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  1. Claude

    Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents, your server

    Your agents’ session history can now live on your own server. Claude Platform’s Nov 12, 2026 release notes launch self-hosted Claude Managed Agents, where you run the whole service and not only the sandboxes. Access goes through the Anthropic account team and isn’t self-serve.

    SourceClaude docs: Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents

    🌶️🌶️Worth a lookMedium: worth a look
  2. Grok Bot

    Grok Bot can now join your Meet, Zoom or Teams call

    Send your Bot to the meeting and read the recap later. On Team, Enterprise and Ultra plans, Grok Bot’s Nov 11, 2026 update lets a Bot join a Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams call from a link, answer in the meeting chat and send a summary afterward.

    SourceGrok Bot changelog: Meetings, Microsoft Teams, and shared connectors, Nov 11, 2026

    🌶️🌶️Worth a lookMedium: worth a look
  3. Copilot

    Dependabot alerts turn off on idle repos Dec 8, 2026

    Dependabot alerts go quiet on repos with no activity for a year, starting Dec 8, 2026. GitHub announced the change on Nov 10, 2026, and says existing alerts are archived, not deleted.

    SourceGitHub Changelog: Dependabot alerts will pause on inactive repositories, Nov 10, 2026

    🌶️🌶️Worth a lookMedium: worth a look

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Snack Pack #5: Mark the dates before the switches flip

Two dates are closing in on your GitHub setup. The legacy GitHub app in Microsoft Teams retires on Nov 16, Cursor cloud agents can now publish shareable live apps and OpenAI opens GPT-6 Cyber to a select group of Daybreak Red defenders.

Dependabot alerts pause on idle repositories on Dec 8, while Claude Code’s “Don’t ask again” can save secrets, Claude adds IP allowlists and Copilot offers Claude Fable 5.2.

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Snack Pack #5: Mark the dates before the switches flip

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  1. 01 🌶️🌶️🌶️Act nowSpicy: act now (security, deadline, breaking, big launch)
  2. 02 🌶️🌶️🌶️Act nowSpicy: act now (security, deadline, breaking, big launch)
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The Main Course ~11 min read

Carbon or Argon, and what changes on Dec 1

Gemini 4 API prices double on Dec 1, and Gemini 4 Carbon is the model that spends the most tokens.

Carbon and Argon share one per-token price ($2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens through Nov 30, 2026, then $4 and $20), so the real cost gap is how long each one thinks.

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A back office that files itself every day

Bills, receipts and due dates stop piling up in your inbox. SoloTech (@solotechdev) gives Claude Duet four small jobs every day across his two companies.

Thanks to SoloTech for laying out the whole routine in one short post.