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Summary

Adaptive combo requests could forward parent reasoning controls to a selected target whose capability was unknown or explicitly empty, causing provider 400 invalid_request_error responses.

This change:

  • reuses the existing target capability ladder authority
  • removes reasoning and thinking controls for explicit empty ladders
  • removes them for unknown ladders in adaptive mode
  • preserves reasoning.summary
  • preserves xhigh for known reasoning-capable ladders
  • keeps target order, attempt accounting, and failover classification unchanged
  • applies the same capability guard to the OpenAI Chat passthrough path

No dependencies were added. V2 routing, provider credit handling, and failover semantics are unchanged.

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  • Focused combo / OpenAI Chat / server tests: 340 passed, 0 failed
  • Changed-suite: 18,918 passed, 36 skipped, 2 failed
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  • normalized upstream reasoning controls: none
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    • Combo requests now apply each target’s configured reasoning capabilities.
    • Explicitly empty capability ladders remove unsupported reasoning and thinking controls in all modes.
    • Adaptive mode also removes these controls for targets with unknown capabilities, while known supported effort settings are preserved.
    • Native chat passthrough removes reasoning_effort when no reasoning capabilities are configured.
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    • Updated combo, routing, transport, and provider guidance to describe per-target reasoning behavior and capability handling.

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The change normalizes reasoning controls during combo dispatch and native OpenAI Chat passthrough. Empty capability ladders remove unsupported controls. Adaptive mode also removes them for unknown ladders. Known non-empty ladders retain per-target resolution.

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Reasoning control normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Combo request normalization
src/combos/request.ts, src/server/responses/core.ts, src/types/config.ts
concreteComboRequestBody accepts reasoningEffortMode and strips unsupported controls for empty ladders or adaptive unknown ladders. responses/core.ts passes the configured mode to child request construction.
OpenAI Chat passthrough normalization
src/adapters/openai-chat.ts, structure/data-planes/inbound-compat.md, structure/providers/chat-compat.md, structure/transports/inventory.md
The passthrough builder removes reasoning_effort when the configured capability ladder is empty. The documentation describes empty and unknown ladder handling.
Behavior validation and documentation
tests/adapters/openai/openai-chat-hardening.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/combos.test.ts, tests/server/server-combo-failover-e2e.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/combos.md, structure/catalog.md, structure/config.md, structure/runtime.md, structure/transports/responses.md
Tests cover empty, unknown, and known ladders. Documentation records adaptive dispatch behavior and preserved per-target effort resolution.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ResponsesCore
  participant ComboRequest
  participant CapabilityLadder
  participant ChildAdapter
  ResponsesCore->>ComboRequest: pass reasoningEffortMode and target ladder
  ComboRequest->>CapabilityLadder: evaluate target capability
  CapabilityLadder-->>ComboRequest: empty, unknown, or known non-empty ladder
  ComboRequest->>ChildAdapter: send normalized child request
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Some native Chat requests can lose the caller's reasoning effort when the target's capabilities are unknown, changing requested behavior and requiring correction before merge.

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이 PR은 콤보가 타깃을 고른 뒤, 그 타깃이 추론 강도(reasoning effort)를 받을 수 있는지 모르는 상태이거나 아예 받지 않는다고 적혀 있을 때, 부모 요청에 붙어 있던 추론/thinking 조절값을 그대로 올려보내던 버그를 고칩니다. 지금 dev HEAD(8f1471bca, #4318 Devin/Cognition 핫픽스 위)의 콤보 경로를 보면 src/server/responses/core.tshandleComboResponsessupportedLadderFor로 타깃 사다리를 읽고 src/combos/request.tsconcreteComboRequestBody에 넘깁니다. 그런데 현재 함수는 기본 effort를 "넣을지"만 결정하고, 부모 body에 이미 있는 reasoning.effort / reasoning_effort / thinking / thinking_budget을 비어 있거나 모르는 사다리에서 빼 주지는 않습니다. 그래서 reasoningEffortMode: "adaptive"로 픽커는 비어 있는 사다리를 교집합에서 빼 주더라도, 실제 디스패치에서는 InferX 같은 모르는 타깃에 xhigh가 그대로 실려 400 invalid_request_error가 났습니다. PR 본문의 InferX / Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8 재현과 맞습니다.

