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CLI agents aren't 28x cheaper than MCP.…
A controlled arXiv study found 5–28x cost gaps between agent scaffoldings, but paired MCP-vs-CLI ratios swung from 0.43x to 29x. Here is how I read the headline without ripping out MCP.
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Agent Plugins 1.0: build your agent skills…
Agent Plugins 1.0 packages skills and MCP servers into one portable directory. Amazon, Cursor, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel back the spec. Here is the folder layout and what it means for real projects.
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Raft turns your ChatGPT and Claude Code…
Raft is a human-agent workspace where lead, researcher, and maker agents share channels with persistent memory. Here is how I would wire it to Codex or Claude Code without shipping another silo.
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Builder.io Clips is the screen recorder agents…
Clips is a free open-source Loom alternative where share links expose agent-readable transcripts and metadata. Built on the Agent-Native framework so UI and agents share the same actions.
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OpenCut is the open-source CapCut alternative with…
OpenCut crossed 55K GitHub stars as a free, local-first video editor. The rewrite adds a Rust core, plugin system, and MCP server so AI agents can drive the same timeline humans use.
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NVIDIA SkillSpector scans agent skills before you…
SkillSpector joins a crowded field of agent skill scanners with 70+ vulnerability patterns and optional LLM analysis. New research shows packed and obfuscated skills still bypass most static tools. Scan first, sandbox second.
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Nango open-sourced the integration layer SaaS teams…
Nango ships auth, proxy, and TypeScript integration functions across 900+ APIs with MCP support for agents. Here is when self-hosting beats stitching OAuth flows by hand.