Can't set reasoning effort minimal for gpt-5
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 12, 2025 by pedrosarkis Closed Aug 14, 2025
What version of Codex is running?
0.21.0
Which model were you using?
gpt-5
What platform is your computer?
ubuntu 23
What steps can reproduce the bug?
edit gedit \~/.codex/config.toml, set the model to gpt-5 and reasoning effort to minimal. restart the terminal, open codex and send a message
What is the expected behavior?
the expected behavior was for it to work normally, but it throws an error when opening, saying that minimal is not a valid configuration
What do you see instead?
i see an error saying that minimal is not a valid configuration for reasoning effort
Additional information
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