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44description: Behavioral differences and prompting patterns for Claude Opus 5, covering response verbosity, agentic narration, task scoping, subagent delegation, self-correction, and output artifacts when thinking is disabled.
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7This guide covers the prompting patterns specific to Claude Opus 5. For the model's capabilities and API changes, see [What's new in Claude Opus 5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/whats-new-opus-5). For techniques that apply across all current Claude models, see [Prompting best practices](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices).
7This guide covers the prompting patterns specific to Claude Opus 5. For the model's capabilities and API changes, see [What's new in Claude Opus 5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-5/whats-new-opus-5). For techniques that apply across all current Claude models, see [Prompting best practices](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices).
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99Claude Opus 5 is built for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, with particular strengths in long-horizon agentic tasks. It performs well out of the box on existing Claude Opus 4.8 prompts. The following patterns cover the behaviors that most often require tuning.
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