Anthropic is making Claude Code and Claude Cowork available to US government agencies through a FedRAMP-High-certified desktop application to support software modernization and administrative tasks.
Model selection determines the available intelligence, while effort level controls how intensively Claude works—such as how many files are read, tests executed, and steps processed.
Vera automates security testing for autonomous AI agents through a three-stage process of risk discovery, combinatorial generation, and evidence-based verification, uncovering critical security flaws in production agent frameworks.
Alberta reviewed 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours using Claude and fixed vulnerabilities that would have taken conventional methods 6.5 years to address.
Claude Sonnet 5 with 1M token context becomes the default model in Claude Code 2.1.197 and costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens during the promotional phase.
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.
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.
