When a proxy fronts Claude Code (which always sends `output_config.effort`)
at a pre-4.5 Anthropic model — haiku-3, sonnet-3.5, opus-3, sonnet-4 — the
forwarded knob causes a forced 400 the client can't fix. Gating a strip
behind the existing `drop_params` flag lets operators opt into silent
fixup once and stop worrying about per-model param hygiene.
Default (`drop_params=False`) still forwards and surfaces the provider's
error, preserving the strict, debuggable contract from #27074.
Per https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/effort the
supporting set is Opus 4.5+, Sonnet 4.6+, and Mythos Preview; everything
else is dropped (with a verbose_logger warning so the strip is visible).
Recognition uses model-name patterns plus a fallback to any
`supports_*_reasoning_effort` flag in the model map for forward
compatibility with new entries.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01WjHq31rvXT6xYNdVmSJvRp