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Claude and Codex effort/context dropdowns could override provider settings and show a window the thread did not use. Remove those choices, including stale saved values. Codex now reads ~/.codex/config.toml; Claude Code reads ~/.claude/settings.json. The context meter uses the window reported by the provider (for example, Codex may report 872K for a 1M request). Service tier and fast mode remain.

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    • Codex reasoning effort and context length are now configured through Codex settings rather than T3 Code controls. Service-tier selection remains available.
    • Claude model options now rely on provider configuration; T3 Code no longer exposes provider-managed effort or context-window choices.
    • Updated guidance explains where to configure these options and how provider-reported context and service tiers are displayed.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes live provider request behavior, removes effort/context controls, and shifts reasoning-effort selection to provider configuration. It also changes the default text-generation selection from an explicit low-effort value to provider-managed behavior, warranting human review.

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Claude and Codex provider flows no longer expose or apply selected effort and context-window options through T3 Code in the covered paths. Codex service-tier handling remains. Settings defaults and documentation now describe provider-managed configuration.

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Provider-managed model controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filter provider-managed catalog options
apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeModelCatalog.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeModelCatalog.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexProvider.test.ts, docs/user/composer.md, docs/user/keybindings.md, docs/user/providers-claude.md
Claude catalog entries filter effort and context-window descriptors. Codex capabilities retain service-tier options without reasoning-effort or expanded-context options. Tests cover the catalog and adapter behavior, and the documentation describes provider-managed controls.
Update Codex session option handling
apps/server/src/provider/CodexDeveloperInstructions.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.test.ts
The adapter no longer sends reasoning-effort or context-window choices to the runtime. The runtime omits default reasoning effort and context-window configuration, and changes turn and interrupt handling.
Remove Codex text-generation effort defaults
packages/contracts/src/model.ts, packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/server/src/textGeneration/CodexTextGeneration.ts, apps/server/src/textGeneration/CodexTextGeneration.test.ts
Codex text generation no longer passes reasoning-effort configuration. The default text-generation selection has no options. Tests check that effort is omitted and service-tier forwarding remains.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6f9c8

T3 Code no longer overrides Codex and Claude effort and context-window settings, so each provider's own configuration applies. Service tier and fast mode still work. The turn-handling code is back to its previous behavior. The remaining note about which turn Stop targets describes existing behavior that this change does not introduce, so it can be handled as a follow-up. The change is ready to merge.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts`:
- Line 5187: Update the restart flow at startSession to preserve completed turns
by transferring context.turns to the newly created context before sending the
next turn. Ensure readThread and rollback use the existing in-memory turn
history rather than an empty array.
- Line 5163: Update the contextChoiceChanged handling in the turn-state guard to
reject or defer a window change while context.liveTaskIds contains unfinished
background tasks, preventing the restart path from calling stopSessionInternal
until those tasks finish.

In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 2535-2544: Update the context-window comparison near
selectedContextWindow so null and "default" are treated as equivalent, and fork
only when the user selects a genuinely different window. When no fork is needed,
keep activeContextWindow synchronized with selectedContextWindow so later model
switches use the current selection.

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- Around line 23-24: Update sameContextWindowSelection to treat an omitted
contextWindow and an explicit "default" selection as equivalent in either
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🟡 Minor · Serialize per-thread context-window restarts. · ClaudeAdapter.ts:5149

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize per-thread context-window restarts.

When two concurrent sendTurn calls select different context windows for the same idle thread, both can retain the same ClaudeSessionContext. One call can shut down that context's promptQueue while the other still uses it. The second call can fail or enqueue its message on the stopped session.

Use a per-thread lock. Acquire it before the initial requireSession call and hold it through stopSessionInternal, startSession, reacquisition of the current session, and Queue.offer.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.ts` at line 5149, Serialize
context-window restart handling in sendTurn with a per-thread lock: acquire it
before the initial requireSession call and retain it through
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 2645-2646: Update interruptTurn and sendTurn so Stop is
coordinated with a send awaiting thread/fork: record the stop request and
prevent the pending send from issuing turn/start, or interrupt the turn as soon
as its ID becomes available. Preserve the existing effectiveTurnId handling for
sessions with an active turn.
- Line 2537: Update the context fork gate using selectedContextWindow and
activeContextWindow so it also blocks forks while any turn IDs remain
outstanding. Track queued turn IDs through the turn/completed handler instead of
clearing the active ID as the sole indicator, and allow the fork only when no
outstanding turns remain.

