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Claude Code: Mods Let Plugins Rewrite Prompts, UI and Built-in Features

Anthropic launched Claude Mods on October 1, 2026, letting plugins ship small TypeScript functions that hook into Claude Code events. A mod can rewrite prompts, block or retry tool calls, answer permission requests, redact tool output and replace interface elements. Some built-in features, such as /diff, now ship as mods, and a first built-in mod called You should know runs a side agent that flags things the user or Claude might miss.

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Claude Code: Shell Write Safeguards Tightened for rm, Symlinks and Credential Files

Claude Code 2.1.287 closes several gaps where shell commands could write outside what the user approved. A dangerous rm no longer loses its always-ask safeguard when it also redirects output to a home or wildcard path, writes through repo-committed symlinks now wait for a person, and broad Bash allow rules no longer let shell writes reach credential files that Claude's file tools refuse.

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Base44 Workspace Members Can Auto-Join Your App

Base44 added collaboration settings that let builders choose between **Workspace members** and **Invited only** access for an app. With **Workspace members**, teammates in the workspace get access automatically.

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GitHub Copilot: HydraFusion Multi-Model Orchestration in VS Code and the Copilot App

GitHub expanded **HydraFusion**, its research preview for **multi-model orchestration**, from Copilot CLI to **Visual Studio Code** and the **GitHub Copilot app**. Instead of acting as a single model, HydraFusion picks a **Single, Cascade, or Critique workflow** for each task and coordinates models from different providers within one turn. The expansion adds clearer visibility into each workflow step and more frequent progress updates during long tasks. It is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise subscribers.

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Figma Motion: Custom Styles, Audio, Text Animations and Lottie Export

Figma expanded **Motion**, its native animation tool, with **custom animation styles**, **audio on the timeline**, **per-character text animation** and **Lottie and dotLottie export**. Teams can now save and publish reusable animation patterns to libraries, sync sound against keyframes, and hand off portable animation files. The update is available in open beta.

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Figma Community Riffs: Share Ideas and Animations

Figma introduced **Community riffs**, a lightweight way to post ideas, animations, prototypes and experiments to the **Figma Community** and to personal Community profiles. Riffs let designers share work in progress straight from the canvas and build a creative portfolio inside Figma.

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Claude Code VS Code Extension Adds Bookmarks, Question History and Option Previews

Claude Code 2.1.286 adds four conversation features to its VS Code extension: bookmarks for saving Claude's responses, a record of the questions Claude asks and the answers given, option previews on question cards, and expandable rows showing the terminal output, browser tabs and selected code sent with a message. The release also changes Stop and Escape in VS Code so they end only the current turn while background agents keep running.

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Claude Code Redesigns Permission Prompts With Stacked Counts and Clearer Command Display

Claude Code 2.1.286 shows a count such as "2 of 5" when several permission requests stack up, and restyles permission prompts so they match the look of file edit prompts. Bash, PowerShell and Monitor prompts now show the command between dashed lines, making the exact text being approved easier to read.

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Claude Code Tightens Secret Redaction in Logs, Transcripts and MCP Errors

Claude Code 2.1.286 closes several gaps where credentials could still appear in MCP error messages, logs, transcripts and the `/feedback` bundle. Fixes cover Bearer and Basic values placed before their key name, percent-encoded tokens, secrets with invisible characters in the key, and URL passwords containing punctuation. A related fix in 2.1.285 handled passwords containing `@` or written as `%40`.

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Figma Mobile: Page Navigation, Frame Export and Shareable Links

Figma updated its **mobile app** with a **page dropdown**, a **frame preview slider** and **shareable links** to specific pages or frames. Users can now **export individual frames and images** to their phone with format and size options, and the app **resumes exactly where the user left off**.

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Claude Code Falls Back to the Previous Model When the API Refuses Your Default

Claude Code 2.1.286 stops turns from failing outright when the Anthropic API refuses the model a default or alias resolves to: it now retries once on the previous model of the same tier. Fallback retries run at standard speed when the fallback cannot run fast, and notices now say when a fallback shrinks the context window from 1M to 200K tokens.

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GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding Performance at One-Fifth the Price

OpenAI launched **GPT-6.1 Sol** on September 29, 2026, bringing near-**GPT-6 Astra** performance to Codex and ChatGPT Work at about one-fifth of Astra's token price ($2 input, $10 output per million tokens). It matches Astra on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark and cuts factual error rates from 11.4% to 7.7% at low reasoning effort. Codex CLI 0.159.1 made it the default model in the bundled and Bedrock catalogs the same day.

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Codex CLI: Instant Interrupt Steering & Compact Welcome Screen

Codex CLI 0.159.0 added an opt-in **`instant_interrupt`** setting that lets new input steer Codex immediately during model responses or long-running code-mode calls. The release also introduced a **compact welcome screen**, richer native **Mermaid** diagram rendering and transcript scrolling while reviewing plans. Fixes cover stray Windows console windows, Markdown-preserving copy and drafts kept when switching tasks.

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GitHub Copilot: GPT-6.1 Sol Now Generally Available

GitHub made OpenAI's **GPT-6.1 Sol** generally available in GitHub Copilot. The model is aimed at **agentic coding and terminal workflows**, with strong multistep coding performance and noticeably fewer tokens and steps than earlier models. It is rolling out gradually to Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users across most Copilot surfaces, billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing.

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Windsurf: GPT-6.1 Sol Now Available in Devin Desktop and CLI

Windsurf's Devin now offers **GPT-6.1 Sol** in **Devin Desktop** and the **Devin CLI**. The model matches GPT-6 Sol's **60.4% FrontierCode 1.1 score** while costing **44% to 57% less** across reasoning effort levels. At medium effort a task costs about **$0.31**, down from $1.66, and the low effort setting posts the highest score of any model under $0.30 per task on the leaderboard.

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