# Changelog 2026-08-13 — your local Claude Code transcripts are now retrievable by your org

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# Changelog — August 13, 2026

**The quietest item today is the one with the longest reach: a session running on your laptop is now a record your organization can pull.** Anthropic's Compliance API returns transcripts of Cowork and Claude Code sessions that run on end-user machines, in beta for Enterprise orgs. Meanwhile **Claude Code shipped four releases in three days**, and the theme across them is *an agent that can be talked into less* — synced skills hardened, dangerous git flags no longer auto-approved. **NemoClaw** fixed a headless run that could strand a sandbox behind a lock only a human could clear, and **IronClaw** pushed three 1.2.0 release candidates in two days.

⚠️ If you run Claude Code or Cowork on a work account

As of August 11, your organization's compliance administrators can **list your local sessions and retrieve their full transcripts** through the Claude API — including sessions that ran entirely on your own machine, never touching a managed environment. This is beta, Enterprise-only, and gated behind a Compliance Access Key with the `read:compliance_user_data` scope, so it is not a free-for-all. But the mental model that "local means private" is no longer accurate for Enterprise-managed accounts. **This is a capability, not an incident** — most orgs need exactly this for their own legal obligations. Know which side of it you're on before you paste something personal into a work session.

2026-08-13

Claude Code

[v2.1.228](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.228) → [v2.1.231](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.231) — synced skills hardened · dangerous git flags no longer auto-approved · plugin `command` sources

**Two changes in this batch make the agent harder to talk into something, and they belong together.** In [v2.1.228](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.228), **skills synced from claude.ai were hardened**: they can **no longer shadow local commands or MCP prompts**, their descriptions are **sanitized and labeled**, and on your machine **their bodies don't run ! commands or expand @ files**. Read that last one twice — a skill authored in a web UI, synced down, previously carried shell substitution and file expansion that executed locally. Anything that syncs content from a shared surface onto a developer's machine is a supply-chain path, and this closes the parts of it that ran without asking.

In [v2.1.229](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.229), `/commit-push-pr` **stopped auto-approving git and gh commands that carry dangerous flags** — `--force`, `--amend`, `--no-verify` and friends. The command's whole value is that it doesn't stop to ask; the fix is the recognition that "don't ask about git" and "don't ask about `git push --force`" were never the same permission. If you have muscle memory built on that command running unattended, expect a prompt now, and treat the prompt as the point.

**The headline feature is a new plugin source type.** Plugin marketplaces now accept **command sources**: a local command — an IDE, for instance — prints the plugin directory, and that path is **re-resolved each session and applied without a restart**. Set `mode: "link"` and it's used in place rather than copied. This is the plugin equivalent of a development checkout, and it's aimed squarely at tools that want to ship plugins whose location they know at runtime and you don't.

**Self-hosted runners got most of the remaining polish**, one release after the feature landed. Sessions now support **server-supplied hooks**, matching managed-environment behavior; repository preparation no longer **hangs on a Git Credential Manager prompt** (git fails fast instead); a deployed `managed-mcp.json` no longer **kills remote sessions at startup** when the server also delivers MCP servers (they're skipped with a warning); and a repository whose `checkout` hook fails is skipped rather than failing the whole runner. One breaking change to note: **Windows startup now requires an explicit --base-dir** — there is no default checkout directory on Windows, so a working Windows runner config from last week may need a flag added.

**If you run through a gateway or a cloud upstream, two fixes are worth the upgrade alone.** **SSE keepalive pings** were added to gateway streaming responses during long thinking pauses, which stops **idle-timeout disconnects on Vertex and Bedrock** — the failure mode where a long reasoning turn dies silently at the proxy. And `/model` stopped **rejecting Sonnet/Opus 1M for claude.ai subscribers on a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL**. MCP OAuth got two rounds: v2.1.229 switched the redirect URI to **127.0.0.1 instead of localhost** for strict authorization servers, and [v2.1.231](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.231) — the whole release — fixed sign-in failing with a **redirect URI mismatch for servers using a pre-registered OAuth client, such as Slack**.

