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fix(claude): report provider-observed models after fallback - #27738
When Claude replaces an organization-restricted Opus request with Sonnet, T3 continues reporting the requested Opus model to parent agents. In the reported incident on 0.1.6-nightly.20261030.3904, SDK initialization and root response records identify Sonnet, while the completed child thread/run metadata identifies Opus. Successful child completion also omits the fallback notice from the delivered result.
The expected behavior is to distinguish requested configuration from provider-observed execution. No organization-policy bypass was observed.
Change
Capture the root model from Claude SDK system/init, assistant messages, and streaming message_start records. Ignore native-child frames, missing/synthetic values, and auxiliary modelUsage entries.
Persist observedModel on provider turns and project it onto the matching run as a field-only update, without writing a stale full-run snapshot. Preserve observations within the same attempt, including in shared client projections; clear them on restart and ignore reports from older attempts. Requested model selections and options remain unchanged.
Report the observed model through MCP task status and thread/run reads, with separate requestedModel and observedModel fields. Omit unknown observations from MCP JSON. Include both identities and current root provider notices in normal child completion text when models differ, and reconcile the completed parent task's model.
An unknown observation remains absent. Stored effort options describe the request; this change does not infer effective effort.
Scope and approval
This addresses one problem: incorrect execution-model attribution after a confirmed provider fallback. The adapter, contracts, persistence, shared projection, MCP, and completion changes carry the same observation through the existing reporting paths.
Issue #27705 is not yet maintainer-triaged. Maintainer confirmation of the failure and intended behavior remains outstanding under CONTRIBUTING.md's substantial-bug-fix requirement; no prior approval is claimed.
Related open work: #26309 handles restricted-model catalog prevention; #24126 and #23931 synchronize selection after session fallbacks; #24695 handles Bedrock model routing. This change retains requested configuration and reports provider-observed execution separately.
Verification
The initial red/green reproduction used base 848e352b48f982e0f1fe134aa9712d75ba7da3b9. Conflicts are resolved against upstream main 6fc9144a60c4a5f45089316ddd5f7371bafd3bf2; the updated head is 0a4c3a7e33fe6ffb5a5d94d640b7e4ed71734737.
The deterministic regression reconstructs the captured Opus request -> Sonnet init -> organization warning -> successful completion sequence. It exercises the production Claude adapter, orchestrator, disposable SQLite projections, and real MCP task-status service. Completion-format assertions live in the existing subagent projection tests. The MCP service reads the persisted replay projection through a test dependency; the fallback is not replayed over HTTP.
Before the fix, the regressions fail with missing Sonnet provenance and incorrect MCP attribution:
expected undefined to equal 'claude-sonnet-5-5'
expected 'claude-opus-5-5' to equal 'claude-sonnet-5-5'
The stored thread/run selection remains Opus. When the provider emits the captured organization-policy warning, normal completion includes both identities and the original explanation before the assistant result:
Requested model: claude-opus-5-5. Provider-reported model: claude-sonnet-5-5.
Provider notice: Model "claude-opus-5-5" is restricted by your organization's settings. Using claude-sonnet-5-5 instead.
All steps passed.
Notices are limited to the same run and current root node, excluding parented native-child notices. A differing alias or API suffix without a provider notice does not invent a fallback cause.
Focused reproduction commands:
vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts -t 'reports root model'
vp test run apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts -t 'reports the child selection'
vp test run apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts -t 'reports.*child results'
vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SubagentProjection.test.ts -t 'orders assistant messages'
The post-merge verification passed 360 focused tests across the Claude adapter, provider event ingestion, MCP service, subagent completion projection, shared client projection, and automatic Claude completion-delivery integration suites. Coverage includes same-model runs, unfamiliar IDs, omitted/blank/synthetic telemetry, whitespace normalization, native children, and mixed Sonnet/Haiku usage. Init emits one observed-model session update.
Review regressions failed before the follow-up fix and pass afterward: lifecycle state is preserved, stale snapshots cannot overwrite observations, restart clears the observation, and delayed prior-attempt reports are ignored. A further focused run passed 334 tests across the adapter, projection, restart, and shared-client suites.
vp run check:changed 6fc9144a60c4a5f45089316ddd5f7371bafd3bf2 passed: 418 tests across 13 files, all 35 affected-package/dependent typechecks, formatting, lint, both knip passes, and GraphQL validation. Separate typechecks in the four directly affected packages and git diff --check also passed.
