Week of September 26 – October 2, 2026: Anthropic launches mods for Claude Code, opening the coding tool to small programs that reshape how it works, Atlassian widens its Rovo module so a Forge...
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Note This Week in Extensibility: Claude Code launches mods that let users reshape the tool, Atlassian opens Forge app tools to outside AI agents, and Shopify closes off the old script-injection path for apps
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Note This Week in Extensibility: Meta opens its personal agent to third-party developers, Google turns on end-user automation building in Workspace, and Adobe sets a deadline to retire its old Creative Cloud plugin system
Week of September 19–25, 2026: Meta opens its Muse personal agent to a third-party connector platform that outside developers plug their services into, Google switches on end-user automation...
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Note This Week in Extensibility: Apple ships end-user extension authoring in Safari, Anthropic names 'Claude Mods' for Claude Code, and HubSpot and Salesforce let installed apps add tools straight to a customer's AI agent
Week of September 12–18, 2026: Apple ships a Safari feature that turns a plain-language description into a working browser extension, Anthropic names 'Claude Mods' for its deeper Claude Code...
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Note This Week in Extensibility: Atlassian's agent server reaches general availability, CopilotKit pipes MCP tools into AG-UI apps, and Apple widens the in-app actions its assistant can drive
Week of September 5–11, 2026: Atlassian's Rovo agent server reaches general availability across its suite, CopilotKit ships a first adapter that pipes an MCP server's tools into AG-UI apps, and...
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Note This Week in Extensibility: portable skills for MCP, a confirm-before-acting flag for web agents, and rules for which sites can message a browser extension
Week of August 29 – September 4, 2026: the Model Context Protocol accepts a format for packaging reusable agent skills that move between apps, WebMCP adds a way for sites to flag consequential...
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Note This Week in Extensibility: OpenAI rallies vendors behind WebMCP, MCP maps its next spec cycle, and an argument for governing agents over sandboxing them
Week of August 21–28, 2026: OpenAI and six web-platform companies launch a WebMCP hackathon, the Model Context Protocol publishes a roadmap for its next cycle, and Steve Yegge argues AI agents...
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Note This Week in Extensibility: Chrome Web Store caps extensions per publisher, the blogosphere discusses LLM-generated user extensions, and YC startup Vendo launches on HN
Week of August 14–21, 2026: Google caps how many extensions one publisher can list in the Chrome Web Store, an essay argues web apps should let users generate their own sandboxed extensions, and...
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Contact Center Fraud: highlights from my Cyber Crime Junkies episode
Highlights from my conversation with David Dean Mauro on Cyber Crime Junkies about contact center fraud, insider risk, AI agents, and locking down shadow AI.
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Note This Week in Extensibility: Edge commits to removing Manifest V2, WebMCP adds Edge and Brave, Cloudflare previews a code-sandbox SDK
Week of August 7–14, 2026: Microsoft Edge commits to removing Manifest V2, WebMCP origin trials reach Microsoft Edge and Brave, and Cloudflare ships a 1.0 preview of the SDK for running customer...
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Note Agentic Software Factories: Parallel agents diverge. Plan to converge.
Running coding agents in parallel is closer to a team of different developers than one developer multitasking, so plan a deliberate converge phase after the diverge phase.