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Google rebuilds its Ads API Developer Assistant as an agent plugin for live reporting and validation

Google has turned its Ads API helper into a reusable agent plugin rather than a standalone project. For developers maintaining ad-tech integrations, the material change is that agent workflows can now ground themselves in current Protobuf schemas and execute validated reporting against real Google Ads accounts instead of relying only on model memory.

Agent Plugins 1.0 now has a concrete cross-client compatibility layer for Skills and MCP

Agent Plugins 1.0 now has documented support across VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT/Codex, Kiro and several open-source agents. That makes the format materially more useful for cross-client distribution, but portable components remain limited to Agent Skills and MCP servers while permissions, hooks, commands and host UX stay client-specific.

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Shopify starts moving app developers toward App Pricing

Shopify's App Pricing migration is now clearer: directly matching subscriptions can move through plan setup, while usage-based and price-mismatched subscriptions stay on the Billing API until a separate Migration API arrives.

Chrome Web Store now defaults publishers to two extension slots and is retiring Featured badges

Chrome extension publishers now face individualized publication caps, with two slots as the default for new or low-history accounts. Existing extensions remain published, increases can be requested, and Google is also retiring the Featured badge while making recent reviews more important to ratings.

GitHub’s OAuth apps get short-lived tokens, multiple callbacks — and a wildcard setting worth auditing

GitHub OAuth apps can now use eight-hour access tokens with rotating refresh tokens, register up to 10 callback URLs, and explicitly control wildcard callback matching. New apps default to expiring tokens, while existing single-callback apps should review a legacy wildcard setting GitHub has now made visible.