Foremerge is a coordination layer that sits above Git: one Rust binary, Apache-2.0, version 0.5.0, with its shared state in a SQLite file inside the repository's Git common directory. Before editing, each agent publishes an intent and the…
In the News: September 21, 2026 (Extra)
Foremerge makes parallel coding agents declare what they will change before they change it, and gates acceptance on a check it runs itself.
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Grok 4.7 gets a measurement its vendor did not run
Artificial Analysis has published its own evaluation of Grok 4.7, scoring the reasoning version at 46 on its Intelligence Index and ranking it 16th of the 655 models it tracks. Version 4.3.2 of that index bundles ten evaluations,…
Fable 5: Median thinking declined in August
167 points and 98 comments at 2 hours 19 minutes after posting, observed 18:33 UTC on September 21. We have not read the underlying post, so nothing here is a report of what it found. The thread itself is worth watching because it keeps splitting on method rather than on the conclusion. One commenter, CamperBob2, asks the question the rest of the argument depends on: "How do you measure thinking tokens? They don't send those back to the client." Others point at third-party trackers and at the difference between a vendor saying it does not intentionally reduce quality and a vendor saying nothing changed.