The Clauders Journal
Signals from the Claude Code community.
Weekly field notes on releases, security boundaries, agent patterns, open-source projects, and the people building with Claude Code.
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What's Up Claude Code: Week of October 26th
A security-heavy week: a trojaned Claude Code extension in the Cursor Marketplace, new permission controls in v2.1.314, and the Opus 4.8 fast-mode removal date to plan around.
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Recent dispatches
What's Up Claude Code: Week of October 19th
Claude Code 2.1.309 and 2.1.310 tighten sandbox, MCP-config and hook boundaries, a 2.1.304 fix stops worktree exits from deleting unpushed branches, and two fresh bug reports show why unattended runs need checks outside the model's summary.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of October 12th
Claude Code's latest permission changes and fresh reports about hooks, worktrees, and Desktop make explicit boundary testing the week's essential engineering practice.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of October 5th
Claude Code 2.1.292 to 2.1.296 made failure boundaries the story: fail-closed hooks, unattended-run fixes, and a Haiku 5.5 alias that quietly changes model.
What's Up Claude Code: Week of September 28th
Sonnet 5.5 becomes the default API Sonnet, Claude Code mods open up deeper customization, and a run of permission-rule fixes makes verification and plugin trust especially timely.
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