CLIClaude Code, interactive mode, seeded with flags-anon. 1 added and 1 removed, of 223 lines, about 4 words, in the prompt 17 of 27 arms receive. 3 other prompts also changed. 1 of 30 tool descriptions changed. The appended system-reminder blocks moved: 3 lines added, 3 lines removed. Compared against v2.1.252.
The two arm counts on this page measure different things: 17 arms receive the prompt the headline is about, and the widest edit below reached 20, because the same changed lines sit in more than one prompt.
This arm was captured with the sandbox seeded from flags-anon, the anonymous GrowthBook payload, seeded into the sandbox .claude.json. 577 flags from data/flags/snapshots/flags-20260901T155505Z.json. What a seeded capture does and does not tell you.
Releasedcaptured
Compared withv2.1.252the previous capture on this arm
Prompt223 ln4 families, 27,313 characters
Model strings27every capture asks all of them
Tool descriptions302 moved this release, 28 with a parameter schema
6 capture arms for this release, one page each, never diffed against each other
What changed since the previous capture
5One line per document that moved, the system prompt and the tool descriptions in the same table.
PromptReachMovedThe first line that changed
System prompt 223 ln, and 17 other copies of it moved the same way20 of 27 arms+1−1 - The most recent Claude models are the Claude 5 family and Haiku 4.5. Model IDs — Fable 5: 'claude-fable-5', Opus 5: 'claude-opus-5', Sonnet 5: 'cla...
System prompt 76 ln, and 1 other copy of it moved the same way6 of 27 arms+2−3 - The most recent Claude models are the Claude 5 family and Haiku 4.5. Model IDs — Fable 5: 'claude-fable-5', Opus 5: 'claude-opus-5', Sonnet 5: 'cla...
System prompt 85 ln1 of 27 arms+2−2This iteration of Claude is Claude Fable 5, the first model in Anthropic's new Claude 5 family and part of a new Mythos-class model tier that sits abo...
WebSearch 27 ln17 of 27 arms+1−1 - The current month is August 2026. You MUST use this year when searching for recent information, documentation, or current events.
WebSearch 5 ln10 of 27 arms+1−1- The current month is August 2026 — use this when searching for recent information.
The families in this capture
4A family is one prompt and every model-interpolated copy of it, ranked by the model strings it reaches.
#FamilyHeadReachCopiesOpens with
1Sonnet 5 family, 3 model strings223 ln · 27.3k17 of 2715 copiesYou are an interactive agent that helps users with software engineering tasks.
2claude-fable-585 ln · 10.4k2 of 272 copiesYou are an interactive agent that helps users with software engineering tasks.
3Opus family, 5 model strings76 ln · 9.4k6 of 272 copiesYou are an interactive agent that helps users with software engineering tasks.
4Opus 4.862 ln · 6k2 of 272 copiesYou are an interactive agent that helps users with software engineering tasks.
Tool descriptions
30The text the model is given for each tool, on this arm.
Read the whole system prompt →- The most recent Claude models are the Claude 5 family and Haiku 4.5. Model IDs — Fable 5.1: 'claude-fable-5-1', Opus 5...