The completion projection regression failed before the reason follow-up because it omitted the captured organization-policy warning. All 12 owning-layer tests pass afterward, preserving assistant result IDs and excluding notices from other runs, previous roots, and native children.
The existing MCP toolkit integration now verifies the completed parent's stored task model and result, task-status delivery, follow-ups, and thread reads through the real MCP JSON validator. Its Codex fixture injects a normalized root-model observation before completion; this verifies orchestration/reporting, not Codex telemetry capture. It caught an invalid explicit undefined in MCP JSON before the omission fix. Alias and API-suffix cases preserve raw provider IDs without asserting that every differing ID is a fallback.
A disposable dev server started with --no-seed --home-dir <temporary-directory> and returned HTTP 200 from /.well-known/t3/environment, then was stopped. This is a startup/transport smoke check, not live fallback verification.
Not verified: live execution against an organization-restricted Claude account or browser/device labels. Existing incident threads, organization settings, and the live installation were left unchanged.
Implemented with gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.
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Walkthrough
The orchestration flow captures Claude’s provider-reported root model, preserves it across run and provider-turn projections, and exposes requested and observed models in thread, run, and delegated-task results. Restarted runs clear prior observations.
Run and provider-turn contracts add an optional observedModel. The Claude adapter extracts valid root model values, tracks them on live queries and turns, and includes them in provider-turn and session updates. Replay tests cover recognized, synthetic, empty, and absent model values.
Server and client projections preserve observed models when updates omit them and associate provider-turn observations with matching root nodes and active attempts. Restarted runs clear prior observations. Tests cover stale updates, attempt changes, and projection retention.
MCP thread, run, and delegated-task results include requested and observed model fields and use the observed model when available. Finalized tasks use the child run’s observed model when present, and subagent result text identifies differing requested and observed models and eligible system notices.
sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeSDK
participant ClaudeAdapterV2
participant ProjectionStore
participant OrchestratorMcpService
ClaudeSDK->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Send root frame with provider-reported model
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ProjectionStore: Send provider-turn update with observedModel
ProjectionStore->>OrchestratorMcpService: Provide projected run and thread model fields
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Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#27753: Both changes report requested-versus-provider-observed model differences in delegated-task and thread reporting.
pingdotgg/t3code#24126: Both address Claude fallback models, though this PR records the observed model separately while that PR changes thread selection after fallback.
pingdotgg/t3code#23931: Both represent Claude model downgrade events across thread and provider state.
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, yash-singh1
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0a4c3
Model identities are reported separately, but fallback explanations remain absent from parent-facing results as before.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting provider-observed Claude models after fallback.
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Issue #27705 requires separate requested and provider-observed model reporting and visibility of the organization-policy fallback reason. The PR captures valid root Claude model telemetry, preserves r…
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The changed adapter, contracts, persistence, projections, MCP serialization, completion formatting, and tests support issue #27705. The PR does not implement unrelated model-catalog prevention, refusa…
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Issue #27705 requires separate requested and provider-observed model reporting and visibility of the organization-policy fallback reason. The PR captures valid root Claude model telemetry, preserves requested selection and effort options, persists observedModel by active attempt, exposes both fields through MCP, and adds provider notices to successful child completion when models differ. The added tests cover fallback reporting, stale attempts, restart clearing, MCP output, and notice filtering.
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The changed adapter, contracts, persistence, projections, MCP serialization, completion formatting, and tests support issue #27705. The PR does not implement unrelated model-catalog prevention, refusal fallback, or Bedrock routing. Maintainer approval and live organization-policy verification are non-coding or verification matters and do not make the code changes out of scope.
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Major · Clear the previous attempt’s model observation on restart. · Orchestrator.ts:4607
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:4607 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Clear the previous attempt’s model observation on restart.
When a steer restarts a run with a new model selection, restartedRun copies targetRun.observedModel into the new attempt. If that attempt reports no model, run and delegated-task results identify the previous attempt’s model as the current one. Projection storage also preserves an omitted observedModel, so omitting the field from the restart event will not clear it. Make observation retention attempt-aware, and leave the new attempt’s observation absent until its provider reports one. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts at line
4607:
Update the restartedRun construction so a new attempt does not inherit
targetRun.observedModel, and make projection storage retain observations only
within the same attempt rather than preserving an omitted value across restarts.
