Amp 2025.10.22 → 2026.10.19: what changed

111 releases shipped between 2025.10.22 (October 22, 2025) and 2026.10.19 (October 19, 2026).

Changelog entries in this range

• 2025.10.23 — October 23, 2025: Handoff (No More Compaction) We have removed compaction from Amp and replaced it with something that we think works a lot better: Handoff. Compaction — which yo
• 2025.10.24 — October 24, 2025: Use Amp Free at Work We heard you! Amp Free no longer requires you to opt into training. Now more programmers can use Amp Free as a free coding agent for both s
• 2025.10.25 — October 25, 2025: Review The bottleneck in coding agents is no longer writing code, but reviewing it. The Amp VS Code extension now has a new panel that enables humans to review
• 2025.10.28 — October 28, 2025: Command Palette, Not Slash Commands The Amp CLI and editor extensions now have something new: the Amp Command Palette. You can open it via Ctrl+O/Alt+O in the C
• 2025.10.29 — October 29, 2025: Amp Now Reads Threads You can now reference threads in your messages, and Amp will fetch and extract the relevant context from them. For example: - "Implement t
• 2025.10.30 — October 30, 2025: Workspace Entitlements Workspaces can now set per-user spending limits through entitlements, such as: - A default of $50/week for regular users and $200/week fo
• 2025.11.04 — November 4, 2025: Workspace Settings The Amp CLI now supports workspace-specific settings via .amp/settings.json files in your project directory. This allows you to configure the
• 2025.11.04.2 — November 4, 2025: Social Coding Update (2026-06-02): We've removed public thread sharing and related features; see The End of Public Threads for why. We're all learning a new way
• 2025.11.07 — November 7, 2025: Rush Mode Amp has a new mode: rush, named so because a rushed job is faster and cheaper in the moment, and sometimes that's more important than quality. Token-b
• 2025.11.18 — November 18, 2025: Gemini 3 Pro Gemini 3 Pro is now the new main model in Amp, powering the smart agent mode. This is a historic change. Ever since we've started work on Amp, back
• 2025.11.24 — November 24, 2025: Try Claude Opus 4.5 With Us Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.5. We've been testing it, right on the heels of the Gemini 3 release, and have been very, very
• 2025.11.27 — November 27, 2025: Opus 4.5: Better, Faster, Often Cheaper Claude Opus 4.5 is the new main model in Amp's smart mode, two days after we shipped it for you to try out. Only a week
• 2025.12.02 — December 2, 2025: Amp Frontier Corporation Amp is becoming a separate company. We're spinning out of Sourcegraph to become an independent research lab. Our goal: let software bui
• 2025.12.08 — December 8, 2025: Find Threads Amp can now search your threads. A few weeks ago we shipped the ability to read other threads. That was the first step: reference a thread by URL o
• 2025.12.09 — December 9, 2025: 200k Tokens Is Plenty After Opus 4.5 became Amp's main model a few weeks ago, quite a few of us had to get used to a 200k token window again. But not Lewis. He
• 2025.12.10 — December 10, 2025: Agent Skills Amp supports agent skills. Skills let the agent lazily-load specific instructions on how to use local tools. We like skills because they improve ag
• 2025.12.10.2 — December 10, 2025: Amp Python SDK For all of you who swear by tabs and clean syntax, the Amp Python SDK is now live. You can run Amp programmatically from your Python code, just l
• 2025.12.11 — December 11, 2025: Look At This Update: The lookat tool has been replaced with a similar viewmedia tool that can return the raw or cropped/transformed image data to the model in a
• 2025.12.11.2 — December 11, 2025: Thread Labels You can now add labels to threads to organize your work and find conversations later. After a few weeks with Amp, you'll have dozens of threads. S
