Claude Opus 4.7 Prioritizes Stability Over Raw Capability

While Opus 4.7 delivers impressive coding benchmarks—87.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and strong CursorBench results—its real innovation lies in production stability. New features like Task Budgets and /ultrareview, combined with improved error recovery and reduced agent looping, directly target the failure modes that plagued autonomous workflows. For engineers deploying code-generation pipelines and long-running agents, this stability-first approach represents a more practical evolution than previous capability-focused releases.