Anthropic opens gated biology access to Claude for verified teams
Vetted labs get grants to run drug-discovery prompts general Claude blocks; plus a Claude Code build fixing daily MCP failures and a skills marketplace.
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Biology work Claude used to refuse is now on the table
Verified life-science teams get Standard or high-risk grants to run drug-discovery, clinical-development, and manufacturing prompts that general-access Claude blocks — across Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet. Anthropic expects to enroll hundreds of organizations in the first week.
The catch: verification, 30-day retention, and a gov gate
Access runs through Anthropic's first-party console on Enterprise and Team plans only, behind a credential and security review. Real-time blocking gives way to offline monitoring with 30-day retention on flagged traffic, and high-risk Mythos stays limited pending US government sign-off. Individual plans come later.
Claude Code 2.1.274 kills the MCP failures that bite daily
The new build fixes HTTP+SSE servers that died on 4xx errors and streamable-HTTP tool calls that timed out past five minutes, adds critical-memory warnings before a crash, and brings branch comparison into cloud-session diffs. VS Code gains Memory and Instructions in its Customize menu.
A 'Craigslist for agent skills' hits the HN front page
Skillbay launched as a human-curated marketplace for the reusable skills that plug into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Copilot, alongside a new open-source skills marketplace on GitHub. If you've been hand-rolling agent skills, the discovery layer just arrived.