Amp — January 2026 Releases
10 releases in January 2026.
- 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 inv
- 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 tha
- 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 re
- 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 alter
- 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. N
- 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
- 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 g
- 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 th
- 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 ful
- 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 definit