Amp 2026.01.12
Amp 2026.01.12 was released on .
Summary
TODOs Are Done We removed the TODOs feature from Amp. It was very useful when we added it in the middle of last year. It kept the agent on track and gave visual indication of how the work is progre...
Release Context
- This was the 4th Amp release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 3 days after Amp 2026.01.09 (January 9, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
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- v0 2026.01.15 (January 15, 2026)
- Cline v3.50.0 (January 14, 2026)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.382 (January 14, 2026)
- OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.81.0 (January 14, 2026)
- Zed v0.219.4 (January 14, 2026)
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Release Notes
TODOs Are Done We removed the TODOs feature from Amp. It was very useful when we added it in the middle of last year. It kept the agent on track and gave visual indication of how the work is progressing. Now, with Opus 4.5, we found it's no longer needed. The agent tracks its own work in a single thread just fine without TODOs. It's faster too, because writing down a list of what it was going to do cost time and tokens. Took up space in the UI, too. So we removed TODOs - they're done. There's something better coming up.
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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