Claude Report — 2026-05-18

🚀 Anthropic Official

No relevant news today.

No new posts on anthropic.com/news (last: May 14) and no new API changelog entries (last: May 12) confirmed within the window. Claude Code v2.1.143 was reported May 17; see Quick Mentions for newly confirmed features.

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

zoominfo

Added to the official plugin directory on May 18; provides company intelligence and B2B data enrichment via ZoomInfo's API.

crowdstrike-falcon-foundry

SHA pinned to v1.0.0 on May 18, marking the first stable production release of the CrowdStrike Falcon Foundry integration.

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

🛠️ Skills

obsidian-second-brain v0.8 — May 15

Rewrites the /notebooklm command to call the Google Gemini File Search API directly (single HTTP call, no browser dependency), enabling source-grounded synthesis over a local vault without requiring a browser session.

Unchanged in window: frontend-slides (last updated May 14, one day prior), hue (Apr 17), gpt-image2-ppt-skills, Agentic-SEO-Skill

🤖 Agents & Subagents

No updates confirmed for top-5 agents within the window.

Checked: affaan-m/everything-claude-code (GitHub activity May 18, no release notes), ruflo (May 18, no changelog), hermes-agent (May 18, no changelog). Topics claude-agent and claude-subagent — no new versioned releases with published notes.

🔗 MCPs & Integrations

github-mcp-server v1.0.4 — May 15

Fixes actions_run_trigger tool schema (prevents the inputs param from being stripped on registration), defers _meta.ui stripping to per-request RegisterTools, improves dependabot error messaging, and fixes lightweight-tag retrieval in get_tag; five contributors, including one first-time.

Unchanged in window: modelcontextprotocol/servers (last release Jan 2026). Unchecked this cycle: steipete/claude-code-mcp, ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp.

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

No relevant community news today.

📰 Quick Mentions

• Claude Code v2.1.143 additional features — confirmed since May 17 coverage: also ships CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_PREFER_HTTPS (clone plugin sources over HTTPS instead of SSH), ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID env var for workload identity federation, claude agents --cwd <path> to scope session lists to a directory, and a thinking spinner that warms to amber after 10 s.
• anthropics/claude-for-legal — received new commits on May 17; specific changes unconfirmed without authenticated access.
• Claude status — May 15–16 incidents (elevated error rates on Opus 4.6 / Sonnet 4.6) now resolved; Opus 4.7 was unaffected throughout.
• Code with Claude London — Opens May 19; follow-up to the San Francisco developer conference held May 6.