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herdr 0.7.0 is out, and it's a major one: it introduces plugins! the idea is simple: herdr stays lean, and everything custom gets extended through plugins. shareable, scoped, built however you want, to fit your own flow. with this release we're also shipping a few examples of what the plugin system can do. first up: a telegram plugin. herdr already controls your agents and knows their status, so the plugin just hooks into agent events and pings telegram the moment one needs you. notification lands → `herdr --remote` or ssh from your phone → straight back to the agent that needs you.

wow - this is huge! anthropic is officially walking back their decision about banning programmatic use of claude code subscription quota why is this a big deal? this is a signal that anthropic is revisiting their ecosystem strategy which many of us have been criticizing by allowing invoking claude code programmatically, anthropic will basically extend their subsidized subscription to power a much wider range of applications, not just their own, which effectively means they are leaning more into being an infrastructure provider rather than the super app that eats everything else they still have more to do to gain back my trust as a developer but this is a very positive change and i'm happy to see anthropic revisiting their strategy

🚨 Anthropic just updated its privacy policy. Claude Free, Pro, and Max users may soon be asked for age or identity checks. Verification data can include government ID, face photos/videos, and facial geometry templates. Individual developers are the first group in scope for verification.

New update on Fable 5: and it's less about jailbreaks than anyone initially thought. Via Axios The Axios story that just dropped today reframes the whole thing: Anthropic hired a cybersecurity expert to review Amazon's findings and push back on the government's narrative. The administration viewed her as a "radical Democrat." She was then publicly celebrated by Chris Krebs, the official Trump just fired. That didn't help. Behind the scenes, officials describe a company that simply doesn't know how to talk to this administration. "It's like they just speak different languages," one source said. "Everybody said Anthropic was a bad actor. Some of us said it was time to give them a chance. Now those people are questioning that. They screwed us." Today: Anthropic staffers meet with Commerce, the CIA, and White House science advisor Michael Kratsios to work through compliance with the cyber executive order. The technical question - can Fable 5 be jailbroken - is almost secondary now. This is a story about a company that keeps losing the room. Ill keep you updated.