Opus 4.6 live. Xcode 26.3 RC available. MCP ecosystem: 217+ servers.

> impact

Claude Opus 4.6 (Feb 4) adds agent teams (multi-agent orchestration), compaction (auto-summarize for long tasks), adaptive thinking (contextual extended reasoning), effort controls. Xcode 26.3 (Feb 2, RC) integrates Claude Agent SDK — autonomous task execution, Apple docs search, MCP interface for Previews from CLI. MCP Tool Search (Jan 2026) reduces context 85% via dynamic loading. Managed MCP config (Feb 2026) via managed-mcp.json with allowedMcpServers/deniedMcpServers policies.

> Try this now

try this

curl -fsSL https://code.claude.com/install.sh | sh
claude mcp add @modelcontextprotocol/server-github
claude mcp list
# Ask Claude: "What's the latest issue in my repo?"