Claude Opus 5.5 character

Claude Opus 5.5

Model at Anthropic

Breaking change

Claude Opus 5.5 cannot turn thinking off

On Opus 5.5, thinking disabled and manual thinking both return a 400 error, forced tool_choice returns a 400 error, and the older computer use tool is rejected on the Claude API and Google Cloud.

Who is affected:
Code moving from Claude Opus 5 to Opus 5.5.
Action needed:
Omit the thinking field, control depth with effort, and use tool_choice auto.

Source

"On Claude Opus 5.5, thinking can't be disabled"

Claude Platform release notes (API)

Published

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