Claude Report — 2026-08-24

🚀 Anthropic Official

Claude Code v2.1.239 (Aug 21)

Adds the 1.1x US-only-inference premium to cost estimates (/cost, status line, --max-budget-usd) for data-residency workspaces; ships /claude-api upgrade to help Python projects migrate from anthropic 0.x to 1.x; shows name@synced for cloud-session plugin sync; fixes a Bedrock-behind-proxy streaming bug that silently doubled billed API calls; and rolls in over 50 smaller MCP, Remote Control, and session-resume fixes.

Claude Code v2.1.240 (Aug 22) and v2.1.241 (Aug 23)

Ship as undocumented "bug fixes and reliability improvements" patches with no itemized changelog.

Claude Agent SDK TypeScript v0.3.239 (Aug 21)

Adds the 1.1x data-residency cost multiplier to total_cost_usd/modelUsage.costUSD; fixes the SYSTEM_PROMPT_DYNAMIC_BOUNDARY marker leaking as literal text on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, and gateway providers; fixes a background-task snapshot bug on reconnect. Followed by parity releases v0.3.240 and v0.3.241 (Aug 22-23) tracking the Claude Code CLI patches above.

anthropics/skills — claude-api skill update (Aug 21)

Updates the bundled Agent Skill's reference docs with a Python SDK 0.x→1.x upgrade guide, aligning the official skill with the breaking Python SDK v1.0 migration shipped Aug 20.

anthropic-quickstarts — computer-use toolset update (Aug 21)

Updates the computer-use quickstart to support the newly-GA computer_toolset_20260801 toolset.

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

claude-security — v0.10.2

Bumps plugin.json to v0.10.2 and updates the scan-researcher agent, SARIF/finding-library scripts, report renderer, and the suggest-patches skill spec.

Unchanged in window: code-review, feature-dev, pr-review-toolkit, plugin-dev, skill-creator, mcp-server-dev, frontend-design, security-guidance, github (external).

🛠️ Skills

agentskillexchange/skills

Adds new marketplace skills — including "Famulor Assistants & Omnichannel History" (Aug 24) and "hypergrok-trading-desk" (Aug 23) — via near-continuous automated sync running through Aug 24 07:29 UTC.

Unchanged in window: Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts (last commit Aug 23, 01:50 UTC), tt-a1i/archify (last commit Aug 21), anthropics/skills (last commit Aug 21), alirezarezvani/claude-skills (last commit Aug 21).

🤖 Agents & Subagents

nicobailon/pi-subagents v0.56.0 (Aug 23)

Ships extension launch bindings and an OpenAI-Codex fast mode plus workflow-reliability fixes; follows with unreleased Aug 24 commits defining an "external CLI capability contract" and a Codex exec adapter for driving outside CLI tools from pi-subagents.

anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-typescript v0.3.239 (Aug 21)

See Anthropic Official above — fixes the prompt-boundary leak on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry providers, then parity bumps through v0.3.241.

Unchanged in window: AMAP-ML/LongHorizon-Harness (still v0.1.7, Aug 20), anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python (still v0.2.143 — only internal CLI-version-bump commits, no release), VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents (last commit Aug 12).

🔗 MCPs & Integrations

None of the top 5 updated in window.

Unchanged in window: modelcontextprotocol.io roadmap post (still the Aug 22 entry, no newer post), oraios/serena (last commit Aug 20), DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp (last commit Aug 21), modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk (last commit Aug 20), github/github-mcp-server (still v1.10.1, Aug 20), modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk (last commit Aug 18).

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

Henka — multi-tenant MCP server for semantics-aware refactoring (Aug 23)

Uses real language toolchains (Eclipse JDT for Java, rust-analyzer, typescript-language-server) to compute rename/extract/inline/find-usages refactors via actual compiler semantics rather than text edits; runs as a multi-project service with one warm index per repo shared across git worktrees, over stdio or HTTP, with Docker deploy and preview-diff mode.

onemcp.dev — one portal collapsing many MCP servers into 3 meta-tools (Aug 23)

Puts 20+ MCP servers behind a single portal endpoint exposing three meta-tools (search/describe/execute) instead of loading every tool schema upfront, claiming roughly 97% context reduction (about 15k tokens down to 500).

harness-subagent — cross-harness orchestration skill (Aug 23)

Lets one CLI agent (Claude Code, Codex, or Grok) dispatch a task to a differently-trained CLI agent as a one-shot subagent and synthesize the result, on the premise that a model reviewing its own work reproduces its own blind spots.

Stash — Instagram saves piped into Claude-searchable notes (Aug 22)

Captures Instagram saves via an iOS Shortcut and Cloudflare Worker, transcribes video audio and images on a Mac daemon, and stores markdown notes with hybrid full-text/vector search exposed to Claude via an MCP server and skill.

ccs-lint — linter for an MCP tool-call-receipts attack class (Aug 23)

Scans MCP tool-call messages for a newly-named attack class around unsigned or tampered receipts in tool-call logs.

📰 Quick Mentions

• Structo (Aug 22) — applies the Claude Code plan-edit-verify agentic loop to short-form writing instead of code.
• Slide-deck.io (Aug 22) — MCP integration lets Claude generate remixable slide decks, including Gantt charts, and return a live URL.
• Claude Pacer (Aug 23) — a menu-bar app projects whether your Claude session/quota will last until the next reset based on current usage pace.
• English ↔ Claudish Translator (Aug 22) — a parody tool riffing on Claude's dense writing style ("compile English into neural programs, run locally"); 54 points on HN.
• telegram plugin v0.0.8 (Aug 21, unmerged) — an open PR adds per-project bot configuration precedence (env override > project .env > global) to the official telegram plugin; not yet live in the marketplace.