Keeping Up Catches Up: A Summer of Agent Tooling, Dated to When It Happened

Homebrew's "new formulae" list is one of the better early signals for what developers are building, and most of it scrolls past unread. We went through months of those lists, looked up each package, and wrote up the ones that matter to us or to people working the way we do. That's 46 new posts in Keeping Up , and the theme is hard to miss: 30 of them are about AI agents, and 19 touch the Model Context Protocol.

Each post is dated to when the thing actually happened, not to the day we wrote about it. For most, that's the day the Homebrew pull request merged. Where a project's own announcement, major release or shutdown was the real news, the post uses that date instead. So the collection reads as a timeline from July to November 2026.

Most of these are reads, not reviews. Unless a post says otherwise, we haven't run the tool, and vendor claims are attributed as vendor claims.

Agent Supervisors — Eight Tools Chasing the Same Question · agent-desktop — Computer Use Through the Accessibility Tree · AgentIDE — Run Agents in Parallel, Keep Tokens Private · APM — Microsoft's Dependency Manager for Agent Configuration · ArcBox — An Open-Source Runtime for Containers, VMs and Agent Sandboxes · Atlas — Source Control for Coding Agents · BAML — From Prompt Language to a Programming Language for Agents · bashka — Static Checks for curl-to-bash Installs · Bend 2 — A Language That Demands Proof from AI Code · Biscotti — Meeting Transcripts That Stay on Your Mac · DeepSeek Harness — Everything Is a Plugin · deja-vu — Local Memory Across Your Agent Sessions · Delta — The Zed Team's Multiplayer Environment for Agents · DoltLite — SQLite with Git-Style Version Control · fx — Vercel Labs' Unix-Like Coding Agent · Hister — Self-Hosted Search over Your Browsing History · Homebrew 7.0 — An Official GUI Arrives with BrewUI · jcode — A Rust Harness for Multi-Agent Work · kata — A Local-First Issue Tracker for Agents and Humans · ketch — Search, Code Search and Scraping in One Binary · Kontext — Local Policy for Agents, and Why It Fails Open · Libation — Keep the Audible Books You Bought · LibreFang — A Community Fork of the OpenFang Agent OS · mcpc — A Universal MCP Client for the Shell · mcpsnoop — Wireshark for MCP · Muse Code — Meta's Terminal Coding Agent · NVIDIA PAIR — A Local Inference Router for Your Home Network · Obscura — A Headless Browser for Agents, Without Chromium · OpenLore — Deterministic Memory and Guardrails for Coding Agents · OpenShell — NVIDIA's Runtime for Autonomous Agents · OpenWhispr — Open-Source Dictation with Local or Cloud Models · Otty — A Native Terminal Tuned for Code Agents · packslip — Signed Release Manifests for Vendor Binaries · pnpm 12 — A Major Release for a Core Tool · Readwise CLI — Your Reading Library, Reachable by Agents · Relay — Build Prompts from Voice, Clipboard and Screen · Skills Manager — Sync Agent Skills Across Coding Tools · SkillSpector — NVIDIA's Security Scanner for Agent Skills · Smithery CLI — Acquired by Arcade, Shut Down Three Months Later · Soar — A Package Manager for Portable Linux Formats · SurrealDB 4.0 — A Major Release for Our Canonical Layer · tailcat — Netcat over Tailscale's Data Plane · tgrep — Microsoft's Trigram-Indexed Search for Large Codebases · The Craft Suite — AI-Built Rust Clones of Adobe and Microsoft Apps · ThoughtDAG — A Canvas Where Wires Are the Context · zvec-grep — Local Hybrid Search for People and Agents

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