The tools we track
Recent changes in each tool, newest week first.
Claude Code
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 latest Oct 31
- Good to know Block the agent from writing outside the repo
- Good to know Group budgets for shared monthly limits
- Good to know Fast mode for Opus 4.8 deprecated
- Good to know Layered policy mode for developer policies
Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026 latest Oct 23
- Good to know Added Monitor tool and plugin monitors on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry
- Good to know Fixed requests failing behind some gateways and servers
- Good to know Cloud sessions and Remote Control permissions added to Enterprise custom roles
- Good to know Improved session start checklist for cloud environments
Cursor
Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026 latest Oct 20
- Try it Define and deploy agents as code
- Good to know Agent SDK templates available
- Good to know Evals for testing agents
- Niche GitHub event replay for testing
COCodex CLI
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 latest Oct 29
- Try it Added keyboard-driven transcript selection and Markdown rendering
- Good to know Added GPT-6.1 Terra model
- Good to know Added codex queue --resume command
- Good to know Improved safety-block explanations and follow-up prompts
GitHub Copilot
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 latest Oct 28
- Try it Use GitHub Copilot Fusion for optimized model selection
- Good to know Manage Copilot Fusion model availability for administrators
- Good to know GitHub Copilot Projects for cross-repository work
- Good to know GitHub security extension for Copilot app
Gemini CLI
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 latest Oct 27
- Good to know Support opt-in private network endpoints for MCP OAuth flows
- Good to know Preserve user-level ~/.gitconfig in shell and git environments
- Good to know Forward termination signals from bootstrap parent to child process
- Niche Migrate gsutil usage to gcloud storage
Cline
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 latest Oct 26
- Try it Cloud tasks can now run on different models
- Good to know Progress card for cloud sandboxes
- Good to know Model catalog refreshed with new providers
- Niche Retry limit for model requests reduced
OpenCode
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 latest Oct 30
- Try it Send Quotes From the Comment Popup
- Good to know Percentage Compaction Buffer
- Good to know Persistent Desktop Terminals
- Niche Calls to a tool named bash now run as shell