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Claude Managed Agents Adds a Terminal Session Viewer and Auto Permission Mode
Claude Managed Agents now includes a terminal workflow for attaching to live sessions and a local web session viewer. Anthropic also added an auto permission mode that evaluates each agent or MCP tool call against the intent in user.message and runs, denies, or pauses for approval.
Claude Code Adds Plugin Evals for Regression Testing and No-Plugin Baselines
Claude Code now includes `claude plugin eval`, a testing workflow for plugin and skill authors. The command can create cases and graders, run a plugin in isolated non-interactive sessions, compare results with a no-plugin baseline, generate an HTML report, and support CI gates for plugin changes. Evals require Claude Code v2.1.269 or later and consume model usage.
Claude Code Desktop Adds Pop-Out Panes for Diff and Terminal Work
ClaudeDevs says Claude Code Desktop can now pop out any pane into its own window. You can move a diff or terminal to another screen while Claude keeps working, dock it back later, and run sessions side by side or stacked.
Claude Marketplace Adds Cursor, CrowdStrike, Factory, Gamma, and Vercel
Anthropic is expanding Claude Marketplace with Cursor, CrowdStrike, Factory, Gamma, and Vercel. Enterprise customers can use an existing Anthropic spend commitment to buy Claude-powered solutions from marketplace partners, with Anthropic directing buyers to their account team rather than a self-serve checkout.
Claude Computer Use Runs in the Background in Cowork and Claude Code
Anthropic added computer use to Claude Cowork and Claude Code in the Claude Desktop app. Claude can click, type, open apps, and use dev tools while you keep working on macOS, with Windows support also documented. The beta is limited to Pro and Max plans and still requires the desktop app to be open and the computer awake.
Claude's ant CLI Can Now Manage Agent Resources as Code
Anthropic added `ant apply` to the Claude CLI, letting teams declare Managed Agent environments, agents, skills, memory stores, and deployments in a repository and reconcile them with the Claude API.
Anthropic Open-Sources a Commerce Agents Blueprint for Claude
Anthropic has launched an open-source blueprint for building commerce agents with Claude. It includes shopping and merchant agent implementations, demos across retail, travel, telecom, and ticketing, guardrails, and a Claude Code plugin.
Claude Code Desktop Can Now Resume Sessions Started in the Terminal
Claude Code can now move a terminal-started session into the Claude Code desktop app. Anthropic says users can type /resume, choose a CLI session, and continue with the full conversation and context intact.
Anthropic Opens a Claude Team Plan for Scientists With Free Standard Seats
Anthropic opened a Claude Team plan for scientists on August 27, 2026. Verified principal investigators at eligible academic and nonprofit institutions can apply for free Standard seats or Premium seats at $15 per user per month for 12 months, with Claude Science, Claude Code, Cowork, shared projects, and administration included.
Claude's Memory Now Works Across Chat and Cowork
Claude memory now carries context between Claude chat and Cowork. Anthropic says users can review or remove saved topics, while Team and Enterprise administrators can control the feature for their organizations.
Claude Cowork Gets a Built-In Browser: Web Tasks Without an Extension
Anthropic added a built-in browser to Claude Cowork on the desktop app. Claude can open webpages in a separate side-panel browser, read pages, click, type, and fill forms without using the user's own tabs or browser extension. The rollout covers Pro, Max, and Team plans, with Enterprise admin controls available first.
Claude Makes Enterprise-Managed Auth for MCP Connectors Generally Available
Anthropic says enterprise-managed auth for MCP connectors is now generally available. Claude Team and Enterprise admins can centralize authorization through their identity provider, while users receive connector access automatically without individual OAuth consent flows.
Claude Code Remote Control Can Start Sessions From Your Phone
As of August 2026, a machine running claude remote-control appears as a device card at the top of the Code tab in the Claude app: tap it, pick a directory, and a session starts on that machine. Anthropic's Week 34 digest also took Remote Control out of research preview. Code and files stay local.
Claude Security Brings Mythos 5 Scans to Enterprise Customers
Anthropic says Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5 for Claude Enterprise customers. The public-beta product scans connected codebases, returns CWE, confidence, severity, and suggested-fix details, and opens approved fixes in Claude Code on the web without exposing the Mythos model directly.
