fix(codex transport): default reasoning_enabled=False for non-reasoning models

[vishnumohta]

Summary

The Codex Responses transport (agent/transports/codex.py) defaults reasoning_enabled = True, which causes Hermes to add include[\"reasoning.encrypted_content\"] to every request through that path. Non-reasoning models reject this field with HTTP 400:

```
Error code: 400 - {'error': {'message': 'Encrypted content is not supported with this model.', 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': 'include', 'code': None}}
```

Who's affected

Anyone whose fallback chain (or primary chain) includes a non-reasoning OpenAI model. Common cases:

• gpt-4o-mini (small, cheap, frequently used as a fallback)
• gpt-4.1-mini (same)
• Local MLX or Ollama models routed through the OpenAI-compatible adapter
• Any custom-provider OpenAI-compat endpoint that doesn't speak the Responses API's reasoning protocol

I hit this on a personal-laptop deployment running MLX as primary with gpt-4o-mini as the fallback. When MLX OOM'd under memory pressure, Hermes correctly fell back to OpenAI but every request was rejected before reaching the model because the tool list contained the include field.

The fix

One-line default flip in build_kwargs():

```diff

Resolve reasoning effort

reasoning_effort = "medium"
-reasoning_enabled = True
+reasoning_enabled = False
reasoning_config = params.get("reasoning_config")
```

Plus a comment block above explaining the rationale.

Backward compatibility

The existing opt-in path is preserved. Reasoning-capable models (o1, o3, grok-thinking, the Codex backend itself, xAI Grok) still get reasoning when callers pass:

```python
reasoning_config = {"enabled": True}

or

reasoning_config = {"effort": "medium"}
```

The if-branch at lines 86-90 that handles reasoning_config is unchanged. Only the default for callers that pass no config flips.

Repro

```bash
hermes chat -q 'hello' --model gpt-4o-mini

Before: HTTP 400 'Encrypted content is not supported with this model'

After: responds normally

```

Risk

Low. The downstream branches at lines 116+ that gate on `if reasoning_enabled` already correctly skip when the flag is False, so the only behavioral change is: callers that previously got reasoning-by-default without setting any config now get no reasoning by default. Any code path that genuinely wants reasoning was already passing `reasoning_config` (the documented opt-in surface).

Tested in production for ~10 days on a multi-model deployment (MLX primary, OpenAI fallback) — no regressions observed.

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[alt-glitch]

Related to #23450 (root issue). Competing fixes: #23460 (remove include param entirely), #24234 (allowlist approach), #25189 (env-var escape hatch), #29089 (gate per model family). This PR takes the simplest approach — flip the default to False.

[teknium1]

Thanks for isolating the generic Responses payload path. The current main transport still defaults reasoning on and emits include=["reasoning.encrypted_content"] for generic non-xAI/non-GitHub calls (agent/transports/codex.py:156-165,290-301), so the underlying compatibility issue remains.

Problems

• The proposed reasoning_enabled = False does not preserve either stated opt-in form. The following logic only changes reasoning_effort; it never restores reasoning_enabled=True (agent/transports/codex.py:160-164). Thus both {"enabled": true} and {"effort": "medium"} skip the reasoning payload branch. Current coverage requires the effort-only form to emit a reasoning effort (tests/agent/transports/test_codex_transport.py:70-86).
• The same translation exists independently for configured auxiliary calls (agent/auxiliary_client.py:918-948), which this one-file change leaves exposed.

Suggested changes

• Replace the global default flip with a shared capability gate used by both construction paths; preserve the intentional xAI encrypted-reasoning replay branch (agent/transports/codex.py:273-289).
• Add direct payload tests for unsupported and supported targets plus the auxiliary adapter.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

[teknium1]

This flips the default but the branch below never sets reasoning_enabled=True for either reasoning_config={"enabled": True} or an effort-only config; it only updates reasoning_effort. Both advertised opt-in forms will therefore omit reasoning entirely, contrary to the existing contract in tests/agent/transports/test_codex_transport.py:70-86.