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Rung names, counts, defaults and whether reasoning can be switched off, across 18 coding-CLI and model-API surfaces, gaps and unresolved cells included.

Twenty-five floating aliases across five vendor surfaces and 92 dated 2026 model-ID retirements, with notice periods computed from each vendor's own dates.

A dated census of 14 OpenRouter stealth listings since 2025: seven officially revealed, four reported only, two unresolved, and Ox Alpha still open.

A 17-row table comparing MT specialists, commercial translation APIs and frontier LLMs on languages, context, licence, price per unit and evaluation.

We checked 19 widely deployed MCP servers for documented instruction surfaces beyond tool descriptions. Only one discloses one. Undocumented is the finding.

eve 0.44.0 gates trace creation by conversation audience: only public is retained by default, while private and unknown conversations fail closed.

Claude Code v2.1.239 fixed what its changelog calls silently doubled billed API calls: behind a proxy stripping Content-Type, it re-ran turns non-streaming.

DeepSeek shipped a separate experimental V4 Flash vision model on August 21 at text prices, on a peak and off-peak clock that doubles the rate.

GitHub brought Copilot to Slack and Microsoft Teams on August 21, both public preview. The cloud sandbox bills on its own rates, worded differently per surface.

MCP promoted its Rust SDK to Tier 1 on August 21 with 67/67 server and 50/50 client conformance. No new protocol version shipped alongside it.

Floating model aliases drift silently and retired ones break on schedule. A copyable pinning policy, with each vendor's notice period or its absence.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol to $4 in and $20 out per million tokens on August 21. The same Vercel changelog window added a $0.10/GB-month storage line.

DeepSeek's vision model bills each image at up to 384 tokens with no vision surcharge, which turns a 20,000-SKU catalogue QA pass into arithmetic.

CrewAI 1.15.17 pins SSRF checks to every redirect hop and the resolved peer IP. The same pattern can sit in any agent tool that fetches a model-supplied URL.

Google's August 20 post bundles three AI Max changes, only one of them dated to September. Telling the live from the announced is the whole decision.

The v1.0 release swaps httpx for httpx2, sets a Python 3.10 floor, drops Text Completions, and makes AnthropicBedrock error when no region is set.

An agency-published Gemini local-citation study reports 40% source overlap across query phrasings. What that number measures, and what it does not.

GitHub's August 20 postmortem names a client-side retry loop that raised traffic during recovery, more than 3 million added CPU cores, and retry budgets.

JetBrains reports 83% faster, 64% cheaper and 63% fewer tool calls for its refactoring skill. The disclosure is unusually good; the scope is one harness.

Shopify Managed Markets stops supporting DDU on August 24 wherever DDP is supported. Merchants auto-convert unless they deactivate Managed Markets first.

A free, anonymous 1M-context reasoning model appeared on OpenRouter on August 20. Nobody has claimed it, and its no-training promise is a one-off exception.

Anthropic's browser use tool reached GA on August 19, 2026 as browser_toolset_20260801. It reads the accessibility tree; computer use reads pixels.

Anthropic moved five Claude Developer Platform betas to GA on August 19, 2026. None of it is a forced migration, and no sunset date is published.

On August 19 Cursor's cloud agents gained PR subscriptions, goals and per-task VMs, and Codex cloud added GitLab in beta. Agents now persist past one prompt.