feat(settings): dynamic thinking effort experimental toggle (DTE-1)

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Part of the DTE-v2 stack; this PR: adds the dynamicThinkingEffort experimental toggle (DTE-1) — the experiment flag in packages/types, its registration in the extension experiment registry (src/shared/experiments.ts), the localized Experimental Settings display, and the accompanying tests. First unit of the series and the pipeline validator for the v2 workflow.

Stack: base = upstream main (cross-fork PR — head easonLiangWorldedtech:feat/dte-v2-1-dynamic-thinking-effort; branches cannot be created in this repo without push access, so the DTE-v2 stack branches live in the fork). U1 is the first unit of the DTE-v2 stack; no lower PRs, so the diff displayed vs main is exactly the standalone diff. The head also additively merges the current upstream main tip (0dbd5846f — v3.82.0 release prep #1533, GPT-6 Astra #1506, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision #1488, the throwIfAborted helper + completePrompt options regression tests #1288, and the async Task.dispose() test-teardown fix #1527) so the unit tracks main:
391 additions + 6 deletions = 397 lines (≤400 budget). (measured with git diff --shortstat 0dbd5846f6eed0a188c4eebd9c77d367fad29ee5 HEAD; the 4 binary PNG baselines below are excluded from the arithmetic)

Main sync (2026-09-05): head e89cceddd additively merges the advanced upstream main (0d937c050 → 0dbd5846f, 5 commits: v3.82.0 release prep #1533, GPT-6 Astra #1506, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision #1488, the throwIfAborted helper + completePrompt options regression tests #1288, and the async Task.dispose() test-teardown fix #1527). Clean merge — zero conflicts; the standalone diff vs main is unchanged (397 — per-file numstat verified identical to the pre-sync measurement), so no U1 content changed; all local gates re-verified on the sync head (see Verification).

Related issue: easonLiangWorldedtech#35 (DTE-v2 series tracking)

Out of scope: the remaining DTE-v2 units (U2+): provider plumbing for the thinking-effort selection, the persisted user setting round-trip, and provider-specific behavior. This unit only introduces the experimental flag, its registry entry, the localized display, and the tests.

CodeRabbit review fixes (head 39762bf81):

• RC on ExperimentalSettings.spec.tsx — persistence contract: the round trip is now covered at all three layers this toggle depends on (persisted-setting checklist). webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.spec.tsx: save behavior — a toggle flipped in the Experimental tab is included in the updateSettings payload posted on Save (updatedSettings.experiments.dynamicThinkingEffort === true). src/core/webview/__tests__/webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts: merge semantics of the experiments key — true merges over previously saved values, false overwrites a previously-enabled value, unset resets the entry to experimentDefault; each case asserts the exact contextProxy.setValue("experiments", …) payload and one postStateToWebview(). src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts: getStateToPostToWebview() returns the saved true/false and falls back to experimentDefault when unset.
• Follow-up to the same persistence-contract RC — the one untested segment (form toggle → updateSettings payload, i.e. the field-dropped-after-save failure mode the RC called out) is now pinned by the new SettingsView.spec.tsx test above.
• Re-review RC on SettingsView.spec.tsx (posted against head 53f22dc24) — the added persistence test covered only the false → true path; a second case now seeds the supported unset representation (dynamicThinkingEffort key omitted), asserts the toggle hydrates as off, round-trips the toggle on and off, and pins the saved payload to dynamicThinkingEffort: false — so the payload contract is asserted for true, explicit false, and unset alike.
• RC on vi/settings.json — leftover English model: now mô hình, matching the adjacent description line and all other locales.
• Pre-merge "Regression Evidence" warning — visible webview surface now has a durable Playwright baseline: webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ExperimentalSettings.visual.tsx (+ fixture, registered in playwright/gallery/stories.tsx), one representative snapshot per screen across all four themes, with the Docker-generated baselines committed below, per webview-ui/AGENTS.md.
• Re-review RC on ClineProvider.spec.ts (posted against head 9d1f45119) — the unset-case test asserted only toEqual(experimentDefault); it now pins the contract default explicitly (expect(state.experiments).toEqual({ ...experimentDefault, dynamicThinkingEffort: false })), matching the true/false round-trip assertions and proving the exact false value the test name promises.

