From 73259351ff8475ed20befb1c422acb5ea950751c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fouad Matin <169186268+fouad-openai@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 08:38:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: reasoning default to medium, show workdir when supplied
 (#931)

---
 codex-cli/src/cli.tsx                                        | 2 +-
 .../src/components/chat/terminal-chat-response-item.tsx      | 5 +++++
 codex-cli/src/utils/parsers.ts                               | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codex-cli/src/cli.tsx b/codex-cli/src/cli.tsx
index 7d9ea2563..d53ed07f7 100644
--- a/codex-cli/src/cli.tsx
+++ b/codex-cli/src/cli.tsx
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ config = {
   model: model ?? config.model,
   notify: Boolean(cli.flags.notify),
   reasoningEffort:
-    (cli.flags.reasoning as ReasoningEffort | undefined) ?? "high",
+    (cli.flags.reasoning as ReasoningEffort | undefined) ?? "medium",
   flexMode: cli.flags.flexMode || (config.flexMode ?? false),
   provider,
   disableResponseStorage,
diff --git a/codex-cli/src/components/chat/terminal-chat-response-item.tsx b/codex-cli/src/components/chat/terminal-chat-response-item.tsx
index 747c3dfca..bda4fea9d 100644
--- a/codex-cli/src/components/chat/terminal-chat-response-item.tsx
+++ b/codex-cli/src/components/chat/terminal-chat-response-item.tsx
@@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ function TerminalChatResponseToolCall({
     <Box flexDirection="column" gap={1}>
       <Text color="magentaBright" bold>
         command
+        {details?.workdir ? (
+          <Text dimColor>{` (${details?.workdir})`}</Text>
+        ) : (
+          ""
+        )}
       </Text>
       <Text>
         <Text dimColor>$</Text> {details?.cmdReadableText}
diff --git a/codex-cli/src/utils/parsers.ts b/codex-cli/src/utils/parsers.ts
index ed86833f5..7075ac051 100644
--- a/codex-cli/src/utils/parsers.ts
+++ b/codex-cli/src/utils/parsers.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ export function parseToolCallOutput(toolCallOutput: string): {
 export type CommandReviewDetails = {
   cmd: Array<string>;
   cmdReadableText: string;
+  workdir: string | undefined;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -51,12 +52,13 @@ export function parseToolCall(
     return undefined;
   }
 
-  const { cmd } = toolCallArgs;
+  const { cmd, workdir } = toolCallArgs;
   const cmdReadableText = formatCommandForDisplay(cmd);
 
   return {
     cmd,
     cmdReadableText,
+    workdir,
   };
 }