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Anthropic products and research - Claude models, Claude Code, and the Agent SDK.
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Claude Science Developer Guide 2026: AI Workbench for Research
Anthropic's Claude Science combines scientific tools, local code execution, and HPC integration into one AI workbench. Here is how to access it, what it costs, and where it fits alongside Claude Code.
8 min read
MCP Servers vs Agent Skills: Which to Build in 2026
A decision framework for 2026: MCP servers give an agent access to a live system, Agent Skills teach it how to do a task. Here is when to build each, when to build both, and the criteria that actually decide it, grounded in the MCP spec and Anthropic's skills docs.
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Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6: Should You Upgrade?
Claude Sonnet 5 lands near Opus 4.8 on some tasks for a fraction of the price - but a new tokenizer runs about 30 percent more tokens. Here is the upgrade decision for builders, with the numbers.
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Orchestrating a Fleet of Agents with Fable 5
Fable 5 changes multi-agent orchestration because the orchestrator can now hold the whole project in one head. Here is the manager-model pattern: a 1M-context frontier model leading, delegating scoped work to cheaper workers, and verifying results.
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Running Fable 5 Agent Fleets in Production: The Operations Guide
Standing up a fleet of Fable 5 agents is the easy part. This is the operations layer - data retention rules, refusal-rate alerting, effort tuning, observability, and availability planning - that keeps the fleet running.
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Fable 5 Is Back: The Anthropic Model the Government Switched Off
Anthropic's most capable model launched, got suspended by a US export-control order, and returned today. Here is what Fable 5 is, what changed on the way back, and whether builders should reach for it.
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Running Fable 5 Agents on Vercel's eve Framework
Vercel's eve gives you the agent plumbing - durable sessions, sandboxed code execution, approvals, subagents - as a folder of files. Fable 5 gives you a long-horizon reasoning model. Here is how to wire them together, what it costs, and who the stack fits.
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Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: Which Should Orchestrate Your Agents?
The orchestrator is the most important model choice in an agent fleet. A fair head-to-head between Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 for that role, with a decision matrix by run length, budget, compliance, and refusal-handling tolerance.
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Refusals at Fleet Scale: Building Fable 5 Agents That Do Not Silently Fail
Fable 5 refusals come back as a 200 response, not an error. At fleet scale, that quietly corrupts entire runs. Here is how to detect, fall back, and treat refusal rate as a health metric.
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Long-Horizon Agents: What Fable 5's 1M Context and Memory Actually Unlock
1M context, 128K output, a memory tool, compaction, and task budgets change what a single agent run can cover. Here is what is verified, what is plausible, and six projects builders can try now.
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Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
A developer reverse-engineered Claude Code and found hidden markers that classify users by timezone, domain, and API keywords - using unicode apostrophe swaps and date format changes.
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Claude Sonnet 5 Launch Analysis: The Most Agentic Sonnet Yet
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5 with improved agentic capabilities, better tool use, and an introductory pricing deal. Here's what developers need to know.
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Anthropic Claude Tag Turns Slack Into a Shared Agent Workspace
Claude Tag is Anthropic's new Slack-based beta for Team and Enterprise users. The important shift is not chat convenience - it is shared agent identity, channel context, and team-visible work.
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Claude Code's Extended Thinking Is a Summary - What That Means for You
A developer discovered that Claude Code's thinking output is summarized, not the raw reasoning. Here's what Anthropic's docs actually say - and why it matters.
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Claude Code Permissions: A Practical settings.json Guide for Allow, Deny, and Ask Rules
Stop the approval-fatigue prompts without going full YOLO mode. A hands-on guide to Claude Code's permission system - settings.json scopes, allow/deny/ask rules, tool specifiers, and the headless flags that actually matter.
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Claude Mythos vs Fable 5: What Is the Difference?
Mythos 5 and Fable 5 are the same underlying model. The difference is who can use it and what safeguards sit on top. Here is the breakdown, and why both got suspended together.
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Is Claude Fable 5 Down? Why It Is Unavailable (June 2026)
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are unavailable for everyone as of June 12, 2026. It is not an outage. The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access. Here is the status, the cause, and what to use instead.
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The US Government Just Pulled Fable 5: What Happened
Anthropic received an export control directive at 5:21pm ET and had to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. Here is what we know, what still works, and what to do if Fable is in your stack.
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Why the US Government Pulled Fable 5: Four Theories
A narrow jailbreak that other models can match does not get a frontier model recalled. So what actually happened? The plausible explanations, ranked.
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Claude Agents vs Skills: Which One Do You Actually Need?
Claude agents vs skills, untangled: agents are workers with their own context window, skills are instructions loaded on demand. Here is the decision table.
