AutoGen maintenance creates a Microsoft migration check
Microsoft has made migration planning the immediate task for teams that built on its agent frameworks. AutoGen is now in maintenance mode, with no new features or enhancements planned, while Semantic Kernel identifies Microsoft Agent Framework as its successor and points users to a migration guide. These are different product notices, but together they turn framework choice into an active dependency review rather than a deferred architecture task. Map your AutoGen and Semantic Kernel dependencies against the Agent Framework migration path before committing another release.
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
Microsoft moves AutoGen to maintenance mode and directs users to Microsoft… — AutoGen is now in maintenance mode, with no new features or enhancements planned and community management going forward.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-21 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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11/36 · Guided Assistant
Kimi API Platform adds K3, K2.7 Code, and K2.6 model offerings with updated… — Kimi’s API platform now documents its K3 flagship model alongside K2.7 Code and K2.6 offerings, including model-specific capabilities, context windows, multimodal support, coding use cases, and updated pricing and billing sections.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-22 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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17/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Windsurf is rebranded as Devin Desktop, a command center for local and cloud… — Cognition has repositioned Windsurf as Devin Desktop, presenting it as a unified surface for managing local and cloud coding agents.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-21 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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10/36 · Guided Assistant
Composio introduces a $29 Scale plan with usage-based pricing and expanded… — Composio’s updated site presents a new pricing structure centered on Free, $29/month Scale, and Enterprise plans.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-22 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Gumloop adds Model Router across its API, SDK, and CLI, alongside new… — Gumloop’s updated product page highlights a Model Router available through the API, SDK, and CLI, organization webhooks, agent owner/user permissions, customizable organization-wide model defaults, background subagents, and deployment insi…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-22 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Semantic Kernel points users to Microsoft Agent Framework as its enterprise… — Semantic Kernel now identifies Microsoft Agent Framework as its successor, directing users to the Agent Framework blog and migration guide.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-22 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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Score activity
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8/36 · Guided Assistant
Score now 8/36 (4→8). The rubric moved on documented capability evidence; press alone does not move the score.
Trigger: submission.
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What's new in the directory
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3/36 · Reactive Tool
The Faceless Prompts is a free web-based generator for planning faceless Shorts, TikTok, and YouTube videos. It turns a niche, topic, format, visual style, and pacing choice into a production blueprint with scripts, image-generation prompts, and camera-motion guidance.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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12/36 · Guided Assistant
Argorant is a cloud-based B2B prospecting and outbound email platform. It lets sales teams describe an ideal customer profile in plain English, verify work emails at export, and run campaigns through connected Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 mailboxes. It can also be connected to AI agents through MCP.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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9/36 · Guided Assistant
NovelShaft is a cloud writing app that keeps AI conversations, manuscript chapters, outlines, and research materials together per novel project. It helps fiction writers develop ideas by text or voice, revise long-form work with project context, and export or publish finished manuscripts.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
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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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Sapiens International Corporation N.V.
product launch
Sapiens International Corporation N.V. launched SapiensAIP, an AI-native platform that embeds agentic tools into insurers' core policy administration systems. The platform covers underwriting, policy administration, billing, claims, and customer engagement through three operating layers. For those tracking agentic AI products, this is a concrete example of agents moving into regulated, high-volume enterprise systems rather than standalone chat interfaces. The key implementation test is how much autonomy insurers can permit without disrupting core policies or customer service.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Beinsure - Insurance, Reinsurance, InsurTech Insights. Read: https://beinsure.com/news/sapiens-launches-ai-native-platform
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Prudent Technologies
product launch
Prudent Technologies launched NeuraCX in New Delhi on Sept. 17 as a platform connecting AI voice systems to communications networks. The release targets a bottleneck that appears as voice agents move from pilots into real-time enterprise interactions. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, NeuraCX shows that reliable infrastructure is becoming as important as the conversational model itself. The unanswered question is whether the platform can deliver dependable voice automation at enterprise scale.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Herald Globe. Read: https://www.heraldglobe.com/news/279313302/prudent-technologies-launches-neuracx-to-build-the-infrastructure-layer-for-ai-voice
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Becoming a Frontier Firm: Our Frontier Playbook
product launch
Microsoft's 44-page Becoming a Frontier Firm playbook draws on more than 100 internal AI transformation efforts. It argues that proprietary evaluations, business context, and learning loops matter more than choosing an interchangeable foundation model. For those tracking AI agents in business operations, the guidance puts workflow redesign ahead of simply deploying autonomous tools. The surprising advantage may already sit inside a company's own data, processes, and feedback systems.
Via Agentic-News.ai — VentureBeat. Read: https://venturebeat.com/technology/microsoft-releases-new-ai-playbook-for-enterprises-based-on-its-own-learnings-and-it-reveals-a-surprising-moat-your-biz-may-already-have
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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.
- Hyper · 22/36 · Domain Specialist · L3
Hyper is a cloud-based autonomous software engineering platform for turning product objectives into tested code in your GitHub repositories. It plans work, runs parallel agent sessions in isolated lanes, verifies results server-side, and can open pull requests or deploy supported projects.
- Sinatra · 21/36 · Domain Specialist · L3
Sinatra is an autonomous coding agent that takes work from Linear or GitHub, reads the relevant repository, writes a change, runs tests, and opens a draft pull request. Teams review the result in GitHub and can request follow-up changes in the PR thread.
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.
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 want to automate a repetitive task in my workflow — what should I look at?"
- "best coding agent"
- "Agentic tool for Word document data filling, running local LLMs"
- "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
- "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"
Learn: How iLook actually works
iLook is a single-photo analysis tool, not an agent. You upload one authorized adult face image, and it returns observations about visible facial traits such as face shape, symmetry, a subjective face score, and Golden Ratio context. It also adds appearance and style feedback. That’s the whole loop: inspect, score, suggest.
It does not plan multi-step work or carry out actions outside the page. It doesn’t book, edit, message, or act on your behalf. The only state it keeps is a private history of past results, and even that stays until you delete it. So iLook is autonomous over analysis only, and hands the rest back to the user immediately.
See iLook's full scorecard →
One tool worth testing
Kimi API Platform — Kimi API Platform is worth a 30-minute test for teams selecting models behind an agent workflow. Its documentation now spans K3, K2.7 Code, and K2.6, with model-specific capabilities, context windows, multimodal support, coding use cases, and pricing and billing details. That makes this a useful point to test model fit rather than assume one API option covers every workload. Run one representative coding or multimodal workflow across the documented options, then compare output fit, context needs, and billing behavior against your current API choice.
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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