What
The model list built into Claude Code, and the places that show model names, changed in several ways:
claude-opus-5-5("Opus 5.5") is now described as "Most capable for ambitious work" instead of "For complex tasks".claude-opus-5moves fromsection: "main"tosection: "overflow", loses its "For complex tasks" description, and losesquick_select. This is the entry with the Fast mode toggle, 1M input tokens and 128000 output tokens.claude-opus-5-5andclaude-sonnet-5keepquick_select.- The Haiku 4.5 entry,
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001, now sits ahead of Opus 5 in the main section. - The "Opus" and "Opus (1M context)" entries in the model picker no longer hard-code "Opus 5.5" or
claude-opus-5-5. They show the id and display name of whatever theopusalias currently points to. The checks for Sonnet and Opus also compare against the aliases rather than the literalclaude-sonnet-5andclaude-opus-5-5ids. - The example in the Schedule (cloud routines) skill now fills
"model"with whatever thesonnetalias resolves to, instead ofclaude-sonnet-5.
Why
Opus 5 may no longer appear among the quick picks in /model and may sit in a secondary group. Picker labels and routines built from the example track the current aliases, so they change when an alias moves to a newer model.
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Which model the sonnet shortcut resolves to here is not stated.