Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026, with API model ID claude-sonnet-5-5. It targets well-scoped everyday tasks, bug fixes, and document creation. Availability in Tabbit depends on your account's live model picker.
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Anthropic's Official Prompting Guide: Effort, Initiative, and Tool Use in Claude Sonnet 5.5
This official guide describes Sonnet 5.5-specific prompting patterns for effort, carrying work through, running without up-front thinking, structured JSON, progress updates, tool use, mid-turn user messages, and coding verification. You can use them to adjust .
Anthropic's Official Migration Guide: Claude Sonnet 5.5 API Configuration and Breaking Changes
Migrating to Claude Sonnet 5.5 means switching to claude-sonnet-5-5, adapting to adaptive thinking being enabled by default, removing non-default temperature, topp, and topk values and legacy assistant prefills, replacing forced tool use with auto plus strict .
Anthropic's Official Model Overview: Current Claude Sonnet 5.5 Configuration
Anthropic's current official configuration for Claude Sonnet 5.5 includes a 1M-token context window, a standard maximum output of 128K tokens, adaptive thinking with high as the default effort, $2 input pricing, and $10 output pricing; Bedrock is the only one .
Community Configuration: CLAUDE.md Working Rules for Claude Sonnet 5.5
This is a complete CLAUDE.md that can be added directly to a Claude Code project to guide Claude Sonnet 5.5 with scope control, dependency documentation lookups, real checks, and communication rules; the author explicitly says it is a personal configuration ba.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Official Capability Benchmarks and Limitations
Anthropic's launch page reports that Claude Sonnet 5.5 outperforms Sonnet 5 on selected agentic coding, knowledge work, computer use, and chart recognition benchmarks, with up to a 30% lower per-task cost through fewer task tokens. The page explicitly compares.
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Artificial Analysis: Independent Evaluation of Claude Sonnet 5.5's Intelligence Index and Agent Tasks
Artificial Analysis's independent evaluation places Claude Sonnet 5.5 at number 2 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 56 at max effort, and finds it close to Opus 5.5 on terminal Agent and knowledge work tasks, at the cost of the high.
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Arena.ai Code Arena: Real-World WebDev Task Ranking for Claude Sonnet 5.5 High
In Arena.ai's published Code Arena: WebDev real-world evaluation, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High) ranks fourth with a score of 1699 and enters the cost-efficiency Pareto frontier at a blended price of $8/Mtoken; it improves by 159 points over Sonnet 5 (High), but the.
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