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Claude Code Dynamic Workflows: The Complete Guide
Claude Code dynamic workflows turn orchestration into a JavaScript script that runs up to 1,000 agents per run - here is how scripts, schemas, budgets, and resume actually work.
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The Claude Tokenizer Change: What ~30% More Tokens Means for Your Bill
Anthropic's docs say the tokenizer introduced with Opus 4.7 can use up to 35% more tokens for the same text. Here is what that does to per-request cost, max_tokens, and cross-model comparisons.
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Fable 5 with 1M Context: What Actually Works in Practice
Fable 5 1M context workflows that actually work: whole-repo reviews, log archaeology, multi-doc synthesis - plus the honest math on when RAG still wins.
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Fable 5 Effort Levels Explained: low to xhigh, and What They Cost You
Fable 5 effort levels explained: what low, medium, high, xhigh, and max actually change, which models support each level, and how effort drives your token bill.
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Handling Long-Running Fable 5 Requests: Timeouts, Streaming, and Background Patterns
Fable 5 long-running requests can run for many minutes per turn and hours per autonomous run. Here is how to configure client timeouts, streaming keepalive, batch polling, and background patterns so they actually finish.
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Setting Up the Memory Tool with Fable 5: Persistent Agents That Learn
Anthropic says persistent file-based memory improved Fable 5 three times more than it improved Opus 4.8. Here is the full memory tool setup - handlers, security, and context editing included.
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The Fable 5 Orchestrator Playbook: One Smart Model Managing Cheap Workers
A practical playbook for running Claude Fable 5 as the orchestrator over Sonnet and Haiku workers, with verified cost math on when the premium pays off.
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Prompt Caching Economics on Fable 5: When the 5-Minute TTL Pays
Fable 5 prompt caching economics: cache-write vs cache-read pricing, 5-minute vs 1-hour TTL break-even math, and worked agent-loop examples.
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Fable 5 Task Budgets: Capping Agent Spend Before It Happens
Task budgets give Claude a token countdown for the whole agentic loop, so the model paces itself instead of discovering the limit when max_tokens truncates it. Here is how the beta works on Fable 5, what it does not enforce, and where it fits next to effort and the Usage API.
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How to Use Claude Fable 5: Every Access Path Explained
How to use Claude Fable 5 across every access path: claude.ai plans through June 22, the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry, with setup effort and first-prompt tips.
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Is Claude Fable 5 Slow? Latency in Practice, and When It Matters
Claude Fable 5 latency measured: 109 seconds to first token at max effort vs 1.4s for Sonnet 4.6. When slow is fine, when it hurts, and how to route around it.
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Recursive Self-Improvement: What Fable 5, Dario's Essay, and Anthropic's Own Data Actually Tell Us
In one 48-hour window Anthropic shipped Fable 5, Dario Amodei called for FAA-style model testing, and the Anthropic Institute published internal data on AI building AI. Here is what recursive self-improvement actually means, and how far along the loop really is.
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Rewriting Your Prompts and Skills for Fable 5
Rewriting prompts and skills for Fable 5: what changes when you migrate agents from Opus 4.x, how effort interplay works, and which old workarounds now hurt.
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Ultracode: Claude Code Multi-Agent Orchestration Mode Explained
Ultracode is two documented things: a prompt keyword that turns one task into a dynamic workflow, and an /effort setting that pairs xhigh reasoning with automatic orchestration. Here is exactly what the docs say.
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12 Ways Developers Are Actually Leveraging Claude Fable 5
Twelve documented Claude Fable 5 use patterns - agent orchestration, overnight runs, 1M-context refactors, effort tuning - each with a how-to seed and doc link.
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The Pushback on Amodei's Exponential Essay: Too Slow, Too Convenient, or About Right?
Within hours of Dario Amodei publishing 'Policy on the AI Exponential,' critics surfaced across Hacker News and the tech press. We surveyed the actual reactions, characterized each fairly, and weighed which critiques matter most if they turn out to be right.
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Decoding Anthropic's Model Names: Fable, Mythos, and What the Naming Shift Signals
Anthropic broke its own naming ladder when it introduced the Mythos class and Claude Fable 5. Here is what the shift means, how to map each tier to a real workload, and what questions it leaves open.
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Why Claude Desktop Quietly Installs a 1.8 GB VM on Windows (And What You Can Do About It)
Claude Desktop spawns a Hyper-V virtual machine consuming roughly 1.8 GB of RAM on every Windows launch - even when you only open it for chat. Here is what the VM is for, who gets hit hardest, and the workarounds that actually work.
