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FORK — Claude Code 2.1.212 changes what /fork does: it copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents, so you can keep working. The old in-session subagent is now /subtaskLIMITS — WebSearch calls are now capped at 200 per session by default, and subagent spawns get the same 200 ceiling, so a runaway search or delegation loop stops on its ownMCPBG — MCP tool calls running past two minutes now move to the background automatically, keeping the session usable. Tune the threshold with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MSPLANFIX — Fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands such as touch and rm without a permission prompt or an SDK canUseTool callbackSONNET5 — Claude Sonnet 5 is running on introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. After August 31 it moves to $3 and $15IPO — Bankers are reportedly lining up investor meetings for Anthropic ahead of a possible public listing as soon as OctoberFORK — Claude Code 2.1.212 changes what /fork does: it copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents, so you can keep working. The old in-session subagent is now /subtaskLIMITS — WebSearch calls are now capped at 200 per session by default, and subagent spawns get the same 200 ceiling, so a runaway search or delegation loop stops on its ownMCPBG — MCP tool calls running past two minutes now move to the background automatically, keeping the session usable. Tune the threshold with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MSPLANFIX — Fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands such as touch and rm without a permission prompt or an SDK canUseTool callbackSONNET5 — Claude Sonnet 5 is running on introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. After August 31 it moves to $3 and $15IPO — Bankers are reportedly lining up investor meetings for Anthropic ahead of a possible public listing as soon as October
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Claude Code/2026-06-25Intermediate

Higher Rate Limits Don't Mean Tighter Schedules — Spend the Headroom on 429 Recovery

When Claude Code's rate limits went up, the instinct was to pack the schedule tighter. Here's why I did the opposite and routed the new headroom into retry budget instead — a pacing note for unattended pipelines.

API & SDK/2026-04-26Intermediate

Decoding Claude's 'Spanner Temporarily Unavailable' Error and How to Handle It

The 'Spanner temporarily unavailable' error occasionally appears in Claude API and Claude.ai responses. This guide unpacks what the message reveals about Anthropic's infrastructure and walks through practical retry strategies that production teams actually use.