• 2025.12.11.3 — December 11, 2025: Thread Map Two days ago, Lewis wrote about working with short threads — a lot of them, connected via handoff and thread mentions and forks. In his post, he show
• 2025.12.16 — December 16, 2025: Clickable Diagrams Mermaid diagrams generated by Amp in the editor extensions now include code references. Click on a node or edge to jump to the relevant file
• 2025.12.17 — December 17, 2025: Gemini 3 Flash in the Search Subagent Amp's codebase search subagent now uses Gemini 3 Flash instead of Haiku 4.5. It's 3x faster for the same quality. Gemini 3
• 2025.12.18 — December 18, 2025: Agentic Review Amp has a new agent and it specializes in code review. In the VS Code extension, you can use this agent by going to the review panel. Start by dr
• 2025.12.18.2 — December 18, 2025: A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent When Tim started to use Amp to build the TUI framework for our CLI, he often interrupted the agent. "No, this function shoul
• 2026.01.08 — January 8, 2026: The Frontier Is Now Free Update: Amp Free no longer shows ads. See the latest update. Every Amp user can now receive daily free credits to use the full Amp expe
• 2026.01.08.2 — January 8, 2026: Efficient MCP Tool Loading MCP servers often provide a lot of tools, many of which aren't used. That costs a lot of tokens, because these tool definitions have
• 2026.01.09 — January 9, 2026: Agents Panel The Amp editor extension now has a new panel to view and manage all active agent threads. You can use the keyboard to navigate between threads: - j
• 2026.01.12 — January 12, 2026: 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
• 2026.01.13 — January 13, 2026: Handoff, Please Up until now, you had to click a button or trigger a command to handoff when your thread became too long or you had finished a task. Now you can
• 2026.01.13.2 — January 13, 2026: Stick a Fork in It, It's Done Update (2025-05-06): Four months after this was posted, we removed handoff. So, if you want to fork a thread, the other recommenda
• 2026.01.14 — January 14, 2026: Painter Amp can now generate and edit images, which is useful for design inspiration, tweaking mockups, and making visual assets: - Exploring UI alternatives: "
• 2026.01.15 — January 15, 2026: Tab, Tab, Dead We're removing Amp Tab. It is not part of the future that we see. A year ago, most of our code was written by hand. In June, when we released Amp
• 2026.01.28 — January 28, 2026: Go Deep (Update on February 19, 2026: deep now uses GPT-5.3-Codex.) Amp has a new agent mode: deep. It uses GPT-5.2-Codex and a selection of tools that are tune
• 2026.01.29 — January 29, 2026: Slashing Custom Commands We're removing custom commands in favor of skills. They were two ways of doing the same thing, except that only you could invoke custom
• 2026.02.04 — February 4, 2026: Liberating Code Review Code review has traditionally been tied to an interface where a human reads diffs. Now, we've fully decoupled the review agent from any U
• 2026.02.10 — February 10, 2026: Amp Free Is Full (For Now) We're closing admission to Amp Free, for now. If you already have Amp Free, you’re still in, for now. You'll keep getting $10/day in
• 2026.02.19 — February 19, 2026: GPT‐5.3‐Codex GPT-5.3-Codex now powers Amp's deep mode. It’s a truly impressive model. After using it, we realized: "The coding agent is dead." Everything is ch
• 2026.02.19.2 — February 19, 2026: The Coding Agent Is Dead The current generation of coding agents is dead. The heart is still beating, yes, but the bullet has already left the chamber. This gen
• 2026.03.05 — March 5, 2026: GPT-5.4, The New Oracle Habemus oraculum! We have a new oracle in Amp and it's GPT-5.4. It's a great model. In our internal evals response quality went from 60.
