Anthropic Publishes Opus 5.5 Usage Guide

Anthropic released a guide for using Opus 5.5 in Claude apps and Claude Code, saying the model's biggest gains are on long multi-step work. It advises users to state a clear finish line and drop 'think carefully' prompts.

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