diff --git a/.changeset/broad-custom-provider-efforts.md b/.changeset/broad-custom-provider-efforts.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c0746956176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/broad-custom-provider-efforts.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@kilocode/cli": patch
+"kilo-code": patch
+---
+
+Automatically expose broad reasoning effort options for custom provider models and link saved providers to advanced JSON configuration.
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/src/shared/custom-provider.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/src/shared/custom-provider.ts
index 757897d1c16..3ac8ddb917b 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/src/shared/custom-provider.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/src/shared/custom-provider.ts
@@ -12,14 +12,7 @@ export const EnvSchema = z
   .trim()
   .regex(/^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*$/, INVALID_ENV)
 
-const VariantConfigSchema = z.object({
-  enable_thinking: z.boolean().optional(),
-  thinking: z.object({ type: z.enum(["enabled", "disabled", "adaptive"]) }).optional(),
-  reasoning_split: z.boolean().optional(),
-  reasoningEffort: z.enum(["none", "minimal", "low", "medium", "high", "xhigh"]).optional(),
-  effort: z.enum(["low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"]).optional(),
-  chat_template_args: z.object({ enable_thinking: z.boolean() }).optional(),
-})
+const VariantConfigSchema = z.record(z.string(), z.unknown())
 
 export type VariantConfig = z.infer<typeof VariantConfigSchema>
 
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider-dialog-validate.test.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider-dialog-validate.test.ts
index be1f69c0504..814b2147e0b 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider-dialog-validate.test.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider-dialog-validate.test.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ describe("validateCustomProvider – variant name validation", () => {
     ]
     const out = validateCustomProvider(args(form))
     expect(out.result).toBeUndefined()
-    expect(out.errors.models[0].variants?.[0]?.name).toBe("provider.custom.error.required")
+    expect(out.errors.models[0].variants?.[0]?.name).toBe('variants[""]: provider.custom.error.required')
   })
 
   it("blocks submit and reports error when reasoning is enabled with a whitespace-only variant name", () => {
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ describe("validateCustomProvider – variant name validation", () => {
     ]
     const out = validateCustomProvider(args(form))
     expect(out.result).toBeUndefined()
-    expect(out.errors.models[0].variants?.[0]?.name).toBe("provider.custom.error.required")
+    expect(out.errors.models[0].variants?.[0]?.name).toBe('variants["   "]: provider.custom.error.required')
   })
 
   it("blocks submit and reports duplicate error for two variants with the same name", () => {
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ describe("validateCustomProvider – variant name validation", () => {
     ]
     const out = validateCustomProvider(args(form))
     expect(out.result).toBeUndefined()
-    expect(out.errors.models[0].variants?.[1]?.name).toBe("provider.custom.error.duplicate")
+    expect(out.errors.models[0].variants?.[1]?.name).toBe('variants["fast"]: provider.custom.error.duplicate')
   })
 
   it("ignores variants entirely when reasoning is disabled, even if they have empty names", () => {
@@ -206,6 +206,34 @@ describe("validateCustomProvider – variant name validation", () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it("preserves opaque variant options after the editor controls are removed", () => {
+    const form = base()
+    const raw = {
+      thinking: { type: "adaptive", display: "summarized" },
+      reasoningSummary: "auto",
+      include: ["reasoning.encrypted_content"],
+      customOption: { enabled: true },
+    }
+    form.models[0].reasoning = true
+    form.models[0].variants = [
+      {
+        name: "high",
+        raw,
+        enableThinking: undefined,
+        thinking: "adaptive",
+        splitReasoning: undefined,
+        outputEffort: undefined,
+        reasoningEffort: undefined,
+        chatTemplateArgs: undefined,
+      },
+    ]
+
+    const out = validateCustomProvider(args(form))
+    expect(out.result).toBeDefined()
+    const saved = out.result!.config.models["model-1"] as Record<string, unknown>
+    expect(saved.variants).toEqual({ high: raw })
+  })
+
   it("serializes image modality when supportsImages is set", () => {
     const form = base()
     form.models[0].supportsImages = true
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider.test.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider.test.ts
index b4869706e43..30b420abb95 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider.test.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/custom-provider.test.ts
@@ -162,6 +162,35 @@ describe("sanitizeCustomProviderConfig", () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it("preserves opaque options on existing variants", () => {
+    const variant = {
+      thinking: { type: "adaptive", display: "summarized" },
+      reasoningEffort: "max",
+      reasoningSummary: "auto",
+      include: ["reasoning.encrypted_content"],
+      customOption: { enabled: true },
+    }
+    const result = sanitizeCustomProviderConfig({
+      name: "Thinking Provider",
+      options: { baseURL: "https://example.com/v1" },
+      models: {
+        "model-1": {
+          name: "Model One",
+          variants: { high: variant },
+        },
+      },
+    })
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      value: {
+        npm: "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible",
+        name: "Thinking Provider",
+        options: { baseURL: "https://example.com/v1" },
+        models: { "model-1": { name: "Model One", variants: { high: variant } } },
+      },
+    })
+  })
+
   it("preserves core custom model modalities", () => {
     const result = sanitizeCustomProviderConfig({
       name: "Media Provider",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/open-config-message.test.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/open-config-message.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f16f0ee458d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/open-config-message.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "bun:test"
+import { configMessage } from "../../webview-ui/src/utils/open-config"
+
+describe("configMessage", () => {
+  it("builds a global config request with localized labels", () => {
+    const message = configMessage("global", (key, params) => `${key}:${params?.scope ?? ""}`)
+
+    expect(message.type).toBe("openConfigFile")
+    expect(message.scope).toBe("global")
+    expect(message.labels.scope).toBe("settings.config.scope.global:")
+    expect(message.labels.title).toBe("settings.config.title:settings.config.scope.global:")
+    expect(message.labels.openFailed).toBe("settings.config.openFailed:settings.config.scope.global:")
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/provider-actions-save.test.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/provider-actions-save.test.ts
index a6499bab1c6..8f0e10b60a8 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/provider-actions-save.test.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/tests/unit/provider-actions-save.test.ts
@@ -206,6 +206,27 @@ describe("saveCustomProvider", () => {
     expect(calls.set).toEqual([{ providerID: "myprovider", auth: { type: "api", key: "sk-test" } }])
   })
 
