Week 21 · May 18–22, 2026
Use auto mode on the Pro plan and with Sonnet 4.6, see which skills, subagents, and MCP servers drive your plan limits in /usage, and review diffs with the new /code-review command.
Auto mode is now available on the Pro plan and supports Sonnet 4.6 alongside Opus. It replaces permission prompts with background safety checks: routine actions run without interrupting you, and destructive or suspicious ones are blocked and surfaced.
Update Claude Code, then cycle modes with Shift+Tab; auto mode appears once your account meets the requirements:
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Other wins
/usage now shows a per-category breakdown of what's driving your plan limits, attributing recent usage to skills, subagents, plugins, and individual MCP servers/extra-usage is now /usage-credits. The old name still works./code-review command reports correctness bugs at a chosen effort level such as /code-review high, and --comment posts findings as inline GitHub PR comments. /simplify remains as a separate cleanup-only review./resume alongside interactive ones, marked with bg, and sessions pinned with Ctrl+T in claude agents stay alive when idleclaude agents --json lists live sessions as JSON for scripting, such as status bars and session pickersCLAUDE\_CODE\_USE\_POWERSHELL\_TOOL=0claude plugin disable now refuses when another enabled plugin depends on the target, and claude plugin enable force-enables transitive dependencies/plugin marketplace browse pane shows projected context cost, and the Discover and Browse screens list a plugin's commands, agents, skills, hooks, and MCP/LSP servers before installationworktree.bgIsolation: "none" setting lets background sessions edit the working copy directly without EnterWorktree, for repos where worktrees are impractical/diff detail view scrolls with the keyboardallowAllClaudeAiMcps managed setting loads claude.ai cloud MCP connectors alongside managed-mcp.json