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Beta for Claude Enterprise as of August 11: server-hosted transcripts covering prompts and responses, web and MCP tool-call content, skills and artifacts content captured as transcript text, plus verified user ID and email, org ID, session and per-message IDs, timestamps (Anthropic). Purely additive, existing data unchanged. Practically: agent tool calls are now discoverable enterprise records. That changes what belongs in a work session.
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Launched in beta August 5 for Claude Enterprise, routing each prompt and tool-call response over a signed WebSocket to the customer's own security server. Covers Claude chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and tool calls through MCP connectors, skills and plugins, with named inte...
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...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Auto mode becomes the default, which changes behavior in existing headless and CI automation with no version bump (Anthropic). Individual users flip with Shift+Tab or the desktop dropdown, and pinned defaults survive the migration untouched. Admins can force a different defaul...
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...
Self-hosted environments went public beta August 6 for Team/Enterprise, off by default: create a named environment in admin settings, deploy long-lived runners inside your network, and sessions started from web, mobile, desktop, claude --cloud or scheduled routines execute on...
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