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OPUS48 — The default model on Bedrock, Vertex, and AWS is now Claude Opus 4.8. Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are also in the Messages API, with prompt caching and extended thinkingSTREAM — A Claude Code stability and quality update landed: subagent text over stream-json, stronger permission and hook handling, and better background-agent reportingFASTEND — Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is removed on July 24. After that, speed: 'fast' returns an error, so migrate to fast mode on Opus 4.8TEACH — Claude for Teachers is here, giving verified US K-12 educators free premium access, plus curriculum connections aligned to standards in all 50 states and new education connectorsFIX — The update fixes issues across Chrome, Windows, Bedrock, Vertex, hooks, and session recovery, and speeds up terminal renderingIPO — Bankers are reportedly lining up investor meetings for Anthropic ahead of a possible public listing as soon as OctoberOPUS48 — The default model on Bedrock, Vertex, and AWS is now Claude Opus 4.8. Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are also in the Messages API, with prompt caching and extended thinkingSTREAM — A Claude Code stability and quality update landed: subagent text over stream-json, stronger permission and hook handling, and better background-agent reportingFASTEND — Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is removed on July 24. After that, speed: 'fast' returns an error, so migrate to fast mode on Opus 4.8TEACH — Claude for Teachers is here, giving verified US K-12 educators free premium access, plus curriculum connections aligned to standards in all 50 states and new education connectorsFIX — The update fixes issues across Chrome, Windows, Bedrock, Vertex, hooks, and session recovery, and speeds up terminal renderingIPO — Bankers are reportedly lining up investor meetings for Anthropic ahead of a possible public listing as soon as October
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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.

API & SDK/2026-05-02Advanced

Building a Budget Circuit Breaker for Claude API in Production — Auto-Halt When Daily Token Spend Exceeds Your Cap

A practical guide to enforcing daily and monthly Claude API budget caps in production. Includes copy-paste Cloudflare Workers + KV / Durable Objects code, three response strategies (halt, degrade, alert), and the operational habits that keep the breaker honest.