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Handling Fable 5 Refusals: A Working Guide to the Fallback API
Fable 5 ships with safety classifiers that route flagged requests away from the model. In production you need to handle this, and Anthropic shipped three ways to do it. Here's how each one works, with code, plus the billing rules nobody has written up.
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Fable 5 Leaves Your Claude Plan on June 22. Here's How to Plan for It
Anthropic gave subscribers two weeks of free Fable 5 access, then it moves to usage credits. Here's what's actually changing, what the real-world burn rates look like, and what to do depending on how you use Claude.
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Claude Managed Agents: Dreaming, Outcomes, and Multi-Agent Orchestration Explained
Anthropic added three new primitives to Claude Managed Agents in spring 2026 - dreaming, outcomes, and multi-agent orchestration. Here is how each one works and when to use them together.
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Claude Managed Agents Public Beta: What's Actually Available vs What's Gated
Claude Managed Agents is in public beta with solid sandboxing and session persistence - but the headline orchestration features are still locked behind a research preview waitlist. Here's what teams can actually ship today, what it costs, and when DIY alternatives make more sense.
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How Claude's Usage Limits Actually Work With Fable 5: Windows, Multipliers, and Burn Rates
Fable 5 drains the 5-hour rolling window dramatically faster than Opus or Sonnet. Here is what the plan multipliers actually mean in practice, what changes on June 22, and how to make your allocation last.
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Dario Amodei Wants FAA-Style AI Regulation: Open Questions for Developers
Anthropic's CEO just called for mandatory third-party testing and government power to block AI deployments. What does that actually mean for the developers building on these models?
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The Dario Paradox: Warning About the Exponential While Shipping It
On the same day Dario Amodei called for FAA-style mandatory testing of frontier AI, Anthropic shipped Fable 5 - the public face of Mythos - with classifier guardrails and a June 22 pricing window. Responsible disclosure or a live contradiction?
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Claude Fable 5 API: Production Integration Patterns, Rate Limits, and Migration Gotchas
Everything you need to ship Claude Fable 5 in production - from the API surface changes and adaptive thinking defaults to rate limit strategy, streaming latency, and the June 15 deprecation deadline for older models.
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Fable 5 on AWS Bedrock: When Your Data Leaves the AWS Boundary
Running Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock requires opting into a data-sharing mode that sends your inference traffic outside the AWS security perimeter to Anthropic for 30-day retention. Here is exactly what happens, who is affected, and what your alternatives are.
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Fable 5 Broke Enterprise ZDR Agreements: What Dev Teams Must Do Now
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 mandates 30-day data retention on every platform, overriding existing Zero Data Retention contracts for enterprise API customers. Here is what compliance teams and developers need to audit before their next deployment.
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Fable 5 for Government and Regulated Teams: The GovCloud Question
Fable 5 on Bedrock requires opting into data sharing with Anthropic, which sends inference data outside the AWS boundary. Here is what that means for GovCloud, FedRAMP, ITAR, and CJIS workloads - and what your realistic options are right now.
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Fable 5 Before June 22: The Decision Checklist for Every Plan Tier
12 days out from the Fable 5 promotional window closing on claude.ai, here is the practical checklist for Pro users, Max subscribers, teams, and API developers - what to decide, what to test, and what not to worry about.
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Why Fable 5 Refuses Your Cybersecurity Queries (And How the Fallback Works)
Claude Fable 5 routes blocked queries to Opus 4.8 rather than refusing outright - but the fallback is not automatic for API users and requires explicit configuration. Here is the complete developer guide to the refusal architecture.
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Fable 5's Hidden Guardrails: What Developers Need to Know About Silent Degradation
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 includes undisclosed interventions that silently degrade responses for certain ML development tasks - no fallback notice, no refusal, just worse answers.
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Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: A Data-Driven Decision Guide for Engineering Teams
Fable 5 posts an 80.3% SWE-Bench Pro score and costs 2x Opus 4.8 - here is the task-profile scoring guide that tells you when the premium pays off.
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Migrating to Claude Fable 5: The Practical Guide
Fable 5 is mostly a drop-in replacement for Opus 4.8, but 'mostly' is doing real work in that sentence. Here's every breaking change, what to delete from your code, and the prompt audit you should run before flipping the model ID.
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OpenAI Agents SDK vs Claude Agent SDK: Building Agents on the Two Big Platforms
A practical comparison of OpenAI's Agents SDK and Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK - orchestration models, tool ecosystems, sandboxing, and how to choose the right platform for your team.
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Claude Mythos 5 Explained: What It Is, Who Can Access It, and Why It's Gated
Anthropic shipped two names for one architecture on June 9, 2026. Here is what separates Fable 5 from Mythos 5, who can actually get unrestricted access, and what developers should do right now.
