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Thursday, 7 May
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REDDIT SIGNAL

  • Discovery — Claude logged and explained a prompt injection it found in a scraped webpage (a fake <RootSystemPrompt> tag on getaiperks.com), including the exact source URL and why it ignored it — useful reference for anyone using Claude with web_fetch: you can ask it to disclose any injections it encountered — 2,851 upvotes, 275 comments | r/ClaudeAI | https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1t4rkki/
  • LearningCircuit/local-deep-research — 532★ today (5,538★ total) — local deep-research agent hitting ~95% on SimpleQA with Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090; supports Ollama, Google, arXiv, PubMed, your private docs | pip install local-deep-research | https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research

TODAY'S ITEMS

1. Claude Code Rate Limits Doubled + SpaceX Compute Deal

  • Anthropic signed with SpaceX for full use of Colossus 1 (300MW, 220K NVIDIA GPUs), and the capacity translates immediately: the Claude Code five-hour limit is doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise; the peak-hours throttle is removed for Pro and Max; and Opus API rate limits are substantially raised across all tiers.
  • Source: Anthropic
  • Why it matters: The peak-hours cap is gone effective today — Pro and Max sessions can now run to the doubled limit without hitting the midday slowdown.
  • Verified

2. Code w/ Claude 2026: Dreaming, Routines, Advisor Strategy

  • Three major additions to Managed Agents announced at today's developer event: multi-agent orchestration (public beta), Outcomes (public beta), and "Dreaming" (research preview) — Claude inspects its own previous sessions overnight and produces structured artefacts like playbooks or memory files, so it self-improves between runs. Claude Code Routines fire templated cloud agents on a schedule, from a GitHub event, or via API — Boris Cherny's demo showed waking up to merged PRs with no human in the loop. The Advisor Strategy (Opus advising Sonnet on demand) delivered frontier-quality results at 5x lower cost for early users.
  • Source: simonwillison.net live blog
  • Why it matters: Request Dreaming access at https://claude.com/form/claude-managed-agents, and find Routines in Claude Code on the web to automate async PR review without writing orchestration code.
  • Verified

3. Cloudflare + Stripe: Agents Can Now Deploy Themselves End-to-End

  • Cloudflare and Stripe co-designed a protocol (via Stripe Projects) that lets a coding agent provision a full Cloudflare account, purchase a domain, get an API token, and ship a production app — without any human dashboard steps or copy-pasted credentials. The agent handles everything; you just run stripe projects init and prompt it to build and deploy. Hit HN front page today (581pts, 329 comments).
  • Source: Cloudflare blog
  • Why it matters: Install the Stripe Projects plugin (stripe install --plugins stripe-projects) then run stripe projects init and tell your agent to build and deploy — it handles account creation, domain registration, and API token provisioning in a single session.
  • Verified

4. Claude Code v2.1.129 — Two Silent Bugs Fixed

  • Two bugs that were quietly costing tokens: (1) the 1-hour prompt cache TTL was being silently downgraded to 5 minutes, inflating cache_creation costs every session; (2) /context was dumping its full ASCII visualisation grid into the conversation (~1.6k tokens wasted on every call). Also new: --plugin-url <url> loads a plugin zip from a URL for the current session, and Ctrl+R history search reverts to scanning all projects (not just the current session).
  • Source: GitHub Releases
  • Why it matters: Update now (npm update -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code) to fix the cache TTL downgrade and stop /context silently burning tokens on every invocation.
  • Verified

5. Simon Willison: Trusting Your Agent Like You Trust a Team

  • Writing from today's Code w/ Claude event, Willison reflects that as Claude Code gets more reliable, he has stopped reviewing every line it writes — and found the right mental model in how engineering managers work with other teams: you treat the agent's output as a trusted black box until a problem surfaces, rather than auditing every commit. He notes the cognitive shift is uncomfortable but mirrors standard professional trust.
  • Source: simonwillison.net
  • Why it matters: If you're reviewing every file Claude touches out of habit rather than necessity, this framing helps calibrate when oversight adds real value vs when it's just friction.
  • Verified

YOUR STACK — UPDATES

NEW TOOL / PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT

  • chrome-devtools-mcp — Official Google Chrome DevTools MCP server for coding agents. Gives Claude access to Chrome DevTools: performance traces, network analysis, console messages with source-mapped stack traces, and Puppeteer-powered browser automation. Maintained by the ChromeDevTools org itself. Install: npx chrome-devtools-mcp | https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp

PROMPT OF THE DAY

You are reviewing this project's recent work. Look at the
last 5 completed tasks in TODO.md (or recent git log),
any notes in CLAUDE.md, and recent file changes.

Create session-learnings.md with:

## What worked
3-5 specific patterns from these sessions — commands,
file structures, or approaches that consistently succeeded.

## What struggled
Problems that needed multiple attempts — include the wrong
approach first, then what actually fixed it.

## Edge cases found
Things the spec didn't mention but surfaced in practice.
One line each.

## CLAUDE.md improvements
1-2 concrete additions based on what you learned — write
them as formatted CLAUDE.md blocks ready to paste in.

Be specific. No generalisations like "better communication
needed". If you can't name the actual file or command, skip it.

Manual "Dreaming" — run this at the end of a project sprint to capture learnings before they disappear, inspired by Anthropic's Dreaming feature for Managed Agents announced today at Code w/ Claude 2026. Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/code-w-claude-2026/ (Boris Cherny demo, Code w/ Claude 2026)

LANDSCAPE NOTES

  • Finance agent templates: 10 new Claude Cowork/Claude Code plugins for financial services — pitchbook builder, KYC screener, general ledger reconciler, month-end closer, and more — plus Claude add-ins for Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents

  • Qwen3.6-27B MTP GGUF on r/LocalLLaMA — MTP (multi-token prediction) support via a custom llama.cpp build gives 2.5x generation speed on Apple Silicon and NVIDIA; full hardware table (16GB–96GB) and compile commands available. https://huggingface.co/froggeric/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF

  • Stripe Projects launched today as a new agent-native deployment protocol — any platform with signed-in users can integrate the same zero-friction deployment flow as Cloudflare. https://projects.dev/