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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
The Compaction API enables server-side context summarization for effectively infinite conversations without context limits, available on Opus 4.6. MCP servers can now request structured input mid-task — interactive dialogs with text fields, dropdowns, and checkboxes — via new Elicitation hooks. Both target the primary failure modes of long-horizon agents: context overflow and mid-task ambiguity. Anthropic
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Two releases landed today and they're both significant. The headline security fix: PreToolUse hooks returning allow were bypassing deny permission rules — including enterprise managed settings. If you're running Claude Code in a managed enterprise environment with security hoo...
Claude Code v2.1.76 supports MCP servers triggering interactive dialogs to collect structured user input during execution. New Elicitation and ElicitationResult hooks let you intercept responses before they reach the server (Claude Code Docs). Enables conditional human-in-the-...
MCP servers can now request structured user input mid-task via interactive dialogs. Two new hooks — Elicitation and ElicitationResult — let developers intercept and override responses programmatically. The -n / --name flag sets session display names for monitoring multi-sessio...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
August 6: Sapiom raised $35M for a router that sends each model call to the cheapest capable model. August 7: Databricks published its internal cost playbook. August 8: Toolport hit Product Hunt with a free MCP gateway cutting tool-definition overhead 96%. Three parties, zero...
Compaction trims what's already in the window (Anthropic productized a server-side compaction API on Opus 4.6 that auto-summarizes older turns mid-session). Agentic memory moves information entirely outside context as structured notes the agent writes and pulls back on demand....
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