Introducing Claude Opus 5 \ Anthropic
On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks.
Until now, switching to a new model reshuffled your effort: the first time you ran Fable 5, Opus 4.8, or Opus 4.7, Claude Code applied that model's default level even if you had set another one, and held it across sessions until you made an explicit choice.
Opus 5 has no such hold: the level you had set carries over. If you once dropped to low to spend less, your brand-new Opus 5 starts on low. The model's own default is high.
/effort # opens the slider and shows the active level
/effort auto # back to the model default (high on Opus 5)Claude Opus 5 is a freak - YouTube by A hands-on review and stress-test of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model across various complex tasks.


