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December 18, 2025

Agentic Review

A new agent for reviewing agent-generated code in your editor

December 17, 2025

Gemini 3 Flash in the Search Subagent

The search subagent is now 3x faster with Gemini 3 Flash

December 16, 2025

Clickable Diagrams

Mermaid diagrams now link directly to your code

December 11, 2025

Look At This

Analyze PDFs and images without bloating your context window

December 11, 2025

Thread Labels

Organize and find your threads with custom labels

December 10, 2025

Agent Skills

Reuse your existing agent skills in Amp

December 10, 2025

Amp Python SDK

Amp Python SDK is now available

December 8, 2025

Find Threads

Find Amp threads by keyword or by which files they touched

December 2, 2025

Amp, Inc.

Amp is becoming its own company

November 27, 2025

Opus 4.5: Better, Faster, Often Cheaper

Claude Opus 4.5 is the new main agent model in Amp

November 24, 2025

Try Claude Opus 4.5 With Us

Test Claude Opus 4.5 in Amp while we evaluate its agentic capabilities

November 18, 2025

Gemini 3 Pro

Google's Gemini 3 is now the main agent model in Amp

November 7, 2025

Rush Mode

A faster, cheaper way to use Amp for small, well-defined coding tasks.

November 4, 2025

Workspace Settings

Configure the Amp CLI per workspace

November 4, 2025

Social Coding

See how other people are actually using coding agents to do real stuff, with public profiles and threads.

October 30, 2025

Workspace Entitlements

Per-user usage quotas for Amp Enterprise Premium workspaces

October 29, 2025

Amp Now Reads Threads

Reference and let Amp read other Amp threads

October 28, 2025

Command Palette, Not Slash Commands

Amp now has a command palette that replaces slash commands

October 25, 2025

Review

A new panel for reading agent-generated code

October 24, 2025

Use Amp Free at Work

The Internet’s best business model (advertising) delivers once again: a $0 coding agent that meets the same stringent infosec standards of Amp’s paid smart mode.

October 23, 2025

Handoff (No More Compaction)

Move work into new threads without losing your built-up context

October 22, 2025

More Tools for the Agent

Create new tools for Amp using the CLI instead of writing MCP servers.

October 21, 2025

Edit, Restore and Fork in the CLI

Edit, restore and fork previous messages in the CLI with Tab

October 21, 2025

50% Faster Search Agent

Search agent is now 50% faster with optimized parallel execution

October 20, 2025

The Librarian

A new subagent for searching code on GitHub

October 15, 2025

Amp Free

Agentic coding is now free for everyone.

October 14, 2025

Monthly Automatic Top Ups

A new mode for a more predictable Amp budget

October 3, 2025

Amp TypeScript SDK

October 1, 2025

GPT-5 Oracle

When Sonnet falls short, GPT-5 can now help as the oracle

September 30, 2025

Amp CLI connects to VS Code and Neovim

Amp CLI connects to VS Code and Neovim

September 29, 2025

Now Using Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic released an updated Sonnet 4.5, and Amp now uses it by default

September 23, 2025

Amp Tab for All

Our free in-editor completion engine for VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf is now on by default for new installs

September 23, 2025

Globs in AGENTS.md

September 9, 2025

Streaming JSON

The Amp CLI has two new flags: `--stream-json` and `--stream-json-input` and stuff

September 2, 2025

Look Ma, No Flicker

Today the Amp CLI reached the next stage in its evolution. It’s no longer just a command-line tool, but a proper terminal user interface.

August 29, 2025

Bring Your Own Tools

Provide tools to Amp in the form of executable files

August 27, 2025

1,000,000 Tokens

Amp can now use 1 million tokens of context with Claude Sonnet 4

August 25, 2025

Custom Slash Commands

Define custom slash commands in the Amp CLI, and use them to insert pre-defined or dynamically-generated prompts

August 25, 2025

Enterprise Managed Settings

Configure organization-wide settings that override individual settings

August 25, 2025

MCP Permissions

You can now set `amp.mcpPermissions` to define rules that block or allow MCP servers

