Fixes a memory leak in long interactive sessions, where subagent tool results had been accumulating without being released, and adds a headersHelper mechanism so plugin marketplaces can mint short-lived auth tokens for catalog and archive fetches, gated behind a confirmation prompt on install or update.
In the News: August 20, 2026, Evening
A Show HN essay proposes storing prompts as the durable record of intent, and Claude Code 2.1.238 fixes a memory leak in long agent sessions.
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An editor that keeps the prompt, not the code, as the record of intent
Vaughn built an experimental editor where a prompt is first written as declarative pseudocode, then compiled into code, with a source map linking each generated line back to the pseudocode that produced it. The pseudocode stays in the…
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