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OpenAI Agents API adds auto review, background compaction and automatic system-prompt caching
An OpenAI engineer on the Agents API team listed the week's changes; the OpenAI Developers account posted a pointer to the same list. According to that post:Anthropic confirms a Claude Code prompt change to stop Opus 5.5 recreating specific games
Anthropic has confirmed that it added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer the model away from recreating a specific existing game. Game Developer reported it on October 30.
OpenCode Go raises its DeepSeek V4.1 Flash quota to $100 of usage
OpenCode posted "Operation Cheepseek Phase 4": its OpenCode Go subscription now includes $100 of usage for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. The post does not say what the quota was before or whether it applies to every plan.OpenCode 2.2.3 adds an image generation tool
The OpenCode account said on X on October 30 that OpenCode 2.2.3 has an image generation tool that supports image models from OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and others. It suggests using it for concept UI or reference art for video games.
OpenCode says you can sign in with a Claude subscription again
The OpenCode account announced on X on October 30 that users can now use their Claude subscription in OpenCode, linking a demo video from Daniel Smolsky ("subscriptions in @opencode are back"). The post had about 861 points and 68 comments on X within the hour.
Cloudflare can send alerts straight to Slack, email or coding agents
Cloudflare says alerts about metric spikes, DDoS attacks and more can now be sent directly to Slack, email, or to Claude Code, Cursor and Devin. The setup is described in the Workers Observability documentation under issue automations. The change comes as a Cloudflare team rebuilds the company's notifications and alerting experience, starting with a new alerts interface in the dashboard under Observability → Alerts.A trojanized Claude Code extension was served from Cursor's extension marketplace
Cursor says it identified a security incident involving a modified Claude Code VS Code extension distributed through its extension marketplace, affecting at most 5,000 users. Cursor says the malicious version was not developed by Anthropic and that no other extension is affected.Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 puts Gemini 4 Carbon at 40%, behind Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Claude Sonnet 5.5
Cognition, the maker of Devin, evaluated Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon on FrontierCode 2.0, its coding benchmark that measures a model's ability to go beyond the spec. These are Cognition's own measurements.Claude Code 2.1.314 adds a setting to block writes outside the working directories and idle compaction
Claude Code v2.1.314, released October 29, 2026, per its release notes:OpenCode Go is now available to whole teams
OpenCode announced that OpenCode Go can now be used by an entire team. Its page lists three plans: Go at $10 a month, Go Plus at $40 a month with higher limits, and Go Teams at $20 per member per month with limits for every member. OpenCode describes Go as giving "generous usage limits and reliable access to leading coding models".
Codex 0.166.0 adds keyboard transcript selection, `codex doctor --network-only` and GPT-6.1 Terra in more catalogs
Codex 0.166.0, per its release notes:Google says Jules, its asynchronous coding agent, is winding down
Google's Jules account says Jules will be winding down. It says Jules began as an experiment in how asynchronous coding agents can help developers ship faster, and that Google is working on bringing what it learned into Antigravity, to combine autonomous remote background task execution with an agent-first development environment. The post gives no date for the shutdown.Claude Code adds CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_EFFORT to set a lower effort for subagents
Claude Code's @bcherny said the environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_EFFORT has landed. Running CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_EFFORT=low claude sets the effort level subagents use, and it can also be set in a custom agent's config. He was replying to a user who asked whether subagents could default to a lower effort instead of inheriting the main session's.Antigravity adds a plugins marketplace
Google's Antigravity account announced a new plugins marketplace in Antigravity, saying it makes it easier to search for and discover customizations. The post had 532 likes on X by October 29.OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper computer-use model at half the price of GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, 2026, describing it as a fast, capable computer-use model: it understands what is on screen, takes action across apps and writes naturally. It is rolling out to all Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, and developers can use it in the API as gpt-6.1-terra. OpenAI says usage allowances in ChatGPT Work and Codex go further with it than with GPT-5.6.Paseo agents can now run on Vercel Sandbox
Vercel says Paseo agents now run on Vercel Sandbox. Vercel says Paseo installs with one command, lets users control sessions from their phone, and works with Pi, fx, Codex, Claude Code and other agents. Vercel published a changelog entry for it.OpenCode adds a /goal command
Neriousy announced on X on October 29 that the /goal command has landed in OpenCode, with a short demo video. The post does not say how the command works or how to turn it on. It was reshared by the OpenCode account and by thdxr; it had about 92 points and 12 comments on X shortly after it was posted.