Microsoft released Amplifier, an experimental development environment that enhances AI coding assistants with 20+ specialized agents, a knowledge extraction system, parallel worktree workflows, and automatic conversation transcript preservation. The tool provides pre-loaded patterns, context management, and automation to transform AI assistants into more capable development partners. It requires Python 3.11+, UV, Node.js, and works primarily in WSL2, though it's explicitly marked as early-stage research software with no stability guarantees or official support.

pdfly is a Python-based CLI tool for PDF manipulation, offering features like metadata display, page extraction and merging, document compression, image extraction, text extraction, and PDF signing. The newly released version 0.5.0 adds digital signature verification, annotated page extraction, and page rotation capabilities. Built on fpdf2 and pypdf libraries, it provides a comprehensive solution for common PDF operations through simple command-line interfaces.