Claude Platform Makes Computer Use, Browser Use, Skills, and Files Generally Available
Anthropic says computer use, browser use, the Skills API, and the Files API are now generally available on the Claude Platform, combining multi-action software control with versioned skills and reusable files for production agents.
Claude Managed Agents Add Memory Stores, Domain Controls, and a Redesigned Console
Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents updates let self-hosted sandbox sessions attach memory stores, restrict web_search and web_fetch with allowed_domains or blocked_domains, and inspect multi-agent sessions in a redesigned Claude Console viewer.
Claude Can Now Send Gmail Emails and Manage Google Drive Files
Anthropic's Claude can now send and reply to Gmail messages and manage Google Drive files from the connectors menu. The official announcement says the update is available on paid plans, while Anthropic's current help documentation details approval prompts, supported actions, admin controls, and important data-access limits.
Claude in Chrome Sessions Now Continue Across Devices
Anthropic says Claude in Chrome sessions now carry over to desktop, web, and mobile. Conversations are saved to the user's account, while skills and connectors can work from the browser; Claude's current Chrome page lists the extension as available on all paid plans.
Claude Code Will Make Auto Mode the Default on August 14
As of September 2026, auto mode is the default permission mode for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans; the switch took effect on August 14, 2026, as Anthropic announced on August 7. Enterprise plans, Console API keys, and the Bedrock, Agent Platform, Foundry, and Claude Platform on AWS integrations still start in manual (default) mode. The mode routes tool calls through a safety classifier, keeps manual approval available, and does not charge Pro, Max, or Team for classifier calls.
Claude Code Sessions Can Now Message Each Other
Claude Code lets independent sessions discover and message one another, with controls for holding, refusing, or approving incoming messages. As of August 2026, sessions can also start conversations with sessions on other machines or Claude Code on the web, and native Windows is supported; the August 7 launch allowed only replies across machines and covered macOS and Linux. Messaging is on with nothing to enable; a held message in a headless session now expires after five minutes by default.
Claude Fable 5 Reduces Biology Fallbacks by About 85%
Anthropic says an update to Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards reduced biology-related fallbacks by about 85% in testing. Fable 5 can now handle a wider range of everyday health and educational questions, while dual-use professional biology and drug-development requests remain restricted.
MCP 2026-07-28 Moves to a Stateless Core as Claude Rolls Out Support
Anthropic says the MCP 2026-07-28 specification moves the Model Context Protocol from a bidirectional stateful design to a request/response model, adds versioned extensions for MCP Apps and Tasks, and aligns authorization with production OAuth 2.0 and OIDC deployments.
Claude Code artifacts can now call MCP connectors for live, viewer-specific data
Claude Code artifacts can call MCP connectors each time someone views them, so a published page shows current data rather than a session snapshot. Available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, requiring Claude Code v2.1.209 or later. Connector-backed artifacts cannot be shared to a public link on any plan.
Claude Adds Reflect: A Monthly Recap and Usage Dashboard for How You Use Claude
Anthropic introduced Reflect, a beta dashboard in Claude's Settings that shows a monthly recap of when you use Claude most and what you worked on, with quiet hours and break nudges. It runs only when memory is on, covers Free, Pro, and Max but not Team or Enterprise, and skips incognito chats, health integrations, Cowork, and Claude Code.
Claude Cowork Reaches Web and Mobile for Paid Plans
Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile in beta for paid plans, so sessions can follow your Claude account across desktop, browser, and phone while work continues in the cloud.
Claude Code Artifacts Expand to Pro and Max Plans (Private by Default)
Anthropic's ClaudeDevs says Claude Code Artifacts are now available on Pro and Max plans. The Claude Code docs now list Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise as eligible, with Pro/Max artifacts remaining private to the individual user.
Anthropic raises Claude API rate limits and consolidates tiers into Start, Build, and Scale
Anthropic consolidated Claude Platform usage tiers into three -- Start, Build, and Scale -- and raised rate limits so Sonnet and Haiku match Opus at every tier. Tier placement is automatic, based on usage history rather than spend, but each tier still carries a monthly spend cap.
Claude Desktop for Linux Beta: Ubuntu and Debian, With Caveats
Anthropic shipped a beta of the Claude desktop app for Linux on Ubuntu 22.04+ and Debian 12+ (x86_64 or arm64), with Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code on all paid plans. The app does not self-update; updates arrive through apt, and as of August 2026 a directly installed .deb registers the repo itself. Computer Use and Dictation are missing.
Claude Science Beta: An AI Workbench for Reproducible Research
Claude Science is Anthropic's beta research app, not a model. It runs Python and R analyses in a local sandbox, queries 60+ scientific databases, submits jobs over SSH or to Modal, and attaches code, environment, and conversation provenance to every artifact. As of September 2026 it runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
Claude Sonnet 5 Launch: Anthropic's Most Agentic Sonnet, Now the Default Tier
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, calling it its most agentic Sonnet yet -- it plans, drives browsers and terminals, and runs autonomously. It is the default for Free and Pro, available across all plans, in Claude Code, and on the API as claude-sonnet-5. Anthropic later made its $2 per million input and $10 per million output token pricing permanent.
Claude Code Adds Artifacts: Live, Shareable Pages for PR Walkthroughs and Dashboards
Anthropic introduced Artifacts in Claude Code, letting Team and Enterprise orgs turn an in-progress Claude Code session into a live web page that updates as the session progresses and can be shared privately within the organization.
Claude Platform's 'ant' CLI Brings the Full Claude API to Your Terminal
Anthropic's 'ant' CLI exposes every Claude API resource as a terminal subcommand. As of September 2026 you install it through Homebrew, curl, or Go, authenticate by browser login, API key, or Workload Identity Federation, manage agents as code with 'ant apply' (CLI 1.30.0 or later), and run a self-hosted Managed Agents worker with 'ant beta:worker poll' or 'ant beta:worker run'.
Claude Code adds dynamic workflows (research preview) for large parallel agent runs
Dynamic workflows in Claude Code let Claude write orchestration scripts, fan out work across tens to hundreds of parallel subagents, verify results, and resume long-running jobs.
Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode: 2.5x Faster Output Tokens in Research Preview
Anthropic launched Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 in research preview, promising 2.5x faster output token speeds with the same Opus-level intelligence. It is available now in Claude Code for developers with extra usage enabled, and on the Claude Platform API through an account manager or a waitlist form.
Claude Code ships a security-guidance plugin for in-session vulnerability checks
Anthropic shipped an official security-guidance plugin for Claude Code. It runs automatic vulnerability checks while Claude edits files, at the end of each turn, and when Claude runs commits or pushes through its Bash tool.
Claude Agent SDK Monthly Credit on Paid Plans: Announced for June 15, 2026, Then Paused
As of August 2026, the Claude Agent SDK monthly credit is not available: Anthropic paused the change on June 15, 2026, and Agent SDK, `claude -p`, and third-party app usage still draw from your subscription's usage limits. The May 26 announcement had promised Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans $20 to $200 per month from June 15.
Claude Managed Agents Add Self-Hosted Sandboxes (Public Beta) and MCP Tunnels (Research Preview)
Anthropic says Claude Managed Agents can now run tool execution in a sandbox you control (public beta) and connect to private MCP servers via MCP tunnels (research preview). The update targets enterprise security requirements by keeping execution and private services within an organization's perimeter.
Perplexity Personal Computer vs OpenAI Codex Computer Use vs Claude Computer Use: Which AI Should Run Your Mac?
Perplexity Personal Computer is the right pick if you want an always-on Mac mini agent and you already pay for Perplexity Max. OpenAI Codex Computer Use is the right pick if you live in ChatGPT and need one agent driving your code, your browser, and your desktop apps on either macOS or Windows. Claude Computer Use is the right pick if you want raw computer use through the API on any OS, or the built-in version in Claude Code and Claude Desktop on macOS or Windows with a Pro or Max plan, as of September 2026.
Prompt Engineering in 2026: The Playbook That Works Across Claude and GPT
Prompt engineering in 2026 has two layers: cross-model fundamentals (clear direct instructions, motivated rules, 3-5 structured examples, XML boundaries, long documents before the question) and model-specific overrides that matter more than ever, because the newest models need instructions deleted as often as added. Start here, then apply the guide for your model.