[ericpan]

The docs say that CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL controls adaptive reasoning intensity, and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING bypasses that entirely in favor of a fixed budget via MAX_THINKING_TOKENS. So setting both is contradictory. If true, disabling adaptive thinking would override what effort level is trying to do.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars

[robeym]

So if it bypasses, is the optimal setting for performance setting effort level to max, keeping adaptive on? I try to avoid letting the model decide what is unimportant and needs less thought