+  it("preserves opaque existing variant options through the save boundary", async () => {
+    const variant = {
+      thinking: { type: "adaptive", display: "summarized" },
+      reasoningEffort: "custom",
+      reasoningSummary: "auto",
+      include: ["reasoning.encrypted_content"],
+      customOption: { enabled: true },
+    }
+    const saved = {
+      ...createSavedProvider(),
+      models: { "model-1": { name: "Model One", reasoning: true, variants: { high: variant } } },
+    }
+    const existing = { disabled_providers: [], provider: { myprovider: saved } }
+    const { ctx, calls, setCachedConfig } = createCtx(existing)
+
+    await saveCustomProvider(ctx, "req", "myprovider", saved, undefined, false, null, setCachedConfig)
+
+    const provider = (calls.config[0]?.config.provider as Record<string, typeof saved>).myprovider
+    expect(provider.models["model-1"].variants.high).toEqual(variant)
+  })
+
   // Regression tests for https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode/issues/9186
   //
   // The CLI's config.update endpoint deep-merges its payload with the existing
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderDialog.tsx b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderDialog.tsx
index 1041664e41c..c548b06c76d 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderDialog.tsx
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderDialog.tsx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { useProvider } from "../../context/provider"
 import { useVSCode } from "../../context/vscode"
 import type { ExtensionMessage, ProviderAuthState, ProviderConfig } from "../../types/messages"
 import { createProviderAction } from "../../utils/provider-action"
+import { configMessage } from "../../utils/open-config"
 import { MASKED_CUSTOM_PROVIDER_KEY, resolveCustomProviderKey } from "../../../../src/shared/custom-provider"
 import {
   CUSTOM_PROVIDER_PACKAGE,
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ function modes(raw: unknown): Modalities {
 function parseVariant([name, cfg]: [string, Record<string, unknown>]): VariantEntry {
   return {
     name,
+    raw: cfg,
     enableThinking: typeof cfg.enable_thinking === "boolean" ? cfg.enable_thinking : undefined,
     thinking:
       typeof cfg.thinking === "object" && cfg.thinking !== null
@@ -460,25 +462,6 @@ const CustomProviderDialog = (props: CustomProviderDialogProps) => {
     setErrors("headers", (v) => v.filter((_, i) => i !== index))
   }
 
-  function addVariant(mi: number) {
-    const blank: VariantEntry = {
-      name: "",
-      enableThinking: undefined,
-      thinking: undefined,
-      splitReasoning: undefined,
-      reasoningEffort: undefined,
-      outputEffort: undefined,
-      chatTemplateArgs: undefined,
-    }
-    setForm("models", mi, "variants", (v) => [...v, blank])
-    setErrors("models", mi, "variants", (v) => [...(v ?? []), {}])
-  }
-
-  function removeVariant(mi: number, vi: number) {
-    setForm("models", mi, "variants", (v) => v.filter((_, i) => i !== vi))
-    setErrors("models", mi, "variants", (v) => (v ?? []).filter((_, i) => i !== vi))
-  }
-
   function validate() {
     const output = validateCustomProvider({
       form,
@@ -581,6 +564,19 @@ const CustomProviderDialog = (props: CustomProviderDialogProps) => {
               {language.t("provider.custom.description.link")}
             </a>
             {language.t("provider.custom.description.suffix")}
+            <Show when={editing()}>
+              <div style={{ "margin-top": "8px" }}>
+                <a
+                  href="#"
+                  onClick={(e) => {
+                    e.preventDefault()
+                    vscode.postMessage(configMessage("global", language.t))
+                  }}
+                >
+                  {language.t("provider.custom.edit.advanced")}
+                </a>
+              </div>
+            </Show>
           </div>
 
           <div style={{ display: "flex", "flex-direction": "column", gap: "16px" }}>
@@ -673,7 +669,6 @@ const CustomProviderDialog = (props: CustomProviderDialogProps) => {
               {(m, i) => (
                 <ModelCard
                   m={m}
-                  i={i}
                   errors={errors.models[i()] ?? {}}
                   t={language.t}
                   canRemove={form.models.length > 1}
@@ -682,23 +677,6 @@ const CustomProviderDialog = (props: CustomProviderDialogProps) => {
                   onChangeReasoning={(v) => setForm("models", i(), "reasoning", v)}
                   onChangeSupportsImages={(v) => setForm("models", i(), "supportsImages", v)}
                   onRemove={() => removeModel(i())}
-                  onAddVariant={() => addVariant(i())}
-                  onRemoveVariant={(vi) => removeVariant(i(), vi)}
-                  onChangeVariantName={(vi, val) => setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "name", val)}
-                  onChangeVariantEnableThinking={(vi, val) =>
-                    setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "enableThinking", val)
-                  }
-                  onChangeVariantThinking={(vi, val) => setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "thinking", val)}
-                  onChangeVariantSplitReasoning={(vi, val) =>
-                    setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "splitReasoning", val)
-                  }
-                  onChangeVariantReasoningEffort={(vi, val) =>
-                    setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "reasoningEffort", val)
-                  }
-                  onChangeVariantOutputEffort={(vi, val) => setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "outputEffort", val)}
-                  onChangeVariantChatTemplateArgs={(vi, val) =>
-                    setForm("models", i(), "variants", vi, "chatTemplateArgs", val)
-                  }
                 />
               )}
             </For>
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderModelCard.tsx b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderModelCard.tsx
index d1b4ea13f3d..a33984738c3 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderModelCard.tsx
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderModelCard.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-import { Button } from "@kilocode/kilo-ui/button"
 import { IconButton } from "@kilocode/kilo-ui/icon-button"
-import { Select } from "@kilocode/kilo-ui/select"
 import { TextField } from "@kilocode/kilo-ui/text-field"
-import { For, Show } from "solid-js"
+import { Show } from "solid-js"
 import { useLanguage } from "../../context/language"
 
 export type Translator = ReturnType<typeof useLanguage>["t"]
@@ -23,6 +21,7 @@ export type Modalities = {
 
 export type VariantEntry = {
   name: string
+  raw?: Record<string, unknown>
   enableThinking: EnableThinkingValue
   thinking: ThinkingTypeValue
   splitReasoning: SplitReasoningValue
@@ -40,264 +39,8 @@ export type ModelEntry = {
   variants: VariantEntry[]
 }
 