**One data-loss fix and one rule change you should know about.** v2.1.228 fixed **session cleanup deleting contents inside a project's memory folder** — routine housekeeping was reaching into persistent memory. The same release also fixed background plugin-cache cleanup deleting a plugin's cache when its only version was a **symlinked development checkout**. The rule change: the **Write tool now lets newer models overwrite an existing file they haven't read this session**, matching Edit's rules; older models still require the read first. That read-before-write requirement was a real guardrail against blind clobbering, and it is now model-dependent rather than absolute.

**Crashes, stalls and Windows.** Fixed: a crash when a tool call had a **non-string glob, file_path or command value** (which also broke `--resume` of that session), a **RangeError in very narrow terminals** that could take down `--continue`/`--resume` at startup, a **crash on Windows for extended-length (\\?\) or UNC paths**, `git`/Git Bash not being found on Windows when launched from a parent folder of the git install, long responses **partly disappearing while streaming and printing twice**, and multi-second UI stalls with thousands of IDE diagnostics. Sandbox network domain lists now **bracket IPv6 literals** (`[::1]:443`) and enforce ambiguous spellings **fail-closed**, with `/doctor` flagging them.

**A cost item hiding in the workflow engine.** Workflow fan-outs now **stagger same-prefix sibling agents** so later agents read the cached prompt prefix instead of re-paying for it (`CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_PREFIX_STAGGER_MS=0` disables). If you run large parallel fan-outs, that is a direct token saving for a scheduling change. Also: dynamic workflows in CPU-limited containers now use the **container's CPU limit rather than the host's core count**, and `ListAgents` marks disconnected Remote Control sessions `offline` and labels cloud sessions `cloud`. `claude remote-control --continue` is now documented for resuming the most recent session.

[Full changelog →](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
 Affects: [/openclaw/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/), [/openclaw/setup/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/setup/), [/openclaw/configuration/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/configuration/), [/openclaw/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/security/), [/openclaw/skills-guide/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/skills-guide/), [/openclaw/cost-optimisation/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/cost-optimisation/), [/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/security/)

2026-08-11

Claude Cowork

[Claude Platform release notes](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/api) — local session transcripts reach the Compliance API · Sonnet 5's introductory price becomes permanent

**The Compliance API now sees sessions that never left your machine.** Three new endpoints, in beta for Claude Enterprise organizations: `GET /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/local` lists Cowork and Claude Code sessions **across the organization**, `…/local/{session_id}` returns one session's metadata, and `…/local/{session_id}/messages` returns its **transcript**. They use the Compliance Access Key an org already has, with the `read:compliance_user_data` scope.

Why this is the day's most important item even though it ships no feature you will click: **it changes what a local agent session is**. Until now, the compliance surface followed the managed surface — org-run infrastructure produced org-retrievable records, and a CLI on a laptop produced a file on that laptop. That boundary is where a lot of people's intuitions about privacy quietly lived. It has moved. For most organizations this is not optional surveillance but a legal necessity, and an org that must retain records has to be able to reach them. The honest framing is: **on an Enterprise account, treat an agent session like work email, not like a scratch file.** If you have been using a work Claude Code login for personal side projects — a very common habit — this is the week to stop.

**Sonnet 5's promotional price is now just its price.** On August 10, Anthropic confirmed that the introductory **$2 / $10 per MTok** for Claude Sonnet 5 is now the standard rate, and the **increase to $3 / $15 scheduled for September 1 will not happen**. Our [June 30 entry](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/2026-06-30/) reported that pricing as promotional through August 31, because that is what it was; it is now permanent. If you built a cost model with a September step-up in it, **delete the step-up** — that is a 33% overestimate on input and output for every Sonnet 5 token you projected past next month. The [cost calculator](https://openclawdatabase.com/tools/cost-calculator/) already uses the standing rate.

**And a small operational nicety:** the Claude API now returns an **anthropic-workspace-id response header** carrying the `wrkspc_`-prefixed ID of the workspace that the request's API key or access token actually resolved to, including the Default Workspace. If you have ever had to work out which workspace a key belonged to by watching where the spend showed up, that guessing game is over.

