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Claude Haiku 5.5 in Claude Code: Cut AI Coding Costs 20x

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, and the headline number is hard to ignore: $0.10 per million input tokens, a tenth of Sonnet 5.5 and a fortieth of Opus 5.5.

  • Claude Haiku 5.5 launched Oct 7, 2026 at $0.10 per million input tokens
  • First Haiku to survive agent loop with higher scores than Haiku 4.5
  • 100K token pricing cliff can 5x the price of longer prompts

I built an MCP server so Claude stops telling me to do homework I already submitted

My school runs on D2L Brightspace. I wanted to ask my AI one thing, "what should I work on right now", and get a real answer. The problem is that most tools only read due dates.

  • brightspace-d2l-mcp server tracks actual submission status for assignments
  • Inquires about remaining tasks disregards already submitted work
  • Setup involves single command, connects to Claude tools without storing passwords

Make your AI coding agent's handoff checkable: point every "done" at something real

When a Claude Code session runs out of context, or you stop for the night, the next session starts from whatever the last one wrote down. Usually that is a summary: what was done, what is left.

  • Each AI claim must have a pointer to verifiable work, not just "done"
  • Pointers linked to commit hashes, specific files, or log lines
  • Checkpoint script verifies pointers before new AI session begins

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