StackAI’s Asana acquisition changes your enterprise agent stack
StackAI now says Asana has acquired it, while Semantic Kernel now calls itself Microsoft Agent Framework with stable APIs, long-term support, multi-agent orchestration, and multi-provider model support. At the same time, ChatGPT’s pricing page adds a new Go tier at $8/month. Put together, today’s read is about control points: who owns the stack, which framework is becoming the supported path, and what the low-friction entry price looks like. If you build or buy agents, check ownership, migration path, and the smallest plan your team can actually use.
See what changed on StackAI's listing →
Foundation-model news
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Gemini 3.7 Flash · Google DeepMind
Model release
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash as a lower-cost model for software coding and autonomous business workflows. The company is pitching it to teams that want AI systems to plan tasks, use tools, and finish multi-step jobs with less human help. For those tracking AI developer tools, this signals cheaper building blocks for coding agents and workflow automation. The catch is that Google gave no timeline for Gemini Pro, leaving its top-tier lineup unclear.
Source: Vietnam Tribune — https://www.vietnamtribune.com/news/279240309/google-unveils-lower-cost-gemini-3-7-flash-ai-model.
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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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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
StackAI announces Asana acquisition and repositions around enterprise AI… — The page now prominently states that Asana has acquired StackAI, with a new acquisition announcement and refreshed homepage messaging focused on building, governing, and scaling AI agents for enterprises.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
ChatGPT updates pricing tiers and refreshes plan features with GPT-5.6 model… — ChatGPT’s pricing page now shows a new Go tier at $8/month alongside updated Free, Plus, and Pro plan bundles.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Semantic Kernel rebrands as Microsoft Agent Framework, with 1.0 successor launch — The Semantic Kernel page now states that the project is now Microsoft Agent Framework, describing MAF as the enterprise-ready successor with stable APIs, long-term support, multi-agent orchestration, multi-provider model support, and A2A/M…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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12/36 · Guided Assistant
Chrome unveils Gemini-powered agentic browsing features, including auto… — Google’s Chrome blog post now announces major Gemini in Chrome updates: a new side-panel assistant, upcoming personal-intelligence features, and an auto browse preview rolling out in the U.S. for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Gumloop overhauls homepage to spotlight enterprise AI infrastructure and new… — Gumloop’s site was substantially rewritten, reframing the product around building and controlling agents for enterprise teams.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
SalesCloser AI revamps pricing, removes free tier, and adds a $105K annual… — SalesCloser AI’s site now shows a removed free tier and enterprise tools tier, plus a new $105,000/year team plan. The page also shifts strongly toward live demo-running, CRM integrations, and enterprise sales automation positioning.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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Score activity
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15/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Score re-evaluated after: Anthropic says Claude for Teachers covers all 50 states, even as OpenAI and Google crowd into classrooms.
Trigger: Sun Herald — "Anthropic says Claude for Teachers covers all 50 states, even as OpenAI and Google crowd into classrooms.".
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In the news
Gemini
News mention, score held
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash as a lower-cost model for software coding and autonomous business workflows. The company is pitching it to teams that want AI systems to plan tasks, use tools, and finish multi-step jobs with less human help. For those tracking AI developer tools, this signals cheaper building blocks for coding agents and workflow automation. The catch is that Google gave no timeline for Gemini Pro, leaving its top-tier lineup unclear.
Source: Vietnam Tribune — "Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash cuts AI costs for coding teams, but the flagship Pro launch still has no date.".
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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.
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.
- 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).
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.
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 for customer support"
- "best coding agent"
- "A want to automate my Instagram stories and posts"
- "agentic photo editing optimizer"
- "Agentswarm is JUST browser based, look for something else"
- "AI agent for Instagram marketing"
Learn: Human-in-the-loop
Human-in-the-loop means the agent stops and asks you before it does something that could matter. A simple example: an email agent drafts a reply, but before sending it to a customer or a boss, it waits for your approval. That pause can catch wrong facts, bad tone, or a decision you don’t want the agent to make on its own. You give up a little speed, but you keep control over the actions that carry risk. In practice, this is common for payments, publishing, account changes, and outbound messages. The agent can do the prep work fast. You approve the last step.
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: 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.
Read the full report →
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