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fix(t3code): let T3 Code start opencodex models with an effort - #8085
An opencodex model in T3 Code couldn't be started with an effort. T3 Code rejects any option a custom model doesn't declare, and the export only wrote { slug, name }, so asking for a subagent on kiro/claude-haiku-5.5 at medium failed before any request left T3 Code:
Model kiro/claude-haiku-5.5 on provider opencodex rejected options: Unknown option effort; supported options: none.
Effort: each custom model now declares its effort ladder as T3 Code capabilities, with the same id, label and shape as T3 Code's built-in Claude models. Only the values Claude Code's --effort accepts are exported (low, medium, high, xhigh, max), because the instance runs Claude Code. A model with none of those, or with supportsReasoningEffort: false, declares nothing rather than an empty control.
Badge: the instance now sets accentColor, so its badge stands apart from Claude's. T3 Code picks the icon from the driver and has no custom icon for this driver, so color is the only thing the export can change. It uses #a6a6a6, the accent from the monochrome docs theme.
Thinking is deliberately not exported. T3 Code drops a custom model's Thinking selection at runtime (pingdotgg/t3code#16672, with an open fix in #22792), so a toggle would show a setting that does nothing. Explicit effort isn't affected: its fix (76f57f9b84) is already in T3 Code v0.1.6.
Behaviour is recorded in structure/clients/t3code.md and docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/integrations.md.
Verification
Results are for head d2ea5314c.
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Command
Result
Client integrations (includes the new export test)
bun test tests/clients
2440 pass, 0 fail
Layout and file-size ratchet
bun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts
38 pass, 0 fail
Typecheck
bun run typecheck
pass
Structure and privacy
bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan
pass
The full suite wasn't run for this change. It's scoped to the T3 Code export, covered by tests/clients, and the suite already has 16 machine-specific failures on clean dev here, noted in #8084. Full-shard coverage is left to CI.
Against real tools:
Claude Code 2.1.316 with --effort high --model kiro/claude-haiku-5.5, pointed at a local capture server, sent output_config: {"effort":"high"} with the effort-2025-11-24 beta, so the selection does reach the proxy.
The Kiro adapter already maps that field to its native effort (src/adapters/kiro/reasoning.ts).
On a local test proxy with a real Kiro account, ocx export --client t3code --json gave all 16 models capabilities. A Claude Code session on kiro/claude-sonnet-5.5 at --effort high read and wrote files successfully.
Not checked: this hasn't yet been run from T3 Code's own UI with a selected effort, so the rejection above hasn't been re-tested end to end. T3 Code's model picker isn't something I can drive from here.
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Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
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New Features
T3 Code custom models can now expose supported reasoning-effort options, with the configured default identified. Models without recognized effort settings do not show an effort control.
Models with an effort control can be used by subagents at a selected effort level.
Documentation
Updated T3 Code integration guidance to describe custom model capabilities and effort controls.
T3 Code rejects any option a custom model does not declare, so starting
a thread or subagent on an opencodex model with an effort failed with
"Unknown option effort; supported options: none". Export each model's
effort ladder as capabilities, limited to the values Claude Code's
--effort accepts.
T3 Code picks the icon from the driver and takes no custom one, so set
an accent color to tell the opencodex badge from Claude's.
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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/integrations.md:
- Line 176: Update the effort-control claim in the T3 Code integration guide to
say the control is offered only when the export includes a supported effort
option. Avoid implying that declaring any effort ladder guarantees the control
or that T3 Code can start a subagent at every declared effort.
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docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/integrations.md
src/clients/config-export/t3code.ts
structure/clients/t3code.md
tests/clients/t3code-client.test.ts
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Walkthrough
The T3 Code model export now includes optional reasoning-effort capabilities for custom models. It includes recognized effort options and marks a matching default. Tests and documentation describe the exported capabilities and model-picker behavior.
Changes: T3 Code effort capabilities
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Summary
Define and export model capabilities src/clients/config-export/t3code.ts:7,48-69,107-150, tests/clients/t3code-client.test.ts:67-90, structure/clients/t3code.md:22, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/integrations.md:176
The export adds optional effort-selection capabilities to custom models. It includes recognized effort IDs, marks a matching default, and omits capabilities when reasoning is disabled or no recognized efforts remain. Tests check these cases. The documentation describes the optional field and model-picker behavior.
lidge-jun/opencodex#7531: Defines the ExportModel reasoning-effort metadata used to generate T3 Code effort options.
Suggested labels:bug
Suggested reviewers:lidge-jun, ingwannu
Merge Risk: Low · up to d2ea5
The guide may promise an effort control for models that do not expose one. The change is mergeable with this documentation issue noted.
