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Claude Code 2.1.319 adds background MCP tasks and hard-deny permissions

Claude Code 2.1.319 moves MCP task tool calls to the background, adds permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting so unattended tools can fail instead of waiting, and changes auto-mode behavior when server checks are unavailable. It also adds gateway spend, pooled-budget, JSON-log and policy warnings.

Why it matters: The release changes how unattended work progresses and fails: background tasks reduce blocking, while hard denial and a nonzero headless exit when safety checks are unavailable make policy failure visible to automation.

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Claude Managed Agents adds budgets, advisors, geo pinning, and repository skills

Anthropic added hard session budgets, mid-turn advisor models, US or global inference placement, and automatic discovery of root .claude/skills content from mounted GitHub repositories to its Managed Agents beta.

Why it matters: Long-running agent operations now expose cost, reasoning escalation, data location, and skill supply-chain policy as first-class runtime controls.

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