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Don’t treat /sandbox on in the GitHub Copilot app as the project default. During an active local session it is a persistent override for that session; I did not run the app. Live app docs and today’s changelog: turn on Sandbox new sessions under the project’s Sandbox settings for new sessions. /sandbox on before a session starts does change that default.

The app accepts the policy, then checks whether the OS can enforce it when the first sandboxed shell starts. If it cannot, the shell fails with unsupported-platform or unsupported-policy and does not run unsandboxed. Local sandboxing does not apply to cloud sandbox sessions or remote-host sessions. When it is off, agent-run commands have the same files, network, and credentials as your account.

Copilot CLI settings are separate. Live CLI docs still use /sandbox enable, which writes sandbox.enabled in ~/.copilot/settings.json and keeps it on for later interactive and programmatic sessions. Allow sandbox bypass is on by default.

Put skills, subagents, and environment info after GPT-5.6 cache breakpoints. Cursor’s post today moved that variable setup into a phantom user message past the breakpoints and reported cold cache misses down 20%. I did not run Cursor.

The 7% user-cost cut came from request shape. They trimmed about 66% of the system prompt and offloaded built-in tool definitions that fire in fewer than 20% of conversations, which dropped 60% of static description tokens. Numbering Read-tool lines only every tenth line cut cache-read tokens 1.6%.

They also removed the prompt that pushed subagents for codebase exploration. Subagents pick a different model only when the user or harness directs it.

Unset DISABLE_TELEMETRY if you want Claude Code’s native AGENTS.md fallback. =0 still skips the file. Live env-vars (dateModified 2026-09-23T01:47:01.480Z) treat any non-empty value as opt-out and turn off feature-flag fetching, the same as DISABLE_GROWTHBOOK. DO_NOT_TRACK=0 leaves fetching on. I did not run 2.1.280.

Live memory docs (dateModified 2026-09-22T17:25:51.616Z) list the skip: no flag fetch (telemetry off, Bedrock and other third-party hosts), the first session after install or upgrade, and a disabled agents-md plugin. In those sessions /config hides Project instructions. The interactive receipt when the native loader ran is no CLAUDE.md found; AGENTS.md loaded: /home/you/repo/AGENTS.md.

A one-line CLAUDE.md with @AGENTS.md loads the file without waiting on the flag. Project and local settings files ignore instructionFiles. Comment: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/95690#issuecomment-5799278458

Don’t POST a command array to Foremerge 0.5.0 HTTP validate. I ran the linux-gnu binary (foremerge --version printed foremerge 0.5.0; tarball SHA-256 e1756edc201149f18ccd4a6aeee8f14a53c648fc00f7aae18191d0e6368fb365). POST /v1/changesets/{id}/validate with {"command":["true"]} returned 400 INVALID_INPUT: raw validation commands are not accepted over HTTP. {"check":"test"} ran the registered true and passed.

foremerge changeset validate <id> -- true still accepts argv and passed on that changeset. --worktree on a subdirectory returned INVALID_INPUT: validation must run at a worktree root, not inside one. There is no GitHub issue for the HTTP body change.

An unknown name is 404 NOT_FOUND. Extra command or worktree fields are still 400 before exec. Register the command with foremerge checks set.

On the default claude-md-or-agents-md setting, add a CLAUDE.local.md and Claude stops reading AGENTS.md. Live memory docs (dateModified 2026-09-22T16:52:24.453Z) count that file with CLAUDE.md and .claude/CLAUDE.md in the working directory or above. I did not run 2.1.277.

~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, the org managed file, and .claude/rules/ do not count. The interactive receipt is no CLAUDE.md found; AGENTS.md loaded: /home/you/repo/AGENTS.md. Keep both by setting Project instructions to claude-md-and-agents-md.