Opus 4.8 Just Dropped: the Hidden Features You Need to Try Right Now

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, bringing major upgrades to Claude Code.

The update adds dynamic workflows, adjustable effort levels, better reasoning, and stronger self-correction and task persistence.

Claude Opus 4.8 is also more honest in its outputs and uses tokens more efficiently than version 4.7.

The changes are meant to help developers handle complex coding tasks with less manual oversight and lower compute cost.