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Problem

Since orchestrator v2 (#2829), createClaudeAdapterV2 has not received the driver's model catalog. Every compileClaudeModelSelection call in ClaudeAdapterV2 falls back to BUNDLED_CLAUDE_MODEL_CATALOG, but clients render options from the live catalog: the remote manifest plus the instance's custom models. Before #2829, the adapter got the live catalog.

This is the same "shows one setting, runs another" class as #16406. Stable v0.0.45 is unaffected.

Change

  • ClaudeDriver passes its modelCatalog to createClaudeAdapterV2. The adapter scopes settings.customModels into it, the same way ClaudeTextGeneration already does.
  • startTurn reads that catalog once per turn and compiles the selection once. The compile drives the reuse check in openQuery and any new process. The turn stores its prompt effort, so steers reuse it.
  • When a process opens, it stores its context window, resolved through resolveClaudeCatalogContextWindowTokens. Usage reports that window, so a continuation turn on a reused process reports the window it actually runs, and catalog entries with a fixed window, such as claude-opus-4-8, report it. Opus 4.6 and 4.7 keep their existing 1M rule.
  • getModelContextWindow reads the latest catalog at call time, so context-handoff sizing matches the query that will run. openSession reads the catalog once first, because modelManifest.current only suspends on its first disk-cache read. Later synchronous reads are safe.

Tradeoffs

If a manifest refresh changes a Claude default mid-session, an untouched selection compiles to a new query identity on its next send. The process is then replaced, or the send is refused while background work runs (#14726). The pre-v2 adapter had the same exposure. I tried pinning each live process to the catalog it opened with. Review found three more edge cases: stale sizing after Stop, pinning leaking across native threads, and newly added options compiling against the old catalog. Manifest default changes are rare, so pinning wasn't worth the complexity.

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This fixes a regression from #2829 that silently drops user-chosen options on custom Claude models. It restores the pre-v2 behavior of compiling against the live catalog. It changes only the Claude driver and adapter, with no contract, client, or settings changes. Opus and Sol found it while triaging #16406 and listed it in this comment.

Verification

Real run. macOS 26, vp run dev from this branch with fresh worktree state. settings.json adds a custom Claude model claude-sonnet-4-5 with an Effort option (Low, Medium default, High). I picked it, set Effort to High, and sent one message, once with this branch and once with main's ClaudeAdapterV2.ts and ClaudeDriver.ts swapped in. The provider event log's query options:

Composer: Sonnet 4.5 (custom) at High, the same in both runs

main:   model=claude-sonnet-4-5  effort=(absent)
branch: model=claude-sonnet-4-5  effort=high

Tests. The adapter tests run startTurn and check the opened Claude query options and reported usage. They wait on terminal receipts and use no sleeps. Commit 06ea9d9ef7 adds them. On main's code, 5 fail:

  • "compiles a custom model's options from the instance settings": expected undefined to equal 'low'
  • "opens queries with the live catalog's defaults": the query opens as claude-sonnet-4-6 instead of claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]
  • "sizes context windows against the latest catalog": expected 200000 to equal 1000000
  • "reports the context window of the turn on a reused process": on main the process is replaced instead of reused
  • "reports a fixed context window from the catalog": expected 200000 to equal 400000

Two more guard this design and pass on main: "steers with the prompt effort of the turn on a reused process" and "reports the running process's window on a continuation after a refresh".

With the fix, vp test run passes 172 tests on ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, claudeModelOptions.test.ts, ClaudeTextGeneration.test.ts and ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.ts. tsc --noEmit for apps/server reports no errors. The synchronous catalog read was checked once against the real ModelManifest: it fails before the first load, and succeeds after it and after a refresh. That throwaway test is not committed.

Not checked:

  • A real manifest refresh end to end.
  • modelCatalog stays optional on ClaudeAdapterV2Options because 16 test call sites build the adapter directly.

Investigated by Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, implemented by Claude Opus 5.5, and reviewed in three rounds by GPT-6.1 Sol plus the Macroscope and CodeRabbit findings, in Claude Code running inside T3 Code.

