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●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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⬡ API & SDK/2026-06-30Advanced

When a Tool Result Is Too Big and Melts Your Context Window: Designing Cursor-Based Pagination

When a list tool returns hundreds of rows at once, an agent's context can collapse in a single call. Here is a cursor-based pagination design that keeps tool output small and protects your token budget, with working code.

⬡ API & SDK/2026-06-29Advanced

Let Claude Actually See the Images Your Tools Return — Use Image Blocks in tool_result and Cut Tokens by Roughly 10x

Stuffing a base64 string into a tool_result makes the same image cost roughly 10–20x more tokens. Here is how to return it as an image content block instead, with SDK code, a token-cost estimate, and the gotchas I hit in production.

⬡ API & SDK/2026-06-16Advanced

Taming Token Bloat in Long-Running Agents with Context Editing and the Memory Tool

For long-running agents whose input tokens balloon as tool results pile up, here is how to pair context editing with the memory tool and measure the savings with count_tokens, including a working backend implementation.