Try Claude Sonnet 5 in Cline

Best for

• Production feature work that mixes reasoning, code generation, and tests
• Agentic tool use across regular development workflows
• Code review and debugging where response speed still matters

Limitations

• Use Opus or Fable when the hardest possible reasoning is worth higher latency and cost.
• Adaptive thinking changes how reasoning is controlled; use Anthropic's supported effort controls rather than older manual-thinking patterns.

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 Sonnet 5 from the model list and state the acceptance criteria and let Cline run the relevant verification commands.

Example tasks

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

1. Task 1: Implement team invitations end to end, including validation, expiration, permissions, and integration tests.
2. Task 2: Find the cause of this React rendering regression, fix it without changing the public component API, and add a focused test.

Frequently asked questions