Pattern

Reasoning effort control

Trade answer quality against latency and token cost per call by setting the model's effort level (Anthropic effort, OpenAI reasoning.effort, Gemini thinking_level), instead of prompting for more or less reasoning or setting a fixed thinking budget.

Classification Setting how much a reasoning model thinks and writes on each call through a named effort level.

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