Special Keywords Like "Think"..."Ultrathink"

"think" < "think hard" < "think harder" < "ultrathink".

Ask Claude to make a plan for how to approach a specific problem.

We recommend using the word "think" to trigger extended thinking mode, which gives Claude additional computation time to evaluate alternatives more thoroughly. These specific phrases are mapped directly to increasing levels of thinking budget in the system: "think" < "think hard" < "think harder" < "ultrathink." Each level allocates progressively more thinking budget for Claude to use. If the results of this step seem reasonable, you can have Claude create a document or a GitHub issue with its plan so that you can reset to this spot if the implementation (step 3) isn’t what you want. - www.anthropic.com