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Cursor 3.11 (July 10, 2026) adds side chats, durable parallel agent threads you spawn with /side or /btw and pull back into the main conversation with an at-mention. Plus Cmd+K transcript search and new cloud agent hooks.

Cursor 3.11 (July 10, 2026) lets cloud agents run hooks that see the conversation itself. Wire up beforeSubmitPrompt, afterAgentThought, afterAgentResponse, and subagentStart in .cursor/hooks.json to log every prompt, thinking block, and delegated task, then gate the risky ones.

A step-by-step checklist for lifting a hand-rolled Anthropic tool-calling loop onto a standalone MCP server. The tool bodies move almost verbatim; what changes is where the schema comes from, how results are wrapped, and how errors cross the process boundary.

A step-by-step checklist for moving an existing LangChain agent off inline @tool functions onto a standalone MCP server that any client can call. Covers extracting tools into FastMCP, re-wiring the agent with langchain-mcp-adapters MultiServerMCPClient, the sync-to-async switch, transports, and the gotchas that bite mid-cutover.

A step-by-step checklist for moving a .NET app off the raw OpenAI 2.12 SDK onto the provider-neutral Microsoft.Extensions.AI 10.7 IChatClient. Covers the AsIChatClient bridge, the CompleteChatAsync-to-GetResponseAsync rewrite, streaming, tool calling, DI registration, and the gotchas that bite mid-cutover.

VS Code 1.128 (July 8, 2026) lets one Claude agent-host session hold several parallel chats, each with its own history, title, and model. Here is what chat.agentHost.enabled actually unlocks and how the quick-chat and BYOK pieces fit.

Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5) shipped June 30, 2026 and now backs the 'sonnet' alias in Claude Code. Its new tokenizer emits about 30% more tokens for the same text, so cost estimates and max_tokens limits tuned for Sonnet 4.6 need a recount.

A step-by-step checklist for moving an existing Semantic Kernel 1.77 .NET app to Microsoft Agent Framework 1.13. Covers the Kernel-to-AIAgent rewrite, plugins-to-tools, thread-to-session, the KernelFunction compatibility bridge, DI changes, and the gotchas that bite mid-cutover.

Both let one agent spawn isolated workers from a Markdown file, but Claude Code nests five levels deep with per-agent tool allowlists and worktree isolation, while Cursor keeps it to two levels with a single readonly switch and reads Claude's format for free. Pick by where your agents run, not by brand.

Use CodeAct (the agent writes executable code as its action) when your tasks chain many tools, loop, or move large data, and you can afford a sandbox. Use the JSON tool-calling loop for a handful of discrete, high-stakes actions where a code interpreter is overkill or unsafe. CodeAct wins on token cost and multi-step success rate; tool calling wins on safety and simplicity.