Claude Report — 2026-04-18

🚀 Anthropic Official

Claude Design (Anthropic Labs) — Research Preview

Apr 17. Visual creation product powered by Opus 4.7 that reads a team's codebase and design files to apply consistent branding automatically; exports to PDF, PPTX, standalone HTML, or Canva. Available in research preview at claude.ai/design for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.

Claude Code v2.1.113

Apr 17. CLI now spawns the native Claude Code binary via an optional npm dependency instead of the bundled JS fallback; adds sandbox.network.deniedDomains to block specific domains at the network layer; Shift+↑/↓ scrolls fullscreen panes; Esc cancels pending /loop wakeups; includes multiple Bash tool security hardening fixes across 40+ changes.

Claude Code v2.1.114

Apr 18. Fixes a crash in the permission dialog triggered when an agent team member requested a tool permission mid-session.

claude-agent-sdk-python v0.1.62

Apr 17. Adds skills parameter to ClaudeAgentOptions — pass "all", a named list of skills, or [] to suppress all — eliminating the need to manually configure allowed_tools and setting_sources when enabling skills in a managed session.

claude-code-action v1.0.100

Apr 17. Upgrades the GitHub Actions workflow default model from claude-opus-4-6 to claude-opus-4-7; fixes binary path resolution after the Agent SDK bump.

Anthropic SDKs — Opus 4.7 + Token Budgets (all languages)

Apr 16. Python (v0.96.0), TypeScript (sdk-v0.90.0), Go (v1.37.0), Java (v2.26.0), Ruby (v1.35.0), and C# (v12.16.0) all land claude-opus-4-7 model constant, token budgets, and user_profiles simultaneously; C# also adds a beta tool runner for the Anthropic target.

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

superpowers — 410,260 installs

Apr 15-16 (upstream obra/superpowers). Adds a "Superpowers Marketplace" README section for Claude Code, seeds two default prompts for the Codex plugin listing, updates terminology from "workflow" to "methodology", and restructures Codex CLI install instructions — documentation and metadata changes only; no functional skill content was modified.

Unchanged in window: frontend-design, context7, code-review, code-simplifier, github, feature-dev, playwright, skill-creator, claude-md-management

🛠️ Skills

None of the top 5 updated in window.

Unchanged in window: superpowers:brainstorming, superpowers:tdd, superpowers:systematic-debugging, superpowers:writing-plans, superpowers:executing-plans

🤖 Agents & Subagents

None of the top 5 updated in window.

Unchanged in window: superpowers:subagent-driven-development, claude-router:orchestrate, ralph-loop, claude-router:fast-executor, claude-mem:do

🔗 MCPs & Integrations

github/github-mcp-server v1.0.0

Apr 16. Stable milestone release; adds set_issue_fields tool for granular issue custom field values under the issues_granular feature flag; promotes MCP Apps UI from insiders-only to a proper remote_mcp_ui_apps flag; upgrades modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk to v1.5.0.

microsoft/mcp — Azure.Mcp.Server 3.0.0-beta.3

Apr 16. Drops the first Azure Backup MCP toolset; adds storage prefix support in listing calls; fixes SQL/Postgres error logging; refactors the DI layer for Postgres, MySQL, and Policy tools; reaches 276 total tools across the server.

thedotmack/claude-mem v12.1.2 → v12.2.0

Apr 15-18 (6 releases). Critical fix in v12.1.6 (Apr 16): observations silently failed to save on Claude Code 2.1.109+ due to an orphaned --setting-sources flag consuming --permission-mode; fixed via pair-aware filtering in ProcessRegistry.createPidCapturingSpawn. v12.2.0 (Apr 18) ships a worktree adoption engine — npx claude-mem adopt CLI, auto-adoption on worker startup, and composite project naming to prevent cross-worktree observation leakage.

Unchanged in window: modelcontextprotocol/servers, context7 mcp

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

GitHub CLI — gh skill native agent skill management

Apr 16. GitHub ships gh skill install / list / preview in CLI v2.90.0+, enabling cross-platform skill discovery and installation for Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI from a single interface. Skills are not verified by GitHub; gh skill preview is recommended before installation.

📰 Quick Mentions

• Oracle NetSuite plugin — anthropics/claude-plugins-official (Apr 17) — three NetSuite agent skills consolidated into one official plugin entry, added by Anthropic team.
• claude-agent-sdk-python v0.1.63 (Apr 18) — bumps bundled CLI to v2.1.114; no other changes.
• claude-code-action v1.0.101 (Apr 18) — no changelog; follows v2.1.114 CLI bump.