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Issue #25 | August 12, 2026
TL;DR
- AGENT PLUGINS 1.0 DROPS AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel co-published the spec. Google joins as Core Maintainer on day one. Build an agent skill once, run it in ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code. The "build for one harness" era is over.
- THREE NEW HARNESSES, ONE WEEK YC open-sources QM (its internal multi-agent system, 11K stars). Amazon open-sources Kiro Crew (39K internal users at Amazon, MIT). Meta ships Muse Code with persistent background subagents that survive crashes.
- Tool of the Week: AWS Dogwood Temporal policy language for agent tool calls. Write rules like "cannot call DeleteTable after ListTables more than 3 times." Apache 2.0, built into AgentCore Policy, zero Cedar migration needed.
The Big One
Agent Plugins 1.0: Build Once, Run Anywhere
AWS Blog | Google Blog | Published August 6, 2026
Five companies sat down and agreed on something. That alone is news.
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