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Pi Herdsman is a new extension for the Pi and Herdr AI development environments, enabling asynchronous subagents and fleet orchestration for parallel coding tasks. It allows for nested delegation, background work, and supervision of multiple agents within a coordinated hierarchy.

PolinniZhong has released DSH Skill Trace, a local-first plugin for DeepSeek Harness that enhances visibility into which skills an agent loads during a conversation. The plugin provides detailed receipts and flow maps of skill invocations, allowing users to understand, review, and learn from the agent's operational process.

AgenticOS is a new open-source, self-hosted platform designed for building, running, and governing AI agents within an organization. It provides a unified environment for managing agent skills, context files, automations, and budgets, with a focus on auditability and control.

OpenSider for VS Code is a new open-source extension that allows developers to use multiple AI agent CLIs, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot CLI, from a single VS Code side panel. It offers a unified interface for these agents without bundling any models itself.

AFDocs, a new tool from agent-ecosystem, allows developers to test their documentation against the Agent-Friendly Documentation Spec. The latest release, v0.22.1, checks for discoverability, navigation, and consumption by AI coding agents, providing a scorecard with detailed category scores and fix suggestions.

Jarvis is a self-hosted, autonomous AI agent for Linux that can control the desktop via VNC, integrate with WhatsApp, and utilize a RAG knowledge base. It supports multiple LLMs, including local Ollama models, and features a sandboxed security layer for multi-user environments.

PI-Desktop, a local-first AI coding agent, has released version v0.15.10. This desktop application leverages Electron and Rust, supporting user-installable plugins for enhanced functionality.

The msp-skills repository offers free MCP servers and Claude Code Skills designed for Managed Service Provider (MSP) tools, including PSA, RMM, backup, and M365. It emphasizes a local-first approach, ensuring data remains within the user's network.

The Nous AI agent framework has been released, implementing Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind principles and decision intelligence for structured memory and learning. It aims to create agents that can think, learn, and grow beyond simple stateless responses.

Felix is a self-hostable agents harness that allows users to author agents via YAML manifests. These manifests are compiled into governed agents with features like durable fibers, memory, skills, evaluation, approvals, and sandboxes, supporting multiple LLM backends. The system is designed for flexible deployment across Docker, Helm, AWS, or GCP.