The AI Toolchain — issue -040, July 10, 2026

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

Claude Code v2.1.206 adds directory suggestions for /cd, a /doctor CLAUDE.md trimmer, smarter git push remotes, and faster background agent upgrades.

$ git clone --branch v2.1.206 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v2.1.206

$ /doctor

$ /cd src/

• ›Adds directory path suggestions to /cd, matching the autocomplete behavior already available in /add-dir.
• ›New /doctor check analyzes checked-in CLAUDE.md files and proposes trimming content Claude can derive directly from the codebase.
• ›/commit-push-pr now auto-allows git push to the repo's configured remote.pushDefault (or the sole remote when only one exists), not just origin.
• ›/login now supports Anthropic-operated public gateway endpoints.
• ›EnterWorktree prompts for confirmation before entering a git worktree outside the project's .claude/worktrees/ directory.

Glamourous agentic coding for all

Crush v0.84.0 adds session-affinity headers so supporting providers can pin cache to a replica.

$ git clone --branch v0.84.0 https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v0.84.0

• ›Sends x-session-affinity and x-session-id headers (a PII-free session hash) to enable cache-pinning on supporting providers.

Copilot CLI v1.0.70 adds GPT-5.6, sandbox session flags, /refine prompt rewriting, repo-pinned model policy, and paginated MCP resource RPCs.

$ git clone --branch v1.0.70 https://github.com/github/copilot-cli.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v1.0.70

$ copilot -p --no-sandbox

{
  "model": "gpt-5.6",
  "effort": "high",
  "contextTier": "full",
  "deny": {
    "mcp": ["untrusted-server"]
  }
}

plugins:
  - name: my-plugin
    source:
      url: https://github.com/org/my-plugin
      sha: a3f8c21d9e4b7065f1234567890abcdef1234567

• ›Adds --sandbox and --no-sandbox flags to toggle the OS-level shell sandbox on or off for the current session only, without persisting the change to saved settings (composable with -p).
• ›Adds sha field in plugin source configuration to pin plugins to an exact commit SHA.
• ›Adds --repo and --local flags to /settings and /model commands.
• ›Adds paginated session.mcp.resources RPCs — read, list, and listTemplates — for MCP server resources.
• ›Lets a trusted repository pin the model, effort level, and context tier and extend URL/MCP/skill deny lists via .github/copilot/settings.json.

OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

OpenHands 1.46 adds configurable BYOR key alias patterns and enriched final archive manifests.

$ git clone --branch cloud-1.46.0 https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout cloud-1.46.0

• ›Enables configurable key alias patterns for Bring Your Own Router (BYOR) keys in enterprise deployments.
• ›Enriches final archive manifests with additional metadata and removes initial snapshots to streamline workspace archives.

Qwen Code v0.19.9 adds qwen update, webhook-triggered channel tasks, PDF-to-image fallback, cursor-paged transcript replay, and multi-workspace sidebar.

$ git clone --branch v0.19.9 https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v0.19.9

$ qwen update

• ›Adds qwen update and /update commands with auto-update support, letting users self-update the CLI in place.
• ›Adds create_sub_session tool for scheduled tasks, enabling isolated run mode with precondition gating.
• ›Adds serve --channel channel worker settings reload, so channel configuration changes take effect without restarting the server.
• ›Adds workspace-qualified core REST routes, exposing per-workspace API surfaces.
• ›Adds cursor-paged transcript replay endpoint (serve) for streaming session history replay.

Zed v1.10.2 adds GPT 5.6 Sol & Terra models for ChatGPT subscription users.

$ git clone --branch v1.10.2 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v1.10.2

• ›Adds GPT 5.6 Sol and GPT 5.6 Terra model options for ChatGPT subscription users in the agent panel (GPT 5.6 Luna is not yet available, pending OpenAI third-party access).

LangChain 1.3.13 adds a meta extra with langchain-meta support in init_chat_model and explicit OpenAI prompt caching.

$ git clone --branch langchain==1.3.13 https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout langchain==1.3.13

$ pip install 'langchain[meta]'

• ›Adds meta extra and integrates langchain-meta into init_chat_model, enabling Meta model initialization through the unified chat model factory.
• ›Adds explicit prompt caching support for OpenAI models in the langchain-openai integration.

Build resilient agents.

LangGraph CLI now supports prebuild images for langgraph deploy.

$ git clone --branch cli==0.4.31 https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout cli==0.4.31

• ›Supports prebuild images for langgraph deploy, enabling faster deployments by skipping the image build step.