Leave the new attempt’s observation absent until its provider reports one.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderEventIngestor.ts:
- Around line 595-603: Update the observedModel handling in
ProviderEventIngestor so a stale run snapshot cannot overwrite newer fields:
guard the full-snapshot run.updated write with writeIfRunCurrent, or replace it
with a field-scoped update that changes only observedModel. Preserve the
existing condition that the run exists and its observedModel differs from the
turn.
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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Line 4607: Update the restartedRun construction so a new attempt does not
inherit targetRun.observedModel, and make projection storage retain observations
only within the same attempt rather than preserving an omitted value across
restarts. Leave the new attempt’s observation absent until its provider reports
one.
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Fold this case into the existing restarted-child test.
The next test already sets different run and thread selections and calls taskStatus. Add the observed-model assertions to that case instead of maintaining a second fixture and service setup. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
As per coding guidelines, “Extend before you add. When an existing test or table covers the behavior, add a row or an assertion there.” The matching path instruction also requires this test rule.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts at line
2418:
Fold the observed-fallback assertions from the test “reports observed fallback
separately from requested child configuration” into the existing restarted-child
test that already uses different run and thread selections and calls taskStatus.
Remove the redundant separate fixture and service setup while preserving
coverage of both requested and observed model values.
12147-12147: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Extend the delegated-task integration test to assert the finalized model.
OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts already exercises finalization and asserts the persisted completion result. Its Codex replay uses one model and does not assert the finalized parent model. Configure differing requested and observed models in this test, then assert the completed parent task stores the observed model while retaining the completion result.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts at line
12147:
Extend the delegated-task integration test in
OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts to use different requested and
observed models in its Codex replay, then assert the completed parent task
stores the observed model while preserving the persisted completion result.
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@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts:
- Around line 7226-7291: Remove the OrchestratorMcpService reportingLayer setup
and taskStatus assertions from this replay test, while retaining its
completion-text coverage. Move the subagentResultForRun assertions for the
provider-reported and requested model prefixes into an existing
SubagentProjection.test.ts case; keep MCP model-mapping coverage in its existing
MCP test.
Review comments at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:
- Around line 2913-2914: Update subagentResultForRun to compare the
provider-reported model against the canonical API model actually sent as
apiModelId, including any option-dependent suffix, and use that same
representation when serializing the MCP model value; do not rely on
resolveClaudeModelSlug alone to derive it.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts:
- Line 2418: Fold the observed-fallback assertions from the test “reports
observed fallback separately from requested child configuration” into the
existing restarted-child test that already uses different run and thread
selections and calls taskStatus. Remove the redundant separate fixture and
service setup while preserving coverage of both requested and observed model
values.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:
- Line 12147: Extend the delegated-task integration test in
OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts to use different requested and
observed models in its Codex replay, then assert the completed parent task
stores the observed model while preserving the persisted completion result.
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Minor · Include the Claude fallback reason in subagentResultForRun. · subagentProjection.ts:210-221
packages/provider-core/src/server/subagentProjection.ts:210-221 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Include the Claude fallback reason in subagentResultForRun.
Claude stores the fallback reason as a system_notice, but subagentResultForRun only selects assistant messages and assistant_message turn items. Parent task completion and MCP terminal summaries both consume this projected text, so they expose the model mismatch but omit the provider’s fallback reason. Include the applicable Claude system notice in the projected completion text.
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around lines 210 - 221:
Update subagentResultForRun to include the applicable Claude system_notice
fallback reason in its projected completion text, alongside the selected
assistant result; preserve the existing message and turn-item selection behavior
and model-mismatch annotation.
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Review comments at @packages/provider-core/src/server/subagentProjection.ts:
- Around line 210-221: Update subagentResultForRun to include the applicable
Claude system_notice fallback reason in its projected completion text, alongside
the selected assistant result; preserve the existing message and turn-item
selection behavior and model-mismatch annotation.
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When requested and observed IDs differ, completion now includes nonempty provider notices from the same run and current root node, alongside both model identities and the selected assistant result. This carries the original organization-policy explanation through parent task completion and MCP terminal summaries. Other runs, previous roots, and parented native-child notices are excluded. The code forwards the provider's words rather than inferring a fallback cause from differing aliases or API suffixes.
The existing completion regression failed before this change because the organization warning was absent. All 12 owning-layer tests pass afterward, including assertions that assistant message/item IDs are preserved and unrelated notices are excluded. Required check:changed also passed: 418 tests across 13 files, all 35 affected-package/dependent typechecks, formatting, lint, both knip passes, and GraphQL validation. The PR description now includes the complete sanitized output example and reproduction command.
