Claude Code Ships 25 Releases in 4 Weeks: Background Agents and Auto PRs
AlexKim · x · 2026-07-22
Anthropic's coding agent, Claude Code, has shipped 25 releases over the last 4 weeks with a clear theme: allowing developers to step away.
Key updates include subagents running in the background by default, background agents automatically opening draft Pull Requests, and the renaming of the "default" permission mode to "Manual" to better reflect user control.
Related event: Claude Code Updates with Background Subagents and Automated PRs(2 posts)→
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