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
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.
tool page →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.
tool page →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.
tool page →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.
tool page →Worth reading
The argument moved from 'is this real' to 'how do we make it economical and repeatable' — a good read on where working devs actually landed.
The tooling categories from 2024 don't describe what we're building anymore — this is a decent attempt at a new map.
Google's own tour of everything it shipped in June — a useful skim to see how wide the front actually is.
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.
Agents that see, click, and type across browser, mobile, and desktop — now native in the cheap fast model, not a research preview.