In this video, I walk through the 7 settings that take stock Claude Opus 4.7 to top 1% usage. Step 1, Permissions: Cut the constant approval prompts without losing control. This alone gets back minutes every session. Step 2, Focus Mode: Stop Claude from sprawling across files you didn't ask it to touch. Scoped work, fewer surprises. Step 3, Effort Level: The dial most people never touch. Dialling it right is what makes 4.7 feel fast. Step 4, Adaptive Thinking: Let Claude decide when to think hard and when to move. You stop paying for thinking tokens on trivial tasks. Step 5, Verification Loops: Self-checks before Claude tells you it's done. This is the biggest quality jump of the seven. Step 6, Recaps: End-of-turn summaries that actually save context instead of wasting it. Step 7, The Tokenizer Change: 4.7 changed how prompts are tokenised. Old 4.6 prompts silently break. Here's what to fix. I also packaged all of this into a free skill so you don't have to configure it yourself. Link's in the video. If you're on Opus 4.7, this is the setup. Here is the skill: send this prompt to Claude Code **copy below this line** I'm giving you a skill called Opus 4.7 Setup. Get the files with: git clone https://github.com/automatorsplus/opus-4-7-setup-skill Follow the README to set it up. Recommend how it would best apply to our setup in plain language, and ask me a few questions to clarify my intent before you install it.