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November 13Friday
  1. GitHub Blog · AI & ML58

    GitHub guide explains how to build agent skills that run across Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot

    GitHub published a practical guide to agent skills, versioned directories centered on a SKILL.md file that describe when and how to perform a repeatable task. The guide uses two examples, Proof Agent for adversarial verification of AI-generated code and Data Forge for a multi-skill data pipeline, to show how skills share a project manifest, reuse one execution path, and place human approval at each phase. It also describes a packaging script that generates client-specific files for Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot from a single skills source.

  2. AWS Machine Learning Blog36

    Building a Daily Dependency Watcher with LangGraph and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search

    The Web Search API in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available, giving agents current web results through a single SigV4-signed API call served from a web index Amazon operates. A walkthrough builds a daily dependency watch as a LangGraph graph that researches npm, PyPI, and container base images in parallel, with date windows, blocklists, and search budgets enforced in code. In testing, the three branches finished in 36 seconds versus 99 seconds run sequentially.

  3. AWS Machine Learning Blog36

    AWS Quick AI-PDLC: Six Agents for AI-Driven Product Development

    AWS Quick introduces AI-PDLC, a framework of six specialized agents—led by an Orchestrator covering Discovery, Prioritize, Working Backwards, Spec Generator, and Designer—that turns scattered enterprise signals from Slack, Jira, Salesforce and SharePoint into a traceable prototype_spec.md. Every phase requires human approval, and the spec can be handed to coding agents like Kiro or Claude Code via the open Agent Client Protocol (ACP).

  4. AWS Machine Learning Blog38

    How DXC Technology built a multi-model AI substrate on Amazon Bedrock

    DXC Technology built the model substrate for its DXC OASIS IT-operations harness on Amazon Bedrock, reaching Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, Meta Llama and open-weight models through one managed interface. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails apply content filtering, PII redaction and denied-topic policies uniformly across every model, while AWS PrivateLink keeps inference traffic inside the customer VPC. DXC OASIS has been generally available since March 2026 and cut resolution time by 95% on average across 56 measured use cases.

  5. AWS Machine Learning Blog36

    Fine-grained access control for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base tools

    AWS shows how to give a shared AI agent per-user document access on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base by exposing search as MCP tools through AgentCore Gateway. A request interceptor injects the verified user's email from the Cognito JWT into userContext, and ACL awareness returns only documents that user may view. A Cedar policy in AgentCore and a resource-based policy on the knowledge base add secondary defenses against spoofed or unauthorized searches.

  6. AWS Machine Learning Blog58

    AWS walks through building cross-organization multi-agent systems with A2A

    AWS published a reference architecture in which a LangChain-based enterprise orchestrator on Amazon ECS calls a Strands Agents-based compliance SaaS agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore over the A2A protocol, with the two sides in separate AWS accounts and no shared secrets. Each side authenticates with tokens from its own Amazon Cognito user pool, and the SaaS agent calls back to an enterprise context agent for account metadata, so the agents act as peers rather than client and server. The system deploys from three Jupyter notebooks that provision five CloudFormation stacks and run an end-to-end test plus seven trust boundary checks.

  7. AWS Machine Learning Blog34

    Migrating to Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base with a coding agent

    AWS added a knowledge base migration guide to the amazon-bedrock skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS, letting a coding agent plan a move from a customer-managed knowledge base to Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base. The agent starts with read-only discovery and a line-by-line reviewed plan, then creates the new knowledge base and data sources alongside the original or writes a migrated IaC template. Managed Knowledge Base raises default quotas to 200 data sources per knowledge base and 10,000 knowledge bases per account per Region, and adds agentic retrieval, AgentCore Gateway integration, and resource-based policies.

