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Replaces https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13913 by @otavio, whose commits are kept on this branch. Thanks to them for the original change and for working out Claude Code's cold-cache gateway discovery against a real gateway. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13913 couldn't be updated in place: it comes from an organization-owned fork, and GitHub doesn't let maintainers push to those.

Resolves #13875, which was moved to a discussion.

Problem

Claude Code can run behind an Anthropic-compatible gateway (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL with CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY=1). Its /model then lists the gateway's models, but T3's Claude picker only offered the bundled catalog and the user's custom models.

There was a second problem. Claude Code reports gateway models only from $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/cache/gateway-models.json, which it refreshes in the background after startup. T3's capability probe ended the Claude process as soon as startup finished, so with a fresh config dir that cache was never written, and the models never showed up however often T3 probed.

Fix

• The capability probe keeps the models list from initializationResult(). The provider snapshot adds every reported id the catalog doesn't know as a regular (non-custom) row.
  • Matching ignores case and a [1m]-style suffix, and also checks against catalog aliases, resolvedModel, and the user's custom models.
  • The full catalog is used, not the version-filtered one, so a model the installed CLI is too old for isn't re-added as a bare row.
  • Claude Code's default pointer is skipped.
• A discovered model's Reasoning options are the effort levels Claude Code reports for it, with "Default" first. Default sends no effort, so Claude Code picks the effort itself. No fast-mode toggle is offered.
• The probe still returns as soon as Claude Code has started. When discovery is on, though, it lets that Claude process run for Claude Code's discovery timeout (CLAUDE_CODE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT_MS, default 3 s) before stopping it, so the cache gets written.
  • Both settings are read from the process environment and from Claude's settings.json env, where gateway users usually put them. Unquoted values there are accepted.
  • Only the machine-level probe waits. Per-folder workspace probes still stop Claude right away.

Compared with https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/13913, the turn runtime is untouched. The adapter already passes an unknown model id and a valid effort straight to Claude Code, so the catalog changes to the driver, adapter and text generation were removed, along with the forced High default.

Proof

A dev server, with a Claude instance pointed at OpenRouter's Anthropic API using a fresh, sandboxed config dir. Only that config dir's settings.json set the gateway and discovery settings, with the flag unquoted.

Before (main): the first probe on a fresh config dir. On main, this is all a gateway user ever sees.

After: the next provider refresh lists the gateway's models.

A real turn on "Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash" with Low. The Claude process ran with --model anthropic/google/gemini-3.8-flash[1m] --effort low. After switching back to Default, the next turn ran with no --effort.

Control run, a direct SDK probe against the same gateway with a fresh config dir:

• Stopping Claude right after startup (main's behavior), twice in a row: 5 models reported, no cache/gateway-models.json written.
• Keeping it running for the discovery timeout: the cache is written, and the next startup reports the gateway's models.

Tests

• One status test covers which reported models are added or deduplicated, and their options.
• One probe test checks that the probe passes on the models Claude Code reports, and that the Claude process stays alive for the discovery timeout when the settings come from settings.json.

Both fail without the change. vp run check:changed passes, except ClaudeSkills.test.ts › merges plugin enablement…, which fails on main too on the machine I ran it on.

Known limits

• Gateway models appear on the probe after the one that triggered discovery: the next provider health check or refresh. Gateways usually don't answer get_usage, which skips the 5-minute capability cache.
• Claude Code itself keeps only gateway ids matching /(claude|anthropic)/i.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code, in T3 Code. Tests and implementation passes by Opus and Fable subagents, reviews by Opus and GPT-6.1 Sol.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 1003195

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds models reported by Claude Code while preserving existing catalog entries and selections. Gateway discovery receives a limited subprocess grace period only when already enabled for a custom endpoint.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 322f654 · PR result: 1003195 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

Claude capability probes now collect models reported by the Claude Agent SDK. When gateway discovery is enabled for a usage probe, the probe waits for the configured timeout or three seconds by default before aborting. Provider status combines reported, version-supported, and custom models.

Changes: Claude model discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gateway-aware capability probe apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts	The probe reads gateway discovery settings and delays abort for the configured grace period when discovery is enabled for a usage probe. Initialization results include reported model information. The test checks the default three-second delay and subsequent abort.
Reported model conversion and status assembly apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeModelCatalog.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.test.ts	Reported models are filtered and deduplicated against catalog and custom model IDs. Eligible models include reported effort options and are combined with version-supported and custom models in provider status. The status test checks model names, custom flags, deduplication, and effort options.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeSettings
  participant ClaudeProvider
  participant ClaudeAgentSDK
  participant ClaudeModelCatalog
  ClaudeProvider->>ClaudeSettings: Read merged settings environment
  ClaudeSettings-->>ClaudeProvider: Return gateway discovery values
  ClaudeProvider->>ClaudeAgentSDK: Start capability query
  ClaudeAgentSDK-->>ClaudeProvider: Return initialization result and reported models
  ClaudeProvider->>ClaudeProvider: Wait for grace period, then abort query
  ClaudeProvider->>ClaudeModelCatalog: Convert reported models
  ClaudeModelCatalog-->>ClaudeProvider: Return eligible provider models

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#16672: This PR adds effort options for reported models, but does not change the runtime compilation paths described in the issue.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24214: This PR retains catalog-ID deduplication and does not add availableModels or ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL handling described in the issue.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to 10031

Newly discovered gateway models may not appear immediately after the first probe, although a later refresh resolves the omission.

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Title check		The title is concise, follows conventional commit style, and clearly describes the primary change: listing Claude models reported by Claude Code.
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Linked Issues check		Issue #13875 is closed and supplies historical context only. No active directly linked target remains. Therefore, this pull request has no linked-issue coding requirements.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within the stated Claude model discovery scope. ClaudeModelCatalog.ts maps and deduplicates SDK-reported models. ClaudeProvider.ts retains reported models and waits for gateway cache …

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts:
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- Around line 350-362: Update readClaudeSettingsEnv so it uses the machine
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