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Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York

Anthropic Rebuilds Claude Code Review Into Five Distinct Effort Tiers

The levels run from a seconds-long basic check to an "Ultra" pass that uploads the repository to a group of cloud-based agents, each finding independently verified.

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Anthropic Rebuilds Claude Code Review Into Five Distinct Effort Tiers

Anthropic has restructured code review inside Claude Code into five effort levels, low, medium, high, extra-high, and ultra, with each level running a distinct process rather than the same prompt given more time to think, as first noted on…

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