-type SelectOption<T> = { value: T; labelKey: string }
-
-const ENABLE_THINKING_OPTIONS: SelectOption<EnableThinkingValue>[] = [
-  { value: undefined, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset" },
-  { value: true, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true" },
-  { value: false, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false" },
-]
-
-const THINKING_OPTIONS: SelectOption<ThinkingTypeValue>[] = [
-  { value: undefined, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset" },
-  { value: "enabled", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled" },
-  { value: "disabled", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled" },
-  { value: "adaptive", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive" },
-]
-
-const SPLIT_REASONING_OPTIONS: SelectOption<SplitReasoningValue>[] = [
-  { value: undefined, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset" },
-  { value: true, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true" },
-  { value: false, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false" },
-]
-
-const CHAT_TEMPLATE_ARGS_OPTIONS: SelectOption<ChatTemplateArgsValue>[] = [
-  { value: undefined, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset" },
-  { value: true, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true" },
-  { value: false, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false" },
-]
-
-const REASONING_EFFORT_OPTIONS: SelectOption<ReasoningEffortValue>[] = [
-  { value: undefined, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset" },
-  { value: "none", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none" },
-  { value: "minimal", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal" },
-  { value: "low", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low" },
-  { value: "medium", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium" },
-  { value: "high", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high" },
-  { value: "xhigh", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh" },
-]
-
-const OUTPUT_EFFORT_OPTIONS: SelectOption<OutputEffortValue>[] = [
-  { value: undefined, labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset" },
-  { value: "low", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low" },
-  { value: "medium", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium" },
-  { value: "high", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high" },
-  { value: "xhigh", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh" },
-  { value: "max", labelKey: "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max" },
-]
-
-type VariantRowProps = {
-  v: VariantEntry
-  vi: () => number
-  isFirst: () => boolean
-  error: { name?: string } | undefined
-  t: Translator
-  onChangeName: (val: string) => void
-  onChangeEnableThinking: (val: EnableThinkingValue) => void
-  onChangeThinking: (val: ThinkingTypeValue) => void
-  onChangeSplitReasoning: (val: SplitReasoningValue) => void
-  onChangeReasoningEffort: (val: ReasoningEffortValue) => void
-  onChangeOutputEffort: (val: OutputEffortValue) => void
-  onChangeChatTemplateArgs: (val: ChatTemplateArgsValue) => void
-  onRemove: () => void
-}
-
-function VariantRow(props: VariantRowProps) {
-  return (
-    <div>
-      <Show when={!props.isFirst()}>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            "border-top": "1px solid var(--border-weak-base, var(--vscode-panel-border))",
-            margin: "4px 0",
-          }}
-        />
-      </Show>
-      <div
-        style={{
-          display: "flex",
-          gap: "8px",
-          "align-items": "stretch",
-          "flex-direction": "column",
-          "padding-top": "4px",
-        }}
-      >
-        <div style={{ "min-width": "100px", flex: "1 1 80px" }}>
-          <TextField
-            label={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.name.label")}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder")}
-            value={props.v.name}
-            onChange={props.onChangeName}
-            validationState={props.error?.name ? "invalid" : undefined}
-            error={props.error?.name}
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            display: "flex",
-            "flex-direction": "column",
-            gap: "4px",
-            flex: "0 0 auto",
-          }}
-        >
-          <label
-            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-          >
-            {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label")}
-          </label>
-          <Select
-            options={ENABLE_THINKING_OPTIONS}
-            current={ENABLE_THINKING_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === props.v.enableThinking)}
-            value={(o) => String(o.value)}
-            label={(o) => props.t(o.labelKey)}
-            onSelect={(o) => props.onChangeEnableThinking(o?.value)}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder")}
-            variant="secondary"
-            size="small"
-            triggerVariant="settings"
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            display: "flex",
-            "flex-direction": "column",
-            gap: "4px",
-            flex: "0 0 auto",
-          }}
-        >
-          <label
-            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-          >
-            {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label")}
-          </label>
-          <Select
-            options={THINKING_OPTIONS}
-            current={THINKING_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === props.v.thinking)}
-            value={(o) => String(o.value)}
-            label={(o) => props.t(o.labelKey)}
-            onSelect={(o) => props.onChangeThinking(o?.value)}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder")}
-            variant="secondary"
-            size="small"
-            triggerVariant="settings"
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            display: "flex",
-            "flex-direction": "column",
-            gap: "4px",
-            flex: "0 0 auto",
-          }}
-        >
-          <label
-            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-          >
-            {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label")}
-          </label>
-          <Select
-            options={SPLIT_REASONING_OPTIONS}
-            current={SPLIT_REASONING_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === props.v.splitReasoning)}
-            value={(o) => String(o.value)}
-            label={(o) => props.t(o.labelKey)}
-            onSelect={(o) => props.onChangeSplitReasoning(o?.value)}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder")}
-            variant="secondary"
-            size="small"
-            triggerVariant="settings"
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            display: "flex",
-            "flex-direction": "column",
-            gap: "4px",
-            flex: "0 0 auto",
-          }}
-        >
-          <label
-            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-          >
-            {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label")}
-          </label>
-          <Select
-            options={REASONING_EFFORT_OPTIONS}
-            current={REASONING_EFFORT_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === props.v.reasoningEffort)}
-            value={(o) => String(o.value)}
-            label={(o) => props.t(o.labelKey)}
-            onSelect={(o) => props.onChangeReasoningEffort(o?.value)}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder")}
-            variant="secondary"
-            size="small"
-            triggerVariant="settings"
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            display: "flex",
-            "flex-direction": "column",
-            gap: "4px",
-            flex: "0 0 auto",
-          }}
-        >
-          <label
-            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-          >
-            {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label")}
-          </label>
-          <Select
-            options={OUTPUT_EFFORT_OPTIONS}
-            current={OUTPUT_EFFORT_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === props.v.outputEffort)}
-            value={(o) => String(o.value)}
-            label={(o) => props.t(o.labelKey)}
-            onSelect={(o) => props.onChangeOutputEffort(o?.value)}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder")}
-            variant="secondary"
-            size="small"
-            triggerVariant="settings"
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            display: "flex",
-            "flex-direction": "column",
-            gap: "4px",
-            flex: "0 0 auto",
-          }}
-        >
-          <label
-            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-          >
-            {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label")}
-          </label>
-          <Select
-            options={CHAT_TEMPLATE_ARGS_OPTIONS}
-            current={CHAT_TEMPLATE_ARGS_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === props.v.chatTemplateArgs)}
-            value={(o) => String(o.value)}
-            label={(o) => props.t(o.labelKey)}
-            onSelect={(o) => props.onChangeChatTemplateArgs(o?.value)}
-            placeholder={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder")}
-            variant="secondary"
-            size="small"
-            triggerVariant="settings"
-          />
-        </div>
-        <IconButton
-          type="button"
-          icon="trash"
-          variant="ghost"
-          onClick={props.onRemove}
-          aria-label={props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.remove")}
-          style={{ "margin-bottom": "4px" }}
-        />
-      </div>
-    </div>
-  )
-}
-
 type ModelCardProps = {
   m: ModelEntry
-  i: () => number
   errors: { id?: string; name?: string; variants?: Array<{ name?: string }> }
   t: Translator
   canRemove: boolean
@@ -306,18 +49,11 @@ type ModelCardProps = {
   onChangeReasoning: (val: boolean) => void
   onChangeSupportsImages: (val: boolean) => void
   onRemove: () => void
-  onAddVariant: () => void
-  onRemoveVariant: (vi: number) => void
-  onChangeVariantName: (vi: number, val: string) => void
-  onChangeVariantEnableThinking: (vi: number, val: EnableThinkingValue) => void
-  onChangeVariantThinking: (vi: number, val: ThinkingTypeValue) => void
-  onChangeVariantSplitReasoning: (vi: number, val: SplitReasoningValue) => void
-  onChangeVariantReasoningEffort: (vi: number, val: ReasoningEffortValue) => void
-  onChangeVariantOutputEffort: (vi: number, val: OutputEffortValue) => void
-  onChangeVariantChatTemplateArgs: (vi: number, val: ChatTemplateArgsValue) => void
 }
 
 export function ModelCard(props: ModelCardProps) {
+  const issue = () => props.errors.variants?.find((error) => error.name)?.name
+
   return (
     <div
       style={{
@@ -399,39 +135,15 @@ export function ModelCard(props: ModelCardProps) {
         {props.t("provider.custom.models.modalities.image")}
       </label>
 
