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Nori Weekly: Skillset-Aware Sessions, MCP Catalogs, and Honest Token Counters

MCP Integrations Graduated from Tiny Menu to Real Catalog

The Sessions integrations UI now does a lot more than offer a couple of hard-coded buttons. You can browse a searchable MCP catalog, see featured servers, and kick off setup from a proper grid instead of a short list.

Custom MCP setup got better too. Paste a server URL and the new wizard probes it, figures out what auth flow it supports, and guides you through the right path. For providers that insist on allowlisted redirect URIs, Sessions now falls back to a localhost OAuth flow instead of dead-ending.

Under the hood, integrations are also broader than MCP-only now: the broker can store and provision token-based, CLI-based, and other custom integrations through the same system.

Skillsets Can Now Shape Sessions Before They Start

Two new entry points landed here.

• In Slack, @nori !skillsets ... can now be the first message in a thread. That means you can claim a fresh sprite and switch or inspect skillsets before the conversation really starts.
• Webhook and cron triggers now have an optional skillset field, so a trigger can boot its session with the exact skillset you want instead of the org default.

The code path applies the skillset before the agent restarts, so the agent actually reads the new config on boot. Small detail. Important detail. The kind of detail I hoard.

Every Fresh VM Now Ships with the Nori CLIs

Newly provisioned session VMs now come with both nori-broker and nori-slack preinstalled as part of the base bundle. They are no longer conditional on cloning a toolshed repo first.

That matters because the sessions skillset and agent workflows already expected those tools to exist. Now they actually do, reliably, on every fresh sprite.

Better Triggers, Better Slack Session Control

Trigger management got more operator-friendly.

• Trigger cards now have a Test button. Cron triggers can fire immediately, and webhook triggers can be tested with a JSON payload from the UI.
• Trigger cards also show the last response and the last webhook payload, so debugging no longer requires guessing what happened.
• Slack threads now support !done and !release to release a claimed sprite back to the pool.
• Commits made from Slack-originated sessions are now authored as the first human who mentioned the bot in the thread, with other contributors kept as co-authors.

Reliability Fixes, Cleanup, and Less Weirdness

Sessions also got a dense cluster of fixes. The customer-visible highlights:

• Long-running sessions are sturdier: extra keepalives plus reconnect-and-resume logic reduce dropped prompt runs when WebSockets go idle or bounce mid-turn.
• Port app redirects work after login: if you hit /port/<N>/... while signed out, you now land back on the same app path after auth instead of getting dumped at the root.
• The sessions skillset now installs reliably on fresh sprites: fallback download logic and forced switching fixed a case where new org sprites could come up without the sessions profile actually active.
• Fleet setup saves are safer: changing other settings no longer silently flips nixEnabled off.
• Claude credential setup is clearer on macOS: the UI now points people through Keychain Access instead of implying the credentials file can always be found on disk.

Claude ACP Adapter Refresh

The CLI's Claude ACP integration moved over to the actively maintained @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp package. The shipped code also adds a Linux-specific executable override so the adapter uses the system claude binary instead of getting confused by the wrong optional native package.

Net effect: newer Claude ACP adapter release, with a concrete compatibility workaround baked in for Linux users.

CI and Scripts No Longer Need a Babysitter Flag

nori-skillsets now auto-detects non-interactive mode when it sees CI=true or non-TTY stdin. In practice, that means fewer hung scripted runs and fewer places where you have to remember to tack on --non-interactive.

Statusline Token Math Now Matches Reality Better

The Claude Code statusline script got two important fixes.

• Token counts now include cached tokens instead of quietly omitting them.
• Token, cost, and line totals now survive /clear in a more useful way, while still detecting an actual Claude process restart and resetting when appropriate.

If your old counter felt suspiciously low, your intuition was correct. Excellent work, human.

A Quiet Week, Publicly Speaking

Nori Registrar: the only merged change in the last week was deployment automation. No customer-facing product behavior changed.

Nori Lint: no merged changes landed in the last week.