Effort as the model offers it, and the team's size beside it

/api/v2/models now says each model's levels, start level and control. A model
with one level shows no effort control; off and one effort is a Thinking
switch (a checkbox with the switch role); more keep the selector. In the
chat's header the switch and selector save at once; in the new-chat form they
start at the model's start level and redraw when the model changes.

Where a team is offered -- an open chat asks GET /chats/{chat}/team; a new
chat on the server needs a model that calls tools and serves two requests at
once -- the Agents fewest/most fields sit beside it. The header saves the pair
on change (the server refuses a pair outside its bounds and says them; the
fields go back); a new chat sends them only when set, else the person's
default stands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ui/app.css

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ bdi { unicode-bidi: isolate; }
 .btn--danger { color: var(--ink-inverse); background: var(--danger); border-color: var(--danger); }
 .btn--danger:hover { background: var(--danger-hover); }
 
-input[type="text"], select, textarea {
+input[type="text"], input[type="number"], select, textarea {
   min-width: 0;
   font: var(--text-sm) var(--font-ui);
   color: var(--ink);
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ input[type="text"], select, textarea {
   border: var(--border-w) solid var(--border-strong);
   border-radius: var(--radius);
 }
-input[type="text"], select { height: var(--control-h); padding: 0 var(--control-px-sm); }
+input[type="text"], input[type="number"], select { height: var(--control-h); padding: 0 var(--control-px-sm); }
 textarea { padding: var(--sp-2) var(--control-px-sm); resize: none; line-height: var(--leading-normal); }
 :focus-visible { outline: var(--outline-w) solid var(--accent); outline-offset: var(--outline-offset); }
 
@@ -452,6 +452,68 @@ label, .label { font: var(--text-sm) / var(--leading-tight) var(--font-ui); colo
 /* A model's own picture fills the same square, cut to it: the avatar's size does not depend on it. */
 .avatar--image { overflow: hidden; background: var(--surface); }
 .avatar--image img { display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; }
+/* The Thinking switch: a checkbox drawn as a switch, then its words, on two known tracks. The
+   label is the tap target; the whole of it is a control's height. */
+.toggle {
+  display: inline-grid;
+  grid-template-columns: calc(2 * var(--check-size)) auto;
+  gap: var(--sp-2);
+  align-items: center;
+  height: var(--control-h);
+  color: var(--ink);
+  font: var(--text-sm) var(--font-ui);
+  cursor: pointer;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.toggle--compact { height: var(--control-h-sm); }
+.toggle input {
+  appearance: none;
+  position: relative;
+  width: calc(2 * var(--check-size));
+  height: var(--check-size);
+  margin: 0;
+  background: var(--surface-active);
+  border: var(--border-w) solid var(--border-strong);
+  border-radius: var(--radius-full);
+  cursor: pointer;
+  transition: background var(--dur-1) var(--ease-out);
+}
+.toggle input::after {
+  content: "";
+  position: absolute;
+  top: var(--border-w);
+  left: var(--border-w);
+  width: calc(var(--check-size) - 4 * var(--border-w));
+  height: calc(var(--check-size) - 4 * var(--border-w));
+  background: var(--ink-muted);
+  border-radius: var(--radius-full);
+  transition: transform var(--dur-1) var(--ease-out);
+}
+.toggle input:checked { background: var(--accent); border-color: var(--accent); }
+.toggle input:checked::after { background: var(--accent-ink); transform: translateX(var(--check-size)); }
+/* The team's size: two number fields of one width with a dash between them, and in the header
+   its word before them -- fixed tracks, so nothing moves when a number grows a digit. */
+.agents {
+  display: inline-grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));
+  grid-template-areas: "min max";
+  gap: var(--sp-2);
+  align-items: center;
+  width: 100%;
+  height: var(--control-h);
+}
+.agents__dash { display: none; }
+.agents__input { width: 100%; min-width: 0; height: var(--control-h); padding: 0 var(--control-px-sm); }
+.agents--compact {
+  grid-template-columns: auto calc(var(--w-field-xs) / 2) auto calc(var(--w-field-xs) / 2);
+  grid-template-areas: none;
+  width: auto;
+  height: var(--control-h-sm);
+  font: var(--text-sm) var(--font-ui);
+}
+.agents--compact .agents__dash { display: inline; color: var(--ink-muted); }
+.agents--compact .agents__input { height: var(--control-h-sm); }
+.agents__label { color: var(--ink-muted); white-space: nowrap; }
 /* The model picker: a button the height of a control, avatar · name · chevron. */
 .picker {
   display: inline-grid;

