Concept
Ultrathink
A prompt keyword used in Claude Code to request deeper reasoning from the model. It operates at the natural-language instruction level and does not alter the underlying effort-level parameter configuration.
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Sep 19
Ultrathink is a prompt keyword that requests the model to think deeply, but it does not change the effort level, and such instructions are essentially defunct and considered a legacy feature.
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