Choose default reasoning level for Automations

Please direct me to the setting if I’m missing it, but it seems in the Codex app we can’t set the default reasoning level or model.

Version 260210.1703 (602) on MacOS.

I can see that after an automation has run and created a thread, I can go into that thread and change the model and reasoning level for subsequent prompts, but there’s no where to set this for the initial automated prompt. It seems to default to GPT-5.3-Codex Medium. Would love to be able to set it to High or Extra High for some automations.

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Likewise, I would like to change model to gpt-5.4 and reasoning to xhigh, as well as change permissions to full access.

Did you or anyone else find any way to do that?

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Same problem. I have it set to 5.4 xhigh in ~/.codex/config.toml but the automation reverts to 5.3 codex medium