●VERSION — v2.1.227 landed on August 10 with no new features, just fixes around plan detection and CI behavior●AUTO — Two days remain until August 14, when auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team●CI — Bash commands no longer fail across the board under claude-code-action with allowed_non_write_users on GitHub-hosted runners●BILLING — Sessions started with an expired token could misread your plan and nudge Max users toward usage credits; that is now fixed●SUNSET — The legacy Workbench and the experimental prompt tool APIs retire on August 17, five days out●PRICE — Sonnet 5 promo pricing at $2/$10 per Mtok runs through August 31, moving to $3/$15 on September 1●VERSION — v2.1.227 landed on August 10 with no new features, just fixes around plan detection and CI behavior●AUTO — Two days remain until August 14, when auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team●CI — Bash commands no longer fail across the board under claude-code-action with allowed_non_write_users on GitHub-hosted runners●BILLING — Sessions started with an expired token could misread your plan and nudge Max users toward usage credits; that is now fixed●SUNSET — The legacy Workbench and the experimental prompt tool APIs retire on August 17, five days out●PRICE — Sonnet 5 promo pricing at $2/$10 per Mtok runs through August 31, moving to $3/$15 on September 1

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When Paying Users Still See Ads: Collapsing the Ad-Free Check Into One Place

A user who paid to remove ads still sees them. The cause is rarely a missing flag — it is a check that lives in too many places. Here is how I inventoried every ad call with Claude Code and folded the decision into a single gate.