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July 2026
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Claude Code by Anthropic

2.1.215

Claude Code changes /verify and /code-review to run only when invoked directly.
Claude no longer runs the /verify and /code-review skills on its own; invoke them with /verify or /code-review when you want them

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Ampcode

Subscriptions, At Last

Ampcode launches Amp Subscriptions in beta, bringing monthly pricing, included orb usage, and cheaper, more predictable access for users. The update also adds bonus 2x usage for early subscribers and keeps pay-as-you-go available for those who prefer it.

Today we're launching Amp Subscriptions in Beta. You can now subscribe monthly to Amp and explore the frontier with us, with cheaper and more predictable pricing:

Subscription FAQs

If you subscribe on or before Sunday, July 19[^1], you'll get bonus 2x usage for orbs and agents in the first month.

Amp Is Not (Necessarily) Expensive Anymore

Amp just got a lot cheaper for many of you, especially if you link your ChatGPT subscription.

We know you've been asking for this for a long time. Until now, Amp's pricing model has been pay-as-you-go for tokens at API prices, no subscription. Compared to other agents on monthly subscriptions, this made Amp more expensive—"the Apple or Porsche of agentic coding tools", to put it nicely.

But everything is changing. Great tokens are reasonably priced. Good-enough tokens are downright cheap (like GLM-5.2 in our new low mode). Being on the frontier no longer requires using the most expensive models.

You can still pay-as-you-go in Amp; monthly subscriptions aren't required.

And, to be clear, to use Amp beyond your subscription's included monthly limits, you need to link your ChatGPT subscription or add paid credits.

The Frontier Runs in Orbs, Not Your Laptop

The frontier is now about agents working for you in parallel, without your supervision, on remote machines. We call these "orbs", and Amp's monthly subscriptions include so much orbs usage you don't need to worry about counting the minutes.

We want you to finally be able to (and want to) kill your singleton local dev environment.

We want you to make your agents go further to prove to you their work is correct, with videos and screenshots and local dev portals, and much less manual code review.

Remember last year, when other agents asked you to approve the agent's work step-by-step, edit-by-edit? Amp users realized before anyone else that was dumb and slow, and Amp never did that.

This shift feels similar to us. It's inevitable, and we want it to go as fast as possible. We hope this subscription makes it easy for you to explore this new frontier with us.
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Claude Code by Anthropic

2.1.214

Claude Code releases a broad stability and safety update with tighter permission checks, safer Bash and PowerShell handling, improved background session cleanup, stronger telemetry, and better remote and plugin reliability. It also adds the EndConversation tool and progress heartbeats for long-running tasks.
Fixed single-segment dir/** allow rules like Edit(src/**) auto-approving writes to nested dir/ directories anywhere in the tree instead of only <cwd>/dir

Fixed a permission-check bypass affecting commands run in Windows PowerShell 5.1 sessions

Fixed Bash permission checks to fail closed on file-descriptor redirect forms that bash parses differently than the permission analyzer

Fixed Bash permission checks misjudging very long commands — commands over 10,000 characters now always prompt instead of running automatically

Fixed Bash permission checks treating zsh variable subscripts and modifiers in [[ ]] comparisons as inert text — these commands now prompt for approval

Fixed Bash permission checks to no longer auto-approve certain help and man commands that could run unsafe options, command substitutions, or backslash paths

Fixed permission prompts on remote sessions that could proceed before the local confirmation dialog

Added the EndConversation tool: Claude can end sessions with highly abusive users or jailbreak attempts, as on claude.ai since 2025 — see https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

Added a periodic progress heartbeat for long-running tool calls that previously went silent

Added an ISO modified timestamp to memory file frontmatter

Added message.uuid, client_request_id, and tool_source attributes to OpenTelemetry log events for message-level correlation and tool provenance

Added CLAUDE_CODE_OTEL_CONTENT_MAX_LENGTH to configure the 60 KB truncation limit on OpenTelemetry content attributes

Added reasoning effort to the subagentStatusLine payload, so custom agent rows can render model and effort

Added permission prompts for docker commands (including the Podman docker shim) carrying daemon-redirect flags (--url, --connection, --identity, and Podman's remote mode) that previously ran without one

Fixed a crash when a GrowthBook feature evaluates to null, and a bug where a malformed flag payload could wipe the cached feature flags

