Hey {{first_name|there}},

Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.7 today, and if you're running anything serious in Claude: coworker stuff, long projects, document-heavy work…this is the one you'll want. Same price as 4.6 ($5 in / $25 out per million tokens), but it WILL consume more tokens.

It’s available across all the Claude products and the API.

I pulled up the announcement, watched it do its thing, and made a video walking through the parts that caught my eye.

I've got one Coworker project that has ballooned way out of proportion. Directories inside directories, chats referencing other chats, and I keep having to nudge Claude: "hey, go review the whole project before we keep going." It usually does fine, but I’ve had to ask for things that I wish it’d just check (maybe I just don’t trust it enough?)

Opus 4.7 is supposed to be better at file-system-based memory across long, multi-session work. Which is exactly the thing I've been running into. Less upfront context from me, more picking up where we left off. If that holds up in real use, it's the upgrade I care about most. Not the benchmark bumps.

There's a new "xhigh" effort level sitting between high and max. It's another slider on the reasoning-vs-tokens tradeoff. In Claude Code the default is already bumped up to xhigh, so out of the gate you're burning more than before unless you dial it down manually.

There's also a new /ultra-review slash command in Claude Code that does a careful pass on your changes looking for bugs and design issues. As more of our code gets written by the model, having the model review it like a real reviewer would is going to matter more, not less.

Opus eats through usage limits faster than anything else in the lineup. If you're just asking quick questions, use Haiku. For everyday stuff, Sonnet 4.6 is still my daily driver. Opus 4.7 is for the heavy-lift office work, the sprawling projects, the coding that actually needs the horsepower.

Also worth noting: Anthropic is openly saying this isn't their best model. There's a thing called Mythos Preview sitting above it that they're holding back for cybersecurity reasons. Good marketing, whether you buy the rationale or not.

If you're on Pro or Max, Opus 4.7 is already there ready and waiting.

Talk soon,
Eamonn
AI strategy and automations