Six Things to Change in Your Claude Code Workflow for Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.7 went GA on April 16, 2026. It is positioned as a direct upgrade to Opus 4.6, with notable gains in agentic coding, long-horizon task execution, vision, and self-verification. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.The short version: Opus 4.7 runs longer and acts more autonomously than Opus 4.6. If you keep using it the way you used 4.6, you will get a modest step up. If you adjust the workflow around it, you will get a much bigger one.Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, posted a six-part thread on Threads on how he and his team get the most out of Opus 4.7. The tips are small on their own but coherent together. I went through each one, cross-checked it against the Claude Code docs, the migration guide, and the Opus 4.7 announcement, and pulled out what I think actually matters.Background: what changed in Opus 4.7Four things matter if you are coming from Opus 4.6:Adaptive thinking is now the only supported thinking mode.…