Fixes #16672

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function* (turnInput: ProviderAdapter.ProviderAdapterV2TurnInput) {
const startedAt = yield* DateTime.now;
const nativeThreadId = yield* getNativeThreadId(turnInput.providerThread);
const modelCatalog = yield* scopedModelCatalog;

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🟡 Medium Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:7278

Provider-continuation turns report usage metadata from the latest model catalog rather than the running query: after a context-window refresh, compiledSelection.apiModelId can identify a 1M-window Sonnet model while the buffered result came from the existing 200K-window process. Reuse the live query's selection for continuation turns instead of recompiling it from the current catalog.

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Provider-continuation turns report usage metadata from the latest model catalog rather than the running query: after a context-window refresh, `compiledSelection.apiModelId` can identify a 1M-window Sonnet model while the buffered result came from the existing 200K-window process. Reuse the live query's selection for continuation turns instead of recompiling it from the current catalog.

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Fixed in 61b19bc. Each live process now stores the context window it opened with, and usage reads it from the process, so a continuation turn reports the window of the process that actually ran. Covered by "reports the running process's window on a continuation after a refresh".

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This backend change makes live remote and custom-model catalog defaults affect existing Claude execution paths, including query options and context-window accounting. An unresolved Medium-severity finding also identifies a possible mismatch between refreshed catalog metadata and output from a reused Claude process.

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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4929d

The implementation has no established runtime failure, but the requested custom-model regression coverage is incomplete.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4929d

The changes align available settings with execution while preserving existing permission controls. Risk appears low, but deployment-wide behavior and every downstream use were not fully verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Within inspected callers, the new influence is concentrated in provider-instance model configuration, process reuse decisions, and context accounting. No catalog-to-tool or catalog-to-permission authority path was identified. This does not establish deployment-wide or external-consumer coverage.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The adapter newly relies on live catalog metadata for configuration, but custom-model scoping supplies capabilities with empty runtime and compatibility metadata. It does not grant instance custom models control over tool, permission, MCP, or sandbox policy. Manifest source authenticity beyond the configured HTTPS source was not established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The production catalog’s initial disk load is completed during session opening. Later current-catalog reads use the cached initialization and do not wait behind network refresh. Failed or older refreshes preserve the last committed manifest, limiting refresh-related disruption to configuration reads.
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning [#16672] ClaudeDriver now passes the live catalog, and ClaudeAdapterV2 compiles selections from it. The PR description also says the compiled selection drives query reuse and new-process creation.… Add adapter regression tests that use a custom model catalog to verify thinking=false reaches the SDK and that custom option changes affect query identity and process reuse.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the fix: compiling Claude adapter selections against the live model catalog.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the problem, change, scope and approval context, tradeoffs, and focused verification results. It also identifies checks that were not performed and names the agents and harness …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to the Claude driver, adapter, and adapter tests. Catalog propagation, selection compilation, and context-window handling support the Claude runtime behavior requested by #1667…
Approvability ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes only the Claude adapter, its driver wiring, and adapter tests. It passes the live model catalog into selection compilation and context-window handling, which fixes a mismatch be…
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[#16672] ClaudeDriver now passes the live catalog, and ClaudeAdapterV2 compiles selections from it. The PR description also says the compiled selection drives query reuse and new-process creation. The added custom-model regression test checks effort options. The inspected existing thinking=false test uses built-in claude-haiku-4-5, not a custom model. The listed new tests do not establish coverage for custom-model thinking=false or custom-option query identities, which #16672 requests.

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- Around line 145-151: Update claudeContextWindow and its turn-sizing call sites
to use the resolved catalog context window for maxTokens when available, falling
back to the existing model/API-ID logic otherwise. Carry the resolved window in
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Comment thread apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts Outdated
The Claude provider snapshot and text generation use the live model
manifest with the instance's custom models scoped in, but the v2 adapter
compiles every selection against the bundled catalog. A custom model's
effort pick is dropped, an omitted option runs the bundled default
instead of the one the composer shows, and context-window sizing
ignores the live catalog.

