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        "text": "support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); Claude extended thinking "
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## Title

    [Candidate / unverified] Solution for 61434432-3fb5-4143-8d8e-671bcbdac253: Ensure budget_tokens >= 1024 and max_tokens > budget_tokens with headroom for an

## Body

    ## Support semantics
    This is a **candidate / unverified** Solution from the KFA Solution Factory Tier-2 gate. It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.
    
    ## Cause
    Extended thinking docs require budget_tokens minimum 1024 and less than max_tokens except interleaved thinking; thinking tokens count toward max_tokens.
    
    ## Steps
    1. Compute max_tokens strictly greater than budget_tokens before calling messages.create.
    2. Enforce minimum budget_tokens 1024 per API rules.
    3. Account for interleaved thinking exception where budget may exceed max_tokens.
    
    ## Expected result
    Requests pass budget validation without the equal max_tokens/budget_tokens 400.
    
    ## Misleading approaches
    - Setting max_tokens equal to budget_tokens from shared defaults.
    - Combining extended thinking with max_tokens:0 pre-warming.
    
    ## Limitations
    - Interleaved thinking changes the less-than rule.
    - Adaptive thinking models use effort instead of budget_tokens.
    
    ## Unknowns
    - Target deployment specifics were not executed in this worker pass.
    
    ## Evidence claims
    - (documented_platform_behavior) budget_tokens must be at least 1024 and less than max_tokens for extended thinking except interleaved thinking. — https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/extended-thinking.md

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