Pre-submission checklist:

• CI locally: pnpm check-types (11/11), targeted vitest re-run on sync head e89cceddd (packages/types 3/3; src: webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts 84/84, ClineProvider.spec.ts 159/159 — main's [Fix] Unit tests report teardown errors after Task cleanup #1527 adds 3 teardown tests, experiments.spec.ts 11/11; webview-ui: ExperimentalSettings.spec.tsx 5/5, SettingsView.spec.tsx 21/21), eslint --prune-suppressions (suppression counts unchanged for every touched file)
• i18n: 18 locales (17 non-en + en) in webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json + node scripts/find-missing-translations.js clean
• Tests accompany all changed lines (local §5.1 mutation gate run, see Verification)
• Visual baselines: 4 committed, generated in the pinned Docker Playwright container (same image digest as the visual-regression.yml job); no existing baseline touched
• Line budget measured vs stack base (number above)

Binary files in this PR: 4 PNG visual baselines — webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/__screenshots__/experimental-settings-{dark,light,high-contrast,high-contrast-light}.png (excluded from the line-count arithmetic)

Verification (local, worktree wt-dte-v2-1, base main = 0dbd5846f6eed0a188c4eebd9c77d367fad29ee5; all re-run on sync head e89cceddd):

• pnpm check-types → 11/11 green
• vitest (re-run on e89cceddd): packages/types 3/3; src webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts 84/84, ClineProvider.spec.ts 159/159 (main's [Fix] Unit tests report teardown errors after Task cleanup #1527 adds 3 teardown tests), experiments.spec.ts 11/11; webview-ui ExperimentalSettings.spec.tsx 5/5, SettingsView.spec.tsx 21/21
• pnpm --dir src exec eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0 on both touched spec files → exit 0, suppression counts unchanged; pnpm --dir webview-ui exec eslint --max-warnings=0 on both new visual files → exit 0
• node scripts/find-missing-translations.js → clean (17 non-en locales + en, backend/frontend/package.nls all complete)
• Visual baselines: generated with --update-snapshots=missing filtered to the new test inside the pinned Docker container (mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.62.1-noble@sha256:dcc5531e…); git status confirms no pre-existing __screenshots__ entry changed
• git diff --shortstat 0dbd5846f6eed0a188c4eebd9c77d367fad29ee5 HEAD → 35 files, 391+ / 6− = 397 lines (31 text files + 4 binary PNG baselines) — per-file numstat verified identical to the pre-sync measurement
• Mutation gate (re-run on sync head): node scripts/stryker-diff.mjs ci --base 0dbd5846f6eed0a188c4eebd9c77d367fad29ee5 --head e89cceddd9a4f72fb192212bb30d60318947c399 → extension: 2 valid / 2 killed / 0 survived / 0 no-coverage → Passed (identical 2-mutant selection as the pre-sync head 39762bf81 run — BooleanLiteral→true and ObjectLiteral→{} on src/shared/experiments.ts:29, both killed by the spec's experimentConfigsMap.DYNAMIC_THINKING_EFFORT assertion; the superset-base reproduction also holds: 74 valid / 74 killed)

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This PR switches the extension entry of scripts/stryker-diff.mjs to the vitest
plugin's related-discovery mode (vitestRelated: true, discoverRelatedTests: false,
so STRYKER_TEST_FILES stays empty) instead of the default explicit-test-file mode.
The gate's unit tests (scripts/stryker-diff.test.mjs, buildManifest case) are updated
to assert the new extension-entry values (vitestRelated: true, discoverRelatedTests: false).

Why: with @stryker-mutator/core@10.0.0 + @stryker-mutator/vitest-runner@10.0.0,
passing an explicit test-file list makes the mutant-test planner label static mutants
(module-scope code — here: the new experiment-flag constants in src/shared/experiments.ts)
as mutantActivation: 'runtime' (mutant-test-planner.js:
mutantActivation: testFilter ? 'runtime' : 'static'), while the vitest plugin activates
static mutants only in beforeAll — after top-level code has already been evaluated.
Result: systematic false Survived for static code — both mutants on
src/shared/experiments.ts:29 (BooleanLiteral→true, ObjectLiteral→{}) survived
despite shared/__tests__/experiments.spec.ts asserting the exact replaced values.
With no test-file list the planner plans 'static' activation, the same mutants are
Killed (91 related test files executed; killed by the spec's
experimentConfigsMap.DYNAMIC_THINKING_EFFORT assertion), and the gate is green
(verified locally on stock 10.0.0, no patched modules).

Upstream tracking:

• Static mutants are activated too late when --testFiles produces a test filter stryker-mutator/stryker-js#6144 — original report, proposed one-line planner fix, regression fixture.
• Static mutants falsely reported as Survived with testFiles on Stryker 10.0.0 (corroborates #6144); vitest-runner reloadEnvironment capability declared but not implemented stryker-mutator/stryker-js#6209 — independent 10.0.0 verification: minimal 4-file repro + forced-static controlled experiment (both mutants Killed when activation timing is fixed), plus a secondary reloadEnvironment capability gap.

Revert condition: once the upstream fix lands and the Stryker version is bumped, the
extension entry can revert to vitestRelated: false / discoverRelatedTests: true
(the faster, narrowly targeted mode). The webview entry keeps that mode here (this unit
mutates no webview source); it carries the same latent exposure and should be switched in
the same follow-up.

Local-run note: an interrupted local gate run can leak Stryker's temp sandbox (<package>/.stryker-tmp/), which the pre-commit hook's full pnpm lint then flags with spurious errors (cleanup is skipped on hard kills despite cleanTempDir: "always"); clean runs remove it. Tracked in #1514.

