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Best practices for using Claude Opus 4.7 with Claude Code

Opus 4.7 in Claude Code defaults to a new xhigh effort level (between high and max). Fixed Extended Thinking is gone -- adaptive thinking lets the model decide when to reason. It calls tools less and spawns fewer subagents by default. Specify tasks fully in the first turn.

5Apr 16, 2026, 7:23 PM