Amp 2026.08.11
Amp 2026.08.11 was released on .
Summary
Global Plugins and Skills With so much work happening in orbs there needed to be a new place to store Amp plugins and skills. So we added global plugins and skills. They're Amp-hosted, built for ag...
Release Context
- This was the 54th Amp release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Amp 2026.08.10 (August 10, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
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Release Notes
Global Plugins and Skills With so much work happening in orbs there needed to be a new place to store Amp plugins and skills. So we added global plugins and skills. They're Amp-hosted, built for agents, and work everywhere Amp runs. You can now tell Amp to: - "Create a personal plugin that runs our formatter on every file the agent edits." - "Import the browser-testing skill from this repo into my personal skills so I can use it on all my projects." - "Does anyone on my team share a skill for writing release notes?" - "Check if any of my imported plugins are out of date." - If you're a workspace admin: "Copy Thorsten's plain-writing plugin into our workspace plugins." You can find them in your User Settings and Workspace Settings: Personal vs. Workspace Personal plugins and skills are good place to experiment and try things out. You can have your agent build something and reload the plugins live within the same thread. Workspace plugins and skills are pushable by workspace admins, and are loaded by default for everyone, so we recommend only publishing there once you've tested out something yourself. And if you want to make big changes to an existing workspace plugin, import it into your personal one, give it a test, and then publish it back up. Remix and Share Personal plugin and skills are much more than a replacement for ~/.config—they can be shared with your workspace too, letting people discover, import and remix them. If there's upstream updates you'd like to pull into your version, or just update your version, you can run amp skill update <name>, amp plugins update <name>, or just ask Amp: - "Update the browser-testing skill to the latest version." - "Check if any of my imported skills are out of date."
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