News & Updates

Stay up to date with the latest developments, research findings, and milestones from AgentLab

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April 25, 2026 Release

ProgramOS: An Open Spec for AI Program Coordinators

A spec, not a fork. Hand SPEC.md to your coding agent along with a fresh NanoClaw clone, and you get a multi-channel program coordinator covering email, Telegram, Teams, and web chat—extracted from a production deployment.

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April 21, 2026 Release

MindForum Launches a Shared AI Workspace for Groups

A link-gated room where 2–6 people chat together with an AI collaborator that stays silent until mentioned with @ai—keeping humans at the center of the conversation.

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April 18, 2026 Release

HackClaw Powers the Gies AI for Impact Challenge

A Discord + Email AI assistant that routes hackathon questions through brain files, manages a mentor help-ticket queue, and grows its knowledge base with every resolution.

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March 1, 2026 Release

Text-2-SQL Agent Enters AgentBeats Competition

A LangGraph natural-language-to-SQL agent with schema caching, multi-step planning, 7-dimensional self-scoring, and targeted retry feedback joins AgentLab’s portfolio.

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March 15, 2026 Release

The Cognitive Swarm Joins AgentLab

A real-time multimodal brainstorming app with 3D swarm visualization, quadratic voting, and Google Gemini-powered idea extraction joins the AgentLab project portfolio.

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March 10, 2026 Release

Inquiring Agents Brings AI Ethics Debates to the Classroom

Five philosopher-agents debate AI ethics dilemmas through Churchman’s Inquiring Systems, with students injecting perspectives between rounds.

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March 8, 2026 Release

IlliniClaw Spec Published

AgentLab publishes IlliniClaw, the open-source architecture spec for WhatsApp AI teaching assistants. Feed it to any AI coding agent and get a working bot for your course.

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February 20, 2026 Announcement

PathShaper Launches for BADM 554

AgentLab deploys PathShaper, an adaptive learning platform powered by multi-agent content generation, for BADM 554 at Gies College of Business.

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July 5, 2025 Milestone

VentureBots Summer Pilot Program Launches

AgentLab launches VentureBots summer pilot with 25 students, providing AI-powered entrepreneurship coaching through the complete startup journey.

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February 28, 2025 Milestone

Canvas MCP Server Open-Sourced

AgentLab releases Canvas MCP, an open-source MCP server providing 90+ tools and 8 agent skills for Canvas LMS, available on PyPI and the MCP Registry.

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