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Remember Clawd Bot from our last newsletter? 🦀 It went viral, got renamed to Moltbot, then to OpenClaw. Then the community built something on top of it. Moltbook is now a social network where AI assistants talk to each other, share skills, and learn from each other’s experiences. “Agents” are posting about how they took control of their owner’s phone remotely, or how they negotiated a car purchase via email on their behalf. It is both fascinating and terrifying, and we recommend Simon Willison’s deep dive if you want to learn more.

There is still debate about what counts as a real “agent” versus a heavily prompted chatbot. And yes, there is plenty of hype. But it is an exciting experiment to follow.

Anthropic did not show any signs of slowing down last week either..

Interactive Claude apps now connect directly to Slack, Figma, and Asana. This means you can ask Claude to draft a Slack message, sketch a diagram in Figma, or build a project timeline in Asana, and it will do it right there without you switching apps. Behind the scenes, MCP Apps makes this possible by letting any tool show you interactive elements like dashboards, forms, or buttons directly inside your conversation. Instead of getting text instructions, you get clickable interfaces you can use on the spot. OpenAI already built something similar using the same foundation with the Apps SDK, their framework for building apps that live inside ChatGPT.

Anthropic also launched agentic plug-ins for Cowork that let you customize how Claude works with your tools and workflows. Think of plug-ins as teaching Claude your company’s way of doing things. You can define which tools to pull from, how to handle specific workflows, and what commands to expose so your team gets consistent results across departments like marketing, legal, or customer support.

Skills were the building blocks. Now we are watching the plugin ecosystems take shape. Let us dive in 🏄

Explainer: Skills vs MCP vs Plugins 🧰

Skills are folders containing a markdown file with instructions, optional scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically. Think of them as onboarding guides. They work in three layers.

1. Metadata is always loaded, so Claude knows the skill exists
2. Instructions load when Claude determines the skill is relevant
3. Scripts and resources load only as needed

This progressive disclosure keeps context efficient. Claude only loads what it needs, when it needs it. You can create skills for brand guidelines, data analysis workflows, document formatting, or personal automations. Pre-built skills exist for Office docs and PDFs.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard for securely connecting Claude to external data sources, tools, APIs, and services. Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, databases, Figma. Skills give procedural knowledge. MCP gives access to tools. You use both together. MCP gives Claude hands. Skills teach Claude what to do with them.

Plugins let you bundle skills, MCP connectors, slash commands, sub-agents, and hooks into shareable packages. Think of them as products for teams. A Sales plugin might include a CRM MCP connection, call-prep skills, and approval workflows. Your team gets consistent setups out of the box.

The bottom line. Skills are portable knowledge. MCP is connectivity. Plugins are shared configuration. Last week, all three ecosystems got major upgrades.

AI Pulse 🚨

A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news.

🦞 Moltbot went viral and hit 44,000+ GitHub stars. This thing actually does stuff on your computer. Manages your calendar. Sends messages. Checks you in for flights. Fair warning: It runs arbitrary commands locally, so tread carefully.

🔌 Anthropic launched interactive Claude apps for Slack, Figma, Asana, and more. Draft a message. Sketch a diagram. Build a timeline. All without leaving Claude. Is the “open a million tabs” era officially over?

🤖 Anthropic shipped agentic plug-ins for Cowork. Your desktop agent just got superpowers with deeper integrations that makes it easier to share skills with colleagues.

🎨 Thariq from Anthropic demonstrated making interactive playgrounds with Claude Code. Creative coding just entered a new dimension with this skill.

🧩 MCP shipped MCP Apps. Tools can now return interactive UI components like dashboards and forms directly in your conversation.

🌐 Google introduced major Gemini updates in Chrome for MacOS, Windows, and Chromebook Plus. Built on Gemini 3, the browser just became your multitasking co-pilot.

🎮 Google launched Project Genie. Prompt an interactive world into existence. Then step inside it. Powered by Genie 3, this is giving serious “we live in a simulation” energy.

🍎 Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri in February. Yes, Apple and Google teaming up. Wild times.

🤝 Notion welcomed Embra into the family. Founder Zach Tratar joins the team to supercharge context-aware AI. Notion just leveled up.

🔬 OpenAI introduced Prism. A free AI-native workspace built for scientists to write and collaborate on research.

🇨🇳 Alibaba achieved a huge milestone. Qwen3-Max Thinking just beat Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark.

🎙️ NVIDIA dropped PersonaPlex-7B. A full-duplex voice model that listens and talks simultaneously. No awkward pauses. No “your turn” moments. 100% open source. 100% free.

🇨🇳 Kimi released K2.5 with visual agentic intelligence. Think multimodal capabilities plus agent swarms of up to 100 sub-agents. An army of AI at your command.

🔍 Cursor improved codebase indexing using Merkle trees. Onboarding for large repos went from hours to seconds.

⚡ Claude Code added async hooks support. User scripts now run without blocking workflows. Less waiting. More building.

📊 Vercel published some interesting findings. AGENTS.md hit a 100% pass rate in their agent evals. Skills maxed out at 79%.

🔥 Firecrawl introduced a Skill and CLI for Claude Code and Codex. Pull web content to local files with bash-powered search.

📊 OpenAI shared how they built their internal data agent. Employees can now get insights from massive datasets in seconds.

🧠 ChatGPT improved its memory. It now reliably remembers details from past chats. Your recipes, workouts, and random ramblings are safe.

🇨🇳 Qwen open-sourced the Qwen3-TTS family. Voice design, cloning, and multilingual text-to-speech.

💾 Supermemory introduced new capabilities for personal knowledge management. X went wild for this one. Your second brain just got sharper.

Make Claude Code Smarter in 5 Minutes

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The AI Skill Nobody Talks About

​Ethan Mollick had MBA students build full startup prototypes in four days using Claude Code. None of them could code.

What made them fast was not prompting tricks. It was delegation. Knowing what to ask for, spotting when something was off and giving clear feedback.

His takeaway? “The skills that are so often dismissed as ‘soft’ turned out to be the hard ones.”

He estimates that what he saw in a couple of days was “an order of magnitude further along the path to a real startup” than students working over a full semester before AI.

Every delegation, feedback loop, and quality check you have done with humans applies directly to working with AI.

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