Anthropic Explains Claude Code Effort Setting

An Anthropic staffer explained that Claude Code's effort setting scales how much the model verifies, tests edge cases, and exercises judgment—without breaking prompt cache—with high effort suited to security audits and code review, and low effort for fast iteration.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-26 · 4 related posts

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