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Anthropic's latest AI model is better at coding, sustaining tasks for longer and creating high-quality professional work.
Claude Opus 4.5 is already the specified model in this ecosystem, so an upgrade to Opus 4.6 with improved coding and sustained task performance is a direct upgrade path for the orchestrator and all specialized agents (rails-expert, test-engineer, investigator). The improved long-task reliability is particularly relevant for multi-step deployment automation via Capistrano and complex refactoring workflows across the 20+ Rails apps. Better coding quality could meaningfully improve the code_quality app's analysis output and reduce errors in agentic loops that currently require human intervention.