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Problem

ACP agents such as Cline advertise a provider selector followed by a separate model selector. T3 treated both as the primary model catalog and hid the later selector, which could send the wrong selection or discard a saved model choice.

Change

Use the first model selector consistently for the primary picker and expose later selectors as session options. Apply the primary selection first, then validate the exact saved model against the live catalog. Keep each primary model's options separate, preserve saved choices across restart, and prevent unrelated option changes from pinning an unchosen model default. Web, desktop and mobile share the model-selection rule.

Scope and approval

Refs #17072. This fixes a source-backed ACP compatibility defect; it does not claim to reproduce the reporter's Windows failure. The replay follows Cline 3.0.70 source rather than an authenticated recording.

Depends on #19575. Land that PR first, then rebase this branch to remove its carried commit. When reconciling overlap with #19567, retain its Grok current-model change and replay-status fix. This uses generic ACP metadata and adds no agent-specific exception. The existing 64-choice descriptor limit and older client normalization behavior remain.

Verification

Focused web, mobile, shared and native ACP replay checks cover provider switches, disabled-provider fallback, restart, catalog changes, and explicit versus unpicked model choices. Real subprocess replay verifies primary/model/prompt ordering, exact rejection of an obsolete explicit choice, and successful default-model use after an unrelated toggle. Scoped typechecks and lint passed. No live Cline account, Windows, browser or device verification was performed.

Prepared for Wout by claude-opus-5-5 in T3 Code's Claude harness. Validated by gpt-6.1-sol in Codex.

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Cline advertises `provider` and then `model`, both `category: "model"`.
Discovery merged both lists into one model picker, while model writes went
to the first option, so picking a Cline model wrote it to `provider` and the
session failed to open. Session options dropped every model-category option,
so Cline's real model list could not be picked at all.

The first `category: "model"` select now owns the model picker for discovery,
the current model, `setModel`, and custom models (`findModelConfigOption`,
the same rule as pingdotgg#19567). Every later model-category option is an ordinary
session option under its own ID, so the existing option controls show
Cline's model list and the existing option write sends it after the provider
write. Its value is checked against the options the agent returned for that
provider; a value the provider no longer offers fails the open like an
unknown model instead of silently running the default model.

Refs pingdotgg#17072
Refs pingdotgg#18586

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ACP session config options describe only the session's current model, but
the registry snapshot copied one session's options onto every model. The
newest live session then overwrote all models until the instance restarted.

Each probe and live session now records its options against its current
model. The driver keeps probe observations with its probe cache, the runtime
coordinator keeps live observations per instance, and both are cleared on
auth loss, logout, and disposal. The provider registry no longer copies an
older snapshot's options onto ACP Registry models, so polluted caches heal.

Fixes pingdotgg#15177

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit afea60c)
…r's model

With Cline's later `model` option exposed, every primary model carried the
options the last session reported. After switching from `cline` to
`cline-pass` and toggling only Auto-approve, the composer stored `cline`'s
default model, and the strict later-model write failed the open before the
prompt.

This builds on the per-model option ownership cherry-picked from pingdotgg#19575: each
Cline provider shows only the options a probe or session reported for it. An
unseen provider dispatches no options and opens on the agent's own default;
once its session reports, its own catalog and default apply, an explicit pick
for it is kept, and picks stored on another provider resolve to its values.

The new adapter test drives this through the discovery snapshot, the shared
client option helpers, the real registry adapter against the Cline replay
agent, and the runtime coordinator's live observations.

Refs pingdotgg#17072

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After a restart only the probed Cline provider has described its options,
so every other provider was listed with empty capabilities. Web dispatch
normalized a saved ClinePass pick against those empty descriptors and
dropped it, and the agent silently ran ClinePass's default model.

ACP Registry models no session has described now have unknown (null)
capabilities, apart from models observed without options. For a model
whose options are unknown, the web composer sends only the options saved
for that model (the composer's own pick, the thread's or project's
selection for it, or its remembered options) unchanged, and the session
checks a later model choice against the agent's live list. Options
carried over from another model are dropped there, so a provider switch
still cannot send the previous provider's default model. Mobile already
keeps a selection's options for a model without capabilities.

