Allow configurable reasoning efforts for Review Mode
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Dec 8, 2025 by voctory Closed Jan 31, 2026
What feature would you like to see?
The reasoning effort for the /review command was hardcoded to Low in this PR: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/3701
From the PR alone, it's not clear why the review mode reasoning effort was set to Low. Proposing to allow a user-configurable reasoning effort, either by:
- Inheriting the current reasoning effort from the thread's
config.modelincodex-rs/core/src/codex.rs - Creating a user preference for review mode reasoning effort in
config.toml - (if it's preferred to not allow configurability): At minimum, consider bumping the reasoning effort to Medium for more dynamic reasoning
From a local POC, it seems like approach 1 works well and creates much more comprehensive reviews than before (gpt-5.1-codex-max, xhigh effort inherited)
I'd be happy to raise a PR for this, seeking alignment first.
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