• 2026.03.26 — March 26, 2026: GPT‐5.4 in Deep GPT-5.4 now powers Amp's deep mode. It's the best model in the world right now. It's faster than GPT-5.3-Codex and still as great at coding. But
• 2026.03.30 — March 30, 2026: Amp Free Is Ad-Free When you use Amp Free, you won't see ads anymore. We know many of you loved the ads, advertisers were happy, and we quickly grew ad sales to
• 2026.04.25 — April 25, 2026: Opus 4.7 Opus 4.7 now powers Amp's smart mode. In our internal evals, Opus 4.7 scored ~72%, up from Opus 4.6's ~65% - the first model since GPT 5.4 to clear 70%
• 2026.05.04 — May 4, 2026: GPT-5.5 In Deep GPT-5.5 now powers Amp's deep mode. It is a better coding agent than GPT-5.4: more steerable, more interactive, and better at staying inside con
• 2026.05.06 — May 6, 2026: Amp, Rebuilt Today we're starting to roll out the new Amp. Not all of it, not yet. But the first piece: a rebuilt Amp CLI. Codename: Neo. In The Coding Agent is
• 2026.05.14 — May 14, 2026: npm Package Changes We're now shipping the Amp CLI as a single-file executable (compiled by Bun) instead of as a JavaScript source package. This makes Amp faste
• 2026.05.21 — May 21, 2026: Amp Labs Update: Amp Labs has partnered with Westpac, and we're building a team in Sydney. Read Banking on the Frontier → We are assembling small teams of excep
• 2026.05.21.2 — May 21, 2026: Rush, 2.0 We're releasing a new version of our agent mode rush. Prior to this change, rush’s usefulness was limited. It was faster and cheaper, but also made mo
• 2026.05.25 — May 25, 2026: GPT Image 2 Paints Better GPT Image 2 now powers Amp's painter tool. It is a better image editor than Gemini 3 Pro Image, particularly at preserving existing te
• 2026.05.27 — May 27, 2026: Drop the Neo Amp Neo is now available to everyone. Time to drop the suffix and just call it Amp again. Thank you to everyone who sent bug reports, gave feedback
• 2026.05.27.2 — May 27, 2026: Proof of Human Amp can now require active passkey authentication for certain operations, such as remote controlling a thread. This extra authentication factor p
• 2026.05.28 — May 28, 2026: Plugins, Everywhere Amp plugins can now show UI elements on the web, too. Supported are notifications, confirmation dialogs, input fields, and select elements.
• 2026.06.02 — June 2, 2026: The End of Public Threads We’ve removed public, internet-wide, discoverable thread sharing from Amp. You can still share threads within a workspace, or as Unlis
• 2026.06.04 — June 4, 2026: Agents, Everywhere Amp has a new UI and sidebar, built for watching and driving all of your Amp agents, on web, mobile, and CLI. We rebuilt Amp's foundation las
• 2026.06.04.2 — June 4, 2026: Opus 4.8 Opus 4.8 now powers Amp's smart mode, replacing Opus 4.7. It is a better coding agent than Opus 4.7: more faithful to the prompt, tighter in the change
• 2026.06.05 — June 5, 2026: Faster Deep & Rush The first token now arrives 87% faster and entire responses are 32% faster, p50, in Amp's deep and rush modes. How? Mostly using websockets f
• 2026.06.16 — June 16, 2026: Diffs Outsource your coding, but not your understanding of the code. As agents generate larger quantities of code, it is more important than ever for humans to
• 2026.06.18 — June 18, 2026: A Faster Librarian The Librarian is now ~3x faster and 43% cheaper, with the same quality. It now runs on GPT-5.5 (no reasoning) with websocket mode and an upda
• 2026.06.19 — June 19, 2026: Custom Agents You can now create custom agents in Amp with plugins. You can use these custom agents as your main Amp agent, or as subagents. You can use them as
• 2026.06.30 — June 30, 2026: Agents in Orbs You can now launch Amp agents remotely in orbs: Orbs are machines where agents can run without supervision. When you create a new thread you get
• 2026.07.02 — July 2, 2026: Read Bigger Threads Threads outgrew readthread, so we rewrote it. readthread is the tool that lets Amp pull context out of other Amp threads when you mention th
• 2026.07.03 — July 3, 2026: More Orb Sizes You can now pick the size of the orbs used to run Amp agents remotely. See orb sizes and pricing in the Amp Owner's Manual. Go to project setting
• 2026.07.08 — July 8, 2026: Agents, Anywhere You can now start new agents remotely from ampcode.com anywhere you can run amp: That means, in addition to running agents in orbs, you can now
• 2026.07.09 — July 9, 2026: The Dial Amp's agent modes are now a dial: low, medium, high, ultra. They replace smart, deep, rush, and large. The old modes were models in disguise: each name
