Practices
Model tier per task
Assigning each agent task to the smallest model that can do it reliably.
ADOPTOn the radar since 12 Oct 2026Draft
Why Adopt
Each agent gets a pinned model. Haiku does small checks, Sonnet gathers evidence and Opus writes code.
Movement
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Sources
- Anthropic's models overview lists the Claude model tiers. checked 12 Oct 2026
Also in Practices · Adopt
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- Company brainKeeping a company's strategy, decisions and facts in documents that agents read before they act.
- Guard hooks for agentsScripts that run before or after an agent's tool calls to block or flag risky actions.
- Parallel agents in worktreesRunning several coding agents at once, each in its own git worktree and its own context.