-      {/* Variants — only available when reasoning is enabled */}
-      <Show when={props.m.reasoning}>
-        <Show when={props.m.variants.length > 0}>
-          <div style={{ display: "flex", "flex-direction": "column", gap: "0" }}>
-            <label
-              style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-11)", "font-weight": "500", color: "var(--text-weak-base)" }}
-            >
-              {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.label")}
-            </label>
-            <For each={props.m.variants}>
-              {(v, vi) => (
-                <VariantRow
-                  v={v}
-                  vi={vi}
-                  isFirst={() => vi() === 0}
-                  error={props.errors.variants?.[vi()]}
-                  t={props.t}
-                  onChangeName={(val) => props.onChangeVariantName(vi(), val)}
-                  onChangeEnableThinking={(val) => props.onChangeVariantEnableThinking(vi(), val)}
-                  onChangeThinking={(val) => props.onChangeVariantThinking(vi(), val)}
-                  onChangeSplitReasoning={(val) => props.onChangeVariantSplitReasoning(vi(), val)}
-                  onChangeReasoningEffort={(val) => props.onChangeVariantReasoningEffort(vi(), val)}
-                  onChangeOutputEffort={(val) => props.onChangeVariantOutputEffort(vi(), val)}
-                  onChangeChatTemplateArgs={(val) => props.onChangeVariantChatTemplateArgs(vi(), val)}
-                  onRemove={() => props.onRemoveVariant(vi())}
-                />
-              )}
-            </For>
-          </div>
-        </Show>
-        <Button type="button" size="small" variant="ghost" icon="plus-small" onClick={props.onAddVariant}>
-          {props.t("provider.custom.models.variants.add")}
-        </Button>
+      <Show when={issue()}>
+        {(error) => (
+          <span
+            role="alert"
+            style={{ "font-size": "var(--kilo-font-size-12)", color: "var(--vscode-errorForeground)" }}
+          >
+            {error()}
+          </span>
+        )}
       </Show>
     </div>
   )
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderValidation.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderValidation.ts
index 2331d295435..2300e9fe910 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderValidation.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/CustomProviderValidation.ts
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ const PROVIDER_ID = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-_]*$/
 
 function checkVariant(v: VariantEntry, seen: Set<string>, t: Translator) {
   const n = v.name.trim()
-  if (!n) return { name: t("provider.custom.error.required") }
-  if (seen.has(n)) return { name: t("provider.custom.error.duplicate") }
+  const path = `variants[${JSON.stringify(v.name)}]`
+  if (!n) return { name: `${path}: ${t("provider.custom.error.required")}` }
+  if (seen.has(n)) return { name: `${path}: ${t("provider.custom.error.duplicate")}` }
   seen.add(n)
   return { name: undefined }
 }
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ function checkProviderID(id: string, editing: boolean, disabled: string[], exist
 }
 
 function serializeVariant(v: VariantEntry): [string, Record<string, unknown>] {
+  if (v.raw) return [v.name.trim(), v.raw]
   const cfg: Record<string, unknown> = {}
   if (v.enableThinking !== undefined) cfg.enable_thinking = v.enableThinking
   if (v.thinking !== undefined) cfg.thinking = { type: v.thinking }
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/Settings.tsx b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/Settings.tsx
index 8bd39f14a44..ab8a5e99fba 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/Settings.tsx
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/settings/Settings.tsx
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import SandboxingTab from "./SandboxingTab"
 import * as Sandboxing from "./sandboxing"
 import { useServer } from "../../context/server"
 import type { MigrationSource } from "../../types/messages"
+import { configMessage } from "../../utils/open-config"
 
 export interface SettingsProps {
   tab?: string
@@ -66,34 +67,7 @@ const Settings: Component<SettingsProps> = (props) => {
   }
 
   const open = (scope: "local" | "global") => {
-    const label =
-      scope === "global" ? language.t("settings.config.scope.global") : language.t("settings.config.scope.local")
-    vscode.postMessage({
-      type: "openConfigFile",
-      scope,
-      labels: {
-        scope: label,
-        statusLoaded: language.t("settings.config.status.loaded"),
-        statusLoadedLegacy: language.t("settings.config.status.loadedLegacy"),
-        statusNotLoaded: language.t("settings.config.status.notLoaded"),
-        statusCreate: language.t("settings.config.status.create"),
-        title: language.t("settings.config.title", { scope: label }),
-        placeholder: language.t("settings.config.placeholder"),
-        noWorkspace: language.t("settings.config.noWorkspace"),
-        openFailed: language.t("settings.config.openFailed", { scope: label, message: "{{message}}" }),
-        sourceXdg: language.t("settings.config.source.xdg"),
-        sourceHomeKilo: language.t("settings.config.source.homeKilo"),
-        sourceHomeKilocode: language.t("settings.config.source.homeKilocode"),
-        sourceHomeOpencode: language.t("settings.config.source.homeOpencode"),
-        sourceEnvFile: language.t("settings.config.source.envFile"),
-        sourceEnvDir: language.t("settings.config.source.envDir"),
-        sourceEnvContent: language.t("settings.config.source.envContent"),
-        sourceProjectKilo: language.t("settings.config.source.projectKilo"),
-        sourceProjectRoot: language.t("settings.config.source.projectRoot"),
-        sourceProjectKilocode: language.t("settings.config.source.projectKilocode"),
-        sourceProjectOpencode: language.t("settings.config.source.projectOpencode"),
-      },
-    })
+    vscode.postMessage(configMessage(scope, language.t))
   }
 