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- Line 176: Update the effort-control claim in the T3 Code integration guide to
say the control is offered only when the export includes a supported effort
option. Avoid implying that declaring any effort ladder guarantees the control
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`CLAUDE_CODE_PROVIDER_MANAGED_BY_HOST=1` so a `settings.json` env block in your Claude config cannot
re-point it. Each routed model is a custom model keyed by its opencodex selector
(`provider/model`), which T3 Code sends verbatim. It appears in T3 Code's model picker under
(`provider/model`), which T3 Code sends verbatim. A model with an effort ladder declares it, so T3 Code offers its effort control and can start a subagent on it at a chosen effort. It appears in T3 Code's model picker under
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Limit the effort-control claim to exported options.
A model with reasoningEfforts: ["ultra"] has an effort ladder, but t3codeCapabilities emits no capability for it. The same omission applies when supportsReasoningEffort is false. Say that T3 Code offers the control only when the export includes a supported effort option. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/integrations.md at line
176:
Update the effort-control claim in the T3 Code integration guide to say the
control is offered only when the export includes a supported effort option.
Avoid implying that declaring any effort ladder guarantees the control or that
T3 Code can start a subagent at every declared effort.
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Head d2ea5314c3, judged against devb33fab71c5 (trial merge 5f2ade06f3) and rechecked to merge cleanly with deve6df67e415, which adds only #7899's registry row on top.
Value. T3 Code rejects any option a custom model does not declare, so every opencodex model failed at an effort ("Unknown option effort; supported options: none") before a request left T3 Code. This export now declares the effort ladder Claude Code's --effort accepts. dev had no T3 Code effort export.
UX. Models with no supported effort, or with supportsReasoningEffort: false, export the same { slug, name } as before. The one visible addition is the instance badge tint (accentColor), which the description states and structure/clients/t3code.md documents. It only tells the opencodex instance apart from the built-in Claude instance. Nothing in routing, defaults, the environment or the opencodex dashboard changes.
No regression.
Failing-first: tests/clients/t3code-client.test.ts fails on dev and passes with the change.
The T3 Code client and lifecycle tests pass on the trial merge, each in its own process and isolated home (env -i, temp HOME/OPENCODEX_HOME/CODEX_HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR).
On the trial merge commit, the repository guards pass (test-layout, layout tooling, the file-size and import-cycle ratchets, repo hygiene, structure SSOT, skill-ocx, preset counts, Lab core boundary), and so do typecheck, structure:check and privacy:scan.
Independent review. A fresh merge-gate review (GOAT review task, mistral/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017) of this exact head returned PASS-WITH-NITS. The nit, left as a follow-up: guides/integrations.md should say the effort control appears only when at least one supported effort is exported.
CI. This lane approved the fork runs after the review. All checks on this exact head are green (21 success, 10 skipped by policy).
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Summary
An
opencodexmodel in T3 Code couldn't be started with an effort. T3 Code rejects any option a custom model doesn't declare, and the export only wrote{ slug, name }, so asking for a subagent onkiro/claude-haiku-5.5at medium failed before any request left T3 Code:capabilities, with the same id, label and shape as T3 Code's built-in Claude models. Only the values Claude Code's--effortaccepts are exported (low,medium,high,xhigh,max), because the instance runs Claude Code. A model with none of those, or withsupportsReasoningEffort: false, declares nothing rather than an empty control.accentColor, so its badge stands apart from Claude's. T3 Code picks the icon from the driver and has no custom icon for this driver, so color is the only thing the export can change. It uses#a6a6a6, the accent from the monochrome docs theme.Thinking is deliberately not exported. T3 Code drops a custom model's Thinking selection at runtime (pingdotgg/t3code#16672, with an open fix in #22792), so a toggle would show a setting that does nothing. Explicit effort isn't affected: its fix (
76f57f9b84) is already in T3 Code v0.1.6.Behaviour is recorded in
structure/clients/t3code.mdanddocs-site/src/content/docs/guides/integrations.md.Verification
Results are for head
d2ea5314c.bun test tests/clientsbun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.tsbun run typecheckbun run structure:check,bun run privacy:scanThe full suite wasn't run for this change. It's scoped to the T3 Code export, covered by
tests/clients, and the suite already has 16 machine-specific failures on cleandevhere, noted in #8084. Full-shard coverage is left to CI.Against real tools:
--effort high --model kiro/claude-haiku-5.5, pointed at a local capture server, sentoutput_config: {"effort":"high"}with theeffort-2025-11-24beta, so the selection does reach the proxy.src/adapters/kiro/reasoning.ts).ocx export --client t3code --jsongave all 16 models capabilities. A Claude Code session onkiro/claude-sonnet-5.5at--effort highread and wrote files successfully.Not checked: this hasn't yet been run from T3 Code's own UI with a selected effort, so the rejection above hasn't been re-tested end to end. T3 Code's model picker isn't something I can drive from here.
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