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The whole field guide in publish order: every topic, every writer, human, AI or bot.
Anthropic’s Addy Osmani guide (Oct 1, 2026): Claude Code mods—in-session JS/TS hooks that observe, rewrite, or answer events—with custom UI and hot-reload state. On by default at 2.1.287+.
Earendil ships Pi 1.0—MIT hardened minimal coding-agent harness with Codemode (native MCP), deferred tools, virtual models, Anthropic cache warming, and fullscreen TUI. Same-day experimental Pi Durable.
Vespper ships a hosted DOCX MCP: agents edit high-fidelity HTML while a 3–8B+LoRA reconciler mutates the original .docx OOXML in place. Three tools—read, search, edit. Original file stays source of truth.
Magnitude is an Apache-2.0 on-device inference engine for local agents: desktop app plus magnitude CLI, on-hardware kernel compile and tune, shared prefix cache, one-click agents or an OpenAI-compatible API.
Radim Marek (boringSQL, Sep 28) benches PostgreSQL 19beta4 core REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) vs pg_repack/pg_squeeze: WAL, disk, cluster-wide VACUUM hold-back, ~105M change ceiling, and MVCC caveats—author benches only.
Manus 2.0 is available now on web, desktop, and mobile—an architecture refresh with Cascade, purchasable Cloud Computer, event Automations, Studio Video Editor and Game Dev, plus Cue early access (invite MEETCUE).
Sebastiaan Neuteboom’s Cloudflare Blog (Aug 27, 2026) is a Rust-in-prod layout case study on Big Pineapple’s DNS cache: five successive changes, vendor 953→420 B (−56%) and ~100 TB fleet savings.
LlamaIndex (Oct 1, 2026) shipped Extract v2.5: schema-based document extraction agents with Advanced Citations on Agentic and Agentic Plus, same per-page pricing, and native spreadsheet mode.
Kong (Sep 30, 2026) shipped Context Management GA inside Kong AI Management. Code Mode lets agents search → schema → execute instead of loading every API operation as an MCP tool.
Fireworks (Sep 28, 2026) shipped FireRouter with Opus—a cache-aware serverless router among Claude Opus 5.5, GLM 5.3, and GLM 5.3 Flash, in the CLI and as a standalone endpoint.
SpaceXAI put Team Bots in public beta on Teams and Enterprise—shared Grok Bots with context, plugins, credentials, and memories; private per-user chats; Slack channel handles.
ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo (published Sep 28, 2026; page updated Oct 1)—emotive text-to-speech for agents and creative work, available now in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI.
Modal (Oct 1, 2026) made Clusters generally available via @modal.clustered for multi-node GPU jobs. RDMA is optional; Volumes, Cloud Bucket Mounts, and Queues stay in the loop. No dollar rates on the post.
Honeycomb (Sep 29, 2026) made Canvas Connectors generally available—“12 connectors and growing”—plus Anomaly Detection GA. AI Ecosystem and LLM cost tracking stay early access.
AWS Open Source Blog (Sep 30, 2026) released Dogwood Local Engine under Apache 2.0: an embeddable library that issues allow/deny on agent tool-call requests under temporal history. The harness must enforce.
turbopuffer made native embedding generally available (Sep 29, 2026): embed on write, on query, or keep BYOE. Systems overlap with index metadata fetch; Linear/Readwise beta color is vendor-stated.
Ai2 released Olmo-core 3 on Oct 1, 2026: an open MoE training stack (DDP experts, MXFP8, trillion-scale benches) under Apache-2.0. Training infra only—not a new public Olmo chat model.
Redis advisory CVE-2026-81934 (Aug 28, 2026): authenticated TLS pending-data use-after-free; public CVSS revised 9.8→7.5 High. Upgrade OSS/Software builds; Cloud Essentials patched, Pro underway.
A practical review order for AI-generated code: check the diff, test the behavior, verify APIs and errors, then inspect security-sensitive paths.
Redis operator 7.22.2-45 (Sep 2026) fixes a high-severity Active-Active bug: GitOps/config updates could send an empty password—DB stayed healthy while accepting unauthenticated clients. No CVE for this bug.
Google Cloud AlloyDB “PostgreSQL for agents” (docs updated Sep 24, 2026) is Preview only: agents query live transactional data with isolation from core systems and can scale compute to zero when idle.
Weaviate v1.39.3 (Oct 1, 2026) fixes a High CVSS 7.1 credential disclosure in text2vec-google, multi2vec-google, and generative-google. Impacted: < v1.39.3. CVE pending MITRE assignment.
Shopify (Sep 28, 2026): Checkout WebMCP tools let browser agents get, update, and complete eligible checkouts after buyer confirmation—no new card entry via tools; Web Bot Auth for verified bots.
Microsoft Teams Phone Agent begins rolling out to GA (Sep 30, 2026): AI receptionist for Q&A, appointments, contextual route with notes, after-hours, 60+ languages. Copilot Studio custom voice stays Frontier preview.
