Netlify adds Claude Opus 5.5 to Agent Runners, AI Gateway

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Netlify adds Claude Opus 5.5 to Agent Runners, AI Gateway

Netlify announced that Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in both Agent Runners and AI Gateway, enabling applications and their building agents to run on the same underlying model. Developers can configure the model using the claude-opus-5-5 string and apply an effort parameter to dedicate additional reasoning power to complex requests.

// ANALYSIS

Aligning the development agent's model with the runtime model provides a highly consistent and predictable AI development pipeline.

–It eliminates the "impedance mismatch" of having an app built by one model but powered by another.
–The addition of an "effort" setting gives developers fine-grained control over the cost-performance trade-off for individual tasks.
–This move strengthens Netlify's ecosystem by deeply integrating high-end foundation models directly into their deployment infrastructure.

// TAGS

netlifyagent-runnersai-gatewayclaudeopus-5.5

DISCOVERED

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2026-09-23

PUBLISHED

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2026-09-23

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

Netlify

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