Episode 53: OpenClaw 2026.5.18, Codex 0.131.0, Copilot Remote Agents, and Claude Search Grounding

Episode 56: OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, Appshots, MCP Tunnels, and Agent News

AgentStack Daily EP056 opens with the release work that matters now: OpenClaw v2026.5.20 adds policy checks, safer secret-file handling, provider routing, cron and subagent recovery, voice context, and image-generation timeout fixes; Codex rust-v0.133.0 adds goals, remote-control readiness, permission-profile APIs, plugin discovery, and lifecycle hooks; Claude Code 2.1.148 follows a larger 2.1.147 update with pinned background sessions, code review, MCP pagination, enterprise policy enforcement, Windows behavior fixes, background approvals, and a Bash regression fix; Hermes Agent v0.14.0 adds the PyPI install path, a local OpenAI-compatible proxy for OAuth providers, SuperGrok auth, X search, Teams, lighter lazy installs, faster startup, browser speedups, handoff, LSP diagnostics, video generation, wider computer use, and more messaging surfaces. Then the episode moves through Codex Appshots, Secure MCP tunnels, Google Agent Executor, GKE Agent Sandbox and Agent Substrate, the Antigravity CLI migration, Microsoft MagenticLite, Google Data Agent Kit, Gemini API-key hardening, and Copilot Auto plus semantic issue search. Runtime target: 50 minutes. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-56/

Episode 55: Codex 0.132.0, Claude Code 2.1.145, Gemini Managed Agents, and WebMCP

AgentStack Daily EP055 opens with the operator release readout: Codex CLI 0.132.0 adds first-class Python SDK authentication, simpler text turns, richer turn results, schema-constrained `codex exec resume`, faster TUI startup, auth-backed remote executor registration, image-fidelity preservation, goal-loop brakes, multi-session MCP replay fixes, remote websocket keepalives, and Windows install hardening. Claude Code CLI 2.1.145 adds `claude agents --json`, agent IDs in OpenTelemetry spans, GitHub repository and pull-request status in status-line JSON, richer plugin discovery before install, awaiting-input counts in terminal titles, hook payloads for background tasks and session crons, and several permission, MCP, terminal, review, plugin, and skill-loop fixes. Then the episode covers six concrete AgentStack topics: Google Gemini 3.5 Flash GA and Managed Agents, Chrome WebMCP, Google AI Studio's Workspace and Android build updates, Chrome DevTools for agents, and GitHub making GPT-5.3-Codex the base model for Copilot Business and Enterprise. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-55/

Episode 54: Claude Code 2.1.144, Cursor Composer 2.5, Stainless, Notion, Vercel AI SDK, and Cloudflare Mesh

AgentStack Daily EP054 opens on concrete release work: Claude Code CLI 2.1.144 stabilizes background and detached agent sessions, fixes a long startup hang when the API endpoint is unreachable, repairs MCP pagination and unsupported-image handling, adds background-session resume and a session-scoped model picker, and tightens read-before-edit and search-error behavior. Then five more builder-relevant moves: Cursor Composer 2.5, a Kimi K2.5-based coding model at roughly a tenth of frontier per-token cost; Anthropic acquiring Stainless and pulling SDK code generation in-house; Notion's Developer Platform turning the workspace into a hosted agent runtime with Workers and an External Agent API; the Vercel AI SDK rewriting its LangChain and LangGraph adapter; and Cloudflare Mesh putting zero-trust networking and identity under the agent lifecycle. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-54/

Episode 53: OpenClaw 2026.5.18, Codex 0.131.0, Copilot Remote Agents, and Claude Search Grounding

AgentStack Daily EP053 opens with concrete release work: OpenClaw v2026.5.18 adds typed plugin tooling, faster gateway readiness, dialog-aware browser automation, runtime parity QA, realtime Android Talk Mode, safer media handling, stronger channel delivery, Codex app-server repairs, proxy TLS support, and operator-facing Mac app polish. OpenAI Codex CLI 0.131.0 adds richer TUI controls, unified mentions, plugin marketplace and sharing commands, daemon-managed remote control, configured remote environments, an `openai-codex` Python SDK, `codex doctor`, and tougher sandbox, auth, app-server, and state handling. Then the episode moves to GitHub's May 18 Copilot agent updates for remote CLI steering, cheaper model choices, and one-click Actions repair, followed by Anthropic's API update that gives Claude's web search tool richer SEC filing data for cited financial research workflows. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-53/

Episode 52: Local Agents Get Their Hardware Week

This episode follows six concrete changes in the agent stack: Ollama pushing deeper into local coding-agent runtimes, LM Studio improving Apple Silicon vision inference and remote local servers, NVIDIA positioning DGX Spark as a serious local-agent machine, EXO showing where distributed local inference still needs hardening, xAI shipping Grok Build while redirecting older model slugs to Grok 4.3, and LiteLLM plus Envoy AI Gateway tightening the routing layer that sits between agents and models. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-52/