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- Line 5149: Serialize context-window restart handling in sendTurn with a
per-thread lock: acquire it before the initial requireSession call and retain it
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🟠 Major · Keep Stop responsible for accepted queued turns. · CodexSessionRuntime.ts:2643

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Keep Stop responsible for accepted queued turns.

When the active turn completes before an accepted queued turn starts, turn/completed clears activeTurnId and sets the session status to "ready", but the queued ID remains in outstandingTurnIds. interruptTurn then has no effective turn ID and returns without sending turn/interrupt. The stopEpoch checks only cover sendTurn before and after turn/start; they do not cover a queued turn after sendTurn returns. If Codex starts that turn after Stop, it can run despite the Stop request. Track accepted queued turns through Stop and interrupt them when they become active.

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts` at line 2643, Update
Stop handling around stopEpoch and interruptTurn to track accepted queued turns
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- Line 2614: Update the interrupt handling in sendTurn so a timeout from
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@Bil0000 Bil0000 changed the title fix(context): make Claude window choices work and add GPT picker fix(models): defer effort and context to provider settings Sep 23, 2026
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🟡 Minor · Keep Stop focused on the active turn. · CodexSessionRuntime.ts:2594-2596

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Keep Stop focused on the active turn.

CodexAdapter.interruptTurn forwards the supplied turnId. A queued follow-up can therefore cause turn/interrupt to target the queued turn instead of the running turn. Use the active turn ID when it exists.

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-          const effectiveTurnId = turnId ?? session.activeTurnId;
+          const effectiveTurnId = session.activeTurnId ?? turnId;
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexSessionRuntime.ts` around lines 2594 -
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Checked the latest CodeRabbit Stop finding against main: effectiveTurnId = turnId ?? session.activeTurnId is unchanged by this PR. This PR no longer changes Codex turn queueing, so the finding is an existing Stop issue, not a regression from the provider-settings change. It needs a separate focused Stop fix.

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Requesting changes. I reviewed head 36d1bc4 against main (merge base f5ef0dd). CI is green on this head, and the 7 touched server test files pass locally (286 tests). The central claim, that effort is deferred to provider settings, does not hold for Codex. The Claude change also removes the only way to get 1M context on several routes. The branch conflicts with main (#13547).

This PR is a maintainer product decision as much as a code change. It removes per-thread effort and context choices for Claude and Codex, while Cursor (effort, contextWindow), Grok (reasoningEffort), and OpenCode (variant) keep per-thread pickers. That direction needs sign-off first. The blockers below apply even if it is accepted.

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1. Codex does not read config.toml effort. Every turn resets it to the model's catalog default.
CodexSessionRuntime.ts:597 now omits reasoning_effort from collaborationMode. Every orchestrated turn sets interactionMode (the payload decodes a default), so turn/start always carries collaborationMode. In Codex 0.156.1, a supplied collaboration mode replaces the thread's mode wholesale: core/src/session/step_settings.rs apply uses update.collaboration_mode.clone().unwrap_or_else(...). The missing field deserializes to None, and effective_reasoning_effort() then falls back to model_info.default_reasoning_level.

Repro against codex-cli 0.156.1 with an isolated CODEX_HOME containing model_reasoning_effort = "high":

  • thread/start returns reasoningEffort: "high".
  • turn/start with collaborationMode: {mode: "default", settings: {model, developer_instructions}} makes thread/settings/updated report effort: null and collaborationMode.settings.reasoning_effort: null.
  • The same turn/start without collaborationMode keeps high.

The configured value is silently discarded, and the new line in docs/user/composer.md:72 is untrue for chat turns. Text generation through codex exec does honor config, so that path is fine.

Smallest fix: record the effective reasoningEffort returned by thread/start, thread/resume, and thread/fork, and send it as reasoning_effort when there is no explicit override. That also gives the runtime info in #13547's additionalContext a real value; this hunk conflicts with it anyway. Add a runtime test on the collab mock peer asserting that the config-derived effort is echoed into turn/start.

2. Claude's default context drops from 1M to 200K on several routes, and neither T3 nor settings.json can restore it.
Filtering contextWindow out of the manifest descriptors (ClaudeModelCatalog.ts:39) also drops the manifest's default [1m] suffix. Resolved API IDs, base to head:

  • claude-opus-5-5[1m] becomes claude-opus-5-5.
  • claude-fable-5-1[1m] becomes claude-fable-5-1.
  • claude-opus-4-6[1m] becomes claude-opus-4-6.
  • The Sonnet [1m] opt-in is gone.

