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Documents the reasoning-effort feature and explains that the available levels must be set programmatically. Raised from TASK-230 / TASK-227. Owner: Georgi.

Also swaps the homepage walkthrough video.

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technical/ai-providers.mdx — new Reasoning effort subsection under ClawBox AI specifics:

  • The three levels ClawBox AI Flash and Pro expose: off / high / xhigh
  • States explicitly that the set is per model, not global — other models expose different sets, unsupported selections clamp down, and models with no reasoning control hide the dial entirely
  • A Warning explaining why the list must be set in code: the gateway re-applies its expected values on every start, and system updates replace the bundled catalog, so hand-edits to config do not stick

setup/choose-ai-provider.mdx — user-facing Reasoning effort blurb, linking to the technical detail.

index.mdx — replaced the previous walkthrough video with "I Tested ClawBox — Is This the Future of Personal AI?" by Bootable USBs (youtube.com/watch?v=1cekuQjVikU).

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  • Written in neutral ClawBox AI terms — no provider model internals or mapping details.
  • mint broken-links passes.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated the hands-on walkthrough to feature a Bootable USBs video.
    • Added guidance for controlling AI reasoning effort per conversation, including available levels and command usage.
    • Documented provider-specific reasoning settings, configuration sources, catalog requirements, and related gateway behavior.

…age walkthrough video

- technical/ai-providers.mdx: add 'Reasoning effort' subsection under ClawBox AI
  specifics — the 3 shipped levels (off/high/xhigh) and a Warning explaining why
  the list must be set in code (gateway-pre-start re-assert, npm overwrite,
  configured-provider override). Ties to TASK-227 (Volker report).
- setup/choose-ai-provider.mdx: user-facing 'Reasoning effort' blurb linking to
  the technical detail.
- index.mdx: replace the Portuguese walkthrough video with 'I Tested ClawBox'
  by Bootable USBs (youtube.com/watch?v=1cekuQjVikU).

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This PR documents the reasoning-effort picker in ClawBox AI — adding a user-facing explanation in the provider-selection guide and a technical deep-dive covering available levels, per-provider defaults, and why the configuration must live in code rather than hand-edited config files. It also swaps the homepage walkthrough video from a Portuguese-titled clip to a newer English-language review by Bootable USBs.

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  • 📖 Docs · touches docs site — AI provider pages (technical + setup) and homepage
  • Base branch: main · +43 source / +0 tests across 3 files
  • ✅ base main matches the beta-first convention (docs/meta-only change)
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  • ℹ️ Docs-only change — no code touches ClawBox runtime, customer devices, or the gateway.
  • ℹ️ The Warning block explains gateway boot-time behavior and update-path semantics; useful background for any contributor working on reasoning-effort wiring in code.

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Updated the onboarding walkthrough link and added documentation for per-conversation reasoning controls, ClawBox AI reasoning levels, provider mappings, configuration sources, and validation behavior.

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Onboarding walkthrough
docs-site/index.mdx
The hands-on walkthrough link now points to the Bootable USBs video.
Reasoning configuration documentation
docs-site/setup/choose-ai-provider.mdx, docs-site/technical/ai-providers.mdx
The documentation describes per-conversation controls, reasoning levels, model support, configuration sources, provider mappings, fallback behavior, and undeclared-level rejection.

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DeepSeek V4's API accepts only two reasoning efforts. resolveDeepSeekV4ReasoningEffort()
maps xhigh|max -> "max" and every other non-off level -> "high", so off/high/xhigh
already reach every distinct behavior. The 4 unexposed levels (minimal/low/medium/max)
are aliases, not missing capability.

Answers the premise behind TASK-227: the 3-of-7 menu is not a functional limitation.

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Per Karchev: no information about our DeepSeek model or how we map it.
Rewritten in neutral ClawBox AI terms - no model mapping, no upstream
effort values, no internal plugin/catalog paths.

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Per Karchev: not every model exposes off/high/xhigh. Levels are advertised
per provider/model, unsupported selections clamp down, and models with no
reasoning control (e.g. the on-device local model) hide the dial entirely.

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Comment thread docs-site/technical/ai-providers.mdx Outdated
CodeRabbit was right: the chat header picker is UNIFORM_LEVELS
(off/low/medium/high) for every cloud provider - xhigh is NOT a picker
option, it is gateway compatibility metadata on a different layer. The
previous text conflated the two.

Also corrected per src/components/ChatPopup.tsx:697-716: an unsupported
level falls back to the provider default, not to the nearest level.

Adds the real defaults (ClawBox AI = off, other cloud = medium) and that
llamacpp is off-only so the picker is hidden entirely.
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Both findings verified against source and fixed in 6b0f0f4.

1. Picker levels — confirmed, the text was wrong.
src/lib/chat-reasoning.ts:49 defines UNIFORM_LEVELS = ["off","low","medium","high"], applied to every cloud provider including clawai/deepseek. xhigh is not a picker option — it is gateway compatibility metadata on a separate layer. The docs conflated the two. Rewritten to document Off/Low/Medium/High with the real defaults (ClawBox AI off, other cloud providers medium), and the compat metadata is now described separately as its own concern.

2. Clamping — confirmed, also wrong.
src/components/ChatPopup.tsx:697-700 does cfg.levels.includes(next) ? next : cfg.default — an unsupported value becomes the provider default, not the nearest level. Sentence corrected accordingly, including the provider-switch behavior and per-provider persistence.

Also documented that llamacpp is ["off"] only, so the picker is hidden entirely (ChatPopup.tsx:2175 renders it only when levels.length > 1).

mint broken-links passes.

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