Cline deprecates .clineignore as agent governance hardens
Cline now labels .clineignore as “deprecate soon” and points users toward a plugin for restricting file access, which is a real shift in how coding agents are being controlled inside repos. At the same time, Perplexity Computer is now framing itself around task-based agent workflows on Mac, and Jasper is widening its platform around GEO, content pipelines, and new agent surfaces. The pattern is clear: these tools are moving from generic assistants toward narrower operating models with stronger boundaries. If you run agents in production, check whether your current setup depends on file-access assumptions or workflow steps that are about to change.
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.
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11/36 · Guided Assistant
Jasper expands its platform around GEO, content pipelines, and new agent… — Jasper’s site now prominently surfaces GEO & AI Optimization, new agent and pipeline surfaces, and Jasper IQ/API/MCP capabilities, alongside revised plan copy.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-21 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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5/36 · Reactive Tool
HyperWrite updates annual pricing for Ultra and Premium plans — HyperWrite’s pricing section was rewritten to show plan details and annual prices, including Ultra at $192/year and Premium at $348/year. The page also now emphasizes monthly/annual plan selection and updated plan copy.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-20 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Perplexity Computer highlights Mac launch and new agentic workflow capabilities — The Perplexity Computer page was substantially rewritten to showcase new task-based agent workflows, a refreshed browser-oriented positioning, and a changelog entry announcing Personal Computer on Mac.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-20 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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19/36 · Domain Specialist
Cline marks .clineignore as deprecated and introduces a plugin-based file… — Cline’s docs now label .clineignore as “deprecate soon,” remove or rewrite references across task-management and multi-root workspace pages, and add a new “Restricting File Access with a Plugin” section that points users to a plugin for en…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-21 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Motion updates its site to showcase an expanded AI suite and API — Motion’s homepage has been substantially rewritten to center on a broader AI work suite.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-21 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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3/36 · Reactive Tool
C3 AI adds MCP-backed sales capabilities to its Generative AI for Sales product — C3 AI’s Sales product page now highlights new agentic capabilities, including pricing optimization, meeting preparation, account prioritization, and cross-sell/upsell workflows.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-21 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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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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social.plus
product launch
social.plus launched Vise on July 14, 2026 as a governance layer for AI-assisted SDK integration. The company says the tool turns a build that compiles into a checked record a reviewer can verify. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, this addresses one of the biggest blockers for autonomous coding systems: proof that the work actually works. The useful twist is that Vise focuses on trust evidence, not just code generation speed.
Via Agentic-News.ai — WBOC TV-16. Read: https://www.wboc.com/online_features/press_releases/social-plus-launches-vise-workflow-governance-for-ai-coding-agents-building-sdk-integrations-with-social/article_59fc96f9-7926-5ab0-a209-fc925158baa9.html
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InstaLILY AI
product launch
InstaLILY AI has announced a $60 million Series B round led by Energize Capital, with participation from Insight Partners and new strategic investors. The company also launched Lily, which it calls the world's first AI Forward Deployed Engineer. For those tracking agentic AI, this combines fresh capital with a product aimed at real workflow execution across several industries. The standout detail is the claim that Lily is already tied to 5x revenue growth.
Via Agentic-News.ai — FinanzNachrichten.de. Read: https://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2026-07/69023207-instalily-raises-dollar-60-million-series-b-and-launches-lily-the-world-s-first-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-200.htm
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Biggest movers this week
Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest
- Codex CLI · +50% week-over-week. Codex CLI is OpenAI’s coding agent that runs on your computer from the terminal. It can also be used in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or as a desktop app.
- Power BI Copilot · +22.7% week-over-week. Power BI helps you connect, model, and visualize data in reports and dashboards. It also includes Copilot features for creating reports, summarizing data, and writing DAX queries, but it is primarily a BI platform rather than an autonomous agent.
- Claude Code · +10% week-over-week. Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. It understands your entire codebase, makes multi-file edits, runs commands, manages git workflows, and uses MCP for tool integration. Built with a Unix philosophy — it reads, plans, edits, and verifies in a loop. The fastest-growing product in the coding agent category.
Biggest declines this week
Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest
- Aider · -16% 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.
- GitHub Copilot · -4.5% 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
Codex CLI is OpenAI’s coding agent that runs on your computer from the terminal. It can also be used in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or as a desktop app.
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: How InteractiveAI actually works
InteractiveAI is a cloud workspace for building, deploying, and watching AI agents. Based on the description, it is not the agent itself - it’s the place where a team wires one together, picks from 200+ models, and runs it under enterprise controls. The platform clearly supports deployment and monitoring, so it keeps the agent running and gives humans a way to inspect or manage it. What it does not say is whether InteractiveAI plans tasks on its own, takes actions automatically, or keeps long-term state across sessions. So the safe read is this: it provides the infrastructure and control layer, while the agent behavior depends on what the team builds inside it.
See InteractiveAI's full scorecard →
One tool worth testing
Cline — Cline is the one to test if you rely on coding agents that need tight repo access controls. Today’s docs update marks .clineignore as deprecate soon and replaces it with a plugin-based file-access path, which is a meaningful governance change rather than a cosmetic tweak. Use a 30-minute pilot to compare the new access model against your current safeguards and see whether it reduces setup friction without weakening control.
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).
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.
Read the full report →
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