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BILLING — The Jun 15 change is now live: Agent SDK, headless runs, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents leave subscription limits for separate monthly credits ($20/$100/$200) metered at full API rates, no rolloverRETIRED — As of today, Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 are retired from the API; scripts referencing older models should switch to the latest generation such as Opus 4.8EXPORT — Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are suspended for all foreign nationals under a US export-control directive (Jun 12); Anthropic calls it a misunderstanding and is working to restore accessSAFE — Only the two new Mythos-class models are affected; every other model including Opus 4.8 keeps running normallySUBAGENTS — Claude Code sub-agents can now spawn their own sub-agents (up to 5 levels), and Dynamic workflows arrived in research previewINCIDENT — A Jun 5 outage raised error rates across claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Cowork, a reminder to design retries and fallbacks into automated runsBILLING — The Jun 15 change is now live: Agent SDK, headless runs, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents leave subscription limits for separate monthly credits ($20/$100/$200) metered at full API rates, no rolloverRETIRED — As of today, Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 are retired from the API; scripts referencing older models should switch to the latest generation such as Opus 4.8EXPORT — Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are suspended for all foreign nationals under a US export-control directive (Jun 12); Anthropic calls it a misunderstanding and is working to restore accessSAFE — Only the two new Mythos-class models are affected; every other model including Opus 4.8 keeps running normallySUBAGENTS — Claude Code sub-agents can now spawn their own sub-agents (up to 5 levels), and Dynamic workflows arrived in research previewINCIDENT — A Jun 5 outage raised error rates across claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Cowork, a reminder to design retries and fallbacks into automated runs
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API & SDK/2026-06-15Intermediate

Letting Claude Read Live Pages: Implementing web_fetch Without the Footguns

How to pull the actual text of official pages and PDFs straight into Claude's context with the web_fetch tool. Covers the URL-validation rule that trips everyone up, the settings that keep token costs down, and why fetch errors arrive as HTTP 200 — based on what I hit running it in production.

Claude Code/2026-06-14Advanced

Before Per-PR CI Burns Through Your Monthly Credits: A Three-Layer Guard for Claude Code GitHub Actions

From June 15, Claude Code GitHub Actions bills against non-rolling monthly credits. Run a review on every PR and you can drain the month in the first week. Here is a three-layer guard — when to run, how heavy one run can get, and making spend visible — with working workflows.