Codex Rises, Claude Meters Programmatic Usage
a quiet day lets us report on a long trend of the major coding agents
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Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic command-line coding tool. shipfeed tracks its releases, new features, SDK changes, and the workflows teams build on top of it.
a quiet day lets us report on a long trend of the major coding agents
What's changed Opus 4.8 is here! Now defaults to high effort · /effort xhigh for your hardest tasks Introducing dynamic workflows: ask Claude to create a workflow and it orchestrates work across tens to hundreds of…
Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software with a 46 percent merge rate the-decoder.com
Anthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to dead-code removal. In a few weeks, the AI created 388 pull requests, and 46 percent were merged…
Anthropic opens self-hosted Claude Code sessions to Team and Enterprise customers EdTech Innovation Hub
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions — This…
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands, while human…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux — Users running the latest…
Nimbus builds production AI systems — internal tools, customer agents, retrieval pipelines — combining humans and AI end-to-end. From scoped pilot to production in 4–8 weeks.
What's changed Added self-hosted environments: `claude self-hosted-runner` turns your own machines or containers into a place Claude Code web, mobile, and desktop sessions can run, on Team and Enterprise plans Added…
Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI open, read, and interact with web pages directly inside the development environment. Write actions on external sites are screened by classifiers, and purchases or…
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` /…
What's changed Introducing Claude Sonnet 5: now the default model in Claude Code, with a native 1M-token context window and promotional pricing of $2/$10 per Mtok through August 31. Update to version 2.1.197 for…
Anthropic Wants Claude to Be Your New Slack Coworker Bloomberg
What's changed Added the `Workflow` tool for deterministic multi-agent orchestration. It is off by default — set `CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOWS=1` to enable Pinned background sessions (`Ctrl+T` in `claude agents`) now stay…
Deepseek is building a new team in Beijing to develop its own AI code agent, working title "Deepseek Code," a direct competitor to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Applicants should know agent loops, MCP, and context…
What's changed Added `/resume` support for background sessions — sessions started via `claude --bg` or agent view now appear alongside interactive ones, marked with `bg` Added elapsed duration to background subagent…
Cursor: Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 — Composer 2.5 is now available in Cursor. — It's…
What's changed Added new `claude agents` flags: `--add-dir`, `--settings`, `--mcp-config`, `--plugin-dir`, `--permission-mode`, `--model`, `--effort`, and `--dangerously-skip-permissions` to configure dispatched…
Anthropic announced a new SpaceX compute partnership to significantly increase capacity for Claude products, doubling Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, removing peak-hour limit…
Anthropic introduced computer use inside Claude Code for closed-loop verification in a research preview for Pro/Max users, enhancing reliable app iteration. OpenAI released a Codex plugin for Claude Code, enabling…
Anthropic introduced Claude Cowork and Claude Code enabling desktop control of mouse, keyboard, and screen in a macOS research preview, expanding agent capabilities beyond APIs and browsers. The agent ecosystem is…
Claude Code Adds Design Preview, Cross-Session Chat StartupHub.ai
With the /design command, Anthropic brings a visual design workflow directly into Claude Code. Developers can generate UI mockups as artboards right in the terminal before writing any code. Claude reads the existing…
Nimbus builds production AI systems — internal tools, customer agents, retrieval pipelines — combining humans and AI end-to-end. From scoped pilot to production in 4–8 weeks.
What's changed Added GitLab merge request URL support to the `--worktree` flag and the `claude agents` view (where MRs display as `!N`) Added an opt-in `forward_user_identity` apps gateway setting on Anthropic…
What's changed Subagent forking is now on by default: a `subagent_type: "fork"` subagent inherits the full conversation and prompt cache, and non-teammate agent spawns in interactive sessions now run in the background…
Using coding agents means setting up multiple accounts, provisioning API keys, and scattering observability and billing. Now, you can route them through to centralize all of this and add controls, with set up in one…
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat The Register
Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default Help Net Security