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Claude Docs

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Claude Docs

July 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

New docs for Claude Fable 5, Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Sonnet 5, including what’s new and model-specific prompting guidance

Changelog

Documentation update

Models & pricing

  • New docs for Claude Fable 5, Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Sonnet 5, including what’s new and model-specific prompting guidance
  • Added models overview, choosing a model, model IDs and versioning, upgrade/migration guide, model deprecations, and pricing
  • Added glossary

Use case guides

  • New guides overview plus docs for classification, content moderation, customer support agents, legal summarization, and ticket routing

API reference

  • Expanded API docs: overview, errors, rate limits, service tiers, supported regions, versions, beta headers, and IP addresses
  • Added Claude Platform on AWS IAM actions
  • Added API docs to trigger a routine
  • Admin API key page title clarified to “Retrieve API Key (Admin API)”

Prompt engineering

  • New prompt engineering overview, prompting best practices, Console prompting tools, and model-specific prompting pages (Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5)

CLI, SDKs, and libraries

  • New section overview covering CLI, SDKs, and libraries
  • CLI: quickstart, authentication options, using the CLI, scripting and automation
  • SDKs: Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, C#, PHP, Ruby
  • Libraries and related: OpenAI SDK compatibility, Apple Foundation Models, SDK middleware
  • Added API usage primer and Claude API skill overview

Test and evaluate

  • Docs for defining success criteria and building evaluations, and using the Evaluation Tool in Console
  • Guardrails guidance: increase output consistency, mitigate jailbreaks, reduce hallucinations, reduce latency, and reduce prompt leak

Release notes & resources

  • Added Claude Platform release notes overview and system prompts
  • Added model cards / resources overview

No documentation pages were removed in this update.

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