What's new in Claude

Claude Code·Aug 13, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.232

Added /config rows for "Dialog expiry" and "Messages from your other sessions" (cross-session inbound accept/hold/refuse). Added secret redaction for GitLab token families (glrt-, gloas-, glptt-, glagent-, glimt-, glsoat-, glcbt-, glft-, glffct-) and full redaction of routable glpat-/gldt- tokens; the glab CLI config store gets the same sandbox and credential-path protection as gh.

Claude Code·Aug 13, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.231

Fixed MCP OAuth sign-in failing with a redirect URI mismatch for servers that use a pre-registered OAuth client, such as Slack.

Claude Code·Aug 12, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.229

Added server-supplied Claude Code hook support for self-hosted runner sessions, matching managed-environment behavior. Added SSE keepalive pings to gateway streaming responses during long thinking pauses, preventing idle-timeout disconnects on Vertex and Bedrock upstreams.

Claude Code·Aug 11, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.228

Fixed interactive sessions that could stop redrawing entirely, while the process kept running, after a rare internal layout error. Fixed git / Git Bash not being found on Windows when Claude Code is launched from a parent folder of the git installation.

Claude API·Aug 11, 2026

The Compliance API now returns transcripts of Cowork and Claude Code sessions that run on your users'…

GET /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/local lists sessions across your organization, GET /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/local/{session_id} retrieves one session's metadata, and GET /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/local/{session_id}/messages returns its transcript, all with your existing Compliance Access Key and the read:compliance_user_data scope. We've added the anthropic-workspace-id response header to the Claude API.

Claude Code·Aug 10, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.227

Fixed feature flags being evaluated without the user's subscription tier when a session started with an expired login token, which could wrongly prompt Max plan users to enable usage credits for Fable. Fixed every Bash command failing under claude-code-action with allowed_non_write_users on GitHub-hosted runners.

Claude API·Aug 10, 2026

The introductory pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 is now the standard price: the previously scheduled increase to…

Claude Code·Aug 8, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.226

Bug fixes and reliability improvements.

Claude Code·Aug 8, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.225

Added gateway spend-limit support to Claude Code's usage warning; the limit-reached message now names the cap, its reset time, and the operator's message (requires the gateway on 2.1.225). Added a workspace trust prompt to claude agents for untrusted directories, matching the behavior of claude.

Claude Code·Aug 7, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.224

Added self-hosted environments: claude self-hosted-runner turns your own machines or containers into a place Claude Code web, mobile, and desktop sessions can run, on Team and Enterprise plans. Added archive plugin source: install plugins from a zip over HTTPS without git or npm, with optional SHA-256 pinning.

Claude API·Aug 7, 2026

You can now set a budget on a Claude Managed Agents session: a hard cap on the session's spend, priced at…

A session that reaches its budget pauses with the budget_reached stop reason instead of starting new model requests; changing or removing the budget resumes it. Deployments accept the same budget and apply it to each session they start. You can now give a Claude Managed Agents session an advisor: a model at least as capable as the agent's own that the session's primary thread can consult mid-turn for strategic guidance. You can now control where model inference runs for a Claude Managed Agents agent. Claude Managed Agents sessions can now load skills from a GitHub repository.

Claude Code·Aug 6, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.223

Added owner wildcard entries ("owner/*") to the strictKnownMarketplaces and blockedMarketplaces managed settings for allowing or blocking all marketplace repos under a GitHub org. Added a warning when workflow agents, forked skills, slash commands, or resumed background agents' requested subagent model is restricted and the parent model runs instead.

Claude apps·Aug 6, 2026

Skill and plugin security scanning (beta)

Enterprise plans can now turn on skill and plugin security scanning to automatically check third-party skills and plugins for malicious content when someone uploads or edits them.

Claude API·Aug 5, 2026

Inference hooks are now in beta for Claude Enterprise organizations

Point Claude at your organization's AI security server, and each governed prompt across claude.ai, Cowork, and Claude Code is held for the server's allow or deny verdict before inference proceeds. Requests are signed, failure handling is configurable, and every denial is recorded in the compliance Activity Feed. We've retired the Claude Opus 4.1 model (claude-opus-4-1-20250805).

