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Claude Code recently downgraded the default thinking level to “medium”, so it’s worth checking your settings.
by e1g 7mo ago
Claude Code recently downgraded the default thinking level to “medium”, so it’s worth checking your settings.
- nekitamo 7mo agoThank you. The difference was quite noticeable today.
- wood_spirit 7mo agoThank you thank you you give me hope :) But how do you see the current thinking level and how do you change it? I’ve been clicking around and searching and adding “effortLevel”:”high” to .claude/settings.json but no idea if this actually has any effect etc.
- varshar 7mo agoAs per Anthropic support (for Mac and Linux respectively) - $ echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc $ echo 'export ANTHROPIC_EFFORT="high"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc I prefer settings.json (VSCode) - "claudeCode.environmentVariables": [ { "name": "ANTHROPIC_MODEL", "value": "claude-opus-4-6" }, { "name": "CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL", "value": "high" } ], ...
- nnoremap 7mo agoOr the 2026 version: 'Hey Claude set your thinking level to high.'
- joecool1029 7mo agorecently being within the past 24 hours lol: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.68 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1....
- darkwater 7mo ago> Re-introduced the "ultrathink" keyword to enable high effort for the next tur Doh.