Chrome’s Gemini browse lands in your eval queue
Chrome is now rolling out a Gemini side panel and auto-browse-style agentic features, so browser-based action is moving from a side experiment into a product you may have to evaluate. At the same time, AutoGen says it is entering maintenance mode, will not get new features or enhancements, and is moving to community management, which makes Microsoft Agent Framework the migration path to watch. UiPath’s new Plans and Pricing page for Automation Hub adds a third pressure point: governance and packaging are getting clearer just as operators decide where agents should live. If you rely on browser agents, framework code, or approval flows, check your stack split now.
See what changed on AutoGen'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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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
AutoGen enters maintenance mode, points new users to Microsoft Agent Framework — The AutoGen README now says the project is in maintenance mode, will not receive new features or enhancements, and is community-managed going forward.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-28 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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8/36 · Guided Assistant
ElevenLabs updates pricing with new plan structure and tier details — ElevenLabs’ pricing page now shows a revised plan lineup with updated tiers, credits, and included features across Free, Starter, Creator, Pro, and Scale.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-28 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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10/36 · Guided Assistant
UiPath adds a new Plans and Pricing page for Automation Hub with tiered offers — UiPath’s page now features a full Plans and Pricing section for agentic automation, including Basic, Standard, and Enterprise tiers plus a comparison table of capabilities and deployment/governance differences.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-28 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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12/36 · Guided Assistant
Google adds Gemini-powered agentic browsing features to Chrome — Chrome is rolling out a new Gemini side panel and introducing auto-browse-style agentic capabilities, including a preview for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-28 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
BrowserAct adds a Free Trial and reshapes pricing around Basic, Essential… — BrowserAct’s pricing page now shows a new Free Trial tier plus revised paid plans at $13, $56, and $96 per month.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-27 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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11/36 · Guided Assistant
AdKit expands from Meta Ads MCP to a broader multi-platform Ads CLI and new… — AdKit’s site now positions the product as a multi-platform ads tool, with support for Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, and Reddit from one CLI, plus expanded client/integration docs for tools like Cursor, Codex, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT,…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-28 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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In the news
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7/36 · Guided Assistant
Salesforce posted record Q2 fiscal 2027 revenue, but the bigger story is its move toward outcome-based pricing. The company is adapting to a market where AI agents can do work that once justified software seats. For those tracking AI for sales and marketing, this signals pressure on CRM vendors to charge for results instead of users. The key question is whether Salesforce is leading that shift or bracing for it.
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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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AvenuesAI
product launch
AvenuesAI, formerly Infibeam Avenues, launched its PayCentral platform through subsidiary PhroneticAI. The system lets AI agents transact directly with one another without a person manually starting every payment. For those tracking agentic AI, this shows vendors pushing from chatbots toward tools that can execute real financial actions. The missing question is how PayCentral handles control, trust, and limits when agents start paying each other.
Via Agentic-News.ai — MediaNama. Read: https://www.medianama.com/2026/08/223-avenuesai-agentic-platform-paycentral
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AccuKnox
product launch
AccuKnox announced AgentZ on Aug. 27, 2026 as a platform for building, running, and governing AI agents. The company says it brings the agent, execution environment, tools, workflows, permissions, and governance into one stack. Enterprises are under pressure to move agents from experiments to production without stitching together too many parts. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, this is a clear bet on the tooling needed to run agents safely at scale.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Next Big Future. Read: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/08/accuknox-launches-agentz-to-help-enterprises-build-run-and-govern-ai-agents-at-scale.html
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Workato
product launch
Workato has launched Otto for Everyone, making its AI superagents available to individuals and teams through Slack, the web, and SMS. The service can take action across Gmail, Salesforce, GitLab, and more than 1,400 business applications. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, this is a strong signal that workflow agents are moving from enterprise back offices to everyday use. The catch is how much of a whole project Otto can finish before a human steps in.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Yahoo! Finance. Read: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/workato-launches-otto-everyone-ai-120700085.html
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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.
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.
- ElizaOS · 13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2
ElizaOS is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents. It includes a CLI, web UI, and plugin-based architecture so you can run agents locally and extend them with integrations and custom logic.
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.
- "I'm looking for an AI coding assistant that can work across a whole repo."
- "best coding agent"
- "Which tools can actually take actions on my behalf, not just chat?"
- "AI for customer support"
- "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
Learn: Human-in-the-loop
Human-in-the-loop means the agent stops and asks you before it does something important. The point is control. You give up a bit of speed so the system doesn’t take a consequential step on its own.
Example: an agent drafts a support reply, finds the customer is asking for a refund, and then pauses before sending. You review the message, check the refund amount, and approve or edit it. The same pattern works for buying an item, deleting files, or sending an email to a client. Use it when the action is hard to undo or when a mistake would cost money, time, or trust.
What agentic AI actually means →
One tool worth testing
Chrome Auto Browse — Chrome Auto Browse is the one to test if your team wants a browser agent that can act inside a normal Chrome workflow. The timing matters because Google is rolling out a Gemini side panel and auto-browse-style capabilities, with a preview tied to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra. Use it in a 30-minute pilot against your current manual browser task or RPA flow, and judge whether it reduces handoffs without creating new approval work.
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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