Claude Report — 2026-04-25

🚀 Anthropic Official

Claude launches 15 consumer app connectors

Adds direct integrations with AllTrails, Audible, Booking.com, Instacart, Intuit Credit Karma, TurboTax, Resy, Spotify, StubHub, Taskrabbit, Thumbtack, TripAdvisor, Uber, Uber Eats, and Viator across all Claude plans; user data is not used for training and responses include no sponsored results (Apr 24).

Election safeguards update ahead of 2026 midterms

Publishes pre-launch impartiality scores (Opus 4.7 at 95%, Sonnet 4.6 at 96%) and confirms both models refused nearly all autonomous influence-operation tasks end-to-end; election info banners now surface TurboVote for real-time voting data (Apr 24).

Rate Limits API

Launches /v1/rate-limits endpoint allowing admins to programmatically query rate limit configurations for their organization and workspaces without visiting the console (Apr 24).

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

context7 — 285,485 installs

Releases @upstash/context7-mcp@2.2.0: exposes research mode via the MCP researchMode tool and docs --research CLI flag, adds ctx7 upgrade with version-aware guidance and ctx7 remove for safe config cleanup without touching non-Context7 MCP entries (Apr 24).

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

🛠️ Skills

None of the top 5 updated in window.

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🤖 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

context7 (upstash/context7) — @upstash/context7-mcp@2.2.0

Exposes the researchMode tool for advanced documentation queries via MCP, adds ctx7 upgrade with cross-package-manager version checking, and introduces ctx7 remove for safe artifact cleanup that preserves non-Context7 MCP config sections (Apr 24).

Unchanged in window: github-mcp-server, modelcontextprotocol/servers, filesystem MCP, claude-mem

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

Claude Desktop silently installs Chromium Native Messaging bridge on macOS

Researcher Alexander Hanff found that Claude Desktop drops a Native Messaging host manifest into every Chromium-based browser profile—including for browsers not yet installed—without user consent; the manifest recreates itself on every relaunch, and Anthropic's own data puts prompt injection success at 11-24% through the bridge; Anthropic has not commented (Apr 22).

📰 Quick Mentions

• Claude Code v2.1.117 — Ships faster startup, stronger plugin management, better session resume and model persistence, improved OpenTelemetry (Apr 22).
• Claude Code v2.1.113 — Ships native binary launcher, hardened sandbox and permission safeguards, smoother Remote Control and /loop workflows (Apr 22).