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Claude Code will now try to find a graceful stopping point when you hit your 5-hour limit mid-task, instead of cutting off mid-edit. It gets a small, fixed allowance pulled from your weekly limit to wrap up what it can.

Claude can now help you build evaluations and hillclimb on them. In this article, we share guidance on eval design & skills that Claude Code can use to improve your applications. https://claude.dev/blog/automating-eval-design-and-hillclimbing/

Today, we'll resume charging for requests our safeguards block before Claude responds. This only applies in categories with low false positive rates: biology, distillation attacks, and frontier LLM development. We've seen some coordinated attacks on our systems in recent weeks, and this is one layer of defense. In recent testing, 99.7% of accounts using Claude Code, Claude​.ai, or Cowork did not hit any of these newly "billable blocks." The classifiers behind the blocks we’re resuming charging for today are tuned to have a <0.1% false positive rate. We know that's not 0%, and we're going to keep improving them so they interrupt your work less often. If you think a request has been blocked incorrectly, please report it with /feedback in Claude Code. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/refusals-and-fallback#how-refusals-are-billed

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is out! We wrote a guide for building with it: • choosing between Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 • migrating from Sonnet 5 and tuning effort • using it in Claude Code https://claude.dev/blog/building-with-claude-sonnet-5-5/

It’s now easier to build plugins for Claude. We built a new portal to submit your plugin, track review, and see usage. Plugins package MCP and skills, and are becoming the way to build for Claude. MCP usage across Claude products is up 110x this year! https://claude.com/blog/build-plugins-for-claude

Opus 5.5 is 20% cheaper per input and output token than Opus 5, and 60% cheaper on cache reads. So what does that actually do to the cost of a task in Claude Code? We ran the numbers, and built a calculator so you can run yours from /usage: https://claude.dev/blog/what-a-task-costs-on-opus-5-5/

Sonnet 5.5 is smarter, more efficient, and 30% faster than Sonnet 5. It costs up to 30% less for most work, so your Claude Code usage goes further too. Use it for well-scoped everyday tasks like fixing bugs and quickly iterating on features.

Claude FM 🎵 music for thinking and building https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YGNrbqpRvNGw

Monthly API credits are now available on Max and Team plans: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x, and up to $500 pooled on Team. Use them on any Claude model. How it works and full terms: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17154008-monthly-api-credits-for-max-and-team-plans

You can now mod Claude Code: - Change how it behaves - Customize the UI - Swap in your own features Write one with a few lines of TypeScript, or have Claude build it for you. Mods ship inside plugins, so you install them with /plugin in the CLI or desktop app. A few examples:

We're adding a new plugin to Claude Code: You should Know. It scans Claude's output for important information you might miss to help keep you in the loop. Enable it with: /plugin enable cc-plugin-you-should-know@builtin

ICYMI we've cut the price of Sonnet 5.5 cache reads in half. In the Claude Platform, it's now $0.10 per million tokens (input is $2, output is $10). This means Sonnet 5.5 now runs ~20% cheaper on most agentic work. (API only, no change to Claude Code usage limits.)