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Effort cap when thinking is off, tied to a specific model

Under the hood
Useful2 Signal5
Models

Some models cap reasoning effort when thinking is off, matched by name or capability.

What

A check now identifies models that cap reasoning effort when thinking is disabled, matching claude-opus-5 by name or any model whose capability list carries a thinking_disabled_effort_cap entry.

Details
  • The capability lookup means the cap can apply to future models without a code change.
  • Reworked in this release rather than introduced.
Evidence

claude-opus-5

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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