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When Claude's Extended Thinking feature is enabled, the model outputs an internal reasoning process (a thinking block) before generating the final response; this reasoning is visible to the user but is not counted as part of the conversation context.
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5/28/2026
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Complete Tutorial: Using GPT to Automatically Configure Claude Opus 4
bilibili如意-浏览器开发培训5/28/2026
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