Claude Desktop & Claude Code HUGE Update: Talk to Claude, Code in Browser, Sandbox & New Skills!

Description

Anthropic has released a number of major updates to both Claude Code and Claude Desktop, making the AI assistant and coding agent even more useful. Claude can now proactively ask users for clarifications when necessary, which makes interactions much more efficient. The Claude Desktop application is now generally available and can be accessed via the menu bar or a shortcut (tapping options twice on Mac OS). A particularly neat feature allows users to drag and select an area of their screen, sending that image content directly to Claude Desktop for analysis and explanation. The video covers the new "Talk to Claude" feature, which can be triggered by pressing the caps lock button, allowing Claude to transcribe speech. For those interested in speech transcription into any text box on Mac OS, a companion application is mentioned as a potentially better option than the caps lock trigger. A highly anticipated feature is the ability to use Claude Code on the web, offering a similar experience to Codec or Codec Cla. Users can connect their GitHub account and assign a task to the agent, which can then create a Pull Request (PR). This web version allows the use of environment variables and the definition of network access (trusted, no access, or custom). Multiple asynchronous agents can be run concurrently. Security and safety have also been addressed with the introduction of Sandbox, which isolates the operations Claude performs, limiting them to a specific folder or set of files. This is especially important when using "yolo mode," which performs operations without asking for permissions. Anthropic has open-sourced this runtime environment, called the anthropic sandbox runtime environment, allowing others to build agents that require a sandbox. Research shows that sandboxing safely reduces permission prompts by 84%. Finally, the updates include the ability to use Claude Skills directly within Claude Code. Claude Desktop and the web version include a "skill creator" capability that can be used to generate custom skills, such as one created using uploaded ADK documentations. This allows users to instruct Claude Code to use a specific skill, such as creating a multi-agent system using the Google agent development kit for a customer support agent. The video also highlights an alternative state-of-the-art model and ChatGPT alternative, Kim K2, and its agent mode, Okay Computer, which can create working web pages and web apps from a single prompt. #ClaudeDesktop #ClaudeCode #Anthropic #AIAgent #LLMUpdates #TalkToClaude #CodeInBrowser #PromptEngineering #MacOSS #SandboxEnvironment #OpenSourceSandbox #ClaudeSkills #SkillCreator #ADKSkill #AsynchronousAgents #GitHubIntegration #YoloMode #KimK2 #OkayComputer #AICoding