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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe engine detects unsupported reasoning-effort errors, lowers the effort by one level, recreates the same model session, and retries once. Failed degraded retries use fallback classification. Tests cover provider formats, fallback routing, state reset, and excluded errors. ChangesThinking-effort fallback
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to When a lane is already at the lowest reasoning level, an effort rejection can still trigger a configured fallback-model retry, causing an unintended model switch and potentially another failed attempt. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed and covered before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant promptWithFallback
participant AgentSession
participant Provider
participant FallbackModel
promptWithFallback->>AgentSession: Submit prompt with configured effort
AgentSession->>Provider: Send request
Provider-->>promptWithFallback: Return unsupported-effort error
promptWithFallback->>AgentSession: Create fresh same-model session with lower effort
AgentSession->>Provider: Retry request with degraded effort
Provider-->>promptWithFallback: Return result or degraded retry error
promptWithFallback->>FallbackModel: Route eligible degraded failure to fallback model
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In `@packages/engine/src/__tests__/pi.test.ts`:
- Around line 1030-1031: Remove the unconditional truthy clause from the
createAgentSessionMock assertion and explicitly verify that both calls use the
expected provider and primary-model override in the standard and Codex rejection
tests. Also assert that no creation call uses fallback-model where that
configuration applies, covering the corresponding assertions near both test
locations.
In `@packages/engine/src/errors/thinking-effort-rejection.ts`:
- Around line 88-92: Update the Codex `1210` detection in the thinking-effort
rejection logic to require an effort-specific field such as `reasoning_effort`
in the error envelope, rather than matching only the generic status and message.
Preserve rejection for valid effort-related envelopes, and add a negative test
covering an unrelated `1210 Invalid API parameter` error.
In `@packages/engine/src/pi.ts`:
- Around line 3387-3388: Update the downgraded retry flow around
swapPromptSession and promptSessionAndCheck so failures from the one-step
same-model retry are captured and passed into the existing fallback decision
path, allowing configured fallback models to be attempted for retryable
model-selection errors. Preserve the single downgraded retry limit and add
coverage for an initial reasoning_effort rejection followed by a retryable
downgraded failure and successful fallback-model attempt.
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| packages/engine/src/pi.ts | Implements effort walk-down and fallback routing, but fallback effort state still resets and replacement-session availability failures bypass bounded recovery. |
| packages/engine/src/errors/thinking-effort-rejection.ts | Adds the provider-error classifier and finite descending thinking-level ladder. |
| packages/engine/src/tests/pi.test.ts | Adds broad recovery coverage but omits cross-prompt fallback effort persistence and fallback replacement-creation failure. |
| packages/engine/src/tests/thinking-effort-rejection.test.ts | Covers accepted rejection envelopes, exclusions, and every degradation transition. |
| .changeset/fn-thinking-effort-degradation.md | Records the published bug fix using the repository’s valid changeset format. |
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**Fallback recovery is bypassed**
When the active fallback rejects its reasoning effort and creating the lower-effort replacement session fails with a retryable availability error such as 429, `usingFallback` sends that error directly to the terminal branch. The raw provider failure escapes instead of receiving the normal bounded final-primary retry, so the prompt fails without completing the established fallback recovery sequence.
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In `@packages/engine/src/__tests__/pi.test.ts`:
- Around line 1264-1298: Strengthen the test around createFnAgent and
promptWithFallback by asserting exactly two session creations and verifying
every creation uses provider “test” with model “primary-model”; retain the
retrySetThinkingLevel assertion for “max” and mirror the existing
standard-rejection assertions near the related test.
In `@packages/engine/src/__tests__/thinking-effort-rejection.test.ts`:
- Around line 24-28: Expand the degradeThinkingLevel test to assert every
adjacent transition from xhigh through minimal, and verify that off and unknown
values return null. Update the test named “walks the ladder down one rung and
stops at the bottom” while preserving the existing max-to-high behavior.
In `@packages/engine/src/errors/thinking-effort-rejection.ts`:
- Around line 64-70: Update the Codex detection documentation near the
strictness explanation and the predicate involving the `[1210] Invalid API
parameter` envelope to state that the envelope only qualifies when the message
also contains reasoning_effort, thinking, or effort evidence; do not describe a
bare 1210 envelope as sufficient.
In `@packages/engine/src/pi.ts`:
- Around line 3386-3394: Keep the degraded thinking level local to the current
primary retry instead of mutating options.defaultThinkingLevel in the prompt
fallback flow. Update the retry and fallback-level selection logic around
degradeThinkingLevel, swapPromptSession, and the fallback handling so an absent
fallbackThinkingLevel inherits the original configured primary level, and later
sessions reuse the unchanged AgentOptions value. Add coverage for a failed
degraded primary retry with no explicit fallbackThinkingLevel.
