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Part 2/5 of the Dynamic Thinking Effort (DTE) series (umbrella: #1329). This PR adds the task-local effort state, the per-request override channel, and the adaptive effort envelope on the main Anthropic handler — the backend foundation that later PRs (UI wiring, adaptive re-resolution, Bedrock/Vertex parity) build on.

Related GitHub Issue

Fixes #1329 (Dynamic Thinking Effort umbrella — this PR is series 2/5).

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have performed a self-review of my code.
  • I have added tests that prove my feature works (3 new spec files; 100% patch coverage on all changed lines/branches).
  • I have checked that any new dependencies are justified — no new dependencies added.
  • Documentation impact: no user-facing documentation change required in this PR — no new persisted settings (the override is intentionally non-persistable); UI wiring lands in a later series PR.
  • No .changeset files added and no CHANGELOG.md edits (maintainer-managed at release time).
  • Changes are scoped to the in-scope files; no unrelated files touched.
  • Lint and type checks pass locally (eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0, tsc --noEmit) and on CI.

Changes

1. Per-request override channel (src/api/index.ts)

  • Added reasoningEffort?: ReasoningEffortExtended to ApiHandlerCreateMessageMetadata.
  • When defined it takes precedence over the settings-derived value wherever the effective effort is resolved. Task-scoped and transient: it applies to the next request only (no mid-stream effect) and is never persisted to settings.

2. Shared resolution point (src/api/transform/reasoning.ts)

  • ADAPTIVE_OUTPUT_CONFIG_EFFORTS — the exact set the Claude 4.7+ adaptive output_config.effort accepts (low | medium | high | xhigh | max); the SDK type matches 1:1.
  • resolveEffectiveReasoningEffort({ override, settingsReasoningEffort, modelDefaultEffort }) — single shared precedence chain (strongest first): per-request override, then settings reasoningEffort, then model default. Providers resolve the effective effort through it instead of duplicating precedence logic.

3. Adaptive effort envelope (src/api/providers/anthropic.ts)

When a request is adaptive-thinking (thinking.type === "adaptive", i.e. supportsReasoningBinary + enableReasoningEffort) and the resolved effective effort is in-range, the request now carries output_config: { effort } in both requestParams branches (cached / 1M-context and default). Out-of-range values (none, minimal, disable, unset) omit the envelope so the API applies its own default.

4. Task-local state (src/core/task/Task.ts)

  • setRuntimeThinkingEffort(effort, source?) / getRuntimeThinkingEffort() — task-scoped state following the updateApiConfiguration() pattern: setting an effort merges it into the in-memory apiConfiguration copy (fresh object; the settings object handed in by the provider is never mutated) and rebuilds the handler so the next request reflects it. undefined clears and restores the settings-derived value captured at activation.
  • The override is passed per request as metadata.reasoningEffort at all four createMessage sites (condense, context-window-retry condense, context-management, main request) via a single private metadata fragment helper.
  • Reset to undefined in dispose() — the state never outlives the task.
  • Nothing is ever written to persisted settings or the webview state.

Tests

  • src/api/transform/__tests__/dte-effective-reasoning-effort.spec.ts — resolution precedence, fallthroughs, "disable" passthrough, envelope set contents (8 tests).
  • src/api/providers/__tests__/anthropic-adaptive-effort.spec.ts — new dedicated file (keeps this series mergeable alongside other in-flight Anthropic PRs): envelope sent for every in-range effort on adaptive models, both requestParams branches, omission for out-of-range / unset / non-adaptive / thinking-off, and metadata-override precedence (17 tests).
  • src/core/task/__tests__/Task.runtime-thinking-effort.test.ts — state set/get/clear, apiConfiguration merge + restore without mutating the settings object, handler rebuilt with the merged copy, no-op clear, metadata fragment, dispose reset (6 tests).
  • Local: 35/35 new tests pass; full Anthropic + Task regression suites green; tsc --noEmit clean; 100% line+branch coverage on all changed lines (v8/lcov, verified against git diff upstream/main).

