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title: "Set the thinking budget in Factory CLI | Ian Nuttall"
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# Set the thinking budget in Factory CLI

Sep 2025 / 17,795 views / [via X](https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1968981422485422560)

if you don't like using "ultrathink" or hard coding the thinking budget in claude code, the factory cli has it in a reasoning setting you can toggle, nice and simple

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