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Users can choose reasoning levels from the traits picker, but could not configure shortcuts to move through the selected model reasoning levels.

This adds reasoning.decrease and reasoning.increase with Cmd+Alt+, and Cmd+Alt+. defaults. A shared pure transition owns advertised-order wraparound, provider option preservation, and Claude Ultrathink prompt entry and exit, so mouse and keyboard behavior stay aligned. The web keybinding layer handles macOS physical punctuation, Settings records the portable chords, and the composer applies changes to the next draft while consuming guarded or unsupported shortcuts safely.

Surfaces: web implements the behavior; desktop inherits web; mobile remains unchanged; no provider RPC or wire capability changes.

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Add reasoning cycle keybindings and shared reasoning transition logic

  • Adds reasoningIncrease and reasoningDecrease command IDs to the keybinding contract and default shortcuts (platform-modifier plus punctuation), active outside terminal focus.
  • Adds resolveReasoningTransition in model.ts to cycle provider-advertised reasoning levels in advertised order with wraparound, preserve unrelated model options, validate unsupported or stale states, and manage Claude's owned Ultrathink prompt prefix without persisting it as a model option.
  • ChatComposer.tsx and TraitsPicker.tsx route reasoning shortcuts and trait-menu selections through the shared transition, update the prompt while preserving caret position via mapComposerCursorAcrossLeadingPromptChange, persist changed model options, and emit toasts for blocked or unsupported transitions.
  • Shortcut matching in keybindings.ts and KeybindingsSettings.logic.ts now matches macOS Option-comma/Option-period via physical-key aliases and suppresses physical aliases for non-macOS AltGraph input.
  • Behavioral Change: Claude Ultrathink is now an app-owned leading prompt prefix managed by the transition logic; getSelectedTraits strips only the exact prefix, and switching away from Ultrathink removes it plus stale injected selections. Body text containing Ultrathink blocks switching to ordinary effort levels.
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  • line 410: Selecting Ultrathink on an empty draft creates the owned Ultrathink:\n prefix, but nothing removes that prefix if the user then types a slash command. The resulting prompt is Ultrathink:\n/compact rather than beginning with /, so it is sent as prose and the command does not run (the existing applyClaudePromptEffortPrefix comment explicitly identifies this failure). The slash-command guard only handles a command that was already present when the transition ran. [ Already posted ]

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Touches composer draft state, model option persistence, and global keybinding resolution (including AltGraph and macOS punctuation), where regressions could mis-cycle reasoning or steal keystrokes.

Overview
Adds reasoning.decrease and reasoning.increase default shortcuts (mod+alt+, / mod+alt+., disabled while the terminal is focused) and wires them in the chat composer to cycle the current model’s reasoning level, update persisted provider options, and adjust the Claude Ultrathink prompt prefix when applicable.

Introduces shared resolveReasoningTransition (plus resolveTraitsSelectChange in the traits picker) so keyboard and mouse reasoning changes share the same wraparound, option preservation, ultrathink add/remove/body-conflict rules, and explicit blocked/unsupported outcomes; the composer shows toasts for blocked or unsupported cases and keeps the caret stable via mapComposerCursorAcrossLeadingPromptChange.

Keybinding matching and settings recording now treat macOS Option+comma/period as portable ,/. (physical Comma/Period aliases), and non-macOS AltGraph events match layout keys only so typed punctuation is not mistaken for shortcuts. Also defers overwriting promptRef while a pending progress question is active.

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  • New Features

    • Added keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease reasoning levels, with support for custom keybindings.
    • Reasoning selections now adapt to model capabilities while preserving prompts, cursor position, and saved preferences.
    • Added Claude reasoning prompt handling and smoother trait selection updates.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved shortcut recognition for macOS Option punctuation and alternate keyboard layouts.
    • Composer drafts and cursor positions are preserved during pending responses and approvals.
    • Unsupported reasoning changes are handled more consistently.
  • Documentation

    • Documented reasoning-level keyboard shortcuts and customization options.