Fixed Bash tool killing the Claude session when a pkill -f pattern accidentally matched the CLI's own process (Linux)

Fixed unbounded memory growth when --settings points at a device file or multi-GB file; oversized (>2 MiB) settings files now fail at startup with a clear error

Fixed streaming turns failing with "Socket is closed" behind corporate proxies on Windows

Fixed stream-json output truncation at exit for slow-reading SDK/pipeline consumers; the exit drain now scales with queued bytes instead of a flat 2s cap

Fixed scheduled tasks refusing their own configured prompt as untrusted input — the fired prompt is now delivered as the session's assigned task

Fixed PowerShell tool commands hanging until timeout when a child process waited on standard input (Windows)

Fixed Python scripts under the PowerShell tool crashing with UnicodeDecodeError when reading non-UTF-8 data from standard input (Windows)

Fixed Python scripts run via the PowerShell tool crashing with UnicodeEncodeError on non-ASCII output, and PowerShell 7 error messages containing raw ANSI escape sequences (Windows)

Fixed the PowerShell tool reporting where.exe, fc.exe, and diff.exe as errors when they return a valid negative answer (Windows)

Fixed > and >> under the PowerShell tool on Windows PowerShell 5.1 writing UTF-16LE files that other tools couldn't read as UTF-8

Fixed a displaced background daemon deleting its successor's control socket on shutdown, which made the next client kill the healthy replacement daemon

Fixed background sessions parked with ← or /background and left idle keeping the background daemon and a worker process alive indefinitely

Fixed completed background sessions being impossible to remove via claude rm or the agent view once the background service had gone idle

Fixed background sessions dispatched from a non-git folder being impossible to delete from the agents view

Fixed reopening a stopped background session failing to restore its saved conversation when an unreadable folder exists in the session store

Fixed the Remote Control "session ready" push notification firing for sessions where Remote Control was not explicitly enabled

Fixed /install-github-app and the /mcp settings menu being blocked in agent-view sessions — they're now refused only in background sessions with no terminal attached

Fixed plugins enabled via the --settings CLI flag not loading (regression since v2.1.181)

Fixed feature flags going stale in long-running sessions after the OAuth token rotates

Fixed /ultrareview refusing to run in repos with no merge base — it now offers to review all tracked files

Fixed claude update and claude doctor hanging silently, and the /status System diagnostics section going blank, when a shell-config path is a directory

Fixed memory frontmatter values being silently truncated at an inline # when memory files are saved

Fixed session cost and token telemetry double-counting on streams that emit multiple cumulative message_delta frames

Fixed a spurious "check your network" warning that appeared while the advisor was thinking

Fixed hooks with exit code 2 not blocking as documented when the hook's stdout JSON fails schema validation

Fixed OTel log events emitted outside the turn's async context missing the interaction span's trace context

Fixed MCP transient errors during prompts/resources refresh clearing the server's slash commands and resources

Improved the claude rc workspace-trust error in the home directory to say trust there is never saved and to suggest running from a project directory

Changed single-segment dir/** hook if: conditions to match only <cwd>/dir; write **/dir/** for any-depth matching. deny/ask permission rules keep their any-depth match.

Changed file commands using -m/--magic-file or -f/--files-from to require permission instead of being auto-allowed as read-only

Changed keep-alive connection pooling to disable after a stale-connection error, so retries open a fresh socket

Changed SessionStart hooks to report source "fork" when a session begins as a fork instead of "resume"

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Kimi Code by Kimi

@moonshot-ai/[email protected]

Kimi Code adds a /copy slash command, automatic model list refresh for API key users, and a range of web and backend fixes for exports, rendering, OAuth errors, networking safety, and performance under stress.
Minor Changes

#1822 a5c568d Thanks @liruifengv! - Add the /copy slash command to copy the last assistant message to the clipboard.

#1824 bfecd01 Thanks @liruifengv! - Using an API key for Kimi coding models now also fetches the latest model list automatically.

Patch Changes

#1811 cec15e2 Thanks @liruifengv! - Fix Esc and Ctrl+C cancelling compaction instead of closing an open /btw panel.

#1806 9b49694 Thanks @sailist! - Mount the dev-only /api/v1/debug RPC surface behind the --debug-endpoints flag, exposing every scoped service for local debugging on loopback binds. Pass --debug-endpoints to kimi server run to enable it.

