Cursor’s platform expansion changes your build stack
Cursor rolled out Origin, expanded cloud automations and MCP support, and added headless CLI plus ACP support. That matters because the product is no longer just asking for a place in your editor; it is reaching into the automation layer you’d otherwise stitch together yourself. Cursor also leads outbound clicks this week, and Gemini 3.7 Flash just landed fast and cheap for agents and coding, so the check today is whether Cursor’s broader control surface is enough to standardize on for builds, automations, and agent workflows.
See what changed on Cursor's listing →
Foundation-model news
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Gemini 3.7 Flash · Google DeepMind
Model release
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, following Gemini 3.6 Flash only three weeks earlier. The company is moving fast as developers and enterprises look for cheaper models that can run agentic workflows. For those tracking agentic AI products, this shows Google pushing harder on the models meant to plan, call tools, and finish multi-step tasks. The catch is how much performance you get before speed and cost trade off.
Source: WebProNews — https://www.webpronews.com/googles-gemini-3-7-flash-lands-fast-and-cheap-as-ai-costs-mount.
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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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18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Cursor rolls out Origin, cloud automation, headless CLI, ACP support… — Cursor’s docs now surface a broad platform expansion: Origin appears as a new product area, cloud automations and MCP capabilities are substantially expanded, the CLI gains headless and ACP support, and the models/pricing pages add new tie…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-18 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
AutoGen enters maintenance mode and points new users to Microsoft Agent… — AutoGen’s homepage now says the project is in maintenance mode, community-managed, and will only receive bug fixes and critical security patches.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Augment Code revamps pricing and adds an MCP catalog for Cosmos — Augment Code replaced its old flat team pricing with a new Business/Enterprise structure that includes $100 of monthly usage, top-ups, and enterprise controls.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-18 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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9/36 · Guided Assistant
SkipCalls expands with 12+ native integrations and MCP tool support — SkipCalls appears to have substantially expanded its product platform, adding a larger integrations surface for scheduling, CRM, messaging, and automation.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-18 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Kilo Code overhauls pricing with new Auto Model, Kilo Pass, and enterprise… — Kilo Code rewrote its pricing and billing pages to introduce a new inference model, Kilo Pass credits, a detailed pricing comparison, and revised Teams/Enterprise packaging.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-18 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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10/36 · Guided Assistant
Kinaxis launches Maestro Agent Studio and highlights new AI supply chain… — The site now surfaces new agentic AI product messaging, including Maestro Agent Studio and related Maestro Agents content, plus a separate NVIDIA AI optimization announcement.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-18 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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In the news
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12/36 · Guided Assistant
IBM announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to bring frontier models like GPT-5.6 into IBM Consulting Advantage for enterprise clients. The deal folds in tools such as Codex and ChatGPT Work to support core operations, complex workflows, and consulting delivery. For those tracking AI agents in business operations, this signals a push to move from pilots to governed deployment at scale. The most interesting part is how IBM plans to pair productivity gains with cyber defense through programs like OpenAI Daybreak.
Source: Upgrade Magazine — "IBM's OpenAI deal could put GPT-5.6 inside client workflows, raising a new question about who controls the agent.".
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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.
- 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).
- Req2Ops · 4/36 · Reactive Tool · L0
Req2Ops turns client briefs, emails, and PDFs into structured project plans. It helps teams capture missing details, organize work, and identify next actions before development starts.
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"
- "A want to automate my Instagram stories and posts"
- "agentic photo editing optimizer"
- "AI agent for Instagram marketing"
- "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
Learn: How Martin AI actually works
Martin AI is a Slack-connected assistant that can check messages, send replies, react, and pin posts. In plain English, it sits on top of your Slack account and performs a small set of message actions when you ask it to. The description doesn’t show a long-running planner or a system that runs on its own. It sounds more like an assistant that takes a request, acts inside Slack, and then hands control back to you. It also sits inside a broader assistant that works with email and calendars, but this score and description don’t support claims about deeper memory, multi-step autonomy, or session state. What it does is narrow and task-based, not fully autonomous.
See Martin AI's full scorecard →
One tool worth testing
Cursor — Cursor for coding teams that want one environment for edit, automation, and agent execution. The reason to test it now is the site-level expansion: Origin is now surfaced, cloud automations and MCP capabilities are broader, and the CLI picked up headless and ACP support. Run a 30-minute pilot against your current editor plus scripts on one repetitive workflow, and see whether Cursor can replace the handoffs without adding control friction.
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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