Amp 2026.08.18.2
Amp 2026.08.18.2 was released on .
Summary
Talk to Puck You can now call Puck and talk with it out loud: Calling Puck is powered by gpt-realtime-2.1. It delegates work to the Puck agent you already know, powered by GPT-5.6 Sol. Once the age...
Release Context
- This was the 55th Amp release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 7 days after Amp 2026.08.11 (August 11, 2026).
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Release Notes
Talk to Puck You can now call Puck and talk with it out loud: Calling Puck is powered by gpt-realtime-2.1. It delegates work to the Puck agent you already know, powered by GPT-5.6 Sol. Once the agent responds, gpt-realtime-2.1 summarizes the answer out loud while the full response appears in the thread. You can now have a proper back-and-forth conversation with Puck without waiting for text responses to stream in. Just talk. That makes it easier to coordinate parallel work, get progress updates, send follow-up instructions, or talk through big ideas without typing, whether you are sitting in front of your computer or on the go. Here are some conversation starters we have used: - "Check my active threads and tell me which ones need input." - "Review the messages in the issues Slack channel where I am tagged. Read them to me one by one so we can talk through how to fix each one." - "Start an agent to fix the CI failure, tell me what caused it, and keep me updated on the fix." - "The executor lease reconciliation pipeline broke. Tell me about the changes made to it yesterday."
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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