●PRICING — September 1 was the scheduled date for the Sonnet 5 price increase, and it did not happen. The introductory $2/$10 per MTok now stands as the regular price●PARTNER — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded partnership. The Salesforce in Claude plugin ships with 37 prebuilt sales skills, from meeting prep to pipeline management●TRUST — Claudeforce serves Claude through Amazon Bedrock inside the Salesforce Trust Boundary, so data and inference never leave the security perimeter — an answer aimed squarely at regulated industries●BETA — Salesforce in Claude is with select pilot customers for now, with an open beta expected during September●LIMITS — The 50% weekly-limit boost runs through September 13. From September 14 the permanent level is 25% above the pre-promotion baseline, roughly a 17% cut from today●RELEASE — Claude Code has shipped nothing since v2.1.251 on August 28. Against a pace of one release every 0.8 days, a four-day gap is among the longest yet●PRICING — September 1 was the scheduled date for the Sonnet 5 price increase, and it did not happen. The introductory $2/$10 per MTok now stands as the regular price●PARTNER — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded partnership. The Salesforce in Claude plugin ships with 37 prebuilt sales skills, from meeting prep to pipeline management●TRUST — Claudeforce serves Claude through Amazon Bedrock inside the Salesforce Trust Boundary, so data and inference never leave the security perimeter — an answer aimed squarely at regulated industries●BETA — Salesforce in Claude is with select pilot customers for now, with an open beta expected during September●LIMITS — The 50% weekly-limit boost runs through September 13. From September 14 the permanent level is 25% above the pre-promotion baseline, roughly a 17% cut from today●RELEASE — Claude Code has shipped nothing since v2.1.251 on August 28. Against a pace of one release every 0.8 days, a four-day gap is among the longest yet

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⟐ Claude Code/2026-08-08Advanced

Same Content, Different SHA-256: Making Pinned Plugin Archives Reproducible

Plugins can now be installed from an HTTPS zip with an optional SHA-256 pin. Building the same tree twice produced archives that differed in 50 bytes out of 22,669 and broke the pin every time. Here is the byte-level measurement and a packaging recipe that produced an identical hash 20 times out of 20.

◈ Cowork/2026-07-17Advanced

It Worked on My Machine, but Nobody Could Trigger It — Four Assumptions I Stripped Out of a Cowork Plugin

I bundled four working automation skills into a plugin and shared it. Only one of them ever fired. Here is how I measured skill trigger rate, and the four assumptions — vocabulary, paths, connections, and naming — I had to strip out before it was portable.