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AI updates of 5 May, 2026

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AI updates of 5 May, 2026

GPT-5.5 adopts Skills and MCP; Cursor SDK ships; Claude Code 2.1.128

TL;DR

MUST READ   OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 with native Skills, MCP, hosted shell & computer use — the Anthropic-style agent stack is now table stakes.

WORTH A LOOK   Cursor SDK opens; Claude Code 2.1.128 + 2.1.126 land; Codex CLI persists /goal; Microsoft Agent 365 hits GA.

NOTED   9 OSS / vendor blips: skill-collection repos surge, Mistral Medium 3.5, OpenCode v1.14.35, Parallel raises $100M.

The feed

MUST READ   DEV MGR ARCH NON-DEV

GPT-5.5 ships with Skills, MCP, hosted shell & computer use

developers.openai.com · 2026-05-05

OpenAI’s new flagship adopts Anthropic-style agent primitives wholesale — 1M context, prompt caching, hosted shell, apply patch, computer use.

For non-devs: the two biggest AI labs now build their assistants out of the same Lego pieces — apps you build for one will work on the other.

#GPT-5.5 #MCP #release

MUST READ   DEV MGR ARCH

Microsoft Agent 365 hits GA — Defender now discovers Claude Code, Copilot CLI & OpenClaw on endpoints

microsoft.com · 2026-05-01

Shadow-agent governance lands at the OS layer: Entra controls, Bedrock/GCP registry sync, per-endpoint inventory of claude-code & copilot-cli.

For non-devs: IT can finally see and govern every AI coding assistant running inside the company without asking developers nicely.

#Microsoft #governance #agents

WORTH A LOOK   DEV

Claude Code v2.1.128: --plugin-dir takes .zip, /mcp shows tool counts

docs.claude.com · 2026-05-04

EnterWorktree branches from local HEAD; subprocesses no longer inherit OTEL_*; flagged 0-tool MCP servers in /mcp.

npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

#claude-code #release #MCP

WORTH A LOOK   DEV ARCH

Cursor SDK enters public beta — build agents on the same harness as Cursor

cursor.com · 2026-04-29

TypeScript SDK exposes Cursor’s runtime, models, and Cloud Agents API with reworked streaming and lifecycle controls.

#Cursor #SDK #agents

WORTH A LOOK   DEV

Codex CLI v0.128: persisted /goal workflows, Bedrock provider, plugin marketplace

developers.openai.com · 2026-04-30

Durable goals across runs, AWS Bedrock as a provider, remote bundle caching, plugin-bundled hooks, configurable TUI keymaps.

#Codex #release

WORTH A LOOK   DEV MGR ARCH

Cursor Security Review: always-on PR scanner + scheduled vuln scans

cursor.com · 2026-04-30

Beta on Teams/Enterprise. Flags auth regressions, data-handling risk, agent auto-approvals, prompt-injection paths on every PR.

#Cursor #security

WORTH A LOOK   DEV

Claude Code v2.1.126: claude project purge nukes all state for a path

docs.claude.com · 2026-05-01

Plus /model reads gateway /v1/models, OAuth codes pasteable into terminal, PowerShell promoted on Windows.

#claude-code #release

WORTH A LOOK   DEV MGR

Cursor Team Marketplace: Default-Off / Default-On / Required plugin modes

cursor.com · 2026-05-01

Plugin bundles ship MCP servers, skills, subagents, rules, hooks. Admins enforce install posture per plugin.

#Cursor #plugins #MCP

WORTH A LOOK   DEV

GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.40: headless OAuth via client_credentials

github.com · 2026-05-01

MCP servers can now auth without a browser. Subagents evaluate tool support against their own model, not parent session.

#Copilot #CLI #MCP

WORTH A LOOK   DEV MGR ARCH

Anthropic ships Claude Security (public beta) on Opus 4.7

anthropic.com · 2026-05-04

Code-vuln scans + proposed fixes for Enterprise. Direct shot at Cursor/Copilot security tier.

#Anthropic #security

WORTH A LOOK   DEV

mattpocock/skills hits 59k stars (+31k this week)

github.com · 2026-05-05

Production Claude Code skills from Matt Pocock’s .claude/: diagnose, tdd, grill-with-docs, git-guardrails.

#claude-code #skills #OSS

WORTH A LOOK   DEV NON-DEV

Claude expands creative connectors: Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, Splice

anthropic.com · 2026-04-28

First-party MCP-style connectors give Claude write-access into design and DAW tools. New Claude Design mode for rapid export.

#Anthropic #MCP #creative

WORTH A LOOK   DEV ARCH

Google: Deep Research Max + Gemini Embedding 2 GA

blog.google · 2026-04-30

Deep Research now MCP-aware on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Embedding 2 hits GA on Gemini API + Vertex with multimodal support.

#Gemini #MCP #embeddings

WORTH A LOOK   DEV MGR NON-DEV

White House weighs pre-release AI model vetting (NYT)

nytimes.com · 2026-05-04

Draft EO would create a tech-exec + government working group to set US-side oversight before frontier launches.

#policy #regulation

NOTED · 9 items

Trending repos & tools

mattpocock/skills   ★ +31.0k

Production Claude Code skills from Matt Pocock’s .claude/.

ruvnet/ruflo   ★ +6.8k

Agent orchestration platform for parallel Claude deployments.

AIDC-AI/Pixelle-Video   ★ +3.6k

Automated short-form video generation engine.

sst/opencode   v1.14.35

Open coding agent: PTY tickets, v2 session-failure events.

TauricResearch/TradingAgents   ★ +13.3k

Multi-agent LLM framework for trading research.

ComposioHQ/awesome-codex-skills   ★ +3.9k

50+ practical Codex skills across dev / productivity / data.

abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus   ★ +4.7k

Browser-based code-repo knowledge graph explorer.

refactoringhq/tolaria   ★ +2.5k

Desktop markdown KB app with AI-built linking.

On the radar — people & vendors

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