Amp 2026.07.17
Amp 2026.07.17 was released on .
Summary
From Agent to Agent You can now ask your agents in Amp to spawn other agents. In orbs, your local machine [^1], or on any other machine. They can send messages and files to each other, too. You can...
Release Context
- This was the 41st Amp release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 3 days after Amp 2026.07.14 (July 14, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Grok Build v0.2.107 (July 20, 2026)
- Bolt 2026.07.20 (July 20, 2026)
- Claude Code v2.1.215 (July 19, 2026)
- Devin Desktop v3.5.17 (July 19, 2026)
- OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.144.6 (July 18, 2026)
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Release Notes
From Agent to Agent You can now ask your agents in Amp to spawn other agents. In orbs, your local machine [^1], or on any other machine. They can send messages and files to each other, too. You can have agents in orbs work on side quests while you continue your work: Spin up an orb thread with what you know about this unrelated bug, ask it to fix it, then keep working here. Or fan out work: Run four low-mode threads in parallel to test this flow in Chrome at four screen sizes and report back with screenshots. Find and continue old work by pulling in the important files: Pull the files from my abandoned prototype thread into this workspace and integrate the useful parts into our current approach. Offload work to another machine: Start a new thread on cloud-dev-box and upload this test matrix we created. Ask it to run through each row at least 10 times. Coordinate cross-project work: Spawn an agent in the docs project, send it what it needs to document this API change, and ask it to report back. Agents running locally, or in orbs, or anywhere else, and sending messages and files to each other? It's a whole new world.
Other Recent Amp Releases
- 2026.10.19 (October 19, 2026)
- 2026.10.16 (October 16, 2026)
- 2026.10.13 (October 13, 2026)
- 2026.10.12 (October 12, 2026)
- 2026.10.12.2 (October 12, 2026)
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