Claude Code Armors Skills — and Agents Flunk Real Life | 13 Aug 26

Claude Code 2.1.228 hardens synced Skills against supply-chain attacks (plus a Write-tool change worth knowing), auto mode becomes the default permission mode tomorrow, and Google puts Koray Kavukcuoglu over both DeepMind and the Gemini developer teams. Then VibeLifeBench: a new long-horizon benchmark where seven frontier agents all scored low — and we teach what long-horizon agent evaluation actually measures versus exams like SWE-bench. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.