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The cap guards against a research agent silently spending an afternoon on queries (Gradually.ai). If you run high-volume search pipelines, check it against your actual per-run call count, because a default that protects most people is a ceiling for anyone doing real research volume. /fork copies your conversation into a background session while you keep working in the original, which is the cheap way to explore a risky refactor without losing accumulated context.
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If you use plan mode as a read-only sandbox before you approve anything, stop and upgrade first. v2.1.212 patched a real safety hole: in plan mode, file-modifying Bash commands could execute without the permission gate you'd expect. Anything below 2.1.212 could mutate files mi...
It now dedupes local CLAUDE.md files against checked-in ones, proposes trimming content it can derive from the codebase, ranks unused skills, MCP servers, and plugins by context cost, and flags slow hooks. Background subagents run by default and, when launched from claude agen...
Three frontier models shipped in a single week this month, and teams with a standing eval harness had a routing decision in hours. Anthropic's own agent-eval guidance says 20-50 tasks drawn from your real usage and real failures is enough to detect issues (DeepEval). DeepEval...
If you've written Claude Code skills with context: fork in the frontmatter, go check them right now. As of the July 22 release, /code-review runs as a background subagent, and any skill declaring context: fork runs in the background by default (release notes). The opt-out is b...
The IDE market is fragmenting, and this week drew the sharpest lines yet. Cursor 3 launched as a rebuilt agent-orchestration platform in Rust and TypeScript, replacing the VS Code fork with an Agents Window for dispatching and monitoring multiple AI coding agents. Anysphere hi...
Anthropic added a /fork command letting you branch a live session, full context, files, and prior instructions intact, into parallel variants to test alternative approaches without destroying the original (Tech Times). This is the ergonomic I've wanted most. "Try three impleme...
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