The hardcoded Codex catalog advertised `ultra` for gpt-5.6-sol and
gpt-5.6-terra, so selecting it sent `reasoning.effort = "ultra"` and the
Responses endpoint answered 400 with its real menu, which ends at `max`.
The tier was kigi's invention: the enum documented it as codex-only, the
catalog was its only producer, and the upstream model snapshot never
listed it. Removing the variant as well as the catalog entries means
`/effort ultra` is rejected at the TUI instead of parsing and failing on
the wire; a persisted `ultra` degrades to the model default through
`lenient_reasoning_effort_opt`, as designed for vocabulary changes.
29th platform `openai-codex` (uses_oauth, Responses wire). PKCE-localhost login at
auth.openai.com (client app_EMoamEEZ73f0CkXaXp7hrann, redirect localhost:1455/auth/
callback, form token exchange, fresh-random state) reusing the claude-pro-max flow;
OAuthFlow::PkceLocalhost gained a redirect_path and OAuthConfig an authorize_extra
(empty elsewhere, so claude/xai/copilot authorize URLs stay byte-identical).
Codex-specific: the access token is a JWT carrying chatgpt_account_id, which becomes
the `chatgpt-account-id` inference header. It is derived STATELESSLY from whichever
bearer rides each request (so a rotated token needs no persisted field), and BOTH
login and refresh fail fast when the claim is absent — gated on the explicit
OAuthConfig.requires_chatgpt_account_id fact, never inferred from the token-body
encoding (a plain form endpoint is the OAuth norm and must not inherit this).
Inference rides the existing Responses wire at chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex →
/responses, with codex headers (chatgpt-account-id, originator, OpenAI-Beta
responses=experimental, codex UA) gated on SamplerConfig.openai_codex so API-key
`openai` stays byte-identical; store:false was already the global Responses default.
Catalog is HARDCODED (no live endpoint exists for this backend; read from the
official Codex CLI's model cache): gpt-5.6-sol/terra/luna + gpt-5.5, ctx 272000,
each with its real reasoning levels (low..ultra — ReasoningEffort gained Ultra).
Excluded: gpt-5.3-codex-spark (supported_in_api=false), gpt-5.4/-mini and
codex-auto-review (hidden) — they would list but fail at inference. The fetch
short-circuits before any HTTP; Kigi never shells out to the codex CLI or reads
~/.codex.
Security review fixes: redact any `account-id` header from request logs (it was
reaching debug logs), strict 3-segment JWT check (fail closed), refresh no longer
fails open on a missing claim. Inherits leak-safe pooled routing (scope
oauth/openai-codex) — never the Kimi token. Full gate green (234 suites, 0 warnings).
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.
ZacharyZhang-NY