  8. Replit Blog65

    Replit Agent adds Link and Visa purchasing plus Google Ads campaign creation

    Replit Agent now has two new jobs: buying business supplies through Link and Visa, and building Google Ads campaigns across Search, YouTube, Display and Discover. In the purchasing flow, a browser subagent navigates the merchant site and prepares checkout, then waits for the owner to approve the final total; shell access and general browsing are disabled during payment and approval checks are enforced in code. Agentic Commerce is available for Core and Pro users starting in the US with one-time purchases only, while Agentic Ads is available for Pro users worldwide.

    Why it matters: Replit Agent now handles purchasing and Google Ads campaigns, with code-enforced approval gates that show how agent spending limits can be designed.

November 12Thursday
  2. LiveKit Blog55

    LiveKit launches Cloud API in open beta so coding agents can manage LiveKit Cloud

    LiveKit released the LiveKit Cloud API in open beta, letting coding agents create and configure projects, manage members and webhooks, and pull transcripts, logs, traces and recordings from agent calls. The API is a REST API that runs signed in as the user, with short-lived tokens checked against project roles and sensitive actions limited to project admins. In a test on LiveKit's docs assistant, a coding agent read 4,321 sessions from the past week and returned a ranked list of 8 issues after about 30 minutes. Session data requires Agent Observability, which is off by default for projects created through the API, and API requests are free but rate limited by plan.

  3. AWS Machine Learning Blog36

    Running OpenAI Codex on Amazon Bedrock: Access Paths and Rollout Guide

    This post shows how to route OpenAI Codex model requests to Amazon Bedrock while reusing existing AWS identity, IAM, Regional, and observability practices. It recommends starting with Native AWS Access for a small least-privilege pilot, with AgentCore Gateway or an LLM Gateway as alternatives, and walks through IAM Identity Center sign-in plus a direct Bedrock Runtime check using GPT-5.6 Sol.

  4. AWS Machine Learning Blog28

    Automating AWS Agent Registry updates with a push-based architecture

    AWS outlines an event-driven pipeline that keeps AWS Agent Registry records for MCP servers current without manual updates. AWS CloudTrail captures UpdateAgentRuntime API calls, Amazon EventBridge routes them across accounts, and a Lambda function queries the MCP server's tools via AgentCore Identity OAuth tokens, then diffs and updates the matching registry record. The sample updates existing records only and supports both single- and multi-account setups.

  5. Claude Blog78

    Anthropic launches Claude Meetings in beta for Google Meet on Team and Enterprise plans

    Anthropic released Claude Meetings in beta, letting Claude join Google Meet calls as a visible participant that answers questions in chat, builds docs and whiteboards live, and writes notes and action items. Each meeting gets a page in claude.ai with the transcript, notes and artifacts, and by default Claude stays out of calls with external guests unless an admin allows it. The beta is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans, is unavailable to some organizations including ZDR, HIPAA-ready and CMEK setups, and notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free during the beta.

    Why it matters: Anthropic's beta launch shows how a meeting agent can draft docs, pull connected-tool data and write notes inside a live call, with default rules for excluding external guests.

  6. Claude Blog58

    Anthropic launches Claude for Manufacturing with 17 skills and Autodesk, Infor, Microsoft 365 and NetSuite connectors

    Anthropic launched Claude for Manufacturing, a plugin with 17 skills covering sales, quality, operations, supply chain, design and setup, from drafting job quotes to diagnosing a stopped machine. The plugin pulls from a manufacturer's own records through connectors to Autodesk Fusion, Infor, Microsoft 365 and Oracle NetSuite, and each skill ends at a human review step before output reaches a customer or supplier. Anthropic cites a 2025 Manufacturing Leadership Council survey in which 79% of manufacturers said they enter data manually, and says it plans to add more manufacturing skills over time.

November 11Wednesday
  1. OpenRouter Announcements65

    OpenRouter measures the context cost of MCP, CLI and skills on one GitHub task

    OpenRouter measured the same GitHub task across the GitHub MCP server, the gh CLI and a gh skill on Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6 Luna and Gemini 3.8 Flash. On Sonnet 5.5 all three answered correctly, but the CLI used 1,421 input tokens, the skill 3,315 and the MCP server 59,417 with its 46 default tools, whose definitions alone add 19,436 tokens per request. Scoping the server to two tools cut the task to 23,228 tokens, capping results at 4,000 characters brought it to 5,357, and Tool Search cut the up-front cost of 46 tools to under 600 tokens, though it halved the whole-task cost on Sonnet 5.5 while raising it on Claude Haiku 5.5.

