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HomerandClaude Opus 5 32e2326d41 An effort the model had never heard of
Reported from a live instance, on Bonsai:

  Jinja Exception: Unexpected reasoning effort high. Supported types are
  xhigh (default), medium, and low.

Effort goes out two ways because no single field works, and the second --
chat_template_kwargs -- is not a parameter the server interprets. It is
rendered into the model's own chat template, which does not ignore a value it
does not know: it calls raise_exception, and the request dies before a token.
So a perfectly ordinary option, drawn by this application in its own menu, took
the whole reply with it.

The vocabulary is per model and nobody agrees. gpt-oss takes low/medium/high.
Bonsai takes low/medium/xhigh and refuses high. OpenAI has added minimal, xhigh
and max at different points, and which of them a given model accepts varies
again. One global tuple was going to be wrong for somebody whatever it held.

A model carries its own list now, and the picker, the slash command and the
request builder all read it. A column rather than a key in capabilities_json,
for the reason context_length is one: that dict is rebuilt wholesale from the
submitted checkboxes on every save.

And it corrects itself. A refusal retries the reply once without the effort
rather than losing it -- safe only because the template renders before any
token, so nothing has been emitted, and there is a guard that keeps it that way
-- then narrows the model's list. Bonsai's error states what it does take, so
that is what gets stored.

Note the parser bug, because it is a good one: "high" is a substring of
"xhigh", so reading the advertised list by substring learned `high` from a
sentence explaining that `high` is the problem. Whole words now, with a test
named after it.

/effort reads its levels off the picker instead of a second copy of the list
kept in the browser.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 21:20:06 +00:00

