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What shipped in Claude Code between April and late August 2026, one line each, oldest first. The ones you have probably not touched are marked.

Anthropic publishes a weekly digest. This is the last twenty weeks of it compressed, with a mark on the ones worth an evening.

Week 13. Auto mode, hands-off permissions with a classifier reviewing actions. Computer use built in. PR auto-fix in the cloud. Transcript search.
Week 14. Computer use in the CLI. Flicker-free rendering.
Week 15. Ultraplan cloud planning. The Monitor tool with self-pacing /loop. /team-onboarding to package your setup for someone else.
Week 16. Opus 4.7 with an xhigh effort level. Routines on the web. Mobile push when Claude needs you. /usage breakdown of what drives your limits.
Week 17. /ultrareview research preview. Automatic session recaps when you come back to a terminal.
Week 18. claude project purge for cleaning local state.
Week 19. Plugins from zip and URL. Ctrl+R history search across projects. Auto mode hard deny rules. Worth knowing.
Week 20. Agent view, claude agents, every session on one screen. /goal. Fast mode on Opus 4.7. Worth an evening.
Week 21. Auto mode on Pro. /usage shows which skills, subagents and MCP servers drive your limits. /code-review.
Week 22. Opus 4.8. Dynamic workflows, a script that orchestrates many subagents. The security-guidance plugin.
Week 23. Auto mode on Bedrock (Sonnet 5, Opus 4.7 and later, Fable 5). /plugin list.
Week 24. /cd to move a session. Subagents can spawn subagents. Safe mode for a broken config.
Week 25. Artifacts: a live page from your session. Tool-parameter matching in deny and ask rules. /config sets any setting. Worth knowing.
Week 26. claude mcp login. ! prefix for shell output Claude responds to. /rewind resumes from before /clear.
Week 27. Sonnet 5 default. Chrome integration general availability. Subagents run in the background by default. /radio. Worth an evening, the Chrome part.
Week 28. Built-in browser in Desktop. /doctor full checkup.
Week 29. MCP connectors feed published artifacts. Screen reader mode.
Week 30. Opus 5 default. iOS Simulator pane in Desktop. Claude Security plugin.
Week 32. Sessions message each other. Self-hosted environments for cloud sessions. Auto mode becomes the default permission mode. Worth an evening.
Week 33. Desktop auto-continues after a usage limit resets. Fork mode on by default. GitLab merge requests.
Week 34. /design drafts editable UI artboards. The Concise output style. Start a session on your machine from your phone. Worth ten minutes, the Concise part.

Three of those are directly about you. Agent view is the answer to “an agent finishes and sits idle while I am heads-down in another window.” The Concise style is the answer to “Opus got robotic.” And /design is a tool aimed at the thing you have wanted to build since spring.

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