GitHub Issue

ChatGPT Web thinking-level selector changed to a slider and is no longer detected

Discovered On Aug 6, 2026
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## Summary ChatGPT Web appears to have changed the thinking-level selector UI. Previously, the thinking level was selected from the older menu/dropdown interface. It is now displayed as a horizontal slider inside a popover, and Codex Web GPT no longer appears to recognize the selected thinking level correctly. In my case, ChatGPT Web is set to **High**, and the composer still displays `High` / `高い`, but the launcher does not correctly detect the setting after this UI change. ## Steps to reproduce 1. Open ChatGPT Web through Codex Web GPT. 2. Click the thinking-level control next to the message composer. 3. Observe that ChatGPT now displays a horizontal slider instead of the previous selection menu. 4. Set the thinking level to **High**. 5. Start or reconnect a Codex Web GPT session. ## Actual behavior Codex Web GPT does not correctly recognize the currently selected thinking level after the selector was changed to the new slider-based UI. ## Expected behavior Codex Web GPT should detect the selected thinking level from the new ChatGPT Web UI and continue to recognize values such as: - Instant - Medium - High - Extra High - Pro, where available ## Additional information The visible label next to the composer still shows `High` / `高い`, but the selector popover and its DOM structure appear to have changed. The current detection logic may still be looking for the previous dropdown or menu-item structure, so the selector parsing may need to be updated for the new slid...
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Developer & User Discourse

kjverse • Aug 6, 2026
@cXSHoz @miuuyy Same change on Windows with 2.0.0 and a Plus account.

Two things that might save some work:

**The old tier list has not been removed — it is nested.** Clicking `Advanced` in the new popover
gives:

```
Model GPT-5.6 Sol ▸
Effort High ▸
```

and `Effort ▸` opens the original `Instant 5.5 / Medium / High`, with a check on the active tier —
same entries, same order. So this may be a navigation fix rather than a slider parser:
`CHATGPT_EFFORT_ITEM_SELECTOR` and the `uiEffortIndex` mapping look unchanged, just two clicks
deeper. Caveat: I read that from the rendered UI, not the DOM, so "still `menuitemradio`" is an
inference.

**The symptom is harder than "not detected" — turns fail outright** at the timeout:

```
stage=effort_selection failed durationMs=71184: ChatGPT effort menu did not expose item index 2; item count: 0
```

Both tiers tried fail, requesting different indices and finding zero items, 3/3 across a full
launcher restart.

Minor: treating "men...
miuuyy • Aug 6, 2026
will fix it today
miuuyy • Aug 6, 2026
among great news: it means chat gpt luna will be unlimited on free tiers as far as i know, so even with free accounts everyone will be able to use codex a lot
itsfelipeh • Aug 6, 2026
For ChatGPT users, it is possible to use this tool. ?
prelaunchday • Aug 6, 2026
stream disconnected before completion: ChatGPT composer did not preserve the complete prompt (expectedChars=494689, actualChars=494689, commonPrefixChars=199977)