Support for reasoning_effort parameter in UI

[unkn0wncode]

I couldn't find references of reasoning effort in the code at the moment, but multiple models support it, including OpenAI models, Gemini, Deepseek, and more.
Would be ideal to have it implemented in UI for supported models, similar to how /models command works.

[johnpyp]

In a similar vein, supporting things like ultrathink from claude code would be great to dynamically increase the reasoning effort.

Might need some tuning thresholds for specific popular models, and perhaps just a % of the limit for other models which don't have their own hardcoded.

Since claude has 32k as the max thinking, a good starting place could be mirroring it with:

HIGHEST - 100% thinking budget
MIDDLE - 31.25% thinking budget
BASIC - 12.5% thinking budget
DEFAULT - 0% of course

Reference for claude code's thinking token thresholds and keywords:

HIGHEST (token: 31,999)

    "think harder"

    "think intensely"

    "think longer"

    "think really hard"

    "think super hard"

    "think very hard"

    "ultrathink"

MIDDLE (token: 10,000)

    "think about it"

    "think a lot"

    "think deeply"

    "think hard"

    "think more"

    "megathink"

BASIC (token: 4,000)

    "think"

NONE (token: 0)

    (empty)

[pascalandy]

Need a flag

I'm also looking for such a flag. Here is an example for llm by Simon Willison

llm -m openai/o3 "ping"

llm -m openai/o3 -o reasoning_effort high "ping"

Why I want this

from Aider leaderboard

Think about the gap between 65% (Sonnet 4, ultrathink) and 84% (o3-high) 🧠

from Codex

Also, here is PR in Codex - openai/codex#314

[asafyish]

Can be considered fixed since d8dc23b ?

[jamesponddotco]

Not sure that works:

"provider": {
    "openai": {
      "models": {
        "gpt-5": {
          "options": {
            "reasoningEffort": "high"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "anthropic": {
      "models": {
        "claude-sonnet-4-20250514": {
          "options": {
            "thinking": {
              "type": "enabled",
              "budget_tokens": 32000
            }
           }
        }
      }
    }
  },

When using Claude Sonnet I now get:

AI_UnsupportedFunctionalityError: 'thinking requires a budget' functionality not supported.

The error goes away if I remove the options. Maybe I'm passing them wrong?

EDIT: Nevermind, just change budget_tokens to budgetTokens. That's what the ai package used by opencode expects.

[asafyish]

This is the config I use and it's verified working in openai dashboard logs:

{
    "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
    "provider": {
        "openai": {
            "models": {
                "gpt-5": {
                    "options": {
                        "reasoningSummary": "auto",
                        "include": [
                            "reasoning.encrypted_content"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "agent": {
        "gpt-5-max": {
            "model": "openai/gpt-5",
            "description": "Agent that uses high reasoning effort for complex problems",
            "reasoningEffort": "high",
            "textVerbosity": "low"
        }
    }
}

I think this issue can be closed since there at least 2 possible ways to enable high reasoningEffort.

[carterworks]

I think this issue can be closed since there at least 2 possible ways to enable high reasoningEffort.

I believe the core of this issue is different. You've describe ways to persistently enable a thinking budget ("always use high reasoning effort") but this issue is asking for a way to set it dynamically ("use high reasoning effort just for this next request"). Claude Code does it through env variables (MAX_THINKING_TOKENS) and through message keywords ("ultrathink").
There isn't currently a way to set reasoning effort for a single request, like there is in Claude Code.

[f5epcim]

I would like to mention this problem, related to private endpoint, where reasoningEffort is rejected and is epxected reasoning_effort. #1859 (comment)

[rekram1-node]

[automated] Closing due to 90+ days of inactivity. Feel free to reopen if you still need this!