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Use Paicku to containerize and test any app with buildpacks and Node.js
Paicku is a command-line tool and Node.js library that wraps the Pack CLI to containerize applications using Cloud Native Buildpacks. It can be installed globally via npm install -g paicku or run with npx. It downloads and configures Pack for the host OS and container runtime, eliminating manual setup. Users build images with npx paicku build, defaulting to builder paketobuildpacks/builder-ubi8-base, and can list available builders with the suggest command. The Node.js librarys createPaicku function provides a build method returning an image object with run and stop for integration tests; an example test builds an app, starts the container, and asserts HTTP 200. Paicku detects Docker or Podman and supports any language a builder supports, such as Node.js and Java, by only changing the application path.
Start Your Next KMP App With Kotlin Toolchain 0.13
The Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 provides a unified CLI entry point for building JVM, Android, iOS, multiplatform, and server-side applications with declarative configuration. It introduces the kotlin new command for interactive project creation, improved iOS onboarding with automatic simulator setup, and Android SDK auto-provisioning on IDE import. New features include Swift Package Manager dependency support for Apple platforms, multiplatform library publication with Compose Resources and SwiftPM metadata, and Kotlin/Native compiler caching for faster rebuilds. The toolchain is designed for both developers and AI agents, with a Hot Reload MCP server and dedicated AI agent skills included in official Kotlin agent skills. The team recommends the toolchain for new KMP projects and plans future milestones like brew installation, out-of-the-box AI skills, and streamlined app store publishing.
Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits
Seer is Sentry’s agent debugger that reasons across errors, traces, logs, profiles, and linked repositories to identify root causes, not just surface-level stack traces. The Sentry MCP, set up via the agent plugin with a single command, bridges Sentry’s data into coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, enabling them to invoke Seer’s full analysis. The new Sentry CLI provides natural-language access to Seer’s diagnosis and issue management directly from the terminal, using selectors like @latest and @most_frequent. These tools are complementary: Seer provides deep diagnosis, while the MCP and CLI deliver that context into the environments developers already use. Teams can automate the entire workflow so Seer diagnoses, an agent fixes, and a draft PR awaits review without human involvement until approval, with Seer triggering on issues meeting event count and fixability thresholds.
Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
Cloudflare introduced cf, a new CLI that provides access to the entire Cloudflare API surface of over 3,000 operations, far exceeding Wrangler’s roughly 280 commands. Cf is designed primarily for AI coding agents, which account for nearly half of Wrangler usage, and defaults to JSON output with condensed formatting to minimize token consumption. The CLI includes a natural language search command, cf cli search, that helps agents discover the right operation without bloating context, and uses TypeScript-based configuration via cloudflare.config.ts for type safety. Cf is generated by Forge, Cloudflare’s internal pipeline that produces CLI commands from OpenAPI schema annotations, enabling consistent and comprehensive API coverage. The open beta is available globally via npm, and cf adopts Vite as its default local development server, with a migration path from Wrangler and maintenance support for 18 months after beta ends.
Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more
Cloudflare introduced Forge, an open source, pluggable generation pipeline for producing SDKs, CLIs, documentation, and other API surfaces from API definitions. Forge runs in CI on each team’s API repositories, linting every change and generating preview builds of the CLI, docs, and SDKs with only the changes highlighted, similar to Workers Previews. It supports OpenAPI as input and can chain transformers to produce outputs like Cap’n Web bindings, TanStack Query, or MCP servers, enabling generation of bindings from Workers to other APIs. Forge is designed to reduce coordination overhead across Cloudflare’s hundreds of services and repos, and to enable better API versioning without breaking existing clients or SDKs. It is available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be run for free, privately or publicly, and already generates the output required for the cf CLI.
Deploy and manage coding agents at scale with the Unity Gateway CLI
Organizations face a challenge as new frontier models appear roughly every five days, making it difficult to balance flexibility with governance. Databricks introduces the Unity Gateway CLI, which lets admins centrally configure approved coding agents, models, MCP servers, skills, and spending policies. Developers launch any approved agent with a single ug command, and the CLI handles authentication and applies the published settings. Features include Smart Routing that selects cost-appropriate models per task, budget-aware defaults that switch to lower-cost options as spending thresholds are reached, and tracing to capture tool calls and skill invocations for waste analysis. In internal use, the system processed over 61 billion input tokens across roughly 360,000 requests, and tracing helped identify bugs that saved an estimated 1.2 million per year.
The Headless Dashboard Initiative
Resend announced a headless dashboard initiative to make all dashboard capabilities available programmatically via the MCP, CLI, and API. Recent releases include the Email Metrics API for deliverability and engagement data, a Headless Webhook API for listing events and replaying deliveries, and a Cancel Broadcast API. The Duplicate Broadcast API copies any broadcast into a draft, and the Share Email API provides expiring read-only email links. The team aims to make the dashboard best-in-class while committing to full headless operation for every future entity. Developers can start building today by connecting the MCP server or using the CLI.
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