Adaptive-thinking

Claude Opus 4.7: How to Migrate Your Workflow to Adaptive Thinking

Claude Opus 4.7 replaces fixed thinking budgets with adaptive thinking and five effort levels: low, medium, high, xhigh, and max. To migrate, swap your thinking parameter to type "adaptive," remove temperature/top_p/top_k from your payloads, and pick an effort level. Xhigh is now the default for most coding work in Claude Code. Opus 4.7 shipped April 16 and I broke my integrations within the first hour. The old budget_tokens sy