In the News: September 19, 2026
Claude Code 2.1.278 stops charging for auto mode's safety classifier, unless a gateway between you and the API is rewriting the traffic.
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Claude Code stops billing server-side auto mode checks
In auto mode a classifier checks actions such as shell commands and network requests before they run. Anthropic's documentation says that from 2.1.278 Claude Code asks the server to perform those checks as part of the session's own model…
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