⬡ API & SDK/2026-07-10Advanced
My Nightly Batch Was Quietly Running on a Bigger Model — Declaring Per-Task Model Ceilings and Enforcing Them
Scatter model names through your code and a cheap batch job will eventually run on an expensive model. Here is a manifest that declares a ceiling per task, a deny-by-default resolver, and a morning audit that catches drift — with working code.
⬡ API & SDK/2026-07-05Intermediate
Don't Let the Opus 4.7 Fast Mode Retirement (July 24) Kill Your Unattended Jobs
claude-opus-4-7 fast mode retires on 2026-07-24, and speed: fast starts throwing errors. Here's how to keep unattended pipelines from breaking silently: mechanically detect where fast mode is used, add a fail-closed runtime guard, and migrate to 4.8 with working code.