ui/js/chat.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { markdown } from "./markdown.js"
 import { openViewer, showKind } from "./viewer.js"
 import { readLocal } from "./explorer.js"
 import { menu, ask } from "./popup.js"
-import { avatar, modelPicker } from "./models.js"
+import { avatar, modelPicker, effortControl, agentsControl, teamPossible, levelsOf } from "./models.js"
 import { readyIds, sending, sent, discard } from "./attach.js"
 
 const MODES = ["manual", "edit", "auto", "plan"]
@@ -544,8 +544,21 @@ async function chatModels(chat) {
   }
 }
 
-/** The chat's model, and its effort where the model offers more than one. */
+/** Whether this chat may have a team (`GET /chats/{chat}/team`): only a chat on the server. */
-function headModel(slot, chat, models) {
+async function teamOffered(chat) {
+  if (chat.kind !== "chat") return false
+  try {
+    return !!(await get(`/chats/${encodeURIComponent(chat.id)}/team`)).team?.offered
+  } catch {
+    return false
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The chat's model; how hard it thinks, drawn as the model offers it (nothing for one level, the
+ * Thinking switch, or the selector); and the team's size where a team is offered.
+ */
+async function headModel(slot, chat, models) {
   const mayPick = ctx.me()?.permissions?.["chat.model_select"] !== false
   const current = models.find((m) => m.id === chat.model) || { id: chat.model, name: chat.model, efforts: [] }
   const parts = []
@@ -572,23 +585,38 @@ function headModel(slot, chat, models) {
   } else if (chat.model) {
     parts.push(h("span", { class: "chip chip--model", title: current.id }, avatar(current), h("span", { text: current.name })))
   }
-  const efforts = current.efforts || []
+  const level = effortControl({
-  if (efforts.length > 1) {
+    model: current,
-    parts.push(
+    value: chat.effort || levelsOf(current).start,
-      h(
+    compact: true,
-        "select",
+    onChange: async (value) => {
-        {
+      try {
-          class: "head__mode",
+        const r = await patch(`/chats/${encodeURIComponent(chat.id)}`, { effort: value })
-          "aria-label": t("Reasoning effort"),
+        if (open?.chat?.id === chat.id) open.chat = r.chat
-          title: t("Reasoning effort"),
+      } catch (err) {
-          onchange: (e) => patch(`/chats/${encodeURIComponent(chat.id)}`, { effort: e.target.value }).catch((err) => alertIn(why(err))),
+        alertIn(why(err))
-        },
+        level.value = open?.chat?.effort || levelsOf(current).start
-        chat.effort ? null : h("option", { value: "", text: "—", selected: true }),
-        efforts.map((x) => h("option", { value: x, text: x, selected: chat.effort === x })),
-      ),
-    )
       }
+    },
+  })
+  if (level) parts.push(level)
   slot.replaceChildren(...parts)
+  if (!(await teamOffered(chat)) || open?.chat?.id !== chat.id || !slot.isConnected) return
+  const team = agentsControl({
+    value: open.chat.agents || chat.agents,
+    compact: true,
+    onChange: async (wanted) => {
+      try {
+        const r = await patch(`/chats/${encodeURIComponent(chat.id)}`, { agents: wanted })
+        if (open?.chat?.id === chat.id) open.chat = r.chat
+        alertIn("")
+      } catch (err) {
+        alertIn(why(err))
+        team.value = open?.chat?.agents || chat.agents
+      }
+    },
+  })
+  slot.append(team)
 }
 
 /** The chat's own menu, under its ⋯ button or a row of the sidebar: `chat` as the list has it. */
@@ -728,7 +756,7 @@ export function closeChat() {
 
 // --- A new chat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-let draft = null // { kind }
+let draft = null // { kind, level (the effort control), agents (the team's size) }
 
