The #89503/#70058/#74295/#87279 bug class kept regenerating because every
transport and provider profile hand-rolled its own effort translation map
(9 sites, 4 distinct policies). New agent/reasoning_effort.py is the single
source of truth:
- EFFORT_LADDER: canonical low->high ordering (superset check against
VALID_REASONING_EFFORTS pinned by test)
- clamp_effort(): one policy — supported passes verbatim, otherwise nearest
WEAKER supported level (never escalate, never invert the ladder), floor
when nothing weaker, 'none' never a degradation target, declared
vendor-documented overrides win, bespoke names pass through
- declared wire vocabularies as data: OpenAI-compat, Codex Responses,
xAI (4.6/legacy), Actual relays, Kimi K3/K2, TokenHub, GLM-5.2,
DeepSeek V4, Ollama Cloud, Meta, Solar
Converted sites (all behavior-preserving except noted):
- chat_completions chokepoint, Kimi + TokenHub paths
- codex transport (backend branches now pick a declared set)
- auxiliary_client Responses path
- hermes_cli.models clamp_reasoning_effort_to_supported -> thin wrapper
- plugins: kimi-coding, zai, opencode-zen, deepseek, ollama-cloud,
meta-ai, upstage, custom (copilot already routes via the wrapper)
Behavior fixes the shared policy surfaces:
- ollama-cloud/opencode-go 'minimal' now degrades to 'low' instead of
being dropped (drop left the server default = MORE thinking than asked)
New tests: ladder contract (every configurable level is clamped by every
declared wire set; monotonicity across the full ladder for every set).
Three follow-up fixes to the salvaged reasoning_effort support, all verified
live against ollama.com /v1/chat/completions + /api/show on deepseek-v4-pro,
gemma3, and qwen3-coder:
1. Capability-gate on /api/show 'thinking'. The original ignored the
supports_reasoning flag and emitted reasoning_effort for every model. Now
gated: only models whose native /api/show capabilities list contains
'thinking' (deepseek-v4 yes; gemma3 / qwen3-coder no) get reasoning_effort.
Mirrors the LM Studio pattern — capability resolved once per (model,
base_url) in run_agent._supports_reasoning_extra_body via a cached probe
(hermes_cli.models.ollama_model_supports_thinking), threaded into the
profile hook as supports_reasoning. No live HTTP in the per-request path.
2. Disable actually disables. Ollama Cloud defaults to thinking ON and IGNORES
the extra_body.thinking:{type:disabled} shape (verified: still returned
reasoning). The only working off switch is top-level reasoning_effort:'none'.
The salvaged code returned ({}, {}) for enabled:false / effort:none, leaving
thinking ON. Now emits {'reasoning_effort': 'none'}.
3. Omit unrecognized effort. The original forwarded any unknown string verbatim
including 'minimal' (a real Hermes effort level). Ollama Cloud rejects
unrecognized values with a hard HTTP 400 (accepted set: low/medium/high/
max/none), so forwarding 'minimal' would break the request. Now omitted.
Core touches (run_agent.py, hermes_cli/models.py) add the capability probe;
the plugin profile only consumes the resolved flag. 24/24 profile tests green;
194 provider/transport tests unaffected.
Map Hermes xhigh→max to unlock DeepSeek V4's 'Max thinking' tier
through Ollama Cloud's OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint.
low/medium/high pass through unchanged; disabled/none suppress
reasoning entirely.
Empirically confirmed: reasoning_effort:max produces ~2.5× more
thinking tokens than high on deepseek-v4-pro:cloud (1576 vs 642).
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