ai-agents

On October 13, 2026 the Strands Agents team published about 94,000 Harbor trials. On matched Anthropic runs, estimated cost ran from about $0.74 to $1.57 per trial.

Checked 16 Oct 2026: Qwen Decider 2B v1 scores 180 of 231. Gemma 4 12B, released 15 Oct, scores 200 of 231 at a 136 ms H100 median. Jev stays $0.042/MTok, with no matching JevBench row.

Checked 15 October 2026. The shared MCP adapter exposes 3 tools. execute-ability can run all 7 canonical abilities, including product-delete. Week one allows two reads.

OpenAI's 11 February 2026 Codex experiment merged about 1,500 pull requests. AgentCore Harness, GA 17 June 2026, still defaults to 75 iterations and a 3,600-second timeout — the harness sets those bounds, not the model.

Three coding CLIs, three permission models. Cursor agent 2026.01.28, Claude Code 2.1.296, and Codex from OpenAI's docs. Checked 11 October 2026.

Two CLIs, not one binary named bedrock-cli. AWS CLI 2.37.12 and agentcore 0.30.0, checked 11 October 2026.

Checked 8 October 2026. Storefront MCP is beta, with 7 B2C tools. search_products rejects a term under 3 characters. create_checkout_url takes 0 payment fields and returns a URL.

Checked 8 October 2026. Odoo 19 JSON-2 keys last at most 3 months. saas-19.4 MCP exposes 5 tools by default. action_confirm stays off the week-one agent.

Checked 6 October 2026. Catalog and cart tools on /api/mcp are removed. complete_checkout is off for both non-token tiers. Call UCP 2026-08-25 through an adapter, not an Admin token.

On September 29, 2026 AWS opened Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, in preview: 3 US Regions, no extra preview charge, and an 8-hour compute window in the AgentCore example. AWS runs the conversation. Your compute runs the tools.

On 25 September 2026 AWS published an SES skill for the MCP Server. The example is verify an identity and send a first production email. It does not warm a dedicated IP or pick Essentials versus Pro.

On 25 September 2026 AWS published agent skills for End User Messaging and SES. A delivered US Rich RCS text segment lists at $0.01194. A rich card lists at $0.02949. Pick the channel before you pick the model.