Use MCP with "minimal" reasoning effort config results unknown variant `minimal`
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 21, 2025 by fix777 Closed Oct 28, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.23.0
Which model were you using?
gpt-5
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 23.2.0 x86_64 i386
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Call mcp__codex__codex tool with parameters:
"model_reasoning_effort":"minimal"
This is the MCP tool call log:
⏺ codex - codex (MCP)(prompt: "Quick overview of the button component structure", sandbox:
"read-only", approval-policy: "never", config: {"model_reasoning_effort":"minimal"},
cwd: "***")
⎿ Error: Failed to load Codex configuration from overrides: unknown variant `minimal`, expected one of
`low`, `medium`, `high`, `none` in `model_reasoning_effort`
What is the expected behavior?
MCP tool call succeed with minimal resoning effort
What do you see instead?
Error occured:
Error: Failed to load Codex configuration from overrides: unknown variant `minimal`, expected one of `low`, `medium`, `high`, `none` in `model_reasoning_effort`
Additional information
_No response_
3 Comments
I suspect this issue is no longer relevant. I'm going to close it, but if you are still seeing this issue with the latest version, let us know and I'll reopen.
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Yes it is still exsit. idk if it is my Codex version or something else
But the Codex App works perfect.
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