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16-20: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFNXC:ThinkingEffortFallback 2026-08-26-19:04:47Z: Add a negative test for generic internal-server errors.
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server_errorenvelope when its message namesreasoning_effort. Lines 16-20 do not test the same envelope with an internal-server message. Add a case such as{"type":"server_error","message":"Internal server error"}and assertfalse. This protects the stated exclusion from reasoning-effort degradation.As per coding guidelines, “the regression test must assert the general invariant across ALL known surfaces — not only the single reported reproduction.”
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- Around line 16-20: Add a negative test to the rejection-error test suite for a
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In `@packages/engine/src/pi.ts`:
- Around line 3434-3436: Update the retryableFallbackFailure logic in the
fallback-selection flow so isReasoningEffortRejectionError only makes the
failure eligible when degradedRetryError represents a failed degraded retry; do
not route an exhausted primary effort of off to the configured fallback model.
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with a configured fallback, asserting that no fallback session is created.
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| const lower = degradeThinkingLevel(primaryThinkingLevel); | ||
| if (lower) { | ||
| thinkingEffortDegradationApplied = true; |
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When a model rejects max, also rejects the adjacent xhigh rung, but supports a lower rung such as high, this code permanently latches degradation before trying xhigh. The second rejection therefore becomes ModelFallbackExhaustedError when no usable distinct fallback exists, terminally failing the task despite the primary model supporting a lower effort.
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**Sparse effort levels remain unreachable**
When a model rejects `max`, also rejects the adjacent `xhigh` rung, but supports a lower rung such as `high`, this code permanently latches degradation before trying `xhigh`. The second rejection therefore becomes `ModelFallbackExhaustedError` when no usable distinct fallback exists, terminally failing the task despite the primary model supporting a lower effort.
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…etry-looping
When a lane pins a thinking effort the target model does not expose (e.g.
xhigh on a free zen surface), the provider rejects the request with a 400
naming reasoning_effort (or codex [1210] Invalid API parameter). That shape
matched no classifier, so promptWithFallback re-threw into triage's generic
catch-all, which re-admitted the card forever: observed as "Planning using
model ... (thinking effort: xhigh)" repeating every ~2-4 min with zero
progress.
Add a pure rejection detector (explicit parameter-enumeration, invalid_
request_error naming the parameter, and the codex [1210] envelope WITH
effort-specific evidence) plus a strictly descending ladder. On rejection,
degrade one rung (max->high->medium->...), swap to a fresh session of the
SAME model, and retry once; the latch keeps it sticky per session and never
touches the configured fallback model.
If the degraded retry itself fails (another rejection, 429, model
unavailable), the failure falls through to the configured-fallback
classification using the degraded attempt's error — it never escapes into
triage's generic retry that would recreate the original effort. A
reasoning-effort rejection on the degraded retry is also classified
retryable, so a model supporting neither the pinned nor the next-lower
effort still routes to the configured fallback model instead of rethrowing.
Ambiguous envelopes ("Model is unavailable", bare "Internal server error")
are excluded so model-availability keeps routing through the existing
fallback path. Changeset category follows the validated schema (fix).
Review round 2: the degraded attempt's error is the CURRENT failure — it is
now thrown (and reported to the fallback hook / exhaustion error) instead of
the superseded original rejection, and the per-prompt reset stops a stale
degraded error from shadowing a later prompt's own fallback classification.
The degradation tests now assert the real createAgentSession shape (model
object) and capture prompt spies before identity wrapping; a dedicated unit
test pins the detector's Codex [1210] effort-evidence guard (positive and
negative envelopes) and the ladder's bottom rung.
Review round 3: keep degraded thinking effort session-local and cover review findings
CodeRabbit round 2026-08-26-18:35:
- degraded effort now lives in a session-local variable instead of mutating
caller-owned options.defaultThinkingLevel, so a failed degraded retry no
longer leaks the lowered level into the fallback's inherited thinking level
or into later sessions reusing the same AgentOptions
- assert the same-model override for the codex [1210] degradation test
- test every adjacent ladder transition plus the off/unknown boundary
- align the Codex-detection doc comment with the effort-evidence predicate
Review round 3 (Greptile P1): when no fallback model is configured and the
primary rejects BOTH the pinned effort and the degraded rung, throw the
terminal ModelFallbackExhaustedError (the same visible-exhaustion contract as
the no-distinct-fallback branch) instead of the raw provider rejection, which
triage's generic catch-all re-admitted into an endless degradation cycle. A
no-fallback test pins the two-attempt bound.
Review rounds 4-6 (CodeRabbit + Greptile P1, consolidated): an effort
rejection that can no longer progress on the primary — the degraded retry
failed, the persistent latch blocks a second rung, or the pinned level sits
at the ladder bottom — is fallback-eligible, because a DISTINCT fallback may
support the very effort the primary rejects. When a configured fallback is
unavailable, already in use, or itself fails, the terminal
ModelFallbackExhaustedError surfaces instead of a raw rejection triage would
re-admit into an endless cycle; a fallback-in-use effort rejection is
terminal too. Tests pin each surface: degraded-twice with no fallback,
bottom-rung rejection routed to a supporting fallback, both-models-reject
bounded termination, and a later rejection on the degraded session.
