Perplexity Computer adds Microsoft 365 support
Operators are getting two clear signals today: Perplexity Computer is pushing deeper into Microsoft 365 with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams support plus a context panel and analytics, while Goose is recasting itself as a general-purpose agent for research, writing, automation, and data analysis. On the demand side, coding-agent interest is still concentrated around Cursor, with Codex CLI also moving up week over week. The read for a buyer is straightforward: vendors are chasing both workplace integration and broader task coverage, so the test is whether the tool fits inside the apps your team already lives in without adding another workflow to maintain.
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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19/36 · Domain Specialist
Perplexity Computer adds Microsoft 365 support, context panel, and analytics… — Perplexity’s Computer page now highlights a broader enterprise rollout, including availability in Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams), easier access to context and sources in threads, and usage analytics for in…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-03 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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7/36 · Guided Assistant
Personal AI launches AI Training Studio with new upload, memory, and persona… — Personal AI’s homepage now promotes an AI Training Studio with streamlined uploads, auto-memory cleaning tools, and improved integrations to Gmail, Google Drive, Outlook, and OneDrive.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-03 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Motion updates pricing and expands team-plan feature bundles — Motion’s pricing page was rewritten with substantive tier changes, including updated credit allocations, per-100-credit prices, and expanded feature bundles such as AI Projects & Tasks, AI Calendar & Meetings, and AI Docs/Wiki/Notes.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-02 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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19/36 · Domain Specialist
Goose repositions from coding agent to general-purpose AI agent with ACP/MCP… — The Goose homepage/README now describes the product as a general-purpose AI agent for research, writing, automation, and data analysis, alongside support for 15+ providers, ACP-based subscription access, and 70+ MCP extensions.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-02 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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Glovo
product launch
Glovo said on July 30 that it has launched a Shopping Assistant inside ChatGPT and Claude for conversational product search and ordering. The move folds quick-commerce into the two biggest consumer AI platforms as brands race to meet users where they already chat. For those tracking agentic AI, this shows how assistants are moving from answering questions to completing purchases across services. The key test is whether shoppers trust the assistant enough to let it finish the order.
Via Agentic-News.ai — The Independent Uganda:. Read: https://www.independent.co.ug/glovo-launches-ai-shopping-assistant-for-chatgpt-and-claude
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MAXMEL Tech Ltd.
product launch
MAXMEL Tech Ltd. says WEXTL has moved from closed beta into full public production. The visual workflow builder is aimed at businesses that want to deploy AI agents at scale without runaway automation costs. For those tracking AI agent platforms, this signals another push to package agent building for nontechnical teams and to compete directly with established workflow tools. The key question is whether WEXTL can really deliver predictable scaling costs where others have struggled.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Barchart.com. Read: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/3588353/wextl-announces-official-public-launch-an-ai-agent-builder-and-visual-workflow-automation-platform
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Stairwell
product launch
Stairwell announced Backstory on July 29, 2026 as an agentic investigation platform for malware response. The launch follows analysis showing 2.4 related variants for every sample named in public threat reports. For those tracking agentic AI, this signals security tools shifting from alerts to autonomous investigation. The key promise is how fast Backstory can identify affected systems and connect the dots across an attack.
Via Agentic-News.ai — The Manila times. Read: https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/07/29/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/stairwell-launches-backstory-the-first-agentic-investigation-platform-for-malware-blast-radius/2394146
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Biggest movers this week
Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest
- Cursor · +127.3% 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.
- Codex CLI · +34.8% 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.
Biggest declines this week
Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest
- Devin Desktop · -44.7% week-over-week. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf, and distinct from Cognition's cloud agent Devin) is an AI-native desktop app for developers. It keeps the full IDE — editor, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, debugging — and adds a command centre for running and coordinating multiple coding agents in one place. Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
- GitHub Copilot · -33.3% 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.
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.
- Cursor · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2
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.
- Cline · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2
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. ~72% on SWE-bench Verified with Sonnet 4.5 via the OpenHands Software Agent SDK (arXiv:2511.03690).
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.
- "Best bot maker for discord"
- "best coding ai"
- "free agentic ai that do coding"
- "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
- "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"
Learn: Safety: are there guardrails, permissions, and a way to undo what it did
Safety is about whether an agent can act without creating avoidable damage. A real agent needs guardrails around what it can touch, permission checks for risky actions, and a rollback path when something goes wrong. Without those, you don’t have an agentic system so much as a chatbot with a prettier interface and a larger blast radius. A good test is simple: check whether the tool shows you the exact action before it runs, limits access by role or scope, and keeps an audit log or undo option. If it can edit files, send messages, or spend money, ask what stops a bad step and how you reverse it.
How our 9-dimension rubric works →
One tool worth testing
Perplexity Computer — Test Perplexity Computer for knowledge work that lives inside Microsoft 365: drafting in Word, summarizing threads in Outlook and Teams, and pulling context back into an existing workflow. The reason to look now is the platform expansion on its own page, which adds Microsoft 365 app support, a context panel, and analytics. Run a 30-minute pilot against your current assistant on one inbox thread, one document edit, and one meeting follow-up to see whether the embedded context actually saves handoffs.
Our pick: ChatGPT Deep Research
The use case: research & deep analysis.
Tops our independent /36 — strongest on autonomy and planning, ahead of Gemini Deep Research. Pricing: Subscription (quotas undisclosed).
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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