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Canva AI 2.0 turns creative work into an agent decision

Composio’s new usage-based tiers make the control plane part of the bill.

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v2-fresh-156 · 2026-08-24 · daily change-intelligence on agentic tools

Canva AI 2.0 turns creative work into an agent decision

Canva AI 2.0 is no longer just a prompt box: Canva’s rewritten Magic Studio page now adds connected-tool context, web research, memory, and scheduled tasks. At the same time, Composio added new usage-based pricing tiers plus an enterprise MCP gateway, so the cost and control model are changing together. Kiro is pushing in the same direction with enterprise governance, MCP registry support, allow-lists, and model controls. If you are deciding where an agent layer belongs, the check today is simple: permissions, persistence, and per-call economics all need a yes.

See what changed on Composio'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.

Kiro Platform expansion
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Kiro adds enterprise governance, MCP registry support, managed updates… — Kiro’s docs now describe several major product expansions: per-user activity reports, MCP server allow-lists and registry support, self-managed update sites, model availability controls, and new subscription/overage management details.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-23 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Composio Pricing change
10/36 · Guided Assistant
Composio adds new usage-based pricing tiers and enterprise MCP gateway… — Composio’s site now shows a new pricing structure with free and paid usage-based tiers, per-call charges for tool calls and trigger events, and add-ons for execution and compliance.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Canva Magic Studio Platform expansion
8/36 · Guided Assistant
Canva AI 2.0 adds connected context, web research, memory, and scheduled tasks — Canva’s AI/Magic Studio page was substantially rewritten to introduce Canva AI 2.0 and a broader agentic workflow: text/voice prompting, connected-tool context, web research, learned preferences over time, and scheduled tasks.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
LlamaIndex Pricing change
8/36 · Guided Assistant
LlamaIndex updates LlamaParse pricing and unveils new AI-ready document… — LlamaIndex materially revamped its LlamaParse pages with new pricing tiers, a limited-time offer, and a broader feature set including Auto Mode, saved parse configs/model versioning, expanded format support, and agentic workflow deployment…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Collate Feature launch
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Collate v1.13.4 adds AskCollate AI agents, MCP Server, and broader platform… — Collate’s product updates page now highlights Release v1.13.4, with new sections for AskCollate & AI Agents, MCP Server, query tooling, search/reindexing, lineage, and auth.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
TestFit Feature launch
8/36 · Guided Assistant
TestFit launches Pro Forma with live-linked financials, spreadsheet import… — TestFit’s site now promotes a new Pro Forma offering that embeds a spreadsheet inside the feasibility workflow, syncs financials as the design changes, and supports report/export workflows.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-23 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.

Score activity

Blend MCP Re-scored down (8→6)
6/36 · Guided Assistant
Score re-evaluated after: Blend's Autopilot agent is now generally available, giving lenders instant borrower signals before this month's loans close.
Trigger: WBOC TV-16 — "Blend's Autopilot agent is now generally available, giving lenders instant borrower signals before this month's loans close.".

What's new in the directory

16/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Rent specialist AI agents for recruitment, sales, support, research, marketing, and operations. You connect your own AI provider, set permissions and approvals, and monitor every action from one workspace.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
MimikFlow New listing
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
MimikFlow automates LinkedIn prospecting workflows, then lets you control them from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client. It helps you review campaigns, manage conversations, and apply changes without switching tools.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.

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.

Agent Lightning v1.0 product launch
Microsoft released Agent Lightning v1.0 on August 17 as an open-source reinforcement learning framework for AI agents. The tool is built to let developers train agents without changing their existing code, tools, or environments. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, this signals a push to make training less disruptive and easier to ship. The catch is how much control teams really keep when learning happens inside the same setup they use in production.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Crypto Briefing. Read: https://cryptobriefing.com/microsoft-agent-lightning-agentic-rl

Biggest movers this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest

  • Claude Code · +16% 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.
  • Aider · +15% 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.
  • Cursor · +10.6% 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.

Biggest declines this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest

  • Req2Ops · -83.6% week-over-week. 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.
  • v0 · -44.8% week-over-week. v0 helps you design, iterate, and scale full-stack web apps with a collaborative AI interface. It starts from prompts, templates, and attachments, then lets you keep refining the result in the browser.

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.

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.

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 coding agent"
  • "AI for customer support"
  • "meilleur agent de codage"
  • "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
  • "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"

Learn: How SkipCalls actually works

SkipCalls answers phone calls with AI, then passes the outcome into other business tools. Based on the description, it is not a general planner or full agent that runs a whole workflow on its own. It handles one slice of the job: the call itself and the handoff after it. That handoff can include booked appointments, CRM updates, and team notifications, which suggests it can execute defined actions once the call result is known. The description does not say it keeps long-term session state or makes open-ended decisions across tasks. Human control likely returns once the call is done and the connected updates are sent.

See SkipCalls's full scorecard →

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: Clay

The use case: sales & marketing.

Tops our independent /36 — strongest on action and autonomy, ahead of 11x Alice. Pricing: Actions + data credits (two meters).

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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