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Public story · 2026-08-30 · source-backed
The RC published August 30 adds a complexity_router rule sending client housekeeping calls to the cheapest model tier, and reports prompt caching savings as two numbers, total and gateway-attributed, so you can tell what the proxy saved you from what the provider would have cached anyway. It also drops and self-heals empty thinking blocks on the Anthropic /v1/messages bridge. (GitHub)
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The .github/workflows directory holds bump-plugin-shas.yml, owner-liveness-sweep.yml, validate-plugins.yml and close-external-prs.yml, and the commit history shows them doing real work (GitHub). An August 19 commit added a deterministic static pin check for auto-exec MCP launc...
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...
guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover appeared August 11 and hit 634 stars and 61 forks in 24 hours, targeting provenance marks from Anthropic, Google's SynthID-Text, OpenAI, and Kirchenbauer-style implementations across three layers: invisible Unicode hygiene, statistical token-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...
Block released it August 27 with a security section dominated by defaults that previously failed open: fail closed on malformed tool visibility, permission denies now take precedence, fail closed on invalid default GCP credentials and invalid Codex ACP mode, honor plugin enabl...
Released August 24, it adds native Anthropic passthrough for /v1/messages and serves the OpenAI Responses API natively for true OpenAI models, so existing SDK clients point at Onyx with no translation shim (GitHub). Also a /model switcher with current model in the status bar,...
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