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On Monday, July 13, Anthropic is hosting a live webinar that is more useful than most: instead of a product walk-through, two engineering teams will show how they actually run Claude Sonnet 5 in production — design decisions, live product demos, and reflections on what broke.

Part of our Builder’s Log.

What the Webinar Is

“Production-Grade Agents on Claude Sonnet 5: Live with Zed and ClickHouse”

Register at anthropic.com/webinars

Three practitioners, two product demos, one Q&A:

  • Neel — engineering at Zed, the AI-native code editor built for agents and pair-programming workflows
  • Ryadh — engineering at ClickHouse, the high-performance analytics database that has built agents for data exploration, query generation, and schema introspection
  • Musa — Anthropic Technical Staff, who works with Sonnet 5 daily on production deployments

What Builders Will See

According to Anthropic’s webinar description, both teams cover:

Live demos in their actual products. Not toy examples — Zed running agentic coding workflows, ClickHouse running analytical agents against real query patterns. Both are built on Sonnet 5 in their shipping software.

The design decisions that mattered. What did switching to Sonnet 5 unlock? How do they route between Sonnet 5 and heavier models? Where did they need to change their prompting or looping logic?

Honest failure reports. What did not work. Where the model surprised them negatively. How they handled it.

Takeaways you can apply immediately — the format is explicitly practitioner-to-practitioner, not sales pitch.

Why Sonnet 5 for Production Agents Right Now

Sonnet 5 launched June 30, 2026 as the most agentic Sonnet yet. Our launch guide covers the full picture, but the short version for this webinar:

  • $2/$10 intro pricing (input/output per million tokens) through August 31, then $3/$15 — cheaper than Sonnet 4.6 at a higher capability tier
  • 63.2% on agentic coding benchmarks — 5 points above Sonnet 4.6, 6 below Opus 4.8
  • 1M token context with 128K max output — useful for long tool-use loops
  • Adaptive thinking on by default — the model manages its own reasoning depth

The key question for builders is whether Sonnet 5’s agentic performance justifies staying on it for sustained multi-step work, or whether edge cases still push workflows up to Opus 4.8 (at 5× the cost). This webinar answers that question with real data from real teams.

Questions Worth Preparing

If you register and plan to ask something during Q&A, these are the most useful angles:

  1. Model routing: At what task types does Sonnet 5 fail reliably enough that Zed or ClickHouse routes to Opus 4.8 instead?
  2. Error recovery: In long agent loops — 20+ steps — how do they detect and recover from model drift without restarting from scratch?
  3. Context management: With 1M context available, what is the practical window they actually use before quality degrades?
  4. Tool-call volume: What is the maximum tool-call depth per session they have seen work reliably?
  5. Adaptive thinking: Has the automatic thinking mode ever hurt latency in ways that mattered for UX?

How to Register

Free registration: anthropic.com/webinars/production-grade-agents-on-claude-sonnet-5-live-with-zed-and-clickhouse

Date: Monday, July 13, 2026

A recording should be available afterward on the Anthropic webinars page.

This article will be updated after the webinar with a session recap and key takeaways.