AmpCapability change· 2 days agoAmp added a Desktop tab to its orb threads, providing a high-resolution interactive Linux desktop. The desktop can be used for verifying agent work, developing for Linux/Android, computer use, CAD,…
AmpCapability change· 6 days ago Amp now orders diffs intelligently, moving files that best explain the change to the top and muting less relevant files such as tests and fixtures.
AmpModel update· 6 days ago Amp released Fable 5.1, which powers its ultra mode, replacing Fable 5. The model is better at writing, long-horizon tasks, and following instructions mid-task, and costs less to run.
AmpCapability change· 7 days ago Amp added a built-in video and screen-sharing space to every thread, accessible by pressing Enter, enabling team calls without third-party apps.
AmpCapability change· 10 days ago Amp now allows users to set a separate Git identity for commits, with options for personal default, project-specific, or workspace-wide rules.
AmpAvailability change· 10 days ago Amp released an iOS app via TestFlight and a macOS app via direct download, enabling users to control their orbs from anywhere.
AmpCapability change· 11 days ago Amp announced it is removing the sidebar from its TUI, and recommends users manage threads and orbs in the web and native apps instead.
AmpCapability change· 11 days ago Amp now supports projects with multiple repositories. Additional repositories are checked out to an adjacent directory and the change panel shows diffs across all repositories.
AmpCapability change· 13 days ago Amp introduced the ability to store pre-clone and pre-setup scripts in project settings, allowing orbs to be set up without committing setup files to the repository.
AmpCapability change· 15 days ago Amp introduced friendly URLs for sharing orb portals, allowing users to set custom hostnames like foo--yourname.onamp.dev or use their own domain instead of auto-generated URLs.
AmpCapability change· 17 days ago Amp announced that users can now ask Puck about their token, credit, and orb usage, and can also run command-line queries to retrieve usage data.
AmpCapability change· 19 days ago Amp added the ability to tag team members with @ in the orb, allowing them to view, drive, and send chat messages to the thread.
AmpCapability change· 19 days ago Amp announced that users can now connect remote MCP servers on ampcode.com and use them in orbs, the TUI, and with Puck.
AmpCapability change· 20 days ago Amp announced that Puck now supports realtime voice conversations, using gpt-realtime-2.1 for speech interaction and delegating agent tasks to GPT-5.6 Sol.
AmpAvailability change· 20 days ago Amp launched an education discount allowing students and teachers to subscribe for $10/month, half the usual price.
AmpCapability change· 27 days ago Amp added global plugins and skills, which are Amp-hosted, built for agents, and work everywhere Amp runs.
AmpCapability change· 28 days ago Amp changed the Dial feature: when a ChatGPT subscription is linked, the low, medium, and high modes now exclusively use OpenAI models (GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Sol), billed to the subscription.
AmpPricing change· 7 Aug Amp announced a 20% price cut on orbs, introduced a new a1.medium size, reduced auto-pause time from 15 to 5 minutes, sped up startup times, and allowed per-thread orb size selection.
AmpCapability change· 6 Aug Amp is shipping portals, a feature that lets users access anything running in an orb that listens on a port and speaks HTTP, with live reloading and no VPN.
AmpCapability change· 4 Aug Amp launched a new capability that lets users upload any file type—videos, logs, PDFs, spreadsheets, datasets, and more—to their orbs for the system to see and use, enabling tasks such as debugging…
AmpCapability change· 29 Jul Amp changed the default model in the Dial from Claude Opus 4.8 to GPT-5.6 (Sol) and observed that most users accepted the switch without complaint, and that model-level preferences no longer…
AmpPartnership· 29 Jul Amp Labs has partnered with Westpac to transform how the bank builds and delivers technology, working side-by-side with Westpac engineers on site in Sydney.
AmpCapability change· 23 Jul Amp's orbs can now be triggered by external events such as GitHub CI failures, Linear issues, monitor alerts, or Discord messages, and react to them outside Amp.
AmpCapability change· 22 Jul Amp introduced Multiplayer, a feature that allows users to turn any orb into a collaborative environment where workspace members can join threads, send messages to agents, and access the orb's…
AmpCapability change· 21 Jul Amp introduced the ability for agents to set their own schedules and wake themselves up with saved prompts, context, and history. This capability works with Slack, Puck, and other agents.
