OpenRouter MCP Upgrade and Coming Soon to Plugin Stores

OpenRouter announced that MCP has completed a major upgrade and will soon be available in plugin stores such as OpenAI and Anthropic, while also supporting long-term persistent login. After the upgrade, the volume of model query results injected into the agent context dropped from about 1 MB (about 250k tokens) to 38 KB with pagination, a 96% reduction; video generation now returns links in a task-based manner instead of stuffing raw bytes into the context. The company says that in its own tests, Claude Code's task completion count rose from 5/8 to 8/8, @manufact gave it a score of 100/100, and users can also have the agent read the installation page and complete configuration on its own.