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Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to Agentic AI Foundation
The open standard moves under the Linux Foundation, following Anthropic's earlier MCP donation. The move is confirmed by the source.
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Simon Willison
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sparqlite adds SPARQL 1.1 to SQLite, written in Rust by Claude Code
Simon Willison describes an extension generated over 12 hours. He says it is not practical to review.
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Brief
Simon Willison's Battle Drones, an RTS built by coding agents
A browser RTS built over 12 iterations and 321 commits. Two devices sync multiplayer through audio.
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Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at $0.10 input per million tokens
Recheck your Haiku budget, since the tokenizer runs about 1.25x heavier than Haiku 4.5.
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NYT reports Anthropic agents sent 20 incomplete visa applications
Per two anonymous sources, the applications went through a State Department form and none were processed. Anthropic's blog did not name the sites.
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Simon Willison builds a blog feature almost entirely by voice
A newsletters index built with Codex voice mode. It adds a Django model, a migration, and imports from Substack RSS.
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Quote
A pre-commit hook fails commits that bypass his diagnostics library and injects a prompt steering the agent to use it instead.
Geoffrey Huntley, as quoted by Simon Willison
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llm-gemini 0.35 adds Gemini 4 Argon with launch pricing
Check Gemini 4 Argon pricing before budgeting, since launch rates are 2 and 10 dollars per million tokens.
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Quote
Coding agents take away the puzzle-solving joy of programming.
Jeremy Scheff, relayed by Simon Willison
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