Claude Opus 5 character

Claude Opus 5

Model at Anthropic

Breaking change

Claude Opus 5 rejects disabled thinking at xhigh and max effort

On Claude Opus 5, sending thinking disabled together with effort xhigh or max returns a 400 error.

Who is affected:
Code moving from Claude Opus 4.8 to Opus 5 that turns thinking off.
What to do:
Use effort high or below when thinking is disabled.

Source

"a breaking change from Claude Opus 4.8"

Claude Platform release notes (API)

Published

Open the sourceplatform.claude.com

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