Claude Code·Aug 4, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.222

Fixed worktree-isolated sessions and their subagents being able to run destructive git commands against the main checkout; isolation now applies to file edits and Bash in every session type. Fixed PreToolUse auto-allow hooks bypassing tool restrictions in background agent tasks (summaries, compaction, renames).

Claude Code·Aug 4, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.221

[VSCode] Added Focus view: a chat-menu toggle that hides tool activity behind an expandable per-turn summary with a live running-tool indicator, toggled with Ctrl+Alt+F or the "Claude Code: Toggle Focus view" command. Added mode: "mask" for sandbox credential files on Linux and WSL — sandboxed commands read a sentinel copy (the whole file, or just the spans captured by an extract regex) while the sandbox proxy substitutes the real value on egress; on macOS file masking falls back to deny.

Claude API·Aug 3, 2026

The Compliance API now returns transcripts of Cowork sessions started on claude.ai web or mobile, in beta…

GET /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/remote lists sessions and GET /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/remote/{session_id}/messages returns one session's transcript, using your existing Compliance Access Key with the read:compliance_user_data scope.

Claude API·Aug 1, 2026

Dreams now supports Claude Opus 5

Claude Code·Jul 25, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.220

Bug fixes and reliability improvements.

Claude Code·Jul 24, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.219

Added Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5), now the default Opus model — 1M context, fast mode at $10/$50 per Mtok. Added sandbox.network.strictAllowlist setting to deny non-allowlisted hosts for sandboxed commands without prompting.

Claude API·Jul 24, 2026

On Claude Opus 5, disabling thinking is allowed only at effort high or below: thinking: {"type": "disabled"}…

Effort is the primary control for steering Claude Opus 5: the model supports the full ladder (low, medium, high, xhigh, max), with max for capability-critical work. Mid-conversation tool changes are now in beta on Claude Fable 5, Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Opus 5: add or remove tools between turns of a conversation while preserving the prompt cache. The fallbacks parameter now supports a "default" mode, which applies Anthropic's recommended fallback models by refusal category. We've removed fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7.

Claude apps·Jul 24, 2026Announcement

Claude Opus 5 launch

We launched Claude Opus 5, a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.

New model·Jul 24, 2026Announcement

New model: Claude Opus 5

We've launched Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5), a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8. Claude Opus 5 supports a 1M token context window (both the default and the maximum), 128k max output tokens, and thinking on by default, at $5 / $25 USD per MTok, the same pricing as Claude Opus 4.8. It's available on the Claude API, Claude in Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Claude on Google Cloud, and Claude in Microsoft Foundry.

Claude Code·Jul 22, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.218

Added screen-reader announcements of deleted text for word and line deletions (Option+Delete, Ctrl+W, Cmd+Backspace, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+K) in --ax-screen-reader mode. Added HTTP status and error text to claude mcp list and /mcp when a server fails to connect, and a warning for MCP config values with hidden leading or trailing whitespace.

Claude API·Jul 22, 2026

You can now set an effort level on a Claude Managed Agents agent's model configuration

Pass effort inside the model object when you create the agent. Webhooks for Claude Managed Agents now cover the environment and memory store lifecycle: four environment.* event types and three memory_store.* event types. When creating a Claude Managed Agents session, you can now seed it with initial events. The version field is now optional when updating a Claude Managed Agents agent. Claude Managed Agents session thread event streams now support event deltas.

Claude Code·Jul 21, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.217

Added emoji shortcode autocomplete in the prompt input: type :heart: to insert ❤️, or :hea for suggestions — disable with the emojiCompletionEnabled setting. Added warnings when transcript writes are failing (e.g. disk full) or when session saving is off due to an inherited environment variable, instead of losing transcripts silently.

Claude Code·Jul 20, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.216

Added sandbox.filesystem.disabled setting to skip filesystem isolation while keeping network egress control.

Claude Code·Jul 19, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.215

Claude no longer runs the /verify and /code-review skills on its own; invoke them with /verify or /code-review when you want them.

Claude Code·Jul 18, 2026

Claude Code 2.1.214

Added the EndConversation tool: Claude can end sessions with highly abusive users or jailbreak attempts, as on claude.ai since 2025 — see https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations. Added a periodic progress heartbeat for long-running tool calls that previously went silent.