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Learn how Extended Thinking reveals Claude's reasoning in a thinking block and how the effort parameter controls reasoning depth and cost.
Learn to use Extended Thinking, Effort, and Multimodal features with 7 Python examples. Explore basic requests, adaptive thinking, and sending images with text prompts.
Enable adaptive thinking to let Claude dynamically determine reasoning depth for each request. Learn to configure, parse responses, and avoid common pitfalls.
Control Claude's reasoning depth with the effort parameter to balance cost, speed, and thoroughness in your Anthropic SDK requests.
Consult this reference for API effort levels (low, medium, high, max) and thinking display modes (summarized, omitted). Optimize speed, cost, and reasoning depth.
Optimize AI performance and cost with best practices for extended thinking, effort, and multimodal inputs. Learn to use adaptive thinking and manage token budgets.
A single-page roundup of every highlight bullet from the 9 pages in the Extended Thinking & Multimodal section, grouped by source page so you can scan all 39 takeaways without opening each article individually.