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"thinking.type.disabled" is not supported for this model. — thinking cannot be turned off on Claude Opus 5.5

anthropic-apiclaude-opus-5-5#anthropic#claude#thinking#max-tokens#breaking-change
"thinking.type.disabled" is not supported for this model.
Fix
# before
thinking={"type": "disabled"}
# after: drop the thinking field, lower effort instead
client.messages.create(model="claude-opus-5-5", max_tokens=8000,
    output_config={"effort": "low"}, messages=msgs)
  • Select content by block type (thinking blocks come first).
  • In tool loops, pass thinking blocks back unmodified (edited, reordered or dropped thinking blocks are rejected with 400).
  • Default effort on Opus 5.5 is medium (Opus 5 defaulted to high); set it explicitly.
  • Use the Models API capabilities.thinking.types.disabled.supported to check a model before sending disabled.

Symptom

Code that sends thinking: {"type": "disabled"} to save tokens (accepted by Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5) gets HTTP 400 on claude-opus-5-5: "thinking.type.disabled" is not supported for this model. Separately, workloads that sent no thinking field now get thinking blocks first and may hit max_tokens sooner.

Cause

On Claude Opus 5.5 adaptive thinking is always on; effort is the only control. max_tokens remains a hard limit on thinking + response text, and thinking tokens are billed as output tokens.

Verify

200 response; usage.output_tokens re-baselined at the chosen effort.

Sources

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