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Ability to set reasoning effort for automations #12239
Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
I would like to be able to set the reasoning effort for automations. Today it defaults to medium. Some automations I want to set to low, others to extra high. As an example of an extra high automation I want to run is an ongoing research project that I would like an agent to follow up on on a daily basis. The performance of Codex App at 'Medium' has been underwhelming for this purpose.
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wbdb commentedon Feb 19, 2026
config.toml:
or:
codex exec --skip-git-repo-check -m 'gpt-5.2-codex' -c 'model_reasoning_effort=high' 'Something todo'https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli/reference/
iandanforth commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Thanks @wbdb for your suggestion. This feature request is specifically for the App. Perhaps I should specify that my request would be for this reasoning effort selector to appear in the Automations creation / editing views of the app.
tyrelh commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Yes please. I'm also interested in this feature in the app.
quang-flexos commentedon Mar 12, 2026
I would love to set different model / reasoning effort for each automation task please 🙏
etraut-openai commentedon May 16, 2026
This feature was added a while ago.