Workflow SDK AbortController + Claude Fable 5: Issue #38

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This week's AI tooling news splits cleanly between infrastructure you can ship today and capability bets that require more careful evaluation. Anthropic dropped two significant releases—Fable 5 and Managed Agents updates—while the Workflow SDK landed a cancellation primitive that eliminates entire categories of homegrown plumbing. Underneath all of it, a sharp incident review from Anthropic is the most practically useful thing published this week if you're running multi-turn agents in product

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This week's AI tooling news splits cleanly between infrastructure you can ship today and capability bets that require more careful evaluation. Anthropic dropped two significant releases—Fable 5 and Managed Agents updates—while the Workflow SDK landed a cancellation primitive that eliminates entire categories of homegrown plumbing. Underneath all of it, a sharp incident review from Anthropic is the most practically useful thing published this
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