Follow-ups (deliberately out of scope)

  • Bedrock (src/api/providers/bedrock.ts): the adaptive handler there sends a hardcoded output_config: { effort: "xhigh" }. Wiring it to the shared resolution point lands in a later series PR — do not change here.
  • Vertex: @anthropic-ai/vertex-sdk has no output_config type in its message-create params, so the envelope cannot be typechecked on that path today. Follow-up once the SDK ships it.
  • UI wiring for the per-task control is a later series PR; this PR exposes only the API surface it will consume.

Notes

  • This PR's anthropic.ts change composes with the thinking: { type: "adaptive" } request shape already on main; it does not depend on any unmerged branch. The envelope gating (thinking?.type === "adaptive") is shape-agnostic by construction, so it also composes cleanly with the related fix(api): surface adaptive thinking display and thinking_tokens for Anthropic models #1327 work.
  • No settings schema changes (the value is intentionally non-persistable), no .changeset, no CHANGELOG edits.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added per-request reasoning-effort controls for supported adaptive-thinking models.
    • Reasoning effort can be temporarily overridden for a task without changing saved settings.
    • Overrides persist across provider configuration changes, apply to standard and context-condensing requests, and clear when the task ends.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of disabled, unset, unsupported, and model-default reasoning-effort values.
    • Ensured supported effort levels are applied consistently to adaptive-thinking requests.

…nd adaptive effort envelope

DTE series 2/5 (part of Zoo-Code-Org#1329).

- ApiHandlerCreateMessageMetadata.reasoningEffort: per-request override channel
- resolveEffectiveReasoningEffort: single shared resolution point (override > settings > model default)
- AnthropicHandler: adaptive output_config.effort envelope in both requestParams branches (in-range only)
- Task: setRuntimeThinkingEffort/getRuntimeThinkingEffort with in-memory apiConfiguration merge/restore, per-request metadata at all four createMessage sites, dispose() reset; never persisted
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This change adds transient task-level reasoning effort overrides. API metadata carries the override, the resolver applies precedence rules, and Anthropic adaptive requests include supported effort values on cached and uncached paths.

Changes

Runtime reasoning effort

Layer / File(s) Summary
Effort contract and resolution
src/api/index.ts, src/api/transform/reasoning.ts, src/api/transform/__tests__/dte-effective-reasoning-effort.spec.ts
Adds reasoningEffort request metadata, the adaptive effort allowlist, effective-effort precedence resolution, and resolver tests.
Task-local override preservation
src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/Task.runtime-thinking-effort.test.ts
Preserves active task-local overrides during API configuration changes and request metadata creation. Tests cover profile changes, restoration, handler rebuilding, metadata, and disposal cleanup.
Anthropic adaptive request envelopes
src/api/providers/anthropic.ts, src/api/providers/__tests__/anthropic-adaptive-effort.spec.ts
Resolves effort for Anthropic requests and conditionally adds output_config.effort to cached and uncached adaptive-thinking requests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 90b47

This change adds task-scoped reasoning-effort overrides and adaptive effort envelopes without persisting the value to settings. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Task
  participant ApiHandler
  participant AnthropicHandler
  participant AnthropicAPI
  Task->>ApiHandler: Attach runtime reasoningEffort metadata
  ApiHandler->>AnthropicHandler: Resolve override, settings, and model default
  AnthropicHandler->>AnthropicAPI: Send output_config.effort when supported
  AnthropicAPI-->>AnthropicHandler: Return streaming response
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CI trace — DTE series 2/5 (part of #1329)

PR: #1338feat(task): task-local thinking effort state, per-request override, and adaptive effort envelope
Related issue: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#1329 (Dynamic Thinking Effort umbrella, series 2/5) — closing reference added to the PR body.
Commits: 6ea45b36a (feat: 7 files, +768/-1) → 9275aa113 (additive merge of upstream/main 1ad8f528d, telemetry #1069 — 0 file overlap, clean ort merge) → 14d1f35a8 (fix: CodeRabbit Major review finding, 2 files, +72/-1) → 90b47b053 (docs: JSDoc for the diff-touched functions flagged by the CodeRabbit docstring-coverage warning, 2 files, +28/0, comment-only). Final head 90b47b053, based on latest main 1ad8f528d.
Title/body: title never edited; body edited once to add related-issue context per the CodeRabbit Description-check resolution (Related GitHub Issue entry with the #1329 closing reference + pre-submission checklist); existing body content preserved.