#1788 365ba00 Thanks @RealKai42! - Fix /export-debug-zip and kimi export overwriting the previous ZIP archive when run repeatedly on the same session; the default export filename now includes a timestamp.

#1840 fa7e4ba Thanks @7Sageer! - Fix AGENTS.md files installed as symbolic links being ignored by the web backend.

#1829 1b907b0 Thanks @RealKai42! - Fix whitespace-only thinking content rendering as a blank bullet line in the transcript, both while streaming and when replaying session history.

#1809 56a321d Thanks @sailist! - web: Fix duplicate workspace groups on Windows when the same folder is opened with different path spellings, such as a different drive-letter casing; all of the folder's sessions now list under the single merged group.

#1847 56ba8e0 Thanks @wbxl2000! - web: Fix LaTeX formulas rendering as garbled overlapping text when the web UI is accessed over the network; the server's content security policy now allows the inline styles that math and code highlighting rely on, while scripts remain strictly restricted.

#1816 44f3341 Thanks @sailist! - Harden the embedded key-value engine's durability: WAL compaction now always terminates under sustained write storms instead of chasing the tail forever, a committed write can no longer slip through a compaction rotation undetected, torn WAL tails no longer misplace later disk-mode value pointers, read-only opens never create or modify database files or compact under a live writer, corrupt index-definition files no longer force a full rebuild, stale compaction temp files are cleaned on open, and the process lock can no longer be taken over by several processes at once.

#1816 44f3341 Thanks @sailist! - Speed up the embedded key-value engine under stress: queries with skip/limit now stream candidates instead of decoding every match first, LRU eviction picks victims in O(1) instead of scanning every key, bursts of simultaneously expired TTL keys are drained within seconds, existence checks and size counting no longer read values when they only need metadata, and one oversized token can no longer poison the full-text index.

#1816 44f3341 Thanks @sailist! - Cluster readers of the embedded key-value engine now catch up incrementally by replaying only newly appended WAL frames after another process writes, instead of fully reopening the shard on every read; cross-process read latency drops by orders of magnitude at larger shard sizes, and readers still fall back to a full reopen after WAL rotation or truncation.

#1816 44f3341 Thanks @sailist! - Keep the embedded key-value engine writable when a WAL compaction rotation fails mid-way instead of wedging it until reopen, stop a rolled-back write from erasing a concurrently committed value for the same key, let the RESP server survive aborted connections, recover after oversized requests, and answer each pipelined command independently, and keep the previous full-text index intact when a postings rebuild fails.

#1808 b53e00d Thanks @wbxl2000! - Include the underlying network cause (DNS failure, refused connection, TLS or timeout errors) in OAuth connection error messages instead of a bare "fetch failed".

#1790 373abb0 Thanks @RealKai42! - Fix repeated request rejections after an interrupted model response by recording tool calls that never ran and closing them with an interrupted result.

#1791 3144972 Thanks @sailist! - Fix the built-in URL fetch tool's network safeguards: crafted domains and redirect chains can no longer reach loopback or internal network services.

#1787 319001a Thanks @sailist! - web: Remove per-workspace git repo badges and branch labels; branch, PR, and diff status remain shown for the active session.

#1838 9e12484 Thanks @wbxl2000! - web: Remember the thinking level per model, fixing an empty and unresponsive thinking picker when the active model does not support a previously stored level.

#1833 03021b6 Thanks @wbxl2000! - web: Fix queued messages silently re-sending previously uploaded files when a session is reopened.

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Kimi Code by Kimi

0.27.0 (2026-07-17)

Kimi Code adds a /copy slash command, automatically refreshes Kimi coding model lists when using an API key, and improves error, web, and export reliability with several bug fixes and safety upgrades.
Features

Add the /copy slash command to copy the last assistant message to the clipboard.

Using an API key for Kimi coding models now also fetches the latest model list automatically.

Polish

OAuth connection errors now include the underlying network cause (DNS, refused connection, TLS, or timeout) instead of a bare "fetch failed".

Bug Fixes

Fix repeated request rejections after an interrupted model response.