   // Sync when the parent changes the tab prop (e.g. via navigate message)
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ar.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ar.ts
index 9a3310b6555..4e8295ad13d 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ar.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ar.ts
@@ -443,44 +443,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "الاسم المعروض",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "الاستدلال",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "صورة",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "المتغيرات",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "إضافة متغير",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "إزالة المتغير",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "الاسم",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "على سبيل المثال: thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(غير محدد)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "تمكين التفكير (مثل Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "نوع التفكير (مثل Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label": "تفعيل التفكير عبر وسائط قالب الدردشة (مثل Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "جهد الاستدلال",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "إزالة النموذج",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "إضافة نموذج",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "فشلت المصادقة. تحقق من مفتاح API أعلاه وحاول مرة أخرى.",
@@ -494,6 +456,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "البحث في النماذج\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "إضافة {{count}} نموذج(نماذج)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "تعديل المزود",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "تحرير الإعدادات المتقدمة في ملف إعداد JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "الرؤوس (اختياري)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "الرأس",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/br.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/br.ts
index 0df91b651c9..8e825534964 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/br.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/br.ts
@@ -454,45 +454,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Nome de Exibição",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Raciocínio",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Imagem",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Variantes",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Adicionar variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Remover variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Nome",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "ex. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(não definido)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Ativar pensamento (ex. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Tipo de pensamento (ex. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Ativar pensamento via args do template de chat (ex. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Esforço de raciocínio",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Remover modelo",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Adicionar modelo",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Falha na autenticação. Verifique a chave de API acima e tente novamente.",
@@ -506,6 +467,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Pesquisar modelos\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Adicionar {{count}} modelo(s)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Editar provedor",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Editar configurações avançadas no arquivo de configuração JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Headers (opcional)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Cabeçalho",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/bs.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/bs.ts
index db0f4590145..36817205996 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/bs.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/bs.ts
@@ -496,45 +496,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Naziv za prikaz",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Zaključivanje",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Slika",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Varijante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Dodaj varijantu",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Ukloni varijantu",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Ime",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "npr. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(nije postavljeno)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Omogući razmišljanje (npr. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Vrsta razmišljanja (npr. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Omogući razmišljanje preko argumenata chat predloška (npr. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Napor zaključivanja",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Ukloni model",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Dodaj model",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError":
@@ -549,6 +510,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Pretraži modele\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Dodaj {{count}} model(a)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Uredi provajdera",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Uredite napredne postavke u JSON konfiguracijskoj datoteci",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Zaglavlja (opcionalno)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Zaglavlje",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/da.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/da.ts
index 6f36adc3d33..af7a402f188 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/da.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/da.ts
@@ -494,45 +494,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Visningsnavn",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Ræsonnement",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Billede",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Varianter",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Tilføj variant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Fjern variant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Navn",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "f.eks. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(ikke angivet)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Aktivér tænkning (f.eks. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Tænkningstype (f.eks. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Aktivér tænkning via chat-skabelonargs (f.eks. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Ræsonnementsindsats",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Fjern model",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Tilføj model",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Godkendelse mislykkedes. Kontrollér API-nøglen ovenfor, og prøv igen.",
@@ -546,6 +507,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Søg modeller\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Tilføj {{count}} model(ler)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Rediger udbyder",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Rediger avancerede indstillinger i JSON-konfigurationsfilen",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Headers (valgfrit)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Header",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/de.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/de.ts
index 4066d9396d9..3bd2234ee43 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/de.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/de.ts
@@ -504,45 +504,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Anzeigename",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Schlussfolgerung",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Bild",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Varianten",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Variante hinzufügen",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Variante entfernen",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Name",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "z.B. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(nicht festgelegt)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Nachdenken aktivieren (z.B. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Art des Nachdenkens (z.B. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Nachdenken über Chat-Vorlagenargumente aktivieren (z.B. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Reasoning-Aufwand",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Modell entfernen",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Modell hinzufügen",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError":
@@ -557,6 +518,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Modelle suchen\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "{{count}} Modell(e) hinzufügen",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Anbieter bearbeiten",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Erweiterte Einstellungen in der JSON-Konfigurationsdatei bearbeiten",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Header (optional)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Kopfzeile",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/en.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/en.ts
index 80f804d969d..637305d8f22 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/en.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/en.ts
@@ -408,45 +408,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Display Name",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Reasoning",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Image",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Variants",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Add variant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Remove variant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Name",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "e.g. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(not set)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Enable thinking (e.g. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Thinking type (e.g. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Enable thinking via chat template args (e.g. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Reasoning effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Remove model",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Add model",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Authentication failed. Check the API key above and try again.",
@@ -460,6 +421,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Search models\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Add {{count}} model(s)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Edit provider",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Edit advanced settings in the JSON config file",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Headers (optional)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Header",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/es.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/es.ts
index 558eb4a26ae..60816982138 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/es.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/es.ts
@@ -497,45 +497,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Nombre para mostrar",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Razonamiento",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Imagen",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Variantes",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Añadir variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Eliminar variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Nombre",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "p. ej. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(no establecido)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Habilitar pensamiento (p. ej. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Tipo de pensamiento (p. ej. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Activar pensamiento mediante args de plantilla de chat (ej. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Esfuerzo de razonamiento",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Eliminar modelo",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Añadir modelo",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError":
@@ -550,6 +511,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Buscar modelos\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Añadir {{count}} modelo(s)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Editar proveedor",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Editar la configuración avanzada en el archivo de configuración JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Headers (opcional)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Header",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fa.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fa.ts
index cda714862bc..2a6ac366bb9 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fa.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fa.ts
@@ -409,45 +409,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "نام نمایشی",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "استدلال",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "تصویر",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "نسخه‌های متغیر",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "افزودن نسخه متغیر",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "حذف نسخه متغیر",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "نام",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "مثلاً thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(تنظیم نشده)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "فعال‌سازی تفکر (مثلاً Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "نوع تفکر (مثلاً Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "فعال",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "غیرفعال",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "تطبیقی",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "تقسیم استدلال (لازم برای مثلاً MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "فعال‌سازی تفکر از طریق آرگومان‌های قالب چت (مثلاً Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "سطح استدلال",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "هیچ",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "حداقل",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "کم",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "متوسط",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "زیاد",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "تلاش خروجی (مثلاً Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "تلاش",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "کم",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "متوسط",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "زیاد",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "حداکثر",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "حذف مدل",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "افزودن مدل",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "احراز هویت ناموفق بود. کلید API بالا را بررسی کرده و دوباره امتحان کنید.",
@@ -461,6 +422,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "جستجوی مدل‌ها…",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "افزودن {{count}} مدل",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "ویرایش ارائه‌دهنده",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "ویرایش تنظیمات پیشرفته در فایل پیکربندی JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "هدرها (اختیاری)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "هدر",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fr.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fr.ts
index 0292d8767a9..e1957ba7500 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fr.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/fr.ts
@@ -498,45 +498,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Nom d'affichage",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Raisonnement",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Image",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Variantes",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Ajouter une variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Supprimer la variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Nom",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "ex. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(non défini)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Activer la réflexion (ex. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Type de réflexion (ex. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Activer la réflexion via les args du modèle de chat (ex. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Effort de raisonnement",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Supprimer le modèle",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Ajouter un modèle",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Échec de l'authentification. Vérifiez la clé API ci-dessus et réessayez.",
@@ -550,6 +511,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Rechercher des modèles\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Ajouter {{count}} modèle(s)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Modifier le fournisseur",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Modifier les paramètres avancés dans le fichier de configuration JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "En-têtes (optionnel)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "En-tête",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/it.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/it.ts
index 10ef2fd2dcb..3f804c4b4dd 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/it.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/it.ts
@@ -318,45 +318,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Nome visualizzato",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Reasoning",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Immagine",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Variants",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Aggiungi variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Rimuovi variante",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Nome",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "es. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(non impostato)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Abilita thinking (es. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Tipo thinking (es. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Enable thinking via chat template args (e.g. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Sforzo di ragionamento",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Rimuovi modello",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Aggiungi modello",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Autenticazione non riuscita. Controlla l'API key sopra e riprova.",
@@ -370,6 +331,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Cerca modelli...",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Aggiungi {{count}} modelli",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Modifica provider",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Modifica le impostazioni avanzate nel file di configurazione JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Header (opzionali)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Header",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Nome-Header",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ja.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ja.ts
index 67c60731ef5..36b3bb91cb3 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ja.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ja.ts
@@ -490,44 +490,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "表示名",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "推論",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "画像",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "バリアント",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "バリアントを追加",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "バリアントを削除",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "名前",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "例: thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(未設定)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "思考を有効にする (例: Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "思考タイプ (例: Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label": "チャットテンプレート引数で思考を有効化 (例: Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "推論エフォート",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "モデルを削除",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "モデルを追加",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "認証に失敗しました。上記のAPIキーを確認して再試行してください。",
@@ -541,6 +503,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "モデルを検索\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "{{count}}個のモデルを追加",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "プロバイダーを編集",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "JSON 設定ファイルで詳細設定を編集",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "ヘッダー（任意）",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "ヘッダー",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ko.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ko.ts
index e7d0664e7b7..ed69706294b 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ko.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ko.ts
