THE AI TOOLCHAIN NO. -073 The daily firehose — everything the toolchain shipped today, already filtered.
We read every release from the 174 tools on our watchlist at the source — GitHub and GitLab release notes, vendor release pages and changelogs, project blogs and feeds, vendor press releases, and the source code behind the tag. Bug-fix-only releases and non-product newsroom noise are dropped; what's left is summarized down to the new capability, how to try it, and any screenshots or videos the release itself published. Every entry links to the sources it was built from.
$ tct list # 3 tools matched
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
Cline v3.88.1 adds a debug section in settings for testers.
$ git clone --branch v3.88.1 https://github.com/cline/cline.git # already have the repo? check out this version: $ git checkout v3.88.1
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
Ollama v0.30.7 adds ollama launch hermes-desktop for a native visual interface to the Hermes agent.
$ git clone --branch v0.30.7 https://github.com/ollama/ollama.git # already have the repo? check out this version: $ git checkout v0.30.7
$ ollama launch hermes-desktop ollama launch hermes-desktop to spin up Hermes Desktop, a native UI for managing Hermes agent conversations, integrations, and messaging apps.llama.cpp b9549 adds Gemma4 MTP (multi-token prediction) support.
$ git clone --branch b9549 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git # already have the repo? check out this version: $ git checkout b9549
llama.cpp b9547 skips redundant mmproj downloads when a user-supplied mmproj is already provided.
$ git clone --branch b9547 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git # already have the repo? check out this version: $ git checkout b9547
mmproj download when the user has already supplied an mmproj via argument, avoiding redundant network fetches.