Claude Opus 4.7 with the new xhigh effort level, Routines on Claude Code on the web, mobile push notifications that ping your phone when Claude needs you, a /usage breakdown that shows what's driving your limits, and native binaries replacing the bundled JavaScript.
Anthropic's strongest coding model yet is now the default on Max and Team Premium, and available everywhere else from /model. It adds a new xhigh effort level that sits between high and max: best results for most coding and agentic tasks, applied as the default the first time you switch to 4.7. /effort now opens an interactive arrow-key slider when you call it without arguments, so you can dial intelligence against speed without remembering the level names.
Switch model and effort in one go:
> /model opus
> /effort xhigh
Templated cloud agents that fire on a schedule, a GitHub event, or an API call. Define a routine once on Claude Code on the web with a prompt, the repos it can touch, and the connectors it needs, then let PR-opened, release-published, or your own webhook trigger it without your machine running. The trigger picker now covers GitHub events with optional filters and gives every routine a tokened /fire endpoint for external systems.
Create one from the web UI, or scaffold from your terminal:
> /schedule daily PR review at 9am
More visibility into where your Claude Code usage goes. /usage now shows what's driving your limits: parallel sessions, subagents, cache misses, and long context, each with a percentage of your last 24 hours and a tip to optimize it. Press d or w to switch between day and week views.
Run it any time:
> /usage
With Remote Control connected, Claude can send a push notification to your phone when a long task finishes or it needs a decision to keep going. Turn it on with "Push when Claude decides" in /config, or ask for one in your prompt. Useful when you kick off a long agent run and want to step away from the terminal.
Ask Claude to ping you when it's done:
> notify me when the tests pass
The claude CLI now spawns a native per-platform binary instead of bundled JavaScript, so the installed claude command no longer invokes Node. The npm package pulls the right binary in through an optional dependency such as @anthropic-ai/claude-code-darwin-arm64, so your install command doesn't change. The standalone installer already shipped this binary; npm now matches it.
Upgrade and check what you're running:
claude update
claude --version
Other wins
/ultrareview: comprehensive code review in the cloud using parallel multi-agent analysis and an adversarial critique pass. Run it bare to review your current branch, or /ultrareview \ for a specific PR--enable-auto-mode flag is no longer required/recap on demand or turn it off from /config/tui command and tui setting switch between classic and flicker-free rendering mid-conversation; focus view moved from Ctrl+O to its own /focus commandmonitors manifest key that auto-arms at session start or on skill invoke/theme follows your terminal's dark/light mode/fewer-permission-prompts scans your transcripts for common read-only Bash and MCP calls and proposes an allowlist for .claude/settings.json/init, /review, and /security-review via the Skill toolPreCompact hooks can block compaction by exiting with code 2 or returning {"{"}"decision":"block"{"}"}ENABLE\_PROMPT\_CACHING\_1H opts API key, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry users into 1-hour prompt cache TTLsandbox.network.deniedDomains setting carves specific domains out of a broader allowedDomains wildcard/undo is now an alias for /rewind, and /proactive is an alias for /loopenv/sudo/watch wrappers, and Bash(find:\*) allow rules no longer auto-approve -exec or -delete