AgentStack Daily

Today's AgentStack Daily: Hermes Agent v2026.7.7 ships, OpenAI Codex lands rust-v0.143.0, and Claude Code CLI releases 2.1.197. AionLabs ships Aion-3.0-Mini roleplay on OpenRouter. Kokoro runs high-fidelity TTS on low-power CPUs. Rowboat debuts on Show HN with 162 points as a Claude Desktop alternative. Security: GitHub AI agent prompt injection leaks private repositories. Plus early-failure probe...

Claude Code CLI 2.1.195 ships as Tencent's Hy3 and Nex AGI's Nex-N2-Mini land on OpenRouter. GLM 5.2 stokes margin-collapse debate; Anthropic publishes a Global Workspace Theory interpretability analysis. A Claude Code workspace session leak and a goodwill-erosion post trend on Hacker News, and an archive of leaked agent system prompts climbs GitHub. Ternlight ships a 7MB browser-side WASM embeddi...

Today's AgentStack Daily covers GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra heading to Codex alongside a GitHub-listed Code workspace update, plus Synthetic Sciences' OpenScience AI workbench for scientific research. Independent Build ships a 270M-parameter open-weights LM, Qwen's staggered release reignites local model viability questions, and an Ollama-only local web agent took r/ollama's front page. Research picks inclu...

Today's AgentStack Daily covers a GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token regression, a Claude Code session and cache cross-contamination issue on shared hosts, and Mistral 1.5 going out the door. Transformers 5.13 adds Kimi K2.5 through K2.7 architecture support. The USAF releases a method for MoE fine-tuning on 12GB consumer GPUs. Cheyenne pulls Meta data center water discharge permits after contamination...

The Agent Stack Release Readout this week leads with Hermes Agent v2026.7.1 shipping alongside Claude Code CLI 2.1.193, with Kimi K2.7 Code reaching GA inside GitHub Copilot. ZCode wraps GLM-5.2 and lands on the Hacker News front page, Leanstral 1.5 brings open-weights Lean proof generation, and Alibaba bars Claude Code at work over backdoor concerns. Jamesob's GitHub guide curates locally-runnabl...

Agent Stack Daily covers the return of Claude Fable 5: US restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models were dropped on June 30, and the Mythos-class flagship is back on OpenRouter with 1M context, multimodal input, and reasoning support. OpenClaw v2026.6.11 and OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.5 shipped, and Claude Sonnet 5 hit OpenRouter with 1M context alongside Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite. Resea...

Today's AgentStack Daily covers Claude Code CLI 2.1.185, Cursor's new mobile app for steering coding agents, and Google making Gemini's personalized image generation free for US users. Also: OKX's plan to let AI agents hire and pay each other on crypto rails, Base44's custom model release, and Anthropic's California government Claude pricing cut. Plus South Korea's $550B memory fab bet, the AI job...

Today's AgentStack Daily covers OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.4 shipping as a chores-only maintenance release, HP Inc. launching a Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI across engineering and the 100,000+ partner portal, and OpenAI + Broadcom unveiling the Jalapeño inference chip. We track a founder's Claude-based personal cancer treatment coordinator, Ford rehiring senior engineers after AI quali...

Today's AgentStack Daily covers OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol preview for coding and science, and the White House asking OpenAI to slow-roll the launch. Tooling updates: OpenClaw v2026.6.10, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.3, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.181. Patronus AI raises $50M for agent stress-test 'digital worlds.' OpenAI reports median Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support. Databric...

OpenAI Codex 0.142 is the new stable, with usage-limit reset credits, organized plugins, and rollout token budgets. OpenAI's Daybreak initiative brings Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber for vulnerability discovery, plus Patch the Planet for open-source maintainers. Samsung is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex globally, and Nex AGI listed Nex-N2-Pro on OpenRouter. sqlite-utils ships migration...

Today's AgentStack Daily: OpenClaw v2026.6.9, Hermes Agent v2026.6.19, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.176 all shipped new releases. Poolside released Laguna XS.2 on OpenRouter and Laguna M.1 via API. Enterprise teams got new usage analytics and updated spend controls. A retrospective asks whether 30 years of export controls can contain a model called Mythos. Baseten is reportedly raising $1.5B at a $13B...

This episode covers OpenClaw v2026.6.8, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.141.0, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.170. Google's Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro image models are listed on OpenRouter. OpenAI rolls out LifeSciBench and a pre-release deployment simulation, and teams with Molecule.one on a GPT-5.4 medicinal chemistry reaction. Z.ai releases GLM-5.2 open weights under MIT, claiming a top open-weights slot...

Today's episode covers the latest developments in AI, including the stable release of OpenAI's Codex rust-v0.140.0, new foundation models from Apple, and significant acquisitions, such as SpaceX's $60B purchase of Cursor. Tune in for analysis on the rapidly shifting AI industry, including major investments, layoffs, and the launch of new AI agent identities by NewCore. Show notes: https://tobyonfi...

