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The .github/workflows directory holds bump-plugin-shas.yml, owner-liveness-sweep.yml, validate-plugins.yml and close-external-prs.yml, and the commit history shows them doing real work (GitHub). An August 19 commit added a deterministic static pin check for auto-exec MCP launchers; August 12 commits removed 10 entries whose upstream sources had gone unavailable and re-pointed one renamed source. For anyone running an internal skill or plugin registry, this is a working reference implementation of pin-plus-liveness enforcement rather than a policy document.
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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...
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...
Frontier labs publish demos. This one published the thing they actually page. Anthropic's August 18 writeup describes Claude Tag running as the first responder for CI failures inside the company. Dedicated service account. MCP connectors to Datadog, Grafana, PagerDuty, GitHub...
Issue #66504, opened June 9, asked that session-URL injection into commit messages and PR descriptions be opt-in. It was closed August 31 with 103 reactions and 23 comments (GitHub). The default writes a link back to a Claude session into permanent git history without asking....
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
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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