Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.
Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2026-06-25.
Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.
Agent harness & service framework.
Supports a variety of runtime primitives including model routing, memory, tools, guardrails, and durable workflows. Automatically creates MCP gateway. Built-in A2A gateway. All abstractions are Go interfaces to make it easily pluggable. Orchestrates multiple services with a local dev server and deploy tooling.
Encourages microservices, which are often overkill - especially at the beginning of a new project.
Local secret broker.
Local-first secret storage with project bindings to allow access to specific secrets. Can launch apps with the secrets injected or act as a broker with on-demand supply of secrets. Time-bounded grants. First-class support for agents to request secrets. Access auditing.
Local-first is by design in v1, but also a limitation because there’s no control plane or cloud sync.
Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.
Drop-in open coding model API.
Language where the spec is the code.
TypeScript toolchain for Node.
Turn a Deno app into a desktop app.
Desktop SQL workspace.
Open agent framework.
Typed JS.
Open source version control.
Discussions with the people behind the most interesting devtools.