AINewsnow

Claude Code moved its Explore subagent off Haiku in 2.1.198. Two env vars get it back for 60% less.

In February a post here said Claude Code's built-in Explore subagent is hard-coded to Haiku. I measured something different last week: on 2.1.318, an Opus session's Explore calls all ran on Opus. Both were right. I ran 205 headless sessions across 26 Claude Code versions to find out when it changed…

Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-11-08 05:26 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code moved its Explore subagent off Haiku in 2.1.198. Two env vars get it back for 60% less.

More stories

  1. Claude Code drives wave of community-built apps, tools and workflows — DEV Community — AI
  2. Anthropic launches Claude Personal Finance in the US with read-only bank access — Engadget
  3. Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' file exposed thousands of secrets in public GitHub repos — The Hacker News (security)
  4. Perplexity launches Teammates, always-on AI agents for ongoing work — The Verge AI
  5. Anthropic simplifies repo setup for Claude Code cloud sessions — Anthropic (X)
  6. Generate longer AI videos with Omni 1.2 Flash in Google Vids at no cost. — Google: The Keyword
  7. AI Daily Digest November 6, 2026: OpenAI Ships GPT-6 Cyber, Meta Buys Conductor, Anthropic Locks Down Claude Enterprise — DEV Community — AI
  8. Anthropic launches Personal Finance beta in Claude for US users — Anthropic (X)

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →