Extended Thinking & Multimodal

Understand how visible reasoning tokens and the effort parameter trade off cost.

Enable adaptive thinking and send one image alongside a text prompt.

Turn on adaptive thinking so Claude decides how much reasoning a task needs.

Set output_config.effort to low, medium, high, or max for your workload.

Reference table for effort levels and the summarized versus omitted display modes.

Numbered practices for tuning effort, thinking display, and multimodal inputs.