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If you feel like Claude code in Opus 4.6 just hasn't been performing as well lately, then here are two settings you can change. And these aren't coming from me. These are coming from Boris Churnney, the actual creator of Cloud Code.
The first setting you need to change is the effort because it doesn't default to high or max anymore. So if you want it to be on max effort, you need to actually do `/effort max`. This is session only. So you will need to do this each time or change the default setting in your settings folder.
The second setting you want to change is `claude code disable adaptive thinking 1`. This is literally a suggestion from Churnney himself. He actually posted about this on Hacker News because someone was bringing up how they did all these tests and it looked like Opus wasn't performing as well. So he said you should run this command inside the settings folder.
Basically, this makes it so Cloud Code doesn't sometimes think less on simpler questions. It is just always going to use max effort if that's what you have it set to every single time. So just give Claude code a prompt that says `set claude code disable adaptive thinking equal to 1` and that will fix it.
So turn off adaptive thinking and set the effort level to max, and I think you will notice an improvement in your Claude code performance.