r/ClaudeAI's workaround for Opus 5 refusals is to fall back to Opus 4.6 with 1M context
r/ClaudeAI·low signal
A 50-upvote reminder post shows that `/model claude-opus-4-6[1M]` still resolves in Claude Code, and the author's stated reason for using it is not capability but temperament: when Opus 5 or Fable 5 refuses or argues, the older model just does the work. A 34-upvote reply frames the same thing as a voice problem with Opus 5 rather than a policy one. Worth knowing that the 1M-context 4.6 selector has not been retired, and worth noticing that model choice in this community is now partly a compliance decision.