Sonnet 5.5 changes thinking and tool calls at unchanged token rates
Anthropic reports lower task costs at unchanged token rates. Existing clients must accommodate changed thinking settings, response blocks and forced-tool behavior.
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Anthropic reports lower task costs at unchanged token rates. Existing clients must accommodate changed thinking settings, response blocks and forced-tool behavior.
Anthropic reports lower Opus task costs and new preserved-thinking behavior. A runbook exception provides a concrete comparison of the model’s reasoning and integration requirements.
What prompt-cache hits save once retries and failed work are included in task cost, with a local calculator and ledger.
Claude’s on-demand compaction lets an application replace older conversation history with a signed summary. A conditional restart shows why the summary must preserve relationships between instructions.
Claude Enterprise’s Compliance API beta now includes Chrome-session transcripts. Tool exchanges help locate an attempted action; the destination’s records establish whether it took effect.
How Herdr keeps coding sessions available while you detach, and what changes when its server restarts.
A rollback exception tests whether Opus 4.6 preserves decisive evidence across a long session, and whether the resulting answer arrives in time to help.