Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SDKArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear The finding does not say which parts of the request a host may refuse.
What
set_max_thinking_tokens is an SDK request that sets how much the model may spend on thinking before it answers. The SDK is the toolkit programs use to drive Claude Code. If the host (the environment Claude Code runs in) refuses part of that request, the program that sent it now gets an error back: "set_max_thinking_tokens: host refused part of the request".
Why
A program that sets the thinking budget now learns when its request was not fully applied, instead of assuming it all went through.
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How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not say which parts of the request a host may refuse.
