packs: ⚡️ turn off Cerebras reasoning in the plain-English rewrite - #169
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Context: Follows #165. The plain-English rewrite calls Cerebras `qwen-3.8-27b`, which reasons by default. On a 2,300-character reply it spent a median 6,300 reasoning tokens for about 520 output tokens, so even with #165's 6-second cap many rewrites timed out and showed the original. Summary: `plain_english` passes `reasoning_effort="none"` to `OpenAiEndpointBackend`, and the spawnllm pin moves to `>=0.14.0,<0.15`, the first release with that field (yasyf/spawnllm#10). Motivation: The owner chose to make `reasoning_effort` a typed field in spawnllm rather than override the backend's request planning here. Details: 20 calls through the real `plain_english.plain_english()` path, same prompt and harness, a fresh nonce per call: | | p50 | p95 | max | fell back to original | |---|---|---|---|---| | #165 (spawnllm 0.13.4, reasoning on) | 4.42s | 6.02s | 6.47s | 3 of 20 (6s cap) | | this PR (spawnllm with reasoning_effort, `"none"`) | 0.52s | 0.98s | 1.13s | 0 of 20 | The "after" row ran against yasyf/spawnllm#10 installed from its branch. After v0.14.0 was published, 12 more calls against the locked release gave 0.52s p50 and 0.74s p95, with no fallbacks. `uv lock --upgrade-package spawnllm` moves the lock from 0.13.4 to 0.14.0. `test_streamed_message_is_rewritten_once` asserts that the backend carries `reasoning_effort == "none"`. Both changelog entries move to Unreleased: #165's landed under 12.56.0, which was tagged before #165 merged. `pytest tests/test_plain_english.py tests/test_plugin_hooks.py` passes.
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Context: Follows #165. The plain-English rewrite calls Cerebras
qwen-3.8-27b, which reasons by default. On a 2,300-character reply it spent a median 6,300 reasoning tokens for about 520 output tokens, so even with #165's 6-second cap many rewrites timed out and showed the original.Summary:
plain_englishpassesreasoning_effort="none"toOpenAiEndpointBackend, and the spawnllm pin moves to>=0.14.0,<0.15, the first release with that field (yasyf/spawnllm#10).Motivation: The owner chose to make
reasoning_efforta typed field in spawnllm rather than override the backend's request planning here.Details: 20 calls through the real
plain_english.plain_english()path, same prompt and harness, a fresh nonce per call:"none")The "after" row ran against yasyf/spawnllm#10 installed from its branch. After v0.14.0 was published, 12 more calls against the locked release gave 0.52s p50 and 0.74s p95, with no fallbacks.
uv lock --upgrade-package spawnllmmoves the lock from 0.13.4 to 0.14.0.test_streamed_message_is_rewritten_onceasserts that the backend carriesreasoning_effort == "none". Both changelog entries move to Unreleased: #165's landed under 12.56.0, which was tagged before #165 merged.pytest tests/test_plain_english.py tests/test_plugin_hooks.pypasses.