    Why it matters: OpenRouter's measured comparison shows how much context an MCP server, a CLI and a skill each consume on the same GitHub task, and where trimming tool results or deferring definitions changes the bill.

  2. Google Developers Blog75

    Google releases A2UI 1.0, a stable open protocol for agent-generated native UI

    Google released A2UI 1.0, the first stable version of its open protocol that lets AI agents answer with interactive screens rendered by each app's own native components. Version 1.0 adds bidirectional function calls, accessibility support and extension metadata, plus open-source renderers for React, Angular, Lit, Flutter, SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose (the Compose renderer is at 0.9.1 with 1.0 coming soon) and agent SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Dart. Atlassian is bringing A2UI to Jira, Alation renders its feeds with it in Claude, and ByteDance shipped a Lynx renderer in June 2026 that supports 0.9 today.

    Why it matters: Google's stable A2UI 1.0 protocol lets agents return native interactive screens instead of text walls, with renderers for web, Android and iOS and early adopters including Atlassian and ByteDance.

  3. Mastra Blog58

    Mastra adds MCP Tasks for background long-running tool calls

    Mastra now supports tasks in MCPServer and MCPClient, letting long-running tool calls run in the background while the agent keeps responding to users. The server returns a task ID immediately, and the client polls for status values working, input_required, completed, failed or cancelled, with a notification sent to the agent when the task finishes. Tools can be set to always, auto (after a 2-second syncWindowMs default) or off, and tasks can still call suspend() for human input; the feature requires @mastra/mcp@2.7.0 and @mastra/core@1.81.0 or later and remains experimental.

November 10Tuesday
  1. Claude Blog78

    Claude opens connected apps beside the chat and works inside them

    Anthropic is rolling out an update that lets supported interactive connectors open a full tool beside the conversation or in full screen, and lets Claude make changes to an open page, row or file that users approve the same way as connector actions. The rollout covers the web and the Claude desktop app on all plans, starting with tools including Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel and Webflow, with Figma, Harvey and Shopify building integrations. The connectors run on MCP Apps, and Claude now supports more of that extension, such as app tools and embedded sites, in public preview for developers.

    Why it matters: Claude's connectors now open full tools beside the chat and let Claude edit pages, rows and files directly, with the same approval flow as connector actions.

November 7Saturday
  1. Meta Newsroom · AI58

    Meta launches spaces in its Muse app for user-built personalized experiences

    Meta introduced spaces in its Muse app, an interactive way for users to build a more personalized Muse by describing an idea such as a gift tracker, daily word game or DIY planning board. Users can adjust each space with Muse, place it in the sidebar or main tabs, hide or schedule it, and connect apps so details like concert dates and price changes update in the background. Spaces are available everywhere Muse is available starting today, and Meta says it is exploring sharing options and rolling out specialized model versions trained with learnings from Muse Wonder.

November 6Friday
  1. Zyphra Research58

    Zyphra launches MAIA beta, a multiplayer AI agent with shared memory across Slack and desktop

    Zyphra released MAIA in beta, a proactive multiplayer AI agent that remembers shared team context, takes action across connected tools, and runs as a standalone Mac desktop app and inside Slack, free during beta. MAIA keeps persistent memory of people, decisions and preferences with sources, executes multi-step tasks in plain language, and can schedule recurring work. It follows existing tool permissions, confirms before irreversible actions, and lets users view and delete memories, with private conversations kept private unless shared.

