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Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 Features with Examples + Demo

Claude Code started as a terminal coding assistant. It now runs as a layered agentic system. Underneath, Claude Code separates memory, hooks, skills, subagents, plugins, and MCP into distinct layers. Each layer changes what the model can see or do. This article covers 25 features and strategies for scaling Claude Code. It is written for […]

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Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent: A Meta-Harness That Composes, Governs, and Shares AI Agents Across Claude Code, Codex, and Pi

Databricks released Omnigent, an open source ‘meta-harness’ for AI agents. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license. The Databricks AI team built it with Neon. A harness is the wrapper around a model that turns it into an agent. Claude Code, Codex, and Pi are harnesses. Omnigent sits one level above them. It treats

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Anthropic Disables Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After US Government Order

Anthropic has disabled its two most capable models for every customer. The shutdown followed a US government export control directive. The order arrived on June 12, 2026. It named Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 specifically. Both models had launched only three days earlier, on June 9. The directive cited national security authorities, according

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.7-Code: a Coding Model Reporting +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2 Over K2.6

This week, Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code. It is a coding-focused, agentic model. The model weights ship on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT license. You can also reach it through the Kimi API and Kimi Code. K2.7-Code targets long-horizon software engineering, not general chat. It plans, edits, runs tools, and debugs across many steps.

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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm

Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi Work, an AI agent that runs on your own desktop. The Beijing-based AI entity announced it this week along with downloads for macOS and Windows. Kimi Work reads local files, drives your real browser, and runs scheduled tasks. It targets knowledge workers whose bottleneck is access to files and live

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Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude

Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models. The release covers three sizes: 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. Each model is built on the Zamba2 hybrid SSM–Transformer backbone. Vision-language models (VLMs) read images and text together. They answer questions about charts, documents, and photos. Most open VLMs use a dense Transformer as the

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Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards

Perplexity has moved Deep Research into Computer, its multi-model orchestration system. The upgrade improves accuracy, depth of analysis, and citation quality. Deep Research now breaks hard questions into subtasks and routes them across 20+ frontier models. It returns work-ready reports, decks, and dashboards, all inside Computer. Deep Research in Computer Deep Research is a mode

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xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch

Today, xAI shipped the Grok Build Plugin Marketplace. It is a built-in catalog of plugins for Grok Build, the company’s terminal coding agent. A plugin bundles skills, slash commands, agents, hooks, MCP servers, and LSPs into one package. You browse, install, and update these packages without leaving the terminal. Plugin Marketplace Grok Build is xAI’s

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Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow

Nous Research has shipped a Profile Builder for Hermes Agent. It lives inside the project’s local web dashboard. Standing up a distinct agent used to mean several CLI steps. The builder now walks you through one guided flow. In that flow you define an agent’s identity. You pick a model and provider. You choose built-in

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Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding

This week, Cohere AI team shipped its first developer-facing coding model named ‘North Mini Code‘. ‘North Mini Code’ is open-weight and focused at software engineers. It is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 30B total parameters. Only 3B of those parameters activate per token. The release is positioned around “sovereign” AI. The idea is simple: run

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