Prompting Claude Opus 5

Prompting Claude Opus 5
. It covers the behavioral differences from prior Opus models and the prompt changes worth making, including response length and verbosity, user-facing progress updates, written deliverable length, task scope and over-verification, subagent control, and self-correction.

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Prompting Claude Opus 4.8

Prompting guidance for Claude Opus 4.8 has its own page: 
Prompting Claude Opus 4.8
. It covers response length, effort and thinking-depth calibration, tool use triggering, literal instruction following, subagent control, and design and frontend defaults.

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