  2. Mastra Blog38

    Mastra Agents Add Ring Signals for Doorbell Events

    Mastra agents can now receive Ring doorbell events as notification signals via the new @mastra/ring-signals package, requiring @mastra/core@1.81.0 or later. Each event arrives in the agent's thread with a configurable priority, and the agent can fetch a snapshot or video clip from the Ring API to decide how to respond. Ring signals can also target an existing channel thread, such as iMessage, so alerts reach a shared conversation.

  3. Descript Changelog22

    Descript November 6, 2026 Release Roundup: Brand Layout Packs, Underlord Skills, 30-Day Trash

    Descript's November 6, 2026 roundup adds generative layout packs that turn brand guidelines, logos and colors into four AI-proposed directions and a full editable layout pack on paid plans. Underlord now supports reusable skills, invoked with "/" in chat, replacing prompt templates, which switch off on November 30. Deleted projects now sit in trash for 30 days, and Enterprise drive search matches what's inside images and videos, including via the Descript MCP and API.

November 5Thursday
  1. Mistral AI69

    Mistral expands Studio with managed agents, workflows and apps alongside Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk)

    Mistral expanded its enterprise AI platform Studio with managed agents and apps, plus new workflow, enterprise context, agent observability and evaluation capabilities, running on the Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) model. Developers can build multi-step agents with skills, sandboxes, subagents and hooks, and deploy to Studio with one command through the new Mistral MCP server. Mistral says customers including ABANCA, BNP Paribas, Capgemini and TCS already use Studio in production, with deployments available in the cloud, VPC or on-premises.

    Why it matters: Mistral expands Studio with managed agents, workflows and apps, showing how enterprises can keep deployment and data control in their own environments.

November 4Wednesday
  1. Google DeepMind72

    Google Antigravity adds Cheminformatics Skills for agentic drug discovery

    Google DeepMind introduced Cheminformatics Skills for Google Antigravity, letting an agent search literature, curate compounds, run matched molecular pair analysis, train potency models and propose rigidified macrocycles with synthesis routes in about an hour, a workflow it says previously took multiple days. The skills are grounded in RDKit with connectors to ChEMBL and PubChem, and the team demonstrated them on crizotinib and lorlatinib analogues for non-small cell lung cancer. The skills are available today via the Antigravity app's Science plugin, and DeepMind is offering 10,000 scientists the highest usage tier free for 6 months, subject to eligibility, capacity and selection.

    Why it matters: Google DeepMind shows its Cheminformatics Skills in Antigravity compressing a multi-day drug discovery loop into about an hour, while noting that designs remain hypotheses needing lab validation.

October 29Thursday
  1. Google Developers Blog58

    Google explains how to build Generative UI apps with A2UI and CopilotKit agents

    Google published a walkthrough for building Generative UI apps with its framework-agnostic A2UI (Agent-to-UI) standard and CopilotKit's agent-integration stack. A2UI sends UI as declarative JSON messages rather than executable code, so clients render only components from a trusted catalog, and the same payload works across React, Angular, Lit, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose and Flutter. The guide shows wiring a Google ADK agent through AG-UI, defining a Zod-validated component catalog, and building bi-directional surfaces where user inputs flow back to the agent for multi-step flows like booking.

October 27Tuesday
  1. Apple Newsroom58

    Apple Creator Studio adds AI assistants, MCP support, and MotionVFX in Final Cut Pro

    Apple introduced updates to Apple Creator Studio that bring an intelligent assistant built on Apple and third-party models to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, plus Model Context Protocol support so external AI agents can read content and perform edits in those apps. Final Cut Pro for Mac now includes built-in MotionVFX and Content Hub stock video, Logic Pro gains a beta assistant and a Stem Splitter that separates drums, and Pixelmator Pro adds Generate Fill for natural-language image edits. The updates arrive on the App Store this November, free for existing subscribers, with new subscriptions at $12.99 per month or $129 per year.

