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different-ai/openwork added 3,601 stars this week (2,060 forks), describing itself flatly as "the open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (powered by opencode)." v0.18.13 on August 3, v0.18.14 on August 4, plus tagged macOS alphas the same days. A proprietary Anthropic surface now has a same-week open reimplementation shipping faster than the original's public changelog.
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anthropics/claude-plugins-community gained roughly 190 stars on August 22. The repo is a read-only mirror whose .claude-plugin/marketplace.json syncs nightly from Anthropic's internal review pipeline; every listed plugin was submitted through claude.ai, passed automated securi...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
The help-center doc confirms models launching on or after August 2, 2026 weave an imperceptible watermark into generated text plus C2PA-signed provenance metadata on image files. Model-level means it's present across the API, Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and through AWS...
Launched in beta August 5 for Claude Enterprise, routing each prompt and tool-call response over a signed WebSocket to the customer's own security server. Covers Claude chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and tool calls through MCP connectors, skills and plugins, with named inte...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. Claude Code v2.1.257 made it the default Fable model at 17:53 UTC that day, with a 1M-token context window, $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output, and $0.25 per million on cache reads (claude-code CHANGELOG). B...
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