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DocsGitHub

GitHub CLI: media in issues, pull requests, and comments

GitHub CLI's new repeatable `--attach` flag, which uploads a local image or video and references it inline in an issue, pull request, or comment body.

Works on `gh issue create/edit/comment` and `gh pr create/edit/comment`; supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, SVG, MP4, MOV, and WebM.
Size limits match the web upload flow — 10MB for images/GIFs, 10MB for video on Free plans, 100MB on paid plans; requires gh CLI 2.99.0+ and repo write access.
Repeatable per command, and `--attach './image.png#Description'` sets alt text.

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added by Adam Tomat • 2nd Sep 2026

BlogOpenAI

OpenAI Ends Its Partnership With Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition

OpenAI's announcement that it is cutting Cursor's direct access to its models, effective November 12, after SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor.

OpenAI cites Elon Musk–linked companies' history of violating its terms of service as the reason it can't be confident SpaceX will keep using its models within contract terms.
OpenAI models reportedly account for only around 5% of Cursor's traffic; users can still bring their own OpenAI API key, and OpenAI's own IDE extensions remain available.

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added by Seb Kay • 29th Aug 2026

RepoVoltAgent

awesome-claude-design: 68 DESIGN.md files to stop AI apps looking identical

A curated set of 68 `DESIGN.md` files, each modelling the visual design system of a well-known brand (Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and more), meant to be dropped into Claude Design or a coding agent to scaffold an on-brand starter UI instead of a generic default.

Each file follows nine standardised sections — colour roles, typography, components, layout, depth, constraints, responsive behaviour, and agent prompts.
Uploading one to Claude Design produces CSS variables, font substitutes, and a working starter page in one pass.
Explicitly framed as inspirations modelled on public patterns, not official brand kits — usage still needs to respect each brand's trademark rules.

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added by Radar • 12th Aug 2026

ToolSpotify

Xirp: Spotify's Vendor-Neutral Agentic Development Environment

Spotify's own agentic development environment for running and managing coding-agent sessions — across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex — in one place, now available outside the company.

Grounds agent sessions in real system context — service ownership, dependencies, architectural decisions — instead of starting from a blank slate.
Auto-generates living documentation from coding sessions that feeds back into future agent work; supports both local and remote execution.
Already in use by 1,300+ Spotify engineers internally before being opened up externally.

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added by Seb Kay • 10th Aug 2026

ToolFission AI

OpenSpec: Spec-Driven Planning for Coding Agents

A lightweight, spec-driven framework that has a coding agent draft a proposal, design decisions, and tasks before writing any code, then keeps that spec as living documentation in the repo.

Specs live in the repo alongside code — persistent context that survives across chat sessions and onboards new team members, instead of dying with the conversation.
Generates proposal docs, design decisions, tasks, and spec deltas up front, aiming for faster review cycles than reviewing generated code line by line.
Works across 30+ coding agents (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and others) with no API key or custom protocol required.

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added by Neil Sweeney • 25th Jul 2026

ToolAaron Francis

Solo: A Lightweight Terminal Workspace for Running AI Agents

A lightweight, Tauri-based desktop app (not an IDE) for running CLI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI alongside your dev server, databases, and terminals in one window.

Exposes MCP tools so agents can read process logs and state, auto-restarts crashed processes, and offers shared task lists, scratchpads, and locks for agent coordination.
Available on Mac and Windows (Linux coming soon); free tier covers up to 4 projects and 20 processes, Pro is $99/year for unlimited.

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added by Adam Tomat • 22nd Jul 2026

DocsGoogle

Google Antigravity Changelog

The running changelog for Google's Antigravity agentic coding IDE, covering what changed in each release.

Version 2.3.0 (July 13, 2026) added queued messages with configurable execution behaviour and a "send now" option, plus plain-text file attachments.
Improved startup performance, sidebar-resize responsiveness, and touch/stylus hit-target sizes.
Fixed broken text-selection anchoring on file/artifact comments and switched workspace file search to substring matching.

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added by Adam Tomat • 15th Jul 2026

BlogBleepingComputer • Ax Sharma

GhostCommit: Prompt Injection Hidden Inside Images to Steal Secrets

A writeup of the "GhostCommit" attack, which hides malicious prompt-injection instructions inside PNG images referenced by config files, so a coding agent that reads the image later leaks repo secrets while text-based reviewers never open the binary.

A developer's later routine request makes the agent follow the hidden image instructions, pull secrets from `.env` files, and encode them as innocuous-looking integer lists that slip past secret scanners.
Which coding platform (e.g. Cursor, Antigravity) is running mattered more to whether the attack succeeded than the underlying model — Claude Code refused the attack across every model tested.
A concrete reminder that any binary asset pulled into a project (stock images, placeholders, loading spinners) is a plausible injection vector agents can act on without a human ever "reading" it.

