The platform war: five simultaneous moves (April 1-5)

Conway — Anthropic persistent agent platform (leaked April 3)

Always-on agent environment with web workspace, webhooks, Chrome interface, notification system. CNW ZIP extension standard for custom tools, UI tabs, context processors. Contradicts Claude Code’s open hook model. Reports from TechBriefly, Dataconomy, TestingCatalog.

OpenClaw subscription ban (April 4)

Anthropic cut third-party harnesses from subscription token allowances. 135K+ OpenClaw instances. 5x price arbitrage. Users must use “extra usage” billing. Reported by TechCrunch, VentureBeat.

Copilot SDK public preview (April 2)

GitHub published agent runtime as composable SDK. Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java. BYOK for OpenAI/Azure/Anthropic. Tool invocation, streaming, file ops, multi-turn, OpenTelemetry, permission framework. Also: Copilot Cloud Agent commit signing (April 3), org runner/firewall controls (April 3), expanded beyond PRs (April 1).

Google ADK 1.0 (early April)

Agent Development Kit at 1.0 for Python, TypeScript, Go, Java. Go 1.0 adds OpenTelemetry and self-healing. Model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic.

Microsoft Copilot Studio multi-agent GA (April 1)

Multi-agent orchestration with A2A protocol. Third-party agents participate in orchestrations. Fabric integration, M365 Agents SDK.

oh-my-codex / OMX (April 3)

2,867 GitHub stars in 24 hours. Multi-agent Codex CLI orchestration with git worktree isolation. Community answer to the platform question.

Codex flexible pricing (April 2)

Codex-only seats on ChatGPT Business/Enterprise. Pay-as-you-go. Business annual $25→$20/seat. 2M+ weekly Codex users, 6x growth since January.

NIST AI Agent Identity standards

Comment period closed April 2. IAM frameworks designed for humans don’t work for autonomous agents. Regulatory signal.

GPT-5.1 Codex models deprecated (April 3)

GPT-5.1-Codex, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini deprecated from GitHub Copilot.