hermes-agent/tests/tui_gateway/test_reasoning_session_scope.py
Brooklyn Nicholson 5a6720b884 fix(desktop,tui-gateway,zai): stop thinking-off from reverting to medium
A Z.ai desktop user reported thinking reverting to medium after one turn,
burning ~200% of a week's credits in 4 days despite reasoning_effort: false
in config.yaml. Four compounding bugs:

- _session_info reported reasoning_effort "" for disabled reasoning,
  indistinguishable from unset — the desktop adopted it after the first
  turn, wiping its sticky "thinking off" pick so every later chat
  reverted to the default effort.
- config.set key=reasoning always wrote agent.reasoning_effort to global
  config.yaml, so every desktop model-menu selection (preset.effort ??
  'medium') clobbered the user's configured value. Now session-scoped
  like the messaging gateway's /reasoning, landing on
  create_reasoning_override so lazily-built sessions keep it too.
- YAML `reasoning_effort: false`/`off`/`no` (boolean False) was coerced
  to "" by every loader's `str(x or "")`, silently re-enabling thinking.
  parse_reasoning_effort now treats False/"false"/"disabled" as
  {"enabled": False}; loaders (tui gateway, gateway, cli, cron,
  delegate) pass the raw value through. The desktop config reader also
  crashed on the boolean (false.trim()), aborting voice/STT settings.
- The zai provider profile never sent thinking on the wire, and GLM-4.5+
  defaults to thinking ON server-side — so disabling reasoning was a
  silent no-op on direct Z.ai, the actual token burner. The profile now
  emits extra_body.thinking {"type": "enabled"|"disabled"} for
  thinking-capable GLM models, mirroring the DeepSeek profile.

Also: /new (session reset) now carries reasoning_config across the
rebuild like model_override; config.get reasoning prefers the session's
live value and maps a config False to "none"; Settings shows "Off"
instead of a blank select for hand-written false.
2026-07-02 15:23:47 -05:00

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"""Reasoning-effort session scoping in the TUI gateway (desktop backend).
Covers the "desktop reverts thinking to medium after one turn" report:
1. ``_session_info`` must report ``reasoning_effort: "none"`` when reasoning
is disabled — reporting ``""`` (indistinguishable from "unset") made the
desktop adopt the empty value after the first turn, wiping its sticky
"thinking off" pick so every later chat reverted to the default effort.
2. ``config.set key=reasoning`` with a live session must be session-scoped:
it must NOT rewrite the global ``agent.reasoning_effort`` in config.yaml
(the desktop model menu applies a per-model preset on every selection,
which was silently clobbering the user's configured value), and it must
land on ``create_reasoning_override`` so lazily-built sessions (agent not
constructed until the first prompt) don't drop the change.
3. ``_load_reasoning_config`` must honor a YAML boolean False
(``reasoning_effort: false`` / ``off`` / ``no``) as thinking-disabled.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from types import SimpleNamespace
from unittest.mock import patch
import tui_gateway.server as server
from tui_gateway.server import _session_info
def _agent(reasoning_config):
return SimpleNamespace(
reasoning_config=reasoning_config,
service_tier=None,
model="glm-5",
provider="zai",
session_id="sess-key",
)
class TestSessionInfoReasoningEffort:
"""Disabled reasoning must be reported as 'none', never ''."""
def test_disabled_reports_none(self) -> None:
info = _session_info(_agent({"enabled": False}))
assert info["reasoning_effort"] == "none"
def test_enabled_reports_effort(self) -> None:
info = _session_info(_agent({"enabled": True, "effort": "high"}))
assert info["reasoning_effort"] == "high"
def test_unset_reports_empty(self) -> None:
info = _session_info(_agent(None))
assert info["reasoning_effort"] == ""
class TestConfigSetReasoningSessionScope:
"""Session-targeted reasoning changes must not touch global config."""
def _dispatch(self, params: dict) -> dict:
handler = server._methods["config.set"]
return handler("rid-1", params)
def test_session_scoped_set_skips_global_write(self) -> None:
agent = _agent(None)
session = {"session_key": "k1", "agent": agent}
with patch.dict(server._sessions, {"s1": session}, clear=False), \
patch.object(server, "_write_config_key") as write_key, \
patch.object(server, "_persist_live_session_runtime"), \
patch.object(server, "_emit"):
resp = self._dispatch(
{"key": "reasoning", "session_id": "s1", "value": "none"}
)
assert resp["result"]["value"] == "none"
assert agent.reasoning_config == {"enabled": False}
write_key.assert_not_called()
def test_session_scoped_set_updates_create_override_for_lazy_session(self) -> None:
"""A pre-build (agent=None) session must keep the change for the
deferred agent build instead of dropping it."""
session = {"session_key": "k2", "agent": None}
with patch.dict(server._sessions, {"s2": session}, clear=False), \
patch.object(server, "_write_config_key") as write_key:
resp = self._dispatch(
{"key": "reasoning", "session_id": "s2", "value": "high"}
)
assert resp["result"]["value"] == "high"
assert session["create_reasoning_override"] == {
"enabled": True,
"effort": "high",
}
write_key.assert_not_called()
def test_no_session_persists_globally(self) -> None:
with patch.object(server, "_write_config_key") as write_key:
resp = self._dispatch({"key": "reasoning", "value": "low"})
assert resp["result"]["value"] == "low"
write_key.assert_called_once_with("agent.reasoning_effort", "low")
def test_unknown_value_rejected(self) -> None:
resp = self._dispatch({"key": "reasoning", "value": "bogus"})
assert "error" in resp
class TestLoadReasoningConfigYamlBoolean:
"""YAML `reasoning_effort: false` means disabled, not default."""
def test_boolean_false_disables(self) -> None:
with patch.object(
server, "_load_cfg", return_value={"agent": {"reasoning_effort": False}}
):
assert server._load_reasoning_config() == {"enabled": False}
def test_string_false_disables(self) -> None:
with patch.object(
server, "_load_cfg", return_value={"agent": {"reasoning_effort": "false"}}
):
assert server._load_reasoning_config() == {"enabled": False}
def test_unset_returns_default(self) -> None:
with patch.object(server, "_load_cfg", return_value={"agent": {}}):
assert server._load_reasoning_config() is None