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Related Issue

No issue — the problem is explained below.

Problem

Cycling the thinking effort with Ctrl-T / Shift-Tab updates the live session and the footer, but the choice is never written to config.toml. Reopening the CLI then starts with the config default instead of the last selected effort (e.g. a user sets max, restarts, and gets the fallback level). The /effort and /model commands already persist the selection; only the keyboard shortcut path was missing it.

What changed

  • Extracted the existing default-persistence logic from the /effort//model handler into a small shared TUI utility.
  • The Ctrl-T / Shift-Tab cycling handler now persists the cycled effort with that same utility (best-effort; an error surfaces once without blocking the shortcut).
  • Added a controller test that fails without the persistence call.

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  • I have added tests that prove my feature works.
  • Ran gen-changesets skill, or this PR needs no changeset.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Thinking-effort selections now persist across application restarts.
    • Updated effort settings are saved alongside the currently selected model.
    • Persistence errors are reported without losing the updated in-session setting.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for cycling thinking-effort levels and saving the selected value.

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Walkthrough

The change adds shared persistence for the selected model and thinking effort. Editor keyboard cycling and configuration commands use this helper. Tests verify that cycling stores the current model and medium effort.

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Thinking-effort persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Default selection persistence
apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/utils/persist-effort.ts
Adds persistDefaultModelSelection, which avoids unchanged writes and persists the model alias, thinking-enabled state, and effort.
Command and editor integration
apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/commands/config.ts, apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/controllers/editor-keyboard.ts
Configuration commands delegate persistence to the shared helper. Editor keyboard cycling persists the selected model and effort and reports failures.
Cycling validation and release metadata
apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/controllers/editor-keyboard.test.ts, .changeset/persist-cycled-effort.md
Tests verify persistence during effort cycling. The changeset records the patch release.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to a6159

Rapid Ctrl-T or Shift-Tab presses can leave the saved thinking effort different from the user’s final selection after restart. The PR should serialize or coalesce these persistence updates before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EditorKeyboardController
  participant PythinkerHarness
  participant persistDefaultModelSelection
  participant Configuration
  EditorKeyboardController->>PythinkerHarness: Read current model alias
  EditorKeyboardController->>persistDefaultModelSelection: Persist model alias and effort
  persistDefaultModelSelection->>Configuration: Reload and compare settings
  persistDefaultModelSelection->>Configuration: Save changed default selection
  persistDefaultModelSelection-->>EditorKeyboardController: Return persistence result
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In `@apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/utils/persist-effort.ts`:
- Around line 13-25: The configuration read/write sequence in persist-effort
must be serialized per PythinkerHarness so rapid unawaited keyboard callbacks
cannot overwrite newer effort values. Update the helper around harness.getConfig
and harness.setConfig to queue or coalesce concurrent updates while preserving
the existing no-op check, and add a delayed-write test that triggers rapid
cycling and verifies the final persisted effort.
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pnpm dlx https://pkg.pr.new/@pythoughts/pythinker-code@a6159bc
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## Related Issue

No issue — the problem is explained below.

## Problem

Two more paths lose the user's saved thinking effort across restarts
(follow-up to #67):

1. The model picker drafts any non-current model at its first non-off
effort level (`low` for models without effort metadata). Confirming the
picker persists that draft as the startup default, silently overwriting
the effort the user had saved. A real config was found holding `effort =
"low"` this way.
2. Saving an effort writes only `thinking.effort`; the config deep merge
preserves a stale `thinking.mode = "off"`, which forces thinking off on
the next startup even when an effort is saved.

## What changed

- The picker's effort draft for a non-current model now keeps the live
effort, coerced to what that model supports, instead of resetting to its
first level.
- Persisting an effort also writes the matching `thinking.mode`
(`on`/`off`), so a stale `mode = "off"` cannot poison restarts.
- Updated picker tests to the new contract and added a regression test
for the switch-keeps-effort behavior.

