Radar brief — 2026-10-25

What the evidence shows

New in the last 36 hours (must-know first). Several notes omit a long tail of changes (bodyOmitted); only published bullets are cited.

Still relevant this week (not in the 36-hour window; versioned GitHub-style notes preferred):

Noise / confidence: GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.104-3 is a prerelease whose body is only “Fixes and changes” — no actionable evidence. Trusted source mix is 54% GitHub/changelog vs HTML; Windsurf, Kiro, Factory, and Copilot blog entries are HTML changelogs. One tracked source reported errors this window — treat incomplete HTML notes as incomplete, not as “no other changes.”

For developers

• Windsurf daily users: Update through v3.11.216. Treat v3.11.212 as a new primary UI: drag sessions side by side, group by workspace, use Files/Changes/Terminal in the Agent Window, Cmd/Ctrl+L to quote code into chat. If you hit inline-image crashes in local terminals, v3.11.216 is the fix.
• Qwen Code: If you run qqbot, v0.26.1 is a breaking session-isolation restore — retest per-group threads. Daemon token persistence is opt-in; --save-token writes a bearer token to an owner-only file and daemon stop removes it. Do not enable it on shared machines without reviewing that file’s lifetime.
• Antigravity: Hook authors can now read lastUserInput on stdin and screen prompts before tools run. Expect fewer Auto-mode approval prompts on formatters/temp-file cleanup. MCP tools loaded on demand can return 10 KB inline — adjust parsers that assumed the 4 KB “write to file” path. Skip Seasonal Themes unless you want the Halloween chrome.
• Claude Code: If you are on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, or have telemetry off, you now get Monitor / plugin monitors, and long foreground sleeps are blocked. If requests failed behind gateways that reject effort-2025-11-24 or mid-conversation system messages, v2.1.310 retries without them. Check cleanupPeriodDays if pasted images vanished; Windows hook users without Git Bash should retest PreToolUse / PermissionRequest.
• Kiro: CLI 2.34.0 — be ready for MCP elicitation forms in local V3 sessions (fill, follow link, or decline; the tool continues). You can delete memories from /memories. IDE 1.4.26 — set “Use workflows” deliberately; Memory Off is now applied. Restart after the model GA note to see Fable 5.1 / Sonnet 5.5 / GPT-5.6 Terra / Luna.
• Factory Droid: Quality-of-life, not a behavior break. If updates were “off” and the CLI blamed npm, v0.248.0 now explains the real reason.
• Do not pipe the Augment install.sh prerelease unless you are testing SEA packaging. macOS -sea builds are explicitly unsigned.

For teams

• Windsurf orgs: v3.11.216 restores Devin Local for members whose org role has no Cloud session permissions — confirm that matches your intended split, then communicate it. Cloud vs local now share one Agent Window; review whether side-by-side sessions and Remote SSH from the IDE button fit your data-handling policy.
• Qwen daemon tokens: If anyone enables --save-token, treat it as a credential on disk. Default should stay off for shared CI/dev boxes.
• Claude Code in enterprises: Monitor availability when telemetry is disabled is the useful part; also retest gateway/proxy paths that previously 400’d on the effort beta header.
• Kiro: Four models leave Preview/Experimental; the Kiro Excluded Models indemnity exception no longer applies to them. Fable 5.1 is still Enterprise-only in us-east-1. Restart IDE/CLI/Crew/Web so capacity and picker state match production.
• Factory: If you disable session-contents sync for privacy, you can now allow titles only — set that explicitly rather than assuming titles were already stored.
• Copilot: Update the Teams GitHub app; the legacy app retires 16 Nov. Finance/enablement should start consuming totals_by_client so Copilot-as-a-backend usage (OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Zed, CLI) is no longer invisible next to IDE telemetry.
• Mistral Vibe (this week, not today): enable_mcp is an admin kill switch for user MCP, including plugin servers — decide the org default before people upgrade to v3.0.0. enable_subagents / enable_background_processes in v2.26.1 are the matching runtime brakes.
• Codex: /presets is individual today; there is an open team proposal to save shared slash commands in those slots (P5). Don’t roll a homegrown “team presets” process until that lands.

What to ignore

• Antigravity’s Halloween theme and moon-phase spinner.
• Copilot CLI v1.0.104-3 — empty “Fixes and changes,” prerelease, no evidence.
• Augment Code’s curl installer and unsigned macOS SEA note, unless you maintain that binary pipeline.
• Copilot marketing (“ship code faster without leaving the conversation”). The durable facts are the app consolidation + Nov 16 retirement, and totals_by_client.
• Any claim about the “+N more changes” tails. Those bodies were omitted; inventing them would be fiction.
• Internal scores, theme counts, and “mustKnow” as if they were changelog text — the ranking only decided lead order; the release notes are the evidence.

