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Three changes GA on September 3. Packages can hold more than one trusted publishing configuration, each operating independently with per-config direct-publishing opt-in. The staged-package approval button is disabled while a scan runs and only enables on completion. The versions tab on npmjs.com now shows whether each version was approved, rejected or still staged. GitHub recommends staging-only, which inserts a human approval step before a version goes live. GitHub Changelog
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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. Claude Code v2.1.257 made it the default Fable model at 17:53 UTC that day, with a 1M-token context window, $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output, and $0.25 per million on cache reads (claude-code CHANGELOG). B...
From September 1, new signups reopen for card and PayPal customers with every seat assignment requiring payment before access; existing card/PayPal customers start incurring upfront per-seat charges October 1. Copilot code review's default effort moves from Lite to Balanced, s...
Announced September 2, the Copilot app and CLI now respect exclusion policies configured by enterprise, org and repository administrators. Until this shipped, exclusion policies were enforced in some surfaces but not the agentic app and CLI paths, meaning a policy that looked...
GitHub published four measured cost reductions on September 2: selective output compaction 5.5%, removing view-tool line-number prefixes 3.1%, a compacted task-tool prompt 2.9%, batching background-task results 2.3%. The counterintuitive result came from RTK (Rust Token Killer...
Latent Space published maintainer numbers on September 1 that I've been chewing on since (Latent Space). Vercel's AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw have all converged on the same arrangement: agents do triage, reproduction, implementation and review, and humans only merge. AI SDK...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
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