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"""Reasoning effort: what goes out, and what does not.
The second half matters as much as the first. There is no field that works
everywhere -- OpenAI and vLLM read `reasoning_effort`, llama.cpp drops it
silently and reads only `chat_template_kwargs` -- so both are sent. That is only
safe because neither is sent at all until somebody chooses an effort, which is
what keeps an endpoint strict about unknown parameters working exactly as it
did.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import pytest
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from sqlalchemy import select
from lembas.db.models import Chat, Connection, Model, User
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
from .conftest import control_named
def _model(db, **capabilities) -> Model:
connection = Connection(name="c", base_url="http://127.0.0.1:1", api_key_encrypted="")
db.add(connection)
db.commit()
model = Model(
connection_id=connection.id,
model_id="m",
capabilities_json={"reasoning": True, **capabilities},
)
db.add(model)
db.commit()
return model
def _chat(db, effort: str | None = None) -> Chat:
model = _model(db)
user = db.scalars(select(User)).first()
chat = Chat(
user_id=user.id,
model_id=model.model_id,
connection_id=model.connection_id,
params_json={"reasoning_effort": effort} if effort is not None else {},
)
db.add(chat)
db.commit()
return chat
# --- What reaches the endpoint -----------------------------------------------
def test_an_effort_goes_out_in_both_forms(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""One value, two fields. Neither endpoint family reads the other's."""
chat = _chat(db, "high")
body = chat_service.build_request(db, chat)
assert body["reasoning_effort"] == "high"
assert body["chat_template_kwargs"] == {"reasoning_effort": "high"}
def test_no_effort_means_neither_field(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""The whole safety of sending both. A chat nobody has set an effort on is
byte-for-byte the request it was before this existed, so a provider that
refuses unknown parameters is untouched until somebody opts in."""
chat = _chat(db)
body = chat_service.build_request(db, chat)
assert "reasoning_effort" not in body
assert "chat_template_kwargs" not in body
def test_a_cleared_effort_means_neither_field(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""Cleared is stored as None, like every other parameter here."""
chat = _chat(db, None)
body = chat_service.build_request(db, chat)
assert "reasoning_effort" not in body
@pytest.mark.parametrize("junk", ["sudo", "HIGH ", "maximum", "1"])
def test_a_value_that_is_not_an_effort_is_not_sent(client: TestClient, db, registered, junk):
"""Never trusted from the row: it could predate a change to the list."""
chat = _chat(db, junk)
assert "reasoning_effort" not in chat_service.build_request(db, chat)
def test_existing_chat_template_kwargs_are_kept(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""Merged rather than replaced, so a future caller setting something else
there does not lose it."""
body: dict = {"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": True}}
chat_service.apply_effort(body, "low")
assert body["chat_template_kwargs"] == {"enable_thinking": True, "reasoning_effort": "low"}
# --- Setting it ---------------------------------------------------------------
def test_patching_the_effort_stores_it(client: TestClient, db, registered):
chat = _chat(db)
assert client.patch(
f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"reasoning_effort": "medium"}
).status_code == 204
db.refresh(chat)
assert chat.params_json["reasoning_effort"] == "medium"
def test_an_empty_effort_clears_it(client: TestClient, db, registered):
chat = _chat(db, "high")
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"reasoning_effort": ""})
db.refresh(chat)
assert chat.params_json["reasoning_effort"] is None
def test_an_unknown_effort_leaves_the_old_one(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""Ignored, not refused: a typo should not cost the setting you had."""
chat = _chat(db, "low")
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"reasoning_effort": "extreme"})
db.refresh(chat)
assert chat.params_json["reasoning_effort"] == "low"
def test_the_control_only_appears_on_a_reasoning_model(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""The flag has existed with no reader since the beginning; this is its
first job. Offering the control everywhere would offer a setting that does
nothing almost everywhere."""
chat = _chat(db)
assert "data-effort" in client.get(f"/chat/{chat.id}").text
model = db.scalars(select(Model)).one()
model.capabilities_json = {"reasoning": False}
db.commit()
assert "data-effort" not in client.get(f"/chat/{chat.id}").text
# --- The per-model default ----------------------------------------------------
def test_a_new_chat_starts_from_the_models_defaults(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""`Model.params_json` has claimed to do this since it was added and did it