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| const activeThinkingLevel = usingFallback | ||
| ? options.fallbackThinkingLevel ?? options.defaultThinkingLevel | ||
| : primaryThinkingLevel; |
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When a fallback configured at max successfully degrades to xhigh and rejects xhigh on a later prompt, activeThinkingLevel is reconstructed from the original fallback configuration. The ladder therefore retries the already-rejected xhigh; if that redundant attempt returns a transient non-effort error such as 429, the loop exits before trying the supported high rung and the prompt fails.
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**Fallback effort state is lost**
When a fallback configured at `max` successfully degrades to `xhigh` and rejects `xhigh` on a later prompt, `activeThinkingLevel` is reconstructed from the original fallback configuration. The ladder therefore retries the already-rejected `xhigh`; if that redundant attempt returns a transient non-effort error such as 429, the loop exits before trying the supported `high` rung and the prompt fails.
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| const activeThinkingLevel = usingFallback | ||
| ? options.fallbackThinkingLevel ?? options.defaultThinkingLevel | ||
| : primaryThinkingLevel; |
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When a fallback configured at max previously accepted a degraded xhigh effort and rejects it on a later prompt, activeThinkingLevel is reconstructed as max, so the ladder retries the already-rejected xhigh. If that redundant attempt returns a non-effort error such as 429, the ladder exits while already using the fallback and the prompt fails without trying the supported high rung.
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**Fallback effort state resets**
When a fallback configured at `max` previously accepted a degraded `xhigh` effort and rejects it on a later prompt, `activeThinkingLevel` is reconstructed as `max`, so the ladder retries the already-rejected `xhigh`. If that redundant attempt returns a non-effort error such as 429, the ladder exits while already using the fallback and the prompt fails without trying the supported `high` rung.
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| // FNXC:ThinkingEffortFallback 2026-08-29-10:40 (Greptile P1-C): the | ||
| // degraded retry stays on the model whose session just rejected — | ||
| // the fallback while usingFallback, the primary otherwise. | ||
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When the active fallback rejects its reasoning effort and creating the lower-effort replacement session fails with a retryable availability error such as 429, usingFallback sends that error directly to the terminal branch. The raw provider failure escapes instead of receiving the normal bounded final-primary retry, so the prompt fails without completing the established fallback recovery sequence.
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**Fallback recovery is bypassed**
When the active fallback rejects its reasoning effort and creating the lower-effort replacement session fails with a retryable availability error such as 429, `usingFallback` sends that error directly to the terminal branch. The raw provider failure escapes instead of receiving the normal bounded final-primary retry, so the prompt fails without completing the established fallback recovery sequence.
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Problem
When a workflow lane pins a thinking effort the target model does not actually expose — e.g.
xhighonopencode-free/x-preview-f-free, ormaxon models that only acceptno_think|low|high— the provider rejects the request with a 400 whose message namesreasoning_effort:{"error":{"type":"server_error","message":"Error from provider (Console): Upstream request failed: [1210] Invalid API parameter, please check the documentation."}}[400001] The request is invalid: reasoning_effort must be one of: no_think, low, high.That error shape matched none of the existing classifiers (
isTransientError,isRetryableModelSelectionError, operator-actionable patterns), sopromptWithFallbackre-threw into triage's generic catch-all. The card stayed claimable and was re-admitted on every poll, retrying the same model + same effort forever. Observed in production logs:Planning using model: ... (thinking effort: xhigh)repeating every ~2–4 minutes with zero progress and no failure surfaced to the operator.Fix
packages/engine/src/errors/thinking-effort-rejection.ts:isReasoningEffortRejectionError()— deliberately strict matcher for effort rejections (explicitreasoning_effort must be one of,invalid_request_errornaming the parameter, and the codex[1210] Invalid API parameterenvelope). Ambiguous envelopes ("Model is unavailable", bare "Internal server error") are excluded so model-availability problems keep flowing through the existing model-fallback path.degradeThinkingLevel()+ exportedTHINKING_LEVEL_LADDER(xhigh → max → high → medium → low → minimal → off) — strictly descending, no cycles.createFnAgent'spromptWithFallback: when the primary prompt fails with an effort rejection, latch once, degrade the lane's level exactly one rung, swap to a fresh session of the same model, and retry. The configured fallback model is untouched; when the ladder is exhausted, behavior falls through unchanged.Testing
setThinkingLevel; codex[1210]envelope variant; negative control asserting "Model is unavailable" / "Internal server error" do NOT trigger the ladder (single session attempt, error propagates).Summary by CodeRabbit