GitHub Copilot just changed the coding-agent budget
GitHub Copilot’s pricing page now shows a new Free tier plus refreshed Pro, Pro+, and Max plans, and the missing detail is what operators should check first: the new AI-credit model and plan feature split. That matters because “best coding agent” is the week’s clearest demand signal, and Cursor is also pushing harder on the same workflow with Cloud Agent capabilities, MCP/plugins support, and docs for computer use and CI-failure fixing. If you buy or standardize on a coding assistant, today’s read is about whether Copilot’s new packaging fits your usage pattern better than the alternatives.
See what changed on GitHub Copilot's listing →
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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17/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
GitHub Copilot overhauls plans with new Free, Pro, Pro+, and Max tiers — GitHub Copilot’s page now shows a major pricing and packaging update, including a new Free tier and refreshed paid tiers, alongside expanded AI-credit-based usage and plan feature breakdowns.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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11/36 · Guided Assistant
Manus says it will resume operating as an independent company — The site now prominently announces that Manus will soon resume operating independently and that users may need to take action on their accounts.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Cursor expands Cloud Agent capabilities, MCP/plugins support, and updates… — Cursor’s docs now surface a large platform expansion: a new Cloud Agent Capabilities section with computer use, demos/artifacts, CI-failure fixing, OIDC tokens, and remote desktop guidance; broader MCP/plugin support; and refreshed model a…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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10/36 · Guided Assistant
LangChain expands LangSmith with BYOC on AWS GA, new pricing, and a broader… — The site now highlights LangSmith BYOC generally available on AWS, a new LangSmith Engine focus, and a widened set of enterprise capabilities including LLM Gateway, OpenTelemetry integration, LangGraph API auth, agent API triggers, and sec…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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8/36 · Guided Assistant
LlamaIndex overhauls LlamaParse pricing and plan features, adds ExtractBench… — The LlamaParse page was substantially rewritten with a new pricing/plan table, revised credit and usage limits, and expanded feature comparisons.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Prismor adds public pricing and expands its AI agent security platform — Prismor’s site now shows explicit pricing tiers alongside a broader product surface, including runtime observability, access controls, secret protection, network isolation, and skill scanning for AI agents.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-13 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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What's new in the directory
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15/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
LocalTry combines CRM, scheduling, sales, marketing, reputation management, and automation in one business workspace. It is designed for small service teams that want AI to help carry work forward, not just answer questions.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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10/36 · Guided Assistant
Whisperr is an autonomous retention platform for SaaS, e-commerce, and subscription businesses. It watches for churn risk, chooses an intervention, and sends it without a human in the loop.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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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.
- 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).
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 coding agent"
- "A want to automate my Instagram stories and posts"
- "best slack agent"
- "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
- "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"
Learn: Context Window
The context window is how much text, code, or other input a model can keep in view during one run. Think of it like the size of a desk. A small desk only holds a few papers, so the model may forget earlier details once the space fills up. A bigger desk can hold a full spec, a long chat, or a chunk of a codebase, so the agent can reason over more of the task at once. But that information isn’t permanent memory. When the turn ends, the model doesn’t carry it forward on its own. If you want it to remember later, you have to put the key details back in.
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: Claude Code
The use case: coding agents.
Tops our independent /36 — the tiebreaker over Cursor: Continuity 3 vs 1. Pricing: Per-seat (usage per member, NOT pooled).
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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