Claude Code v1.0.70

Release Context

• This was the 85th Claude Code release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
• It shipped 1 day after Claude Code v1.0.69 (August 5, 2025).

Shipped around the same time

Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:

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• OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.19.0 (August 8, 2025)
• Gemini CLI v0.1.17-nightly.250808.60362e03 (August 8, 2025)
• OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.16.0 (August 7, 2025)

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