[FEATURE]: Add `--variant` flag to root `opencode` command

[ekweible]

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Describe the enhancement you want to request

The --variant flag was added to opencode run in #6805 but is missing from the root opencode command.

Current Behavior

# Works
opencode run --model anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514 --variant max "hello"
# Doesn't work - variant flag not recognized
opencode --model anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514 --variant max --prompt "hello"

Expected Behavior

Both commands should support --variant.

This matters most when --prompt is provided since the model responds immediately - users can't control reasoning effort for that initial response.

Relevant Files

File	Current State
src/cli/cmd/run.ts:90-93	Has --variant option
src/cli/cmd/tui/thread.ts	Missing --variant option
src/cli/cmd/tui/context/args.tsx	Args interface lacks variant

Implementation Notes

The variant infrastructure already exists in the TUI. Changes needed:

1. thread.ts: Add --variant option to yargs builder
2. args.tsx: Add variant?: string to Args interface
3. thread.ts: Pass variant through to tui() args
4. local.tsx: Initialize variant from CLI arg (similar to how args.model is handled at line 142)

The variant management (model.variant.set(), model.variant.current(), etc.) is already implemented in local.tsx:310-347, so this is just a CLI argument threading task.

[github-actions]

This issue relates to #7138 which implements default variant configuration per agent. While this issue (#7354) focuses on adding the --variant CLI flag to the root command, #7138 adds per-agent default variants in the config. Both approaches are complementary:

• [FEATURE] Support default variant configuration per agent (#7156) #7138: Set default variant in config (e.g., build agent always uses high variant)
• [FEATURE]: Add --variant flag to root opencode command #7354: Override via CLI flag (e.g., opencode --variant max --prompt ...)

These work together to give users flexible variant control at both the configuration and CLI levels.

[ekweible]

This one seemed fairly straightforward and given that opencode run already supports it, I assumed it would be reasonable to have on the root command, too, so I opened a PR here: #7358

Feel free to close if that's not the case!

[gjermundgaraba]

Just to add to this, would like to see this added.
For context, I use the root opencode command to quickly spin up a code review with a script that creates a worktree for a PR's branch and launches opencode with a prompt (using a custom slash command). The reason I want variant is becuase I want to use max for claude and xhigh for codex (I usually like to run one with each).

I am using a fork locally for this, right now, but would love to get this functionality upstreamed. I'll link my fork's commit in the PR, in case there is anything useful there :)

[github-actions]

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[zclllyybb]

Meaningful feature, are there still people following up on it now?