• 2026.07.14 — July 14, 2026: Secrets of the Orb Orbs can now prove their identity using OIDC, so you can use Amp for ops and infrastructure tasks more safely. Service providers that support
• 2026.07.17 — July 17, 2026: 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
• 2026.07.18 — July 18, 2026: Subscriptions, At Last Today we're launching Amp Subscriptions in Beta. You can now subscribe monthly to Amp and explore the frontier with us, with cheaper and
• 2026.07.20 — July 20, 2026: Meet Puck Say Hello to Puck, your new assistant in Amp: Open it up from anywhere on ampcode.com: Puck is always available and has access to many different tools
• 2026.07.20.2 — July 20, 2026: Amp Is Now In Slack You can now summon Amp in Slack. Connect your workspace from Amp's settings, then mention @Amp in any channel or thread. Amp sends your mess
• 2026.07.21 — July 21, 2026: Right on Schedule Agents in Amp can now set their own schedules and wake themselves up. When a schedule fires, the agent wakes up with its saved prompt and cont
• 2026.07.22 — July 22, 2026: Multiplayer Three weeks ago, we shipped agents in orbs. Today, more and more of our work happens inside orbs. In fact, the orbs are quickly becoming the de fact
• 2026.07.23 — July 23, 2026: Event Driven Orbs Amp's orbs can now receive requests and react to events outside Amp. That means an orb can wake up when CI fails on GitHub, when someone opens
• 2026.07.29 — July 29, 2026: Banking on the Frontier Amp Labs has partnered with Westpac, one of Australia's oldest and most respected companies, a fixture of Australian business for more t
• 2026.07.29.2 — July 29, 2026: Who Cares About the Model? Two weeks ago we shipped the Dial and quietly did something that's supposed to be traumatic: we changed the default model. Before the
• 2026.08.04 — August 4, 2026: Attach Anything You can now upload any file to your orbs for Amp to see and use: videos, logs, PDFs, spreadsheets, datasets, and more. What new stuff can you do
• 2026.08.06 — August 6, 2026: Portals into Orbs For remote development in orbs to be better than local dev, you need to be able to easily try out the agent's changes in your app, with live r
• 2026.08.07 — August 7, 2026: Size the Orbs of Production! People are using a lot of orbs. We love to see that. We've shipped a lot of things so that Amp subscriptions keep covering the whol
• 2026.08.10 — August 10, 2026: A Dial for You We changed the Dial. Link a ChatGPT subscription and low, medium, and high only use OpenAI models: as the main agent, as the oracle, as the threa
• 2026.08.11 — August 11, 2026: 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 ski
• 2026.08.18 — August 18, 2026: Education Discount Students and teachers can now subscribe to Amp for $10/month, half the usual price. What do you get for $10? Quite a lot! You get to use the
• 2026.08.18.2 — August 18, 2026: 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,
• 2026.08.19 — August 19, 2026: MCP in Orbs You can now connect remote MCP servers on ampcode.com and use them in orbs, the TUI, and with Puck. To add an MCP server: - Visit ampcode.com/settin
• 2026.08.19.2 — August 19, 2026: Pass the Orb to the Left Hand Side You can now bring your team into your orb. Use @ to tag members of your team, and they'll be able to view, drive, and send ch
• 2026.08.21 — August 21, 2026: Explain Usage You can now ask Puck about your token, credit, and orb usage. Try questions like: - Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time? - Which mo
• 2026.08.23 — August 23, 2026: Friendly URLs for Sharing Orbs We use orb portals all the time to share what we're builing and get feedback. But the URLs were ugly and auto-generated. So, we m
• 2026.08.25 — August 25, 2026: Setup Without a Commit You can now store scripts to set up orbs outside of your repository. Amp can store pre-clone and pre-setup scripts in your project settin
• 2026.08.27 — August 27, 2026: Projects with Multiple Repositories Projects in Amp can now include more than one repository. Additional repositories are checked out to an adjacent directory i
• 2026.08.27.2 — August 27, 2026: So Long, TUI Sidebar We are removing the sidebar from the Amp TUI. Why? Because orbs, runners, and cross-agent messages means that there are more threads than e
• 2026.08.28 — August 28, 2026: Amp on iOS & macOS Control your orbs from anywhere. Install the iOS app through TestFlight[^1], and the macOS app through direct download. Download at ampcode.c