nowhere. It is empty on every existing row, so honouring it changes nothing
until an administrator sets something."""
model = _model(db)
model.params_json = {"reasoning_effort": "high"}
db.commit()
client.post("/api/chats/start", data={"content": "hello", "model_id": "m"})
chat = db.scalars(select(Chat)).one()
assert chat.params_json["reasoning_effort"] == "high"
def test_a_model_with_no_defaults_starts_a_plain_chat(client: TestClient, db, registered):
_model(db)
client.post("/api/chats/start", data={"content": "hello", "model_id": "m"})
assert db.scalars(select(Chat)).one().params_json == {}
# --- Choosable before the first prompt ---------------------------------------
def test_the_effort_select_carries_its_own_verb(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""The same invariant the mode select needs, for the same reason.
Both were built on `form="…"` pointing at an empty sibling form holding the
`hx-patch`, and both therefore wrote nothing at all: `form=` scopes the
values a request carries, it does not route the event that starts one.
"""
chat = _chat(db)
select = control_named(client.get(f"/chat/{chat.id}").text, "reasoning_effort")
assert select["hx-patch"] == f"/api/chats/{chat.id}"
assert select["form"] == "chat-params-form"
def test_the_effort_is_offered_before_there_is_a_chat(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""Otherwise it is a setting you can only reach once it is too late to use.
On the new-chat screen there is nothing to PATCH, so it is an ordinary field
of the composer's form and carries no verb -- `_new_chat` reads it.
"""
_model(db)
select = control_named(client.get("/chat").text, "reasoning_effort")
assert "hx-patch" not in select
assert "form" not in select
def test_starting_a_chat_with_an_effort_stores_it(client: TestClient, db, registered):
_model(db)
client.post(
"/api/chats/start",
data={"content": "hello", "model_id": "m", "reasoning_effort": "low"},
)
assert db.scalars(select(Chat)).one().params_json["reasoning_effort"] == "low"
def test_an_explicit_effort_beats_the_models_default(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""An inherited value is a starting point, not a ceiling."""
model = _model(db)
model.params_json = {"reasoning_effort": "high"}
db.commit()
client.post(
"/api/chats/start",
data={"content": "hello", "model_id": "m", "reasoning_effort": "low"},
)
assert db.scalars(select(Chat)).one().params_json["reasoning_effort"] == "low"
def test_a_nonsense_effort_at_the_start_falls_back(client: TestClient, db, registered):
model = _model(db)
model.params_json = {"reasoning_effort": "high"}
db.commit()
client.post(
"/api/chats/start",
data={"content": "hello", "model_id": "m", "reasoning_effort": "extreme"},
)
assert db.scalars(select(Chat)).one().params_json["reasoning_effort"] == "high"
# --- What the picker says is what is sent ---------------------------------------
def test_the_resolver_is_what_the_request_carries(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""One resolver, so the control and the request cannot disagree. That
disagreement is the whole reason the picker said "default": it named no
level, and was true of nothing in particular."""
chat = _chat(db, "high")
assert chat_service.resolved_effort(chat) == "high"
assert chat_service.build_request(db, chat)["reasoning_effort"] == "high"
def test_a_cleared_effort_is_not_resurrected_by_the_models_default(
client: TestClient, db, registered
):
"""What the no-fallback decision buys. If `build_request` fell back to the
model, `update_chat` storing None for a cleared effort would be undone
underneath it and the off option would silently do nothing."""
model = _model(db)
model.params_json = {"reasoning_effort": "high"}
user = db.scalars(select(User)).first()
chat = Chat(
user_id=user.id,
model_id=model.model_id,
connection_id=model.connection_id,
params_json={"reasoning_effort": None},
)
db.add(chat)
db.commit()
assert chat_service.resolved_effort(chat) == ""
body = chat_service.build_request(db, chat)
assert "reasoning_effort" not in body
assert "chat_template_kwargs" not in body
def test_choosing_off_before_the_chat_exists_sends_nothing(
client: TestClient, db, registered
):
"""The one that would otherwise ship broken. `start_chat` declares
`Form("")`, so an absent field and an empty one are the same thing there --
with `value=""` on the off option the reader picks off, the value falls out
of EFFORTS, and the model's default seeded onto the row stays. They get
"high"."""
model = _model(db)
model.params_json = {"reasoning_effort": "high"}
db.commit()
client.post(
"/api/chats/start",
data={"content": "hello", "model_id": "m", "reasoning_effort": "off"},
)
chat = db.scalars(select(Chat)).first()
assert not (chat.params_json or {}).get("reasoning_effort")
assert "reasoning_effort" not in chat_service.build_request(db, chat)
def test_patching_off_clears_it(client: TestClient, db, registered):
chat = _chat(db, "high")
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"reasoning_effort": "off"})
db.expire_all()
assert chat_service.resolved_effort(db.get(Chat, chat.id)) == ""