@@ -451,44 +451,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "표시 이름",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "추론",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "이미지",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "변형",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "변형 추가",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "변형 제거",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "이름",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "예: thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(설정되지 않음)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "사고 활성화 (예: Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "사고 유형 (예: Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label": "채팅 템플릿 인수로 사고 활성화 (예: Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "추론 노력",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "모델 제거",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "모델 추가",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "인증에 실패했습니다. 위의 API 키를 확인하고 다시 시도하세요.",
@@ -502,6 +464,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "모델 검색\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "{{count}}개 모델 추가",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "공급자 편집",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "JSON 구성 파일에서 고급 설정 편집",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "헤더 (선택사항)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "헤더",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/nl.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/nl.ts
index 40169d8672d..71ad69b7f7c 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/nl.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/nl.ts
@@ -447,45 +447,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Weergavenaam",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Redeneren",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Afbeelding",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Varianten",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Variant toevoegen",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Variant verwijderen",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Naam",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "bijv. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(niet ingesteld)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Denken inschakelen (bijv. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Denktype (bijv. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Nadenken inschakelen via chat template args (bijv. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Redeneerinspanning",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Model verwijderen",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Model toevoegen",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError":
@@ -500,6 +461,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Modellen zoeken\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "{{count}} model(len) toevoegen",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Provider bewerken",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Geavanceerde instellingen bewerken in het JSON-configuratiebestand",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Headers (optioneel)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Header",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Naam",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/no.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/no.ts
index bea79dee720..f2c3e5425e2 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/no.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/no.ts
@@ -457,45 +457,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Visningsnavn",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Resonnering",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Bilde",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Varianter",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Legg til variant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Fjern variant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Navn",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "f.eks. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(ikke angitt)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Aktiver tenkning (f.eks. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Tenkningstype (f.eks. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Aktiver tenkning via chat-malargumenter (f.eks. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Resonneringsinnsats",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Fjern modell",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Legg til modell",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Autentisering mislyktes. Sjekk API-nøkkelen ovenfor og prøv igjen.",
@@ -509,6 +470,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Søk etter modeller\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Legg til {{count}} modell(er)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Rediger leverandør",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Rediger avanserte innstillinger i JSON-konfigurasjonsfilen",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Headere (valgfritt)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Header",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/pl.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/pl.ts
index 701c94122f9..e2048370847 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/pl.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/pl.ts
@@ -452,45 +452,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Nazwa wyświetlana",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Rozumowanie",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Obraz",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Warianty",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Dodaj wariant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Usuń wariant",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Nazwa",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "np. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(nie ustawiono)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Włącz myślenie (np. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Typ myślenia (np. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Włącz myślenie przez argumenty szablonu czatu (np. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Wysiłek rozumowania",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Usuń model",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Dodaj model",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError":
@@ -505,6 +466,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Szukaj modeli\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Dodaj {{count}} model(i)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Edytuj dostawcę",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Edytuj ustawienia zaawansowane w pliku konfiguracji JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Nagłówki (opcjonalnie)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Nagłówek",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ru.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ru.ts
index 9f64e84a176..b022005b489 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ru.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/ru.ts
@@ -491,45 +491,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Отображаемое имя",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Рассуждение",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Изображение",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Варианты",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Добавить вариант",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Удалить вариант",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Имя",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "напр. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(не задано)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Включить мышление (напр. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Тип мышления (напр. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Включить размышление через аргументы шаблона чата (напр. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Усилие рассуждения",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Удалить модель",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Добавить модель",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Ошибка аутентификации. Проверьте API-ключ выше и попробуйте снова.",
@@ -543,6 +504,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Поиск моделей\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Добавить {{count}} модель(ей)",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Редактировать провайдера",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Изменить расширенные настройки в файле конфигурации JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Заголовки (необязательно)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Заголовок",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/th.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/th.ts
index 5b0e38ddf14..189ae8e5b5e 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/th.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/th.ts
@@ -488,45 +488,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "ชื่อที่แสดง",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "การใช้เหตุผล",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "รูปภาพ",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "รูปแบบ",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "เพิ่มรูปแบบ",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "ลบรูปแบบ",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "ชื่อ",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "เช่น thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(ไม่ได้ตั้งค่า)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "เปิดใช้งานการคิด (เช่น Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "ประเภทการคิด (เช่น Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "เปิดใช้งานการคิดผ่านอาร์กิวเมนต์เทมเพลตแชท (เช่น Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "ระดับการใช้เหตุผล",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "ลบโมเดล",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "เพิ่มโมเดล",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "การยืนยันตัวตนล้มเหลว ตรวจสอบคีย์ API ด้านบนแล้วลองอีกครั้ง",
@@ -540,6 +501,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "ค้นหาโมเดล\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "เพิ่ม {{count}} โมเดล",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "แก้ไขผู้ให้บริการ",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "แก้ไขการตั้งค่าขั้นสูงในไฟล์การกำหนดค่า JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "ส่วนหัว (ไม่จำเป็น)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "ส่วนหัว",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/tr.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/tr.ts
index 83a9d8f16ce..7c569cf1db9 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/tr.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/tr.ts
@@ -442,45 +442,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Görünen Ad",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Akıl Yürütme",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Görüntü",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Varyantlar",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Varyant ekle",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Varyantı kaldır",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Ad",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "örn. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(ayarlanmadı)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Düşünmeyi etkinleştir (örn. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Düşünme türü (örn. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Sohbet şablonu argümanları ile düşünmeyi etkinleştir (ör. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Akıl yürütme çabası",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Modeli kaldır",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Model ekle",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError":
@@ -495,6 +456,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Model ara\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "{{count}} model ekle",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Sağlayıcıyı düzenle",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "JSON yapılandırma dosyasında gelişmiş ayarları düzenle",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Başlıklar (isteğe bağlı)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Başlık",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Başlık-Adı",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/uk.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/uk.ts
index e773ee2d54a..ea30dd59d27 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/uk.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/uk.ts
@@ -446,45 +446,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "Відображувана назва",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "Міркування",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "Зображення",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "Варіанти",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "Додати варіант",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "Видалити варіант",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "Ім'я",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "напр. thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "(не встановлено)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "Увімкнути мислення (напр. Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "Тип мислення (напр. Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label":
-    "Увімкнути мислення через аргументи шаблону чату (напр. Hugging Face)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "Зусилля міркування",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "Видалити модель",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "Додати модель",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "Автентифікація не вдалася. Перевірте API-ключ вище і спробуйте ще раз.",
@@ -498,6 +459,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "Пошук моделей\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "Додати {{count}} моделей",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "Редагувати провайдера",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "Редагувати розширені налаштування у файлі конфігурації JSON",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "Заголовки (необов'язково)",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "Заголовок",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Назва-заголовка",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zh.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zh.ts
index 249a332bd1b..11bbdef8350 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zh.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zh.ts
@@ -473,44 +473,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "显示名称",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "推理",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "图片",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "变体",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "添加变体",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "移除变体",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "名称",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "例如 thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "（未设置）",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "启用思考 (例如 Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "思考类型 (例如 Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label": "通过聊天模板参数启用思考（如 Hugging Face）",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "推理强度",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "移除模型",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "添加模型",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "认证失败。请检查上方的 API 密钥后重试。",
@@ -524,6 +486,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "搜索模型\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "添加 {{count}} 个模型",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "编辑提供商",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "在 JSON 配置文件中编辑高级设置",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "请求头（可选）",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "请求头",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zht.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zht.ts
index 93746129e74..d679c55c7fe 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zht.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/i18n/zht.ts
@@ -433,44 +433,6 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.name.placeholder": "顯示名稱",
   "provider.custom.models.reasoning.label": "推理",
   "provider.custom.models.modalities.image": "圖片",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.label": "變體",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.add": "新增變體",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.remove": "移除變體",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.label": "名稱",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.name.placeholder": "例如 thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.option.unset": "（未設定）",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.label": "啟用思考 (例如 Alibaba)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.placeholder": "enable_thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.enableThinking.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.label": "思考類型 (例如 Z.ai)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.placeholder": "thinking",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.enabled": "enabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.disabled": "disabled",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.thinking.adaptive": "adaptive",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.label": "Split reasoning (required for e.g. MiniMax)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.placeholder": "reasoning_split",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.splitReasoning.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.label": "透過聊天範本參數啟用思考（如 Hugging Face）",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.placeholder": "chat_template_args",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.true": "true",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.chatTemplateArgs.false": "false",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.label": "推理強度",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.placeholder": "reasoningEffort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.none": "none",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.minimal": "minimal",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.reasoningEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.label": "Output effort (e.g. Anthropic)",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.placeholder": "effort",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.low": "low",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.medium": "medium",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.high": "high",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.xhigh": "xhigh",
-  "provider.custom.models.variants.outputEffort.max": "max",
   "provider.custom.models.remove": "移除模型",
   "provider.custom.models.add": "新增模型",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.authError": "驗證失敗。請檢查上方的 API 金鑰後重試。",
@@ -484,6 +446,7 @@ export const dict = {
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.search": "搜尋模型\u2026",
   "provider.custom.models.fetch.add": "新增 {{count}} 個模型",
   "provider.custom.edit.title": "編輯供應商",
+  "provider.custom.edit.advanced": "在 JSON 設定檔中編輯進階設定",
   "provider.custom.headers.label": "標頭（選填）",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.label": "標頭",
   "provider.custom.headers.key.placeholder": "Header-Name",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/utils/open-config.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/utils/open-config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9ae1ed38393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/utils/open-config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import type { LanguageContextValue } from "../context/language"
+import type { OpenConfigFileRequest } from "../types/messages"
+
+export function configMessage(scope: "local" | "global", t: LanguageContextValue["t"]): OpenConfigFileRequest {
+  const label = t(scope === "global" ? "settings.config.scope.global" : "settings.config.scope.local")
+  return {
+    type: "openConfigFile",
+    scope,
+    labels: {
+      scope: label,
+      statusLoaded: t("settings.config.status.loaded"),
+      statusLoadedLegacy: t("settings.config.status.loadedLegacy"),
+      statusNotLoaded: t("settings.config.status.notLoaded"),
+      statusCreate: t("settings.config.status.create"),
+      title: t("settings.config.title", { scope: label }),
+      placeholder: t("settings.config.placeholder"),
+      noWorkspace: t("settings.config.noWorkspace"),
+      openFailed: t("settings.config.openFailed", { scope: label, message: "{{message}}" }),
+      sourceXdg: t("settings.config.source.xdg"),
+      sourceHomeKilo: t("settings.config.source.homeKilo"),
+      sourceHomeKilocode: t("settings.config.source.homeKilocode"),
+      sourceHomeOpencode: t("settings.config.source.homeOpencode"),
+      sourceEnvFile: t("settings.config.source.envFile"),
+      sourceEnvDir: t("settings.config.source.envDir"),
+      sourceEnvContent: t("settings.config.source.envContent"),
+      sourceProjectKilo: t("settings.config.source.projectKilo"),
+      sourceProjectRoot: t("settings.config.source.projectRoot"),
+      sourceProjectKilocode: t("settings.config.source.projectKilocode"),
+      sourceProjectOpencode: t("settings.config.source.projectOpencode"),
+    },
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/provider/provider.ts b/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/provider/provider.ts
index cc8a452fc96..21345881ee9 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/provider/provider.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/provider/provider.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import { ProviderError } from "@/provider/error"
 import { Effect, Schema } from "effect"
 import type { LanguageModelV3 } from "@ai-sdk/provider"
 import { mapValues, omit, pickBy } from "remeda"
+import { reasoningSummary } from "./reasoning-summary"
+import type { Provider } from "@/provider/provider"
 
