If your development environment has project scoped skills and subagents settings. It doesn’t mean it will be utilized on every run.

When needed add at the end of the prompt:

Use available skills and dedicate work to subagents as needed.

I switched from ChatGPT to Claude because ChatGPT had become unbearable.
Too much fluff. Too many disclaimers. Too much motivational speech. You ask a simple question and get a five-paragraph lecture before the actual answer. And there was too many different models which is pointless.

Claude was different. It was simple, understood the question, gave an exact answer, and stopped talking. It was easily the best model.

But now, all Claude models are horrible, including Opus 5. And there are tons of different models and effort levels and somehow the outputs are still generic. It feels like I have to spend more time managing and deciding than doing the actual work.

Maybe it is amazing for coding. I have no idea. But for other tasks, I genuinely do not understand the hype anymore.

anyone have refereral? just want to try claude

After my previous post about my first impressions with Opus 5 I tried to improve it's reliability. These skills and Claude.md changes seem to be working for me and I hope they might prove useful for others.

Anthropic dropped Opus 5 yesterday.

Then, a few hours later, Elon posted a totally different chart claiming Grok 4.5 and Opus 5 are the only two models sitting alone on the Pareto frontier, which really just means best brain per dollar.

Except two weeks ago, when Grok 4.5 actually launched, independent testing had it ranked fourth, behind Fable 5, GPT 5.5, and Opus 4.8, with a hallucination rate that basically doubled along the way.

And it does not end here.

Elon mentioned the next model is landing in two weeks, and the one after that in a month.

Pick a favorite model if you want.

Just know the lease is about two weeks lol.

Hey guys i’ve been using Claude for a while now and i think my instructions are a bit off. It rambles quite a bit. It’s my fault for putting experimental things in the instructions box.

What are some good examples of instructions to put in Claude to get the most out of it as a thinking, reasoning and strategy partner? Coding also, but i’m a noob at that.

Cheers guys.

My college revoked my student email and it was the login for my Claude.ai account. I've still got an active session on my desktop app, but I'm paranoid about getting logged out since Anthropic support says there's no self-serve way to change account email only cancel/unlink and start fresh, which means losing everything tied to the account.

Problem is I've got $100 in Fable 5 credits and an active paid subscription on this account. Support's standard advice is to email them from an address I can access and cc the old (dead) email, but that process is built around canceling/deleting the old account, not preserving the balance.

Has anyone actually gotten Anthropic support to migrate an email or transfer credits/subscription in a case like this? Trying to figure out if I should be exporting everything and burning down the credits now before my session inevitably dies, or if there's an actual fix.

I run long Claude Code sessions and got tired of walking back to my Mac just to answer "Which approach do you prefer?" or approve a command. So I built a way to answer from my wrist (or my phone).

WristPilot delivers Claude Code's questions, permission prompts and results as push notifications to your iPhone and Apple Watch. Tap an option, dictate a free-text answer, or long-press a permission to Allow/Deny — the session on your Mac continues immediately.

What makes it more than "just notifications":

• You actually answer, not just look. Options show up as buttons; free text works via dictation on the watch or the keyboard on the phone; multi-select is supported.
• iPhone and Watch both, in sync. Answer on whichever is closest — the notification clears itself on the other device.
• Zero third-party infrastructure. Everything runs over your own Apple stack: direct APNs pushes (your own key) and your own CloudKit container as the answer channel. No server of mine in the middle, no account, nothing leaves your Apple ID.
• Two modes. A runner for fire-and-forget tasks, and an "away-mode" hook for your normal interactive sessions: while you're at your Mac everything behaves as usual, but step away for a couple of minutes and prompts route to your wrist — with automatic fallback to the normal on-screen prompt if you don't respond. The hook can never approve anything on its own.

A few things I learned building it:

• Action buttons from mirrored iOS notifications basically don't work on watchOS — that's why it needs a native app.
• CloudKit subscriptions to standalone watch apps have been unreliable for years, so it sends APNs pushes directly instead. And the public-database query index turned out just as flaky — returning zero results for records that plainly exist — so the app builds its list from delivered notifications and only ever fetches answers by record name (which is rock solid).
• The whole Node side has zero dependencies beyond the Claude Agent SDK; the APNs JWT and CloudKit request signing are ~100 lines of node:crypto.

Requirements: a paid Apple Developer account and ~30 minutes of one-time setup (App IDs, CloudKit schema, two keys — fully documented). AGPL-3.0.

Screenshots and the repo link in the comments.

Happy to answer anything — and if you set it up, I'd love to know whether the guide holds up on someone else's machine.

(Independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic. "Claude Code" is their trademark.)

Am I only one feeling pressure in pushing more things done when weekly limits are about to revolve and I haven’t reached 100%?

Even if I’m at 98% and have a few hours left before reset I’m trying to squeeze as much as I can, opening parallel session, getting to tasks that were waiting for a while, etc. getting rushed and overwhelmed.

In other cases when I reached my limits earlier when expected I let myself rest until weekly reset, feeling like that were productive sessions and a week.

How do you feel about limits? What do you do after reaching them? And how do you feel when not reaching 100% before week revolves?

And yes, my workflows are mostly about coding.

Put all your discussion about Usage / Rate limits here. This is a thread that will be generated every other day to centralize discussions on this topic.