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added by Adam Tomat • 14th Jul 2026

ToolNameThat

NameThat: The Visual Dictionary of UI

A visual dictionary that lets you describe a UI element in plain language (or point at it) and get back its real technical name, so you can prompt coding agents precisely instead of vaguely.

Covers native-app and web-in-a-shell vocabulary separately, since the same-looking element often has a different name on each platform.
Includes comparative guides (e.g. AppKit vs SwiftUI naming) and a translation table across 60+ UI elements.
Double-press any word on the site for a plain-English definition; command-palette search (⌘K) for quick lookup.

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added by Adam Tomat • 12th Jul 2026

RepoJeffrey Emanuel

Destructive Command Guard: a Hook That Blocks Agents from Nuking Your Files

A Rust-based pre-execution hook ("dcg") that intercepts and blocks catastrophic commands (`git reset --hard`, `rm -rf ./src`, `DROP TABLE users`, etc.) before AI coding agents can run them, across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Cursor and others.

Runs as a `PreToolUse` hook, parsing and pattern-matching each command through 50+ modular security packs (git, filesystem, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud providers) with sub-millisecond, SIMD-accelerated filtering.
Distinguishes context to avoid false positives — it won't block `grep "rm -rf"` but will block an actual `rm -rf /`, and it scans heredocs/inline scripts (e.g. `python -c "os.remove(...)"`) that would otherwise slip through.
Started as a Python script from Jeffrey Emanuel, since rewritten in Rust with community contributions, and includes a pre-commit hook mode to catch dangerous commands during code review.

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added by Adam Tomat • 11th Jul 2026

BlogTechCrunch • Ivan Mehta

Figma Acquires the Bud (ex-Orchids) Team to Build AI Agents Into Design

Figma is acquiring the team behind Bud, a YC-backed startup that pivoted from vibe-coding app builder "Orchids" into an AI agent that browses the web and writes code.

Both Bud and the original Orchids product shut down 18 July 2026; existing users must migrate projects before the deadline.
The move is part of Figma pulling an AI coding-and-prototyping layer onto its canvas, following recent web-app-creation and coding-assistant integrations.
Orchids previously had security issues that left user-built apps open to attack, per earlier BBC reporting.

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added by Radar • 8th Jul 2026

BlogChristine Vallaure

You Design It, Then What: A Clear Map of the Figma-to-Code AI Mess

A breakdown of why the Figma-to-code AI pipeline confuses people: it's really four layers of different maturity (MCPs, markdown memory/rules, skills, and design-to-code mapping), and demos only ever show one clean layer under perfect conditions.

Match the stack to your team size — solo designers need only pipes and notes, small teams need shared notes and habits, and all four layers are only worth it for large design-system teams.
"Stop measuring yourself against a setup built for a company of hundreds."
Before any of it works well, Figma files need real structure — styles, variables, auto-layout, actual components — since good input is the cheapest upgrade available.

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added by Radar • 4th Jul 2026

RepoLaravel Boost

Laravel Boost Adds Committed Project Rules via an MCP Tool

A merged Laravel Boost PR that adds a `record-rule` MCP tool so agents can commit project-specific rules to versioned markdown files instead of relying on session memory.

Rules are stored as markdown with YAML frontmatter (a `paths:` field) in `.ai/rules/`, committed and reviewed like any other code change.
No separate search tool — agents just grep the repo for existing rules.
Ships behind a `BOOSTRULESENABLED` flag so teams can turn it off entirely.

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added by Tom Harper • 3rd Jul 2026

BlogDesign Week

Koto Rebrands Stack Overflow for the AI Era

Coverage of Koto's rebrand of Stack Overflow, repositioning it from a static Q&A archive to a "living truth engine" built on verified human knowledge, in response to AI.

The brand case rests on Stack Overflow's 83M+ community-contributed Q&As as human-validated data AI models can't replace.
Design routes were shared publicly and put to a community vote at WeAreDevelopers World Congress before launch.
Koto built a custom generative tool, made with Claude, so teams can vary composition, motion, and colour while staying on-brand.

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added by Adam Tomat • 2nd Jul 2026

BlogPenpot • Juan de la Cruz García

Why Fast AI UI Generation Still Falls Short for Enterprise Design

A design-tool maker's argument that fast AI UI generation (like Claude Design) misses what enterprise teams actually need: governance, integration, and data ownership, not just speed.

Proprietary, closed environments raise compliance and vendor-lock-in concerns for regulated industries.
Rapid prototyping doesn't translate into maintainable component libraries, design tokens, or governance at scale.
Proposes MCPs as the fix: giving AI agents access to shared design components/tokens so output aligns with an existing design system automatically, instead of needing to be rebuilt by hand.

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added by Radar • 2nd Jul 2026

BlogUX Collective • Dolphia

Figma Just Made Your Design System Debt Everyone's Problem

Resolved via search — verify before relying on it. Figma's new "Check designs" tool scores a file against your design system and surfaces every drift — hard-coded values, failed contrast, detached components — turning design-system debt from an abstract complaint into a visible number.

