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fix(llms): send reasoning_effort to every openai reasoning model
joaomdmoura Sep 1, 2026
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refactor(llms): gate reasoning_effort on model shape, not every model
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion lib/crewai/src/crewai/llm.py
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Expand Up @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ class LLM(BaseLLM):
api_base: str | None = None
api_version: str | None = None
callbacks: list[Any] | None = None
reasoning_effort: Literal["none", "low", "medium", "high"] | None = None
reasoning_effort: Literal["none", "minimal", "low", "medium", "high"] | None = None
stream: bool = False
interceptor: Any = None
thinking: Any = None
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106 changes: 99 additions & 7 deletions lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/openai/completion.py
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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
import json
import logging
import os
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, ClassVar, Literal, TypedDict
import re
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, ClassVar, Final, Literal, TypedDict

import httpx
from openai import (
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# per process rather than on every call.
_LEARNED_RESPONSES_ONLY_MODELS: set[str] = set()

# `reasoning_effort` is accepted by the o-series and by GPT generation 5 onwards.
# Matched by shape rather than by a list of names so a new member of an existing
# family works without a release here; `gpt-4o` and `gpt-4.1` parse to generation
# 4 and are excluded. An over-match is recovered rather than fatal -- the call is
# retried without the parameter when the API rejects it.
_O_SERIES_MODEL = re.compile(r"^o\d")
_GPT_GENERATION = re.compile(r"^gpt-(\d+)")
_MIN_REASONING_GPT_GENERATION: Final[int] = 5


def _supports_reasoning_effort(model: str) -> bool:
"""Whether the model accepts `reasoning_effort` on /v1/chat/completions."""
name = model.rsplit("/", 1)[-1].lower()
if _O_SERIES_MODEL.match(name):
return True
generation = _GPT_GENERATION.match(name)
return (
generation is not None
and int(generation.group(1)) >= _MIN_REASONING_GPT_GENERATION
)

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Shape matcher drops valid reasoning models

Medium Severity

_supports_reasoning_effort only treats o-series and gpt-N (N≥5) as reasoning models, so reasoning_effort is omitted for names that do not match, including gpt-oss-*, ft: fine-tunes, and models on the inherited OpenAI-compatible path. Those requests succeed without the setting, and the 400 retry never runs.

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class WebSearchResult(TypedDict, total=False):
"""Result from web search built-in tool."""
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)
return dispatch(retry_params)

if self._rejects_reasoning_effort_as_unsupported(cause):
retry_params = self._without_reasoning_effort(completion_params)
if retry_params is not None:
logging.debug(
"Retrying %r without reasoning_effort: the model does "
"not support the parameter.",
self.model,
)
return dispatch(retry_params)

if self.custom_openai or not self._is_responses_only_error(cause):
raise
self._remember_responses_only_model()
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -683,6 +715,16 @@ async def dispatch(params: dict[str, Any]) -> str | Any:
if retry_params is not None:
return await dispatch(retry_params)

if self._rejects_reasoning_effort_as_unsupported(cause):
retry_params = self._without_reasoning_effort(completion_params)
if retry_params is not None:
logging.debug(
"Retrying %r without reasoning_effort: the model does "
"not support the parameter.",
self.model,
)
return await dispatch(retry_params)

if self.custom_openai or not self._is_responses_only_error(cause):
raise
self._remember_responses_only_model()
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1765,6 +1807,49 @@ def _rejects_reasoning_effort_with_tools(error: BaseException) -> bool:
message = str(source.get("message") or "").lower()
return "function tools" in message and "reasoning_effort" in message

@staticmethod
def _rejects_reasoning_effort_as_unsupported(error: BaseException) -> bool:
"""Whether a 400 is OpenAI refusing `reasoning_effort` for this model.

