Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Restructures Claude Code Review Into Five Effort Tiers, Topped by a Cloud Agent Fleet
The Ultra tier launches parallel specialized agents in a remote sandbox that independently verify each finding, taking five to ten minutes and costing an estimated $5 to $20 per review.
Anthropic reworked the code-review feature in Claude Code into tiered effort levels, Low, Medium, High, X-high and Ultra, where each level runs a distinct process rather than the same prompt with more reasoning time, and the level is select…
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