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Claude Code v2.1.224 ·

Effort picker can show relative cost, gated off

Effort levels can be labelled with relative cost like ~2x, hidden behind an off gate.

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Thinking EffortArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.224,
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The relative-cost labels need both a default-off gate and per-model cost data.

What

The effort level slider can label each level with an estimated cost multiplier against the model's default effort, shown as ~2x or ~0.25x, with a distinct note on the default level. It is behind the tengu_marbled_teal gate, which falls back to off, and it also needs per-model cost index data to be present.

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the estimated cost of

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tengu_marbled_teal Off by default, switched on for this account

The shipped code defaults this off, and the flag server returned on for the one account this site reads on this version. That is the reading that makes the entry above worth a second look, and it still says nothing about your account.

This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.224: off

These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.224. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What has happened since
Flag reading moved The flag server now returns on for tengu_marbled_teal, read as this account. A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
Flag reading moved The flag server now returns off for tengu_marbled_teal, read as this account. A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
Flag reading moved The flag server now returns nothing at all, having stopped carrying it for tengu_marbled_teal, read as this account. A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.

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One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_marbled_teal

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