Non-reasoning models reject the parameter itself, in one of two shapes:

{"code": "unsupported_parameter", "param": "reasoning_effort",
"message": "Unsupported parameter: 'reasoning_effort' is not
supported with this model."}

{"param": null, "message": "Unrecognized request argument
supplied: reasoning_effort"}

Distinct from `_rejects_reasoning_effort_with_tools`: that is a
reasoning model refusing the parameter only alongside function tools,
and it recovers by sending "none" rather than by dropping the key. Also
deliberately does not match the "Unsupported value" 400 that o1/o3
return for a bad *value* -- the model does support the parameter, so
silently dropping it would restore the very bug this recovers from.
"""
if not isinstance(error, BadRequestError):
return False
body = getattr(error, "body", None)
source = None
if isinstance(body, dict):
inner = body.get("error")
source = inner if isinstance(inner, dict) else body
if not isinstance(source, dict):
return False
message = str(source.get("message") or "").lower()
if "reasoning_effort" not in message:
return False
if source.get("code") == "unsupported_parameter":
return True
return "unrecognized request argument" in message

@staticmethod
def _without_reasoning_effort(params: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
"""Params with `reasoning_effort` removed, or None if it was not set."""
if "reasoning_effort" not in params:
return None
return {k: v for k, v in params.items() if k != "reasoning_effort"}

def _reasoning_effort_none_params(
self, params: dict[str, Any]
) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
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if self.top_logprobs is not None:
params["top_logprobs"] = self.top_logprobs

# Handle o1 model specific parameters
if self.is_o1_model and self.reasoning_effort:
# Not gated on `is_o1_model`: that is a literal "o1" substring test, so
# gpt-5, o3 and o4-mini failed it and silently thought at the server
# default. It also drives tool support and message rewriting, so it
# cannot be widened to mean "is a reasoning model".
if self.reasoning_effort and _supports_reasoning_effort(self.model):

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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ast-grep outline lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/openai/completion.py

printf '%s\n' '--- target hunk and directly bound definitions ---'
sed -n '1860,1960p' lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/openai/completion.py
rg -n -C 8 'def _supports_reasoning_effort|_supports_reasoning_effort|custom_openai|reasoning_effort' \
  lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/openai/completion.py

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Forward reasoning_effort for custom endpoints.

When custom_openai=True and the deployment name is gpt-4o or gpt-4.1, _supports_reasoning_effort() returns false, so _prepare_completion_params() omits the configured value. If the endpoint supports the parameter, the request uses its default and the retry path cannot restore the requested setting.

Bypass the hosted model-name check for custom_openai, or expose this capability as explicit configuration.

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In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/openai/completion.py` at line 1921,
Update the reasoning_effort condition in _prepare_completion_params so
custom_openai endpoints forward the configured value for supported deployments,
including gpt-4o and gpt-4.1, without relying solely on the hosted model-name
check. Preserve the existing _supports_reasoning_effort behavior for non-custom
OpenAI models.

params["reasoning_effort"] = self.reasoning_effort

if self.response_format is not None:
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logging.error(f"Context window exceeded: {e}")
raise LLMContextLengthExceededError(str(e)) from e

# `_call_completions` retries this one, so reporting a failed call
# `_call_completions` retries these, so reporting a failed call
# here would surface an error the caller never experiences.
if self._rejects_reasoning_effort_with_tools(e):
if self._rejects_reasoning_effort_with_tools(
e
) or self._rejects_reasoning_effort_as_unsupported(e):
raise

error_msg = f"OpenAI API call failed: {e!s}"
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logging.error(f"Context window exceeded: {e}")
raise LLMContextLengthExceededError(str(e)) from e

# `_call_completions` retries this one, so reporting a failed call
# `_call_completions` retries these, so reporting a failed call
# here would surface an error the caller never experiences.
if self._rejects_reasoning_effort_with_tools(e):
if self._rejects_reasoning_effort_with_tools(
e
) or self._rejects_reasoning_effort_as_unsupported(e):
raise

error_msg = f"OpenAI API call failed: {e!s}"
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