Simon Willison: Auto Mode Analysis + Package Manager Cooldown Survey
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Simon Willison published two relevant posts on March 24. First, a detailed breakdown of Claude Code's auto mode classifier architecture and its implications for agentic coding safety. Second, a survey of dependency cooldown features now shipping across pnpm (minimumReleaseAge, v10.16), Yarn (npmMinimalAgeGate, v4.10), Bun, npm (min-release-age, v11.10), and uv/pip/Deno — all adding configurable delays before installing freshly published packages to catch supply chain attacks before they spread.