CLI agent that reads your repo, runs commands, and edits files autonomously. Long-running multi-file refactors without copy-pasting context every turn. Skills, hooks, and MCP servers extend it. Bundled with Claude Pro/Max; metered API access for heavy use.
The Code Review analytics page now displays total findings, a daily stacked chart by severity, and individual severity counts. Helps teams understand code review patterns and quality trends across review periods.
Teams can now set a monthly pooled budget shared across members via the spend limits admin API, on top of individual per-member limits. Enables organizational-level spending control and coordination.
VSCode users can authenticate to custom Claude apps gateways directly in the chat interface. Simplifies onboarding for teams using gateway-based deployments and custom model configurations.
Developers can now disable the ultrathink keyword by setting an environment variable. Useful for environments requiring default reasoning constraints or token usage optimization.
Claude's file tools now ask for permission before editing the local copy of your organization's server-managed settings, matching the behavior for personal settings files. Improves control and prevents accidental modifications to shared configuration.
VS Code and Claude Desktop now automatically summarize conversations longer than 200K tokens when idle, using the summary on your next message if the prompt cache expires. This improves performance and context management for long-running sessions.
Added permissions.blockWritesOutsideWorkingDirectories setting that prevents Write, Edit, and NotebookEdit tools from accessing paths outside designated working directories in all permission modes, improving security and preventing accidental access to protected areas.
Added optional groups list to gateway upstreams configuration, allowing developers in specific IdP groups to be routed to designated upstreams with failover support. Enables fine-grained multi-tenant access control for enterprise deployments.
Claude apps gateway can now log which Amazon Bedrock guardrail filters fired on requests via guardrail_trace, without exposing matched text. Provides observability into content filtering decisions for compliance and debugging.
Fast mode for Opus 4.8 is deprecated as of October 30, 2026 and will be removed on November 30. After removal, fast mode requests on Opus 4.8 return an error without fallback. Developers should migrate to Opus 5.5 to maintain the speedup benefit.
