Releasesby GlyphClaude Managed Agents permission policies add an auto mode
A new auto permission policy lets the server evaluate each agent or MCP tool call and run it, deny it, or pause for approval. agent.tool_use and agent.mcp_tool_use events now report how each call was evaluated.
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BigQuery conversational analytics adds ML.CORRELATION in preview
Conversational analytics can now use ML.CORRELATION to calculate statistical correlations between a target column and one or more metric columns in a table.
BigQuery ML.METRICS evaluates predictions without a stored model
The preview ML.METRICS function computes classification or regression evaluation metrics on any table or query with actual and predicted values, with no need to create or reference a stored model.
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data. This feature is in Preview .
BigQuery Data Engineering Agent integrates with BigQuery Graph
The Data Engineering Agent now uses BigQuery Graph for extra context between source and destination schemas, improving schema mapping accuracy in data engineering pipelines. It is generally available.
Using dbt artifacts for Slim CI and defer to production in dbt Projects on Snowflake (General availability)
Slim CI, defer to production, failed-execution recovery, and concurrent execution are now generally available for dbt Projects on Snowflake. Reuse dbt artifacts from recent production executions to accelerate development, streamline CI/CD workflows, and recover from failed production runs without maintaining a separate artifact store.
External secret providers (Preview)
External secret providers are now in preview. If your organization already keeps API keys, database passwords, and similar values in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager, Snowflake can read those values when a query needs them, so you don't have to maintain a second copy in a Snowflake secret .
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ant CLI 1.32.0 adds sessions connect for live Managed Agents sessions
ant beta:sessions connect attaches a terminal to a Claude Managed Agents session so you can follow it live, send messages and approve or deny pending tool calls. --web serves the Console session viewer locally.
Smart reports (beta)
Smart reports provide analytics on team usage, costs, friction points, and potential shared skills. This feature is available in beta for Claude Enterprise plans.
Messages API adds on-demand conversation compaction in beta
With the compact-2026-09-04 beta header, the top-level compaction parameter returns a signed compaction block summarizing prior messages, which you send in their place on later requests. You choose when to compact, it can run in the background, and recent turns can be kept verbatim.
Claude API input_transformations adds thinking_mismatch_allowed entries in beta
Under the thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01 beta header, input_transformations can report thinking_mismatch_allowed for thinking blocks that failed an unenforced prefix check. Logging these entries helps find conversation history edits in production traffic.
ant CLI 1.30.0 adds ant apply to manage agents and resources as code
ant apply creates and updates agents, environments, skills, memory stores and deployments from files in a repository after you approve a printed plan. A committed claude-lock.json lets later local or CI runs update the same resources instead of creating new ones.
Per-message effort changes beta expands to Claude on Google Cloud
Per-message effort changes are now available in beta on Google Cloud for Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Opus 5, using the same mid-conversation-output-config-2026-07-01 beta header.
Compliance API adds Claude in Chrome session transcripts in beta
Compliance API local session endpoints now return transcripts of Claude in Chrome sessions (product_surface claude_in_chrome) for Claude Enterprise organizations, using the existing Compliance Access Key and read:compliance_user_data scope.
For cache diagnostics, a response to a request that sends the cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07 beta header now
For cache diagnostics, a response to a request that sends the cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07 beta header now always includes the diagnostics field. The field is null when the request did not include the diagnostics object. Previously the field was omitted in that case.