Unclear The finding doesn't say what distinguishes a 'dropped' thinking block from a 'stripped' one.
What
The part of Claude Code that renders message content added a new content type, thinking_drop, which renders to nothing (an empty result), similar to the existing thinking_stripped type used when a model's extended thinking (its visible reasoning steps) is removed from the conversation.
Why
This gives Claude Code a way to mark thinking content as dropped from the display without showing anything in its place, alongside the existing mechanism for stripped thinking blocks.
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The finding doesn't say what distinguishes a 'dropped' thinking block from a 'stripped' one.