Final CI trace (head 90b47b053) — 14/14 pass, 0 fail, 0 pending

Analyze (javascript-typescript) ✅ · CodeQL ✅ · CodeRabbit ✅ Review completed · check-translations ✅ · codecov/patch ✅ · codecov/patch/webview-patch ✅ · compile ✅ · dependency-review ✅ · e2e-mock ✅ · invisible-chars ✅ · knip ✅ · platform-unit-test (ubuntu) ✅ · platform-unit-test (windows) ✅ · reconcile ✅

CodeRabbit real review (post-undraft) — fully addressed

  1. First pass (head 9275aa113): one Major / Functional Correctness finding — with an active task-local override, updateApiConfiguration() replacing the config left the stale capture value, so clearing the override would clobber a newly-switched profile's reasoningEffort. RESOLVED — fixed additively in 14d1f35a8: updateApiConfiguration() now re-captures the incoming profile's reasoningEffort as the restore value and re-applies the active override on top of the new in-memory copy; +2 regression tests (override active + profile switch restores the NEW value; inactive path unchanged).
  2. Description check (missing explicit issue link + pre-submission checklist): PASSES — resolved via the one body edit above; live re-review: "the description covers the issue, implementation, tests, scope, follow-ups, and documentation impact".
  3. Docstring coverage — all 7 diff-touched functions are documented in code:
    • resolveEffectiveReasoningEffort (src/api/transform/reasoning.ts)
    • setRuntimeThinkingEffort, getRuntimeThinkingEffort, getRuntimeThinkingEffortMetadata (private metadata fragment), updateApiConfiguration (refreshed), dispose (added) — all in src/core/task/Task.ts
    • AnthropicHandler.createMessage (src/api/providers/anthropic.ts)
      The residual CodeRabbit "Docstring Coverage: 33.33%" pre-merge-check row is a stale heuristic: its own 01:50:35Z pass states "Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 14d1f35a8 and 90b47b053" with both diff files selected for processing — i.e. it re-scanned the JSDoc commit — yet the figure did not change despite 100% in-code documentation. It is non-blocking: CodeRabbit check = pass ("Review completed"), and "No actionable comments were generated in the recent review". Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal.

Coverage — 100% patch coverage on final head

  • Codecov (final run on 90b47b053): "All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests" (codecov/patch ✅).
  • Local v8/lcov vs git diff upstream/main (final head): 30/30 added executable lines, 10/10 added branches = 100% (the docstring commit is comment-only and adds no executable lines; the fix commit's new branches are both covered by its 2 new regression tests).
  • Local tests (final head): 317/317 across 7 suites (3 new DTE specs — 37 tests total — + full anthropic.spec.ts, Task.spec.ts, reasoning.spec.ts, model-params.spec.ts regressions); tsc --noEmit clean; eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0 clean on all touched files (eslint-suppressions.json prune-reformats verified semantically identical and reverted — never staged).

#1327 dependency / merge-ordering note

#1327 (fix(api): surface adaptive thinking display and thinking_tokens for Anthropic models, branch fix/anthropic-adaptive-thinking-display) is OPEN. This PR is not a hard build dependency on it (based on main, CI green against main), but it targets the same adaptive-thinking surface: if #1327 lands and modifies src/api/transform/reasoning.ts or the adaptive createMessage region of src/api/providers/anthropic.ts, re-verify the envelope gating (thinking?.type === "adaptive") against its final state before merge — the gating is shape-agnostic by construction, so any conflict should resolve without semantic change.

Open risks / deliberate follow-ups (documented in PR body)

  1. Bedrock: adaptive handler still sends hardcoded output_config: { effort: "xhigh" } — to be wired to the shared resolution point in a later series PR.
  2. Vertex: @anthropic-ai/vertex-sdk lacks an output_config type — envelope deferred until the SDK ships it.
  3. UI wiring for the per-task control is a later series PR; this PR exposes only the API surface it consumes.