A heterogeneous dual-GPU setup running an RTX 5080 paired with an RTX 3090 sustained 80 tokens per second on Qwen 3.6 27B at Q8 quantization with a clean tensor-parallel layer split. OpenAI opened Codex to open source maintainers and added three workflow courses in OpenAI Academy. Anthropic suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from US government access following a federal directive tied to the Amazon CE...

OpenClaw v2026.6.6 ships, Anthropic responds to a US directive suspending Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access, and an AI agent bankrupts its operator during a DN42 network scan. Other items: a coding agent damages Fedora and Linux systems, a macOS local-agent walkthrough trends on Hacker News, Claude Desktop spawns a 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, Anthropic model naming strings get decoded, Apache Bur...

OpenClaw v2026.6.5 and OpenAI Codex rust-v0.139.0 ship this week, paired with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 announcement and system card. We unpack the silent application risks in Claude Fable, Apple's Gemini-based AI architecture reveal, and DeepSeek V4 Pro's claimed precision edge over GPT-5.5 Pro. Plus: OpenAI's confidential draft S-1, GPT-2's 2019 staged release as a lens on today's...

OpenAI Codex ships rust-v0.138.0 with CLI-to-desktop handoff and local image path exposure; Claude Code CLI hits 2.1.169; the MCP July 2026 Release Candidate goes stateless with an extensions framework; Apple WWDC delivers a real Siri AI overhaul with Gemini and natural-language Shortcuts; and Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.7-Plus enter the agent model race with 1M-token contexts and multimodal s...

OpenClaw v2026.6.5-beta.2 and Claude Code 2.1.168 lead the agent-harness cycle, and the cycle opens with a Friday June 5 outage that hit Claude API, Claude Code, claude.ai, and Claude Cowork for roughly two hours — primarily Opus 4.7 and 4.8 — peaking near a thousand Downdetector reports. OpenClaw switched release trains to a monthly patch cadence with the June 2026 floor at 5.28. Claude Code ship...

Hermes Agent v0.16.0 — "The Surface Release" — ships a real native desktop app with OAuth remote connect, drag-and-drop file input, and a browser-based admin panel. Codex 0.137 adds multi-agent v2 runtime choice persistence and parallel web search. Claude Code 2.1.166/2.1.167 introduces fallback model chains and glob tool-name deny rules. Gemma 4 12B is Google's latest open-weight 12B model that r...

Claude Code 2.1.165 is the latest npm `latest` as of June 5, following 2.1.163 and 2.1.164 — all bug-fix and reliability releases that clean up background sessions, plugin hooks, skill syntax, and Windows path handling. Microsoft dropped a seven-model MAI family at Build 2026 on June 2, with MAI-Code-1-Flash as the headline: a 5B-parameter coding model trained on GitHub Copilot production harnesse...

[00:00] Episode hook OpenClaw v2026.6.1, Hermes Agent v2026.5.29.2, and Claude Code 2.1.162 drop in the same episode window. The stable OpenClaw tag is v2026.6.1, the Hermes stable tag stays at v2026.5.29.2, and the latest Claude Code npm `latest` is 2.1.162. OpenClaw v2026.6.1 ships Workboard orchestration, a governed Skill Workshop, SQLite-backed state recovery, and MiniMax M3 provider support....

AgentStack Daily EP062 leads with Codex `rust-v0.136.0`: better TUI diagnostics and error context, improved app-server lifecycle handling, named hooks and permission scopes, Python SDK and Node SDK improvements, and non-interactive installation support. Stanford's CS336 course publishes a formal AI agent guidelines document that reaches 1,863 stars in under 24 hours — institutional validation that...

OpenClaw `v2026.5.28` leads with steadier agent and Codex runtime recovery, safer channel delivery, stricter browser and automation inputs, provider and media expansion, externalized plugin surfaces, and bounded release proof. MiniMax M3 follows as the model-discovery headline: an open-weight-positioned coding and agent model with MSA sparse attention, up to 1M context, native multimodality, API a...

Claude Code `2.1.158` on npm `latest` adds auto mode for Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry when `CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE=1` is set. OpenAI's May 29 Codex update adds Windows computer use in the Codex app, remote control from mobile or Mac while the Windows host keeps project files and local context, in-app browser infrastructure improvements, and Codex Profiles for identity, activity, usage stats,...

AgentStack Daily EP059 leads with a current agent-stack release readout. Hermes Agent moves from `v0.14.0` to the `v0.15.x` line with a major kanban/orchestration expansion, faster launch and session search, promptware defense, Bitwarden Secrets Manager support, skill bundles, an Ink multi-session TUI, image provider additions, a Nous-approved MCP catalog, ntfy messaging, and follow-up fixes for d...