Bolt's agent now runs on Claude Sonnet 5
By Steven Van ·
The upgrade brings stronger coding and edge-case handling to Bolt's full-stack app generation, with rollout beginning shortly.
Bolt's AI agent just got a serious upgrade — Claude Sonnet 5 is now part of the engine powering your builds, with rollout to users beginning shortly.
Sonnet 5 Joins Bolt's Agent Stack
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model to date — it makes plans, uses tools like browsers and terminals, and can run tasks autonomously at a level that until recently required larger, more expensive models. Bringing that capability into Bolt means the agent powering your app generation gets a significant step up in reasoning and task completion.
What Changes for Your Builds
Sonnet 5's strength is in coding and catching edge cases — it handles more complex prompts with greater reliability and is particularly sharp at flagging risky or ambiguous requests before they become problems in your app. For Bolt users building full-stack apps with databases, auth, and deployment, that translates to fewer back-and-forths and more accurate first-pass results.
Why It Matters
For creators building production-ready apps in Bolt, this upgrade means the agent at the core of your workflow is now operating at a genuinely new capability level — not just faster, but more capable of seeing a complex build through from prompt to working product without losing the thread.
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