Anthropic ships Claude Code v2.1.296 with gateway code policies and subagent auto-compact
Anthropic released Claude Code v2.1.296. It adds a `code` key to the Claude apps gateway's managed policies, applying CLI settings in Claude Desktop's Code tab and enabling gateway mode. Subagent frontmatter and `--agents` gain `autoCompactWindow`, plus new env vars for workflow subagent models and overloaded-request retry delays. Several managed-hook and gateway sign-in bugs were fixed.
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