def test_switching_model_seeds_an_effort_that_was_never_chosen(
client: TestClient, db, registered
):
"""So "what the picker shows is what is sent" stays true after a switch."""
chat = _chat(db)
second = Model(
connection_id=chat.connection_id,
model_id="m2",
capabilities_json={"reasoning": True},
params_json={"reasoning_effort": "medium"},
)
db.add(second)
db.commit()
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"model_id": "m2"})
db.expire_all()
assert chat_service.resolved_effort(db.get(Chat, chat.id)) == "medium"
def test_switching_model_does_not_overwrite_a_chosen_effort(
client: TestClient, db, registered
):
chat = _chat(db, "low")
second = Model(
connection_id=chat.connection_id,
model_id="m2",
capabilities_json={"reasoning": True},
params_json={"reasoning_effort": "high"},
)
db.add(second)
db.commit()
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"model_id": "m2"})
db.expire_all()
assert chat_service.resolved_effort(db.get(Chat, chat.id)) == "low"
def test_switching_model_does_not_resurrect_a_cleared_effort(
client: TestClient, db, registered
):
"""`None` means somebody cleared it deliberately. Only an ABSENT key is
seeded, or "off" would silently undo itself on the next model change."""
chat = _chat(db, "high")
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"reasoning_effort": "off"})
second = Model(
connection_id=chat.connection_id,
model_id="m2",
capabilities_json={"reasoning": True},
params_json={"reasoning_effort": "high"},
)
db.add(second)
db.commit()
client.patch(f"/api/chats/{chat.id}", data={"model_id": "m2"})
db.expire_all()
assert chat_service.resolved_effort(db.get(Chat, chat.id)) == ""
def test_the_picker_never_says_default(client: TestClient, db, registered):
"""The one markup assertion. It named no level and was true of nothing."""
chat = _chat(db, "medium")
html = client.get(f"/chat/{chat.id}").text
assert "Effort: default" not in html
assert "Effort: off" in html
assert '<option value="medium" selected>' in html.replace("\n", "").replace(" ", "")
# --- A vocabulary that is not the same for every model -----------------------
#
# Reported from a real instance, on a model called Bonsai:
#
# Jinja Exception: Unexpected reasoning effort high. Supported types are
# xhigh (default), medium, and low.
#
# `chat_template_kwargs.reasoning_effort` is rendered into the model's own chat
# template, and a template that does not know the value calls `raise_exception`
# rather than ignoring it -- so the whole reply died, from an option this
# application had drawn in a menu.
BONSAI_ERROR = (
"Jinja Exception: Unexpected reasoning effort high. "
"Supported types are xhigh (default), medium, and low."
)
class _FakeModel:
def __init__(self, efforts=None):
self.reasoning_efforts = efforts or []
def test_a_model_that_has_said_nothing_gets_the_common_three():
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
assert chat_service.efforts_for(_FakeModel()) == ("low", "medium", "high")
def test_a_model_can_take_xhigh_and_not_high():
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
bonsai = _FakeModel(["xhigh", "medium", "low"])
assert chat_service.efforts_for(bonsai) == ("low", "medium", "xhigh")
assert "high" not in chat_service.efforts_for(bonsai)
def test_an_effort_the_model_refuses_is_never_sent():
"""The check that stops the crash happening at all."""
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
supported = chat_service.efforts_for(_FakeModel(["xhigh", "medium", "low"]))
body: dict = {}
chat_service.apply_effort(body, "high", supported)
assert body == {}
chat_service.apply_effort(body, "xhigh", supported)
assert body["reasoning_effort"] == "xhigh"
assert body["chat_template_kwargs"]["reasoning_effort"] == "xhigh"
def test_a_value_this_application_never_heard_of_cannot_reach_a_request():
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
assert chat_service.efforts_for(_FakeModel(["ludicrous"])) == ("low", "medium", "high")
def test_the_refusal_is_recognised_and_the_supported_list_read_out_of_it():
from lembas.services import generation
assert generation._effort_was_refused(BONSAI_ERROR)
assert generation._advertised_efforts(BONSAI_ERROR) == ["low", "medium", "xhigh"]
def test_the_rejected_value_is_not_collected_as_a_supported_one():
"""The message names the refused effort first and the supported ones after,
so anything reading the whole string would learn `high` from a sentence
saying `high` is the problem."""
from lembas.services import generation
assert "high" not in generation._advertised_efforts(BONSAI_ERROR)
def test_an_ordinary_failure_is_not_retried_as_an_effort_problem():
"""Retrying a genuine failure would hide it behind a second request."""
from lembas.services import generation
for message in (
"Connection refused.",
"The model is still loading.",
"context length exceeded",
):
assert not generation._effort_was_refused(message)
def test_a_model_with_no_advertisement_simply_loses_the_refused_value():
from lembas.services import generation
assert generation._advertised_efforts("Unexpected reasoning effort high.") == []