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GLM-5.2 puts top-tier coding within four points of Claude for a sixth the cost

GLM-5.2 ships open MIT weights with coding scores four points behind Claude Opus and a sixth the cost, 48 hours after US export controls pulled a frontier model.

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DEVvia @NousResearch13h ago

Nous adds Blank Slate setup mode to Hermes Agent

Builders can now configure a Hermes agent from scratch instead of the Quick or Full presets, useful for custom provider wiring.

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DEVvia @OpenAIDevs2d ago

Codex adds Record and Replay to turn demos into reusable skills

Coding agent learns a recurring task once, then repeats it; cuts scripting for expense filings and similar workflows.

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DEVGitHub Trending2d ago

Kilo-Org/kilocode: Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

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DEVvia @cursor_ai2d ago

Cursor ships /automate for plain-language agent automations

Describe a task and Cursor wires up triggers, instructions, and tools, lowering the setup cost for recurring agent runs.

LAUNCHESvia @testingcatalog18h ago

Anthropic builds scheduled triggers for upcoming Claude agent

Recurrent triggers that wake an agent on a schedule and survive container restarts would unblock cron-style autonomous workflows.

DEVGitHub Trending3d ago

DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp: High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewe

High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.

DEVGitHub TrendingYesterday

BuilderIO/agent-native: A framework for building agent-native applications.

A framework for building agent-native applications.

DEVHacker News14h ago

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

66 points, 42 comments on HN

DEVvia @Saboo_Shubham_17h ago

Visual Plan skill lets Claude Code and Codex plan before coding

An agent-native planning step that sketches a solution shape before writing any code, aimed at reducing wasted generation.

LAUNCHESvia @CloudflareYesterday

Cloudflare ships temporary Workers accounts for AI agents

Agents can run wrangler deploy and get a live Worker in seconds without a human-built signup wall.

AIvia @dair_ai15h ago

Paper improves multi-agent orchestration without touching weights

A meta-skill approach evolves how agents coordinate, sidestepping the cost of retraining for better multi-agent system generation.

AIvia @scaling0116h ago

Anthropic eval predicts 61-hour task horizons

A projection that next-gen models could sustain 100-hour autonomous task horizons on METR, if it holds.

LAUNCHESvia @databricks17h ago

Databricks launches Genie Ontology, an automatic context layer

The layer auto-extracts knowledge from tables, queries, dashboards, and pipelines to ground data agents without manual context wiring.

DEVHacker News2d ago

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

170 points, 64 comments on HN

DEVvia @cursor_ai2d ago

Cursor Automations add Slack emoji reaction triggers

Reacting to a message can now kick off an agent run, smoothing team handoffs into Cursor workflows.

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