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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by Schiendelman on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:09PM (#47666320)
That's /effort max!
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by richardjennings on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:32PM (#47666631)
You cannot control the effort setting sub-agents use and you also cannot use /effort max as a default (outside of using an alias).
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by bazhand on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:26PM (#47668162)
export CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL=max
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by wild_egg on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:37PM (#47668848)
Does that apply to subagents?
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Re:Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks wit... by AugustoCAS on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:32AM (#47671860)
Thank you!

Worth mentioning that setting this via effortLevel in .claude/settings.json does not work. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/35904

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