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What changed

Reasoning-capable models now initialize their advertised default effort instead of silently resolving to None. Models without an off mode fall back to the first supported canonical effort, including when a prior model left either reasoningEffort: "disable" or enableReasoningEffort: false; models that advertise an off mode still preserve an explicit None selection.

Normalized defaults are marked as pending settings changes so Save persists them to the provider profile. NanoGPT applies the same resolution before the settings UI mounts for both streaming requests and prompt completions, while retaining the current GPT-6 Astra request safeguards.

Regression coverage now spans component selection and normalization, the SettingsView Save/upsert path, NanoGPT request construction, stale disable representations, optional and required fallbacks, supported overrides, and explicit disable. The exact pnpm lifecycle:model command exhaustively verifies 1,080 capability/default/persistence states and passes; the full repository suite passes with 8,044 tests (39 skipped).

Why this change was made

Users reported that DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.2, and Muse Spark stopped showing thinking after selecting or switching models. The UI could display a default without making it saveable, and NanoGPT could omit reasoning when settings were unset or stale.

Closes #1348.

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Reasoning models start with a valid model-supported effort after selection and keep that value after Save. Stale disabled state cannot turn off reasoning for models that require it, while users can still explicitly disable models that support doing so.

This is behavior-only state and request logic, so repository guidance assigns it to Vitest rather than a visual snapshot or extension-host e2e; neither would exercise an additional layout or VS Code boundary.

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Addressed the remaining Codecov branch with component-level coverage for required reasoning without an advertised default, plus a state matrix for supported overrides, stale-value normalization, and optional-off defaults.

Snapshot and VS Code e2e coverage were intentionally not added: this is deterministic component/request state behavior with no visual or extension-host boundary. The focused component suite, full repository suite, type-check, and lint pass.

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  • New Features

    • Improved reasoning-effort defaults based on each model’s advertised capabilities.
    • Added support for explicitly disabling reasoning when available.
    • Preserved compatible saved reasoning settings and normalized unsupported selections.
    • Applied consistent reasoning-effort defaults to streaming and prompt-completion requests.
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    • Fixed reasoning settings for models with optional or required reasoning support.
    • Ensured disabled reasoning choices are not sent to providers.
    • Improved persistence of reasoning-effort changes in settings.

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Reasoning effort defaults

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NanoGPT reasoning resolution
src/api/providers/nanogpt.ts, src/api/providers/__tests__/nanogpt.spec.ts
NanoGPT now resolves reasoning effort from configured values, model metadata, and supported fallback values. Disabled reasoning omits reasoning_effort. Tests cover request and prompt completion behavior.
Thinking budget defaults and persistence
webview-ui/src/components/settings/ThinkingBudget.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ThinkingBudget.spec.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.change-detection.spec.tsx
The settings UI uses advertised model defaults for optional reasoning, persists normalized values, preserves explicit disable selections, and validates save-state change detection.
Reasoning resolution validation
scripts/check-reasoning-defaults.ts, package.json
A lifecycle script exhaustively checks supported configurations, stored values, defaults, enabled states, and normalized request outputs.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1ec2f

A narrow enabled-reasoning configuration can still omit reasoning from NanoGPT requests. Address this fallback edge case before relying on the new defaults for those saved settings.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary fix: reasoning models stopping their reasoning after model selection.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the cause, implementation, impact, testing, linked issue, and rationale for not adding visual snapshots. It does not reproduce all template headings or checklist items, but it…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1348 by using advertised defaults, preserving explicit disablement where supported, preventing stale disabled state from disabling required reasoning, and adding regression …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed code, tests, and lifecycle validation script support the linked reasoning-effort fix. No unrelated code changes are evident.
Regression Evidence ✅ Passed Focused coverage is present at the valid layers. nanogpt.spec.ts exercises unset advertised defaults, canonical fallback when disable is unsupported, stale disable and `enableReasoningEffort: fals…
Trust And Persistence Invariants ✅ Passed No explicit trust or persistence failure is introduced. src/api/providers/nanogpt.ts accepts only configured/model/canonical efforts that match supportsReasoningEffort, and both streaming and comp…
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not treat explicitly enabled "none" as "disable".

When settings contain reasoningEffort: "none" and enableReasoningEffort: true, a model with supportsReasoningEffort: ["disable", "low", ...] enters the early return at Line 43. The request then omits reasoning_effort instead of resolving the canonical supported effort.

Keep "none" on the fallback path when reasoning is explicitly enabled. Add this supported-"disable" case to the "none" regression tests.

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Comment on lines +356 to +374
it("should use the first supported effort when required reasoning has no advertised default", () => {
const setApiConfigurationField = vi.fn()
render(
<ThinkingBudget
{...defaultProps}
apiConfiguration={{}}
setApiConfigurationField={setApiConfigurationField}
modelInfo={{
...reasoningEffortModelInfo,
supportsReasoningEffort: ["low", "high"],
requiredReasoningEffort: true,
}}
/>,
)

expect(screen.getByTestId("select")).toHaveAttribute("data-value", "low")
expect(setApiConfigurationField).toHaveBeenCalledWith("reasoningEffort", "low")
expect(setApiConfigurationField).toHaveBeenCalledWith("enableReasoningEffort", true, false)
})

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a model-switch persistence regression test.

This test covers only the initial required-model render. It does not prove that normalized reasoning effort persists after modelInfo changes. The empty dependency-array mutation for the persistence effect survives.

Render an optional model with stored "disable". Clear the mock. Rerender a required model that supports ["low", "high"] and has no advertised default. Assert that it writes "reasoningEffort", "low" and "enableReasoningEffort", true, false.

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In `@webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ThinkingBudget.spec.tsx` around
lines 356 - 374, The ThinkingBudget test should cover model-switch persistence,
not only initial rendering. Extend the test to render an optional model with
stored “disable,” clear the setter mock, rerender a required model supporting
“low” and “high” without an advertised default, and assert it writes
reasoningEffort “low” and enableReasoningEffort true with false as the third
argument; include relevant false/unset lifecycle coverage.

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[BUG] Reasoning-capable models default to no thinking after model selection

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