These tests fail on main: the custom model opens with no effort, the
first query opens without the live catalog's [1m] suffix and effort,
getModelContextWindow does not follow a catalog change, a reused
process reports the wrong context window, and a catalog's fixed window
is ignored. They also require that steers keep the turn's Ultrathink
prefix and that a continuation reports the window of the process it
runs on when a refresh lands between turns.
…l catalog

Since the orchestrator v2 migration (pingdotgg#2829) the Claude driver never
handed its catalog to the adapter, so every selection compiled against
the bundled manifest. A custom model's Effort, Thinking or Context pick
was dropped, a remote-only model lost its effort and [1m] suffix, and an
omitted option ran the bundled default while the composer showed the
remote one.

The driver now passes the same live catalog it builds the provider
snapshot from, and the adapter scopes the instance's custom models into
it, as text generation does. Each turn compiles its selection against
the latest catalog. Steers reuse the turn's prompt effort. Each process
resolves its context window from the catalog when it opens, honoring
fixed and per-option windows, and usage reports that window, so a
reused or continued process is described by what it runs.
getModelContextWindow reads the latest catalog synchronously; the
session's first read loads the manifest cache, after which reads never
suspend.
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🟡 Minor · Cache the resolved catalog for synchronous context-window lookups. · ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:7644

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:7644
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cache the resolved catalog for synchronous context-window lookups.

When a caller supplies an asynchronous modelCatalog effect, openSession awaits it, but getModelContextWindow evaluates it again with Effect.runSync. That callback can throw instead of returning a context window. Keep the latest resolved catalog in a Ref, update it after each scopedModelCatalog read, and have the callback read the cached value.

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Update the context-window callback in openSession to read the latest resolved
catalog from a Ref instead of rerunning the asynchronous scopedModelCatalog with
Effect.runSync; refresh the Ref after each scopedModelCatalog read and use the
cached catalog with resolveClaudeCatalogContextWindowTokens.

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- Line 7644: Update the context-window callback in openSession to read the
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding at ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:7644 (synchronous context-window lookup): leaving this as is.

  • The only production caller of modelCatalog is ClaudeDriver, whose modelManifest.current suspends only on its first disk-cache read. openSession performs that read before getModelContextWindow can be called, so later Effect.runSync reads complete synchronously. This was checked against the real ModelManifest: a synchronous read fails before the first load and succeeds after it and after a refresh.
  • A Ref refreshed on each catalog read was an earlier revision of this PR. It reported stale sizing: ProviderSessionManager skips the adapter's resumeThread for an already-loaded thread (ProviderSessionManager.ts:1485), so after a manifest refresh the cached catalog could disagree with the query that startTurn then opens. Reading at call time avoids that.

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@f4llenz Thanks for the clarification. I withdraw the finding at ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, Line 7644.

The inspected code supports your explanation. openSession completes the cached disk read before exposing getModelContextWindow. Later ModelManifest.current reads use the in-memory manifest and do not wait for a network refresh.

ProviderSessionManager.resumeThread also skips the adapter call for an already-loaded thread. Reading the catalog at call time avoids the stale sizing that a thread-load-based cache could introduce. No change is needed for this finding.


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Learning: In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, synchronous getModelContextWindow reads rely on openSession first completing the scoped model-catalog read. The production ClaudeDriver in apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts supplies ModelManifest.current from apps/server/src/provider/ModelManifest.ts. ModelManifest.current uses a cached initial disk load, then reads the in-memory manifest without waiting on the network-refresh semaphore. Do not flag Effect.runSync here solely because the initial manifest load can suspend. apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts skips the adapter's resumeThread for already-loaded threads, so a catalog snapshot refreshed only during thread loading can return stale context-window sizing after a manifest refresh; the call-time catalog read avoids that.

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2283-2305: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the custom model’s requested settings and query identity.

The acme-claude test starts one turn with effort: low and asserts only the model and effort. Its custom-model fixture has no thinking option. A regression that drops thinking: false or computes the wrong identity for this custom selection can pass. Add assertions for effort: high and thinking: false, then exercise a second turn and assert the expected query reuse or reopen behavior. The existing false-thinking test uses the helper with built-in Haiku; the reused-process test covers built-in Sonnet only.

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Extend the “compiles a custom model's options from the instance settings” test
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