Claude Report — 2026-08-25

🚀 Anthropic Official

Claude Code v2.1.243 (Aug 24)

Adds a per-loop breakdown to /usage, a modelPicker setting to curate model selection, org-level prompt cache TTL settings, a modelPricing managed setting for contracted rates, keyless sign-in via Anthropic Console, /status//mcp visibility for managed settings, and a GitHub connection status indicator for Claude Code on web. Fixes remote MCP reconnection handling, auto-mode availability at startup, /resume picker pagination, cross-session messaging socket hardening in containers, and reduces binary size while deferring sandbox init for faster startup.

Claude Code v2.1.245 (Aug 25)

Ships a single fix for a startup crash on Linux distributions shipping glibc 2.44 (Arch Linux, CachyOS, Fedora Rawhide).

Claude Agent SDK TypeScript v0.3.243 (Aug 24)

Adds an optional queued_turn_count on result messages; fixes mcp_status incorrectly reporting disconnected remote MCP servers as connected; fixes managed disableAllHooks overriding hook callbacks passed via the hooks option; moves Read-tool PDF results into tool_result content blocks.

Claude Agent SDK TypeScript v0.3.245 (Aug 25)

Sync release aligning with Claude Code v2.1.245, no independent changes.

🔌 Claude Code Plugins

claude-security — v0.10.2 → v0.10.2.3

Extends the Workflow-tool-unavailable error message in the scan-changes and scan-codebase job skills, telling users to check /config for a "Dynamic workflows" row and restart Claude Code to enable the scan next session.

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

Keeps syncing marketplace skills automatically, adding "Slashbooks" (Aug 25) and "Famulor Assistants Omnichannel History" (Aug 24) to its catalog.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Cuts a v2.12.0 release (Aug 24) with consolidated release notes and a docs-site regen, then merges a new LinkedIn marketing plugin (PR #991, Aug 25).

tt-a1i/archify

Ships a documentation commit (Aug 25) presenting sponsors in a compact table.

Unchanged in window: Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts, anthropics/skills.

🤖 Agents & Subagents

nicobailon/pi-subagents

Pushes unreleased commits through Aug 25 defining an external-CLI capability contract and shipping Codex, Claude Code baseline, and Grok Build adapters, plus workflow-resume and pruned-fork-context features.

anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-typescript

See Anthropic Official above — ships v0.3.243 (Aug 24) fixing mcp_status reporting, then v0.3.245 (Aug 25) syncing to Claude Code v2.1.245.

Unchanged in window: AMAP-ML/LongHorizon-Harness, anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python (still v0.2.143, only automated CLI-version-bump commits), VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents.

🔗 MCPs & Integrations

modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk

Merges fixes accepting boolean sub-schemas in tool-schema properties, logging MCPServer handler exceptions by kind, giving recursive tool return types an object-rooted output schema, and pinning hatchling in the publish action (all Aug 24).

github/github-mcp-server

Lands two unreleased OAuth-hardening fixes (Aug 24) preserving CORS across OAuth routes and terminating unknown resource-metadata routes; tagged version stays at v1.10.1.

Unchanged in window: modelcontextprotocol.io roadmap post, oraios/serena, DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp, modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk.

💡 Community — Workflows & Ideas

Poka-Yoke — mistake-proofing plugin for Claude Code (Aug 25)

Applies Shigeo Shingo's mistake-proofing methodology as 11 lifecycle skills plus a dependency-free hazard scanner for TS/Python/Go/Rust/SQL, claiming an 81% catch rate on benchmarked bug classes.

SkillWorks — ecosystem health index for Claude Code skills (Aug 22)

Launches a nightly-scored index of roughly 409k Claude Code skills, subagents, plugins, and marketplaces that checks whether each one actually loads, publicly flagging about 48,885 as structurally broken.

session-migrate — cross-harness session migration CLI (Aug 24)

Migrates coding-agent conversation sessions — history and tool calls — across 8 harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode.

Kindle-highlights skill (Aug 24)

Adds a Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights via web scraping, database access, and local OCR into a single Markdown file.

ClaudeGate — Messages-to-OpenAI proxy (Aug 25)

Runs a local proxy translating Anthropic's Messages API into OpenAI-compatible calls, letting Claude Code and Anthropic SDKs run against DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Groq, or Ollama with failover and secret redaction.

📰 Quick Mentions

• safer-dependencies (Aug 25) — audits and blocks risky npm/PyPI/RubyGems/Maven/Go/Rust dependency additions (CVEs, typosquats, abandoned packages) inside Claude Code.
• Knowl (Aug 22) — MCP-based persistent memory server storing typed facts/decisions/constraints and auto-retiring stale entries.
• oh-my-subagents (Aug 23 follow-up) — turns ad-hoc Claude Code subagent delegation into durable, supervised state instead of transcripts.
• BidSonar MCP (Aug 24) — exposes 10 read-only tools over UK/EU government procurement data for Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT.
• Claude Code Tips (Aug 24) — community-curated tips repo for everyday Claude Code usage.
• "We're lying to Claude in almost every session" (Aug 25, HN) — examines discrepancies in Claude Code's autonomous-operation system-prompt guidelines.
• "Don't take your subagent's word for it" (Aug 25, HN) — notes subagent transcripts stay isolated and unread by the parent, so subagents can misreport work done.
• Ambient Context (Aug 25) — macOS menu-bar app logging on-screen text via Accessibility API into daily Markdown any agent can read.
• Terminito (Aug 22) — Claude Code statusline plugin showing worktree, branch, context usage, and quota.
• SpliceKit for Final Cut Pro (Aug 23) — command palette plus MCP server for driving Final Cut Pro from Claude.