Codex needs a set of custom keyboard shortcuts to instantly switch both the model and reasoning effort. (e.g. Alt + 1, Alt +2, Alt +3)
This would make it much faster to adapt to different tasks (e.g. changing a button on a page vs doing backend work)
You can already change the reasoning level with shift+up and shift+down
In the Windows desktop app it doesn’t work. I’ve set in the settings the Ctrl+Alt+up/down and it works only in Work mode, but doesn’t work in Chat mode.
I find myself often switching between ‘Sol Max @ default speed’ and ‘Terra High @ Fast speed’, but switching is cumbersome. I wish I could set shortcuts to combinations like this. Then further shifting with shift+up and shift+down would make it easy to switch.
Doesn’t this end up invalidating cache every time, and as a result eat a ton of tokens?
this was also in several of the responses to Tibo’s ask about obvious things Codex could do but isn’t on X.
Thanks for the suggestion! You can customize existing shortcuts in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts, but we haven’t confirmed a shortcut for a saved model + effort + speed combination. We’ll pass that request along. No timeline to share. Current shortcut settings: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/reference/settings