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webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.spec.tsx (2)

834-836: Add a separate explicit-false persistence case.

This test seeds only the missing-key form by deleting dynamicThinkingEffort. It then toggles the checkbox before saving, so it does not verify hydration and save behavior when the incoming state already contains dynamicThinkingEffort: false. Add a case that seeds explicit false, leaves the checkbox unchanged, saves, and asserts the explicit false value. Keep this case for the unset path.

As per path instructions, persisted-setting tests must cover the complete schema/storage/runtime/webview round trip with focused true plus false/unset cases.

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• New Features
  • Added the Dynamic Thinking Effort experimental setting, disabled by default.
  • When enabled, the model can adjust its thinking effort for each step, while manual adjustment in chat remains available.
• Localization
  • Added translated names and descriptions for the setting across supported languages.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for configuration validation, default and toggle behavior, state updates, and visual presentation across themes.

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Adds the dynamicThinkingEffort experiment with boolean schema support, disabled-by-default configuration, webview state handling, settings coverage, visual coverage, and localized labels. Updates extension Stryker configuration to use Vitest-related discovery.

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Dynamic thinking effort experiment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Experiment type contract packages/types/src/experiment.ts, packages/types/src/__tests__/experiment.test.ts	Adds dynamicThinkingEffort to the experiment identifier list and schema. Tests validate accepted and rejected values.
Shared experiment configuration src/shared/experiments.ts, src/shared/__tests__/experiments.spec.ts	Adds DYNAMIC_THINKING_EFFORT with enabled: false. Tests cover identifiers, defaults, visibility, and enabled or disabled states.
Webview experiment state flow src/core/webview/__tests__/webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts, src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts	Tests experiment merging, persistence, default values, and propagation to webview state.
Settings toggle, localization, and visual coverage webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ExperimentalSettings.spec.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.spec.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ExperimentalSettings.visual.fixture.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ExperimentalSettings.visual.tsx, webview-ui/playwright/gallery/stories.tsx, webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json	Tests the toggle and save behavior, adds localized names and descriptions, and adds themed visual coverage.

Stryker Vitest discovery configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Extension mutation-test configuration scripts/stryker-diff.mjs, scripts/stryker-diff.test.mjs	Enables Vitest-related handling, disables static related-test discovery, and updates manifest assertions.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39762

The new disabled-by-default experimental toggle is wired and covered across its main paths, but the settings screen lacks a direct regression test for saving an already disabled persisted value. This is a bounded test-coverage risk rather than evidence of a current behavior failure.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ExperimentalSettings
  participant webviewMessageHandler
  participant contextProxy
  participant ClineProvider
  ExperimentalSettings->>webviewMessageHandler: Send updateSettings with experiments
  webviewMessageHandler->>contextProxy: Persist merged experiment state
  ClineProvider->>contextProxy: Read saved experiment state
  ClineProvider-->>ExperimentalSettings: Post experiment state to webview

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In `@webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/ExperimentalSettings.spec.tsx`:
- Around line 68-108: Add persistence round-trip coverage for
dynamicThinkingEffort beyond the existing UI binding tests: verify true, false,
and unset values are saved through the provider/storage path and returned
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In `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/vi/settings.json`:
- Line 981: Update the description value associated with the set_thinking_effort
setting to replace the English word “model” with the Vietnamese term “mô hình”,
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Learning: In locale settings catalogs under webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json, provide native-language values for both the name and description of settings.experimental.DYNAMIC_THINKING_EFFORT. This requirement applies to all locales except en and zh-TW.

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• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/fr/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/de/settings.json
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978-981: LGTM!

webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/fr/settings.json (1)

978-981: LGTM!

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978-981: LGTM!

webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/id/settings.json (1)

978-981: LGTM!

webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/it/settings.json (1)

978-981: LGTM!

webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ja/settings.json (1)

978-981: LGTM!

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978-981: LGTM!

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978-981: LGTM!

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978-981: LGTM!

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📚 Learning: 2026-08-24T10:53:55.980Z

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Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 1361
File: webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/settings.json:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-24T10:53:55.980Z
Learning: In locale settings catalogs under webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json, provide native-language values for both the name and description of settings.experimental.DYNAMIC_THINKING_EFFORT. This requirement applies to all locales except en and zh-TW.

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• Mutation gate vs current main (0d937c050): extension 2 valid / 2 killed / 0 survived / 0 no-coverage → Passed (stock Stryker 10.0.0); the selection is also clean on the superset base that includes the merged main content (74 valid / 74 killed). The PR body documents the upstream planner-defect workaround (Static mutants are activated too late when --testFiles produces a test filter stryker-mutator/stryker-js#6144, Static mutants falsely reported as Survived with testFiles on Stryker 10.0.0 (corroborates #6144); vitest-runner reloadEnvironment capability declared but not implemented stryker-mutator/stryker-js#6209) and its revert condition.
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