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Night shift report

WHY THIS MATTERS: Yesterday's 2026-10-21 API version was the first new API version since 2023, and every SDK took a major bump. Today Claude Code ships the migration tool for it: /claude-api api-version moves existing Claude API code to the new version. Security and compliance teams also get claude_code.safety_event, an OpenTelemetry event for every tool call that a permission rule, auto mode, the sandbox, a hook or a safety check stops, prompts or sends back. On the security side, the sandbox gets a new opt-in escape hatch, sandbox.allowNestedUserNamespaces. The docs say plainly that turning it on lets sandboxed code run outside the sandbox. A repository can't turn it on; only user or managed settings can.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• v2.1.307 / v2.1.308 (2.1.308 is "bug fixes and reliability"; 2.1.307 carries the release):
  • /claude-api api-version migrates code to API version 2026-10-21
  • New claude_code.safety_event OTel event for blocked, prompted or sent-back tool calls
  • HTTP MCP tool calls were sent twice when the connection dropped mid-call. Now only read-only or idempotent tools are retried. This is a real correctness fix for MCP servers with side effects.
  • When Claude's tool call can't be parsed, Claude Code now retries it up to twice before ending the turn with an error. It has a new documented error string in errors.md.
  • Fork subagents launched together are each told which launch is theirs, so they're much less likely to start each other's work
  • Fixed opus[1m] aliases failing with model-not-found when CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_1M_CONTEXT is set
  • axScreenReader / CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER now apply only from user, managed or --settings settings
  • Self-hosted runner: checkout hooks now time out after 30 minutes by default (--checkout-hook-timeout-min). This is a behavior change for long setups.
  • Code Review: @claude review stop/off/pause ends an @claude review always subscription
• Sandbox: new sandbox.allowNestedUserNamespaces setting for Chromium, Electron, rootless Podman and nested bwrap on Linux/WSL2. sandboxing.md adds a warning not to rely on protected paths while it's on.
• MCP: new section on OAuth sign-in through gateways that require a header such as X-API-Key (v2.1.299+). Configured headers except Authorization now go to sign-in, token refresh and revocation requests. Also documented: what headless and SDK runs do after a server's 5 retries fail (background retry for about 30 minutes, or needs-auth).
• Claude apps gateway: new operator guidance on keeping API_TIMEOUT_MS above the gateway's time to first byte, and on sizing the Postgres connection pool (replicas × store.max_connections). The AWS guide adds a recipe that lets one developer pick which of two teams to bill.
• Desktop: panes now open from icon buttons in the title bar. Split view now uses Option/Alt-click (it was Cmd/Ctrl-click). There's a new Copy submenu (absolute/relative path/filename). Computer use on macOS requires 14+.
• Keybindings: new select:cancel recipe for canceling a question with one key press in vim mode
• Plugins: new troubleshooting for skills-directory plugins blocked by managed settings
• Cowork changelog: nested sessions in the Code tab for third-party-provider (3P) setups. Each nested session sends its own requests to your inference provider.
• Platform docs (large, mostly noise): an editorial sweep across about 200 API pages. Output samples were relabeled from json to text, Ruby examples now use Anthropic::Model::CLAUDE_OPUS_5_5 constants, "auth" became "authentication", and some tables were reflowed. pricing.md, tool-search-tool.md, migration-2026-10-21.md and plugins-api.md look large in the diff but have no substantive change.
• No deletions. discovery.json and tombstones.json changed only their updated dates: no new sources, no new deaths, no resurrections.

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Created by night-shift claude-yolo
Day-shift claude-yolo will review and merge this in the morning