What
The session's effort setting is now an object with a kind rather than a bare string. Metadata reports an effort level only when the kind is a level, and the --effort setting is cleared for any other kind.
Details
- Permission-mode transitions build their metadata through a rule-based helper.
- When the notifier reports worker permission-mode recording as enabled, transitions additionally record the worker's permission mode as internal metadata.
Evidence
worker_permission_mode
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundle--effort
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --effort, on Model configuration.
In those cases `--effort ultracode` starts the session with ultracode off, at the highest effort level the model and any cap allow, up to `xhigh`.model-config see the edit
Added since
A small documentation edit on CLI reference touched a line naming --effort after this was published.
| `--effort` | Set the [effort level](/docs/en/model-config#adjust-effort-level) for the current session. Options: `low`, `medium`, `high`, `xhigh`, `max`, or `ultracode`. Available levels depend on the model. `ultracode` requests `xhigh` …cli-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
A small documentation edit on CLI reference touched a line naming --effort after this was published.