Fix the built-in URL fetch tool's network safeguards: crafted domains and redirect chains can no longer reach loopback or internal network services.

web: Fix LaTeX formulas rendering as garbled overlapping text when the web UI is accessed over the network.

web: Fix queued messages silently re-sending previously uploaded files when a session is reopened.

web: Remember the thinking level per model, fixing an empty, unresponsive thinking picker when the model doesn't support the stored level.

web: Fix duplicate workspace groups on Windows when the same folder is opened with different path spellings; its sessions now list under one merged group.

Fix AGENTS.md files installed as symbolic links being ignored by the web backend.

Fix Esc and Ctrl+C cancelling compaction instead of closing an open /btw panel.

Fix whitespace-only thinking content rendering as a blank line in the transcript.

Fix /export-debug-zip and kimi export overwriting the previous ZIP on repeated runs for the same session; the default filename now includes a timestamp.

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Kimi Code by Kimi

v0.27.0 July 17, 2026

Kimi Code adds a /copy slash command to copy the last assistant message, auto-refreshes the model list for API key users, and improves OAuth error reporting with clearer network causes. It also hardens the built-in URL fetch tool against unsafe redirects and internal network access.

/copy for the last reply

New /copy slash command copies the last assistant message to the clipboard — no more manually selecting long answers. →

Auto-refresh of the model list for API key users

When calling Kimi coding models with an API key, Kimi Code now automatically fetches the latest model list, so new models are usable without manual config changes. →

Also in this release:

OAuth connection failures now show the underlying network cause (DNS, refused connection, TLS, timeout) instead of a bare fetch failed; the built-in URL fetch tool's network safeguards are hardened so crafted domains and redirect chains can no longer reach loopback or internal network services.
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Ampcode

From Agent to Agent

Ampcode adds support for agents spawning other agents across orbs, local machines, and remote machines, with message and file sharing to parallelize work, offload tasks, and coordinate across projects.

You can now ask your agents in Amp to spawn other agents.

In orbs, your local machine [^1], or on any other machine.

They can send messages and files to each other, too.

Side quests

You can have agents in orbs work on side quests while you continue your work:

Spin up an orb thread with what you know about this unrelated bug, ask it to fix it, then keep working here.

Fan out work

Run four low-mode threads in parallel to test this flow in Chrome at four screen sizes and report back with screenshots.

Find and continue old work

Pull the files from my abandoned prototype thread into this workspace and integrate the useful parts into our current approach.

Offload work to another machine

Start a new thread on cloud-dev-box and upload this test matrix we created. Ask it to run through each row at least 10 times.

Coordinate cross-project work

Spawn an agent in the docs project, send it what it needs to document this API change, and ask it to report back.

Agents running locally, or in orbs, or anywhere else, and sending messages and files to each other? It's a whole new world.
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Cursor

Improvements to Cursor in Slack

Cursor adds Slack workflow upgrades with plans before execution, richer status updates, cleaner message rendering, multi-repo environment support, and cross-channel and thread access for broader context.

Cursor in Slack now shares a plan before it starts, runs in multi-repo environments, and can work across channels and threads.

Interaction improvements

Cursor now responds with a plan before it begins, so you can jump in and redirect early. As it works, it updates its status so you can follow each step.

We also refined how Cursor's responses look in Slack. In-message buttons are gone, replaced by compact footer links. Tables, PRs, and artifacts now render more cleanly.

Multi-repo environment support

From Slack, Cursor can now start in a named multi-repo environment instead of a single default repository. If your frontend, backend, and shared code live in separate repos, Cursor reads your request and targets the environment that gives it access to all of them.

Mid-task, when Cursor needs a repo outside the current environment, it prompts you with a Switch repository button. Click it, choose the repo or environment, and Cursor picks up right where it left off.

Cross-channel workflows

Cursor can now read from and send messages to other Slack channels and threads. During a task, it can pull context from elsewhere in the workspace and post updates back in the original thread or the relevant channel.

Learn more in our Slack docs.
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Claude Code by Anthropic

Week 29 · July 13–17, 2026

Claude Code adds live MCP connector data for published artifacts, screen reader mode for accessible sessions, and new sharing and collaboration options for Team and Enterprise. It also improves subagent workflows, background handling, permissions, and default model settings.
Pull live data into published artifacts through MCP connectors, and use Claude Code with a screen reader in the new screen reader mode.

