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Anthropic, August 2026 new features

30 releases · 3 products · 5 GA · 1 Preview · 6 Beta · 1 Deprecation · 2 Pricing

Jul 2026Sep 2026
DateRelease
Aug 27Claude Console adds personal and service account API keys
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 27Claude SDKs stop sending beta headers for Files and Skills clients
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 26Admin API comes to the ant CLI and Claude SDKs under client.beta.organization
Claude PlatformBeta
Aug 26Compliance API adds Claude Science and Microsoft 365 session transcripts in beta
Claude PlatformBeta
Aug 26Compliance API session endpoints are out of beta for Cowork and Claude Code
Claude CodeGA
Aug 25Memory in Claude Cowork, editable memory topics, and sensitive topics setting
Claude appsUpdate
Aug 20Claude Python SDK v1.0 moves to httpx2 and requires Python 3.10
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 20Claude computer use and browser use toolsets arrive on Google Cloud
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 19Agent Skills and the Skills API are out of beta on the Claude API
Claude PlatformGA
Aug 19Claude API launches browser_toolset_20260801 browser use tool
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 19Claude Console session viewer redesigned with timeline and Inspector panel
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 19Claude Enterprise Admin API user-management endpoints are out of beta
Claude PlatformGA
Aug 19Claude Managed Agents can restrict domains for web_search and web_fetch
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 19Claude Managed Agents self-hosted sandboxes can attach memory stores
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 19Claude computer use tool is out of beta as computer_toolset_20260801
Claude PlatformGA
Aug 19Computer and browser use toolsets support Claude Fable 5, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 19Files API is out of beta on the Claude API
Claude PlatformGA
Aug 18Claude Console Workbench is renamed playground
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 11Claude API adds the anthropic-workspace-id response header
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 11Compliance API returns local Cowork and Claude Code session transcripts in beta
Claude CodeBeta
Aug 10Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing of $2 / $10 per MTok becomes permanent
Claude PlatformPricing
Aug 7Claude Managed Agents adds inference_geo to control where inference runs
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 7Claude Managed Agents sessions can consult an advisor model
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 7Claude Managed Agents sessions load skills from GitHub repositories
Claude PlatformUpdate
Aug 7Claude Managed Agents sessions support hard spend budgets
Claude PlatformPricing
Aug 6Skill and plugin security scanning (beta) for Enterprise plans
Claude appsBeta
Aug 5Claude Opus 4.1 is retired on the Claude API
Claude PlatformDeprecation
Aug 5Inference hooks
Claude PlatformBeta
Aug 3Compliance API returns cloud Cowork session transcripts in beta
Claude PlatformBeta
Aug 1Dreams research preview adds support for Claude Opus 5
Claude PlatformPreview

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