Claude Code Hardening Meets Hook Blind Spots
Thursday, August 13, 2026 · 9 min
Claude Code v2.1.228 hardens synced skills and fixes runner/session bugs, while a reproducible MCP-hook report exposes permission logging drift; the rest is context observability, reversible compression, and Gemini trace fidelity for agent stacks.
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Claude Code v2.1.228 hardens synced skills and fixes runner/session bugs, while a reproducible MCP-hook report exposes permission logging drift; the rest is context observability, reversible compression, and Gemini trace fidelity for agent stacks.
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