Claude Code

Claude Design moves into conversations too, and Enterprise organizations get at least 30 days of warning before anything changes for them.

A roastery in Las Vegas runs six cafés from one view and reports 22% in-store margins. The release ships with 150 trained partners and 750 workshops.

Before the first command goes through, you set up a Google Cloud project. And pay $20 a month, in the US only.

Three quick fixes lasted 70 days, 29 days and less than a day. The fourth attempt was a full rebuild, and one engineer shipped it in three weeks.

The model catalog now arrives signed from downloads.claude.ai, refreshed every five to fifteen minutes. And admins get a switch that turns scheduled tasks off entirely.

Bloated skill descriptions, mandatory reading before every edit, strict approval rules: what kept older models on track now slows Astra down. Almost all of it maps onto Claude Code.

The person behind Claude Code listed what Anthropic runs to keep its own Claude-written code safe. That list is longer than what most teams have for human code.

A phone video was too big to publish. Rather than uploading it somewhere, Willison asked Claude Fable 5.1 for a browser tool that runs FFmpeg via WebAssembly — five presets, and the command line for each one on screen.

A principal product manager at Spotify built a Claude Code plugin that delegates large file reads and boilerplate code to a cheap model. The idea: let the frontier model think, not read. The post has been sitting near the top of Hacker News since Friday night.

On Fable 5.1's launch day, Claude Code follows right along: 2.1.257 makes the new model the default, finally brings configurable time formats and a new auto-mode rule. 2.1.258 clears up a nasty startup failure on macOS Monterey.

Anthropic is permanently raising Claude Code's weekly limits by 25%. Sounds great — but compared to right now, it's a step back. The first post got deleted, then came the honest version.

What you tell Claude in chat, Cowork now knows too - and the other way around. Anthropic merged the two memories, made every entry editable, and lets you choose whether sensitive topics get saved at all.

Anthropic has finished the rollout: Cowork now runs on iPhone, iPad, and the web for every paid plan, not just the priciest tier. The agent that started on the Mac is finally everywhere.

Claude in Slack used to see only the one message right in front of it. Now it reads the whole channel, uses its memory, and jumps in when it has something to add – or stays quiet. At no extra cost.

Starting today, new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team run in auto mode. Instead of asking at every step, a classifier checks each action – and only blocks what turns dangerous.

An independent lab hit Claude Code in auto mode with 720 prompt-injection attacks. Not one got through. For Codex, the scoreboard looked different.

The community keeps reporting that Opus 5 over-engineers tasks — planning and building more than you asked for. Oddly enough, a lower reasoning effort seems to help.

Anthropic is making Auto Mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team on August 14. A classifier checks every tool call - and according to Anthropic's own study, it catches far more dangerous commands than we humans do.

Anthropic rolled out security scanning for skills and plugins. On upload or edit, Claude automatically checks third-party extensions — with three possible results: pass, warn, or fail. Enterprise only, for now.

The stateless rework of the Model Context Protocol has reignited Simon Willison's interest in MCP. He built three tools in a week — and along the way makes the best case for why MCP is often the safer choice over an agent with shell access.