고치는 축은 세 갈래입니다. (1) concreteComboRequestBodyreasoningEffortMode를 넘기고, 사다리가 명시적 빈 배열([])이면 모드와 상관없이, adaptive이면서 사다리가 undefined(모름)이면 부모의 지원되지 않는 추론/thinking 컨트롤을 stripUnsupportedReasoningControls로 제거합니다. reasoning.summary는 남깁니다. (2) core.ts 호출부가 combo.reasoningEffortMode를 실제로 전달합니다. (3) OpenAI Chat 패스스루(src/adapters/openai-chat.tsbuildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest)에서도 configuredReasoningEfforts(...)?.length === 0이면 reasoning_effort를 지웁니다. docs-site 콤보 가이드와 structure/* 여러 문서가 "메타데이터만 바꾸고 디스패치는 그대로"였던 옛 문구를 "빈/모름 사다리에서는 와이어에서도 뺀다"로 맞춰 고쳤고, 단위·e2e 테스트가 unknown/empty/known xhigh 보존을 나란히 덮습니다. 타깃 순서·시도 횟수·400 페일오버 분류는 손대지 않았다고 명시되어 있어, 지금 dev의 키풀/#4292 계열과도 충돌하지 않는 독립 버그픽스입니다.

라인 단위로 보면 설계는 대체로 맞고, 몇 군데는 메인테이너가 의도인지 한 번만 확인하면 됩니다.

src/combos/request.ts (신규 stripUnsupportedReasoningControls) - 이미 src/server/effort-policy.tsstripEmptyLadderEffort가 있고 Chat Completions 쪽이 그걸 씁니다. 이번 헬퍼는 effort뿐 아니라 reasoning_effort/thinking/thinking_budget까지 치우므로 범위가 더 넓습니다. 두 군데가 "빈 사다리면 effort 제거"를 따로 갖고 가면 나중에 한쪽만 고치는 위험이 있습니다. 지금은 콤보 전용으로 둬도 되지만, 장기적으로는 effort-policy 쪽으로 모으는 편이 안전합니다.

src/combos/request.ts (concreteComboRequestBody 초반 strip 후 defaultEffort 분기) - strip 다음에 기존 defaultEffort 주입 로직이 이어집니다. 빈 사다리([])나 adaptive+unknown(undefined)에서는 resolveEffortAtOrBelow가 실패해 다시 넣지 않으므로 동작은 맞습니다. 다만 읽는 사람 입장에서는 "방금 지운 뒤 또 넣으려다 실패한다"처럼 보여서, strip 분기가 early-return하거나 주석으로 "empty/unknown에서는 default도 주입하지 않는다"를 밝히면 유지보수가 쉽습니다.

src/adapters/openai-chat.ts (패스스루 reasoning_effort 삭제) - 명시적 빈 사다리만 막고, undefined(모름)는 그대로 통과합니다. 콤보 adaptive 경로와 비대칭입니다. 문서(structure/providers/chat-compat.md)도 그렇게 적혀 있어 의도로 보이지만, 콤보 밖 단일 라우트에서 능력표를 아직 못 채운 모델에 reasoning_effort가 실리면 같은 400이 남을 수 있습니다. 패스스루에 thinking 계열 필드는 whitelist에 없어서 이번 한 줄로 충분한지도 확인 포인트입니다.

tests/codex-integration/combos.test.ts (기존 "client-owned ignored reasoning values" 기대값 변경) - 빈 사다리에서 effort: "" / "banana" / null을 예전에는 그대로 두었고, 이제는 strip 후 reasoning 자체가 사라집니다. 버그픽스 방향과 맞지만, "클라이언트가 보낸 이상한 effort는 손대지 않는다"는 이전 계약이 빈 사다리에서 깨집니다. 회귀 의도로 테스트 이름도 바뀌었으니 OK에 가깝고, 리뷰어만 인지하면 됩니다.