Watch next

• Whether Windsurf’s Agent Window becomes the default path for mixed local/cloud work, and how permission models keep up with 8-up sessions and Remote SSH.
• Qwen daemon token files in the wild (opt-in now; defaults matter).
• Claude Code Monitor behavior on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry with telemetry off — new control-plane surface.
• Kiro MCP elicitation in real V3 sessions (forms/links mid-tool) and whether workflow frequency controls reduce surprise automations.
• Copilot totals_by_client appearing in actual org reports (and what lands in other / unknown).
• Mistral Vibe v3.0.0 enable_mcp and compaction-threshold API as clients start showing context fullness.
• Codex /presets + enterprise MCP OAuth-with-secrets; the team-presets proposal is still open.
• Two other open proposals (Grok CLI harness/TUI, OpenCode verification videos) are P2/everyone and not in today’s release set.

How to use DevAgentRadar

This brief is a public evidence radar, not a vendor roundup. Read Headline for what is new in the last 36 hours; What the evidence shows for versioned facts only; For developers / For teams for actions. Skip What to ignore. Use Watch next as an attention list, not a prediction. If a row has no version, it is a changelog/blog signal and ranks below a GitHub-style release. If a note says changes were omitted, assume unknown — do not fill gaps from memory or marketing.

Evidence appendix

• New in the last 36 hours: 14 release(s) from 9 tool(s)
• Evidence window: new releases first, then top curated signals (versioned releases preferred)
• Assistants tracked: 29
• Signals in this brief: 40
• Trusted source mix (GitHub/changelog vs HTML): 54%
• Open improvement proposals: 3
• Sources reporting errors: 1

High-signal releases used

• Qwen Code v0.26.1: See the complete change list below. · fix(qqbot)!: restore per-group session isolation under thread scope ([#13882](https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/pull/1 — source

• Google Antigravity 1.4.7: Added lastUserInput to the JSON that hook commands receive on stdin, so a hook can inspect the latest message you sent, for example to screen prompts before t — source

• Claude Code v2.1.310: Added the Monitor tool and plugin monitors on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, and when telemetry or nonessential traffic is disabled; long foreground sleeps are n — source

• Windsurf v3.11.212: v3.11.212 October 23, 2026 · New Agent Window The Agent Window now runs the same interface as the Devin web app: the sessions sidebar, session view, Automations — source

• Augment Code v1.2.0-prerelease.202610231517 — auggie-v2 v1.2.0-prerelease.202610231517: Install the latest release (macOS/Linux): · curl -fsSL https://github.com/augmentcode/auggie/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash · Install a specific ver — source

• Windsurf v3.11.216: v3.11.216 October 24, 2026 · Members whose org role has no Devin Cloud session permissions can see, open and start Devin Local sessions again. · On Windows, dev — source

• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.104-3: Fixes and changes — source

• Kiro 2.34.0 — MCP Elicitation, Workflow Controls, and Memory Deletion: October 23, 2026 MCP Elicitation, Workflow Controls, and Memory Deletion · 2.34.0 · This release lets V3 MCP tools ask for input, gives you more control over Wo — source

• Kiro 1.4.26 — Choose When Kiro Uses Workflows: October 22, 2026 Choose When Kiro Uses Workflows · 1.4.26 · This release adds the Use workflows control, so you can choose how often Kiro starts workflows in a — source

• Factory Droid v0.248.0 — · Desktop v0.205.0 (October 23, 2026): Faster composer and settings search, steadier reconnects, and CLI and app fixes · Store session titles control - Organizations that turn session contents sy — source

• Factory Droid v0.249.0 — · Desktop v0.206.0 (October 24, 2026): Resumable update downloads, faster session opening, plugin MCP counts, and CLI and app fixes · Session opening speed - Opening a session is now faster on ma — source

• Kiro — Generally Available: Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna: October 21, 2026 Generally Available: Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna · Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-5.6 Terra, — source

• GitHub Copilot — Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams: The new GitHub app in Teams brings notifications and Copilot together, helping teams turn issues into fixes and ship code faster without leaving the conversatio — source

• GitHub Copilot — Usage metrics API adds usage from tools like OpenCode: The Copilot usage metrics API now reports model usage from more of the tools your developers use with Copilot, including tools like OpenCode that weren't previo — source

Open proposals

• Save team slash commands in Codex /presets slots (audience: team, P5)
• Improve with xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build) c68e39f: Publish harness and TUI open-source (audience: everyone, P2)
• Improve with OpenCode pr-38252-videos: pr-38252-videos PR #38252 verification videos (audience: everyone, P2)