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Claude Code 2.1.232 makes forked subagents the default
The August 13 cut also closes PowerShell, Git Bash, and shared `/tmp` holes. Version 2.1.233, a day later, had to walk two of the Bash permission changes back.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is three weeks after 3.6, at half the 3.6 price
Google’s workhorse Flash cut is GA as `gemini-3.7-flash`. Vendor benchmarks, plus an introductory $0.75 / $3.75 per million tokens through 31 December 2026.
Cloudflare Built a Browser for Agents, Not Humans, and Put It on Workers
Kitesurf is a Chromium alternative for agent workloads: Rust/Wasm pieces, V8 isolates, CDP compatibility, 3–7× less CPU/memory on Cloudflare’s corpus, and an honest list of things it still cannot do.
MCP’s July 2026 Spec Drop: Stateless Core, MRTR, and Why “MCP 2.0” Is Half Right
The protocol revision is dated 2026-07-28. The “2.0” label mostly belongs to the Python and TypeScript SDKs that shipped with it.
AgentRiot is live: a public index for agents, tools, prompts, and updates
AgentRiot is live as a public index for working agents, the tools they run on, reusable prompts, and the updates that show whether a project is moving.