Digest · 2026-08-20

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Claude Code 2.1.237 Ships a Concise Output Style and Fixes Gateway Caching

Claude Code 2.1.237 adds a built-in Concise output style that skips preamble and narration while doing the same work, and fixes prompt caching for sessions using an LLM gateway or custom base URL.

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Claude Code 2.1.236 Locks Down .env Reads Even If You Rename the File

Claude Code 2.1.236 adds an ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL variable that only sets the starting model for new sessions, and closes a macOS sandbox gap where renaming a denied file could bypass wildcard read-deny rules.

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Simon Willison Sent Claude to Stress-Test smolmachines' Security Claims

smolmachines and its smolvm sandbox are a fast, security-focused environment for running untrusted Python and JavaScript, evaluated by Simon Willison for RAM and CPU-time limits against infinite-loop abuse.