October 23Friday
  1. Microsoft Research58

    Microsoft Research releases Flint-interactive, a language for AI-generated interactive data visualizations

    Microsoft Research released Flint-interactive, a language built on Flint that lets agents and developers create interactive data visualizations through high-level semantic events and update operators. Flint's compiler handles hit testing, layout, rendering and visual dependencies, so users specify interactions such as linked brushing, highlighting or viewport changes without writing low-level visualization code. It is available through Flint-MCP and MCP Apps in chat environments, the Flint Interactive Canvas for dashboards and data stories, and a programming API for bespoke interactions.

October 22Thursday
  1. MiniMax Blog62

    MiniMax Code launches Mini App runtime with hosted MCP and open-source repository

    MiniMax launched Mini App in the MiniMax Code desktop app, a plugin-format application with a frontend and a Node.js backend that keeps the Agent's work on a page that stays live instead of scattered across conversations. The release includes a runtime with a persistent data directory, hosted MCP, the Agent API, Host Connectors and in-page tool approvals, plus /miniapp-creator for going from a one-sentence request to a working page and official Mini Apps in the plugin marketplace. MiniMax Bot is itself a Mini App, and its source code along with community-built Mini Apps now lives in the open-source MiniMax-Code-MiniApps repository; Mini Apps are available in local sessions on macOS and Windows.

    Why it matters: MiniMax Code 把 Agent 的工作从对话流搬进常驻页面，并公开了 Mini App 的运行时与开源仓库，为 Agent 工具形态提供了一种可参考的架构。

  2. Google Developers Blog58

    Google Cloud API Gateway adds streaming support in Public Preview

    Google Cloud API Gateway now supports streaming in Public Preview, letting SSE, chunked HTTP, WebSocket and gRPC streaming endpoints sit behind the same gateway and policies as existing APIs. Streaming is enabled with a single --enable-streaming flag at gateway creation, requires no changes to the API spec, and keeps API key enforcement, JWT validation, service account auth and Cloud Logging and Monitoring working as before. Gateways also get a deterministic default hostname of GATEWAY_ID-PROJECT_NUMBER.REGION.gateway.dev, and streams can stay open for up to one hour.

October 20Tuesday
  1. Mistral AI82

    Mistral releases Voxtral 3 speech models and voice agent SDK

    Mistral released Voxtral 3, a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit that streams listening, reasoning, tool calling and speaking in one pipeline. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 covers 50+ languages with diarization and context biasing, Voxtral Mini TTS 3 supports 35+ languages and 50+ dialects, and the stack is available through Mistral's EU-hosted API or self-deployment. Pricing starts at $0.0035/min for batch transcription and $13 per 1M characters for TTS.

    Why it matters: Mistral's Voxtral 3 pairs multilingual speech models with a LiveKit-based voice agent SDK, giving teams a sovereign-deployable option for real-time voice agents.

October 13Tuesday
  1. GitHub Blog · AI & ML36

    GitHub Copilot for Beginners: Four Ways to Teach Copilot About Your Codebase

    GitHub's Copilot for Beginners series explains four ways to give Copilot project context: custom instructions in `.github/copilot-instructions.md` plus path-specific files in `.github/instructions`, agent skills in `.github/skills`, custom agents in `.github/agents`, and MCP servers that connect Copilot to external tools such as Playwright. The post walks through each mechanism and how they combine, and points readers to the community Awesome Copilot collection for ready-made examples.

October 7Wednesday
  1. Vapi Blog36

    Vapi launches Personal Agent Calling beta for AI agents that call businesses on customers' behalf

    Vapi has launched Personal Agent Calling in beta, letting users sign in with Vapi and make calls through a personal agent without setting up an API key. The company argues businesses must verify who an agent represents, what it is allowed to do, and whether that permission still applies, building on the A2A open standard and OAuth. Forcing customers to start over risks losing their business.

