Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic opens a self-serve plugin submission portal for Claude
Anthropic's new portal at claude.ai/directory/manage lets paid-plan developers submit, track, and publish Claude plugins, with MCP 2.0 support built in.
Topic
Open Standard
4 posts about Open Standard from Simon Carter.
Agents & Automation
ChatGPT's site tools let websites hand AI agents a proper API: no scraping required
OpenAI's Site Tools feature lets ChatGPT use structured tools websites expose via WebMCP, working inside your live signed-in session.
Agents & Automation
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common interface to control physical lab and factory equipment
Anthropic's MHS research preview lets AI agents discover and safely control microscopes, robotic arms, and quantum hardware through a single open protocol.
Developer Tools & APIs
MCP 2026-07-28: Stateless Core, Hardened Auth, and Official Extensions Land Across Claude
The fifth MCP spec drops stateful sessions for a request/response core, hardens OAuth/OIDC auth, and graduates MCP Apps and Tasks as versioned extensions.