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43 releases · since 14 September 2026

Releases that change how product, design and engineering teams work: features in their tools, new AI models, and major products from the AI labs. Each is logged from the maker's own page, with the date shown there and one line on what it changes for a team.

Product
Category
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI says the new model comes close to GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work, at a fifth of Astra's standard token prices. It is available in the API and on the paid ChatGPT plans.
models · openai.com
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
Dots, always-on agents that work in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams
A dot is an agent that keeps working on a person's goals, connects to other apps through plugins, and can be reached in ChatGPT, Slack or Teams. OpenAI describes access and permission settings, and a review and approval step for actions.
products · agents · openai.com
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
Codex in the cloud, with reusable development environments shared across a team
Developers can run Codex on a computer, from a phone or in the cloud. A team can share one development setup with approved settings and permissions, so tasks start quickly from any device.
agents · collaboration · openai.com
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
Code review in the ChatGPT desktop app for GitHub and GitLab changes
Engineers can read summaries, explore changes and ask Codex about possible issues before commenting on a GitHub pull request or GitLab merge request. With automatic reviews, Codex takes a first pass in the cloud.
critique & review · agents · openai.com
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
Codex Security Cloud scans repositories and checks each new commit
A team can have an AI agent scan its repositories, keep checking new commits for security problems and prepare fixes for engineers to review.
agents · critique & review · openai.com
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
Agents API with Computer Use
Engineering teams can build AI agents through the OpenAI API that operate other software on screen and coordinate with other agents.
agents · openai.com
29 Sep 2026
OpenAI
ChatGPT Space, a shared team area with pages and agents
A team can keep its documents, shared pages and AI agents in one ChatGPT workspace instead of separate personal chats.
products · collaboration · openai.com
28 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model of the Claude 5.5 family
Anthropic says the new model runs more than 30 percent faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30 percent less for most work. It is strongest at well-scoped everyday tasks, such as fixing bugs and making documents, slides and spreadsheets.
models · anthropic.com
28 Sep 2026
xAI
Grok Team Bots: one Grok Bot shared by a whole team, with shared files, skills and plugins (public beta)
A team gives one Grok Bot, SpaceXAI's AI agent, the files, apps and skills it needs, and everyone works from that shared context. Each person's conversations with the Bot stay private. Team Bots are in public beta on the Teams and Enterprise plans.
agents · collaboration · x.ai
28 Sep 2026
Cloudflare
Cloudflare cf, a command-line tool for AI agents covering the whole Cloudflare API
An AI agent can deploy code, set security policies and manage domains on Cloudflare through one command-line tool with JSON output and built-in command search.
25 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude plugin directory submissions with automated validation and install analytics
A developer on a paid plan can package connectors and skills as a Claude plugin and submit it to a public directory. Submissions pass automated validation and safety scanning, and the developer sees installations by product and version. A skill written inside one team can become a plugin that others install.
agents · collaboration · claude.com
25 Sep 2026
GitHub
Copilot for Slack and Teams takes attachments and message links as context and checks for duplicate issues before creating one
An issue can be raised from a chat thread, with the thread linked back and duplicates checked, so a discussion in chat becomes tracked work without anyone retyping it.
collaboration · agents · github.blog
25 Sep 2026
GitHub
Agentic autofix reads and writes Copilot Memory when fixing security alerts
Security fixes applied by an agent become stored patterns that the organisation's other Copilot features reuse, so remediation conventions accumulate per repository rather than per person. The feature is opt-in and in public preview.
agents · critique & review · github.blog
25 Sep 2026
Microsoft
Copilot, now one app for personal and work accounts, rebuilt around Home, Code and Autopilot
Home puts chat and tasks handed to Copilot on one start page, and Code lets people who are not developers build apps by describing them. Autopilot, an agent that runs recurring work without being prompted, enters a private preview at the end of September. Home and Code reach Microsoft's early-access programme first.
