Try Claude Opus 4.8 in Cline

Best for

• Large-scale refactoring with many behavioral constraints
• Complex systems engineering and difficult repository analysis
• Long agent sessions that combine planning, editing, and verification

Limitations

• Opus prioritizes capability over the lower latency and cost of Sonnet or Haiku.
• Broad edits should still be reviewed in increments rather than accepted as one large change set.

Set up in Cline

Choose the surface that fits your workflow: use the Cline IDE extensions, run Cline CLI in your terminal or CI, or configure the model in scripts and products with the Cline SDK. Then complete the provider-specific steps below.

1. Sign in to your Cline account in the Cline IDE extension or CLI.
2. Choose Cline (usage-billing) provider, or choose Anthropic provider and add your own API key.
3. Select Claude Opus 4.8 from the model list and define checkpoints for any long-running implementation.

Example tasks

Use these as starting prompts and adapt them to your repository.

1. Task 1: Refactor the event-processing architecture to support replay, preserve ordering guarantees, and migrate consumers incrementally.
2. Task 2: Review this enterprise authorization change for isolation failures, missing audit events, and backward-compatibility risks.

Frequently asked questions