Platforms stretched their legs while agents multiplied. Vercel lifted Functions to 30‑minute runs and Next.js canaried Rspack 2.0, as Anthropic’s Claude Code, ByteDance’s Deer‑Flow, Nous’s Hermes Agent, and Datasette’s agent added sharper controls and workflows. A neat Cloudflare WAF trick and Axios’s Anthropic backstory rounded out a pragmatic, tool‑heavy day.