Artifacts call your MCP connectors

A published artifact can now call MCP connectors each time someone views it, so a dashboard shows live data and can take actions on demand rather than a snapshot from the session that built it. Each call runs through the viewing account’s own connections, and viewers approve access before the page’s first connector call. This week also adds public sharing links, editor roles for shared editing on Team and Enterprise plans, and artifacts created from Claude Tag sessions.

Name the connector and the data you want in your prompt:

Claude Code

Build a dashboard artifact of open pull requests that pulls the live list through my GitHub connector when the page loads.

Pull live data with MCP connectors

Screen reader mode

Screen reader mode replaces the visual terminal interface with plain, linear text: instead of boxes, spinners, and in-place redraws, Claude Code prints labeled lines that a screen reader such as VoiceOver or NVDA reads in order, so you can approve permissions and review output end to end. Turn it on per session with a flag, per shell with the CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER environment variable, or everywhere with the axScreenReader setting.

Start a session in screen reader mode:

claude --ax-screen-reader

Turn on screen reader mode

Other wins

/fork now copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents while you keep working; the in-session forked subagent it used to launch is now /subtask

Auto mode no longer needs the CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE opt-in on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry; administrators can turn it off with disableAutoMode

MCP tool calls that run longer than two minutes now move to the background automatically so the session stays usable; tune or disable the threshold with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MS

New claude auto-mode reset restores the default auto-mode configuration, and --yes skips the confirmation prompt

New corporate launcher support: CLAUDE_CODE_PROCESS_WRAPPER or the processWrapper setting runs the processes Claude Code starts from its own binary, such as the background service and agent view sessions, through a required wrapper executable

vimInsertModeRemaps setting maps two-key insert-mode sequences such as jj to Escape in vim mode

--forward-subagent-text and CLAUDE_CODE_FORWARD_SUBAGENT_TEXT include subagent text and thinking blocks in stream-json output

Session-wide caps stop runaway loops: WebSearch calls and subagent spawns each default to 200, tunable with CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_WEB_SEARCHES_PER_SESSION and CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_SUBAGENTS_PER_SESSION

”Always allow” permission rules save at the repository root, so approvals granted in a git worktree persist across sessions and worktrees

Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Agent Platform, and Claude Platform on AWS now default to Claude Opus 4.8

The collapsed tool summary line shows a live elapsed-time counter, so long-running tool calls visibly tick instead of looking stuck

Full changelog for v2.1.207–v2.1.212
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Copilot CLI by GitHub

1.0.72-1

Copilot CLI adds new plugin mutation flags, skill removal support, clearer file paths, and a more deterministic plan-approval menu. It also keeps /add-dir context visible across turns, fixes split-pane chat input handling, improves key navigation, and tightens /terminal-setup JSON error handling.
Added

Add --plugin, --mcp, and --skill flags for plugin mutations

Add skill removal support to copilot plugins remove --skill

Improved

Reveal full file paths when expanding compact editing rows

Make the plan-approval menu deterministic across models

Keep /add-dir directories visible in the agent context across turns

Fixed

Wrap ask-user and elicitation inputs in the split-pane chat view

Modified vim keys (Ctrl+K, uppercase J/K) no longer move the selection in tool-permission prompts and other text-input select menus; only unmodified j/k, the arrow keys, and Ctrl+P/Ctrl+N navigate.

/terminal-setup now refuses to modify a VS Code keybindings.json that contains a JSON syntax error (instead of rewriting it and reporting success), matching its documented invalid-JSON handling.

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AI Coding Assistants Release Notes

Products (18)

Latest AI Coding Assistants Updates

2.1.215

Subscriptions, At Last

Subscription FAQs

Amp Is Not (Necessarily) Expensive Anymore

The Frontier Runs in Orbs, Not Your Laptop

2.1.214

@moonshot-ai/[email protected]

Minor Changes

Patch Changes

0.27.0 (2026-07-17)

Features

Polish

Bug Fixes

v0.27.0 July 17, 2026

/copy for the last reply

Auto-refresh of the model list for API key users

Also in this release:

From Agent to Agent

Side quests

Fan out work

Find and continue old work

Offload work to another machine

Coordinate cross-project work

Improvements to Cursor in Slack

Interaction improvements

Multi-repo environment support

Cross-channel workflows

Week 29 · July 13–17, 2026

Artifacts call your MCP connectors

Screen reader mode

Other wins

1.0.72-1

Added

Improved

Fixed