products · agents · blogs.microsoft.com
25 Sep 2026
Microsoft
Copilot Managed Runtime (public preview): apps built in Copilot, Copilot Studio or Lovable run inside the company's Microsoft 365 environment
An app built by someone outside engineering can run under the company's own sign-in and data policies, and IT sees every such app in one list. A developer can take the app's code from Git and keep building on it, with no separate hosting project.
prototyping · handoff · microsoft.com
25 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Code /doctor prompt-audit reviews CLAUDE.md files, skills, agents and commands for prompting patterns written for older models
A team can ask Claude Code to review its instruction files (CLAUDE.md, skills, agents and commands) for phrasing written for older AI models. The report opens with out-of-date file paths and commands, and with instruction files that contradict each other.
agents · critique & review · code.claude.com
24 Sep 2026
Linear
Linear coding agent adds adaptive model routing, environment secrets and open-weight model sessions
When a task goes from an issue to Linear's coding agent, simple work goes to a cheaper AI model and harder work to a reasoning model. The person assigning the task no longer picks the model, and administrators decide which models the workspace allows.
agents · linear.app
24 Sep 2026
GitHub
GitHub Copilot global default policy for unconfigured features (Business and Enterprise)
From 22 October, Copilot features that an enterprise has not configured follow one enterprise-wide default. This covers code review policies and MCP servers, the connections that give agents access to other tools. The options are to enable everything, to require approval, or to let each organisation choose. An administrator decides once whether teams get new agent features on arrival or after a review.
other · agents · github.blog
23 Sep 2026
Cursor
Rollouts and Security Reviewer bots watch a change from PR to production and review every PR for vulnerabilities
Before a change is merged, the agent writes a monitoring plan for a person to edit. After release, it compares live signals with a baseline and prepares a rollback for a person to approve. People edit the plan and approve the rollback instead of watching dashboards.
agents · critique & review · cursor.com
23 Sep 2026
GitHub
Copilot code review: personal and enterprise defaults for automatic review and review effort
Each person, or a whole company, now sets once when the AI code review runs and how thoroughly it checks. Review depth becomes a company setting with someone responsible for it, instead of a choice made in each repository.
critique & review · github.blog
23 Sep 2026
GitHub
Local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app (per-project file, network and credential limits)
A team can set, per project, which files, network access and credentials a local coding agent may use before it runs. The limits live in a configuration file instead of depending on a person watching the terminal. The setting is off by default.
agents · github.blog
23 Sep 2026
Lovable
Lovable: default design system per group
New projects in a group now start on that group's design system instead of the workspace default. A product team can keep its own design system without a central team approving each project.
design systems · docs.lovable.dev
23 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Marketplace: one catalogue for partner connectors, plugins, agents and services
A team can choose connectors, plugins and agents from one catalogue built on the open MCP and Agent Skills standards. It can also spend its existing Anthropic commitment on partner products instead of buying each integration separately.
collaboration · agents · claude.com
23 Sep 2026
Meta
Meta Muse Charm, a pocket device for Meta's personal agent Muse, with connectors and computer use on Mac
At its Connect conference, Meta gave its personal agent Muse a pocket device and a place on its AI glasses. Muse can now work in Notion, GitHub and Mac apps, with permission.
products · meta.com
22 Sep 2026
Vercel
Sandbox Drives (persistent storage for agent workspaces, public beta)
An agent's workspace, dependencies and stored memory persist between runs, so a long-running agent task no longer starts from a clean checkout each time.
agents · vercel.com
22 Sep 2026
Framer
Skills: saved instructions for the Framer agent covering design system, writing style and CMS workflow
A team's design and copy conventions become a reusable file that the site agent follows across tasks. The file is captured from a conversation after a page is refined and travels with the project when it is remixed.
agents · design systems · framer.com
22 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Opus 5.5, the first model of the Claude 5.5 family
Anthropic says the new model does frontier-level work, including agentic coding, with far fewer tokens. It costs 40 percent less to run than Opus 5 and is more than 30 percent faster.
