Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Several coding agents saw pricing adjustments. OpenAI Codex's floor price changed from $8 to $0/month, now offering a free plan OpenAI Codex pricing change detected: floor $8 → $0/mo. GitHub Copilot's floor shifted from $0 to $10/month, introducing a Pro plan at that price GitHub Copilot pricing change detected: floor $0 → $10/mo, model flat → hybrid. Kiro saw its typical pricing shift from $40 to $20/month for its Pro plan Kiro pricing change detected: typical $40 → $20/mo. In contrast, Cursor's typical pricing increased from $20 to $60/month for its Pro+ tier Cursor pricing change detected: typical $20 → $60/mo, and Claude Code's model changed from flat to hybrid, with a Pro plan at $20/month and a Max plan from $100/month Claude Code pricing change detected: model flat → hybrid.

In product updates, GitHub Copilot for JetBrains added support for enterprise-managed sandbox policies, cross-file cursor jumps, global project context in chat, policy diagnostics, and a connection to terminal Copilot Enterprise-managed sandbox in Copilot for JetBrains. Windsurf released version v3.9.19 v3.9.19. Kiro announced ISO/IEC 27001:2022 coverage, being included in AWS’s certification scope Kiro adds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 coverage, and expanded its free year offering to students globally A free year of Kiro, now for students around the world. A tutorial was also released on how to teach GitHub Copilot about specific codebase conventions using custom instructions, skills, and agents How to teach GitHub Copilot about your codebase | Tutorial for Beginners.

Community discussions included a user reporting excessive token consumption and delays during a Codex session with GPT Sol 5.6 High Tell HN: OpenAI keeps stealing my money, and another claim regarding OpenAI allegedly stealing mathematicians' private research from Codex chats OpenAI stole mathematicians' private research from their own Codex chats. On the research front, OpenAI showcased how GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex assists an MIT researcher in running quantum computing experiments How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments, and shared an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. New tools shared included Multistack, a TUI environment for parallel coding agents Show HN: Multistack, a TUI environment for parallel coding agents, and Doc-scraper for offline searchable documentation corpora Show HN: Doc-scraper, offline searchable docs corpora for coding agents (Go), alongside a "I-have-ADHD" skill for coding agents designed to prevent burying answers I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer.