●QUOTA — The 50 percent weekly usage boost for Claude Code subscribers ends August 19. One day left to front-load any heavy parallel work●PRICING — Claude Sonnet 5's introductory rate of $2 per million input tokens and $10 output ends August 31; standard pricing of $3 and $15 takes over on September 1●MIGRATION — The legacy Workbench and the experimental prompt tool APIs retired on August 17. Anything that depended on them now needs a hand-rolled equivalent on the Messages API●GOVERNMENT — Claude for Government is in beta. Anthropic remains the contracting and billing party, so agencies can start without a separate cloud provider relationship●PROVENANCE — Claude models released from August 2 onward embed a machine-readable watermark in generated text. It applies worldwide rather than only in the EU, with no stated effect on quality, speed, or price●CLI — v2.1.233 adds memory cgroup support for Bash tool commands on Linux, so CLAUDE_CODE_TOOL_MEMORY_LIMIT keeps a runaway build from stalling the session●QUOTA — The 50 percent weekly usage boost for Claude Code subscribers ends August 19. One day left to front-load any heavy parallel work●PRICING — Claude Sonnet 5's introductory rate of $2 per million input tokens and $10 output ends August 31; standard pricing of $3 and $15 takes over on September 1●MIGRATION — The legacy Workbench and the experimental prompt tool APIs retired on August 17. Anything that depended on them now needs a hand-rolled equivalent on the Messages API●GOVERNMENT — Claude for Government is in beta. Anthropic remains the contracting and billing party, so agencies can start without a separate cloud provider relationship●PROVENANCE — Claude models released from August 2 onward embed a machine-readable watermark in generated text. It applies worldwide rather than only in the EU, with no stated effect on quality, speed, or price●CLI — v2.1.233 adds memory cgroup support for Bash tool commands on Linux, so CLAUDE_CODE_TOOL_MEMORY_LIMIT keeps a runaway build from stalling the session

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⟐ Claude Code/2026-08-17Advanced

Now that forking is the default, review agents are the ones I still call by name

Subagent forking became the default, so delegated work now inherits the parent conversation. Work can inherit context. Judgment cannot. Here is how I declare that boundary in the repository and catch it drifting.

⟐ Claude Code/2026-07-04Advanced

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.