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--task-budget CLI Flag

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What

A new hidden CLI flag that sets an API-side task budget in output tokens via output_config.task_budget.

Usage
claude --task-budget 50000
Details
  • Value must be a positive integer (number of tokens)
  • Controls the API's output token budget for the task
  • Hidden from --help output (intended for programmatic/advanced use)
Evidence

Task budget flag (search for "--task-budget", "task-budgets-2026-03-13")

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

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