The Nov 2 brief

Snapshot

• Quiet Sunday-into-Monday window. The OpenRouter models list has no new model IDs (the newest is still particle-1 from 10-28), Artificial Analysis articles have nothing newer than 10-28, and the AA Coding Agent Index still carries the 2026-10-30 materialization. Today's useful items are one harness release, one local-inference engine, one security incident and one eval lesson.
• News (harness): pi v1.5.0 shipped this morning (11-02 05:05 CST). It adds GPT-6.1 Terra (500K context through Codex), switches the default OpenAI model to gpt-6.1-sol, moves tool-argument validation to pi-schema (a breaking change for TypeBox-only features), and changes MCP OAuth sign-in to Client ID Metadata Documents by default.
• News (local inference): colibri is #10 on GitHub trending with 655 stars today (46,218 total, Apache-2.0). Its v2.1.0 release (10-31) runs published GGUFs unchanged on CPU, Vulkan and CUDA, streams MoE experts from disk, and adds Mistral-Large-4 (1T) to the supported models.
• News (security, agent infra): Trigger.dev disclosed a security incident on 11-01 in which an attacker accessed environment variables for a subset of organizations. The company says the hole is blocked and affected owners were emailed (HN, 118 points).
• Update (eval lesson): Apify's MCP server removed TOON output (PR #1060) after A/B rounds showed no consistent benefit over JSON. A Forkast write-up published the numbers on 11-01, and The Agentic Digest led with it today.
• Context (open weights): China's MOFCOM Announcement No. 48 proposes export restrictions on frontier model weights; comments are open until 2026-11-15. Kimi K3.1 Pro weights are still not on Moonshot's HF org.
• Do this today: Ling 3.1 Flash is free on Vercel AI Gateway only until Nov 3, so finish any evals on it today. If you run pi, read the v1.5.0 breaking change before updating custom tools.

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