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Anthropic

What is Anthropic?

An AI safety and research company that develops the Claude family of large language models. They focus on building helpful, harmless, and honest AI systems.

Anthropic is an AI provider founded by former OpenAI researchers. They are the creators of the Claude family of models (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Fable, Mythos) and tools like Claude Code. Their models are heavily utilized in software development orchestration due to their advanced reasoning, very large context windows, and strong system prompt adherence.

How it relates to Orbit

Orbit can route work through Claude Code and configure Claude authentication in model-tier settings. See Complexity Tiers & Routing for details.

When you would use it

You select Anthropic models when you prioritize deep reasoning, long-context understanding, and safe, predictable outputs in your AI agent architecture.

Common operations

  • Using the Claude API for enterprise agentic workflows.
  • Deploying the Claude Code CLI for autonomous coding.

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