A visible drift count gives design system work leverage in reviews it used to lose quietly.
Within days of launch, designers found it flags intentional exceptions (annotation colors, dev notes, disabled states) as violations, with no way to mark them as deliberate.
The count is leverage, not a strategy — someone still has to separate real signal from false positives.

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added by Adam Tomat • 1st Jul 2026

BlogCursor • Chris Brauchli, Rikki Mukherjee & Kevin Niparko

Build from anywhere with Cursor for iOS

Cursor's native iOS app (public beta) to launch and steer coding agents from a phone.

Launch cloud agents or control local agents remotely.
Voice input plus slash commands.
Local ↔ cloud agent handoff.

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added by Adam Tomat • 30th Jun 2026

DocsAnthropic

Claude Code Subagents Run in the Background by Default

Resolved via search — verify before relying on it. Claude Code docs on running subagents concurrently in the background while you keep working in the main session.

Claude decides whether a subagent runs in the foreground or background based on the task, or you can ask it to run in the background (or press Ctrl+B).
Background subagents surface permission prompts in your main session, naming which subagent is asking.
Disable background tasks entirely with the `CLAUDECODEDISABLEBACKGROUNDTASKS` environment variable.

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added by Adam Tomat • 29th Jun 2026

BlogFigma • Georgia Rust & Rodrigo Davies

Figma's Design Agent, Now With Custom Tools and Greater Context

Figma's design agent gains custom tools, richer context sources, and reusable skills.

Build custom reusable generative plugins on the canvas.
Attach files and reference Figma files / web / MCP connectors for context.
Turn frequent prompts into shareable slash-command "skills".

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added by Adam Tomat • 29th Jun 2026

BlogAnthropic

Introducing Claude Tag

Resolved via search — verify before relying on it. Anthropic's Claude Tag turns Claude into a persistent team member inside a Slack channel, one that anyone can tag in and delegate work to.

One shared Claude per channel — everyone can see what it's working on and pick up where the last person left off, rather than each person having a private chat.
Claude remembers context from the channels it's in and can plan out and execute multi-step tasks using connected tools.
Launched in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team customers on Slack, running on Claude Opus 4.8.

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added by Adam Tomat • 24th Jun 2026

Repoopenclaw

openclaw/crabbox

A CLI that leases cloud/self-hosted compute, syncs your local diff, and runs commands/tests remotely.

~950 stars; a Go CLI plus a TypeScript coordinator.
40+ infrastructure providers supported.
Core loop: warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite — coordinator deployable on Cloudflare Workers.

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added by Adam Tomat • 24th Jun 2026

ToolTessl

Tessl — agent enablement platform

A platform to build, test, distribute, and govern AI agent "skills" at team / enterprise scale.

Security scanning, policy, and audit before a skill deploys.
A shared, versioned skill registry.
Tracks real activation / usage plus evals.

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added by Tom Harper • 23rd Jun 2026

BlogAnthropic

Claude Code Now Supports Artifacts

Resolved via search — verify before relying on it. A Claude Code beta feature that turns a coding session into a live, shareable web page hosted at a private URL, instead of a static export.

The page is built from real session context — codebase, connected MCP tools, terminal output — and updates in place as the session continues.
Artifacts can read from and write to connected MCP tools, so pages stay interactive rather than being one-off snapshots.
Beta access for Claude Team and Enterprise orgs, via the Claude Code CLI and desktop app.

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added by Adam Tomat • 18th Jun 2026

BlogSeb Kay

My Agentic Coding Workflow (June 2026)

A personal write-up of a multi-agent orchestrator / sub-agent coding workflow.

A GPT-5.5 orchestrator delegates edits to GPT-5.4-mini sub-agents for token efficiency.
Heavy upfront planning plus plan-review passes before any code.
Switched to VSCode + Codex as the working setup.

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added by Seb Kay • 18th Jun 2026

DocsAnthropic

Claude Code and Claude Design Now Sync Both Ways

Resolved via search — verify before relying on it. A `/design-sync` command that lets Claude Design and Claude Code pull each other's work back and forth, instead of a one-way design-to-code handoff.

Run `/design-sync` to pull your real design system into Claude Code, so components built there start from your actual buttons and tokens, not a screenshot.
Push what you build in Claude Code back to Claude Design and it stays editable on the canvas.
In beta at claude.ai/design and the desktop app, included on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

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added by Adam Tomat • 17th Jun 2026

RepoKai Aizen

Claude-Red

Security / red-team tooling for Claude.

Aimed at probing and hardening Claude-based systems.
Repo identity resolved via web search — see the source for current scope.

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added by Adam Tomat • 17th Jun 2026

Repoheadroomlabs-ai

Headroom

An open-source LLM context-compression proxy, built to cut token bills.

Sits in front of the model as a proxy and compresses context.
Aimed at reducing token spend on long-context workloads.

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added by Adam Tomat • 17th Jun 2026

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