From b9652dbfe28f8e8806a74aa0bafd1a482b4e827c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Curley <kixelated@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2026 10:44:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(land): run the fixer's Codex with medium reasoning effort

The fixer passed a model but no model_reasoning_effort, and its jobs
logged "reasoning effort: none" (found by the 2026-11-01 merge-queue
audit). Fixes need reasoning; medium matches quest review's default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/cli/land-fix.ts |  3 +++
 test/land.test.ts   | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cli/land-fix.ts b/src/cli/land-fix.ts
index 4cebde93..072dce4e 100644
--- a/src/cli/land-fix.ts
+++ b/src/cli/land-fix.ts
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ export async function fix(
 		'model_providers.quest-fixer.env_key="OPENAI_API_KEY"',
 		"-c",
 		'model_providers.quest-fixer.wire_api="responses"',
+		// Without this, Codex runs the proxy's model with no reasoning at all ("reasoning effort: none").
+		"-c",
+		'model_reasoning_effort="medium"',
 		...(model ? ["--model", model] : []),
 		"-",
 	];
diff --git a/test/land.test.ts b/test/land.test.ts
index dcbe35c8..261a1ea7 100644
--- a/test/land.test.ts
+++ b/test/land.test.ts
@@ -2139,6 +2139,26 @@ ${requeueScript}
 		await fix(dir, log, [1], agent, ["-"]);
 		expect(readFileSync(join(dir, "prompt.txt"), "utf8")).toContain(`PRs:\n- #1: branch pr-1 at ${head}\n`);
 	});
+	test("runs default Codex with an explicit reasoning effort", async () => {
+		const dir = fixRepository();
+		const agent = join(dir, "agent");
+		const log = join(dir, "failure.log");
+		writeFileSync(log, "failed check");
+		vi.stubEnv("OPENAI_BASE_URL", "http://proxy.test/v1");
+		vi.stubEnv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "proxy-client");
+		writeFileSync(
+			agent,
+			`#!/bin/sh
+set -eu
+printf '%s\\n' "$@" > argv.txt
+cat > prompt.txt
+${requeueScript}
+`,
+			{ mode: 0o755 },
+		);
+		await fix(dir, log, [1], agent);
+		expect(readFileSync(join(dir, "argv.txt"), "utf8").split("\n")).toContain('model_reasoning_effort="medium"');
+	});
 	test("refuses to start an agent without a supplied PR's branch", async () => {
 		const dir = fixRepository();
 		const log = join(dir, "failure.log");