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"thinking.type.enabled" is not supported for this model. — budget_tokens extended thinking removed on Claude Opus 4.7+

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"thinking.type.enabled" is not supported for this model.
Fix

Before:

client.beta.messages.create(model="claude-opus-4-5-20251101", max_tokens=16000,
    thinking={"type": "enabled", "budget_tokens": 10000}, messages=msgs)

After:

client.messages.create(model="claude-opus-5-5", max_tokens=16000,
    thinking={"type": "adaptive"},          # optional on Opus 5.5 (always on)
    output_config={"effort": "high"},       # low | medium | high | xhigh | max
    messages=msgs)

Use client.messages.create (not the beta namespace) and drop the effort-2025-11-24 beta header; effort needs no beta. Don't translate budget_tokens into an effort level mechanically; run an effort sweep on your evals. At xhigh/max, start max_tokens at 64k.

Symptom

A request with thinking: {"type": "enabled", "budget_tokens": 10000} (the extended-thinking pattern from Claude 3.7 / Claude 4 docs) returns HTTP 400 on claude-opus-5-5: "thinking.type.enabled" is not supported for this model.

Cause

Manual extended thinking (type: enabled + budget_tokens) is deprecated on Claude Opus 4.6 / Sonnet 4.6 and not accepted on Claude Opus 4.7 and later models. Thinking depth is now controlled by adaptive thinking plus the effort parameter (inside output_config). On Claude Opus 5.5 adaptive thinking is always on.

Verify

The request returns 200 and content begins with thinking blocks; select text blocks by type, not by index.

Sources

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