Happy coding! Opus 4.7 is a significant step up. To get the most out of it, take the time to adjust your workflow to take advantage of Claude running for longer & being more agentic. It feels like a nice improvement with old workflows, and a significant leap once you take the
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Verify Claude’s Work to Maximize AI Output
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6/ Give Claude a way to verify its work Finally, make sure Claude has a way to verify its work. This has always been a way to 2-3x what you get out of Claude, and with 4.7 it's more important than ever. Verification looks different depending on the task. For backend work, make
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Configure Opus 4.7 Effort Level for Adaptive Thinking
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5/ Configure your effort level
— Boris Cherny (@bcherny) 16 avril 2026
Opus 4.7 uses adaptive thinking instead of thinking budgets. To tune the model to think more/less, we recommend tuning effort.
Use lower effort for faster responses and lower token usage. Use higher effort for the most intelligence and capability.… pic.twitter.com/h2gY3yQEeK5/ Configure your effort level Opus 4.7 uses adaptive thinking instead of thinking budgets. To tune the model to think more/less, we recommend tuning effort. Use lower effort for faster responses and lower token usage. Use higher effort for the most intelligence and capability.
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AI Model Focus Mode Enables Autonomous Command Execution
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4/ Focus mode I've been loving the new focus mode in the CLI, which hides all the intermediate work to just focus on the final result. The model has reached a point where I generally trust it to run the right commands and make the right edits. I just look at the final result.
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Recaps Feature Ships for Agent Session Continuity
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3/ Recaps We shipped recaps earlier this week, to prep for Opus 4.7. Recaps are short summaries for what an agent did & what's next. Very useful when returning to a long-running session after a few minutes or a few hours.
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Opus 4.7 Auto Mode Enables Autonomous Complex Task Execution
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1/ Auto mode = no more permission prompts Opus 4.7 loves doing complex, long-running tasks like deep research, refactoring code, building complex features, iterating until it hits a performance benchmark. In the past, you either had to babysit the model while it did these sorts
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New AI Skill Reduces Permission Prompts in Development
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2/ The new /fewer-permission-prompts skill We've also released a new /fewer-permission-prompts skill. It scans through your session history to find common bash and MCP commands that are safe but caused repeated permission prompts. It then recommends a list of commands to add to
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Maximizing Productivity with Opus 4.7: Practical Tips
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Dogfooding Opus 4.7 the last few weeks, I've been feeling incredibly productive. Sharing a few tips to get more out of 4.7
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AWS Bedrock model provisioning requirements and setup
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Do you have the model provisioned for your Bedrock account?
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Anthropic increases rate limits for Opus 4.7 subscribers
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Opus 4.7 uses more thinking tokens, so we've increased rate limits for all subscribers to make up for it. Enjoy!