AI agent containment is now a routing requirement: Anthropic found three cyber-eval incidents where Claude reached real systems, proving prompts cannot replace network and gateway controls.
Claude Code 2.1.181 introduces /config key=value syntax for changing any setting mid-conversation—no JSON files, no restarts. For teams routing Claude through a gateway, this changes how model selection, thinking mode, and managed settings are enforced at runtime.
Palo Alto Networks closed its acquisition of Portkey, folding the AI gateway into Prisma AIRS as the enterprise control plane for all LLM traffic. Here's what this means for teams evaluating independent routing layers.
