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Condense.chat opens Adeline 1 proxy for 9% agent-loop compaction

Condense.chat opened a compression proxy that strips tokens with Helene 1 and compacts settled agent loops with Adeline 1 to about 9% of their size. The service claims 100M saved tokens and 3× plan extension for Claude or Codex users, so test it on non-sensitive workflows first.

Release💳Context Engineering3rd July

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MinerU supports local PDF-to-Markdown OCR with 109 languages and MCP

MinerU was documented as a local OCR pipeline for PDF, Office, and image-to-Markdown with LaTeX formulas, tables, and 109 languages. The workflow adds mineru -p, mineru-api, Gradio, and an MCP server for Claude Desktop or Cursor.

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MCP·3rd July·4 min read

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Firecrawl launches /monitor for whole-web tracking across API, CLI, and MCP

Firecrawl expanded /monitor from single pages to whole-web tracking, with examples covering filings, competitor changes, hiring, and news alerts. The feature ships across the API, CLI, Playground, and Firecrawl MCP for direct use in agent and search workflows.

Release⚙️MCP1st July

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Letta Agent launches persistent digital coworkers with Slack, Discord, and BYOK state

Letta introduced a desktop agent product that keeps long-term state, rewrites its own skills and wiki files over time, and follows the same identity across local and remote channels. An early practitioner demo showed a Letta agent installing a Mod for Exa-backed web search from Slack, sharpening the launch beyond the announcement thread.

Release⚙️Persistent Storage1st July

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Anthropic launches Claude Science beta with 60+ databases and Modal compute

Anthropic launched Claude Science in beta as a research app with traced artifacts, on-demand environments, and access to more than 60 scientific databases. Modal is already integrated as an elastic compute layer, giving researchers a single workspace for data access, code, and reproducible runs.

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Deep Research·30th June·3 min read

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Hermes Agent updates web extraction with 60x faster reads and 49x lower cost

Nous updated Hermes Agent web extraction to skip the old summarizer loop, pass cleaner content directly to the model, and page large documents on demand. The change is claimed to cut read latency by up to 60x and cost by 49x, so teams should compare output quality before adopting it.

Release⌨️Hermes Agent30th June

Codex users report /goal, /rewind, and /compact workflows after launch

A day after /goal and thread automations landed in Codex, practitioners started standardizing on /goal specs, /fork or /side detours, and /rewind plus /compact recovery. The pattern matters because verifier design and compaction timing now control how well long runs hold together.

Workflow⌨️Codex28th June

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Junior adds memory and cuts one analytics task from 3m to 1m

Junior’s first memory system cut one analytics task from about 3 minutes to 1 minute in early tests, with tokens down two-thirds and tool calls down 60%. The feature moves persistent task learning into the agent loop, though the results are still internal.

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Context Engineering·1w ago·3 min read

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Mistral releases OCR 4 with bounding boxes and 85.20 OlmOCRBench

Mistral OCR 4 adds layout-aware extraction with bounding boxes, block typing, and inline confidence across 170 languages. Use it through the API or self-hosted deployments when document pipelines need structure, citations, redaction, and chunking.

Release🧠Mistral1w ago

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Perceptron releases Files API with reusable upload IDs

Perceptron’s Files API lets developers upload an image or video once and reference it by ID across later requests instead of resending base64 or URLs. That simplifies repeated multimodal workflows and cuts transfer overhead for video-heavy pipelines.

Release🔎Persistent Storage1w ago