PydanticAI v2.8.0 lets to_cli() accept a model override and bumps the bundled chat UI to 2.0.0.

$ git clone --branch v2.8.0 https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v2.8.0

agent.to_cli(model='openai:gpt-4o')

• ›Adds model parameter to to_cli() so agents defined without a model can have one supplied at CLI invocation time.
• ›Bumps bundled chat UI to 2.0.0 and targets sdk_version=7 in Agent.to_web().

SGLang v0.5.15 adds native Exa web search, decode context parallelism, new FlashKDA kernels, and expands model support to Hunyuan 3, HRM-Text, and more.

$ git clone --branch v0.5.15 https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v0.5.15

• ›Adds flashinfer_trtllm_routed MoE runner with FlashInfer all-to-all for routed Mixture-of-Experts inference.
• ›Adds opt-in non-paged indexer for DeepSeek-V4 long-context prefill, now enabled by default for large prefill chunks, with >5% end-to-end throughput gain.
• ›Enables Breakable CUDA Graph as the default capture path, reducing per-step kernel-launch overhead; full CUDA Graph for the prefill phase lands as experimental.
• ›Adds web_search built-in tool backed by Exa for native web search support.
• ›Adds FlashKDA prefill backend for safe-gate KDA linear attention, plus ReplaySSM buffered output-only decode for linear attention.

llama.cpp b9957 improves server tool-use with a new tools_io abstraction and enhanced edit tool.

$ git clone --branch b9957 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout b9957

• ›Adds tools_io and tools_io_basic abstraction layer to the server, giving tool-use I/O a dedicated interface.
• ›Improves the server edit tool with enhanced functionality.
• ›Removes apply_diff from the server tool set.

$ git clone --branch b9951 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout b9951

$ cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=OFF -DGGML_ET=ON -DLLAMA_CURL=OFF -DGGML_CCACHE=ON
cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
./build/bin/llama-server --model Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf --alias Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0 -fa 0 --ctx-size 1024 --no-warmup --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080

$ cmake -B build -DGGML_ET=ON -DGGML_ET_SYSEMU=ON
cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
./build/bin/test-backend-ops

$ git clone --branch b9949 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout b9949

$ git clone --branch b9947 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout b9947

$ llama-cli --output result.txt -m model.gguf -p "Summarize this document:"

Phoenix evals move to a pytest plugin, enabling PXI evals to run natively in standard test suites.

$ git clone --branch arize-phoenix-v17.24.0 https://github.com/Arize-ai/phoenix.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout arize-phoenix-v17.24.0

• ›Moves PXI evals to a pytest plugin, allowing Phoenix evals to be executed directly within pytest test suites.

Langfuse v3.212.0 adds dashboard widget copy-paste and versioned JSON import/export for dashboard configurations.

$ git clone --branch v3.212.0 https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v3.212.0

• ›Adds widget menus, copy-paste, and versioned JSON import/export for dashboards, enabling shareable and reproducible dashboard configurations.

$ git clone --branch v3.211.0 https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v3.211.0

LanceDB python-v0.35.0-beta.0 adds an elastic dataloader, OpenTelemetry metrics, Tencent COS/GooseFS support, and expanded expression literal types.

$ git clone --branch python-v0.35.0-beta.0 https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout python-v0.35.0-beta.0

• ›Adds get_lsm_write_spec function to read the installed LSM write spec from a dataset.
• ›Aligns Permutation.with_format('torch') behavior with HuggingFace's set_format('torch') convention.
• ›Adds an elastic dataloader as an iterable dataset for flexible, streaming data loading.
• ›Supports date, datetime, bytes, and Decimal literals in the expression builder.
• ›Exposes Lance metrics via OpenTelemetry in both Python and Node.

$ git clone --branch v0.32.0-beta.0 https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v0.32.0-beta.0

Weaviate v1.38.3 adds a /grpc-web endpoint, a runtime GraphQL toggle, hard-link replica movement, and namespace-local RBAC roles.

$ git clone --branch v1.38.3 https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v1.38.3

• ›Introduces the /grpc-web endpoint, enabling gRPC-Web protocol support for browser and proxy-constrained clients.
• ›Adds a runtime toggle for the GraphQL API, allowing operators to enable or disable the GraphQL surface without restarting the node.
• ›Adds namespace-local roles, scoping RBAC role definitions to individual namespaces rather than globally.
• ›Adds a gate to disallow global non-operator users, restricting operator-only surfaces from namespaced users.
• ›Supports automaxprocs for automatic GOMAXPROCS tuning via cgroup v2, improving CPU scheduling in containerized deployments.