Shannon: Marketplace Plugin and Dependency Upgrade
Shannon added a marketplace plugin for Cursor, Grok and Claude Code to run white-box pentests from the editor, alongside an upgrade to Pi SDK 1.5.0 and permission system 42.0.0. The two changes are unrelated, with editor distribution carrying the most impact.
Duration: PT2M14S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Shannon.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Shannon
- Published: 2026-11-12T06:04:33Z
- Audio duration: PT2M14S
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Good morning, it's Thursday, November 12th, 2026, and this is your Shannon briefing.
There's no single pattern in this cycle. The work splits between product distribution and routine maintenance, with distribution carrying the highest impact.
The headline is expanded editor availability. PR 521 packages Shannon as a marketplace plugin that works in Cursor, Grok, and Claude Code from the same source files. The plugin provides a single guided skill that uses the Shannon command line tool to start, monitor, and stop white-box penetration tests, with the…
The second theme is dependency maintenance. PR 522, landed as commit 94bf442, upgrades the Pi software development kit to version 1.5 and the Pi permission system to version 42. It was approved and merged, and touches package and task tooling areas. The developer impact here is reliability and release risk. Even…
What's next is validation on both fronts: watch for integration feedback on the new plugin in different editors, and confirm no regressions from the upgraded dependencies. No follow-up work is stated in the activity feed, so expect clarification on plugin publishing status and any migration notes to come separately.
That's all…
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