feat(server): list Claude models reported by Claude Code

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Closes #13875.

Problem

When Claude Code runs behind an Anthropic-compatible gateway (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL plus CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY=1), its /model lists the gateway's models, but T3's Claude picker only showed the bundled catalog and manual custom models. Those models also need the same effort control Claude Code offers for them.

Change

The capability probe already reads initializationResult(). It now also keeps init.models. withClaudeReportedModels (in ClaudeModelCatalog.ts) appends reported ids that the catalog does not know as built-in (isCustom: false) entries:

• An id counts as known if its value or resolvedModel matches a catalog slug or alias, ignoring a [1m]-style suffix. Matching uses the full catalog, so a model the installed CLI is too old for is not re-added as a bare row. Claude Code's default pseudo-model is skipped, and a custom model with the same slug keeps its settings-owned row.

• Option descriptors come from what Claude Code reports for the model: a Reasoning select from supportedEffortLevels when supportsEffort is set (default High, matching the Claude custom-model preset), and Fast Mode when supportsFastMode is set.

• The status check and the runtime use the same function. The driver keeps the models from the last successful probe and feeds them into the catalog the adapter and text generation resolve options from, so a chosen effort is actually sent to Claude Code instead of being dropped. The model id is passed through verbatim.

• Claude Code reports gateway models from its cache file and refreshes that cache in the background after startup, under its own CLAUDE_CODE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT_MS (default 3 s). The probe used to abort right after initialization, so with a gateway slower than a few hundred milliseconds discovery never finished and the models never appeared. When discovery is enabled, the probe now returns at once but keeps the subprocess alive for that timeout before aborting it.

If the probe fails or reports no models, behavior is unchanged.

Known limits: Claude Code only keeps gateway ids that match /(claude|anthropic)/i. From a cold config dir, gateway models appear on the probe after the one that discovered them, and the capabilities cache lives 5 minutes. Claude Code itself does not discover models from a gateway slower than its discovery timeout.

Scope and approval

Issue #13875 was triaged and accepted by a maintainer: #13875 (comment)

Verification

• Reproduced the reported problem (report: discovered models listed but with no effort menu). With Claude Code 2.1.285 on Linux, I pointed the Agent SDK at a local fake gateway serving /v1/models with CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY=1 and an isolated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR. init.models reported the discovered ids with supportsEffort: true and supportedEffortLevels: ["low","medium","high","xhigh","max"], while the previous commit gave them empty capabilities.
• End to end against the real CLI: a throwaway test ran T3's real probeClaudeCapabilities against the same fake gateway and resolved effort max for the discovered model through the catalog the adapter uses. It was not committed.
• Focused tests: vp test run src/provider/ClaudeModelCatalog.test.ts src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts src/provider/Layers/ClaudeAdapter.test.ts src/textGeneration/ClaudeTextGeneration.test.ts in apps/server: 217 passed. New coverage: a discovered model resolves effort and default and passes its id through unchanged, a model without supportsEffort gets no effort option, and the status check builds the Reasoning descriptor from the reported levels. tsc --noEmit for apps/server is clean.
• Real gateway, cold CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (details): CLIProxyAPI 7.3.10 with a fresh config dir per run, T3's real probe and checkClaudeProviderStatus, plus a proxy delaying /v1/models. With the grace period, status still returns in about 0.6 s, and 1 s and 2.5 s gateways show their models on the second probe. Before it, a 1 s gateway never did. A new ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe test covers the delayed abort and fails without it.
• Not checked: the picker in a running client. The web picker renders whatever descriptors the snapshot carries, the same path catalog models use.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code, in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds newly discoverable Claude models to the user-facing picker and wires their reported options through provider status, text generation, and live query execution. It also changes gateway probe subprocess lifetime and introduces defaults for discovered-model behavior, making the change cross-cutting rather than a small isolated adjustment.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Claude provider now includes eligible models reported during SDK initialization in its model catalog and provider status. It derives model options from reported metadata and retains configured custom models.

Changes

Claude model discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Merge reported models into the catalog apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeModelCatalog.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeModelCatalog.test.ts	The catalog adds eligible reported models and derives reasoning and fast-mode options from their metadata. It skips blank IDs, the default alias, and entries that match catalog models, aliases, or custom model slugs. Tests cover model resolution and effort options.
Capture and retain SDK-reported models apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts	The capability probe includes nonempty SDK-reported model metadata. The driver stores models from successful probes and combines them with the manifest catalog and configured custom models.
Apply reported models to provider status apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts	Provider status merges reported models before version-based model resolution. The test checks gateway-reported models, effort options, and preservation of configured custom names.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeSDK
  participant ClaudeProvider
  participant ClaudeDriver
  participant ProviderStatus
  ClaudeSDK->>ClaudeProvider: Return init.models
  ClaudeProvider->>ClaudeDriver: Provide models from successful capability probe
  ClaudeDriver->>ClaudeDriver: Combine reported models with manifest and custom models
  ProviderStatus->>ProviderStatus: Merge reported models before version-based resolution