AmpCapability change· 20 Jul Amp announced that its AI coding assistant can now be summoned in Slack. Users can mention @Amp in any Slack channel or thread to initiate bug fixes, spike new features, answer questions about the…
AmpCapability change· 20 Jul Amp introduced Puck, a new assistant within its platform that is always available and can help users manage agents, spawn new agents, and coordinate tasks.
AmpPricing change· 18 Jul Amp launched Amp Subscriptions in Beta, offering monthly pricing with cheaper and more predictable costs, including bonus 2x usage for orbs and agents for subscribers who join by July 19.
AmpCapability change· 17 Jul Amp now allows users to ask their agents to spawn other agents, send messages and files, and coordinate work across threads, orbs, and machines.
AmpCapability change· 14 Jul Amp announced that orbs can now prove their identity using OIDC, enabling service providers to trust Amp's identity and grant permissions without injecting secrets.
AmpCapability change· 9 Jul Amp replaced its old agent modes (smart, deep, rush, large) with a dial of four modes (low, medium, high, ultra) that map to specific models and reasoning efforts.
AmpCapability change· 8 Jul Amp now allows users to start agents remotely from ampcode.com on any machine, including laptops, servers, cloud dev boxes, and Raspberry Pis.
AmpCapability change· 3 Jul Amp now allows users to select the size of the orbs used to run agents remotely. The storage per orb has also been doubled from 20GB to 40GB at no extra cost.
AmpCapability change· 2 Jul Amp rewrote its read_thread tool, which lets the platform pull context from other threads, to handle long, compacted threads.
AmpCapability change· 30 Jun Amp announced that its agents can now be launched remotely in 'orbs' — machines where agents run without supervision.
AmpCapability change· 19 Jun Amp announced that users can now create custom agents with plugins, which can be used as main agents, subagents, or in tool pipelines.
AmpCapability change· 18 Jun Amp announced that The Librarian is now approximately 3 times faster and 43% cheaper while maintaining the same quality.
AmpCapability change· 16 Jun Amp announced that users can now review code changes (diffs) for any thread directly within the product, on desktop or mobile.
AmpCapability change· 5 Jun Amp announced speed improvements in its deep and rush modes, with first token arrival 87% faster and entire responses 32% faster at p50, and up to 40% end-to-end speedup on long-horizon tasks,…
AmpModel update· 4 Jun Amp released Opus 4.8, a new model that powers its smart mode, replacing Opus 4.7. It is a better coding agent with improved faithfulness, tighter changes, and better self-checking.
AmpCapability change· 4 Jun Amp announced a new UI and sidebar for monitoring and controlling all Amp agents across web, mobile, and CLI, built on a recently rebuilt distributed system with durable execution and a plugin API.
AmpCapability change· 2 Jun Amp removed public, internet-wide, discoverable thread sharing, citing the risk of snippets of sensitive files being included in threads as agents read more files into context.
AmpCapability change· 28 May Amp plugins can now display UI elements on the web, including notifications, confirmation dialogs, input fields, and select elements.
AmpCapability change· 27 May Amp added the ability to require active passkey authentication for certain operations, such as remote controlling a thread, as an extra authentication factor and proof-of-human for future features.
AmpAvailability change· 27 May Amp Neo is now available to everyone and has been renamed to Amp. The --take-me-back flag has been removed, but users can still access the old version via a previous CLI version.
AmpCapability change· 25 May Amp's painter tool now uses GPT Image 2, which is a better image editor than Gemini 3 Pro Image at preserving text, typography, and visual style when editing UI screenshots, at roughly one-quarter…
AmpCapability change· 21 May Amp released Rush 2.0, a new version of its agent mode that uses GPT-5.5 instead of Haiku 4.5. The update improved solve rate from 39% to 44% and reduced average completion time from 2 minutes 59…
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AmpDeveloper tool· 14 May Amp is shipping its CLI as a single-file executable compiled by Bun instead of as a JavaScript source package, and has renamed its npm packages: the CLI is now @ampcode/cli and the TypeScript SDK is…
AmpDeveloper tool· 6 May Amp released a rebuilt version of its CLI, codenamed Neo, featuring remote control, automatic context compaction, a plugin API, message queuing and steering, and a change to default permissions.