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Claude Sonnet 5: Production Guide for Agent Workflows
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 is best used as an agent workflow model, not for one-shot text generation. It features a 1M token context window and 128k max output tokens, but its new tokenizer produces ~30% more tokens for the same input. Teams should narrow tool permissions, measure review burden and latency, and only deploy when human review effort decreases without increasing risk.
Meridian48 take
The guide's emphasis on bounded workflows and review checkpoints is a sobering counterpoint to the hype around agentic AI, reminding teams that production readiness requires rigorous evaluation beyond benchmark scores.
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