Backfill issue -094 — The AI Toolchain

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AI & LLM Tooling

◆ AI Agent Frameworks

holmesgpt

0.30.0 NOTES

SRE Agent - CNCF Sandbox Project

HolmesGPT 0.30.0 adds GitLab MCP server integration alongside existing Kubernetes MCP support.

└──▷ GET THIS VERSION

$ git clone --branch 0.30.0 https://github.com/HolmesGPT/holmesgpt.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout 0.30.0

›Adds GitLab MCP server integration, enabling Holmes to interact with GitLab repositories and resources via the Model Context Protocol.

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◆ Local LLM Runtimes

vMLX

v1.5.39 NOTES

vMLX - JANGTQ Uber Compressed MLX Models - L2 Disk Cache (survives restart) + L1 Paged (super fast ttft) + Hybrid SSM Scheduler + Cont Batching + etc!

vMLX v1.5.39 adds native MTP health reporting with depth, scope, tensor counts, and gating reasons, plus Qwen 3.6 and Kimi K2.6 runtime support.

└──▷ GET THIS VERSION

$ git clone --branch v1.5.39 https://github.com/jjang-ai/vmlx.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v1.5.39

›Native MTP health/status now reports depth, scope, tensor counts, and gating reasons.
›Supports Qwen 3.6 MTP artifacts defaulting to D3, with opt-in model-local tuning sidecars.
›Qwen 3.6 MTP+VL app detection preserves multimodal behavior for artifact-backed affine-JANG MTP+VL bundles when indexed MTP and vision tensors are present.
›Adds Source/PyPI runtime patch parity for Kimi K2.6 MLA and Gemma 4 vision pixel-value handling.

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The AI Toolchain · curated daily · May 17, 2026
Releases & features from the open-source and commercial AI tools that practitioners actually run.

The AI Toolchain — issue -094, May 17, 2026

holmesgpt

vMLX