• 2026.08.28.2 — August 28, 2026: No Mailmap Required Amp can now use a Git identity that is separate from the email on your Amp account. Pick the name and verified email that should appear on c
• 2026.08.31 — August 31, 2026: Space to Talk Every thread in Amp now comes with its own space to talk. Hit Enter and you're in. Turn on your camera, share your screen, and talk it over with y
• 2026.09.01 — September 1, 2026: Fable 5.1 Claude Fable 5.1 now powers Amp's ultra mode, replacing Fable 5. It's very good at writing, very good at taking direction mid-task, and very good at w
• 2026.09.01.2 — September 1, 2026: Intelligently Ordered Diffs The first challenge in code review is figuring out which files to read first. Amp now orders diffs intelligently and highlights whic
• 2026.09.04 — September 4, 2026: Desktop Your orb now has a desktop you can see and control. Use the Desktop tab in any orb thread to get a high-resolution interactive Linux desktop. It's usefu
• 2026.09.08 — September 8, 2026: Steer, Don't Queue When you send a message while the agent is working, it's now delivered at the next possible opportunity, instead of being queued until the ag
• 2026.09.10 — September 10, 2026: Customize Your Dial You can now choose the models behind Amp's builtin modes and put your own agents on the Dial. There are two tabs in Settings → Mode Dial. Tu
• 2026.09.11 — September 11, 2026: Restack Your Changes We've added a Restack button that organizes all of your thread's changes into a cleaner set of commits. Use it to split a large diff into l
• 2026.09.13 — September 13, 2026: Free Agent Amp is now free to use when you bring your own compute and model subscriptions/keys. - No monthly plan is required anymore to use your ChatGPT subscr
• 2026.09.17 — September 17, 2026: One Runner Is Now Enough A runner can now serve many directories, not just the one it was started in. You can point it at specific projects and directories or l
• 2026.09.22 — September 22, 2026: One Runner, Many Worktrees A runner can now create Git worktrees. Pick a repository the runner serves, hit Tab, name the branch, and the thread starts in a fres
• 2026.09.24 — September 24, 2026: Shared Runners You can now share a runner with your workspace. Start it with --share and everyone in your workspace can start threads on that machine from ampco
• 2026.09.24.2 — September 24, 2026: The Mac App Is Your Runner The Amp app for macOS now starts a runner for you. You no longer need amp --no-tui open in a terminal to run threads on your Mac. Ope
• 2026.09.25 — September 25, 2026: Less Noise Amp now collapses your agent's step-by-step work even more, since you care about what the agent did, not how it got there. (You can still expand the
• 2026.09.28 — September 28, 2026: Opus 5.5 Claude Opus 5.5 now powers Amp's medium mode by default, replacing GPT-5.6 Sol. If you use a ChatGPT subscription with the ChatGPT Only preset, medium
• 2026.09.29 — September 29, 2026: Plaid Speed Amp now supports Plaid speed for modes that use GPT-6 Astra. Plaid uses OpenAI's ultrafast speed tier, which enables inference requests to run up to
• 2026.10.06 — October 6, 2026: Many, Many Pucks You can now have multiple separate conversations with Puck. We know you love Puck. We also know you've been asking Puck about your recent orbs,
• 2026.10.10 — October 10, 2026: Use Your Claude Plan in Amp You can now use your Claude Pro/Max subscription in Amp. It's free and available for everyone now. When creating a new thread, just
• 2026.10.12 — October 12, 2026: First Things First, Faster The Changes pane now automatically puts files in an intelligent order. Amp reads the diff, identifies the files that are essential to
• 2026.10.12.2 — October 12, 2026: You've Got Comments Amp now follows up on GitHub pull requests it opens. Comments, reviews, and CI results show up in the same thread. When Amp opens a PR, the
• 2026.10.13 — October 13, 2026: Take Puck with You You can now talk to Puck from ChatGPT, Claude, and other agents via MCP. After developing an idea with ChatGPT's voice mode on a walk, send i
• 2026.10.16 — October 16, 2026: See Your Runner's Desktop You can now see and control your macOS or Linux runner's desktop. This is nice for trying native apps that Amp builds for you, such as
• 2026.10.19 — October 19, 2026: Assign It To Amp Amp is now an agent in Linear. Assigning an issue to Amp starts a new Agent Session in Linear and spawns a new orb. You can also mention @Amp t

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