Dynamically Lower Reasoning Effort On Easy Codex Steps To Save Tokens

Astra-Ares is an experimental patched Codex CLI that lets an LLM evaluator (Jev) pick GPT-6 reasoning effort per generation, aiming to cut token usage while preserving prompt-cache prefixes. Requires Node 22+, Rust, and a ~10GB local Codex build.

AI Coding | JavaScript · adaptive-reasoning · reasoning-effort