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 700ee

The picker can show duplicate gateway models when discovery reports suffixed IDs. The correction is localized; otherwise the supplied evidence supports mergeability with this bounded issue acknowledged.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 700ee

The change lets externally reported choices and options influence execution, but the reviewed paths do not show expanded access permissions. Remaining uncertainty concerns metadata trust and refresh consistency.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A producer able to influence initialization model reports can influence newly advertised choices and execution options for the consuming provider instance. The reviewed references are not shared across instances, and selections are checked against the bound instance. Wider tenant, service, or credential exposure was not established because upstream configuration authority and SDK routing semantics remain incompletely traced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The discovery probe disables hooks, allows no tools, uses strict empty MCP configuration, and does not persist a session. At execution, reported identifiers enter structured SDK options; permission mode, directory grants, and MCP endpoint credentials are derived separately from runtime settings and session state, not from reported model metadata.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Last-successful retention supports transient probe failure without demonstrating a new permission grant. However, retained public rows and runtime metadata have different replacement rules. Their presence should not be interpreted as current gateway availability or revocation state; concurrent refresh completion ordering remains unresolved.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	For #13875, probeClaudeCapabilities retains initializationResult().models. checkClaudeProviderStatus merges those models with the catalog and custom models. withClaudeReportedModels skips `def…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The production changes and tests directly implement #13875. They add SDK model discovery, picker merging, runtime catalog support, and option handling for discovered models. No unrelated product behav…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exposing Claude Code-reported models in the server.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections, explains the problem and implementation, links maintainer approval, documents focused verification and observed results, and states what was not checked…

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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts (1)

2724-2771: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert model projection in the capability-probe test.

ProviderRegistry.test.ts injects claudeCapabilities(...) directly. It does not exercise probeClaudeCapabilities() or the initializationResult().models projection.

The probe test sends models: [] and does not assert models. A regression that drops SDK models can pass both tests. checkClaudeProviderStatus() then omits discovered gateway models from the server-reported list used by the model picker.

Add one gateway model to the mocked initialization response and assert that the probe returns it.

Suggested fix

-      "      models: [],",
+      '      models: [{ value: "gateway/glm-5", displayName: "GLM 5", description: "" }],',
...
         usage: {
           rate_limits_available: true,
           rate_limits: { five_hour: { utilization: 12, resets_at: "2026-07-18T14:39:00Z" } },
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+        models: [{ value: "gateway/glm-5", displayName: "GLM 5", description: "" }],
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The approval in #13875 calls out cold gateway discovery. The status test injects an already-populated model list, and the PR says a real gateway hasn't been checked. To complete verification, can you show the models returned with a fresh CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR on the first and subsequent probes, or obtain maintainer agreement for the delayed-discovery limitation?

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@juliusmarminge I checked cold gateway discovery against a real gateway, and it found a bug that d772abd1b6 fixes.

Setup: CLIProxyAPI 7.3.10 (the gateway from #13875, from nixpkgs) on Linux, with Claude Code 2.1.285. It exposed two models (glm-5, kimi-k2), with ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY=1 set and every other ANTHROPIC_*/CLAUDE_* variable removed. Each run used a freshly created CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR and called T3's real probeClaudeCapabilities and checkClaudeProviderStatus, with nothing mocked. A small proxy in front of the gateway delayed /v1/models to simulate slow gateways.

How Claude Code behaves (2.1.285): the model list it reports at initialization comes only from $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/cache/gateway-models.json. It fetches /v1/models in the background after startup, with CLAUDE_CODE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT_MS (default 3000), and writes the cache only if that fetch completes. It also keeps only ids that match /(claude|anthropic)/i, which is why CLIProxyAPI disguises ids as claude-fable-5-dd-….

Before the fix: the probe aborted Claude Code about 0.2–0.8 s after initialization.

/v1/models latency	Probe 1 (cold)	Later probes
instant	models shown	shown
300 ms	missing	shown
1 s, 5 s	missing	never shown: the fetch is killed every time, so no cache is ever written

After d772abd1b6: when discovery is enabled, the probe still returns immediately (status in about 0.6 s), but the subprocess stays alive for Claude Code's discovery timeout before it is aborted.

/v1/models latency	Probe 1 (cold)	Probe 2	Cache written
1 s	missing	models shown	yes
2.5 s	missing	models shown	yes
5 s	missing	missing	no: Claude Code's own 3 s timeout, so /model in Claude Code doesn't get them either

So the remaining limit is the one in the PR: from a cold config dir, the models appear one probe later, and the capabilities cache lives 5 minutes. T3 never calls the gateway itself. A new ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe test covers the delayed abort and fails without the fix.