⬡ API & SDK/2026-07-08Advanced
Rolling Out Agent Behavior Changes Gradually with Feature Flags
When an unattended agent changes its prompt or behavior all at once, quiet regressions hide until morning. Here is a design for assigning new behavior to only a fraction of runs, keeping a control group, and adding deterministic bucketing, canary comparison, and automatic rollback.
⬡ API & SDK/2026-07-05Intermediate
Don't Let the Opus 4.7 Fast Mode Retirement (July 24) Kill Your Unattended Jobs
claude-opus-4-7 fast mode retires on 2026-07-24, and speed: fast starts throwing errors. Here's how to keep unattended pipelines from breaking silently: mechanically detect where fast mode is used, add a fail-closed runtime guard, and migrate to 4.8 with working code.