Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5 Prompting Guide

Anthropic released a prompting guide for Claude Opus 5.5, which generates output tokens over 30% faster than Opus 5 and tends to finish tasks with fewer tokens. Existing Opus 5 prompts should work without changes; the guide covers agentic coding, multi-app workflows and safeguard refusals.

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