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Grok 4.6 ships for long-running agents: $2/$6, live in Cursor and Grok Build, matches Sol on AA Intelligence Index
xAI positions Grok 4.6 for multi-step coding and knowledge work with stronger first passes on interactive/visual builds. List price starts at $2/$6 per million tokens (fast variant 2×). Available in Cursor, Grok Build, the API, OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare, with 2× included usage in Cursor and Grok Build for week one. Add it to planner and long-horizon evals next to Sol and Opus, then attribute credit burn before promoting it: /notes/stop-paying-frontier-prices-model-routing and /blog/cursor-agent-swarm-planner-worker-routing-july-2026.
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Claude August 12, 2026
Claude in Chrome side panel is now Claude Cowork: shared sessions across browser, desktop, web, and mobile
The Chrome extension side panel now runs a real Cowork session with history, skills, and connectors, so a tab-started task can finish on desktop or mobile. Max and Team get it today; Pro rolls out over coming weeks; Enterprise stays off by default with admin domain allowlists. Treat prompt injection as first-class risk on any page Claude can click. Start on trusted sites, keep automatic approve only where the consequential-action check is enough, and pair with your Cowork playbook: /blog/claude-cowork-mobile-web-knowledge-worker-playbook.
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MCP August 12, 2026
Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app
One plugin.json package can carry skills/ and mcp.json across compatible clients, with Copilot-specific bits under com.github.copilot/. Business/Enterprise managed-settings (enabledPlugins, marketplaces, MCP allowlists) apply without a separate Agent Plugins policy. If you still ship per-client manifests, migrate the portable core once and keep vendor extras namespaced. Pair with MCP GA day-one notes: /blog/mcp-2026-07-28-ga-day-one-field-notes.
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Claude August 11, 2026
Compliance API beta covers Claude Cowork and Claude Code sessions for Enterprise audits
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Tools August 11, 2026
Copilot for JetBrains: persistent memory, Ollama BYOK, and enterprise managed settings for plugins and MCP
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OpenAI August 10, 2026
OpenAI expands Daybreak: Blue for defensive Sol work, Red for GPT-5.6-Cyber on authorized research
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Claude August 7, 2026
Claude Code auto mode becomes the default August 14 for Pro, Max, and Team; classifier tokens no longer count on those plans
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Architecture August 7, 2026
Claude Code Week 32: cross-session messaging on macOS/Linux, plus Focus view and sandbox credential masking
via Claude CodeDetails
Tools August 7, 2026
Copilot weekly: /worktree and Sessions sidebar in CLI, /btw side chat and element feedback in VS Code 1.132
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Claude August 6, 2026
Claude Code self-hosted environments enter public beta on Team and Enterprise
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MCP August 6, 2026
Agent Plugins 1.0.0: open standard packages skills and MCP servers once for Cursor, Copilot, Codex, VS Code, and Kiro
via VercelDetails
Claude August 5, 2026
Claude Enterprise inference hooks: inline DLP on prompts and tool responses across chat, Code, and Cowork
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