models · anthropic.com
22 Sep 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, faster and cheaper GPT-6 models
Sol is for demanding work and Luna for high-volume work. Both run in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, at lower prices and with higher usage limits.
models · openai.com
22 Sep 2026
Xiaomi
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash, open weights
Xiaomi released two models that read text, images, audio and video, under an open licence. A team can host them itself and give an agent a long codebase to work through.
models · mimo.xiaomi.com
21 Sep 2026
xAI
xAI Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work
The model works longer on hard tasks and checks its own work more carefully, at the same price and speed as Grok 4.6. It is available in the xAI API and in Cursor.
models · x.ai
19 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as an alternative to CLAUDE.md for project instructions
A repository can keep one agent instructions file that several coding agents read, so the team maintains one set of rules rather than a copy per tool.
agents · code.claude.com
18 Sep 2026
GitHub
Copilot code review groups findings into open, resolved and previously missed, and writes commit messages for batch-accepted suggestions
On a re-review the reviewer sees only the agent findings still open, so the human check of agent-written code is shorter and the commit history records what was accepted.
critique & review · agents · github.blog
18 Sep 2026
v0
v0 installs private npm packages from shared environment variables
A prototype built in v0 can now use the team's own published component library instead of a generic one. The prototype and the production design system then draw on the same package.
design systems · prototyping · vercel.com
18 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Code syncs skills and plugins enabled on claude.ai into terminal sessions
A skill enabled in the chat application is the same skill the engineer's terminal agent runs, so one list of skills serves the whole team without a separate installation step. An opt-out setting is available.
agents · collaboration · code.claude.com
18 Sep 2026
Warp
Warp Factories scoring agents grade every coding-agent run against team-written rubrics
The team writes a scoring rubric as a prompt, covering task compliance, efficiency, verbosity, code quality and custom checks. A scoring agent grades each run, and people read the failures to adjust skills rather than reading every pull request.
agents · critique & review · warp.dev
18 Sep 2026
Qwen
Alibaba Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a model built for agents that handle audio and video
The model reads text, images, audio and video and can call tools. An agent built on it can plan and carry out tasks such as editing, translating or summarising video.
models · qwen.ai
17 Sep 2026
Claude
Claude Code Projects redesigned as a persistent conversation that delegates parallel threads and keeps memory across sessions
A goal stated once becomes several agent threads across repositories with one shared memory, so the person steers and checks the work rather than briefing each session again.
agents · collaboration · claude.com
17 Sep 2026
Vercel
Vercel skills CLI installs agent skills from Notion databases
A team can keep its agent skills, the written instructions agents follow, in a Notion database that people outside engineering can edit. One command installs them into any agent, so the skills no longer have to live in a code repository.
agents · collaboration · vercel.com
16 Sep 2026
Claude
Cowork merged into Claude chat, with Docs, Slides and Design inline and an approval-or-autonomous toggle
One conversation now produces documents, slides and designs, and the team decides per task whether Claude confirms before acting or runs unattended and reports back.
collaboration · other · claude.com
16 Sep 2026
GitHub
Copilot budget increase requests
When a member uses up an AI credit allowance, they can ask for more inside the product. An organisation owner approves the request in settings, so running out of credit no longer stops the work outright.
collaboration · other · github.blog
15 Sep 2026
Notion
Notion 3.7: shared skills library with SKILL.md export and sub-agents
A team writes instructions for AI agents once, as a skill file (SKILL.md), and keeps them in one library. The same file can be exported to the coding tools Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, so every tool follows one definition.
agents · collaboration · notion.com
14 Sep 2026
Linear
Loops respond to project changes, edit docs and post to Slack
Linear's recurring agent workflows, called Loops, now react when an initiative, project or cycle changes. They can update Linear documents and post to Slack, so nobody has to rewrite the status by hand when scope moves.
agents · collaboration · linear.app
14 Sep 2026
GitHub
Copilot auto model selection gets cost and quality tiers
Each engineer selects efficiency, balance or intelligence per tool, so model cost per task becomes an individual setting rather than a team default.
agents · other · github.blog