 /** Default timeout (ms) for provider HTTP requests (connection phase). */
 export const REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 300_000 // 5 minutes
@@ -95,6 +97,39 @@ export function patchConfigModel(cfg: any, existing: any) {
   }
 }
 
+const CUSTOM_PROVIDER_PACKAGES = new Set(["@ai-sdk/openai-compatible", "@ai-sdk/openai", "@ai-sdk/anthropic"])
+const FALLBACK_EFFORTS = ["none", "low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"]
+type Variants = NonNullable<Provider.Model["variants"]>
+type Generate = (model: Provider.Model) => Variants
+
+export function customProviderVariants(model: Provider.Model, npm: unknown, generate: Generate): Variants {
+  if (model.variants && Object.keys(model.variants).length > 0) return model.variants
+
+  const supported = typeof npm === "string" && CUSTOM_PROVIDER_PACKAGES.has(npm) && model.api.npm === npm
+  const variants = generate(model)
+  if (Object.keys(variants).length > 0) return variants
+  if (!model.capabilities.reasoning || !supported) return variants
+
+  return Object.fromEntries(
+    FALLBACK_EFFORTS.map((effort) => {
+      if (npm === "@ai-sdk/anthropic") {
+        return [effort, effort === "none" ? { thinking: { type: "disabled" } } : { effort }]
+      }
+      if (npm === "@ai-sdk/openai") {
+        return [
+          effort,
+          {
+            reasoningEffort: effort,
+            reasoningSummary: reasoningSummary(model),
+            include: ["reasoning.encrypted_content"],
+          },
+        ]
+      }
+      return [effort, { reasoningEffort: effort }]
+    }),
+  )
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Custom loaders (new or fully-replaced loaders)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/provider/provider.ts b/packages/opencode/src/provider/provider.ts
index 897e8a6880f..c830ad8bb78 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/src/provider/provider.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/provider/provider.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import {
   KILO_MODEL_SCHEMA_EXTENSIONS,
   patchModelsDevModel as patchKiloModel,
   patchConfigModel as patchKiloConfigModel,
+  customProviderVariants,
   patchCustomLoaderResult,
   patchKiloProviderPrivacy,
   kiloSmallModelPriority,
@@ -1526,7 +1527,12 @@ const layer = Layer.effect(
               // variants: {}, // kilocode_change, moved into patchKiloConfigModel
               ...patchKiloConfigModel(model, existingModel), // kilocode_change
             }
-            const merged = mergeDeep(ProviderTransform.variants(parsedModel), model.variants ?? {})
+            // kilocode_change start
+            const generated = Object.keys(model.variants ?? {}).length
+              ? {}
+              : customProviderVariants(parsedModel, model.provider?.npm ?? provider.npm, ProviderTransform.variants)
+            const merged = mergeDeep(generated, model.variants ?? {})
+            // kilocode_change end
             parsedModel.variants = mapValues(
               pickBy(merged, (v): v is NonNullable<typeof v> => !!v && !v.disabled), // kilocode_change - drop null delete sentinels
               (v) => omit(v, ["disabled"]),
diff --git a/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/custom-provider-variants.test.ts b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/custom-provider-variants.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7de3036fd7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/custom-provider-variants.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { expect } from "bun:test"
+import { LayerNode } from "@opencode-ai/core/effect/layer-node"
+import { ProviderV2 } from "@opencode-ai/core/provider"
+import { Effect } from "effect"
+import { Env } from "@/env"
+import { Plugin } from "@/plugin"
+import { Provider } from "@/provider/provider"
+import { testEffect } from "../lib/effect"
+
+const it = testEffect(LayerNode.compile(LayerNode.group([Provider.node, Env.node, Plugin.node])))
+
+it.instance(
+  "uses configured variants instead of inferred reasoning efforts",
+  () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const providers = yield* Provider.use.list()
+      const model = providers[ProviderV2.ID.make("custom")]?.models["qwen-custom"]
+
+      expect(Object.keys(model?.variants ?? {})).toEqual(["custom"])
+      expect(model?.variants?.high).toBeUndefined()
+      expect(model?.variants?.custom).toEqual({ reasoningEffort: "custom" })
+    }),
+  {
+    config: {
+      provider: {
+        custom: {
+          name: "Custom",
+          npm: "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible",
+          options: { apiKey: "test" },
+          models: {
+            "qwen-custom": {
+              name: "Qwen Custom",
+              reasoning: true,
+              limit: { context: 128_000, output: 16_000 },
+              variants: {
+                high: { disabled: true },
+                custom: { reasoningEffort: "custom" },
+              },
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+)
diff --git a/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/provider-reasoning-options.test.ts b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/provider-reasoning-options.test.ts
index 711820ede3b..5987819421d 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/provider-reasoning-options.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/provider-reasoning-options.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"
 import { ProviderTransform } from "../../src/provider/transform"
 import { Provider } from "../../src/provider/provider"
+import { customProviderVariants } from "../../src/kilocode/provider/provider"
 import type * as ModelsDev from "@opencode-ai/core/models-dev"
 
