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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