Most agent tooling assumes you are sitting in a terminal. The more interesting recent launches are the ones that leave it: an assistant that works in your team's chat, one that can drive the phone in your pocket, a notation app an assistant can edit, and design surfaces people and agents share. Here are eight.
A coworker in the channel
Doozy is an AI coworker that lives in Slack and does the work in your own tools. You ask in a channel, it pulls the data from the systems your team already uses, writes the result back as a file, and reports what it did along with the sources it used. The example it leads with is a churn question: the list comes from one system, the reason for each account from another, and the answer comes back as a spreadsheet. It is priced per team rather than per seat, which changes the economics for a team that would otherwise buy ten licences.
Thumbs for your assistant
Computer use has mostly meant a desktop browser. Opposable points it at the phone instead: it connects the iPhone or Android phone you already use to Claude over MCP, so the assistant opens apps, reads the screen, taps and types while signed in as you. That covers the chores, such as clearing duplicate photos and freeing storage, and it covers real device testing, where Claude Code or Codex can walk through the app you are building and report what broke. It works from any MCP client and also as a connector from the Claude or ChatGPT app. The cost of that capability is an Accessibility service running on your phone, which is a substantial grant of trust.
A travel agent over email
BonBook is an AI travel agent with no app to learn: you send one email, it replies with flight options, and once you pick one it books and then keeps watching the trip, checking you in, catching delays and rebooking you automatically. It advertises zero fees and zero commissions, says it can reach airline inventory not available to the public, and claims you keep your card points, loyalty miles and seat upgrades. It is flight-only and labelled beta, and the savings claims are the company's own.
The desktop, one Dock away
CoolDock is a second Dock for macOS holding live widgets for music, todos, events, weather, search, stats, quick actions, clipboard and screenshots beside your original Dock. It is local-first and privacy-first, sold as a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, and it also runs an MCP server so an assistant can reach the same widgets. That combination is the pattern to watch: an ordinary Mac utility that quietly becomes an agent surface.
A score an assistant can edit
Autograph is a music notation app for iPad and Mac that reads handwriting on the staff and engraves it properly: the notehead on the right line, the stem the right way up, the beams and accidentals where an engraver would put them. On the Mac, Claude Code, Claude Desktop or any assistant that speaks MCP can read the open score and edit it while you watch, with each request one undoable step, which is a far better fit for creative work than a batch edit you have to reverse. It exports PDF, MusicXML and MEI, and opens other people's MusicXML and MEI files too. It is aimed at the moment before a piece is finished, not at typesetting a symphony.
Figures with citations
Anima is a Claude Code skill that turns a biology request into an interactive, sourced, isometric figure. Each one has real structures, a mechanism you can toggle and a citation for every number on screen, and it says so out loud when the human evidence behind a claim is weak. Comparing two stimulants at the transporter, or blocking a receptor and watching a signal flip, becomes something you can operate rather than a static image you have to interpret. It is MIT licensed and installs with `npx skills add`.
Canvases people and agents share
Two launches put humans and agents on the same surface. UI Design Editor is a free shared design canvas that exposes WebMCP site tools, so an assistant can read a project and then add, move, resize, restyle, hide or remove text, shapes, icons and pictures in it, while keeping your own undo history. Anyone with the Space link can read and edit, and HTML exports carry their own copy. The instruction page is unusually careful about failure: read before editing, ask what the user wants, keep the full `#space` and `&project` values, and use the latest `projectId` and revision the tools return.
Chai UI is a design system for building AI apps rather than editing designs. It ships React and Vue components for model routing, prompt optimization, media analysis and image editing along with design tokens, so designers, developers and agents build from one interface. It is MIT licensed and openly marked as in active development, with a small component count and a 0.x version, so expect the API to move.
Where this is going
The pattern across all eight is that the agent stops being a window you type into. It shows up in the channel your team already uses, on the phone in your pocket, in the notation app and in the design canvas, and in each case the useful design decision is the same: one undoable step, with the sources visible.
