Why We Switched Back from Claude Opus 4.7 to 4.6

We ran an eight-agent autonomous system on Opus 4.7 for about 12 hours of continuous operation. Then we switched back to 4.6. Not because 4.7 was worse at any task — but because it couldn’t be left alone. The Setup We operate an eight-agent autonomous system running 24 hours a day with ten-minute monitoring cycles. A research agent, a code agent, a content agent, a QA agent, and others — each specialized, all coordinated by a central orchestrator. The goal is for the operator to walk away. The s