Adds background agent notifications and auto-commit to PR on code work
Claude's background agents now send notifications on completion or input needed, and automatically commit, push, and open a draft PR when finishing code work in a worktree.
What's changed Claude in Chrome is now generally available Added background agent notifications in `claude agents` — sessions that need input or finish now fire the `Notification` hook (`agent_needs_input` / `agent_completed`) Added `/dataviz` skill for chart and dashboard design guidance with a runnable color-palette validator Gateway: added Claude Platform on AWS (anthropicAws) as an upstream provider; model-not-found responses now advance the failover chain Background agents launched from `claude agents` now commit, push, and open a draft PR when they finish code work in a worktree, instead of stopping to ask The built-in Explore agent now inherits the main session's model (capped at opus) instead of running on haiku Subagents and context compaction now inherit the session's extended thinking configuration, improving output quality on delegated tasks Fixed brief network drops mid-response aborting the turn — transient errors like ECONNRESET now retry with backoff instead of failing Fixed excessive background classifier requests when sandboxed processes repeatedly accessed the same network host Fixed background tasks in web, desktop, and VS Code task panels getting stuck on…
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