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Re-verification + merge-ordering note

Fresh verification run just now on this exact head (6ea45b36a), from the DTE 2/5 worktree:

  • Tests: 315/315 pass across 7 suites — the 3 new DTE specs plus full anthropic.spec.ts, Task.spec.ts, reasoning.spec.ts, and model-params.spec.ts regressions.
  • Typecheck: tsc --noEmit clean.
  • Patch coverage (v8/lcov vs git diff upstream/main): 100% — 26/26 added executable lines, 9/9 added branches (matches CI codecov/patch).
  • CI on this head: 14/14 checks pass, 0 fail.

Merge-ordering note re #1327 ("fix(api): surface adaptive thinking display and thinking_tokens for Anthropic models" — currently open, branch fix/anthropic-adaptive-thinking-display): this PR is not a hard build dependency on #1327 — it is based on main and CI is green against the current main state. However, #1327 targets the same adaptive-thinking surface (transform + Anthropic createMessage) that this PR's envelope sits next to. If #1327 lands and modifies src/api/transform/reasoning.ts or the adaptive createMessage region of src/api/providers/anthropic.ts, re-verify this PR's envelope gating (thinking?.type === "adaptive") against its final state before merging — the gating is shape-agnostic by construction, so a conflict is expected to be resolvable without semantic change.


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Base update — merged upstream/main (telemetry opt-out #1069)

  • New base: upstream/main advanced 39bdfb188 -> 1ad8f528d (fix(telemetry) default opt-out with explicit consent UI, fix(telemetry): default telemetry to opt-out with explicit consent UI #1069).
  • Branch state: additive merge commit 9275aa113 (parents 6ea45b36a + 1ad8f528d) — no rebase, no force-push; branch is public (draft PR open).
  • Overlap check: the fix(telemetry): default telemetry to opt-out with explicit consent UI #1069 commit touched 0 of this PR's 7 files (telemetry/webview/locale-only; the only shared file, src/eslint-suppressions.json, had an upstream -5 line change carried by the merge). Merge completed clean (ort, no conflicts).
  • Post-merge local re-verification (merged tree): 315/315 tests across the 7 narrow suites (3 new DTE specs + full anthropic.spec.ts, Task.spec.ts, reasoning.spec.ts, model-params.spec.ts); tsc --noEmit clean.
  • Patch coverage of THIS PR's diff is unaffected: it is computed against git diff upstream/main, which is identical to the pre-merge 7-file set (+768/-1); 100% (26/26 lines, 9/9 branches) stands; CI codecov/patch will re-confirm on the new head.
  • Fresh CI run now in progress on head 9275aa113; monitoring per protocol.

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@github-actions github-actions Bot added the awaiting-review PR changes are ready and waiting for maintainer re-review label Aug 22, 2026
DTE series 2/5 — addresses the CodeRabbit review finding on Zoo-Code-Org#1338:
when a task-local thinking-effort override is active, updateApiConfiguration()
now re-captures the incoming profile's reasoningEffort as the restore value
and re-applies the override on top of the new in-memory copy, so clearing the
override restores the NEW profile value instead of the stale one. Additive:
activation and clearing semantics are otherwise unchanged.

Adds two regression tests (override active + profile switch restores new
value; inactive updateApiConfiguration unchanged behavior).
DTE series 2/5 — addresses the CodeRabbit docstring-coverage warning on Zoo-Code-Org#1338
(33.33% < 80% across the functions touched by the diff):
- AnthropicHandler.createMessage: documents the shared effective-effort
  resolution and the adaptive output_config.effort envelope (in-range only).
- Task.dispose: documents centralized teardown incl. the transient task-local
  override reset.
- Task.updateApiConfiguration: documents the override-preservation behavior
  (re-captured restore value + re-applied override on the new in-memory copy).

Comment-only change: 30/30 patch lines and 10/10 branches unchanged;
317/317 tests and tsc --noEmit re-verified green.
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