[Release notes →](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/api)
 Affects: [/claude-cowork/](https://openclawdatabase.com/claude-cowork/), [/claude-cowork/pricing/](https://openclawdatabase.com/claude-cowork/pricing/), [/claude-cowork/vs-api/](https://openclawdatabase.com/claude-cowork/vs-api/), [/openclaw/cost-optimisation/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/cost-optimisation/), [/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/security/)

2026-08-13

NemoClaw

[main](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commits/main) — a headless prompt that stranded the sandbox · an aborted onboard that left credentials running

**A prompt nobody could answer left a lock only a human could clear.** Channel and policy mutations treated a session as interactive whenever `NEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVE` was unset — not whether a terminal was actually attached. So a headless run reached a confirmation prompt, hit **stdin EOF**, and exited *from inside the sandbox mutation-lock callback*. The abandoned generation then escalated to **durable containment**, which blocked `snapshot`, `recover` and `rebuild` until an operator cleared the lock by hand ([#8895](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/ceea7dd6c1203b3cff71b718917c0d58be0688b3)). `--dry-run` was blocked along with them, because the lock was taken *before* the preview check — so the one command you'd reach for to inspect the situation without changing it was also the one you couldn't run.

Three things changed: a **missing terminal on stdin now counts as non-interactive**, the lock **releases its generation when a command exits mid-operation**, and **a preview no longer takes the lock at all**. Worth noting what deliberately did *not* change: the new predicate was kept separate from the existing environment-only one, because widening the shared version would have made `destroy` stop asking before removing a sandbox on every headless run. That restraint is the right call, and it's the kind of decision that usually goes the other way.

**A failed onboard left your API keys in a live process.** When provider or inference validation failed, onboarding could leave a **credential-bearing openshell-gateway running** — and neither `stop` nor `gateway remove` would terminate it, because no sandbox was registered to scope the request ([#8993](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/5190f49c20d7ac210b2c0a454d4f8d478f99cdfd)). Abort now tears down an unowned managed gateway, and full `stop` releases an explicitly scoped `NEMOCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT` even without a sandbox name. The quieter half of this fix is the better one: when nothing scopes the gateway, `stop` **no longer prints a false All services stopped.** and instead says `Host services stopped; managed gateway not released.` A success message you can't trust is worse than an error, because it stops you looking.

**Only one Hermes sandbox per host could reach inference.** The Hermes OpenAI-compatible API port was a **fixed, host-wide 8642**, so exactly one sandbox could own the host forward. A **snapshot clone therefore got no inference forward at all**, and `gateway restart` on the clone exited 1 with a forward-recovery failure it could never repair — a permanent broken state produced by a supported operation. Each Hermes sandbox now allocates its own port from **8642–8652**, published back through `NEMOCLAW_HERMES_API_PORT` so the create environment, the registry row and the host forward agree on one value ([#8577](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/a9affdf65a0269d6b184e57b9778d78d6af9de7e)). A registered sandbox keeps its recorded port, and an out-of-range operator value is refused outright rather than half-applied.

**The Hermes forward watcher was stopping forwards that weren't its business.** On every failed health check, the background watcher stopped *whichever forward held the port* — including one an operator had started by hand. It now reads `openshell forward list` first and acts only on a row OpenShell reports as `dead` or doesn't list at all; a `running` row is left alone and an unreadable list is skipped ([#8956](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/4a2adc7e33b68733964a1f491fe7558a9f872adc)). The same commit fixes a diagnostic that **discarded its own output** — an install that couldn't publish the forward printed the warning with no reason attached. It now captures that output, strips terminal control characters, applies credential redaction, and bounds it at 300 characters.

**macOS onboarding could stop before it started.** On Homebrew 6.x, `nemoclaw onboard` could halt **before [1/8] Preflight** because Homebrew refused to inspect the official OpenShell formula from an untrusted tap ([#7739](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/e7b2574c0886f6fcacc49dc97afa3771b081c40c)). NemoClaw now uses one checksum-verified, formula-scoped operation boundary that **grants temporary trust only to nvidia/openshell/openshell and removes it when the operation finishes** — a notably careful shape for a problem most projects would have solved with a blanket trust flag. If trust can't be granted or removed, the operation stops with repair guidance rather than proceeding.

