Prompting Opus 4.7: Literal Instructions and Adaptive Thinking

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TLDR: Opus 4.7 follows your prompts literally and scales its reasoning to match the task. That shift moves the burden of precision onto you. Vague prompts get vague results, and conflicting instructions now force the model to pick one and drop the rest.

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