> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://soulforge.proxysoul.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Thinking & retries

> Configure thinking modes, budgets, and retry behavior.

Open `/provider-settings` to tune thinking mode and budget per model. Or edit config directly:

```json theme={null}
{
  "thinking": {
    "mode": "adaptive"
  }
}
```

## Thinking modes

| Mode                   | What it does                            |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `off`                  | No thinking blocks                      |
| `adaptive` (or `auto`) | Model decides when to think (Claude 4+) |
| `enabled`              | Fixed budget thinking — specify tokens  |

Budgets when mode is `enabled`: 1024, 2048, 5000, 10000, 20000.

## Context management (Anthropic)

Advanced Anthropic features. Apply automatically on supported models:

* **Clear Thinking** — auto-clears old thinking blocks, keeps last 5 turns.
* **Clear Tool Uses** — drops old tool content when input exceeds 100k.
* **Compact** — API-side compaction at 75% of context.

## Graceful degradation

If a provider rejects an option (unsupported thinking mode, unknown parameter), SoulForge retries with reduced options automatically. You don't see the error.

## Retries on rate limits

Getting 429s? Bump retry config:

```json theme={null}
{
  "retry": {
    "maxAttempts": 5,
    "baseDelayMs": 3000
  }
}
```

Delays double each attempt: 3s, 6s, 12s, 24s, 48s.

| Field         | Default                         | Range     |
| ------------- | ------------------------------- | --------- |
| `maxAttempts` | `3`                             | 1–10      |
| `baseDelayMs` | `1000` (chat) / `2000` (agents) | 250–60000 |