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Released July 10, /doctor scans checked-in CLAUDE.md files and flags content Claude could derive by reading the codebase itself. This is the first time Anthropic has shipped tooling treating context files as a cost surface to prune rather than a document to grow. Same release adds directory path suggestions to /cd, makes /commit-push-pr auto-allow pushes to remote.pushDefault or the sole configured remote in addition to origin, adds /login for Anthropic-operated public gateway endpoints, and makes EnterWorktree confirm before entering a worktree outside .claude/worktrees/. I maintain a multi-thousand-token CLAUDE.md hierarchy. This felt personal.
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It now dedupes local CLAUDE.md files against checked-in ones, proposes trimming content it can derive from the codebase, ranks unused skills, MCP servers, and plugins by context cost, and flags slow hooks. Background subagents run by default and, when launched from claude agen...
xAI launched Grok Build on May 14. With that, every major AI lab now ships a coding agent that lives in your terminal. The competition isn't "can we build one" anymore. That question is settled. The lineup: Anthropic has Claude Code. OpenAI has Codex CLI. Google has Gemini CLI...
Anthropic's own docs confirm prompts, model responses, tool results (which include code Claude reads) and session transcripts still travel to and are retained by Anthropic. Inference can't be routed through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry, or a...
The IDE market is fragmenting, and this week drew the sharpest lines yet. Cursor 3 launched as a rebuilt agent-orchestration platform in Rust and TypeScript, replacing the VS Code fork with an Agents Window for dispatching and monitoring multiple AI coding agents. Anysphere hi...
This one rearranged my week. An essay published August 4 walks through Databricks' independent benchmark of coding harnesses against its own multi-million-line codebase. Pi, a harness with four built-in tools and a system prompt under 1,000 tokens, paired with Opus 4.8 at xhig...
This is the install-this-today story. code-review-graph (3.5K GitHub stars) builds a persistent AST-based knowledge graph of your codebase using Tree-sitter, then queries it at review time to compute the minimal context set Claude actually needs. On a 27,732-file Next.js monor...
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