August 21, 2025

JetBrains Diagnostics for Java, Kotlin, and Scala

Read JVM diagnostics from JetBrains IDEs

August 21, 2025

Multi-File Tab

Amp Tab will now suggest edits across multiple recently-viewed files

August 21, 2025

Through the Agent, Into the Shell

Execute shell commands, right there in the prompt input

August 20, 2025

From AGENT.md to AGENTS.md

Amp now uses `AGENTS.md` as the standard filename

August 20, 2025

A New Model for Amp Tab

Amp Tab uses an updated model with better completion accuracy

August 19, 2025

New Threads without Leaving the CLI

Start new threads or continue old ones with `/new` and `/continue`

August 18, 2025

Queue Messages in the CLI

Queue messages with `/queue`

August 13, 2025

432,000 Tokens

Amp supports 432k-token context with Claude Sonnet 4

August 13, 2025

Diagnostic-Driven Completions

Amp Tab now uses diagnostics to suggest file-wide fixes

August 12, 2025

Model Evaluation

Follow our team's real-time evaluation of new frontier models

August 7, 2025

Try GPT-5 With Us

Test GPT-5 in Amp while we evaluate its agentic capabilities

August 7, 2025

JetBrains in the CLI

Connect Amp CLI to JetBrains IDEs for context and editing

August 7, 2025

Tool-Level Permissions

Configure granular permissions for individual tools and arguments

July 30, 2025

Amp Tab 30% Faster

Amp Tab response times are now 30% faster with optimized infrastructure

July 29, 2025

Thread Forking in VS Code

We added fork threads to help you explore different directions mid-thread

July 24, 2025

amp dash x

The Amp CLI has a new flag: `--execute`

July 23, 2025

Towards a New CLI

Today we released a new version of our Amp CLI

July 8, 2025

Streamable Transport for MCP

Connect to remote MCP servers with streamable HTTP transport

July 7, 2025

Multiple AGENT.md Files

Use multiple `AGENT.md` files across directory trees

July 4, 2025

Oracle

Meet Oracle, Amp's new o3-powered tool for code review and analysis

June 27, 2025

Better, Faster, Cheaper Summaries

Amp now uses a different model when compacting or summarizing threads that is 6x faster and 30x cheaper

June 26, 2025

Queued Messages

Queue messages with `Shift+Enter` to send when the agent is idle

June 10, 2025

Agents for the Agent

Amp now has subagents to handle specialized tasks within threads

June 6, 2025

Amp Tab

Introducing our new in-editor completion engine that anticipates your next actions

June 2, 2025

Multi-Root Workspaces

May 30, 2025

Secret Redaction

Amp now identifies secrets and redacts them so they are not exposed to the LLM, other tools, or ampcode.com

May 29, 2025

Raising an Agent, Episode 6

Claude 4, sub-agents, and "hot tips" for agentic coding

May 28, 2025

Terminal Improvements

Commands now inherit shell environments and support interactive mode

May 28, 2025

TODOs for the Agent

The TODO feature that lets the agent manage its own list of tasks is now enabled by default

May 22, 2025

Image Support in CLI

Reference images by pasting paths or dragging files into the terminal

May 22, 2025

Amp Now Uses Claude Sonnet 4

Now that Anthropic has released it, we've switched Amp's primary model to be Claude Sonnet 4

May 20, 2025

The First 500,000 Messages

May 15, 2025

Amp Is Now Available To Everyone — Here's How I Use It

As of today, Amp is available to everyone. No more waitlist.

May 14, 2025

Raising an Agent, Episode 5

Five weeks of Amp evolution and AI coding predictions

May 9, 2025

History in CLI

Navigate message history with arrow keys and keyboard shortcuts

May 8, 2025

No More BYOK

The best product is built by iterating fast at the model↔product frontier, so we removed Isolated Mode

May 7, 2025

AGENT.md

Configure Amp with project guidance in `AGENTS.md` files

May 7, 2025

File Mentions in CLI

Fuzzy-search files with `@` mentions in interactive mode

April 22, 2025

Manual

Read the comprehensive operator's guide to using Amp effectively

April 15, 2025

How to Build an Agent

Learn how to build a fully functioning code-editing agent

April 9, 2025

Frequently Ignored Feedback

Our responses to common feedback we are intentionally not acting on

April 4, 2025

Raising an Agent, Episode 4

What will AI do to open-source? What does it mean for GitHub? What does it mean for interviewing engineers?

March 28, 2025

Raising an Agent, Episode 3

What does this all mean for code search? How do you balance coding knowledge vs. letting the AI do it?

March 13, 2025

Raising an Agent, Episode 2

Is the magic with these agents that there are no token limits? Where do the agents fail? Do they need guidance?

March 6, 2025

Raising an Agent, Episode 1

Build your Amp agent from the ground up

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