Cursor agents now drive desktop apps, Claude Enterprise merges chat and Cowork, OpenAI trains with no internet access and Microsoft open-sources Agensh.
Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro (1M tokens, weights promised by Nov 4), Codex CLI 0.164 adds presets, Copilot lands in Teams and Replit adds agent skills.
Anthropic donates Agent Skills, the SKILL.md format adopted by more than 70 agent platforms, to the Agentic AI Foundation. Open Responses (OpenAI), OpenEnv (Hugging Face) and OpenSandbox (Alibaba) join the foundation too, which now hosts 10 projects.
Recursive ships Flint, a local coding model under Apache 2.0, Replit launches an on-call agent, Google opens its EGM plugin, Claude goes Anthropic-managed.
Anthropic opens a preview of Claude Duet, a Claude Opus 5.5 agent that works in the background on its own cloud computer and asks for approval before acting. Limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the US.
Three agents that work in the background on a cloud computer, compared on vendor, model, connectors, safeguards, price and availability in France, from a developer's point of view.
According to The Information, Huawei engineers work inside DeepSeek's offices to fit future Ascend chips to its models. The report rests on two anonymous sources.
Google says Gemini 4 Argon processed nearly 25 trillion tokens in the 72 hours after launch, about three times Gemini 3, and that it is short of capacity.
From Oct 19 to 21, Microsoft, Vercel, DeepSeek and vLLM open-sourced building blocks to test coding agents, resume them after a crash and serve models.
OpenCode, Cline, OpenHands and Aider: what each open-source coding agent does, its licence, its stars and its GitHub activity, with figures checked on October 20, 2026.
OpenCode passes 218,000 stars and leads our ranking of 20 AI repositories for developers; coding agents account for 40% of all stars (GitHub API, October 20, 2026).
What Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Devin Desktop, Junie, Zed, Qoder, OpenCode, Cline and Aider offer at $0, around $20 a month and on team plans, according to their pricing pages.
Requirements, installation on macOS, Linux and Windows, first session, plans and VS Code or JetBrains integration: Claude Code according to Anthropic's official documentation.
Since June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI no longer serves free, Google AI Pro and AI Ultra accounts. Who is affected, how to install Antigravity CLI and migrate skills, extensions and MCP servers.
Install Ollama on macOS, Linux or Windows, pick a model suited to code, set the context window and connect OpenCode or Cline, according to the official documentation.
What the Model Context Protocol is, how to add a server to Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, the reference servers and the security rules, according to the official documentation.
Cognition acquired Windsurf and renamed it Devin Desktop in June 2026, while Sonar absorbed Gitar for AI code review: tooling consolidates around agents.
Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for coding agents names Anthropic, Cursor, GitHub and OpenAI Leaders, and expects the IDE to become optional for most teams.