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How to Change Thinking Effort in Claude Code

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

Efforts allows you to control how many tokens LLM (Claude) uses when responding effectively controlling the trade off between response thoroughness + accuracy vs speed + token efficiency (cost)

In Claude Code, you can use /effort command to set the needed effort for your case.

Like: /effort high

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Reference

#Claude-Code

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