credits counted by model and task.
What Claude Code plan mode, auto mode, and bypass mode still allow
Plan mode blocks edits until approval, auto mode classifies risky actions, and bypass still prompts or denies six action classes.
Which instruction file do Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI load?
Claude Code uses CLAUDE.md before AGENTS.md; Codex uses AGENTS.md; Cursor loads root AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md; Gemini CLI uses GEMINI.md.
MCP, A2A, and the two protocols called ACP, explained
MCP connects agents to tools, A2A connects agents to agents, and ACP names either Zed's editor protocol or IBM's archived protocol.
AXI is ten rules for CLIs that agents run
AXI defines ten design principles for agent-run CLIs across four official tools: gh-axi, chrome-devtools-axi, lavish-axi, and quota-axi.
Lavish keeps the HTML and sends the pointing back to the agent
Lavish Editor pairs a local HTML file with a browser review UI, returning element and text annotations to a polling agent loop without cloud servers.
Pi 1.0.4 lets you pick MCP tools with a pattern
Pi 1.0.4 lets --tools and --exclude-tools match MCP tools with *, adds --no-mcp, and keeps MCP tools unless a pattern starts with mcp__.
The /kun skill downloads its instructions from GitHub on every run
The /kun skill downloads a Node script from GitHub main on each invocation, caches root docs locally, then reads ENTRY.md to answer.
Copilot CLI 1.0.92 keeps ambient GITHUB_TOKEN out of sandboxed shells
Copilot CLI 1.0.92 strips ambient GITHUB_TOKEN from sandboxed shells while Git can use masked credentials when sandbox authentication is enabled.
MCP TypeScript SDK 2.3.1 checks token audience on the legacy server
MCP TypeScript SDK 2.3.1 adds expectedResource to server-legacy, rejecting mismatched or missing audiences with HTTP 401 invalid_token.
How pstack stacks agent-built pull requests with gh or Origin
pstack's autopilot-stack lets workers build PRs in parallel while one coordinator owns the linear stack, using gh or Origin without requiring Graphite.
Pi Durable checkpoints the turn, then resumes it
Pi Durable commits model and tool work to storage, then resumes unfinished tasks after a process restart.
LangGraph 1.2.13 keeps an old checkpoint update out of other branches
LangGraph 1.2.13 forks superseded checkpoints, isolates older update_state writes, preserves DeltaChannel counters, and filters answered get_state interrupts.