Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 self-verifies, so extra checks can waste tokens
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-07-25
- Anthropic’s docs say Claude Opus 5 tends to verify its own work on narrow tasks even without being explicitly told to do so.
- Because of that, prompts that add explicit verification steps or ask for a separate subagent to double-check can cause over-verification and waste tokens.
- Anthropic recommends removing legacy verification scaffolding for narrow tasks, because it reduces token usage without hurting quality.
- The docs also warn that Opus 5 may expand the scope of a task on its own, so narrow tasks should be constrained more explicitly.
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