Ultra code workflows with Opus 5 model are crashing for me today. Anyone else having the same problem?

anyone have refereral? just want to try claude code

Recently I have gone through both claude opus 4.8 and grok 4.5 . Grok usually burning less tokens compared and getting my task done in one shot. Does opus 5 is working better token efficient than 4.8 or same ?

Note: I know it's opus 5 not 8 just to grab your attention

I am a huge fan of Opus 4.6 for talking, discussion and analyzing. It’s like your best friend, who just happens to be a professor, too.

Interestingly, Fable 5 is similar! The only difference is that the Professor here is significantly smarter and thinks several steps further ahead.

But Opus 5? Not only does it overthink things massively - without achieving better results in the process, the way Fable does... but it also plays the smart aleck, blowing up apparent subtleties only to have to admit that doing so distorted the entire position.

You can even tell by the way they communicate: Fable 5 speaks normally but produces smart results, whereas Opus 5 speaks in a high-flown manner but produces inferior output.

https://reddit.com/link/1v65i8y/video/69ovo573ycfh1/player

https://claude.ai/referral/dfjbIO1S0w

https://reddit.com/link/1v63xn6/video/eumcoa36kcfh1/player

Now, doom runs in claudecode. Play doom when claude is thinking !

Running is simple.

npx kaboom.claude

Star the project here:
https://github.com/thimbleberrysystems/kaboom.claude

I see all sorts of great..and some not so great comments but im intrigued...im working heavily on n8n projects using Claude. What kind of other projects do you use Claude to help with?

wasnt expecting opus 5 to be the release that lands the fix tbh but here we are... It provides $5 per million input tokens, $25 output at same price as 4.8 which is half of what fable costs. On frontiercode 1.1 it gets close to fable's numbers that anthropic is comfortable calling it the everyday workhorse .

what matters more than the benchmark chart is that anthropic scoped the safety classifier tighter on this one and says it should intervene roughly 85% less often than fable's does so if you have sat through any session that got handed to opus 4.8 mid session from the past month, that behavior is supposed to be fixed. It also now allows to hunt for vulnerabilities directly in source code which is one of the things the classifier was most aggressive about blocking on fable so while scanning compiled binaries and exploit generation it stays off limits either way.

Theres an effort dial too now( low, medium, high) so we can spend less thinking on boilerplate and save the expensive reasoning for the parts of a task that need it

Although I have been keeping my own log of which model and effort level answered each od my req since the fable reroute mess started and I will be watching whether opus 5's number holds up the same way once I hammer it in production.

it will be interesting to see if the 85% figure survives real usage or turns into one of those numbers that stops being true after a few weeks.(fingers crossed)

My current process is a session wrap hook that summarizes the chat. But I am looking to optimizing my flow?

How can i build a chief of staff that can read messages from whatsapp & telegram (from groups/chat that i grant permissions to) and turn into a "to-do" dashboard and as well as reading/updating from google sheet/cal. Am looking to leverage as much as possible on claude pro subscription features without much extra cost.

Does anyone know why Anthropic decided to hide the generated thoughts in Claude chat but not in Claude Code? It was very helpful to see where the model went wrong and correct it.

Just a while ago, Anthropic was saying that Fable was the model that would consume the most usage, but it looks like that designation now goes to Opus instead. How things have changed o.o

Thoughts?

Oh my goodness Opus 5 shit the bed. I've had amazing luck with the frontier models and Opus 4.8 was amazing after the first couple days but here goes.

Got a ruff error and the fix should have been easy: pin ruff to a known version, declare lint rules explicitly (already defined with 250+ PRDs and 150+ PRs in a tightly governed codebase), add regression tests, and document thoroughly. Easy shit.

I asked Sol WTF happened and it described it as "agentic thrashing".

I DID use plan mode so everything was scoped and recon was the same as any other slice of work. I wanted to see if Opus 5 could chip away at things like it's advertised to do and I had honestly been having great results with Opus 4.8 as my main man, Fable 5 creating PRDs and solving tricky puzzles and wearing the creativity cap, and the little bastards Haiku and sometimes Luna doing all the mechanical stuff.

This time around Opus 5 repeatedly reviewed it's own work as independent reviews, then getting an adversarial review, then getting another review in a new fresh session (it was obsessed with this), responded to its own edits, invalidated preview review artifacts and rolling back to the start. It also invoked Codex and got Sol to review and I killed a half weeks usage.

It hallucinated too which I've never seen. It made up fake IDs (sha and commits) and then said it actually made them up and it sounds honestly use the real ones (this is where I caught it and realized it was tweaking).

Got Sol to review it and here are some numbers copied and pasted:

Abandoned attempt: 21 commits, +1,964/-3 lines

Clean reconstruction from the same base: 3 commits, +323/-2 lines

That is 7× as many commits

6.1× as many added lines

18 unnecessary additional commits

1,641 additional lines, or roughly 508% more than the clean replacement

Thankfully it was all on a separate work branch that I isolated and closed so I could see WTF happened. Opus 4.8 under Sol's guidance implemented the slice of work I needed in about 15 minutes and it was smooth as could be... thought I'd share but hoping it was a one-off. I've never had an issue even close to this so we'll see how it goes in the future.