Source Intelligence

DisclaimerUnofficial, and not affiliated with Anthropic. Nearly all of this is read straight out of what ships: npm bundles, captured prompts, published docs. Anthropic's own notes go in verbatim, marked as theirs. The rest is my reading, and every entry carries the strings behind it. If one looks wrong, vote it down and say why.

All of v2.1.248 Home All releases olderv2.1.247 v2.1.250newer
Claude Code v2.1.248

Unreleased Mythos and next-generation model ids in the bundled tables

Not switched on
Useful2 Signal5
Models Notable

Model tables carry ids for a Mythos preview and a 5-series family, not selectable.

The ids are data in constants; no setting, flag or menu exposes them.

What

The model tables shipped in this build carry ids for models that are not part of the current lineup, including a Mythos preview and a family of 5-series entries. They are data in constants and mapping tables only, so nothing here makes the models selectable or reachable, and the build ships no setting, flag or menu entry that turns them on.

Details
  • The model constants list ids for Fable 5, Mythos 5, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5, with claude-opus-4-8 positioned as the previous Opus and claude-sonnet-4-6 as the previous Sonnet.
  • Mythos has full provider id mappings across Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, Mantle and the gateway, so the routing tables would resolve it if it were ever requested.
  • A model list constant includes claude-mythos-preview and claude-opus-4-6 together, and a separate mapping names a further id.
  • The bundled Anthropic client's deprecation table now covers claude-mythos-preview with an end-of-life date of June 30th, 2026.
  • claude-mythos-preview and claude-opus-4-6 are both in the set that prints a console warning when used with non-adaptive thinking enabled.
Evidence

"claude-mythos-5", "claude-mythos-preview": "June 30th, 2026", ["claude-mythos-preview", "claude-opus-4-6"]

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.248 →