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Claude Report — 2026-07-13

🚀 Anthropic Official

Claude Code v2.1.207

Ships Jul 11: makes auto mode generally available without the CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE opt-in on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry; changes Bedrock/Vertex/Claude Platform on AWS to default to Claude Opus 4.8; closes a plugin shell-injection hole by rejecting ${user_config.*} in shell-form hook/monitor/MCP-header commands; fixes terminal freezing on very long streamed content, remote managed settings silently recording consent without showing the security dialog, Remote Control task-status loss on reconnect, Deep Research mislabeling Fetch-phase agents as "unknown," and Bedrock repeatedly re-requesting AWS SSO credentials; also fixes a crash loop in agent teams from malformed teammate-mailbox messages and stops the auto-updater from overwriting a custom ~/.local/bin/claude launcher.

Claude extends Fable 5 access and Claude Code's weekly limit boost through July 19

Announces early Jul 13 — hours after the prior Jul 12 cutoff lapsed — that plan-included Fable 5 access (drawing from the normal weekly pool, up to 50% of it) and Claude Code's 50%-higher weekly rate limits both continue through Jul 19, 11:59:59 PM PT; it's the second extension in a week (original Jul 7 cutoff moved to Jul 12, now moved again). After Jul 19, Fable 5 usage beyond plan limits bills at $10/$50 per Mtok in/out on prepaid credits.

API changelog — Access Transparency documentation update

Updates Jul 10: expands the Access Transparency docs for cmek_preserve events with a filter example, a sample event payload, and two new preservation reason codes (policy_violation_investigation, csae_report); clarifies that a preservation event is logged regardless of whether a human reviewer or an automated safety pipeline triggered it.

Claude Agent SDK Python v0.2.116 and TypeScript v0.3.207

Python v0.2.116 (Jul 11) bumps the bundled CLI to v2.1.207 and fixes CI workspace trust so project-scoped permission grants are honored in checkout directories. TypeScript v0.3.207 (Jul 11) fixes canUseTool returning {behavior: 'allow'} without updatedInput being wrongly rejected as a deny with a raw ZodError, and publishes the AgentToolCompletedOutput type for the Agent tool's structured result.

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

Plugin install-rank cache is unavailable this cycle — top-10 tracking is skipped per this run's instructions. The only activity in anthropics/claude-plugins-official this window remains routine automated dependency-pin bumps (bump(...) commits, dozens Jul 10-13) across plugins like hyperframes, carta-investors, chrome-devtools-mcp, databricks, and slack — not substantive plugin news.

🛠️ Skills

JSONbored/awesome-claude

Merges a batch of egress-analytics feature PRs on Jul 13 (compare panel, browse decision panel, rollout-flagged entries, safety-surface kind filter, distribution panel, submit-flow helpers), continuing the analytics-instrumentation push from Jul 11-12.

Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts

Publishes the extracted system-prompt diff for Claude Code v2.1.207 on Jul 11, tracking the CLI release the same day it shipped.

Unchanged in window: agentskillexchange/skills, kpab/claude-fable-5-skills, alirezarezvani/claude-skills, glebis/claude-skills, anthropics/skills (last commit Jul 1, pre-window), ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills.

🤖 Agents & Subagents

anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-typescript

Ships v0.3.207 (Jul 11), covered under Anthropic Official above, fixing a canUseTool contract violation and publishing a new structured-output type for the Agent tool.

Unchanged in window: nicobailon/pi-subagents (latest commits Jul 10, already reported yesterday — no new activity Jul 11-13), 0xmmo/crew (latest commit Jul 4).

🔗 MCPs & Integrations

shlokkhemani/rabbithole

Pushes PDF-pipeline work Jul 11-12 — vision-model page transcription (Slice 3), document conversion (Slice 4), and hardening (Slice 5) — plus a design-system color-vocabulary consolidation and an e2e test-suite split.

DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp

Merges Laravel facade-style route support, Windows compatibility fixes (env-var reading, .cmd-form hook scripts), and a non-ASCII cache-path database fix on Jul 12, following Jul 11 additions of Cypher variable-length-path and coalesce()-in-WHERE semantics.

awslabs/mcp

Adds a DNS-pinning fix for the openapi-mcp-server to prevent rebinding SSRF on spec fetches (Jul 12), following Jul 10 work adding SHOW-command metadata discovery to the Redshift MCP server and hardening secret-manager access on the mssql/oracle servers.

Unchanged in window: modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk (latest 2.0.0-beta.3 shipped Jul 9, pre-window), iiTzSenn/Sens (latest v0.8.0 shipped Jul 9, pre-window), ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp (latest v1.5.0, Jul 3), modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk (still v2.0.0b1, Jun 30).

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

Claude Code sends ~33k tokens before reading your prompt; OpenCode sends ~7k

Measures at the API boundary (Jul 12, 601 HN points) that Claude Code transmits roughly 33,000 tokens of system instructions, tool schemas, and scaffolding before the user's prompt even arrives (4.7x OpenCode on Sonnet), and that Claude Code re-writes 53,839 cache tokens across five identical requests vs OpenCode's stable 1,003 — with subagent delegation turning a 121k-token task into a 513k-token one due to per-agent bootstrap overhead.

Claude Overlay added to awesome-claude-code

Adds (Jul 12) a frameless, always-on-top floating chat window for Windows that reads the whole screen for context, drives the user's existing claude CLI login through the Agent SDK, and adds image paste, model switching, live streaming, and a context-usage statusline.

📰 Quick Mentions

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