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Ultrathink is a Claude Code a magic word


Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their [Claude Code](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code) CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: > We recommend using …

Each level allocates progressively more thinking budget for Claude to use. Claude Code isn't open source but you can view the obfuscated JavaScript for it, and make it a tiny bit less obfuscated by running it through Prettier. So yeah, it looks like "ultrathink" is a Claude Code feature - presumably that 31999 is a number that affects the token , especially since "megathink" maps to 1e4 tokens (10,000) and just plain "think" maps to 4,000.

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