New Codex reasoning effort "Persistent" spotted in GitHub repo
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-08-27
A potential new reasoning effort level dubbed Persistent has been spotted in OpenAI's Codex GitHub repo. Its description reads "Continue working until put to sleep", suggesting the model would keep working until explicitly stopped. The feature is unannounced and not yet live.
Related event: Codex Repo Reveals Unreleased 'Persistent' Reasoning Mode(2 posts)→
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