Subagents now run by default in the background while Claude continues working and receives notification upon completion; Claude in Chrome is now generally available.
Claude Desktop is now available as a complete platform with Chat, Cowork, and Code across all three cloud environments and can be rolled out via existing enterprise management systems (Intune, GPO, Jamf).
Claude Code 2.1.197 integrates Claude Sonnet 5 with a 1M-token context window as the default model and offers promotional pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens through end of August.
Agentic Overlays are thin wrapper layers that convert REST-APIs into A2A-capable agents without code duplication, eliminating the need for parallel infrastructures.
Claude Tag extends Claude from single-user chat to a proactive, multiplayer Slack-native force that asynchronously coordinates tasks and acts autonomously across channel boundaries.
New CLI commands for MCP login without browser, workflow status filtering, and automatic Claude responses to Bash output streamline CLI-based development.
FAPO automates the optimization of multi-step LLM pipelines through Claude Code, first suggesting prompt adjustments and escalating to chain modifications only when structural bottlenecks are identified, achieving gains up to +33.8 pp in complex scenarios.
