Amp 2026.08.10 → 2026.10.19: what changed
34 releases shipped between 2026.08.10 (August 10, 2026) and 2026.10.19 (October 19, 2026).
Changelog entries in this range
- 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