Cofounder climbs to 13/36 as GPT-5.6 lands
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 landed on 2026-06-26 with agent skills and three new models, and that matters because the directory is already seeing tools frame themselves around agentic work, not just chat. Cofounder (/t/cofounder) moved from 12 to 13 and now sits at 13/36, while Pipedream and Make both published yesterday as new automation options. Signal is not broad, but it is clear: operators should read this as another nudge toward systems that can connect actions across apps and code, not another standalone assistant.
Foundation-model news
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GPT-5.6 · OpenAI
Model release
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6 on Friday, including Sol, Terra, and Luna in a limited preview. The release follows news that the company would stagger its rollout at the request of the Trump administration. For those tracking agentic AI, this signals a race to package stronger long-horizon task performance into tiered models for coding, cybersecurity, and biology. The sharpest detail is the claim that one version stays focused better on long agent tasks while still undercutting rivals on price.
Source: The Verge AI — https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/957845/openai-gpt-5-6-trump-administration-ai-preview.
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Score activity
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Score re-evaluated after: CoFounder.AI debuts with 8,000 people waiting, promising founders an AI partner instead of another dashboard.
Trigger: CNHI News — "CoFounder.AI debuts with 8,000 people waiting, promising founders an AI partner instead of another dashboard.".
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New listings
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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Pipedream is a cloud automation platform for connecting apps, APIs, and custom code in multi-step workflows. It’s aimed at developers and teams that need integrations and workflow automation rather than a simple chat assistant.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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11/36 · Guided Assistant
Make helps you build automations and AI workflows across 3,000+ integrations. You can assemble scenarios visually, add logic in code, or start from a prompt.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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News mentions (score held)
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1/36 · Reactive Tool
Mentioned in coverage but score held. Press without verifiable capability change does not move the rubric.
Source: Tech Times — "Perplexity Launches Legal AI Platform: 20-Model Agent Targets Law Firm Workflows Above Westlaw".
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From Agentic-News.ai
Agentic-AI industry signal we're tracking — launches, releases, and research from across the ecosystem. The directory rubric hasn't scored these yet; awareness now, evaluation next pass.
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Markup AI
product launch
Markup AI launched Content Guardian Agents for marketing teams publishing content at scale. The suite checks brand voice, audience fit, accuracy, human voice, and AI citability before anything goes live. The timing fits a flood of AI-generated content that makes quality control harder for teams. For those tracking agentic AI, this shows another use case where AI polices enterprise output instead of creating it.
Via Agentic-News.ai — MarTech Series. Read: https://martechseries.com/predictive-ai/ai-platforms-machine-learning/markup-ai-launches-content-guardian-agents-bringing-enterprise-grade-content-quality-to-the-ai-era
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Farseer
product launch
Farseer announced on June 23, 2026 that it is expanding into the UK and North America while launching AI Analyst. The company also says it secured IBCS certification for standardized reporting as finance teams face pressure for faster decisions. For those tracking agentic AI, this shows vendors are packaging analysis tools with trust and compliance features. The interesting part is how much the new analyst can explain numbers before humans challenge them.
Via Agentic-News.ai — The Manila times. Read: https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/06/23/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/farseer-expands-into-uk-and-north-america-as-it-launches-ai-analyst-to-make-finance-ai-boardroom-ready/2370969
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Biggest movers this week
Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest
- Bolt.new · +48% week-over-week. Bolt is an AI coding environment for building websites, apps, and prototypes from a prompt. It also connects to Figma and GitHub so you can start from an existing design or codebase.
- Replit Agent · +27.3% week-over-week. Replit is a cloud-based development platform for building, running, and publishing apps. Its AI tools can help you set up projects, answer code questions, and troubleshoot issues inside your workspace.
- OpenHands · +2.5% week-over-week. OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a fully autonomous open-source AI coding agent. MIT-licensed core, plans + executes Python actions via CodeAct, uses browser + terminal + files. 74.3K GitHub stars and 68.4% on SWE-bench Verified with Opus 4.6.
Biggest declines this week
Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest
- GitHub Copilot · -40% week-over-week. GitHub Copilot helps you write, review, and adapt code directly in GitHub, your IDE, and the terminal. It supports everything from inline suggestions to agentic coding workflows with broader model choices and enterprise controls.
- Aider · -28.6% week-over-week. Aider helps you edit code from the terminal with an AI model connected to your codebase. It runs locally in your repo and can work with models from providers like xAI using an API key.
- v0 · -22.7% week-over-week. v0 helps you design, iterate, and scale full-stack web apps with a collaborative AI interface. It starts from prompts, templates, and attachments, then lets you keep refining the result in the browser.
- Cursor · -10.3% week-over-week. Cursor is a developer-focused AI environment that adds agents, context, and automation around your repositories. It combines an editor-like interface, a CLI, and a cloud agent API to automate code review, bug fixing, CI hygiene, and more. Designed for individual developers and engineering teams who want AI to take real actions in their code and infrastructure, not just chat.
Agenticness Leaderboard
This week's most-clicked tools, re-ranked by rubric score. The score is the editorial signal; the popularity is what drew the directory's traffic here this week.
- Windsurf · 19/36 · Domain Specialist · L3
Windsurf Editor is an AI-powered IDE for developers that blends chat, autocomplete, and agentic code actions into the editor itself. It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and is aimed at speeding up day-to-day coding work on real codebases.
- Cline · 19/36 · Domain Specialist · L3
Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.
- OpenHands · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2
OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a fully autonomous open-source AI coding agent. MIT-licensed core, plans + executes Python actions via CodeAct, uses browser + terminal + files. 74.3K GitHub stars and 68.4% on SWE-bench Verified with Opus 4.6.
Wingman is a messaging-first autonomous AI agent by Emergent. It connects to your email, calendar, Slack, CRM, and GitHub, then handles scheduling, research, sales support, and admin tasks through WhatsApp and Telegram conversations.
- Bolt.new · 11/36 · Guided Assistant · L1
Bolt is an AI coding environment for building websites, apps, and prototypes from a prompt. It also connects to Figma and GitHub so you can start from an existing design or codebase.
What operators are searching for this week
A week's demand signal — what operators are typing into the directory's search. Suggestion-chip defaults + off-topic / greetings filtered.
- "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
- "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"
- "tools to automate customer support ticket triage"
- "AI agent that can browse the web and fill out forms"
- "self-hosted open-source AI agents I can run locally"
One tool worth testing
Pipedream — Test Pipedream for multi-step workflow automation when you need to connect apps, APIs, and custom code in one place. It just published yesterday at 14/36, and its positioning is squarely for developers and teams that need integrations rather than a simple chat layer. Run a 30-minute pilot against your current automation stack on one real process — for example, a handoff that spans two systems and a code step — and see whether it reduces glue work without turning into a maintenance burden.
Our pick for automating my team's repetitive multi-step workflows — lead routing, data sync, and scheduled jobs — without a dedicated engineer: n8n
Tops our independent /36 for automating my team's repetitive multi-step workflows — lead routing, data sync, and scheduled jobs — without a dedicated engineer — strongest on action and reliability, ahead of Zapier. Per-execution (not per-step).
Ranked by our 9-dimension Agenticness rubric — not by who pays us (nobody does). The full scorecard, true-cost pricing, and the reliability evidence behind every score are in the report.
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