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Agents tracked: 258 Downloads (7d): 219M up 6.1% GitHub stars: 5.5M VS Code installs: 148M Releases (7d): 293 Agent pull requests (last week): 937K Updated Oct 7, 2026

AI Agent News: Releases, Launches and Usage Jumps, Live · page 5

  1. Release GitHub Releases

    Claude Code 2.1.284 released

    Added Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5), now the default Sonnet model on the Anthropic API — 1M context, $2/$10 per Mtok with $0.20/Mtok cache reads; Added a "Yes, but ask again next time" answer to auto mode's prompt before a read outside the working…

  2. Official Hugging Face

    Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

  3. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenAI Codex 0.158.0 released

    Configure copy-on-select and right-click paste in the fullscreen TUI. Copied transcript selections now preserve Markdown formatting. (#47639, #47896, #48118); Connect to MCP servers that require pre-registered OAuth client secrets, including through codex…

  4. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenCode 1.18.33 released

    Cloudflare AI Gateway models now honor provider response and stream timeouts. (@danlapid); MCP browser launch failures are now reported when the launcher exits immediately.; Debug configuration output now redacts credentials and sensitive headers.

  5. Analysis Simon Willison

    Quoting Muse AI Agent

    Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating…

  6. Official OpenAI

    Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

    GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

  7. Official OpenAI

    Are you a Codex Original?

    We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals…

  8. Official Vercel

    Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gateway

    Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway as anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 . Sonnet 5.5 improves on Claude Sonnet 5 for well-scoped everyday work, from building features and…

  9. Data AgentGid data

    Orca passes 80K GitHub stars

  10. Data AgentGid data

    Retell AI downloads up 28% in a week

    545K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 28, against 427K the week before.

  11. Data AgentGid data

    Stagehand downloads up 31% in a week

    2.2M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 28, against 1.7M the week before.

  12. DataHot AgentGid data

    Base44 downloads up 73% in a week

    73.6K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 27, against 42.5K the week before.

  13. Data AgentGid data

    CopilotKit downloads up 32% in a week

    629K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 27, against 477K the week before.

  14. Data AgentGid data

    eve downloads up 41% in a week

    1.2M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 27, against 844K the week before.

    eve
  15. Data AgentGid data

    OpenCode downloads up 26% in a week

    2.7M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 27, against 2.2M the week before.

  16. DataHot AgentGid data

    AI SDK downloads up 33% in a week

    30.4M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 27, against 22.8M the week before.

  17. Data AgentGid data

    VoltAgent downloads up 35% in a week

    30.1K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 27, against 22.3K the week before.

  18. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenAI Codex 0.157.1 released

    Release highlights could not be determined: the supplied PR index is empty, and the GitHub tag comparison returned 404.

  19. Data AgentGid data

    Augment Code downloads up 26% in a week

    37.3K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 29.7K the week before.

  20. Data AgentGid data

    Cline downloads up 34% in a week

    78.9K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 58.7K the week before.

  21. Data AgentGid data

    CloakBrowser downloads up 45% in a week

    354K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 245K the week before.

  22. Data AgentGid data

    Cloudflare Agents SDK downloads up 30% in a week

    2.1M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 1.6M the week before.

  23. DataHot AgentGid data

    ElevenLabs Agents downloads up 33% in a week

    2.1M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 1.6M the week before.

  24. DataHot AgentGid data

    AgentKit by Inngest downloads up 162% in a week

    78.7K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 30K the week before.

  25. Data AgentGid data

    Kilo Code downloads up 54% in a week

    39.3K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 25.6K the week before.

  26. Data AgentGid data

    Microsoft Agent Framework downloads up 28% in a week

    50.4K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 39.4K the week before.

  27. Data AgentGid data

    Momentic downloads up 31% in a week

    220K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 168K the week before.

  28. DataHot AgentGid data

    n8n downloads up 32% in a week

    106K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 80.2K the week before.

    n8n
  29. Data AgentGid data

    OpenAI Codex downloads up 26% in a week

    24M npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 19M the week before.

  30. Data AgentGid data

    Qwen Code downloads up 28% in a week

    82.6K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Sep 26, against 64.5K the week before.

  31. Release GitHub Releases

    CopilotKit 1.74.0 released

    feat(web-inspector): support targeted notifications in What's New (#6956) (9434edd); feat: consume learned skills from multiple containers across SDKs (#7384) (6252d10); feat(web-inspector): track launcher HUD impressions and actions (#7376) (bbf420b)

  32. Incident Status page

    Amp: ChatGPT subscriptions failing

    Major impact; resolved after 1 h 25 min.

  33. Release GitHub Releases

    Claude Agent SDK 0.2.160 released

    Fixed follow-up turns failing after background subagents: When using query() with hooks, canusetool, or SDK MCP servers, stdin was closed too early if a subagent finished just before the turn's…; Aligned docstrings with the code and fixed docstring…

  34. Release GitHub Releases

    Claude Code 2.1.283 released

    Added x-claude-code-prompt-id to the gateway hint headers so LLM gateways can group the requests that serve one user prompt; opt in with CLAUDECODEGATEWAYHINTHEADERS=1; Added availableModelsMatch managed setting: with "exact", an availableModels entry allows…

  35. Release GitHub Releases

    Strands Agents 0.1.4 released

    feat(cli): add strands update and polish compact, skills, rename, and setup flows (#4612) (923a5ac2e); feat(bidi): support grouped content messages (#4609) (4342e12b1); feat(bidi): add snapshot capture and restore (#4584) (b8a2e5c00) (+1 more release that day)

  36. Release GitHub Releases

    Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.10.0 released

    Skills: Control resource usage and tool persistence dynamically using new ephemeral lifecycles and active skill limits (experimental; enable with ADKENABLESKILLLIFECYCLE=1). (43b73e4); Database Integrations: Perform high-performance vector and hybrid…

  37. Official OpenAI

    Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

    With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

  38. Official GitHub Blog

    GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases

    Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The…

  39. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenHands 1.24.0 released

    feat: toggle all workspace folders from the Conversations header; feat: scope OpenAI subscription caches by backend; feat(home): reframe splash copy around day-to-day engineering work

  40. Official n8n

    Introducing n8n Agents

    n8n now has a new type of Agent. Describe what an agent should do, choose a model, the tools and workflows it can use, and it's ready to go!

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