Opus 4.7 retook the top spot for agentic coding among publicly available models, scoring 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro and SWE-bench Verified. It arrives two months after Opus 4.6, continuing a steady upgrade cadence, and reportedly pulls ahead of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks. Pricing stays at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, and the model is live across Claude products, the API, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry.
Why It Matters: There's a real shift happening here. A year ago every lab raced to ship their most capable model the moment it was ready. Now Anthropic is shipping the second-best one on purpose and openly saying the top one found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in testing, so only 50 banks and partners get to touch it. With California's SB 53 live and the EU's Code of Practice hitting enforcement in August, expect more "we built it but you can't have it" launches. The frontier is splitting into a public tier and a vault tier, and where your model sits is becoming a policy decision, not a product one.
How to Use Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
Go to ‘Chrome Web Store’ and download the ‘Gemini in Chrome’ extension
Once done, login with your Gemini account and start using the Gemini sidebar
Write any prompt you want to reuse (e.g., “Summarize this page” or “Turn this into a LinkedIn post”)
After sending the prompt save it as a ‘Skill’ and give it a clear name
When browsing any webpage, trigger your saved Skills by typing ‘/’ or ‘+’ and select your saved Skill from the list
The Skill will automatically execute your saved prompt on that content
Use Skills for repetitive tasks like summarizing articles, drafting emails, analyzing tabs, or generating posts
Here's the 5-step setup for non-technical users:
Go to claude.ai/code/routines and click "New routine."
Name it (e.g., "Morning email triage").
Write the prompt like an SOP. Routines run hands-off, so be more precise than a normal Claude chat. Example: "Pull my Gmail unreads. For each one, check for prior conversations with that contact. Draft a reply. Send me the drafts in Slack."
Pick a trigger: schedule (daily at 5 AM), webhook (a URL that other apps can "ping" to fire the routine automatically; e.g., a new Gmail arrives → routine runs), or API call (an API is how programs talk to each other; "call" means any script or tool you run can kick off the routine on demand from anywhere).
Hit "Run now" to test.
