Anthropic announces plans to donate MCP to a neutral foundation, with new registry, auth and sandbox specs — cementing MCP as vendor-neutral infrastructure for the entire agent ecosystem.
The Best of Agent Harnesses list ranks 167 agent harnesses weekly by capability, autonomy and recovery, ships an MCP server so agents can pick their own harness, and maintains a graveyard that flagged a 268k-star repo for suspected star manipulation. Curation itself becomes harness infrastructure.
Anthropic began enforcing its terms against third-party clients using Claude Code subscriptions, forcing alternative harnesses like opencode to rework authentication (its issue thread became the debate's ground zero). A defining platform-risk moment for the open-harness ecosystem: the model provider owns the login, the harness does not.
Anthropic makes Claude Code generally available and holds its first developer conference — with Claude Code for web, enterprise features, and hooks/MCP improvements central to agent workflows.
Anthropic open-sources the SDK behind Claude Code — the agent loop, tool use, subagents, memory and hooks — letting developers build their own Claude-powered agents on production rails.