[codex] Add Ultra reasoning effort (#29899)

## Why

Ultra should be one user-facing reasoning selection for work that
benefits from both maximum reasoning and proactive multi-agent
delegation. Without it, clients must coordinate maximum reasoning with
the experimental `multiAgentMode` setting, even though the inference
backend still expects its existing `max` effort value.

This change makes reasoning effort the source of truth: clients select
`ultra`, core derives proactive multi-agent behavior when the turn is
eligible for multi-agent V2, and inference requests continue to use the
backend-compatible `max` value.

## What changed

- Add `ultra` as a first-class reasoning effort and preserve
model-catalog ordering when exposing it to clients.
- Convert `ultra` to `max` at the inference request boundary, including
Responses HTTP/WebSocket requests, startup prewarm, compaction, and
memory summarization.
- Derive effective multi-agent mode per turn from effective reasoning
effort:
  - eligible multi-agent V2 + `ultra` → `proactive`
  - eligible multi-agent V2 + any other effort → `explicitRequestOnly`
- V1 or otherwise ineligible sessions → no multi-agent mode instruction
- Keep the derived effective mode in turn context history so successive
turns can emit a developer-message update only when the effective mode
changes.
- Remove selected multi-agent mode from core session configuration, turn
construction, thread settings, resume/fork restoration, and subagent
spawn plumbing. Subagents inherit reasoning effort and derive their own
effective mode.
- Retain the experimental app-server `multiAgentMode` fields for wire
compatibility while marking them deprecated. Request values are accepted
but ignored; compatibility response fields report `explicitRequestOnly`.
- Display Ultra in the TUI using the order supplied by `model/list`.

## Validation

- `just test -p codex-core ultra_reasoning_uses_max_for_requests`
- `just test -p codex-tui model_reasoning_selection_popup`
This commit is contained in:
Shijie Rao
2026-06-24 20:13:52 -07:00
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@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use codex_otel::SessionTelemetry;
use codex_protocol::ThreadId;
use codex_protocol::config_types::ApprovalsReviewer;
use codex_protocol::config_types::CollaborationMode;
use codex_protocol::config_types::MultiAgentMode;
use codex_protocol::config_types::Personality;
use codex_protocol::config_types::ReasoningSummary;
use codex_protocol::config_types::WindowsSandboxLevel;
@@ -72,7 +71,6 @@ pub struct ThreadConfigSnapshot {
pub reasoning_summary: Option<ReasoningSummary>,
pub personality: Option<Personality>,
pub collaboration_mode: CollaborationMode,
pub multi_agent_mode: MultiAgentMode,
pub session_source: SessionSource,
pub forked_from_thread_id: Option<ThreadId>,
pub parent_thread_id: Option<ThreadId>,
@@ -154,7 +152,6 @@ pub struct CodexThreadSettingsOverrides {
pub summary: Option<ReasoningSummary>,
pub service_tier: Option<Option<String>>,
pub collaboration_mode: Option<CollaborationMode>,
pub multi_agent_mode: Option<MultiAgentMode>,
pub personality: Option<Personality>,
}
@@ -375,7 +372,6 @@ impl CodexThread {
summary,
service_tier,
collaboration_mode,
multi_agent_mode,
personality,
} = overrides;
let collaboration_mode = if let Some(collaboration_mode) = collaboration_mode {
@@ -399,7 +395,6 @@ impl CodexThread {
active_permission_profile,
windows_sandbox_level,
collaboration_mode: Some(collaboration_mode),
multi_agent_mode,
reasoning_summary: summary,
service_tier,
personality,