ZacharyZhang-NY
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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.
kigi-tui
Terminal UI (TUI) for Kigi. Provides the interactive full-screen interface including the scrollback view, prompt input, session management, and all modal dialogs.
Architecture
src/
├── app/ # Application state and event handling
│ ├── app_view.rs # Top-level state (welcome screen, agents, config)
│ ├── agent_view/ # Per-session agent view (struct in mod.rs + per-domain impl modules)
│ ├── dispatch/ # Action → Effect dispatcher (router + per-domain modules)
│ ├── effects.rs # Async side effects (ACP calls, file I/O)
│ └── event_loop.rs # Main event loop (input, ticks, ACP messages)
├── views/ # UI components
│ ├── prompt_widget.rs # Text editor with file search, slash, history
│ ├── welcome/ # Welcome screen (logo, menu, prompt)
│ ├── extensions_modal.rs # Extensions modal (hooks, plugins, marketplace, skills, MCP servers)
│ ├── file_search/ # @-completion dropdown and line viewer
│ ├── slash_dropdown.rs# /command completion dropdown
│ └── ... # Scrollback, status bar, panes, etc.
├── scrollback/ # Message history rendering
├── slash/ # Slash command registry and built-in commands
├── appearance/ # Theme and pager.toml config
├── acp/ # Agent Communication Protocol client state
└── render/ # Low-level rendering helpers (color, wrapping, etc.)
Key Concepts
- AppView — owns the welcome screen, agent sessions, and global config
- AgentView — one per session; owns the prompt, scrollback, tool panes, and modals
- PromptWidget — text editor component with file search (
@), slash commands (/), history search, and paste elements - Action/Effect — Elm-style architecture: input → Action → dispatch → Effect → state update
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Key | Context | Action |
|---|---|---|
Ctrl+P or ? |
Agent screen | Open command palette |
Ctrl+L |
Any (non–VS Code family) | Open plugins/hooks modal; on VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf / Zed use /plugins or /hooks (Ctrl+L is mid-turn interject) |
Tab |
Prompt | Switch to scrollback |
Esc |
Turn running | No-op (does not cancel; use Ctrl+C) |
Esc Esc |
Idle, non-empty prompt | Clear prompt (within 800ms; first press shows hint) |
Esc Esc |
Idle, empty prompt + messages | Open rewind picker (silent first press) |
Ctrl+M |
Prompt | Toggle multiline mode |
Shift+Enter |
Prompt | Insert newline |
/ |
Prompt | Start slash command |
@ |
Prompt | Start file search |
! |
Prompt (empty) | Enter bash mode |
Ctrl+C |
Prompt (with text) | Clear prompt (even while turn running) |
Ctrl+C |
Prompt (empty) + turn running | Cancel running turn |
Docs
- Terminal Support & Troubleshooting — tmux/SSH truecolor, clipboard, mouse, diagnostics, /terminal-setup
- Hooks & Plugins Guide — managing hooks, plugins, and marketplace sources
- Custom Hooks Guide — creating, configuring, and writing your own hooks
- Hook Examples — sample hooks for common workflows
- Hooks Crate (
kigi-hooks) — hook runtime, event types, and execution engine - Plugin Marketplace Crate (
kigi-plugin-marketplace) — marketplace source loading, scanning, and install