The one thing
01DeepSeek V4 Pro leaves preview as 0813; Grok 4.6 ships the same day for long-running agents in Cursor and Grok Build.
DeepSeek's pricing page now lists deepseek-v4-pro as DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 — GA after a preview since April.1 Same model id, OpenAI and Anthropic base URLs, tool calls, Responses API, 1M context. Cache-miss input $0.435 / 1M, output $0.87 / 1M; a footnote says a significant API price rise is planned, plan still "subject to official notice."1 Vercel AI Gateway routes deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro to the new weights by default; pin deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 to be explicit.2
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 the same window: long-running agents, live in Cursor and Grok Build with 2× included usage the first week.34 API id grok-4.6, 500k context, $2 / $6 per 1M in/out, reasoning up to xhigh.5 Vendor chart ties it with GPT-5.6 Sol Max at 61 on the AA Intelligence Index (Fable 5 Max 62). Time your own harness before you move the default.
Shipped
04Agent Plugins 1.0 · GA in VS Code, Copilot CLI, Copilot app
The Aug 6 open standard — skills plus MCP in one plugin, with AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google — is GA across VS Code, Copilot CLI, SDK, and app on all Copilot plans.6 One package; Copilot-only bits under com.github.copilot/. Org managed-settings apply as-is. The second shipping client issue 004 waited on is here.
Cline SDK 0.0.74 + Desktop 0.0.12 · Claude Code provider fixed
Claude Code provider was unusable for agentic work; it now declares native tools, anchors on the workspace, and loads ~/.claude plus project settings. Workspace file edits auto-approve; commands stay gated. Truncated tool-call JSON is rejected, not silently repaired. Desktop: one row per tool call with diffs.78
goose 1.46.0 · unrolled loop, cache-safe turns, per-message cost
Unrolled agent loop, append-only turn context with declared cache semantics, streaming shell output, and per-message token/cost/TTFT/tok/s — session totals that count cache tokens correctly.9
Claude Code 2.1.229 · auto mode fix + marketplace command sources
Auto mode failed on every tool call when CLAUDE_CODE_ATTRIBUTION_HEADER was off on direct Anthropic API — fixed. Plugin marketplaces can resolve a local command that prints a plugin directory each session. SSE keepalives for Vertex/Bedrock long thinks; crash fixes on narrow terminals and Windows long paths.10
Promised, not shipped
Claude Code auto mode default — 14 Aug 2026 (tomorrow; Pro / Max / Team) · DeepSeek API price increase — "near future," no date on the pricing page footnote · MAI-Code-1-Flash removed from Copilot — 10 Sept 2026 · Grok Bot enterprise — waitlist, no date
The conversation
01A cheap Pro endpoint left preview with a price warning attached, and a long-horizon coding model landed inside the editor people already pay for.13
- DeepSeek pricing footnoteVendor, dated
"We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected… subject to official notice."1
- HN · DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Reader thread
The quiet GA and the price footnote dominated; several agents already default to Pro and are watching the notice.11
- r/cursor · Grok 4.6 field notesReader-posted, unverified
Early usage reports the day of launch — colour, not a measurement.12
Pin Pro 0813 and measure your loop before the price notice lands. Try Grok 4.6 on one long job while the 2× window is open.
GitHub releases: 28 watchlist repos, sweep complete, authenticated, 15 in-window. Vendor feeds: 12 sources, sweep complete, 8 in-window. Fresh Reddit pulse (6 subreddits, 9 posts). X accounts (100) and X keyword digests last collected 05:30 UTC 12 Aug (~24.5h old) — background only; no 13 Aug X digest in-repo. HN: DeepSeek 0813 thread. arXiv not swept.
Skip this
05GitHub Login/Release Asset disruption (1.3h major) and PR/Issues blip (0.4h minor). Resolved. Weather with duration, not a product change.
Anthropic degraded performance, 4.3h minor across multiple models. Resolved minor. No customer-impact numbers beyond the status page.
Rule insights for organizations (public preview). Governance dashboard for rulesets. Wrong beat for a toolchain desk.
AI SDK monorepo patches (ai@6.0.252–253, 7.0.63). Reasoning block IDs and Provider typing. Collapsed.
OlmoEarth embeddings / LFM2.5-VL-3B on HF blog. Geo embeddings and edge VL. Outside the coding-agent beat.
Everything we saw
7272 candidates scanned · 11 used in this issue — the rest, with the reason each one was left out
| Item | Source | Signal | Call |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on pricing/docs | deepseek docs | GA model version cell | led the issue |
| Grok 4.6 launch | x.ai | primary 12 Aug | led the issue |
| Grok 4.6 live in Cursor | cursor forum | same-day | one thing |
| Agent Plugins 1.0 GA in Copilot surfaces | github changelog | 11.4h | shipped |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro weights on Vercel AI Gateway | vercel changelog | 23.1h | one thing |
| Cline SDK v0.0.74 | github releases | 0.1h | shipped |
| Cline Desktop v0.0.12 | github releases | 0.2h | shipped |
| goose v1.46.0 | github releases | 14h | shipped |
| Claude Code v2.1.229 | github releases | 9.1h | shipped |
| HN — DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | news.ycombinator.com | thread | conversation |
| pydantic-ai v2.29.0 | github releases | 2h | FastMCP 4 + gzip fix; not decision-changing |
| OpenHands v1.13.0 | github releases | 4.1h | UI/archive; thin for Shipped today |
| opencode v1.18.17–18 | github releases | 9.7h | Muse prompt route + DeepSeek defaults |
| X digests 12 Aug 05:30 | digests | ~24.5h old | background only |
| Reddit pulse — Models Day, Sonnet price, Grok 4.6 | reddit pulse | 9 posts, 6 subs | conversation colour |
End of feed. That is everything from the window worth your time.
Next issue tomorrow, 06:00 UTC — and if nothing ships, it will say so in two hundred words.