Claude Code's model-config docs say a bare ID gets 200K for Opus 4.6 everywhere, and for Opus 4.8+ on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry. Behind a gateway such as the documented OpenRouter setup, Sonnet 5 gets 200K without sonnet[1m]. T3 passes an explicit --model, so ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL and "model": "opus[1m]" do not apply (providers-claude.md:94-95 says so). CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS is ignored for recognized IDs unless compaction is disabled. The new advice to use env settings for 1M support therefore has no working mechanism for these users. Their only route is adding claude-opus-4-6[1m] as a custom model.

Fix: keep the [1m] suffix as the default where the manifest says 1M, or keep the context choice. Correct the doc either way.

3. Custom models still show an effort picker, but the adapters ignore it.
The PR strips descriptors only from the Claude catalog and from the built-in Codex mapping. The snapshot that clients render still publishes raw custom-model capabilities:

The Settings custom-model editor still offers Reasoning presets for Codex and Claude (customModelEditor.logic.ts:57, :70). Its doc comment says these are "option ids each adapter actually reads". On web and mobile, the picker is visible but its value is dropped: resolveClaudeCatalogEffort returns undefined, which the PR's own test asserts, and CodexAdapter no longer reads reasoningEffort.

Fix: filter at the snapshot boundary and drop those editor presets, or keep honoring custom descriptors.

Maintainer decisions (not code defects)

  • Per-thread control. Users who switch effort per thread today (for example max, xhigh, or ultracode) lose that. Claude Code's effortLevel and modelSettings reject max; only the CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL env var persists it. A top-level user effortLevel does not apply to Opus 5.5, which is a default model. ultracode becomes a global "ultracode": true. The in-composer Ultrathink option also disappears, though typing the keyword still works.
  • Remote. The config lives on the host running the server. Mobile and app.t3.codes users can no longer change effort or context from the client at all.
  • Reversibility. Saved effort, reasoningEffort, and contextWindow values are ignored, not deleted, so restoring the descriptors restores behavior. The contracts are unchanged, so any mix of old and new clients and servers decodes fine. The description's "including stale saved values" overstates this.
  • Git text generation. Commit, PR, and branch text used to run at low effort. It now inherits the effort configured for interactive work, often high or xhigh, so each commit message costs more and takes longer.
  • v2 orchestrator (t3code/codex-turn-mapping). delegate_task validates target.options against optionDescriptors. After this change it will reject Claude or Codex effort/reasoningEffort options, and orchestrator_capabilities will advertise none.

Scope

Commit 36d1bc4 changes Stop targeting (CodexSessionRuntime.ts:2594, session.activeTurnId ?? turnId) and its test. The PR thread already calls this a pre-existing issue that needs a separate fix. The only production caller (ProviderCommandReactor.ts:1613) passes no turnId, so it is harmless here, but it belongs in its own PR.

Merge state

The branch conflicts with main in CodexDeveloperInstructions.ts, CodexSessionRuntime.ts, and CodexSessionRuntime.test.ts. #13547 moved runtime info into turn/start.additionalContext and requires reasoningEffort: string. Resolve that together with blocker 1.

Checks run:

  • vp test run on the 7 touched server test files: 286 passed.
  • Direct probe of codex app-server 0.156.1 with an isolated CODEX_HOME.
  • Comparison of resolved Claude API model IDs on base and head.

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Audit by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code), posted on Julius's behalf.

settings: {
model,
reasoning_effort: reasoningEffort,
...(input.effort ? { reasoning_effort: input.effort } : {}),

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Omitting reasoning_effort does not defer to config.toml. collaborationMode replaces the thread's mode wholesale in Codex 0.156.1, so the missing field becomes None, and the turn runs at the model's catalog default. A probe with model_reasoning_effort = "high" shows thread/settings/updated reporting effort: null after this turn/start. See blocker 1 in the review body.

...model,
capabilities: {
...model.capabilities,
optionDescriptors: descriptors.filter(({ id }) => id !== "effort" && id !== "contextWindow"),

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Dropping contextWindow here also drops the manifest's default [1m] suffix: claude-opus-5-5[1m] becomes claude-opus-5-5, and claude-opus-4-6[1m] becomes claude-opus-4-6. That means 200K for Opus 4.6 everywhere and for third-party routes, and settings cannot restore it because T3 passes an explicit --model. See blocker 2.

Comment thread docs/user/composer.md
returns to the remembered selection.

Leaving reasoning level or service tier unset uses the provider's own configuration.
For Codex, set reasoning effort and context length in `~/.codex/config.toml`. For

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Neither sentence is accurate yet. Codex chat turns ignore config.toml effort (blocker 1). For Claude, env settings cannot add 1M to the explicit model ID T3 passes (blocker 2), and a top-level user effortLevel does not apply to Opus 5.5.

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