 function mockModel(overrides: Partial<any> = {}): any {
@@ -138,3 +139,67 @@ describe("ProviderTransform.reasoningVariants - models.dev reasoning_options", (
     expect(Object.keys(gpt5.variants ?? {})).toEqual(["minimal", "low", "medium", "high"])
   })
 })
+
+describe("custom provider fallback reasoning efforts", () => {
+  const efforts = ["none", "low", "medium", "high", "xhigh", "max"]
+
+  for (const npm of ["@ai-sdk/openai-compatible", "@ai-sdk/openai", "@ai-sdk/anthropic"]) {
+    test(`${npm} exposes broad efforts after heuristics fail`, () => {
+      const model = mockModel({ id: "qwen-custom", api: { id: "qwen-custom", url: "https://api.test.com", npm } })
+      const generated = ProviderTransform.variants({ ...model, variants: {} })
+      expect(generated).toEqual({})
+
+      const result = customProviderVariants(model, npm, ProviderTransform.variants)
+
+      expect(Object.keys(result)).toEqual(efforts)
+      if (npm === "@ai-sdk/anthropic") {
+        expect(result.none).toEqual({ thinking: { type: "disabled" } })
+        expect(result.max).toEqual({ effort: "max" })
+        return
+      }
+      expect(result.none?.reasoningEffort).toBe("none")
+      expect(result.max?.reasoningEffort).toBe("max")
+    })
+  }
+
+  test("preserves successful heuristics", () => {
+    const model = mockModel({ api: { id: "custom", url: "https://api.test.com", npm: "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible" } })
+    const generated = { low: { reasoningEffort: "low" }, high: { reasoningEffort: "high" } }
+    expect(customProviderVariants(model, model.api.npm, () => generated)).toBe(generated)
+  })
+
+  test("prefers configured variants to inference", () => {
+    const variants = { custom: { reasoningEffort: "custom" } }
+    for (const npm of ["@ai-sdk/openai-compatible", "@ai-sdk/openai", "@ai-sdk/anthropic"]) {
+      const model = mockModel({ api: { id: "custom", url: "https://api.test.com", npm }, variants })
+      expect(
+        customProviderVariants(model, npm, () => {
+          throw new Error("inference should not run")
+        }),
+      ).toBe(variants)
+    }
+  })
+
+  test("requires a reasoning model with an explicitly configured supported package", () => {
+    const npm = "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible"
+    const plain = mockModel({
+      api: { id: "custom", url: "https://api.test.com", npm },
+      capabilities: { ...mockModel().capabilities, reasoning: false },
+    })
+    expect(customProviderVariants(plain, npm, () => ({}))).toEqual({})
+    expect(
+      customProviderVariants(
+        mockModel({ api: { id: "custom", url: "https://api.test.com", npm } }),
+        undefined,
+        () => ({}),
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({})
+    expect(
+      customProviderVariants(
+        mockModel({ api: { id: "custom", url: "https://api.test.com", npm: "unrelated-provider" } }),
+        "unrelated-provider",
+        () => ({}),
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({})
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/opencode/test/provider/provider.test.ts b/packages/opencode/test/provider/provider.test.ts
index 47051f6ed30..e92389ee2a3 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/test/provider/provider.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/test/provider/provider.test.ts
@@ -1536,14 +1536,13 @@ it.instance(
 )
 
 it.instance(
-  "variant config merges with generated variants",
+  "configured variants remain authoritative", // kilocode_change
   Effect.gen(function* () {
     yield* set("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY", "test-api-key")
     const providers = yield* list
     const model = providers[ProviderV2.ID.anthropic].models["claude-sonnet-4-20250514"]
     expect(model.variants!["high"]).toBeDefined()
-    // Should have both the generated thinking config and the custom option
-    expect(model.variants!["high"].thinking).toBeDefined()
+    expect(model.variants!["high"].thinking).toBeUndefined() // kilocode_change
     expect(model.variants!["high"].extraOption).toBe("custom-value")
   }),
   {