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VERSION — v2.1.227 landed on August 10 with no new features, just fixes around plan detection and CI behaviorAUTO — Two days remain until August 14, when auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and TeamCI — Bash commands no longer fail across the board under claude-code-action with allowed_non_write_users on GitHub-hosted runnersBILLING — Sessions started with an expired token could misread your plan and nudge Max users toward usage credits; that is now fixedSUNSET — The legacy Workbench and the experimental prompt tool APIs retire on August 17, five days outPRICE — Sonnet 5 promo pricing at $2/$10 per Mtok runs through August 31, moving to $3/$15 on September 1VERSION — v2.1.227 landed on August 10 with no new features, just fixes around plan detection and CI behaviorAUTO — Two days remain until August 14, when auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and TeamCI — Bash commands no longer fail across the board under claude-code-action with allowed_non_write_users on GitHub-hosted runnersBILLING — Sessions started with an expired token could misread your plan and nudge Max users toward usage credits; that is now fixedSUNSET — The legacy Workbench and the experimental prompt tool APIs retire on August 17, five days outPRICE — Sonnet 5 promo pricing at $2/$10 per Mtok runs through August 31, moving to $3/$15 on September 1
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API & SDK/2026-06-15Advanced

On the day the billing change took effect, I added per-stage cost metering to my headless runs

The June 15 billing change moved headless runs and agent delegation onto monthly credits. Here is a thin metering layer that records token usage per stage tag from response.usage and emits a daily cost report, with working code.