If You Are Unsatisfied With Opus 4.7, Please Simply Switch To 4.6

This sub as well as r/ClaudeCode is flooded with complaints about Opus 4.7 - which I agree with: it's the first time I go back to a previous model version.

BUT PLEASE, stop spamming reddit with complaints about 4.7 - I think even Anthropic finally understood that we're unhappy with it. And most certainly their telemetry / analytics will show them how 4.7 is used (or especially: is NOT used).

So IMHO the best approach is to simply switch back to 4.6. For me it works pretty well (Max 20 personal subscription + Team business subscription).

Here's (gosh I sound like AI - I get triggered when reading 'Here's...') how you do it on Mac with an alias in your user home's .zshrc (~/.zshrc):

alias opus46='claude --model claude-opus-4-6\[1M\] 

This will let you run (in a new terminal, which reloads the .zshrc) opus46 to start claude with Opus 4.6 and 1M context. Don't like 1M context window? Simply use

--model claude-opus-4-6 

instead.

Or maybe you don't have mac, don't want an alias or want to switch the model within a Claude Code session?

Simply use slash commands (after starting CC, obviously):

/model claude-opus-4-6 or /model claude-opus-4-6[1M] 

Just for reference (not saying those are the best settings or even if they're valid - they just work for me, though) here are my settings from .claude/settings.json's env key:

"env": { "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING": "1", "MAX_THINKING_TOKENS": "128000", "DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER": "1" } 

Maybe, MAYBE, when Anthropic realizes that most users stick to 4.6 they'll.. well.. hahah.. change something...