BuildersGitHub's Copilot Fusion judges what a task needs, and Enterprise gets Copilot without a separate subscriptionAt Universe 2026 GitHub showed Copilot Fusion: by GitHub's own numbers, Fusion Max lands within two points of Opus 5.5 Max at half the cost. For Enterprise, Copilot is no longer a separate purchase. No availability was given for Fusion.BuildersOctoverse 2026: agents now start over 40% of pull requests on GitHub, up from 17% in MarchBy GitHub's data, in September agents started over 40% of pull requests on the platform, against 17% in March. How many of them reach a merge is not stated.BuildersVercel CI is in beta: it runs only what the change touches, and the setup lives in turbo.json instead of YAMLOn 28 October Vercel put Vercel CI in beta on all plans. By Vercel's data, getting from push to green CI is 2-6x faster for them. The announcement gives no price.BuildersReplit's ViBench 2.0: GPT-6.1 Sol leads at 65%, and no open-weight model passes a full buildReplit's new ViBench 2.0 tests an agent from an empty project to a whole product. By Replit's data, GPT-6.1 Sol leads at 65% pass@1, GPT-6 Astra is at 60%, Opus 5.5 at 49%.BuildersMicrosoft Copilot harness in Foundry: the agent loop and the sandbox are Microsoft's, and billing starts on December 1On October 28 Microsoft released the Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service in public preview: a managed service for agents that reason, use tools and finish long tasks. Harness time is not billed until December 1, then it is billed by consumption, while models and tools are paid separately already.Buildersn8n 3.0 is out as a beta: npm and npx are gone, the Code node stops after a minute by default, and there is no way back to 2.x without a backupOn 27 October n8n released 3.0.0 as a beta. Self-hosting moves to Docker, the default Code node timeout drops from 5 minutes to 1, and the old Function, Cron and Interval nodes are removed. Moving to 3.x is one way, and n8n promises the stable release for early December.BuildersAnthropic donates Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation, next to MCP: engineers from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI will maintain the standard as individualsOn October 22, Anthropic announced it is donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, where MCP already lives. The name, the logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain go with it. Per Anthropic, more than 70 agent platforms already use it.BuildersVercel makes Python generally available, puts the Daemons background workers in beta, and gives agents a drive that survives between runsAt Ship 2026 Vercel announced Python as generally available, Daemons in public beta, and Drives, generally available for Sandbox. By Vercel's figures, deployments triggered by agents rose 28-fold in 12 months.
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