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●MCP — Support for the 2026-07-28 spec is rolling out across Claude. The protocol moves from bidirectional and stateful to request/response, so MCP servers can now live on serverless and edge infrastructure●EXTENSIONS — Three official extensions have landed: MCP Apps for server-rendered UI, Tasks for async and long-running work, and Enterprise Managed Auth for IdP-based org-wide provisioning●ADOPTION — MCP passed 400 million monthly SDK downloads, roughly 4x growth this year, settling into its role as the standard way to connect agents to applications●QUOTA — Today, August 19, is the last day of the 50 percent weekly usage boost for Claude Code subscribers. If you have long agent runs queued, this is the window●PRICING — Claude Sonnet 5's introductory rate of $2 per million input tokens and $10 output ends August 31; standard pricing of $3 and $15 takes over on September 1, twelve days out●FIX — A bug where MCP v2 connections endlessly reopened subscriptions against servers with fixed timeouts is resolved, and a forward_user_identity setting was added for user attribution●MCP — Support for the 2026-07-28 spec is rolling out across Claude. The protocol moves from bidirectional and stateful to request/response, so MCP servers can now live on serverless and edge infrastructure●EXTENSIONS — Three official extensions have landed: MCP Apps for server-rendered UI, Tasks for async and long-running work, and Enterprise Managed Auth for IdP-based org-wide provisioning●ADOPTION — MCP passed 400 million monthly SDK downloads, roughly 4x growth this year, settling into its role as the standard way to connect agents to applications●QUOTA — Today, August 19, is the last day of the 50 percent weekly usage boost for Claude Code subscribers. If you have long agent runs queued, this is the window●PRICING — Claude Sonnet 5's introductory rate of $2 per million input tokens and $10 output ends August 31; standard pricing of $3 and $15 takes over on September 1, twelve days out●FIX — A bug where MCP v2 connections endlessly reopened subscriptions against servers with fixed timeouts is resolved, and a forward_user_identity setting was added for user attribution
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⬡ API & SDK/2026-06-13Intermediate

Managed Agents Adds Scheduled Deploys, a Vault, and Session Webhooks — Deciding What Leaves My Cron Setup

Scheduled deploys, vault credentials, and session-thread webhooks just landed in Claude Managed Agents. How I triaged my self-hosted cron jobs: what moves, what stays, and why idempotency decides.

◉ Claude AI/2026-05-27Advanced

Semi-Automating Firebase SDK Upgrades with Claude on Xcode — Implementation Notes from Six Indie iOS Apps

How I used Claude on Xcode integrated into Xcode 16.4 to walk six iOS apps through Firebase SDK 12 to 13 upgrades and finish the CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager migration — with the actual prompts, regression tests, and the judgment calls along the way.

⬡ API & SDK/2026-05-25Advanced

A Two-Tier Setup — Haiku 4.5 Orchestrator with Opus 4.6 Worker for Balancing Cost and Quality

How an indie developer's two-tier setup — Haiku 4.5 as the orchestrator and Opus 4.6 as the worker — cuts monthly API spend by roughly 70% without giving up output quality, and how the August 2026 price change moves the middle tier.