Radar brief — 2026-08-10

What the evidence shows

High-signal versioned releases cluster around agent plugins, session/checkpoint control, MCP auth, and safer defaults—not raw model swaps.

Confidence note: Gemini CLI preview/nightly entries overlap changelogs and lean “caretaker”/internal workflow—noisier than the stable v0.54.0 security fixes. Windsurf is changelog HTML (weaker than GitHub release tags). Grok is a monorepo commit hash.

For developers

• Codex CLI: Try rust-v0.147.0 if you care about plugin catalogs, --approve-for-me, or Cursor/Claude skill import; read permission/auto-review notes from rust-v0.146.1 before wide --approve use.
• Claude Code: On Team/Enterprise, evaluate self-hosted-runner and pin plugins via archive + SHA-256 when git/npm are blocked.
• Cline: Use desktop-v0.0.8 when you need mid-thread edit → full workspace rewind; use v4.1.7 “View Changes” + remote MCP OAuth for reviewable agent diffs.
• Goose: v1.45.0 if you need air-gapped docs root, Gemini model picks, or stabler compaction summaries.
• OpenCode / Gemini CLI / Windsurf: Pull current patches for thinking/cache correctness, HTTPS credential transport, and symlink-write refusal—these are foot-gun fixes, not features.
• Zed / Grok / Gemini nightlies: Treat as exploratory only until non-pre releases cover your workflow.

For teams

• Policy & approvals: Codex’s --approve-for-me plus cyber-model auto-review defaults need an explicit team policy (who may enable, which repos, audit trail).
• Enterprise identity: Antigravity 1.1.10 Business sign-in and Claude self-hosted runners are the org-control levers in this window—map them to existing IdP, region, and seat processes before rollout.
• Supply chain: Prefer Claude archive plugins with SHA-256 pins and Codex workspace/plugin marketplace controls over ad-hoc installs.
• MCP: Standardize on Cline’s pre-registered OAuth path where dynamic client registration is blocked.
• Security baselines: Require Windsurf ≥ v3.6.27 (symlink write block + corp CA), Gemini CLI ≥ v0.54.0 (HTTPS auth provider), and Codex ≥ rust-v0.146.1 (safer cyber-model review) in managed images.
• Checkpoint culture: Cline’s atomic restore/checkpoint work is the concrete enablement for “edit history safely” training—pair with mandatory review of completion-card diffs.

What to ignore

• Marketing tone and unversioned “AI coding” claims outside this evidence set.
• Gemini caretaker/Firestore/Pub/Sub orchestration noise in nightlies unless you run that internal stack.
• Zed v1.15.0-pre and Gemini nightlies/previews as production pins.
• Open proposals still at P5 backlog (older Codex/Cline/Goose/OpenCode/Zed items)—they are not new release proof.
• Inflated “+N more changes” tails without reading the tagged notes that matter for your surface (MCP, sandbox, approvals).

Watch next

• Codex plugin marketplace + remote Code Mode adoption vs. breakages tagged breaking/surface:mcp.
• Claude self-hosted-runner operational patterns (network, secrets, plan gating).
• Whether Cline checkpoint/OAuth work lands consistently across desktop, extension, and SDK hosts.
• Follow-up stable Zed cut after v1.15.0-pre.
• Grok Build moving from commit syncs to clearer versioned releases.
• Further cyber-model / approval default tightening after Codex rust-v0.146.1.

How to use DevAgentRadar

• Read What the evidence shows as the only source of truth for versions; don’t infer unlisted releases.
• Developers: pick one assistant version and one concrete action (plugin pin, checkpoint try, security bump).
• Teams: turn the same rows into allowlists, image pins, and approval policy—not slide decks.
• Ignore low-trust or prerelease rows until they reappear as stable tags.
• Re-check open proposals and the next brief before mandating fleet-wide upgrades.

Evidence appendix

• Evidence window: top curated signals (versioned releases preferred)
• Assistants tracked: 22
• Signals in this brief: 16
• Trusted source mix (GitHub/changelog vs HTML): 55%
• Open improvement proposals: 8
• Sources reporting errors: 0

High-signal releases used

• OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.146.0: Name new sessions with /new or /clear, pin important threads, and switch between side conversations without closing them. (#34605, #34840, #35011) · Support — source

• Claude Code v2.1.224: Added self-hosted environments: claude self-hosted-runner turns your own machines or containers into a place Claude Code web, mobile, and desktop sessions can — source

• OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.147.0: Install portable Agent Plugins and search across local, personal, workspace, and remote plugin catalogs. (#36544, #36409, #36919, #36796) · Organize conversatio — source

• Zed AI v1.15.0-pre: This week's release includes a new git.diff_base setting for choosing whether editor gutters, file-status colors, and git: diff show uncommitted changes aga — source

• Google Antigravity 1.1.10: Added Business sign-in for Gemini Enterprise accounts, so you can authenticate with a Google Cloud project under Google Cloud terms, use a license seat allocate — source

• Cline desktop-v0.0.8: Edit any earlier message in a conversation — the app forks the session at that point, rewinds the workspace to that run's checkpoint, and re-runs from your edit — source

• Cline v4.1.7: Restore the "View Changes" button on completion rows, backed by SDK checkpoints, so you can review everything a task touched from the completion card. · Bring b — source

• Cline sdk/sdk/v0.0.72 — SDK v0.0.72: Prompts queued during a turn now survive being interrupted: they are preserved across user-initiated aborts, drained after a turn aborts itself, and edits made — source

• OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.146.1: Apply safer automatic-review defaults for cyber-capable models and explain permission changes in the terminal interface. (#37057) · #37057 [0.146] Backport safe — source

• Goose v1.45.0: Stable agent event message identity #10716 · Tab completion and switch provider for model command [#10585](h — source

• Gemini CLI v0.56.0-nightly.20260808.gcf22ac7e8: Reclassifying Capacity Exhaustion as Terminal Error · feat(caretaker): update Firestore schema with error, and pr_number fields · feat(caretaker-triage): prompt — source

• OpenCode v1.18.5: Improve Claude adaptive thinking handling across more response shapes. · Avoid OpenAI Responses phase handling that could break some conversations. · Preserve g — source

• Gemini CLI v0.54.0-preview.0: Changelog for v0.53.0-preview.0 · Changelog for v0.52.0 · chore(release): bump version to 0.54.0-nightly.20260722.gf743ab579 · fix(caretaker): sanitize and wrap — source

• Gemini CLI v0.54.0: Changelog for v0.53.0-preview.0 · Changelog for v0.52.0 · chore(release): bump version to 0.54.0-nightly.20260722.gf743ab579 · fix(caretaker): sanitize and wrap — source

Open proposals

• Improve with OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.145.0: rust-v0.145.0 0.145.0 (audience: team, P5)

• Improve with Cline v4.0.7: v4.0.7 (audience: team, P5)

• Improve with xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build) 8adf901: Synced from monorepo (audience: team, P5)

• Improve with OpenCode pr-38252-videos: pr-38252-videos PR #38252 verification videos (audience: everyone, P5)

• Improve with OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.144.6: rust-v0.144.6 0.144.6 (audience: developer, P5)

• Review breaking changes in Zed AI v1.13.0-pre (audience: team, P5)

• Improve with OpenCode v1.18.5: v1.18.5 (audience: team, P5)

• Improve with Goose v1.44.0: v1.44.0 (audience: team, P5)