 /** The form a new chat starts from: `agent` (on this computer) or `chat` (on the server). */
 export function newChat(kind) {
@@ -746,19 +774,31 @@ export function newChat(kind) {
   const s = ctx.status()
   const models = ctx.models()
   const start = (models.find((m) => m.default) || models[0])?.id || ""
-  const effort = h("select", { id: "new-effort" })
+  // How hard it thinks, and the team's size: drawn for the chosen model, again when it changes.
-  const effortField = field(t("Reasoning effort"), effort, "")
+  // Each slot is a field of its own (label, control, hint), so the row lines up whichever is shown.
-  const showEfforts = (id) => {
+  const effortField = field(t("Reasoning effort"), h("span"), "")
-    const efforts = models.find((m) => m.id === id)?.efforts || []
+  const agentsField = field(t("Agents"), h("span"), t("Its own agent included. Above one, it can add members that do the work while it leads them."))
-    effort.replaceChildren(h("option", { value: "", text: "—" }), ...efforts.map((x) => h("option", { value: x, text: x })))
+  const showLevels = (id) => {
-    effortField.hidden = efforts.length < 2
+    const model = models.find((m) => m.id === id)
+    const control = effortControl({ model, value: levelsOf(model).start, id: "new-effort" })
+    const switchOnly = levelsOf(model).control === "switch"
+    effortField.children[0].textContent = switchOnly ? t("Thinking") : t("Reasoning effort")
+    effortField.children[0].htmlFor = "new-effort"
+    effortField.children[1].replaceWith(control || h("span", { id: "new-effort" }))
+    effortField.hidden = !control
+    draft.level = control
+    const team = kind === "chat" && teamPossible(model)
+    draft.agents = team ? agentsControl({ value: null, id: "new-agents" }) : null
+    agentsField.children[1].replaceWith(draft.agents || h("span", { id: "new-agents" }))
+    agentsField.children[0].htmlFor = "new-agents"
+    agentsField.hidden = !team
   }
   const modelField = field(
     t("Model"),
-    modelPicker({ id: "new-model", models, value: start, label: t("Model"), onChange: showEfforts }),
+    modelPicker({ id: "new-model", models, value: start, label: t("Model"), onChange: showLevels }),
     models.length ? "" : t("No model is available to this account."),
   )
-  showEfforts(start)
+  showLevels(start)
   if (kind === "agent") {
     const roots = s.remote?.enabled ? s.remote.roots : []
     const devices = ctx.thisDevices()
@@ -793,7 +833,7 @@ export function newChat(kind) {
       ),
     )
   } else {
-    form.append(h("div", { class: "fields" }, modelField, effortField))
+    form.append(h("div", { class: "fields" }, modelField, effortField, agentsField))
   }
   showComposer(true)
   setRunning(false)
@@ -813,8 +853,10 @@ async function createChat(text, attachments) {
   if (attachments.length) body.attachments = attachments
   const model = $("new-model")?.value
   if (model) body.model = model
-  const effort = $("new-effort")?.value
+  const effort = draft.level?.value
-  if (effort) body.effort = effort
+  if (typeof effort === "string" && effort) body.effort = effort
+  const agents = draft.agents?.value
+  if (agents && (agents.min || agents.max)) body.agents = agents
   if (draft.kind === "agent") {
     const device = ctx.thisDevices()[0]
     const dir = $("new-dir")?.value

