●MODEL — Claude Sonnet 5 is now the default model across all plans, the most agentic Sonnet yet●PRICE — Sonnet 5 launches at $2/$10 per million tokens, available through August 31●CODE — Claude Code adopts Sonnet 5 by default with a native 1M-token context window●GATEWAY — A self-hosted Claude apps gateway arrives for Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud (SSO, policy, cost)●CHROME — Claude in Chrome is now generally available with background notifications and draft PR handoff●ENTERPRISE — Enterprise gains richer admin analytics, model-level entitlements, and spend alerts●MODEL — Claude Sonnet 5 is now the default model across all plans, the most agentic Sonnet yet●PRICE — Sonnet 5 launches at $2/$10 per million tokens, available through August 31●CODE — Claude Code adopts Sonnet 5 by default with a native 1M-token context window●GATEWAY — A self-hosted Claude apps gateway arrives for Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud (SSO, policy, cost)●CHROME — Claude in Chrome is now generally available with background notifications and draft PR handoff●ENTERPRISE — Enterprise gains richer admin analytics, model-level entitlements, and spend alerts

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A 1M Context Window Is the New Default — So I Built an Admission Policy Instead of Filling It

Sonnet 5 is now the Claude Code default and native 1M context is standard. The hard errors disappeared, but a quieter kind of degradation took their place. Here is how I made it visible with a probe, plus an admission policy and an effective-token-cost view — with working code and my own measurements.