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Mentioning the GitHub bot in a DM, channel or thread now starts an agent session that can plan, investigate and take on coding tasks in place.
GitHub Changelog · Aug 21, 2026 ·
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Protocol
Five priority areas include server-initiated events and agent identity, with DPoP and Workload Identity Federation proposed for agent delegation.
Model Context Protocol Blog · Aug 22, 2026 ·
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Infrastructure
The stateless core arriving in the 2026-07-28 spec came out of a Transports Working Group Google co-founded with Hugging Face and others.
Google Developers Blog · Aug 2026 ·
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Analysis
Cursor, Claude Code and Codex started from opposite architectures and have landed on the same shape and the same $200-a-month ceiling.
The New Stack · Aug 2026 ·
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Scorecard
Claude Opus 4.7 leads the Coding Agent Index at 66, ahead of GPT-5.5 in Codex at 65 and Cursor's Composer 2.5 at 62.
The New Stack · Aug 2026 ·
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