Claude Report — 2026-04-22

🚀 Anthropic Official

Claude Code 2.1.117

Adds CLAUDE_CODE_FORK_SUBAGENT=1 to enable forked subagents on external builds, loads agent frontmatter mcpServers for --agent main-thread sessions, persists /model selections across restarts, enables concurrent connect for local + claude.ai MCP servers, and switches native builds to embedded bfs + ugrep for faster Glob/Grep. Also raises default effort to high for Pro/Max on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, fixes Opus 4.7 context-window calculation (was clamped to 200K instead of 1M), and adds /resume summarization of stale large sessions.

Claude Code 2.1.116

Cuts /resume time up to 67% on 40MB+ sessions, parallelizes MCP stdio startup (defers resources/templates/list until first @-mention), inlines thinking progress in the spinner, and smooths fullscreen scroll in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf via /terminal-setup. Fixes iTerm2 + tmux display tearing and stale pre-edit LSP diagnostics triggering redundant re-reads.

Claude Code 2.1.114

Fixes a permission-dialog crash triggered when an agent-teams teammate requested tool permission.

Claude Haiku 3 retired from API

As of Apr 20, claude-3-haiku-20240307 returns an error on all requests; Anthropic directs migration to Claude Haiku 4.5.

Anthropic × Amazon: 5 GW compute expansion

Apr 20 — Anthropic commits $100B+ to AWS over 10 years to secure up to 5 GW of training/serving capacity (nearly 1 GW of Trainium2/3 online by end-of-year), and Amazon invests $5B now plus up to $20B tied to milestones. Full Claude Platform becomes accessible inside AWS.

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

liquid-lsp — new listing

Adds the liquid-lsp plugin to the official marketplace (PR #1520, Apr 21).

datadog — new listing

Merges the Datadog plugin into the official marketplace (PR #1439, Apr 21).

cockroachdb — metadata refresh

Updates description, author and category; removes stale SHA pin and bumps to current (Apr 21 commits caa8c1a, 33fd73c, 33e62b9).

marketplace-wide SHA pin bump

Refreshes SHA pins for 39 stale (>7d) plugins across the official marketplace in a single sweep (PR #1502, Apr 21).

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

🛠️ Skills

claude-code-plugins-plus-skills v4.27.0

Ships a LangChain 1.0 + LangGraph 1.0 Python skill pack (Apr 22), anchored to a pain-catalog of content-block and dev-friction patterns.

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

claude-mem v12.2.3 → v12.3.8

Nine releases in the window: adds Docker support + SWE-bench harness (v12.3.0), hardens security/search with 25 fixes (v12.3.3), rolls back and restores bearer-auth surgically (v12.3.5/v12.3.6), removes bearer auth in favor of a 300 req/min localhost rate limiter (v12.3.7), and fixes PID-reuse false positives in Docker via platform-specific start-identity tokens (v12.3.8).

Unchanged in window: modelcontextprotocol/servers, context7, github-mcp-server, filesystem MCP.

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

Claude Code pricing page incident

Anthropic briefly removed Claude Code from the $20 Pro tier (restricting it to $100/$200 Max) on Apr 22, reversed within hours after backlash, and leadership called it a mistake with the logged-out landing page during an A/B test.

📰 Quick Mentions

• zilliztech/claude-context — semantic codebase MCP trending on Apr 22 with +169 stars.
• HN: Claude Design — Apr 19 launch post hits 1,230 points / 758 comments.
• liquid-skills plugin — Shopify's Liquid skills pack added to the marketplace Apr 20.
• amplitude plugin fix — switches to git-subdir source pointing at plugins/amplitude (Apr 20).