The maintainer-triage limitation remains explicit in the scope/approval paragraph. No maintainer approval or live organization-policy verification is claimed.
this does not meet the prior-approval requirement for a substantial bug fix. the pr explicitly states that #27705 is not maintainer-triaged. this change establishes requested-versus-observed model provenance across the adapter, contracts, persistence, shared projections, mcp reads and child completion, so the intended reporting behavior needs maintainer triage. the focused regression and integration evidence does not replace that decision.
have a maintainer confirm the failure and intended attribution scope in #27705, then link the decision here and align the implementation with it before requesting reconsideration. preserve the fallback report and existing verification evidence.
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Problem
Fixes #27705.
When Claude replaces an organization-restricted Opus request with Sonnet, T3 continues reporting the requested Opus model to parent agents. In the reported incident on
0.1.6-nightly.20261030.3904, SDK initialization and root response records identify Sonnet, while the completed child thread/run metadata identifies Opus. Successful child completion also omits the fallback notice from the delivered result.The expected behavior is to distinguish requested configuration from provider-observed execution. No organization-policy bypass was observed.
Change
system/init, assistant messages, and streamingmessage_startrecords. Ignore native-child frames, missing/synthetic values, and auxiliarymodelUsageentries.observedModelon provider turns and project it onto the matching run as a field-only update, without writing a stale full-run snapshot. Preserve observations within the same attempt, including in shared client projections; clear them on restart and ignore reports from older attempts. Requested model selections and options remain unchanged.requestedModelandobservedModelfields. Omit unknown observations from MCP JSON. Include both identities and current root provider notices in normal child completion text when models differ, and reconcile the completed parent task's model.An unknown observation remains absent. Stored effort options describe the request; this change does not infer effective effort.
Scope and approval
This addresses one problem: incorrect execution-model attribution after a confirmed provider fallback. The adapter, contracts, persistence, shared projection, MCP, and completion changes carry the same observation through the existing reporting paths.
Issue #27705 is not yet maintainer-triaged. Maintainer confirmation of the failure and intended behavior remains outstanding under CONTRIBUTING.md's substantial-bug-fix requirement; no prior approval is claimed.
Related open work: #26309 handles restricted-model catalog prevention; #24126 and #23931 synchronize selection after session fallbacks; #24695 handles Bedrock model routing. This change retains requested configuration and reports provider-observed execution separately.
Verification
The initial red/green reproduction used base
848e352b48f982e0f1fe134aa9712d75ba7da3b9. Conflicts are resolved against upstream main6fc9144a60c4a5f45089316ddd5f7371bafd3bf2; the updated head is0a4c3a7e33fe6ffb5a5d94d640b7e4ed71734737.The deterministic regression reconstructs the captured Opus request -> Sonnet init -> organization warning -> successful completion sequence. It exercises the production Claude adapter, orchestrator, disposable SQLite projections, and real MCP task-status service. Completion-format assertions live in the existing subagent projection tests. The MCP service reads the persisted replay projection through a test dependency; the fallback is not replayed over HTTP.
Before the fix, the regressions fail with missing Sonnet provenance and incorrect MCP attribution:
With the fix, the regression asserts:
{ "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "requestedModel": "claude-opus-5-5", "observedModel": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "options": [{ "id": "effort", "value": "high" }] }The stored thread/run selection remains Opus. When the provider emits the captured organization-policy warning, normal completion includes both identities and the original explanation before the assistant result:
Notices are limited to the same run and current root node, excluding parented native-child notices. A differing alias or API suffix without a provider notice does not invent a fallback cause.
Focused reproduction commands:
vp run check:changed 6fc9144a60c4a5f45089316ddd5f7371bafd3bf2passed: 418 tests across 13 files, all 35 affected-package/dependent typechecks, formatting, lint, both knip passes, and GraphQL validation. Separate typechecks in the four directly affected packages andgit diff --checkalso passed.undefinedin MCP JSON before the omission fix. Alias and API-suffix cases preserve raw provider IDs without asserting that every differing ID is a fallback.--no-seed --home-dir <temporary-directory>and returned HTTP 200 from/.well-known/t3/environment, then was stopped. This is a startup/transport smoke check, not live fallback verification.Not verified: live execution against an organization-restricted Claude account or browser/device labels. Existing incident threads, organization settings, and the live installation were left unchanged.
Implemented with gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.