## Checklist

- [x] I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/PyModel/pythinker-code/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
document.
- [x] I have linked a related issue, or explained the problem above.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my feature works.
- [x] Ran `gen-changesets` skill, or this PR needs no changeset.
- [x] Ran `gen-docs` skill, or this PR needs no doc update.
elkaix added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2026
## Related Issue

No issue — follow-up to #66 (GitHub org migration). This PR moves the
npm side to the new org.

## Problem

The GitHub org moved to `PyModel` (#66), but every workspace package
still carries the `@pythoughts` npm scope, and releases still publish to
`@pythoughts/pythinker-code`. Newer versions must publish under the
`pymodel` npm org.

## What changed

- Renamed all 18 workspace packages from `@pythoughts/*` to
`@pymodel/*`: package names, workspace dependencies, imports, and every
tooling reference (changesets config, `flake.nix` workspace names, CI
workflows, release/native/brew/CDN scripts, docs, README badges).
- Fixed escaped-scope references a plain replace misses: the
api-extractor specifier-rewrite regex in the SDK dts build,
vitest/tsdown `alwaysBundle` regexes, and the Windows path marker in the
postinstall reach script.
- Regenerated `pnpm-lock.yaml`; the `flake.nix` `pnpmDeps` hash is
unchanged (verified by rebuilding — workspace names do not affect the
fetched dependency set).
- Added a `minor` changeset so the next release publishes
`@pymodel/pythinker-code`.

Out of scope: the VS Code Marketplace publisher
(`pythoughts.pythinker-code`), `api.pythoughts.com` platform URLs, and
the `ai.pythoughts.pythinker-server` LaunchAgent label — these are
separate identities, not npm scope.

## Merge order

Merge #67, #68, #69 first — their changesets name
`@pythoughts/pythinker-code` and would break `changeset version` if this
PR lands before them.

## Before the first publish (npm side, manual)

1. On npmjs.com, add a Trusted Publishing (OIDC) connection for
`@pymodel/pythinker-code`: repository `PyModel/pythinker-code`, workflow
`release.yml`.
2. After the first successful `@pymodel` release: `npm deprecate
@pythoughts/pythinker-code "Moved to @pymodel/pythinker-code"`.

## Checklist

- [x] I have read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/PyModel/pythinker-code/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
document.
- [x] I have linked a related issue, or explained the problem above.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my feature works. (Mechanical
rename; existing suites cover it.)
- [x] Ran `gen-changesets` skill, or this PR needs no changeset.
- [x] Ran `gen-docs` skill, or this PR needs no doc update. (Docs
updated in the sweep.)

## Additional commits

- The sweep also caught encoded-scope references a plain replace misses:
api-extractor/tsdown/vitest regexes (`@pythoughts\/`), release-tag
parsing in `produce-manifest.mjs` and `install.sh`, `%40…%2F`
release-download URLs in the CDN build, and split specifiers in tests.
- One drive-along test-infra fix: `skill-session.test.ts` temp-dir
cleanup now retries, because a late journal flush races the recursive
delete under full-suite load and threw ENOTEMPTY twice while gating this
push.
elkaix pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 14, 2026
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# Releases
## @pymodel/pythinker-code@0.17.0

### Minor Changes

- [#70](#70)
[`8506ded`](8506ded)
- Publish the CLI under the @PyModel npm scope; install with `npm
install -g @pymodel/pythinker-code`. The old @pythoughts scope is
deprecated and no longer receives releases.

### Patch Changes

- [#71](#71)
[`9d46551`](9d46551)
- Keep the current thinking effort when switching models in the model
picker instead of silently saving the new model's lowest level as the
default, and repair a stale thinking mode in the config when saving an
effort.

- [#67](#67)
[`5cb218f`](5cb218f)
- Keep the thinking effort chosen with Ctrl-T/Shift-Tab as the default
across restarts.

- [#68](#68)
[`b69205f`](b69205f)
- Show only the animated thinking indicator while the model thinks; the
streamed thinking text no longer appears in the transcript unless
expanded with Ctrl+O.

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