Claude Code Pro gets cloud credit, Version 2.1.291 fixes message losses, Claude Code runs tasks on VMs

Your daily Claude Code briefing. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building. Edition date: 2026-10-09 Chapters: 00:00 Anthropic is giving Claude Code Pro and Max subscribers a one-time cloud credit, claimable until October 7 01:22 Claude Code 2.1.291 fixes dropped permission answers and lost final messages 02:09 Claude Code can run each task on its own virtual computer, and a guide lists seven ways to use it 02:47 Sonnet 5.5 becomes Claude Code's default Sonnet at unchanged prices, but one test found it no cheaper than Opus 03:48 Claude Code v2.1.293 makes Haiku 5.5 the default Haiku model, with a 1M-token context Claude Code Review · claudecodereview.ai