ui/js/models.js

@@ -122,3 +122,142 @@ export function modelPicker({ id, models, value, onChange, label }) {
   draw()
   return btn
 }
+
+// --- How hard a model thinks, and how many agents a chat may have --------------------------------
+//
+// The levels are the harness spec's (3.2.0, `models/schema.json`), as /api/v2/models gives them:
+// `levels` in offering order (`off` first where the model can switch thinking off, then its
+// efforts, or the one level `default`), `effort` the start level and `control` how a chat draws
+// them -- `none` (one level: nothing to choose), `switch` (off and one effort: thinking on or
+// off) or `slider` (more: a choice of each). The chat says the level in force as its `effort`.
+
+/** A model's levels: { levels, start, control }, read the server's way when a field is missing. */
+export function levelsOf(model) {
+  const given = Array.isArray(model?.levels) && model.levels.length ? model.levels : null
+  const levels = given || (model?.efforts?.length ? model.efforts : ["default"])
+  const control =
+    ["none", "switch", "slider"].includes(model?.control) ? model.control
+    : levels.length < 2 ? "none"
+    : levels.length === 2 && levels.includes("off") ? "switch"
+    : "slider"
+  const start = levels.includes(model?.effort) ? model.effort : levels[0]
+  return { levels, start, control }
+}
+
+/** A level as the person reads it: `off` and `default` in their language, an effort as it is. */
+export function levelWord(level) {
+  return level === "off" ? t("off") : level === "default" ? t("default") : String(level)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The control for a model's levels, or null where it has one level: the Thinking switch (a real
+ * checkbox with the switch role, the label its tap target) or the selector. `value` is the level
+ * in force; `onChange(level)` when the person changes it. The element's `value` is the level.
+ */
+export function effortControl({ model, value, onChange, id, compact }) {
+  const { levels, start, control } = levelsOf(model)
+  if (control === "none") return null
+  let current = levels.includes(value) ? value : start
+  if (control === "switch") {
+    const on = levels.find((l) => l !== "off") || start
+    const box = h("input", { type: "checkbox", role: "switch", id, checked: current !== "off" })
+    const el = h(
+      "label",
+      { class: `toggle${compact ? " toggle--compact" : ""}`, title: t("Think before answering") },
+      box,
+      h("span", { class: "toggle__label", text: compact ? t("Thinking") : t("Think before answering") }),
+    )
+    if (compact) box.setAttribute("aria-label", t("Think before answering"))
+    box.addEventListener("change", () => {
+      current = box.checked ? on : "off"
+      onChange?.(current)
+    })
+    Object.defineProperty(el, "value", {
+      get: () => current,
+      set: (v) => {
+        current = v
+        box.checked = v !== "off"
+      },
+    })
+    return el
+  }
+  const el = h(
+    "select",
+    { id, class: compact ? "head__mode" : null, "aria-label": t("Reasoning effort"), title: t("Reasoning effort") },
+    levels.map((l) => h("option", { value: l, text: levelWord(l), selected: l === current })),
+  )
+  el.addEventListener("change", () => {
+    current = el.value
+    onChange?.(current)
+  })
+  return el
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether a new chat on `model` may have a team: a chat on the server (an agent chat's team runs
+ * on its device), a model that calls tools and serves two requests at once (`parallel` null is a
+ * hosted API with no stated limit). The server decides again; this only keeps the fields away
+ * where they could never apply. An open chat asks the server (`GET /chats/{chat}/team`).
+ */
+export function teamPossible(model) {
+  return !!model?.tools && (model.parallel === null || model.parallel === undefined || model.parallel >= 2)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The team's size: the fewest and the most agents, the chat's own agent included, as two number
+ * fields on one shared track. `value` is { min, max } (empty fields for a new chat: the person's
+ * default for new chats then stands); `onChange({ min, max })` once a field is changed, with the
+ * empty one left out. The server checks the pair and says the bounds when it refuses one.
+ */
+export function agentsControl({ value, onChange, id, compact }) {
+  const field = (which, v, label) =>
+    h("input", {
+      type: "number",
+      class: "agents__input",
+      id: which === "min" ? id : null,
+      min: "1",
+      step: "1",
+      inputmode: "numeric",
+      value: v === undefined || v === null ? "" : String(v),
+      placeholder: compact ? null : t("default"),
+      "aria-label": label,
+      title: label,
+    })
+  const low = field("min", value?.min, t("Fewest"))
+  const high = field("max", value?.max, t("Most"))
+  const bounds = () => {
+    high.min = low.value || "1"
+    if (high.value) low.max = high.value
+    else low.removeAttribute("max")
+  }
+  bounds()
+  const read = () => {
+    const out = {}
+    if (low.value) out.min = Number(low.value)
+    if (high.value) out.max = Number(high.value)
+    return out
+  }
+  for (const input of [low, high]) {
+    input.addEventListener("change", () => {
+      bounds()
+      onChange?.(read())
+    })
+  }
+  const el = h(
+    "span",
+    { class: `agents${compact ? " agents--compact" : ""}`, role: "group", "aria-label": t("Agents"), title: t("Its own agent included. Above one, it can add members that do the work while it leads them.") },
+    compact ? h("span", { class: "agents__label", text: t("Agents") }) : null,
+    low,
+    h("span", { class: "agents__dash", "aria-hidden": "true", text: "–" }),
+    high,
+  )
+  Object.defineProperty(el, "value", {
+    get: read,
+    set: (v) => {
+      low.value = v?.min ?? ""
+      high.value = v?.max ?? ""
+      bounds()
+    },
+  })
+  return el
+}