MasterMindMandan - Field Report

New flagship model: 1M token context window (beta), improved reasoning with adaptive thinking, same pricing as Opus 4.5 ($5/$25 per Mtok). Already active in Claude Code on this machine. Office integrations: PowerPoint add-in, Excel with native pivot tables and conditional formatting.

Structured outputs parameter location changed. Assistant message prefilling returns 400 error on Opus 4.6 -- migrate to structured outputs or system prompt instructions. Check any API code using output_format or prefilling immediately.

OX Security discovered 94 unpatched Chromium vulnerabilities in Cursor and Windsurf IDEs affecting 1.8M developers. Forked Electron bases not receiving upstream security patches. If using either IDE, verify your version is patched.

Server-side context summarization for effectively infinite conversations. Available on Opus 4.6. Could replace client-side compaction strategies for API-based agents.

New inference_geo parameter lets you specify where model inference runs. US-only inference at 1.1x pricing for models after Feb 1, 2026. Relevant for Commander's Middle East / compliance work.

Shift+Enter for newlines, hooks in agent/skill frontmatter, skills hot reload, /teleport to claude.ai/code, wildcard tool permissions (Bash(*-h*)), /debug command, PR review status in footer, auto-memories. Current installed: v2.1.34.

Most capable agentic coding model yet, 25% faster than 5.2. CLI now has session-scoped MCP tool approval ("Allow and remember"), live skill update detection, /debug-config, shell parallel execution, personal skills from ~/.agents/skills.

Context-driven workflow extension: stores product knowledge, tech decisions, and work plans as versioned Markdown in the repo, then drives Gemini agents from those files. Sound familiar? It's essentially their version of GSD + CLAUDE.md.

Event-driven scheduler for tool execution, queued tool confirmations, collapsible paste blocks. Gemini 3 Flash now available in CLI for high-frequency workflows.

Bun.SQL: unified API for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite with zero deps. Zero-config frontend dev with built-in HMR and React Fast Refresh. Run HTML files directly with auto-transpilation.

Leaked references in Google Vertex AI logs. Pricing rumored at ~50% below Opus 4.5 with comparable performance. No confirmed date.

Legal and financial analysis software stocks plunged following Opus 4.6 launch. Market reacting to AI replacing specialized professional software packages.

Direct integrations into Slack, Figma, Asana using MCP for in-tool actions: project updates, task assignments, design prototyping without platform switching.

Anthropic team published their internal workflow: heavy parallelism, multiple CLAUDE.md files per project depth, sub-agents over monolith sessions, aggressive /clear usage, Plan Mode for multi-file changes.