agent: a thinking level in agent.yaml and per call
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- thinking (off, low, medium, high, xhigh, max) is an enum: serde rejects
  unknown levels in the config, and the schema of agent.chat lists them.
  reasoning_effort, a second name for the same setting, is gone.
- agent.chat takes an optional thinking level for one turn.
- off really switches thinking off: OpenAI gets the effort none, and
  Anthropic gets disabled thinking (newer Claude models think by
  default). A model that cannot switch thinking off gets low.
- Unset means the model's default. Anthropic thinking blocks now return
  unless thinking is off, because newer models think by default.
- The template sets thinking: medium and shows it in each example, with
  current model names.
- Checked against the proxy with gpt-6-luna, glm-5.3-flash, and
  claude-haiku-5-5.
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
//! The conversation is stored in a neutral format, so the agent can switch
//! between the three shapes.
use sausage_plugin::schema;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use serde_json::{Value, json};
#[cfg(target_os = "wasi")]
@@ -22,17 +23,50 @@ pub struct Config {
pub token: String,
/// Permit an empty token and omit authentication headers.
pub allow_no_token: bool,
/// Optional reasoning effort for OpenAI models only (wins over `thinking` there).
#[serde(default)]
pub reasoning_effort: Option<String>,
/// An optional cap on generated tokens.
#[serde(default)]
pub max_tokens: Option<u32>,
/// Thinking effort for all APIs: "low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max" (`LEVELS`), or "off"/unset for none.
/// Anthropic: adaptive thinking + output_config.effort; OpenAI: reasoning.effort. A level the model rejects is
/// replaced by the nearest accepted one (logged), never by "off".
/// The thinking level of each turn. Unset: the model's default.
#[serde(default)]
pub thinking: Option<String>,
pub thinking: Option<Thinking>,
}
/// How much the model thinks before it answers.
///
/// OpenAI Responses gets `reasoning.effort`, Chat Completions gets `reasoning_effort`, and Anthropic
/// gets adaptive thinking with `output_config.effort`. If the model rejects a level, the agent uses
/// the nearest level that the model accepts, never `off`.
#[schema]
#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Debug)]
#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
pub enum Thinking {
/// No thinking: OpenAI gets the effort `none`, and Anthropic gets disabled thinking. If an
/// OpenAI model cannot switch thinking off, the agent uses `low`.
Off,
/// The least thinking.
Low,
/// Moderate thinking.
Medium,
/// Much thinking.
High,
/// More thinking than `high`, where the model supports it.
Xhigh,
/// The most thinking that the model supports.
Max,
}
impl Thinking {
/// The effort that an OpenAI request carries: `none`, or one of `LEVELS`.
fn effort(self) -> &'static str {
match self {
Thinking::Off => "none",
Thinking::Low => "low",
Thinking::Medium => "medium",
Thinking::High => "high",
Thinking::Xhigh => "xhigh",
Thinking::Max => "max",
}
}
}
impl Config {
@@ -98,7 +132,11 @@ fn fallback_effort(want: &str, error: &str, tried: &[String]) -> Option<String>
} else {
LEVELS.to_vec()
};
let at = LEVELS.iter().position(|l| *l == want).unwrap_or(1) as i32;
// `none` is below all levels, so its nearest level is `low`.
