Anthropic’s new flagship Claude Opus 4.5 excels in professional coding workflows and agent orchestration, achieving over 80% on SWE-bench Verified—the highest score on this real-world GitHub issue benchmark. This milestone demonstrates superior end-to-end software engineering capabilities with minimal human intervention.
Benchmark Leadership and Coding Excellence
Opus 4.5 surpasses competitors on SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench, and OSWorld, excelling at planning, tool use, bug finding, and test-passing diffs. Enhanced multi-step planning and follow-through improve dependency analysis, multi-file refactors, and test authoring.
Advanced Agent and Computer Use Capabilities
- Multi-agent coordination for parallel workstreams (fix tests while researching PRs)
- Zoom action for detailed screen inspection of UI elements and fine text
- Browser automation via Claude for Chrome (summarize tabs, extract data)
- Excel integration for data cleaning, formulas, pivot tables, and outlier detection
Persistent Memory for Long-Running Projects
Expanded 200k token context with automatic thinking block preservation maintains continuity across extended sessions. Users can return to codebases, specs, or audits days later with full context awareness, reducing repetitive re-establishment.
Practical Workflow Improvements
- Multi-session desktop app for concurrent tasks
- Effort parameter control (low/medium/high) balances speed, cost, and capability
- 67% price reduction vs previous Opus models
- Production-ready integrations with GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI
Impact for Engineering Teams
Teams should pilot on internal repos, measure suggestion acceptance rates, and scale to CI-assisted patching. Business users benefit from parallel browser/spreadsheet automation, reducing context switching in ops, support, and analysis workflows.
