Cowork Hardcodes 'Medium' Effort for Opus 4.6, Ignoring Your Settings

Claude Cowork forces 'medium' effort and standard context on Opus 4.6, overriding CLI settings and environment variables. Max plan users get throttled performance. What Changed - Cowork Overrides Your Claude Code Settings Users on the $200/month Max plan have discovered that Claude Cowork is hardcoding --effort medium --model claude-opus-4-6 as CLI flags when spawning sessions, completely ignoring user settings.