Follow-up to the #103857 salvage. The Copilot provider profile and the
main-agent GitHub reasoning path each carried the same clamp-then-medium
fallback. Both now call hermes_cli.models.clamp_github_reasoning_effort.
The offline Astra tests move next to the other Copilot effort tests, along
with a check that a structured catalog entry still wins. The main-agent
clamp now has a test pinning max/ultra -> high on the GPT-5 ladder. The
transport test no longer writes config.yaml. The two effort comments now
say the same thing.
An unset agent.reasoning_effort already resolves to medium on the Nous Portal,
OpenRouter, AI Gateway and Copilot routes (each profile fills it in
build_api_kwargs_extras). The custom / OpenAI-compatible profile — every
`providers.<name>` block and `--provider custom` — omitted the field instead,
so the endpoint's own default applied; for moonshotai/kimi-k3 that is `max`:
3x the reasoning tokens and ~3x the latency of medium, measured live.
The default is resolved at request time in _reasoning_config_for_wire via
ProviderProfile.default_reasoning_config (the custom profile answers medium),
so it is recorded as what actually went out and the reasoning-rejection
ladder keeps working: a 400 on the field turns the rest of the session back
to "omit". It never touches an explicit effort (low stays low, none stays
none), stays off non chat-completions transports (the Anthropic adapter's
unset = no thinking kwargs stands), off models the catalog or model_overrides
mark supports_reasoning: false, and off local Ollama models pulled without
the thinking capability. Auxiliary calls are untouched: they hand the profile
reasoning_config=None directly, which still omits the field.
Live wire capture (token-injecting proxy, providers.probe -> kimi-k3):
before req_reasoning: {}
after req_reasoning: {'reasoning_effort': 'medium'}
agent.reasoning_effort: low -> {'reasoning_effort': 'low'} (unchanged)
`_chat_summary_attempt` now builds through `_build_api_kwargs`, leaving
`_iteration_summary_chat_kwargs` (56 lines mirroring the transport by hand)
and its only consumer `AIAgent._resolve_lmstudio_summary_reasoning_effort`
without a caller. The transport already owns every quirk they re-derived
(fixed temperature, LM Studio `reasoning_effort`, portal tags, provider
preferences, pareto router plugin), so there is nothing to keep in sync.
For each issue anchor present in BASE 63279301bc non-test .py and absent on HEAD, the BASE comment/docstring block was re-attached at the HEAD location of the code it explained (matched by the distinctive code line / enclosing def). Sentences already covered by an existing HEAD comment were deduped; the issue number always survives. Insert-only: no code lines changed.
