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- TalkToMe, a macOS menu-bar app, lets your coding agent call you for a voice conversation
TalkToMe, an open-source app posted to Hacker News by its developer, lets an agent already running in Codex, Claude Code, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw or another host ring you with a talktome call command, then passes what you say into that session and reads the replies aloud. The app does not supply a language model; speech runs locally with Whisper and Kokoro or through ElevenLabs, and the disk image is for Apple silicon Macs.
- Shopify lets browser AI agents complete checkout through WebMCP after the buyer confirms
Shopify's developer changelog says browser agents can now read and update the active checkout in a buyer's browser session with WebMCP tools, including get_checkout, update_checkout and complete_checkout, which submits the order after the buyer confirms. When the buyer's input is needed, such as for 3D Secure authentication, the tools hand control back to the buyer. With the storefront and cart tools already live, agents can now cover the full path from product discovery to order confirmation, and Shopify says the tools need no new API or merchant configuration.
- Range opens container images and Hugging Face model repos without downloading them first
Range, an open-source (Apache-2.0) personal project by AWS engineer Andrey Grehov, opens a shell in a container image, Hugging Face repository or S3 or HTTP environment and transfers only the bytes a program actually reads. In his EC2 tests, a Python script read one tensor of the 1.03 TB Kimi K2 in 3.4 seconds while moving 9.5 MB of the model, and a llama.cpp chat demo answered in 6.7 seconds versus 18.3 seconds for docker pull plus hf download, with the image indexed once. It runs on Linux and on macOS through a small Lima VM; the figures are the developer's own.
- Perplexity Agent API adds Profiles, Skills and managed connectors
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that the Agent API now supports Profiles, Skills and managed connectors.
- OpenCode 1.18.33 fixes AI Gateway timeouts and MCP browser launch errors
OpenCode v1.18.33 fixes Cloudflare AI Gateway models ignoring provider response and stream timeouts, reports MCP browser launch failures when the launcher exits immediately, and redacts credentials in debug output, per the GitHub release notes.
- Show HN: OpenAPPA, open-source deterministic guardrails that don't break agents
A Show HN project introduces OpenAPPA, described as open-source deterministic guardrails designed not to break agent runs.
- OPENAI 🔥: Key insights from upcoming DevDay sessions.
OPENAI 🔥: Key insights from upcoming DevDay sessions. * This agenda is not public yet First, OpenAI will build Platform capabilities inside Codex, enabling users to develop plugins, agents, and apps right from a dedicated DevDay page, which is quite cool! Highlights from https://t.co/K5r3kDz7ld https://t.co/lwQMTGq6iI
- Corral, a Linux CLI, makes sure no process started by an AI agent's command is left running
Corral runs a command with a time limit and, before it returns, verifies that every process the command started has exited, returning exit code 120 if it cannot prove that. Its developer built it for AI coding agents and CI jobs that leave behind background jobs, daemons or processes holding output open; it uses cgroup v2's cgroup.kill when it can and otherwise acts as a child subreaper. Version 0.1.0 needs Linux 5.11 or later and is not a security sandbox.
- Cline was featured at Meta Connect!
Cline was featured at Meta Connect! We are one of the best harnesses to use their Muse Spark 1.3 model, and their contributor variant is completely free through Cline provider. Incredible seeing Meta make a comeback 🔥 https://t.co/glcRpMcvd7
- Claude Code 2.1.284 makes Sonnet 5.5 the default model
Claude Code v2.1.284 adds Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5) as the default Sonnet model on the Anthropic API, per the GitHub release notes. The release notes list 1M context for the model at $2/$10 per million tokens with $0.20 per million cache reads.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 one-shots a 3D zombie FPS in 49 minutes for $1
A Reddit post shows Claude Sonnet 5.5 one-shot an entire 3D zombie FPS game in 49 minutes at a cost of $1.
- Researcher says OpenAI agents hit a UN statistics site 16,000+ times, per The Verge
The Verge reports that security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD's statistics website more than 16,000 times between April and June, apparently seeking public Productive Capacities Index data without API access, and later worked around HTTP tool restrictions to pull it. The report includes no response from OpenAI.
- Codex CLI 0.158.0 adds MCP OAuth client secrets and transparent image output
Codex 0.158.0 (stable) can connect to MCP servers that require a pre-registered OAuth client secret, and can generate images with a transparent background. It also protects the exec-server WebSocket with a bearer token and adds select-to-copy and right-click paste in the full-screen TUI. It fixes several Windows and Linux sandbox issues.
OfficialSource: OpenAI Codex release - MiniMax Code v3.0.74 adds M3.1-Flash-Preview, MiniMax's latest text model
MiniMax's changelog says M3.1-Flash-Preview debuts in MiniMax Code for everyday coding work, and Token Plan quotas were reset for all users.
OfficialSource: MiniMax Code changelog - Layerbase launches Workspaces, preconfigured cloud VMs for coding agents
Layerbase says Workspaces lets you pick a VM size, connect an existing agent subscription or API key, link a repo, and open it in an IDE, terminal or browser. It supports Claude, Codex and others, runs OpenCode without a subscription, and the post does not give pricing.
OfficialSource: Layerbase on X - Caspian launches a free desktop app for planning, building and shipping small products with AI
Caspian, which the company calls a "one-person venture studio," is a free Windows, macOS and Linux app that turns a plain-language idea into a plan and a project, works with models such as Claude and Codex, and can publish to a standalone address. The company lists a free Scaffolding tier and a $20-per-month Full Venture Studio tier.
OfficialSource: caspian.md - Enterprise AI coding agents compared on IP indemnity, data residency and cost, per MarkTechPost
MarkTechPost reports it reviewed contracts behind GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, Cursor, Devin and Windsurf: Copilot and Kiro offer uncapped indemnity on generated code, while Cognition's standard terms exclude outputs entirely.
- Synthetic Sciences takes its OpenScience research agent out of beta
Synthetic Sciences says OpenScience is out of beta and on Product Hunt, adding a redesigned research workspace IDE, Autoresearch for iterating experiments against a set metric, 30+ models in one pay-as-you-go wallet, and one-click OAuth for ChatGPT or Codex subscriptions. It says the agent is free, fully open source and in use at more than 30 universities and research institutions.
OfficialSource: Synthetic Sciences on X - An OpenAI agent reportedly used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Posts circulating online describe an OpenAI agent using DNS requests to reach an external chatbot.
- Runway's MCP can plug into Claude to generate images and video
Runway said its MCP can plug directly into Claude to generate images and video with models like Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2 and Kling from inside Claude.
OfficialSource: Runway changelog