feat(api): per-request thinking effort override and adaptive effort envelope (DTE series 2/5) - #1522
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WalkthroughThe change registers the ChangesDynamic Thinking Effort
Extension Stryker Configuration
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This adds dynamic thinking-effort configuration and request-level resolution while preserving explicit enablement and disablement through settings. The supplied coverage indicates the intended behavior is ready to merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SettingsView
participant webviewMessageHandler
participant contextProxy
SettingsView->>webviewMessageHandler: Send updateSettings with dynamicThinkingEffort
webviewMessageHandler->>contextProxy: Read and merge saved experiments
webviewMessageHandler->>contextProxy: Persist merged experiments
webviewMessageHandler->>SettingsView: Post updated webview state
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In `@webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.spec.tsx`:
- Line 814: Add a complementary test near the existing dynamic thinking effort
save test that hydrates the setting as true, disables the toggle, and saves.
Assert that cachedState is updated to false and updateSettings receives an
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-24T10:53:55.980Z
Learnt from: easonLiangWorldedtech
Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 1361
File: webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/settings.json:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-24T10:53:55.980Z
Learning: In locale settings catalogs under webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json, provide native-language values for both the name and description of settings.experimental.DYNAMIC_THINKING_EFFORT. This requirement applies to all locales except en and zh-TW.
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Part of the DTE-v2 stack (≤400-line redo of #1338); this PR: adds per-request thinking-effort resolution (DTE-2) — the
ADAPTIVE_OUTPUT_CONFIG_EFFORTSconstant and theresolveEffectiveReasoningEffortprecedence helper insrc/api/transform/reasoning.ts, the transientreasoningEffortfield onApiHandlerCreateMessageMetadatainsrc/api/index.ts, and the accompanying spec.Stack: PR base = upstream
main(cross-fork PR — headeasonLiangWorldedtech:feat/dte-v2-2-per-request-effort; stack branches live in the fork — no push access to create them here). Stack base =feat/dte-v2-1-dynamic-thinking-effortheade89cceddd(U1, upstream PR #1521 — the post-main-sync head, which itself carries the current upstreammaintip0dbd5846fmerged in). This head additively merges that stack base so the unit tracks it; the standalone diff vs that stack base is the review target:112 additions = 112 lines (≤400 soft target; ≤1000 hard). (measured with
git diff --shortstat e89cceddd9a4f72fb192212bb30d60318947c399 HEAD)Stack sync (2026-09-05): head
efbd336e5additively merges U1's final head39762bf81(the last CR fix of #1521 — thefalse/unsetpersistence cases inwebview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.spec.tsx, +23/−10). U2's own three files are byte-identical to the pre-sync head18f488fa5.Main sync (2026-09-05): head
069c34b9aadditively merges U1's post-main-sync heade89cceddd(upstreammainadvanced0d937c050→0dbd5846f: v3.82.0 release prep #1533, GPT-6 Astra #1506, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision #1488, thethrowIfAbortedhelper +completePromptoptions regression tests #1288, and the asyncTask.dispose()test-teardown fix #1527). Clean merge — zero conflicts. Two effects: (1) the pre-sync standalone diff's single deletion — a prettier-driven comment re-indent insrc/api/index.ts— landed inmainvia #1488 (hunk byte-identical), so the standalone diff is now 112 additions, 0 deletions = 112 lines (the finalsrc/api/index.tsblob is unchanged from the pre-sync head); (2) all local gates re-verified on the sync head (see Verification). Until #1521 merges, the displayed diff vsmainalso carries U1's content.GitHub's displayed diff vs
mainis cumulative over the unmerged lower unit (U1, #1521); the standalone range above is the review target — the displayed number shrinks as U1 merges. Merge this PR only after its stack base PR has merged.Related issue: easonLiangWorldedtech#35 (DTE-v2 series tracking)
Amendments folded in (from
plans/dte-gap-review.md): none for this unit.Out of scope: the task-local runtime effort state and thinking-effort switch re-validation (U3), the persisted history / settings round-trip (U4), and the Anthropic adaptive
output_config.effortenvelope wiring that consumes these primitives (U5). This unit lands the resolution primitives and the API-surface metadata field only; no consumer readsmetadata.reasoningEffortyet.Pre-submission checklist:
pnpm check-types(11/11) on069c34b9a; targeted vitestdte-effective-reasoning-effort.spec.ts(8/8) and the U1 webview settings suites (including the new false-path test — 26/26) re-run on the sync head069c34b9a;eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0(exit 0; the three files carry no suppressions, sosrc/eslint-suppressions.jsonis untouched by this PR — the files are byte-identical through both syncs)resolveEffectiveReasoningEffort(override > settings > model default, thedisablesentinel, out-of-envelope override passthrough, undefined) and pinsADAPTIVE_OUTPUT_CONFIG_EFFORTSto the exact adaptive envelope set (mutation-gate corollary for the array literal)Binary files in this PR: none
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27a2e97df(tagdte-legacy/union), legacy commit6ea45b36a— "feat(task): task-local thinking effort state, per-request override, and adaptive effort envelope".src/api/transform/reasoning.ts(+45) and the new spec (+58) are taken whole-file from the union; the per-file union history confirms no later DTE unit modified them.src/api/index.tsis hunk-surgery: only theReasoningEffortExtendedimport and thereasoningEffortmetadata field (+9) are taken from the union. The union's removal of thecase providerIdentifiers.geminiCli:fall-through line is a base-drift artifact (the union branch predates that upstream addition tomain) and is deliberately not taken — thegeminiClicase is preserved (at the pre-sync head the pre-commit prettier pass had also normalized the indentation of that case's pre-existing comment by one tab — the PR's single deletion; that re-indent hunk landed inmainvia [Feat] Add DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp support #1488 with a byte-identical result, so the main-sync head069c34b9acarries 0 deletions; the case line itself is unchanged).src/shared/__tests__/experiments.spec.ts(the ledger's 4th file for the legacy DTE-2a commit) needs no change here: it already matches the union state in the U1 base (empty diff vs27a2e97df), so that ledger line is already contained in U1 (upstream PR feat(settings): dynamic thinking effort experimental toggle (DTE-1) #1521).Verification (local, worktree
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