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Claude Report — 2026-04-24

🚀 Anthropic Official

Anthropic and NEC collaborate to build Japan's largest AI engineering workforce

Partners with NEC to deploy Claude to ~30,000 employees globally and co-develop industry-specific AI products for finance, manufacturing, and government in Japan. Marks Anthropic's first Japan-based strategic partner (Apr 24).

API: CMA Memory enters public beta

Memory for Claude Managed Agents is now in public beta under the standard managed-agents-2026-04-01 header, exposing a durable per-agent memory surface for long-horizon work (Apr 23).

Anthropic postmortem on Claude quality regressions

Admits three unintended changes (reasoning-effort downgrade, caching bug clearing thinking blocks, verbosity-reduction system prompt) degraded Claude Code, Agent SDK, and Cowork in March–April, all now reverted. Promises stricter eval gates for future builds (Apr 23).

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

skill-creator — top 10 tracker

Syncs from anthropics/skills and drops the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY requirement, so skill authoring no longer blocks on provisioning a raw API key (Apr 23, #1523).

Marketplace SHA refresh — 39 plugins bumped

Bumps SHA pins across 39 stale plugin entries (>7 days old) so installs now resolve against latest upstream HEADs instead of rotting pins (Apr 21, #1502).

New plugins wave — 14 additions

Adds quarkus-agent, vanta-mcp, zscaler, data-agent-kit-starter-pack, atlassian-forge-skills, apollo, windsor-ai, auth0, cloud-sql-postgresql, alloydb, qt-development-skills, versori-skills, liquid-lsp, and exa to the official marketplace (Apr 21–23).

azure

Renames azure-skills to azure per developer request, simplifying the install slug for Azure-related skills (Apr 22).

Unchanged in window (top 10): frontend-design, superpowers, context7, code-review, code-simplifier, github, playwright, feature-dev, 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

obra/superpowers

Updates the sync script to use committed Codex plugin files, making the Codex-adjacent subagent bundle build reproducibly from the tracked copy (Apr 24).

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

🔗 MCPs & Integrations

github-mcp-server v1.0.3

Fixes lockdown-mode permission validation so restricted-scope tokens no longer get falsely rejected on valid calls (Apr 24).

claude-mem v12.3.9

Introduces security_alert and security_note observation types wired to Telegram notifications, and eliminates a ~110s terminal block at session end via fire-and-forget summarization (Apr 22).

Unchanged in window: context7 (upstash/context7), modelcontextprotocol/servers, filesystem MCP

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

Claude Code v2.1.119 — /config persistence + multi-forge --from-pr

Persists /config changes to ~/.claude/settings.json with project/local/policy precedence, adds prUrlTemplate and CLAUDE_CODE_HIDE_CWD, extends --from-pr to GitLab/Bitbucket/GitHub Enterprise, and adds duration_ms to hook payloads (Apr 23).

Agent SDK Python v0.1.65 — batch session summaries

Adds SessionStore.list_session_summaries() and fold_session_summary() for O(1)-per-session list views, plus import_session_to_store() to replay local sessions into any adapter (Apr 23).

Agent SDK TS v0.2.119 — cache-friendly system prompt

Keeps static auto-memory instructions inside the cacheable system-prompt block (only per-user/machine values move to the first user message), and auto-reconnects claude.ai-proxied MCP servers after transport aborts (Apr 23).

anthropic-sdk-python v0.97.0 / TS v0.91.0 — CMA Memory

Both SDKs ship CMA Memory public-beta bindings, plus Bedrock auth-header support for the mantle client on the TypeScript side (Apr 23).

HN: Claude Code removal from Pro plan (2% test)

Anthropic confirmed an A/B test removing Claude Code from Pro for ~2% of new prosumer signups, triggering a visible backlash over transparency and opt-in consent in the dev community (Apr 22–23).

📰 Quick Mentions

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