let at = LEVELS
.iter()
.position(|l| *l == want)
.map_or(-1, |i| i as i32);
pool.into_iter()
.filter(|l| *l != want && !tried.iter().any(|t| t == l))
.min_by_key(|l| {
@@ -130,6 +168,22 @@ mod tests {
}
let cfg = Config::parse(b"api: openai-chat-completions\nbase_url: http://localhost/v1\nmodel: local\ntoken: ''\nallow_no_token: true").unwrap();
assert!(cfg.bearer().is_empty());
assert_eq!(cfg.thinking, None);
}
#[test]
fn thinking_levels() {
use super::{Config, LEVELS, Thinking};
let base = "api: openai-responses\nbase_url: url\nmodel: model\ntoken: key\nthinking: ";
let parse = |level: &str| Config::parse(format!("{base}{level}").as_bytes());
assert_eq!(parse("off").unwrap().thinking, Some(Thinking::Off));
assert_eq!(Thinking::Off.effort(), "none");
for level in LEVELS {
assert_eq!(parse(level).unwrap().thinking.unwrap().effort(), level);
}
let error = parse("hihg").err().unwrap();
assert!(error.contains("/config/agent.yaml"), "{error}");
assert!(error.contains("thinking"), "{error}");
}
#[test]
@@ -178,10 +232,16 @@ mod tests {
fallback_effort("xhigh", anthropic, &["xhigh".into()]).as_deref(),
Some("high")
);
let openai = "HTTP 400: Invalid value: 'ultra'. Supported values are: 'none', 'minimal', 'low', 'medium', 'high', 'xhigh', and 'max'.";
let openai = "HTTP 400: Invalid value: 'max'. Supported values are: 'none', 'minimal', 'low', 'medium', and 'high'.";
assert_eq!(
fallback_effort("ultra", openai, &["ultra".into()]).as_deref(),
Some("medium")
fallback_effort("max", openai, &["max".into()]).as_deref(),
Some("high")
);
// A thinking-only model rejects `none`: use the lowest level.
let glm = "HTTP 400: GLM-5.3 is a thinking-only model; disabling thinking (reasoning_effort='none') is not supported.";
assert_eq!(
fallback_effort("none", glm, &["none".into()]).as_deref(),
Some("low")
);
// No list in the error: step to the neighbour, never to off.
assert_eq!(
@@ -254,31 +314,14 @@ pub async fn complete(
tools: &[Tool],
history: &[Entry],
) -> Result<Vec<Entry>, String> {
let want = match cfg.api.as_str() {
"openai-responses" | "openai-chat-completions" => cfg
.reasoning_effort
.clone()
.or_else(|| cfg.thinking.clone()),
_ => cfg.thinking.clone(),
}
.filter(|t| t != "off");
let want = cfg.thinking.map(|level| level.effort().to_string());
let mut effort = want.clone();
let mut tried = Vec::new();
loop {
let result = match cfg.api.as_str() {
"openai-responses" => openai(cfg, system, tools, history, effort.as_deref()).await,
"openai-chat-completions" => chat(cfg, system, tools, history, effort.as_deref()).await,
"anthropic-messages" => {
anthropic(
cfg,
system,
tools,
history,
want.is_some(),
effort.as_deref(),
)
.await
}
"anthropic-messages" => anthropic(cfg, system, tools, history, effort.as_deref()).await,
other => return Err(format!("unknown API shape {other:?}")),
};
match (result, effort.clone()) {
@@ -430,9 +473,9 @@ async fn anthropic(
system: &str,
tools: &[Tool],
history: &[Entry],
thinking: bool,
effort: Option<&str>,
) -> Result<Vec<Entry>, String> {
let disabled = cfg.thinking == Some(Thinking::Off);
// Merge consecutive blocks of the same role into one message.
let mut messages: Vec<(String, Vec<Value>)> = Vec::new();
let mut push = |role: &str, block: Value| match messages.last_mut() {
@@ -462,7 +505,7 @@ async fn anthropic(
),
// Thinking blocks go back unchanged (with their signature): required next to tool use.
Entry::Opaque { api, model, item }
if api == "anthropic-messages" && model == &cfg.model && thinking =>
if api == "anthropic-messages" && model == &cfg.model && !disabled =>
{
push("assistant", item.clone())
}
@@ -486,10 +529,15 @@ async fn anthropic(
"tools": tools,
"max_tokens": cfg.max_tokens.unwrap_or(32000),
});
if thinking {
body["thinking"] = json!({"type": "adaptive"});
if let Some(effort) = effort {
body["output_config"] = json!({"effort": effort});
// Unset: the model's default. Newer models think by default.
match cfg.thinking {
None => {}
Some(Thinking::Off) => body["thinking"] = json!({"type": "disabled"}),
Some(_) => {
body["thinking"] = json!({"type": "adaptive"});
if let Some(effort) = effort {
body["output_config"] = json!({"effort": effort});
}
}
}
let url = format!("{}/v1/messages", cfg.base_url.trim_end_matches('/'));