Ultrathink is back? I thought that wasn't a thing anymore.

If I am following.. "Max" is above "High", but you can't set it to "Max" as a default. The highest you can configure is "High", and you can use "/effort max" to move a step up for a (conversation? session?), or "ultrathink" somewhere in the prompt to move a step up for a single turn. Is this accurate?

Yep, exactly

Mentioning ULTRATHINK in prompt is the equivalent to /effort max?

Yes but only for the message that includes it. Whereas /effort max keeps it at max effort the entire convo, to my knowledge

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