Claude Dashboards and Motion in beta, Claude Code 2.1.296

Claude Dashboards builds a dashboard from a plain-language request and keeps it current as data changes. Each chart shows its query and last refresh time. It connects to Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, Snowflake and CRMs such as Salesforce. Claude Motion turns a prompt into a short animated explainer, built as editable code rather than generated video, and exports it to MP4.

Teams may be able to query and chart their own data without waiting on an analyst. The query is visible, so check the numbers. Enterprise admins have to switch the features on themselves.

A subagent definition can now set autoCompactWindow so it compacts (summarizes) its context earlier than the main conversation. CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_SUBAGENT_MODEL runs all workflow agents on a single model. There is also a new env var that lengthens the max backoff for overloaded (529) retries, and an allow_large option on the Read tool.

Long-running subagents may hit context limits less often, and one model makes workflow cost easier to control. Teams running managed policies should know that a managed PreToolUse hook that denies a call no longer ends the turn. The notes also show Sonnet 5.5 cache-read pricing in cost displays changing from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens. It is not confirmed whether that reflects an API price change.