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Quinn and Thorsten discuss how isolated Orbs remove the friction from running agents in parallel. They explain how they use agents for exhaustive verification and production feedback loops. Then they introduce jellyware, where teams use agents to change s

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 skills. They're Amp-hosted, built for agents, and work everywhere Amp runs. You can now tell Amp to: "Create a personal plug

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We changed the Dial. Link a ChatGPT subscription and low, medium, and high only use OpenAI models: as the main agent, as the oracle, as the thread reader, as code review. Every model behind those modes is an OpenAI model, billed to your subscription. Befo

People are using a lot of orbs. We love to see that. We've shipped a lot of things so that Amp subscriptions keep covering the whole month of orb usage for almost everyone, even as orb usage grows quickly. Way back on July 27, we cut orb prices by 20% for

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Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you to believe me?

You can now upload any file to your orbs for Amp to see and use: videos, logs, PDFs, spreadsheets, datasets, and more. What new stuff can you do? Here's what we've found useful so far: Screen-record your app and ask Amp to fix or improve what it sees. Deb

Two weeks ago we shipped the Dial and quietly did something that's supposed to be traumatic: we changed the default model. Before the Dial, Amp's default mode was smart, running Claude Opus 4.8 and carrying more than half of all new threads. The Dial made

Amp Labs has partnered with Westpac, one of Australia's oldest and most respected companies, a fixture of Australian business for more than two centuries, to transform how the bank builds and delivers technology. Amp Labs operates on the thesis that the b