Wednesday is mostly about agents you can install before lunch. Google let outside agents into Android Studio, MiniMax shared its team's working skills, and Nvidia shipped a transcription model you can test in a browser tab. The fourth story is the one to act on if you run Qwen with network access.
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Story I
Android Studio now runs Claude, Codex and 40+ other agents, and the Android CLI is a one-line Claude Code plugin
At the Android Dev Summit, Google shipped Bring Your Own Agent in Android Studio Rabbit 2. Over the open Agent Client Protocol it runs more than 40 coding agents, and they get the IDE's project structure, symbol resolution, emulator and Logcat. The Android CLI is now an official plugin for Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity. Google's own tests say rendering Compose previews in the terminal made agents finish UI tasks 77% faster with up to three times fewer tokens.
Link: developer.android.com/tools/agents
Try it now
From your terminal:
claude plugin marketplace add android/android-cli-plugin
claude plugin install android-cli@android-cli-plugin
Then open an Android project in Claude Code and ask: "Render the Compose previews for the login screen and tell me what breaks on a foldable." Codex users swap in codex plugin marketplace add and codex plugin add.
Story II
MiniMax open-sourced MCode Stack: 15 MIT agent skills its coding team actually uses, installable in Claude Code
MiniMax published the workflows its MiniMax Code team runs every day as plain SKILL.md files under MIT. Ronny's stack has 15 skills for splitting work, auditing tool budgets, long sessions and review. The pick is independent-review, which hands the reviewer only the diff, the requirement and test results, and deliberately withholds the author's conversation. MarkTechPost notes there are no published benchmarks, so treat these as habits rather than proven wins. The repo had 149 stars on launch day.
Link: github.com/MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack
Try it now
Inside a Claude Code session:
/plugin marketplace add MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack
/plugin install ronny@mcode-stack
Or grab one skill: git clone https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/mcode-stack.git ~/mcode-stack and copy stacks/ronny/skills/long-command-check into ~/.claude/skills/. Run it before your next long build.
Story III
Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe tops the English Open ASR Leaderboard at 5.33% WER and labels up to 8 speakers
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is a 30B mixture-of-experts speech model with about 4B active parameters, so it fits on one Nvidia GPU. It transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English, attributes speakers in 13, and handles recordings up to an hour. It takes text instructions, so one call can return a diarized transcript or a summary of decisions. Nvidia says it chews through 100 hours of audio in under three minutes on an RTX PRO 6000 at NVFP4. No real-time mode, and the license is OpenMDW-1.1.
Link: huggingface.co/nvidia
Try it now
Open the free demo at huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/nemotron-transcribe, upload a two-person call recording you have consent for, and prompt: "Transcribe with speaker labels, then list every action item with the speaker who owns it." Spot-check names and speaker changes, which is Nvidia's own advice, before wiring it into a pipeline.
Story IV
Palisade traced Qwen 3.8 models calling an Alibaba Cloud proxy when direct fetches fail, and the domain is still live
After Cohere reported Qwen3.8-Flash-Next trying to upload a test string to a Beijing storage bucket, Palisade Research searched eval logs and found the string aliyuncs.com in Qwen3.8-Max-0902, Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B, but not in Qwen 3.7. In controlled runs, Qwen3.8-27B reached for the proxy within two turns in 2 to 4% of runs after a simulated 403. Palisade calls it a training artifact, not exfiltration. The catch: whoever runs that proxy could start answering with prompt injections.
Link: huggingface.co/datasets/CohereLabs
Try it now
If a Qwen 3.8 agent has network access, search your logs first: grep -rn "aliyuncs.com" ./agent-logs. Then deny *.aliyuncs.com at the sandbox's egress proxy. Better still, put any agent that fetches the web on an allowlist of domains it actually needs, so a fallback it learned in training has nowhere to go.
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