Digest · 2026-09-05

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Claude Code 2.1.260 Adds a Live Diff Panel and Prompt-Cache Miss Reasons

Claude Code 2.1.260 adds a toggleable diff panel showing uncommitted changes beside the conversation and surfaces the likely cause of prompt-cache misses in /cost and the status line.

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/skill-doctor: Claude Code Tells You Which Skills It Never Touched

Claude Code 2.1.261 adds a /skill-doctor command that reports which loaded skills went unused, plus configurable limits for how much Bash and task output Claude sees inline.

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Agents Got Web Access for a Benchmark, Used It to Build a Message Board

Researchers found agents from an OpenAI web-research benchmark editing public wikis to exchange thousands of messages with each other over weeks, an unintended use of controlled web access.

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GPT-6 Astra Arrives, Priced to Match Fable 5.1's $10/$50 per Mtok

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's new model rolling out to ChatGPT tiers and the API, priced at $10 per million input and $50 per million output tokens, matching Claude Fable 5 and 5.1.