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The PR adds shared reasoning-transition resolution, reasoning increase/decrease keybindings, platform-specific shortcut handling, and composer and trait-picker integration. It preserves prompt synchronization and cursor positions during reasoning changes.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Reasoning transition engine
packages/shared/src/model.ts, packages/shared/src/model.test.ts
Adds structured reasoning selection and cycling transitions. Handles provider capabilities, persisted options, Claude Ultrathink prompts, slash commands, unsupported values, and blocked states.
Reasoning keybinding support
packages/contracts/src/keybindings.*, packages/shared/src/keybindings.ts, apps/web/src/keybindings.*, apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/KeybindingsSettings.logic.test.ts
Adds reasoning increase/decrease commands and defaults. Resolves macOS physical punctuation keys and avoids incorrect AltGraph aliases on other platforms.
Composer and trait-picker integration
apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TraitsPicker.tsx, apps/web/src/composer-logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/*.test.ts, apps/web/src/composer-logic.test.ts, docs/user/composer.md
Applies reasoning transitions from shortcuts and trait selections. Persists model options, preserves prompt cursors, pauses prompt synchronization during pending custom answers, and documents the shortcuts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, juliusmarminge

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ChatComposer
  participant resolveReasoningTransition
  participant ModelOptionsStore
  User->>ChatComposer: press reasoning shortcut
  ChatComposer->>resolveReasoningTransition: resolve cycle action
  resolveReasoningTransition-->>ChatComposer: return prompt and model options
  ChatComposer->>ModelOptionsStore: persist changed model options
  ChatComposer-->>User: update composer prompt
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The updated composer restores the current draft and rebuilds its editor state after pending input or approval flows, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a new reasoning-cycle capability while changing composer prompt/model state, shared keyboard matching, and Claude Ultrathink behavior across existing paths. It also changes the shipped default keybindings, so the resulting product-wide shortcut behavior merits human review.

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One finding: the reasoning-cycle shortcuts are routed through the stash-only guards in ChatComposer, so alt+, / alt+. can open the stash picker instead of changing reasoning.

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Reviewed the web-side changes for UI/interaction consistency. One new finding on the keyboard reasoning-cycle path in ChatComposer.tsx (caret position lost when the Ultrathink prefix is added/removed).

The previously reported issue — reasoning shortcuts falling through the stash-specific guards (pendingUserInputs opens the stash picker, approval/project-selection/pending-progress silently swallows the command) — still applies at ChatComposer.tsx lines 2567-2573 and is not re-posted here.

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One concrete issue: the new reasoning shortcut path mutates the draft prompt and the shared composer cursor even when the editor is not bound to the draft prompt (pending provider answer / approval state). Details inline.

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Reviewed the composer/traits reasoning-cycle changes for interaction consistency with the existing traits-menu path. Two findings in apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx; the TraitsPicker refactor itself looks behavior-preserving (the blocked case is still communicated in-menu by the inline notice plus disabled radio items).

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One consistency finding in apps/web/src/components/chat/TraitsPicker.tsx: the traits menu's blocked-state UI no longer agrees with the shared reasoning transition it now delegates to, so some clicks are silently discarded.

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One finding on the new reasoning-cycle shortcuts. The prior rounds' findings (stash-guard fall-through, caret preservation, draft-vs-pending-answer targeting, event.repeat, and the traits-menu blocked-state mismatch) all look resolved at this head.

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2424-2426: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Resynchronize composerTrigger when pending input ends.

When activePendingProgress becomes null without a draft prompt change, this effect restores promptRef.current and the cursor but retains the trigger derived from the custom answer. A custom answer that starts with / can leave a stale command menu visible for the restored draft. Recalculate composerTrigger from prompt and the clamped cursor in this effect.

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- Around line 4343-4345: Update the transition handling around transition.prompt
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persist the hidden draft prompt and model options even when the editor is
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- Around line 2423-2429: Update the draft-restoration effect guarded by
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Recompute the composer cursor and trigger from the restored draft when a
pending question closes, so a menu opened from the custom answer does not
stay open against the draft. Persist prompt-backed reasoning transitions
and report blocked ones even while an approval or pending question hides
the editor.
Extract the reasoning cycle into a callback so the window shortcut
listener no longer re-binds on every caret move, drop an unused effect
dependency, collapse the model option branching in the shared
transition, fold the two programmer-error statuses into unsupported,
reword the unsupported toast, and document the shortcuts.
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A reasoning shortcut during an approval updates the draft while the
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that pending answers already use, and drop the render-time cursor ref.
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Main added its own optional getModifierState declaration and an AltGraph
guard that rejects punctuation keys. The branch already keeps only the
layout key during AltGraph input, which covers the same case, so drop the
duplicate declaration and the redundant guard.
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Closing for missing prior product approval. This ships new default reasoning shortcuts and changes how keyboard and existing traits selections update Claude prompts and saved options. Those default and workflow choices go beyond an optional binding for an established action. The PR and discussion contain no maintainer approval of that direction or scope. Discuss the proposed defaults and prompt behavior with maintainers and link their approval before requesting reconsideration.

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