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v2.1.206 (July 10) puts a tabbed Browser panel behind Cmd+Shift+B that Claude drives to read docs, inspect mockups, and fill forms, running in an isolated profile separate from your real credentials, with a domain allowlist and per-site permission cards (Claude Code Docs). This joins Windsurf/Devin's in-agent browsing and Mozilla's Tabstack in a clear convergence: give the agent web access through a scoped, disposable profile instead of pointing an external MCP server at your logged-in session. That's the right security default, and it's becoming the standard one.
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1. AGENTS.md Attention Budget Management (beginner) — Prune your config to under 50 lines. Front-load and back-load critical rules. Repeat must-follow instructions. paddo.dev 2. Claude Code /batch for Parallel Migrations (advanced) — Run /batch <description> to decompose large...
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...
One line in the v2.1.215 changelog, July 19: Claude Code no longer invokes the /verify and /code-review skills on its own. You call them explicitly now (changelog). If your workflow assumed a review pass fired at the end of a task, it doesn't anymore, and nothing told you. Cod...
This is the agent-security story of the week, and it needs no code to work. Noma Security disclosed GitLost (CVE-2026-44246) on July 6. An unauthenticated attacker posts a crafted issue on a public org repo. The AI agent (Claude or Copilot) triggers on issues.assigned, reads t...
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...
Claude Code's Tool Search feature — shipped January 2026, now on by default — solved one of the most expensive hidden costs in agentic development. Previously, connecting 7 MCP servers consumed approximately 51,000 tokens of context just loading tool definitions before any wor...
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