diff --git a/src/mcplocal/src/providers/anthropic.ts b/src/mcplocal/src/providers/anthropic.ts
index 7527051..73a60cc 100644
--- a/src/mcplocal/src/providers/anthropic.ts
+++ b/src/mcplocal/src/providers/anthropic.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ function familyOf(model: string): string | null {
   return null;
 }
 
+/**
+ * A 400 naming a sampling parameter, e.g.
+ * "`temperature` is deprecated for this model."
+ */
+function isSamplingRejection(err: unknown): boolean {
+  const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+  return msg.includes('HTTP 400') && /`?(temperature|top_p|top_k)`?/.test(msg);
+}
+
 /** Resolutions are cached this long before the models endpoint is consulted again. */
 const MODEL_CACHE_TTL_MS = Number(process.env['MCPCTL_ANTHROPIC_MODEL_TTL_MS']) || 12 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 
@@ -40,6 +49,17 @@ export class AnthropicProvider implements LlmProvider {
   readonly name = 'anthropic';
   /** Shared across instances: the model list is account-wide, not per-provider. */
   private static readonly modelCache = new Map<string, { id: string; expiresAt: number }>();
+  /**
+   * Models that rejected a sampling parameter, learned at runtime.
+   *
+   * Anthropic removed `temperature`/`top_p`/`top_k` on the current generation
+   * (Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Opus 4.7/4.8, Fable 5) — sending one is a hard 400. A
+   * hardcoded list of which models accept it would rot exactly the way the
+   * pinned model ids did, so learn it from the API instead: the first call
+   * retries without the parameter and remembers, and every later call omits it
+   * up front.
+   */
+  private static readonly rejectsSampling = new Set<string>();
   private apiKey: string;
   private defaultModel: string;
 
@@ -66,7 +86,9 @@ export class AnthropicProvider implements LlmProvider {
     if (systemMessages.length > 0) {
       body.system = systemMessages.map((m) => m.content).join('\n');
     }
-    if (options.temperature !== undefined) body.temperature = options.temperature;
+    if (options.temperature !== undefined && !AnthropicProvider.rejectsSampling.has(model)) {
+      body.temperature = options.temperature;
+    }
 
     if (options.tools && options.tools.length > 0) {
       body.tools = options.tools.map((t) => ({
@@ -76,8 +98,19 @@ export class AnthropicProvider implements LlmProvider {
       }));
     }
 
-    const response = await this.request(body, options.signal);
-    return parseAnthropicResponse(response);
+    try {
+      return parseAnthropicResponse(await this.request(body, options.signal));
+    } catch (err) {
+      // Learn-and-retry rather than fail: a model that has dropped sampling
+      // support should cost one wasted call, once, not every call forever.
+      if (body.temperature !== undefined && isSamplingRejection(err)) {
+        AnthropicProvider.rejectsSampling.add(model);
+        delete body.temperature;
+        process.stderr.write(`[anthropic] ${model} rejects sampling params — retrying without\n`);
+        return parseAnthropicResponse(await this.request(body, options.signal));
+      }
+      throw err;
+    }
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/mcplocal/tests/anthropic-model-resolution.test.ts b/src/mcplocal/tests/anthropic-model-resolution.test.ts
index 1a6d7fa..89ea75a 100644
--- a/src/mcplocal/tests/anthropic-model-resolution.test.ts
+++ b/src/mcplocal/tests/anthropic-model-resolution.test.ts
@@ -81,3 +81,68 @@ describe('Anthropic model resolution', () => {
     await expect(providerWith(MODELS).listModels()).resolves.toContain('claude-opus-5');
   });
 });
+
+describe('sampling-parameter rejection', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    (AnthropicProvider as unknown as { rejectsSampling: Set<string> }).rejectsSampling.clear();
+  });
+
+  /** Rejects `temperature` exactly as the current Anthropic models do. */
+  function samplingStrictProvider(): { provider: AnthropicProvider; bodies: Array<Record<string, unknown>> } {
+    const provider = new AnthropicProvider({ apiKey: 'sk-ant-api-test' });
+    const bodies: Array<Record<string, unknown>> = [];
+    (provider as unknown as { request: (b: unknown) => Promise<unknown> }).request = async (b) => {
+      const body = b as Record<string, unknown>;
+      bodies.push({ ...body });
+      if (body.temperature !== undefined) {
+        throw new Error(
+          'Anthropic HTTP 400: {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error",'
+          + '"message":"`temperature` is deprecated for this model."}}',
+        );
+      }
+      return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], stop_reason: 'end_turn' };
+    };
+    return { provider, bodies };
+  }
+
+  it('retries without temperature when the model rejects it', async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(process.stderr, 'write').mockImplementation(() => true);
+    const { provider, bodies } = samplingStrictProvider();
+
+    const result = await provider.complete({
+      model: 'claude-opus-5',
+      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'hi' }],
+      temperature: 0,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.content).toBe('ok');
+    expect(bodies).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(bodies[0]!.temperature).toBe(0);
+    expect(bodies[1]!.temperature).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('remembers, so the wasted call happens once and not forever', async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(process.stderr, 'write').mockImplementation(() => true);
+    const { provider, bodies } = samplingStrictProvider();
+    const req = { model: 'claude-opus-5', messages: [{ role: 'user' as const, content: 'hi' }], temperature: 0 };
+
+    await provider.complete(req);
+    await provider.complete(req);
+    await provider.complete(req);
+
+    // 2 for the first call (reject + retry), then 1 each — not 2 each.
+    expect(bodies).toHaveLength(4);
+  });
+
+  it('does not swallow unrelated 400s', async () => {
+    const provider = new AnthropicProvider({ apiKey: 'sk-ant-api-test' });
+    (provider as unknown as { request: () => Promise<unknown> }).request = async () => {
+      throw new Error('Anthropic HTTP 400: {"error":{"message":"max_tokens is required"}}');
+    };
+    await expect(provider.complete({
+      model: 'claude-opus-5',
+      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'hi' }],
+      temperature: 0,
+    })).rejects.toThrow(/max_tokens/);
+  });
+});