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Astra reasoning level frequently reset to Medium #44668
Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.903.71938
What subscription do you have?
x20
What platform is your computer?
Mac
What issue are you seeing?
In about 5% of my turns, the reasoning level is reset to Medium from X-High.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Not sure why this happens.
What is the expected behavior?
No response
Additional information
No response
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github-actions commentedon Sep 10, 2026
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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digitdash commentedon Sep 10, 2026
Tbh, medium seems to offer nearly the same results as higher efforts and costs around half the usage as extra high, check codexradar.com for details. It will be slower to complete the task compared to extra high, but from my personal experience the usage cost ends up being noticeably less for nearly the same end result. If you can deal with a little longer dev time, id consider using medium for most high level tasks. But yeah, I agree with you it shouldn't just change on its own.
reverofevil commentedon Sep 11, 2026
This is a deal breaker. Constant unexpected switching to medium starts writing low-quality code that ruins all the efforts. There isn't even a time to commit the code so that it can be rolled back.
It wasn't a problem with Astra before, this seems to be specifically turned on to reduce the number of people using xhigh reasoning, so that the load on servers is reduced.
Making the product unusable for users is not a viable way to fix the server load issue.