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fix(catalog): send native ultra effort as max on the wire (#7590) - #7600
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The ChatGPT backend accepts reasoning efforts none..max and rejects ultra with HTTP 400. nativeEffortClamp returned null whenever the pinned upstream ladder listed the requested effort, and the gpt-6-astra and gpt-6.1-sol ladders list ultra. The parser's ultra->max fold also only reached options.reasoning, so the passthrough still serialized the caller's raw ultra. Fold ultra to max in the clamp and feed the raw ultra to it from core-normalize so the wire body is rewritten on /v1/responses, /v1/chat/completions and steering frames. Refs #7590
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🟡 Minor · Clamp unpinned native Chat effort before passthrough. · chat-native.ts:307
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winClamp unpinned native Chat effort before passthrough.
normalizePinnedChatEffortrewritesreasoning_effortonly when a pin or cap applies. An unpinned native request withreasoning_effort: "ultra"therefore reaches the Chat passthrough unchanged, and the ChatGPT backend rejects it instead of receiving"max".Apply
nativeEffortClampinnormalizePinnedChatEffortwith the native-route guard. Update the fixture to inspectreasoning_effort;body.reasoning?.effortis the Responses field.Suggested fix
+import { nativeEffortClamp, shouldApplyNativeEffortClamp } from "../codex/catalog"; import { applyChatEffortCap, chatCollabSurface, effortCapAppliesTo, resolvePinnedEffort, supportedLadderFor } from "./effort-policy"; @@ if (normalizeForWire) { const effort = typeof chatBody.reasoning_effort === "string" ? chatBody.reasoning_effort : undefined; const wireEffort = mapReasoningEffort(route.provider, route.modelId, effort); if (wireEffort === undefined) delete chatBody.reasoning_effort; else chatBody.reasoning_effort = wireEffort; } + const effort = typeof chatBody.reasoning_effort === "string" ? chatBody.reasoning_effort : undefined; + const clamped = shouldApplyNativeEffortClamp(route.providerName, route.provider, route.modelId) + ? nativeEffortClamp(route.modelId, effort) + : null; + if (clamped) { + chatBody.reasoning_effort = clamped; + logCtx.requestedEffort = `${logCtx.requestedEffort ?? effort}->${clamped}`; + } snapshot.annotation = logCtx.requestedEffort;- const body = await req.json() as { reasoning?: { effort?: unknown } }; - efforts.push(body.reasoning?.effort); + const body = await req.json() as { + reasoning?: { effort?: unknown }; + reasoning_effort?: unknown; + }; + const wireEffort = body.reasoning_effort ?? body.reasoning?.effort; + efforts.push(wireEffort); // Mirror the backend contract from the issue rather than accepting any effort. - if (body.reasoning?.effort === "ultra") { + if (wireEffort === "ultra") {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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GET /v1/modelsoffersultraongpt-6-astra,gpt-6.1-soland their--fastrows, but a request that selects it reached the ChatGPT backend asreasoning.effort: "ultra"and came back HTTP 400 (Supported values are: 'none', 'minimal', 'low', 'medium', 'high', 'xhigh', and 'max'). After this change the same request is sent asmaxand succeeds.Two defects combined:
nativeEffortClamp(src/codex/catalog/effort.ts) returnednullwhenever the pinned upstream ladder listed the requested effort. Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol listultrain that ladder, so the clamp never fired for them. It now treatsultraasmaxon every native model before clamping, so GPT-5.5 still lands onxhigh.ultratomaxonly inoptions.reasoning, while the passthrough serializes_rawBody.core-normalizenow passes a rawultrato the clamp and rewrites both copies. Native steering frames already clamp from the frame body, so they pick up the fix through the same function.Decisions
ultratomaxbefore every provider request,mapReasoningEffortand the parser already apply that rule, and the Codex models guide documents thatultra"reaches the backend asmax". This PR makes the native wire match that documented behavior. Explicitmaxis unchanged.ultra. It is the client-facing level for maximum reasoning plus proactive delegation. Upstream's own roster lists it for these models, the Codex picker andspawn_agentvalidation depend on it, and/v1/modelskeeps it on purpose for Grok discovery (pinned bytests/providers/xai/grok-models-effort-list.test.ts). With the fold in place, every effort the catalog advertises is accepted end to end. Routed providers keep their own ladders: a routed model whose provider declaresultrais untouched, and unknown third-party ladders stay byte-for-byte.Docs: one sentence each in
docs-site/.../guides/codex-app-models.mdandstructure/catalog.md. No generated catalog, skill surface, or locale change was needed.Refs #7590
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bun test tests/responses/responses-native-ultra-effort-wire.test.ts tests/codex-integration/codex-catalog-ladders.test.ts: pass. The new server test runs a fake ChatGPT backend that returns 400 onultraand drives/v1/responses(Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, plus an explicitmaxcontrol) and/v1/chat/completions. With the two source files reverted, both server tests fail withReceived: 400and the clamp unit test returnsnull, so they reproduce the issue.bun run test:changed(Bun 1.4.3): 27,878 pass, 36 skip (opt-in live-wire suites), 0 fail across 1,241 files.bun run typecheck,bun run structure:check,bun run privacy:scan: pass.tests/test-layout.test.ts+tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: all pass exceptdomain verification launches isolate tests through the pinned runner, which fails the same way on the unmodified base. Its probe cannot read the local Bun 1.4.3 shim, so that is local environment only.bun run test(the import-graph run above covers every file that imports the changed modules) and a live request against the real ChatGPT backend. CI covers the rest.Checklist
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ultranow send a supported reasoning level on both the Responses and Chat Completions APIs. Models with amaxlevel receivemax; models without it use their highest supported level. Explicitmaxrequests remain unchanged.ultrais handled, including differences between newer and older models.