Claude Opus 5 reportedly kept “crystallizing” for 27 minutes in an initial test
Daniel_Farinax · x · 2026-07-25
A user says Claude Opus 5 kept crystallizing for 27 minutes during an initial test, with a screenshot showing over 156K tokens used and a tip that setting /goal makes Claude keep working until the objective is met.
The post is framed as a first hands-on check of Opus 5, and the image suggests a long-running agentic coding or task execution session rather than a short chat response.
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