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# Newsletter 22 August 2026

 Daily update on the software we follow here · compiled automatically, corrected by hand
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## Replit

 
 
- [This Week in Replit 1) Free Mode: create up to 30X more 2) Conversations: start any idea by chatting 3) Agent modes renamed 4) Routines + Me](https://x.com/Replit/status/2090936988832772311) · X · 2026-08-21
 
- [Add Gemini-powered tender search agent (Node/Express + MySQL + frontend)](https://github.com/santoshkumawat-beep/TutoringApp/pull/1) · GitHub · 2026-08-22
 
- [Replit Free Mode chat is like an incredibly powerful ChatGPT where the agent has access to a full cloud and it can build anything.](https://x.com/niallohiggins/status/2090850006383104069) · X · 2026-08-21
 
- [Well… just like that I hit @Replit level 3 An absolute coincidence that the free agent has dropped and I’ve gone up 3 levels…. Think I need](https://x.com/venturewithnico/status/2090860966619578664) · X · 2026-08-21
 
 
## Claude Code & agents

 
 
- [Claude Code es un rollo. Hasta que instalas esto. Hay un plugin oficial de Anthropic llamado claude-code-setup. Te dice qué automatizaciones](https://x.com/alextalksai/status/2090172535153312197) · X · 2026-08-19
 
- [If you are using Claude Code without repos. You are missing 50% of what it can do. These are saved skills and plugins the community has buil](https://x.com/charliejhills/status/2090448570386428171) · X · 2026-08-20
 
- [Anthropic Investor Blasts Traditional Venture Capital](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlmKCiAJRo) · YouTube · 2026-08-21
 
- [still teaching your coding agent CrewAI patterns by hand? finally. CrewAI now ships official skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Wind](https://x.com/oliviscusAI/status/2089663821023510855) · X · 2026-08-18
 
 
## Cloudflare OS & self-hosted

 
 
- [The Only Self-Hosted Apps You Actually Need in 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERlkWzni3A) · YouTube · 2026-08-20
 
- [Our self-hosted Langfuse stack stored 14GB on disk, only 1.6GB of it was actual observation data](https://www.reddit.com/r/buildinpublic/comments/1vteeua/our_selfhosted_langfuse_stack_stored_14gb_on_disk/) · Reddit · 2026-08-20
 
- [Our self-hosted Langfuse stack stored 14GB on disk, only 1.6GB of it was actual observation data](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Coders/comments/1vtefo8/our_selfhosted_langfuse_stack_stored_14gb_on_disk/) · Reddit · 2026-08-20
 
- [I built a companion app for Hermes chat with your agent from your phone, fully self-hosted (open source)](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1vtakje/i_built_a_companion_app_for_hermes_chat_with_your/) · Reddit · 2026-08-20
 
 
## Agent tooling & MCP

 
 
- [🚨📊 **SPLUNK PATCHES 17 SECURITY FLAWS — CRITICAL MCP SERVER RCE HITS CVSS 9.1** **CyberSignal Daily ✓ · 🔥 Critical Vulnerability · August 20](https://x.com/XQOPTRX/status/2090359543091880409) · X · 2026-08-20
 
- [Tencent open-sourced AI-Infra-Guard v4.5.2, a red-teaming platform with 2,000+ CVE rules, .pyc bypass detection, and MCP-Scan RCE prevention](https://x.com/foursignalsdev/status/2090816275538657768) · X · 2026-08-21
 
- [AI-Infra-Guard - A full-stack AI Red Teaming platform securing AI ecosystems via Agent Scan, Skills Scan, MCP scan, AI Infra scan and LLM ja](https://x.com/pythontrending/status/2090397309540446224) · X · 2026-08-20
 
- [[P2] CVE-2026-32871 on fastmcp@2.10.2](https://github.com/sachinkumarSK/crapi/issues/267) · GitHub · 2026-08-21
 
 
## Models & pricing

 
 
- [OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%](https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-cuts-developer-pricing-frontier-gpt-56-sol-model-by-more-than-20-2026-08-21/) · Hacker News · 2026-08-22
 
- [Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B open weights — a 27B multimodal model that beats Qwen3.7-Plus on several coding and agent benchmarks](https://www.reddit.com/r/AIGuild/comments/1vqduy0/alibaba_releases_qwen3827b_open_weights_a_27b/) · Reddit · 2026-08-17
 
- [OpenCode Go quota exhausted in ~20 minutes after DeepSeek V4 Flash cache reads suddenly dropped to 0](https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/42935) · GitHub · 2026-08-16
 
- [What locked-in price and usage limits would make you switch LLM providers?](https://www.reddit.com/r/openrouter/comments/1vs0bqq/what_lockedin_price_and_usage_limits_would_make/) · Reddit · 2026-08-18
 
 
## Skills & plugins

 
 
- [agent的安全相关skill 1. Trail of Bits Skills 一整套专业资安技能包，覆盖漏洞侦测、静态分析、完整审计流程，适合系统化做安全审查 https://github.com/trailofbits/skills 2. OpenAI Codex Secur](https://x.com/aronhouyu/status/2090693532239745135) · X · 2026-08-21
 
- [Hi there! Yes, you can connect your own AI agent and add Binance Skills through Agent OS to access supported capabilities such as market dat](https://x.com/hamybinance/status/2090469941158047955) · X · 2026-08-20
 
- [feat: add CrewAI HOL Guard pre-tool runtime adapter](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/hol-guard-plugin/pull/53) · GitHub · 2026-08-21
 
- [Agentic provenance: framework plugins, AI-coding-harness capture, and provenance analysis](https://github.com/ORNL/flowcept/pull/351) · GitHub · 2026-08-21
 
 
## Repos, releases & updates

 
 
- [kagura-agent/agent-id (0 stars) - 7 open issues](https://github.com/kagura-agent/agent-id) · GitHub · 2026-08-21
 
- [Langfuse CLI is at v1. built for coding agents and power users who prefer the command line to interact with Langfuse data. rewritten engine,](https://x.com/langfuse/status/2090807400227918115) · X · 2026-08-21
 
- [Blocking prompt injection deterministically costs 40% false positives](https://github.com/vineetpant/customhouse/blob/main/docs/false-positives.md) · Hacker News · 2026-08-18
 
- [OpenBot Review: Open Source AI Coworkers With a Commercial Catch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DALxhG5uzX8) · YouTube · 2026-08-20
 
 
## Funding & market

 
 
- [AI chip startup Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation — is AI inference the next big infrastructure battle?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1vsnpj7/ai_chip_startup_etched_raises_700m_at_a_21b/) · Reddit · 2026-08-19
 
- [Nvidia to Pay AI Startup Poolside a $6B License, Newcomer Says](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/nvidia-to-pay-ai-startup-poolside-a-6-billion-license-newcomer-says) · Hacker News · 2026-08-22
 
- [[Live Webinar] Startup Funding Rounds in the AI Era](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZghgsyNDhA) · YouTube · 2026-08-21
 
- [SpaceX Attempted to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cognition](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-attempted-to-acquire-ai-coding-startup-cognition) · Hacker News · 2026-08-19
 
 
## Earlier editions

 
 
- [23 August 2026](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-23)
 
- [21 August 2026](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-21)
 
- [20 August 2026](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-20)