Claude Code · Opus 5.5 · By AnyCap Team · Updated September 29, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code: add image, video, and audio
Opus 5.5 reads text and images and writes text. It won't hand you a PNG, an MP4, or a voiceover. Install AnyCap once and the same Claude Code session can generate them, watch a video file, and ship the result, while Opus keeps doing the planning and the review.
Tell Claude Code
Claude Code finds the AnyCap skill, installs the CLI, and walks you through login. After that, ask for the image or video in plain language.
Help me install anycap.aiWhat an Opus 5.5 session can hand back
Everything here came back from the AnyCap CLI on the production API on September 22, 2026: an image, an edit made from that saved file, and a five-second clip. They show what the commands return. They are not a recording of an Opus 5.5 session.
Seedream 5 charged 2 credits per image in that run. The edit also added a small mark near the base, which is the kind of thing Opus should catch when it reads the file back. Commands and limits are on the image and Seedance 2.5 pages.
Opus 5.5 at a glance
From Anthropic's models overview, checked September 29, 2026.
- Released
- September 22, 2026 as claude-opus-5-5
- Reads
- Text and images
- Writes
- Text only: no image, video, or audio output
- Context
- 1M tokens in, up to 128K tokens out
- Thinking
- Adaptive thinking is always on; default effort is medium
- API price
- $4 input / $20 output per million tokens
Where the text-only output stops the work
| Job | Opus 5.5 alone | With AnyCap |
|---|---|---|
| Make an image | Describes it in text | anycap image generate |
| Make a video | Writes the shot list | anycap video generate |
| Watch a video file | Needs frames exported as images | anycap actions video-read |
| Make speech or music | Writes the script or lyrics | anycap audio generate, anycap music generate |
| Ship the result | Leaves files on disk | anycap drive upload, anycap page deploy |
The live catalog lists 10 image models and 16 video models. Claude Code can check them with anycap image models and anycap video models before it picks one.
Set it up by hand
1. Add the AnyCap skill to Claude Code
npx -y skills add anycap-ai/anycap -a claude-code -yThe skill tells Claude Code which commands exist and when to call them.
2. Install the CLI
curl -fsSL https://anycap.ai/install.sh | sh3. Log in once
anycap login && anycap statusRun /model in Claude Code if Opus 5.5 is not already the active model.
Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, or Fable 5.1?
A single image or clip is mostly one command and one look at the file, so Sonnet 5.5 is usually enough. Opus 5.5 earns its price on long jobs: a landing page with its own hero video, or a batch of assets checked against a brief.
| Model | Anthropic's pitch | Price in / out per MTok | Default effort | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Speed and intelligence | $2 / $10 | high | Fast |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Long-running agentic coding | $4 / $20 | medium | Moderate |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Demanding reasoning, long horizons | $10 / $50 | high | Slower |
Calling AnyCap as a tool from the Opus 5.5 API
Three request changes in Anthropic's migration guide break older tool loops. Claude Code handles these for you.
Don't force the tool call
tool_choice any or tool returns a 400 on Opus 5.5. Use auto and write a tool description that makes the media call the obvious next step.
Thinking stays on
Requests that disable thinking or set a manual budget are rejected. Lower effort instead when a media step only needs a short command.
Pass thinking blocks back untouched
In a tool loop, return the assistant message as received with the tool result. Edited or dropped thinking blocks return a 400.
Questions
Can Claude Opus 5.5 generate images or video?
No. Anthropic lists text and image input with text output for Opus 5.5. In Claude Code it can call AnyCap to generate images, video, speech, and music, then read the saved files back.
Can Claude Opus 5.5 watch a video?
Not as a video file. It accepts images, so without a tool you would export frames. anycap actions video-read sends the file to a video model and returns a text answer Opus can act on.
Do I need Opus 5.5 to use AnyCap in Claude Code?
No. The skill and CLI work with whichever model Claude Code is running, and with Codex, Cursor, and other agents that can run shell commands.
Should I move from Claude Opus 4.7 to Opus 5.5?
Anthropic now lists Opus 4.7 as a legacy model and suggests starting with Opus 5.5. Inside Claude Code, switching is a /model change and the AnyCap setup stays the same. If you call the API directly, read the migration notes above first.