Split canonical ReasoningEffort::Max out of Xhigh (providers P0c-1)

OpenAI (Responses) and Anthropic (Messages) treat xhigh and max as
DISTINCT effort levels in 2026, and the Kimi K3 wire's top tier is max —
the old parse alias (max→Xhigh) conflated them. Canonical Max now exists:
parse/as_str/serde split, Messages mapping sends xhigh and max as their
own tokens (was Xhigh→"max"), and the K3 menu token max carries
canonical Max end to end.

Kimi wire is byte-identical in all four flows (menu pick, restored
legacy xhigh session, --reasoning-effort flag, /effort command) —
adversarially traced and pinned: kimi_compat's string-level xhigh→max
rename covers legacy tokens, max passes through verbatim.

From the review:
- Rollback safety: persisted reasoning_effort (session summaries, chat
  history) deserializes leniently — unknown future tokens degrade to
  None with a warning instead of hiding sessions or failing resume.
- Restore migration: a pre-split xhigh override onto a model whose menu
  offers max but not xhigh (K3) migrates once, healing display/active-row
  drift and re-persisting the live vocabulary.
- /effort max now rejects (with the offered list) on models whose menu
  lacks a max row instead of silently applying xhigh; deliberate, tested.
- The interim Responses-backend Max→xhigh downgrade (async-openai has no
  Max variant through 0.41) warns loudly; real max wiring lands with the
  OpenAI provider cycle via post-serialize body patch.
- Two rusted ignored-e2e wire pins asserted the pre-adapt reasoning_effort
  key (deleted by the body adapter since ea0ce9d); they now pin the real
  thinking.effort=max shape.
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2026-07-21 02:36:37 -04:00
parent c5ddaec71e
commit 83e6935189
13 changed files with 276 additions and 37 deletions
@@ -1401,15 +1401,17 @@ async fn headless_reasoning_efforts_payload_parses_and_legacy_effort_rides_wire(
assert_headless_success(&result, "kigi -p reasoning_efforts list", Some(&server));
assert_no_crashes(&result.stderr);
// The legacy effort scalar rides the chat-completions request unchanged.
// The chat-completions body is always adapted before send: the effort
// scalar becomes Kimi's `thinking` field, with canonical `xhigh`
// spelled `max` on the wire (kimi_compat rename).
let effort_on_wire = server.requests().iter().any(|r| {
r.body.as_ref().is_some_and(|body| {
body.pointer("/reasoning_effort").and_then(|v| v.as_str()) == Some("xhigh")
body.pointer("/thinking/effort").and_then(|v| v.as_str()) == Some("max")
})
});
assert!(
effort_on_wire,
"legacy reasoning_effort=xhigh must reach the wire\n{}",
"legacy reasoning_effort=xhigh must reach the wire as thinking.effort=max\n{}",
server.request_log_summary()
);
}