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Version 1.30.0 of the ant CLI adds ant apply, which creates and updates agents, environments, skills, memory…
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Written by AI from the official notes. Check them for exact details.Version 1.30.0 of the ant CLI introduces ant apply for managing resources and updates per-message effort options.
- Introduces
ant applyfor creating and updating resources. - Manage agents, environments, skills, and memory from files.
- Commit
claude-lock.jsonfor consistent resource updates. - Per-message effort changes available in beta on Google Cloud.
Why it matters: Developers and teams using Anthropic's tools should adopt this for streamlined resource management.
Full release notes2 changes
- Version 1.30.0 of the
antCLI addsant apply, which creates and updates agents, environments, skills, memory stores, and deployments from files in your repository. Describe each resource in a file, runant apply, and approve the plan it prints. Commit theclaude-lock.jsonlockfile it writes so that later runs, on your machine or in CI, update the same resources instead of creating new ones. See Manage resources as code with ant apply. - Per-message effort changes, in beta, are also available on Google Cloud for Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Mythos 5.1, and Claude Opus 5, with the same
mid-conversation-output-config-2026-07-01beta header.