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On November 4 ClaudeDevs, Anthropic's official developer account, said the status line that a background subagent in Claude Code refreshes every 30 seconds used to re-read its whole conversation each time, and is now written by Haiku 5.5 from short notes, so each update costs about 99% less. Anthropic says sessions with background subagents used about 5% less of the limit, giving about 6% more prompts on the same limit. It is live for most Pro, Max and Ultra users and everyone on Team and Enterprise, on v2.1.316 or later.

Ivan Leo, who works on developer experience at Google DeepMind, shared the official docs for Antigravity's new Remote Agents feature on X on November 4. Per the docs, Remote Agents run agent sessions and tools in an isolated, Google-managed remote environment, so tasks keep going when you close your laptop or browser or switch between desktop and mobile. Sessions start from the Antigravity App, the Antigravity CLI (1.4.12+, agy --remote-agent) or the web at antigravity.google.com, and remote projects can attach GitHub repositories, Google Drive files and uploads. It is rolling out gradually to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers on personal accounts; it is not available on the free plan, AI Plus or business accounts. The official changelog shows this ships in Antigravity v2.29.0 (November 3), which also starts rolling out a voice mode powered by Gemini Live for handing requests to the agent by voice, redesigns the Automations page into Scheduled, Always on and Paused lists, and adds a native Jupyter notebook viewer.

On Oct 31, deepseek-ai open-sourced dsh-superagent-prototype on GitHub under the MIT license: a proactive coding agent that runs as a DeepSeek Harness bundle, lives on one GitHub repository and can optionally listen to Feishu. When an allowed person asks for work, it opens a work item, works in its own session and directory, and answers in the original conversation, for example with a pull request. The README states it is a research prototype, not an official DeepSeek product. The companion article, Exploring Super-agent Design, proposes a two-layer Router-Worker architecture; the team test, as reproduced by media, reports a p95 completion time of 15.7 minutes versus 29.5 minutes for a single-session setup.

The OpenAI Developers account shared a post by Steve (@stevendcoffey), who works on the API at OpenAI, listing five Agents API updates this week: Codex-style Auto Review of commands before execution, compaction that runs in the background, an experimental time-awareness feature, updating a session's tools at any time, and automatic caching of system prompts across all sessions. As of writing, the official API changelog does not list these items yet.

OpenAI's "Data controls in ChatGPT" Help Center page now has a "Trusted Access on personal accounts" section: during sessions in Trusted Access programs such as Daybreak Blue, OpenAI may use interaction content to improve its models even when "Improve the model for everyone" is off, to strengthen safeguards against cyber misuse, while other activity still follows the user's setting. Emails that several users shared on X say the change takes effect November 29, and researchers including Sean Heelan criticized it for pulling unreported vulnerabilities and research into training data.

Anthropic published Claude Code v2.1.314 on GitHub at 01:06 UTC on Oct 30. The official CHANGELOG lists 119 entries, more than half of them fixes. The new features lean enterprise: permissions.blockWritesOutsideWorkingDirectories makes Write, Edit and NotebookEdit refuse paths outside the working directories in every permission mode; Claude apps gateway upstreams can be limited to IdP groups, and Bedrock upstreams can log which guardrail fired; idle compaction now also runs in VS Code and the Code tab of Claude Desktop. It also fixes sessions failing repeatedly when an admin caps effort, and claude -p exiting 0 with no output when startup failed.

On Oct 29, Google announced through the official @julesagent account and the Jules changelog that Jules will wind down on December 31, 2026. Users can keep finishing sessions until November 11, after which Jules becomes read-only until the end of the year. Google says its learnings from Jules are going into Google Antigravity, its agent-first development platform, to combine autonomous remote background task execution with an agent-first environment. Google also published an export path for settings, environment variables, scheduled tasks, repositories, memories and every session.

Since Oct 21 many developers on X have complained that Claude Code was draining usage limits much faster. On Oct 28 (UTC) Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, replied on X that the team reviewed every session ID users shared, found no single root cause and no regression in Claude Code, and is rolling out fixes for a few smaller issues that made some sessions burn tokens faster. Most fast-drain cases traced back to one or two heavy sessions using xhigh effort, /goal, Workflows, Agent Teams or long SDK jobs.