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Agent View Lands as Research Preview

Run claude agents to see every Claude Code session you have going -- running, blocked on input, or done -- in a single list. The dashboard is meant for juggling parallel work across multiple repos, and the same release adds flags like --add-dir, --settings, --mcp-config, --plugin-dir, --permission-mode, --model, --effort, and --dangerously-skip-permissions to configure sessions you dispatch from it. See the agent view announcement and the docs for details.

Worth Knowing

Fast Mode Now Defaults to Opus 4.7

Fast mode has been upgraded from Opus 4.6 to Opus 4.7. If you want to stay on 4.6, set CLAUDE_CODE_OPUS_4_6_FAST_MODE_OVERRIDE=1.

New /goal Command Runs Until a Condition Is Met

/goal lets you set a completion condition and Claude will keep working across turns until it's satisfied, with live elapsed time, turn count, and token usage in an overlay panel. It works in interactive mode, -p, and Remote Control.

Plugins Get Dependency Enforcement and Cost Estimates

claude plugin disable now refuses if another enabled plugin depends on the target (with a copy-pasteable disable-chain hint), and claude plugin enable force-enables transitive dependencies. The /plugin marketplace browse pane and claude plugin details <name> now show projected per-turn and per-invocation token cost, so you can see what a plugin will cost your context budget before installing.

Background Sessions Now Preserve Their Configuration

Background sessions launched via /bg or ←← now keep your model, effort level, permission mode, --fallback-model, --mcp-config, --settings, --add-dir, --plugin-dir, and --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions across retire and wake cycles. Previously a backgrounded worker could quietly drop MCP servers or revert to default permissions after going idle.

Rewind Menu Can Summarize Up to a Point

The rewind menu has a new "Summarize up to here" action that compresses earlier conversation history while leaving recent turns intact. Useful when a long session is bumping into the context limit but you still want the last few turns verbatim.

PowerShell Tool Default On for Windows Cloud Users

The PowerShell tool is now on by default for Windows users on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, and it invokes PowerShell with -ExecutionPolicy Bypass so signed-script restrictions don't block tool calls. Opt out of the tool with CLAUDE_CODE_USE_POWERSHELL_TOOL=0 or restore the previous execution-policy behavior with CLAUDE_CODE_POWERSHELL_RESPECT_EXECUTION_POLICY=1.

Under the Hood

MCP Reliability and Timeout Fixes

MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT now actually raises the per-request fetch timeout for remote HTTP and SSE servers (previously capped at 60s regardless of config), HTTP/SSE servers returning 403 now show as "needs auth" instead of "failed", and SSE responses are capped at 16 MB per frame to stop unbounded memory growth from misbehaving servers. POSIX shell parameter expansions like ${var%pattern} in .mcp.json no longer trip the missing-env-var check.

Background Daemon and Worktree Safety Fixes

Worktree cleanup no longer falls back to rm -rf when git worktree remove fails, which previously could wipe gitignored or in-progress files. The background daemon also handles macOS sleep/wake correctly (clock jumps no longer look like elapsed idle time), and background sessions on macOS can now read files under ~/Documents, ~/Desktop, and ~/Downloads when Full Disk Access is granted.

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