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[BUG] Claude code quality (Opus 4.6) has degraded #44401

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  • I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
  • This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
  • I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Quality has been significantly degraded in the last week, including

  • Reduced effort - claude not investigating issues thoroughly to completeness with the same system prompts, skills, plugins, and tools
  • Factual inaccuracies - asking for analyses produces hallucinated outputs not reflected in the code
  • Gaslighting - not taking responsibility for mistakes and blaming me

What Should Happen?

Un-quantize Opus 4.6

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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open claude code with a complex code base
  2. try to give any task
  3. notice the lower quality results than what we were experiencing 2+weeks ago

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

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Claude Code Version

2.1.92

Platform

Anthropic API

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Windows

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VS Code integrated terminal

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