Week 33 · August 10–14, 2026

Claude Code Desktop auto-continues after a usage limit resets, fork mode turns on by default, and GitLab merge requests and marketplaces join GitHub.

Releases v2.1.225 → v2.1.2333 features · August 10–14

<div className="digest-feature"> <div className="digest-feature-header"> <span className="digest-feature-title">Auto-continue after a usage limit on Desktop</span> <span className="digest-feature-pill">Desktop</span> </div>

When you hit your session limit in the Code tab of Claude Code Desktop, the limit card now offers an Auto-continue when limits reset checkbox. Check it, and the Desktop app retries the interrupted turn after the reset. The card shows the retry time. The weekly-limit card doesn't offer it.

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The next time a session-limit card appears, check Auto-continue when limits reset and leave the session open. The card shows Auto-resuming at followed by the reset time, and the turn picks up on its own once the limit resets.

What to do when you hit a usage limit

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Fork mode on by defaultv2.1.232

Fork mode is now on by default in interactive sessions. Claude can request the fork subagent type, which inherits the full conversation and prompt cache instead of starting fresh, so you don't have to re-explain the context for a side task. Subagents Claude spawns in interactive sessions, apart from the ones an agent-team teammate spawns, also run in the background by default.

Start a fork yourself with a task that needs everything you've discussed so far:

> /subtask draft unit tests for the parser changes so far

The fork appears in the panel below your prompt and its result arrives in your conversation when it finishes. To turn fork mode off, set CLAUDE\_CODE\_FORK\_SUBAGENT=0.

Turn fork mode on or off

GitLab merge requests and marketplacesv2.1.232

Plugin marketplaces clone bare gitlab.com URLs, including nested subgroups. On v2.1.233 or later, pass a GitLab merge request URL to --worktree to branch from it, and the claude agents view labels sessions linked to a merge request as !N. Claude Code also redacts GitLab token families such as glpat- and glrt-, and protects the glab CLI's config store the same way it protects gh.

Start a session in a worktree branched from a merge request:

claude --worktree https://gitlab.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/42

When origin is on gitlab.com, Claude Code fetches merge-requests/42/head and opens the session on that branch in its own worktree.

Branch a worktree from a pull or merge request

<div className="digest-wins"> <p className="digest-wins-title">Other wins</p> <div className="digest-wins-grid"> <div>Type <code>@</code> in the prompt to <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging#message-another-session">mention another Claude session</a> by name, and Claude messages it directly with <code>SendMessage</code>; a bare name that matches exactly one live session now delivers without a confirmation step</div> <div>Interactive sessions on one machine keep <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging#see-which-sessions-claude-can-reach">unique names</a>: if you start or rename a session with a name another live session already uses, Claude Code gives yours a <code>name-word-word</code> variant and tells you</div> <div>Plugin marketplaces accept <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-marketplaces#command-sources"><code>command</code> sources</a>: a local command prints the plugin directory, which Claude Code re-resolves each session and applies without a restart</div> <div>On Linux and WSL, set <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference#memory-limit-on-linux-and-wsl"><code>CLAUDE\_CODE\_TOOL\_MEMORY\_LIMIT</code></a> to a size such as <code>4G</code> to cap the memory Bash and PowerShell tool commands can use</div> <div>The task-tracking tools, such as <code>TaskCreate</code>, <code>TaskUpdate</code>, and <code>TodoWrite</code>, are <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference#task-tool-availability">no longer available on Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, Fable 5, Mythos 5, and later models in those families</a>; set <code>CLAUDE\_CODE\_ENABLE\_TODO\_TOOLS=1</code> to re-enable them</div> <div><a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/code-review#review-a-diff-locally"><code>/code-review</code></a> at high, xhigh, and max effort now runs in a background agent like the other levels</div> <div><a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/discover-plugins#install-plugins"><code>/plugin install plugin\@marketplace</code></a> refreshes the marketplace first, so newly published plugins install without a manual marketplace update</div> <div>Settings accept <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings-reference#marketplace-key-aliases"><code>additionalMarketplaces</code> and <code>allowedMarketplaces</code></a> as aliases for <code>extraKnownMarketplaces</code> and <code>strictKnownMarketplaces</code></div> <div>On newer models, Claude can <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference#write-tool-behavior">overwrite an existing file with the Write tool</a> without reading it first this session, matching the Edit tool's rules; older models require the read</div> <div>The VS Code extension can <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code#organize-sessions-into-groups">organize the sessions list into groups</a>: right-click to create, rename, or delete a group, and Cmd/Ctrl- or Shift-click to move several sessions at once</div> <div>If your organization routes Claude Code through a <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-apps-gateway-spend-limits">Claude apps gateway with spend limits</a>, Claude Code shows the limit period, its reset time, and the operator's message when you reach the limit</div> </div> </div>

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