Reasoning effort 'medium' is not supported for model 'claude-haiku-4.5'
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Description
### Describe the bug
When both copilot_cli_opus_medium_effort_default and copilot_cli_gpt_5_4_mini_for_explore feature flags are active (assigned server-side), the CLI throws the following error repeatedly during sub-agent execution:
Execution failed: Error: Reasoning effort 'medium' is not supported for model 'claude-haiku-4.5'.
The explore and task built-in agents are defined with model: claude-haiku-4.5 in definitions/explore.agent.yaml and definitions/task.agent.yaml . The copilot_cli_opus_medium_effort_default flag applies reasoning_effort: medium globally — including to these sub-agents — before the copilot_cli_gpt_5_4_mini_for_explore swap has a chance to replace the model. As a result, claude-haiku-4.5 receives a reasoning_effort value it does not support.
### Affected version
1.0.77
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Be assigned both flags: copilot_cli_opus_medium_effort_default: true and copilot_cli_gpt_5_4_mini_for_explore: true (visible in config.json under expAssignmentsCache )
2. Trigger any task that uses the explore or task sub-agent
3. Observe the error in output
### Expected behavior
Either the model swap happens before the reasoning effort is applied, or reasoning_effort is omitted for models that do not support it (as already fixed in main: "Allow reasoning effort to be omitted so the server can select the default").
### Additional context
Platform:
Windows ( win32-x64 )
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