ocx sync re-prints 'Removed unsupported reasoning efforts' + doctor hint on every sync, even when nothing changed #7004

Client or integration

Other

Area

CLI

Summary

ocx sync prints [opencodex] Removed unsupported reasoning efforts: minimal followed by [opencodex] Run ocx doctor for diagnosis and recovery. on every sync, including consecutive syncs where nothing changed. The clamp itself works correctly and is persisted in ~/.opencodex/codex-runtime-clamp.json, but the file is rewritten and the notice re-printed each run.

Expected: print the removal notice once (on first clamp, or only when the clamp set changes between syncs). Also, the ocx doctor suggestion is misleading in this context — doctor diagnoses environment/network issues (paths, proxy env, ChatGPT reachability) and has no clamp-related diagnostics or recovery, so the hint sends users down a dead end.

Reproduction

1. Use a catalog that includes a model advertising the minimal reasoning effort (observed with hub/cursor-muse-spark-1.3; the codex CLI runtime supports low/medium/high/xhigh/max only).
2. Run ocx sync → notice printed, clamp file written.
3. Immediately run ocx sync again with no catalog/runtime change → the same two lines print again and codex-runtime-clamp.json is rewritten with a fresh updatedAt.

Observed consistently across 5 machines (3 × macOS arm64, 2 × Linux VPS) on opencodex 2.80.0 → 2.83.0 with codex CLI 0.161.0/0.162.1. A hub-side instance has recorded the same clamp shape since the 2.64 era for a different model (cursor/gemini-3.6-flash), so the mechanism predates 2.80; the per-sync repetition is what makes it noisy.

Version

2.83.0

Operating system

macOS 27 (arm64); also reproduced on Ubuntu Linux VPS

Provider and model

n/a — any catalog model advertising the minimal reasoning effort (e.g. hub/cursor-muse-spark-1.3)

Logs or error output

$ ocx sync
[opencodex] Removed unsupported reasoning efforts: minimal
[opencodex] Run ocx doctor for diagnosis and recovery.
   + 94 models appended to Codex catalog (/home/ops/.codex/opencodex-catalog.json)
Codex integration is OFF; catalog and models cache refreshed, Codex config untouched.

~/.opencodex/codex-runtime-clamp.json after each sync (identical content except updatedAt):

{
  "version": 1,
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T14:59:00.000Z",
  "runtimePath": "/home/ops/.local/bin/codex",
  "runtimeVersion": null,
  "removedEfforts": ["minimal"],
  "affectedModels": ["hub/cursor-muse-spark-1.3"]
}

Screenshots and supporting files

n/a

Redacted configuration

n/a — standard chained client (hub provider), no special configuration

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