Issue #2 ·

Issue #2 — Agents earn their keep

Week two, and the labs came out swinging — Anthropic shipped twice in one day and Google put computer use in its fast model. Meanwhile the trending pages tell their own story: security agents and agent multiplexers. The agents aren't the demo anymore; they're the workforce.

The tools

Star of the week
strix agents open source

Open-source AI pentesting agent — 37K stars — that probes your app for vulnerabilities before someone else does.

Attackers automated first; this is the cheapest way to make sure your side is automated too.

herdr agents open source

Agent multiplexer for your terminal — run and juggle several AI agents in parallel (12K stars).

If you run more than one agent, tab chaos is real — this is tmux energy for the agent era.

design.md coding open source

Google's format spec for describing visual identity and design rules to AI coding agents.

Your agent stops guessing your brand colours — it's a README for taste, and it's about time.

orca agents open source

Desktop environment for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel, on your own subscriptions.

herdr with a GUI — when the same idea trends twice in one week, the pattern is the story.

Worth reading

From the big labs

Frontier agentic performance at $2/$10 per million tokens intro pricing — the price/performance line just moved again.

Back globally July 1 after the export-control pause, plus a cross-industry framework for scoring jailbreak severity.

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