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Claude Opus 4.8 Is an Agent Honesty Release
Claude Opus 4.8 looks like a benchmark bump, but the developer story is better honesty, dynamic workflows, and effort controls that make long-running agent work easier to review.
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Anthropic Buying Stainless Is About Agent Plumbing
Anthropic's Stainless acquisition is not just an SDK deal. It is a bet that agents need generated SDKs, CLIs, docs, and MCP servers from the same source of truth.
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Claude Code Agent Teams, Subagents, and MCP: The 2026 Playbook
Claude Code is turning into an orchestration layer for agent teams. Here is how subagents, MCP, hooks, and long context fit together in 2026.
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Claude Design: Anthropic's Bet That Designers and Developers Want the Same Tool
Claude Design generates a full design system from your repo, ships one-shot pricing pages, and exports clean HTML/CSS to your coding agent. Here is what it actually does, where it slots in for developers, and why this is more interesting than another AI UI generator.
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Claude Opus 4.7: The Developer's Guide to Anthropic's New Flagship
Opus 4.7 is here. Sharper coding, longer agentic runs, better tool use, and a price that finally makes Opus livable for production. Here's everything devs need to know.
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Claude Code Usage Limits in 2026: The Practical Playbook for Pro and Max Teams
A practical operational guide to Claude Code usage limits in 2026: plan behavior, API key pitfalls, routing choices, and team controls using hooks and subagents.
9 min read
Anthropic vs OpenAI: Developer Experience Compared
Two platforms, two philosophies. Here is how Anthropic and OpenAI compare on APIs, SDKs, documentation, pricing, and the actual experience of building with each.
8 min read
Claude Computer Use: AI That Controls Your Desktop
Anthropic's computer use feature lets Claude see your screen, move the cursor, click, and type. Here is how it works, when to use it, and how to set it up.
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Claude Haiku 4.5: Near-Frontier Intelligence at a Fraction of the Cost
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers Sonnet 4-level coding performance at one-third the cost and twice the speed. Here is what developers need to know.
5 min read
OpenAI vs Anthropic in 2026 - Models, Tools, and Developer Experience
A developer's comparison of OpenAI and Anthropic ecosystems - models, coding tools, APIs, pricing, and which to choose for different use cases.
10 min read
Claude Sonnet 4.6: Approaching Opus at Half the Cost
Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6 narrows the gap to Opus on agentic tasks, leads computer use benchmarks, and ships with a beta million-token context window. Here's what actually changed.
6 min read
Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic's Smartest Model Gets Agent Teams
Million-token context, agent teams that coordinate without an orchestrator, and benchmark scores that push the frontier. Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's biggest model drop yet.
8 min read
Cowork: Claude Code for Everyone, Not Just Developers
Anthropic built Cowork in 1.5 weeks - a Claude Code wrapper that brings agentic AI to non-developers. Presentations, documents, project plans. Same power, no terminal required.
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Claude Opus 4.5: Anthropic's Most Intelligent Model
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, positioning it as their most capable model yet for coding agents and computer use. The release brings significant price cuts, efficiency gains, and enough au...
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Claude Code: The Future of Coding?
After 30 days of daily use, Claude Code has become my primary coding tool. It is not trying to be an IDE or a fancy editor. It is a terminal-based AI agent that writes code, runs commands, tests its ...
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Related Tools
All tools →Claude Code
Daily DriverAnthropic's agentic coding CLI. Runs in your terminal, edits files autonomously, spawns sub-agents, and maintains memory across sessions. Powered by Claude Opus 4.
AI CodingClaude Agent SDK
NewAnthropic's Python SDK for building production agent systems. Tool use, guardrails, agent handoffs, and orchestration. Released alongside Claude 4.
AI FrameworksClaude
Daily DriverAnthropic's AI. Opus 4.6 for hard problems, Sonnet 4.6 for speed, Haiku 4.5 for cost. 200K context window. Best coding model I've tested. Max plan ($200/mo).
AI ModelsClaude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic's smallest Claude 4.5 model. Near-frontier coding performance at one-third the cost of Sonnet 4 and up to 4-5x faster than Sonnet 4.5. $1/$5 per million tokens.
AI ModelsClaude Opus 4.7
Anthropic's flagship reasoning model. Best-in-class for coding, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows. 1M token context window. Available via API and in Claude Code.
AI ModelsClaude Fable 5
NewAnthropic's first generally available Mythos-class model, released June 9, 2026. 1M context, 128K max output, $10/$50 per million tokens. Built for long-horizon agentic work.
AI ModelsClaude Opus 4.8
Anthropic's recommended default for complex work, released May 28, 2026. 1M context, 128K output, $5/$25 per million tokens. Defaults to high effort on all surfaces.
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