- We've launched Claude Fable 5 (
claude-fable-5), our most capable widely released model, alongside Claude Mythos 5 (claude-mythos-5) for Project Glasswing participants. Both models support a 1M token context window by default, 128k max output tokens, and always-on adaptive thinking. See Introducing Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 for capabilities, API changes, and availability.
- Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 use the tokenizer introduced with Claude Opus 4.7. Compared to models before Claude Opus 4.7, the same text produces roughly 30% more tokens. The exact increase depends on the content and workload shape. Use the token counting API with
model: "claude-fable-5" to measure your prompts under the new tokenizer.
- Claude Fable 5 runs safety classifiers on requests and during response generation. When a classifier declines a request, the Messages API returns
stop_reason: "refusal". You are not billed for a request refused before any output is generated. An opt-in fallbacks parameter (in beta on the Claude API and Claude Platform on AWS; not supported on the Message Batches API) re-runs refused requests on another model, billed at the fallback model's rates. See Handling stop reasons.
- The
stop_details.category field on refusal responses now includes "reasoning_extraction" on Claude Fable 5, returned when a request is blocked under Anthropic's Terms of Service restrictions on reverse engineering or duplicating model outputs. The existing "cyber" and "bio" categories are unchanged. No beta header is required.
- On Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, adaptive thinking is the only thinking mode:
thinking: {"type": "disabled"} is not supported, and manual extended thinking budgets and assistant prefill are not supported (both return a 400 error). See Migrating from Claude Mythos Preview to Claude Mythos 5.
- On Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5,
thinking.display defaults to "omitted", the same as Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, and Claude Mythos Preview; set display: "summarized" to receive readable thinking summaries. The raw chain of thought is never returned; pass thinking blocks back unchanged in multi-turn conversations on the same model. See Thinking output on Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5.
- Claude Fable 5 requires 30-day data retention and is not available under zero data retention. See Model-specific data retention requirements.
- Claude Managed Agents now supports scheduled deployments, letting you run sessions on a cron schedule without managing your own scheduler.
- Claude Managed Agents vaults now support environment variable credentials, so you can securely inject secrets into the agent's sandbox for CLIs, SDKs, and other services that authenticate through environment variables.
- The Compliance API Activity Feed (
GET /v1/compliance/activities) is now available on Claude Platform on AWS. See IAM actions for Claude Platform on AWS for the ListComplianceActivities action that authorizes it.
- The
session.thread_* webhook events now include a session_thread_id field identifying the multiagent thread that triggered the event.
- We've released a Swift package in beta that adds Claude as a server-side
LanguageModel in Apple's Foundation Models framework. Call Claude through the same LanguageModelSession API as Apple's on-device model on iOS 27, macOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 (beta).