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# Effort

**Effort** defines how much computational reasoning an Agent invests before producing an answer.\
It can be interpreted as the number of internal reasoning “steps” performed per message.

* **Low Effort:** fast, lightweight responses.
* **Medium Effort:** moderate contextual analysis.
* **High Effort:** deeper reasoning, multi-step orchestration, and better handling of complex logic.

> 💡 The higher the Effort, the more credit or API cost may be consumed, since additional iterations are executed internally.