Under the hood
Useful3 Signal4
Context limits for claude-sonnet-5 are 500,000 on two surfaces and a million elsewhere.
What's wrong with this entry?
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What
A limits table keyed by surface gives claude-sonnet-5 a 500,000 context default on the remote-cowork and local-agent surfaces and 1,000,000 everywhere else. Nothing visible gates the table itself.
Details
- A separate group covering
claude-sonnet-4-6,claude-opus-4-6,claude-opus-4-8andclaude-opus-5is used for a capability check whose consumers are not settled by this code.
Evidence
remote_cowork
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
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