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feat(web): color raised reasoning effort in the composer - #28425
When you switch between threads, it's easy to leave one on a higher reasoning level than the task needs. The composer shows effort as grey bars or a grey word, which is easy to miss at a glance.
This colors the effort control by cost:
Low and Medium stay uncolored, so normal levels don't draw the eye.
High is amber, Extra High is red, Max is purple with ✦, and Ultra, Ultracode and Ultrathink are fuchsia with ✦✦.
In bars mode, Max and the Ultra levels are now drawn as full bars plus sparkles instead of switching to a word. Hovering or keyboard-focusing the model picker shows the level name.
The color belongs to the level, not to your default. A default of High still shows amber, because that's the cost you're paying. Amber, red and purple avoid the red/green pair, and the bar height and sparkles carry the level without color.
Composer only. Mobile and the subagent bar show effort differently and could follow later.
Before / after
Captured in the dev app (Codex, GPT-6-Astra): each level selected in the real composer, then the triggers collected side by side.
Light
Dark
Hovering or keyboard-focusing the model picker names the level:
Light
Dark
Discussion and alternative colorings: #28432. Related request for Codex Desktop: openai/codex#28558.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This updates composer effort indicators with colors and sparkles for raised reasoning levels. It changes presentation without changing selected effort, product defaults, or model execution.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerModelEffort.tsx:
- Line 160: Update the TooltipTrigger in bars mode to target the focusable
model-picker button so its level tooltip opens on keyboard focus, while
preserving the picker’s accessible name.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/EffortGlyph.tsx:
- Line 38: Update the guard in EffortGlyph so an oversized scale prevents bar
rendering without returning null before the cost tone is resolved. Preserve the
cost color for valid descriptors with more than MAX_BARS options, including in
label mode.
- Around line 38-50: Update resolveEffortGlyph so descriptors with no bar
levels, including named-only descriptors and off-plus-ultra descriptors, retain
a one-bar scale and reach the named-level branch. Remove the empty-level early
return, safely handle the absent first level when checking for an off level, and
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Effort glyph resolution now returns tone and sparkle data for named and ordinary levels. The composer uses this data to render effort levels. Tests cover the updated glyph results.
Changes: Effort display
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Effort glyph data and sparkle rendering apps/web/src/components/chat/EffortGlyph.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/EffortGlyph.test.ts
resolveEffortGlyph returns tone and sparkle fields. EffortSparkles renders sparkle icons. Tests cover named levels, sparkle counts, and tones.
The composer shows the effort label in label mode. In glyph mode, it renders bars with a tooltip naming the effort level. Sparkles appear in either mode.
pingdotgg/t3code#28409 — Changes reasoning-option classification and resolveEffortGlyph in the same composer display path.
pingdotgg/t3code#27186 — Changes reasoning bars and thinking states in resolveEffortGlyph and ComposerModelEffort.
pingdotgg/t3code#25869 — Introduces EffortGlyph, resolveEffortGlyph, and the composer effort display setting extended by this PR.
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Unusual custom scales may display incomplete effort indicators, and keyboard users must open the picker to see the level. The change is mergeable with these limitations understood.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerModelEffort.tsx:
- Line 107: Update the composer trigger in ComposerModelEffort so bars mode
exposes the selected level name in a tooltip, including Max and workflow levels,
even when isComposerOwned suppresses the picker tooltip. Keep detail as the
accessible name and preserve the existing display behavior.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/EffortGlyph.tsx:
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levels such as Ultra instead of filtering them out; preserve the glyph for Ultra
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Scope glyph.tone to the effort group.
111-145: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Scope glyph.tone to the effort group.
When a colored effort is selected, the outer suffix applies glyph.tone to the Fast/Ultrafast bolt and secondary trait labels. These unrelated elements therefore inherit the effort color. Keep the tone on the effort label or bars and EffortSparkles only.
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In ComposerModelEffort, remove glyph.tone from the outer suffix span so the
FastBolt and secondary trait labels do not inherit the effort color. Apply the
tone to the inner effort group containing the effort label or EffortGlyph and
EffortSparkles, keeping the surrounding suffix styling unchanged.
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Fixed in 261aabd. The colour now sits on the inner group holding the word or bars and the sparkles. The Fast bolt and trait labels keep the muted styling.
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feat(web): colour raised reasoning effort in the composer
feat(web): color raised reasoning effort in the composer
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/ComposerModelEffort.tsx:
- Line 160: Update the TooltipTrigger in bars mode to target the focusable
model-picker button so its level tooltip opens on keyboard focus, while
preserving the picker’s accessible name.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/EffortGlyph.tsx:
- Line 38: Update the guard in EffortGlyph so an oversized scale prevents bar
rendering without returning null before the cost tone is resolved. Preserve the
cost color for valid descriptors with more than MAX_BARS options, including in
label mode.
- Around line 38-50: Update resolveEffortGlyph so descriptors with no bar
levels, including named-only descriptors and off-plus-ultra descriptors, retain
a one-bar scale and reach the named-level branch. Remove the empty-level early
return, safely handle the absent first level when checking for an off level, and
ensure the computed count is at least one.
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Closing because the effort colors and sparkles add visual noise to the composer. We want to keep the effort control visually simple.
I'm going to push back here as I understand this concern keep it calm, but I actually want this specific thing to be noisy. It's useful to tell me that I'm costing myself tokens, leading to using a subscription faster than anticipated. This is due to threads triggered by other threads with the wrong reasoning level, end of limit period token tokenmaxxing to use up limits, or defaults incorrectly applied. Either way, that cost should be visible in some way. Perhaps a setting would be worth it for those that don't care about this generally and just leave it off by default.
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When you switch between threads, it's easy to leave one on a higher reasoning level than the task needs. The composer shows effort as grey bars or a grey word, which is easy to miss at a glance.
This colors the effort control by cost:
The color belongs to the level, not to your default. A default of High still shows amber, because that's the cost you're paying. Amber, red and purple avoid the red/green pair, and the bar height and sparkles carry the level without color.
Composer only. Mobile and the subagent bar show effort differently and could follow later.
Before / after
Captured in the dev app (Codex, GPT-6-Astra): each level selected in the real composer, then the triggers collected side by side.
Hovering or keyboard-focusing the model picker names the level:
Discussion and alternative colorings: #28432. Related request for Codex Desktop: openai/codex#28558.
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