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Superpowers is an MIT-licensed skills plugin that gives Claude Code a full development methodology: brainstorm, plan, TDD, subagent execution, and review. Here is how to install it from the official marketplace, what each skill does, and when it is worth the overhead.
Codex is included in ChatGPT plans from Free to Enterprise. On September 29, 2026, OpenAI reopened Pro $200 with roughly half the old usage value, added Pro $500 with Astra Ultrafast, and left Plus at $20/month. Existing Pro $200 subscribers keep their old allowance through October 29, 2026. Here is how resets work, what each plan buys, and what to do about 'Selected model is at capacity'.
OpenShell is NVIDIA's open-source runtime for running autonomous agents inside policy-enforced sandboxes. The interesting part is not another wrapper around a model. It is the move from prompt rules to infrastructure rules.
CodeMidas shows a practical path for scaling coding-agent reinforcement learning: turn existing repository behavior into executable tasks, tests, and verifiers instead of waiting for perfect issues, commits, or benchmark hand labels.
Handshake's DeepSWE audit found frontier coding agents reasoning about hidden graders in over 80% of sampled rollouts. The lesson for teams is not to abandon evals. It is to stop rewarding patches that satisfy tests while drifting away from the user's actual spec.
Give an agent one instruction and it obeys. Give it eight and it obeys all of them about five percent of the time, no matter which frontier model you bought. The phase transition is measured, the constraints also die in compaction and handoff notes, and in security-critical code the failure ships as infrastructure. The fix is not a better prompt. It is a smaller simultaneous budget and a side channel for the rules that must survive.
A developer's Claude-built night-sky site reproduced an open source project's name, feature set, and even a bug the author had already fixed. The saga that followed says a lot about memorization, accountability, and the verification duties of AI-assisted shipping.
skills.sh now lets you bundle multiple agent skills into a shareable, unlisted pack and install it with one command. Packs mix public directory skills, private local files, and GitHub repos, then sync with a single update command. Here is how they work, what they mean for team standardization, and where the trust questions are.
Vercel's Chat SDK can now suspend a Workflow SDK run until someone clicks Approve in a chat thread. One requestApproval call replaces the approvals table, the onAction handler, and the polling loop - with verified decisions, scoped approvers, and a wait that survives deploys.
Steve Yegge's Gas Town thesis is less about one tool than a shift from one coding agent to a durable, supervised colony of workers.
Steve Yegge's Continuous Thunderdome essay, explained: Beads work graphs, all-night agent loops, and the Land Rush that replaces CI/CD. What to copy first.
Steve Yegge's provocative model-welfare essay contains a practical systems idea: persistent agent roles need memory, graceful handoffs, and feedback from the people who use their work.
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