**Three smaller fixes with clear symptoms.** `onboard --resume --name ` **exited 0 while ignoring the name you passed**, recovering a default-named sandbox instead — the resume trust gate now accepts the name supplied this run ([#8958](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/0d3eadc652cf683335b84f93930f071ecb604859)). **Portable onboarding** combined the broad `personal-open-internet` preset with narrower Personal-tier presets; OpenShell rejects the resulting ambiguous endpoints and the CLI surfaced that as **a generic HTTP/2 stream reset** — it now selects the one preset ([#8994](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/8ee120944916c6810134a97a14617675ebf33a8d)). And seven policy presets listed `/usr/bin/python3.11`, **a path the sandbox image has never shipped**, producing a symlink-resolution warning on every policy reload; they now use the `/usr/bin/python3*` glob already conventional elsewhere in the repo ([#8960](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/17591e913b68289877989dbf6ee821f13e871103)). Separately, an OpenShell missing-migration database failure is no longer flattened into a generic gateway-start error — onboarding recognizes the signature and prints a state-preserving recovery command with its credential and registration effects spelled out ([#8995](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/15bd5aa0daae7acdd96d5208d361c241e07f87c4)).

[Commits →](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commits/main)
 Affects: [/nemoclaw/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/), [/nemoclaw/setup/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/setup/), [/nemoclaw/policy/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/policy/), [/nemoclaw/skills/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/skills/), [/hermes/](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/), [/troubleshooting/](https://openclawdatabase.com/troubleshooting/), [/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/security/)

2026-08-12

IronClaw

[1.2.0-rc.1 → rc.3](https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases/tag/ironclaw-v1.2.0-rc.3) — prerelease: a container that could never pass its own healthcheck

**Three release candidates in two days, and 1.2.0 is not stable yet** — [1.1.0](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/2026-08-10/) remains the version to run. The RC train is worth reading anyway, because [rc.3](https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases/tag/ironclaw-v1.2.0-rc.3) fixes a deployment failure with a genuinely instructive shape: **the runtime container image shipped no HTTP client**. Orchestrators probe the worker with `curl -fsS http://localhost:3000/`, `curl` wasn't in the image, so **the probe could never run, the container was never marked healthy, and the deploy timed out into error — while the listener served 200s the entire time**. A perfectly healthy service, reported dead, because the thing asking the question wasn't installed. If you've hit unexplained deploy timeouts on a hosted IronClaw worker, that's your answer.

rc.3 also fixed a CI honesty problem worth naming: PR test planning and the root-partition runner **disagreed on partition assignment**, so **a scheduled root test could be reported green without having run**. Both sides now share one inventory covering every `tests/*.rs` target. [rc.2](https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases/tag/ironclaw-v1.2.0-rc.2) is Windows-focused: first-start filesystem publication now uses **native atomic rename instead of hard links** and tolerates unsupported directory syncs, and release smoke runs preserve the Windows account identity needed to secure the standalone secrets key — plus they stop `icacls` status output from **contaminating machine-readable CLI JSON**, which is the sort of bug that breaks every downstream parser at once. [rc.1](https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases/tag/ironclaw-v1.2.0-rc.1) opened the series by enabling the **Railway shell for the hosted volume profile**.

[Releases →](https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/releases)
 Affects: [/ironclaw/](https://openclawdatabase.com/ironclaw/), [/ironclaw/setup/](https://openclawdatabase.com/ironclaw/setup/), [/ironclaw/configuration/](https://openclawdatabase.com/ironclaw/configuration/), [/troubleshooting/](https://openclawdatabase.com/troubleshooting/)

