Show HN: Effort Router: Intelligent /effort selection per Claude turn

[bennydog224]

Dynamic effort selection, while possible in some other tools like OpenCode, does not exist in Claude Code.

Having dynamic effort set per conversation turn means:

- Less tokens burned on easy queries (e.g. something low /effort can do goes to xhigh because it's the convo default)

- You avoid mistakes: Prompts requiring high effort (like a refactor or security threat modeling) go to high or xhigh instead of medium to reduce likelihood of mistakes and reduce wasted tokens.

I created this out of a personal need and it's been game-changing. My Claude sessions are way more productive with less back/forth.

Give it a try and feel free to contribute!

[shmoogy]

Does this not cause you to lose cache because the effort is in the system prompt, so you will burn your usage faster dynamically changing effort in the same conversation?