structure/config.md (Routing 그룹에 combos 추가) - 설정 그룹 표에 combos를 routing으로 넣는 문서 변경입니다. 코드 버그픽스와 직접 묶일 필요는 없지만, 콤보가 카탈로그/라우팅 중 어디에 속하는지 정리하는 취지로 보이며 해롭지는 않습니다.

src/server/responses/collaboration.ts / encrypted-payload.ts / compact.ts - 이 파일들은 concreteComboRequestBody를 import만 하고 호출하지 않습니다(기존부터). 실제 호출은 core.ts 한곳이라 이번 시그니처 추가가 빠진 호출 사이트는 없습니다. PR이 만든 구멍은 아닙니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • adaptive에서만 unknown을 strip할지, strict에서도 unknown 부모 컨트롤을 막을지(지금은 strict+unknown은 그대로 전달)
  • stripUnsupportedReasoningControls를 effort-policy의 stripEmptyLadderEffort와 한곳으로 합칠지, 콤보 전용으로 둘지
  • Chat 패스스루도 adaptive/unknown까지 같은 정책으로 맞출지, 빈 사다리만으로 충분한지
  • 관련 이슈 번호가 PR에 안 붙어 있음 — 트래킹용 이슈를 새로 열거나 closes를 달지

너의 추천
병합 방향이 맞습니다. 테스트·문서·핵심 경로(core.tsconcreteComboRequestBody)가 한 줄로 이어지고, 키풀/#4292·#4318과도 겹치지 않습니다. 머지 전에 (1) strip 헬퍼를 effort-policy로 옮길지 한 줄 코멘트만 남기거나 이 PR에 짧게 합치고, (2) Chat 패스스루는 빈 사다리만 막는 비대칭을 의도라고 PR에 한 문장 더 박아 두면 충분합니다. CI만 초록이면 dev에 넣어도 됩니다. types/config 대분할에 무효화되는 종류가 아닙니다.

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Source review at 27cd611 against base 8f1471b: the helper preserves summary/non-effort fields, explicit empty ladders suppress effort/thinking controls, and unknown ladders are suppressed only for adaptive combos. The dispatch caller supplies the resolved target ladder. I agree with keeping unknown direct-Chat behavior unchanged; widening this to all unknown single-provider requests would be a separate policy change, not a required cleanup.

The added wire fixture checks unknown/empty omission and known xhigh preservation, and the cloning tests preserve the original input. Please also pin the explicit strict+unknown compatibility control so future refactoring cannot silently extend the adaptive policy.

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@Ingwannu Added an explicit regression test for strict + unknown target capability compatibility. It asserts that the existing reasoning/thinking controls are preserved in strict mode, paired with the existing adaptive + unknown suppression test. No runtime or adaptive behavior changed.

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130-133: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve unknown reasoning ladders in native Chat requests. configuredReasoningEfforts() sanitizes ["enabled"] to [], but supportedLadderFor() defines a non-empty raw ladder with no rankable tiers as undefined (unknown). This reachable passthrough path then deletes the caller's reasoning_effort at src/adapters/openai-chat.ts:133. Delete the field only for noReasoningModels or a selected raw ladder that is explicitly []; preserve it when the selected raw ladder is non-empty but non-rankable.

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In `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts` around lines 130 - 133, Update the
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Fixed in 0b8e86eda.

The native Chat passthrough now reads the existing raw capability ladder before deciding whether to remove reasoning_effort. It removes the control only for noReasoningModels and an explicit raw []; non-empty non-rankable ladders such as ["enabled"] remain unknown and preserve caller-provided reasoning_effort. Unset and known ladders retain their existing behavior. Added regression coverage for all five cases; combo policy, fallback, V2, and provider handling are unchanged.

lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2026
Carry #4319 with native raw-ladder distinction and regression coverage.

Co-authored-by: Keito Itagaki <171206780+ke-1t@users.noreply.github.com>
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Carry #4319 with native raw-ladder distinction and regression coverage.

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