Not counted as news

A large share of today's NemoClaw commits are **CI, test or tooling work** that changes nothing about a running install: the repo replaced Biome with **Oxlint 1.78.0 and Oxfmt 0.63.0**, formatting only newly added files to avoid a repository-wide rewrite ([#8930](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/14c6d777a1333693ab1749ec926f87d58d0e25c5)); several E2E targets moved out of dedicated workflow jobs into a shared catalogue and execution profile ([#8961](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/db4cab41a962503f56c7ec3ce247737da802593f), [#8966](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/2233f7833ab8d42e0c0f1dd6796a17c4745dfdc9), [#8963](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/7aba3cc17051ae3d0ac4ddc85e5ea23b0a75395f)); catalogue jobs got outcome-first display names ([#8986](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/337b1078083fd5c3f08cf955f508df7618b5e389)) and a risk-signal identity fix that had been failing main E2E runs before execution ([#8989](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/e39efa6647d3117b3214e6b7dd3c52f7647aaf81)); two lock tests had a real wall-clock race replaced with a stepping clock ([#8948](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/735e88e6da197e963122af63fb8bead0186551ff)); sandbox creation and a runtime adapter logger were centralized ([#8902](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/f47640c5120f57fe7a660fd5ad6ba8f400d05efe), [#8809](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/fa2144ad2508fadf267468bd388cb30e0d5b1542)); and contributor `dev:setup` now recognizes a Node heap OOM during type-checking and points at `NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=5120` instead of printing a V8 native stack ([#8968](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/b3d6003d5cc6154c849455987d41b6de120e3f66)). Resumed Local Ollama onboarding also got a provider-neutral step title ([#8867](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/commit/305bb4c3602539caccb557fc3c1908b91f8a008b)).

Quiet in this window

No new releases from [Hermes](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/) — [v0.20.0 "Herald"](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/2026-08-04/) from August 3 is still current, and still the one to upgrade carefully for (Node 26 required) — [Kilo Code](https://openclawdatabase.com/kilocode/), where [v7.4.21](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/2026-08-11/) from two days ago remains the latest, or [OpenAI](https://openclawdatabase.com/chatgpt/), unchanged since the [Daybreak Blue/Red split](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/2026-08-11/) on August 7.

Guides we're reviewing after this

- **[/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/security/) (April 18, now 117 days old) and [/claude-cowork/](https://openclawdatabase.com/claude-cowork/)** both owe the **local-session Compliance API**. This is the single most consequential thing in today's batch and it isn't documented anywhere aimed at the person actually typing into the session. "Your local agent transcripts are retrievable by your employer" is a sentence our security center should be the place people find.
- **[/openclaw/skills-guide/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/skills-guide/) and [/openclaw/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/security/)** need the **claude.ai-synced-skill hardening**. The generalizable lesson — a skill body synced from a shared surface used to run `!` commands and expand `@` files on your machine — is exactly the worked example our skills safety warning has been describing in the abstract. [/openclaw/security/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/security/) is now **129 days old** and remains the highest-value rewrite on the site.
- **[/openclaw/configuration/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/configuration/)** (May 16) now owes four items and the list is getting long: `crossSessionInbound`, `dialogExpiry`, the `archive` plugin source, and now **plugin marketplace command sources** plus `CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_PREFIX_STAGGER_MS`. Carried from the last two digests without action.
- **[/nemoclaw/setup/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/setup/)** (May 30) should carry the **headless-prompt lock deadlock** and its recovery, since scripted setup is precisely where it bites, plus the **macOS Homebrew 6.x** onboarding halt. The rebuild footgun flagged two days ago is still outstanding here.
- **[/nemoclaw/policy/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/policy/)** (May 30) owes the **portable-onboarding single-preset rule** — an overlapping preset selection surfaces as an opaque HTTP/2 stream reset, which is impossible to diagnose from the error alone.
- **[/hermes/](https://openclawdatabase.com/hermes/) and [/nemoclaw/skills/](https://openclawdatabase.com/nemoclaw/skills/)** should note the **per-sandbox Hermes API port range (8642–8652)**, especially the part where a snapshot clone previously landed in an unrepairable state.
- **[/openclaw/cost-optimisation/](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/cost-optimisation/)** (and any page projecting Sonnet 5 spend) should reflect that **$2/$10 is permanent** and there is no September increase. The [cost calculator](https://openclawdatabase.com/tools/cost-calculator/) is already correct; the prose has not caught up.

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