Copilot and Hermes Agent updates #103

Today's Letter

1. GitHub Copilot, weekly releases for August 3
2. Vercel, Hermes Agent gains AI Gateway and Sandbox
3. Hugging Face Registers DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

GitHub Copilot, weekly releases for August 3

• GitHub published weekly updates for the Copilot app, Copilot CLI, and VS Code 1.132 on August 7, 2026
• Copilot Auto now displays the model used for completed requests, with AI credit and cache details when available
• The Copilot app adds shared-session shortcuts, parallel questions through /side, and faster session switching
• Copilot CLI adds a Sessions sidebar, experimental isolated worktrees through /worktree, Git-free /rewind, and live tool-call durations
• VS Code 1.132 adds element-level feedback in the integrated browser for annotated multi-element reviews
• Multilingual on-device dictation, /btw side chats, and contextual Markdown diff review are also included
• The release covers product updates rather than a single versioned Copilot package

Source: github.blog

Vercel, Hermes Agent gains AI Gateway and Sandbox

• Hermes Agent now supports Vercel AI Gateway for inference and Vercel Sandbox for isolated command execution
• AI Gateway provides access to 200+ models with no token markup and reports requests in the AI Gateway dashboard
• Vercel Sandbox runs agent commands in cloud microVMs with a /vercel/sandbox workspace root
• Supported runtimes are node24 by default, node22, and python3.13
• Sandbox execution is opt-in; commands continue running locally until terminal.backend is set to vercel_sandbox

Source: vercel.com

Hugging Face Registers DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

• Hugging Face lists a DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 model record created on July 31, 2026
• The repository is tagged for text generation, conversational use, Transformers, and Safetensors
• The record lists MIT licensing, FP8 and 8-bit support, and Azure deployment compatibility
• Inference providers include Together, Novita, Fireworks AI, DeepInfra, and Baseten
• Listed providers support tool calling; some also support structured output
• The record shows 785,771 downloads and 2,811 likes as of the captured metadata
• Parameter-count metadata is disputed, with reported figures ranging from 284B to 304.2B

Source: huggingface.co
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