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Agent-created schedules move from per-chat folders to ~/.cline/schedules, and cron reconciliation on restart no longer wipes hub-managed schedules (GitHub). Tool results returning images from browser or MCP tools render inline with a carousel instead of raw base64 text, which had been eating context. Once agents run unattended across restarts, state scattered by whichever session created it becomes unrecoverable, and Claude Code's worktree-lock fix in the same window is the identical realization.
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A GitHub repo cataloging Claude Code tips doesn't normally warrant a top story. But shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice at 53.4K stars isn't a tips list anymore. It's the de facto reference for how an entire generation of developers is learning to work with AI coding agents...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
One Claude Code release fixed two independent permission-check bypasses on the same day. That's the story. Version 2.1.221, shipped August 4, patches a Bash tool bypass where zsh could execute hidden commands embedded inside [[ ]] regex conditionals. The approval prompt never...
The most under-hyped tool of the week is a single Rust binary with zero dependencies that sits between your coding agent and your terminal, compressing command outputs before they hit the context window. rtk (Rust Token Killer) intercepts common dev commands — cargo test, git...
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...
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