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GitHub Copilot adds a Free tier and AI Credits

Cursor ships Cloud Agent handoff; Manus says it is now part of Meta

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v2-fresh-080 · 2026-07-15 · daily change-intelligence on agentic tools

GitHub Copilot adds a Free tier and AI Credits

The strongest read today is packaging plus platform depth. GitHub Copilot has a materially different plan structure now, with a new Free tier, a $10/user/month Pro plan, and higher tiers tied to AI Credits and included usage. At the same time, Cursor’s docs now show Cloud Agent handoff, temporary or named Git worktrees, and MCP server management from the CLI/SDK. Manus also says it is now part of Meta and is relaunching around business app building. The operator takeaway: pricing is getting more explicit while agent workflows are moving closer to production controls.

What changed on the ground

Changes we detected on each tool's own pages — pricing, features, platform reach — via our daily crawls. Often ahead of any press coverage; each links to the scored listing.

Manus Ownership change
9/36 · Guided Assistant
Manus says it is now part of Meta and relaunches around business app building — The page now states that Manus is part of Meta, and the product positioning has shifted toward launching business applications without engineering resources, with built-in integrations, backend/database support, SEO, analytics, and code ex…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-14 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
GitHub Copilot Pricing change
19/36 · Domain Specialist
GitHub Copilot overhauls plans with a new Free tier and AI Credits-based usage — GitHub Copilot’s site now shows a materially different plan structure: a new Free tier, a Pro plan at $10/user/month, and updated higher tiers tied to AI Credits and included usage.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Claude Code Pricing change
18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Claude updates pricing and bundles new products into its plans — Claude’s pricing and plan structure were overhauled, with new stated price points and expanded inclusions such as Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and Claude Science.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
ChatGPT Pricing change
17/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
ChatGPT adds Go plan and revises paid tiers with new model access — ChatGPT’s pricing page now shows a new Go tier at $8/month, updated Plus and Pro plans, and revised feature access across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Cursor Platform expansion
18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Cursor expands agent platform with Cloud Agent handoff, worktrees… — Cursor’s docs now surface several substantive agent-platform additions: sending tasks to Cloud Agent mid-conversation, creating temporary or named Git worktrees, managing MCP servers from the CLI/SDK, and running Cursor CLI as an ACP serve…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Claude Pricing change
15/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Claude refreshes plans and pricing, adding new features and model bundles — Claude’s pricing and plan page was substantially overhauled: new FAQ/plan-comparison headings were added, plan descriptions were rewritten, and the Free/Pro/Max bundles now highlight features like remote MCP, memory, Research, Claude Code,…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-15 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.

In the news

Salesforce Agentforce News mention, score held
5/36 · Reactive Tool
Amazon Connect Customer has integrated with Salesforce through the Model Context Protocol, giving AI agents a new way to act across CRM and contact center systems. The shift comes as companies look for agents that can find and use tools at runtime instead of following rigid workflows. For those tracking AI agent infrastructure, this shows MCP moving from developer talk into real enterprise systems. The key question is how much control Amazon and Salesforce are willing to give those agents once they start discovering capabilities on their own.
Source: CX Today — "Amazon and Salesforce are replacing fixed API workflows with runtime agent access across CX, and the Salesforce details matter most.".
IBM watsonx Orchestrate News mention, score held
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
IBM's AI coding assistant Bob is part of a broader push to use AI for legacy system modernization. These tools can scan thousands of lines of old code, flag deprecated APIs, and summarize business logic in minutes. For those tracking AI developer tools, this signals real demand for code-understanding systems inside large enterprises. The catch is that reading legacy code is much easier than safely changing it.
Source: TechRadar — "IBM's Bob can read legacy code fast, but the hard part is still turning it into modern systems.".

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.

Markifact product launch
Markifact launched a Google Ads MCP server that connects campaign data with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible assistants. The service lets marketers analyze performance and manage campaigns while keeping human approval on account changes. For those tracking agentic AI products, this is a concrete sign that tool-using assistants are moving into paid ad workflows. The catch is that the agents can act, but the user still has the final say before anything changes live.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Barchart.com. Read: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/3256395/markifact-launches-google-ads-mcp-server-for-claude-and-chatgpt-with-human-approved-changes
Omneky product launch
Omneky launched a public API and MCP server on July 10, opening its autonomous ad creative system to developers, commerce platforms, and AI agents. The company says users can send brand details and get back ready-to-launch creative. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, this matters because it turns one ad tool into infrastructure other apps can call. The key detail is how little input Omneky says it needs, sometimes just a URL.
Via Agentic-News.ai — IT News Online. Read: https://www.itnewsonline.com/PRNewswire/Omneky-Launches-Public-API-and-MCP-Server-Bringing-Autonomous-Ad-Creative-Generation-to-Any-Platform-or-AI-Agent/1136632
AgentPrizm product launch
AgentPrizm launched its AgentMemory and AgentSkills platform on July 9, 2026 for developers and enterprise teams. The product pairs a REST API with MCP infrastructure to give agents persistent memory across sessions. For those tracking agentic AI products, this targets one of the hardest problems in deployment, which is trust in what an agent remembers and reuses. The striking detail is the built-in audit trail that can show each memory decision back to the user.
Via Agentic-News.ai — WBOC TV-16. Read: https://www.wboc.com/online_features/press_releases/agentprizm-launches-governed-ai-agent-memory-platform-that-lets-agents-prove-what-they-remember/article_fbe24eab-69a6-5b1d-b5bc-ce51f5efbdbe.html

Biggest movers this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest

  • v0 · +19% 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.

Biggest declines this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest

  • Wingman by Emergent · -54.8% week-over-week. 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.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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.

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"

Learn: Copilot vs. Agent

A copilot suggests, then waits for you to act. An agent decides the next step and does it. The real difference is who controls the loop.

Say you need to clean up a support inbox. A copilot might draft replies, flag urgent messages, and wait for you to send them. An agent can read the inbox, sort tickets by priority, send the simple reply, open a Jira ticket for a bug, and keep going until the queue is done or it hits a rule it can’t handle.

That extra autonomy is powerful, but it also raises the stakes. Once the system chooses the next action, you need tighter guardrails, logging, and clear stop conditions.

What agentic AI actually means →

One tool worth testing

Today's signal didn't produce a clear single-tool pick worth a test session. Tomorrow's read picks it back up.

Our pick: n8n

The use case: automating my team's repetitive multi-step workflows — lead routing, data sync, and scheduled jobs — without a dedicated engineer.

Tops our independent /36 — strongest on action and reliability, ahead of Zapier. Per-execution (not per-step).

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