No newer tag yet; v0.1.0-rc7 is still the latest release, and fce1f8e isn't in it.

If you want to stay on rc7, the backport is small. In rc7 the forced value comes from two places (70e852e):

1. llm_util.rs#L88-L94: chat_client_thinking() overrides the workspace setting with JUDGEMENT_EFFORT = Some("low"). Both alignment steps go through it (type_alignment.rs:99, phrase_alignment.rs:362). Change its body to just chat_client(s).
2. implication.rs#L46: rule extraction sets low itself. Delete that line, or the same 400 will hit you at that step.

With your effort unset, chat_client → with_reasoning_effort(None) leaves the field out of the request body entirely (utopia-llm/src/lib.rs#L407-L415), which is what gpt-4o-mini needs.

You can skip the rest of #1066 for this. Migration 0105 and the schema bump only add none as an allowed value (for DeepSeek), so a code-only patch on rc7 keeps your schema at 95 and upgrades cleanly to the next RC later. The bench numbers in #1066 (misworded rising when alignment stops thinking) are about reasoning models; gpt-4o-mini doesn't reason, so you lose nothing there.

Thank you for the detailed report, and thank you @vishalhabib99 for the backport notes.

No backport is needed: v0.1.0-rc8, released on 9 October, includes #1066. Alignment and rule extraction no longer set a reasoning effort of their own; every call follows the workspace's chat_reasoning_effort, and with it unset nothing is sent, so gpt-4o-mini accepts the request. The rc7 database upgrades in place on startup. After the upgrade, alignment runs again for the base and the entities get their types.

Thanks again for running it in production and telling us what you found.