It feels like every day there's a new Claude Code update. This unofficial podcast, hosted by Lachlan and James (& powered by Jellypod AI), helps us stay up to date with everything Anthropic ships to Claude, from product updates, new workflows, and more. Each episode highlights what changed, how to use it, and why it matters.
Latest episodes
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4 min
Managing Auto Mode Read Permissions in Claude Code 2.1.310
Discover how a prompt update in Claude Code 2.1.310 clarifies the impact of denying reads outside your working directory during auto mode, plus how to manage trusted paths with set…
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5 min
Claude Code’s Windows Hooks Could Fail Open—Test Yours
Claude Code 2.1.309 and 2.1.310 tighten sandbox and permission boundaries, including fixes for Windows hooks that could fail open. Learn how to check your version, test a blocking…
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6 min
Claude Code 2.1.310: Replace Polling with Monitor
Claude Code 2.1.310 enables the Monitor tool on Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex, and Microsoft Foundry—even with telemetry or nonessential traffic disabled. Learn how to replace slee…
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5 min
Claude Code 2.1.309: Trust Checks for Ultrareview
Claude Code 2.1.309 adds a workspace-trust check to claude ultrareview. Learn how to handle the prompt, update scripts and CI with the correctly ordered --trust-workspace flag or t…
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5 min
Track Claude Code Guardrails with OpenTelemetry
Claude Code 2.1.307 adds the claude_code.safety_event OpenTelemetry event, letting teams track when permissions, safety checks, hooks, or the sandbox stop, prompt, or send back a t…
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6 min
Run Chromium and Rootless Podman in Claude Code’s Linux Sandbox
Claude Code 2.1.305 adds sandbox.allowNestedUserNamespaces for Linux and WSL2, enabling tools such as headless Chromium and rootless Podman to run inside the Bash sandbox. Learn ho…
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5 min
Teach Claude Code Auto Mode What Your Team Trusts
Claude Code 2.1.304 expands /auto-mode-setup to more provider and gateway sessions, helping you draft trusted environment rules from project files and recent activity. Learn what t…
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6 min
Claude Code’s /advisor: Opus Guidance Without Opus for Every Task
How Claude Code’s experimental /advisor pairs a lower-cost executor with a stronger model that can review the full session and offer guidance. Learn how to enable it, prompt for co…
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5 min
Claude Projects: Delegate Work to Parallel Code Sessions
Claude Projects is becoming a coordinator for parallel Claude Code cloud sessions: learn how to connect repositories, set project instructions, choose thread models and effort, and…
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4 min
Claude Code 2.1.302: Pin Auto-Mode Models and Fix CI Defaults
Claude Code 2.1.302 adds CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_MODEL, letting users on proxy, Bedrock, or Vertex setups choose the model used by the client-side auto-mode classifier. The episode a…
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5 min
Stop CI Jobs From Waiting Hours on Claude Usage Limits
Claude Code 2.1.301 adds CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG_MAX_USAGE_LIMIT_WAIT_MS, letting CI jobs fail quickly or switch to a fallback model instead of idling through a distant quota re…
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5 min
Route Claude Code Workflow Agents by Step
Claude Code 2.1.300 adds step-aware workflow routing: mods can rewrite an agent’s prompt and choose its model, letting teams balance cost and capability across a workflow. We cover…
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5 min
Taming Terminal Costs with Claude Code Idle Compaction
Discover how Claude Code 2.1.299 introduces idle compaction to save you tokens and speed up your workflow after stepping away from the terminal. Lachlan and James break down the 54…
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6 min
Optimizing Claude Code Workflow Agents with Subagent Models
Learn how to control costs and balance performance using the CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_SUBAGENT_MODEL environment variable introduced in Claude Code 2.1.296. We explore the orchestrator…
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5 min
Taming Claude Code 529 Errors in CI Pipelines
Learn how to tame 529 overloaded errors in headless Claude Code runs using the newly released watchdog wait caps and retry delays. We break down the ideal CI environment configurat…
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5 min
Unlocking Big Files in Claude Code with allow_large
We explore how the new allow_large parameter in Claude Code 2.1.296 handles oversized text files in a single pass while surprisingly cutting token costs. Plus, learn how to trigger…
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5 min
Taming Subagent Bloat in Claude Code 2.1.296
Lachlan and James break down Claude Code 2.1.296, exploring how the new autoCompactWindow setting prevents worker subagents from bloating context windows and running up cache read…
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6 min
Fixing Broken Guardrails with onFailure Block in Claude Code
Learn about Claude Code version 2.1.295 and the crucial new onFailure: "block" setting for command and HTTP hooks. We dive into how to prevent broken or missing guard scripts from…
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5 min
Unlocking Haiku 5.5 and Effort Levels in Claude Code
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 featuring adjustable effort dials, a 1M token context window, and significantly slashed pricing. Learn how to configure custom subagents in Clau…
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5 min
Slashing Subagent Token Costs in Claude Code 2.1.292
James and Lachlan explore Claude Code 2.1.292, which introduces a dedicated effort parameter for subagents to dramatically slash token costs in multi-agent workflows. They also cov…