September 30Wednesday
  1. Vapi Blog58

    Vapi launches Personal Agent Calling beta to let assistants place phone calls

    Vapi launched Personal Agent Calling in beta, which lets personal assistants dial a business, work through phone menus, hold the conversation and report back a result. The feature works with assistants including Muse, Instinct, GrokBot, ChatGPT Work, Claude Code, OpenClaw and Hermes, and users paste a prompt pointing the assistant to phone.vapi.ai. In a test, Head of Revenue Bryan Parman's assistant waited 14 minutes on hold with an airline and declined a $51.69 upgrade fee, after which the representative waived it and confirmed an Economy Plus aisle seat at no charge.

September 29Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog55

    Vapi launches CX toolkit for building and improving customer-service voice agents

    Vapi launched Vapi for CX, a toolkit for building, deploying, observing and optimizing customer-experience voice agents. It combines a natural-language Composer for CX teams with the same config object reachable through API, CLI and an MCP server, plus evals, versioning, fallback plans, call scorecards and weekly latency, cost and quality data across transcribers, models and voices. Vapi says Amazon Ring runs 100% of its inbound volume on the platform after evaluating more than 40 vendors, and that Kavak builds new agent versions in about five minutes with NPS up 20 points.

April 30Thursday
  1. OpenAI Developers Blog47

    OpenAI Developers plugin for ChatGPT and Codex

    OpenAI released a Developers plugin that gives ChatGPT and Codex access to the OpenAI API Platform and API setup guidance, with adaptations for Claude Code and Cursor bundling portable developer skills and the public OpenAI Docs MCP server. It covers API key setup, Agents SDK app building, API migration to the Responses API, and troubleshooting common API failures.

February 25Wednesday
  1. Vapi Blog35

    Vapi Ships Skills and MCP Connector So Coding Agents Can Build Voice Agents

    Vapi released Vapi Skills, a repo following the Agent Skills standard, plus a Model Context Protocol connector that gives coding agents live access to Vapi's documentation. One install command loads step-by-step instructions with exact API schemas for workflows like create-assistant, create-tool, create-call, and setup-webhook, and the skill pack runs on Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and Gemini CLI.

February 24Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog38

    Give Your OpenClaw Agent a Voice: Adding Phone Calls with Vapi Skills

    OpenClaw agents can now make and receive phone calls through Vapi's AgentSkills-compatible skills, installed in about five minutes via the npx skills CLI or by asking the agent directly. The Vapi pipeline targets sub-500ms voice responses and supports mid-call tool calling, with eight skills covering assistants, calls, phone numbers, tools, squads, webhooks and workflows.

January 6Tuesday
  1. OpenAI Developers Blog42

    OpenAI Launches Docs MCP Server for Developer Documentation

    OpenAI released a public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives agents read-only access to developer documentation across developers.openai.com, platform.openai.com, and learn.chatgpt.com. The server is documentation-only and does not call the OpenAI API on the user's behalf. Developers can add it to Codex via the CLI or IDE extension with a single shared configuration, and pair it with the OpenAI Docs Skill for citation-backed answers.

December 23, 2025Tuesday
  1. Replit Blog70

    Replit launches in-ChatGPT app building via @replit and Replit Agent

    Replit is now available inside ChatGPT, letting users tag @replit in any message to have Replit Agent create, update and deploy Replit Apps directly in the conversation. Build progress and an interactive preview appear in-chat, and each request such as adding dark mode or a payment form updates the app instantly, with apps stored in the user's Replit account for later publishing. The integration requires a ChatGPT account (Free, Plus, Pro or Teams) and a Replit account, works where the ChatGPT App Store is available, and consumes Replit Agent credits.

    Why it matters: Replit's ChatGPT integration lets users describe an app in chat and have Replit Agent build, preview and deploy it without leaving the conversation.

May 20, 2025Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog22

    Vapi Integrates GoHighLevel Calendar Into Its Voice Agents

    Vapi has rolled out direct integration with GoHighLevel Calendars, embedding its voice agents into the GHL scheduling flow. Agents can now check real-time availability on connected GHL calendars, create contacts from caller details, and book appointments tied to the correct contact. Setup mirrors connecting Google Calendar in Vapi, with four new tools: Create Event, Check Availability, Create Contact, and Contact Get.