What shipped in week 45

Talk to Cursor agents in a realtime voice call from the Agents Window, IDE, web or Cursor for iOS. The voice agent hands coding work to the chat agent and gives spoken progress updates; runs on Grok Voice, with zero data retention in Privacy Mode.

Mention @GitHub in Slack or Teams to investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes and open pull requests from a conversation. Adds Canvas in Teams for reviewing plans, diffs and previews, plus automatic repo detection.

OpenAI's Codex CLI rust-v0.167.0 adds codex agents --no-daemon for an agent command center with unread markers, lets you switch backends from the session picker without losing drafts, and adds local image previews plus a Google Cloud Vertex AI setup path.

Anthropic's Claude Code 2.1.319 backgrounds MCP tool calls that run as tasks, adds permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting so a blocked tool call fails closed instead of waiting, and ships /claude-api latency-optimize plus CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEATURE_FLAGS. It also hardens auto mode behind LLM gateways and fixes sandbox-escape and Bash permission-bypass bugs.

NousResearch's open-source Hermes Agent can now serve its full Desktop workspace in a browser tab from your own gateway (off by default). One gateway owns every session, and the release adds /rewind, pluggable delegation, plugin auto-updates and spend limits for paid MCP tools. Check the breaking changes before upgrading.

Cursor cloud agents can scaffold a web app, spin up Postgres when needed, configure Cursor SSO auth, run publish-time security checks, and return a live shareable link. Available on paid plans with cloud agents enabled; local agents cannot publish.

Always-on agents built on Perplexity Computer that own ongoing work: they plan tasks, coordinate other agents, watch connected tools like Slack, GitHub and Linear, and follow up on things like PR review comments. Research preview on the web for individual Perplexity Max subscribers.

GitHub Copilot is now available inside Xcode's built-in coding assistant as a public preview starting with Xcode 27.3 beta on macOS Tahoe 26.6+. The existing Copilot for Xcode extension remains a separate option; all Copilot plans are supported.

Anthropic's Claude Code 2.1.318 lets a cloud session on an Anthropic-hosted environment start with no repository picked, shows when a stored claude.ai sign-in ends (in claude auth status and claude -p JSON, plus a warning 10 days before), and adds an effort option for quick side jobs. It also fixes lost --continue history, macOS stalls with many Bash commands, and config and login corruption on shared network home directories.

Vercel Security Review is in public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams. Once enabled, every push to a connected GitHub repo is reviewed for vulnerabilities, with findings (summary, suggested fix and AI-rated severity) in a Vulnerabilities dashboard, a GitHub check and PR comments. Fix with Vercel Agent opens a PR, or pull findings into your own coding agent with vercel security vulnerabilities. Reviews are free until 10 November 2026, then billed at the Vercel Agent rate.

GitHub Copilot is now available as an agent in JetBrains Air through the Agent Client Protocol. Pick Copilot in Air's agent picker to delegate coding tasks on your existing Copilot subscription, track several agent sessions in parallel and review changes next to your code. Cloud tasks run in isolated containers through Air Teams and use your Copilot plan rather than JetBrains AI credits.