Claude Code Review

Claude Code news and practical tips: what shipped, what changed, and how to use it in your own work.

Edition date: 2026-10-28

Chapters:
00:00 Self-hosted Claude Code runners can stay reserved until background work finishes
01:11 Claude Code CLI adds Tasks and Elicitations for MCP server plugins
01:59 Let a script answer Claude Code's multiple-choice questions while you're away
03:07 Test a rule that blocks risky commands against your own session history before trusting it
04:10 Swap slogans for specific lines in CLAUDE.md so Claude has less to guess

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-21

In this episode

• Hand a long coding job to Claude from your phone and let it keep running with your laptop closed
• Code Review leaves preview and reviews pull requests in repositories admins select
• Anthropic says it reworked code review to get Claude writing 90% of Claude Code
• Faster replies from Claude Code: compressed turns and cloud sessions that start while you type
• Claude Code now gives helper agents your full conversation by default when run from a script

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-15

Chapters:
00:00 Split one big goal into parallel cloud coding jobs that keep running with your laptop closed
01:19 Claude Design works inside Claude Code: type /design to get started
01:58 Claude Code compacts a long idle session before its one-hour cache expires
02:45 Stop paying to reprocess context when a subagent waits on tests or builds
03:32 Catch Claude Code when it says it edited a file but changed nothing

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-14

Chapters:
00:00 Claude Managed Agents enters public beta, letting one lead agent run work across many agents
01:09 Claude Code can now coordinate up to 1,000 agents in a single run
02:02 Claude Code cloud sessions keep long jobs running after you close your laptop
02:59 Claude Code 2.1.296 lets subagents compact context earlier and updates Sonnet 5.5 cache-read cost figures
03:43 Claude Max and Team plans now include monthly credits for running your own Claude-powered tools

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-12

Chapters:
00:00 Two handoff-file habits aim to keep Claude Code projects coherent across sessions
01:20 Claude Managed Agents can now write and run their own multi-agent workflows
02:19 Anthropic opens free security scans to the people who maintain open-source software
03:26 A walkthrough routes Claude Code searches and log reading to cheaper Haiku 5.5 helpers
04:27 Claude Code hooks can run a prompt proofreader every time, where a skill may be skipped

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-09

Chapters:
00:00 Anthropic is giving Claude Code Pro and Max subscribers a one-time cloud credit, claimable until October 7
01:22 Claude Code 2.1.291 fixes dropped permission answers and lost final messages
02:09 Claude Code can run each task on its own virtual computer, and a guide lists seven ways to use it
02:47 Sonnet 5.5 becomes Claude Code's default Sonnet at unchanged prices, but one test found it no cheaper than Opus
03:48 Claude Code v2.1.293 makes Haiku 5.5 the default Haiku model, with a 1M-token context

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-07

Chapters:
00:00 Anthropic is giving Claude Code Pro and Max subscribers a one-time cloud credit, claimable until October 7
01:12 Claude Code 2.1.291 fixes dropped permission answers and lost final messages
01:51 A Claude Code helper agent deleted a 116GB Windows home folder through a short-name alias, a user reports
02:54 Senzu, a free Claude Code add-on, uses hooks to block real API keys in code and risky commands
03:43 Claude Code mods: official examples, a 20-line safety guard and a Pokemon pet

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-05

Chapters:
00:00 Anthropic adds mods to Claude Code, letting you change how it behaves and looks with add-on code
01:07 Claude Code command flags old instructions that Opus 5.5 no longer needs
02:08 Claude Code 2.1.289 closes gaps in shell permission rules and fixes terminal freezes
03:12 Claude Code Projects gives each request its own agent, and the main chat defaults to Low effort
03:58 Claude Code 2.1.288 lets mods read selected text and restores prompts cleared with Ctrl+C

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-02

Chapters:
00:00 Claude Code adds a desktop launch command and an admin limit on which providers a machine may use
01:07 Claude Code's tool search cut a 65-tool setup's first request by 64%, but it switches off behind a proxy
02:10 Claude Code lists a package's own skill only after the Read tool opens a file there, not after cat
03:02 OpenAI's plugin lets Codex review and take over work inside Claude Code
03:58 Claude Code reads AGENTS.md, so one instruction file can serve Claude Code and Codex

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-30

Chapters:
00:00 Sonnet 5.5 costs half as much as Opus 5.5 and beats it on one coding test, but hands-on builds still favor Opus
00:59 Claude Code's read-only safety check could be tricked into approving commands that run attacker code
02:03 Claude Code now starts sessions in auto mode as its plan-first setting loses its job
02:57 Running Claude Code without a live session used about 3x more of the 5-hour limit in one test
03:41 Some tool servers connect to Claude Code but show zero tools after a 30-second timeout

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-28

Chapters:
00:00 Claude Code adds a hard block for pricey models, but most controls still let them through
00:59 Claude Code can now click through your app to prove a change actually works
01:59 Claude Code's cloud sessions exit preview with a one-time credit
02:51 DaVinci Resolve lets Claude Code and Codex take over video editing
03:39 Claude Code skips project instructions when usage-data sharing is off

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-25

Chapters:
00:00 Anthropic cut Claude Code's weekly usage limit 17% right before Projects launched
00:56 Why Claude Code loses details mid-task, and how developers are working around it
01:53 Agit brings Git-style save points and branches to Claude Code chats
02:49 How Agent Skills can stop Claude Code from breaking old .NET and Vue apps
03:42 A new tool browser-tests every page Claude Code builds, with no AI model involved

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-23

Chapters:
00:00 Opus 5.5 lands in Claude Code, matching rival models at a lower price
01:15 Everything Claude Code's planner and reviewer agents can vet payment code before it ships
02:08 OpenAI ships a Codex plugin that reviews code inside Claude Code
02:59 A hook stops Claude Code from installing exploited Python packages
03:50 CodeGraph beat Graphify and cut Claude Code's token use 35% in a head-to-head build test

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-16

Chapters:
00:00 Anthropic details how Claude-assisted development reshaped its CI system
01:15 Claude Code 2.1.267 adds effort caps and per-request instruction updates
02:17 Claude Code 2.1.268 adds gateway controls and JSON plugin management
03:22 Claude Code 2.1.273 lets remote-control sessions fork locally
04:19 Claude Code 2.1.271 brings fast mode to remote sessions

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Chapters:
00:00 Hackathon winner open-sources a 181-skill Claude Code plugin
01:21 Paper's MCP server lets Claude Code copy design tokens straight from mockups
02:21 Phone Harness lets Claude Code tap real phones to test mobile apps
03:18 Claude Mem gives coding agents persistent memory across sessions
04:18 Blume watches your coding sessions and turns fixes into repo rules

Claude Code Review · https://claudecodereview.ai