Refs pingdotgg#17072

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A saved ClinePass model that ClinePass's described catalog no longer listed
was replaced by the catalog's current model before dispatch, so the session
ran a model the user never picked. ACP descriptors for later model options
now carry `selectsModel`; clients keep such a saved value as is and the
session accepts or rejects that exact model. Tuning options keep resolving
to an offered value.

The web composer now takes a model-selecting value only from the options
saved for that instance and model. A draft entry counts as the user's own
pick only for the draft's active instance, so falling back from a disabled
provider no longer sends options carried from another Cline provider.

Refs pingdotgg#17072

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Toggling an option such as Auto-approve stored every option's current value,
including Cline's later `model` option at the agent's current default. That
value then counted as a saved pick, so once Cline dropped that model from its
catalog the thread, new chats seeded from sticky memory, and mobile settings
or scheduled edits failed to open even though the user never chose a model.

Option changes on web and mobile now go through one shared helper that stores
a `selectsModel` option only when the user changes it or already saved it.
Saved picks are still sent as is and checked strictly by the session; tuning
options are stored as before.

Refs pingdotgg#17072

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR substantially changes ACP model discovery, session startup, per-model option persistence, and default-model behavior across server, web, and mobile clients. The product-default changes and broad runtime surface require human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

The PR tracks ACP Registry configuration options per model, identifies model-selecting options, and preserves saved model selections through provider updates and client option changes. It updates composer and mobile selection handling and adds replay, contract, and provider tests.

Changes: ACP model options and selections

Layer / File(s) Summary
Identify model-selecting ACP options
packages/provider-acp/src/server/*, packages/contracts/src/model.*, packages/provider-acp-registry/src/server/probe.ts, apps/server/src/provider/AcpRegistryProbe.test.ts
The ACP integration identifies the first model-category select as the model picker. It marks other model-category selects as model-selecting descriptors and updates model discovery and runtime handling.
Track ACP Registry options per model
packages/provider-acp-registry/src/server/*, packages/provider-acp-registry/src/testing.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.*
The registry accumulates configuration options per model and applies them to matching models. Tests cover live updates, probes, cache invalidation, and empty or unknown capabilities.
Preserve saved model selections
packages/shared/src/model.*, apps/mobile/src/lib/*, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadSettingsSheet.tsx, apps/web/src/providerModels.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/composerDraftStore.ts, apps/web/src/modelSelection.test.ts
Selection builders retain saved model values that are absent from the current catalog. Mobile and web flows pass saved selections into option updates and resolve saved options for the active model.
Validate replay and session behavior
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/acp_secondary_model/*, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/index.ts, docs/user/providers-acp.md
Replay tests cover model choices across provider switches, catalog changes, and restarts. The fixture selects a Cline secondary model, and the documentation describes reported options and unavailable saved choices.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ACPConfig as ACP live configuration
  participant Coordinator as AcpRegistryRuntimeCoordinator
  participant Driver as ACP Registry driver
  participant Registry as ProviderRegistry
  ACPConfig->>Coordinator: Publish configuration and record current-model options
  Coordinator->>Driver: Provide latest configuration and accumulated model options
  Driver->>Registry: Apply recorded options to matching models
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The reviewed changes are mergeable after normal checks. No actionable issue was identified in the provider and saved-model selection paths.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6a149

The change affects saved selections across clients and restarts. Per-selection isolation and live validation limit the risk, but restart, replacement, and older-client behavior retain some uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is selection and configuration of sessions belonging to a configured provider instance. The new shared behavior can affect subsequent requests across clients, while accumulated observations are partitioned by provider instance and model slug. The inspected path does not establish additional credential, filesystem, or tool authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Provider-supplied descriptors govern normal client option construction, while native live validation remains the final control before session/set_config_option. The descriptor builder reserves the primary picker ID, and the mobile editor rejects changes that do not match an advertised descriptor and choice.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Probe observations update only the matching cache generation, and publication rechecks that generation under a semaphore. Live notifications reread current instance state instead of replaying old payloads. Driver finalization, authentication invalidation, and successful logout clear accumulated live configuration, limiting stale control state across lifecycle changes.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider enforcing primary-picker ownership again at native option application, rejecting or excluding its ID from secondary saved options. This would protect the new descriptorless restoration path if malformed or legacy saved state contains that ID. The native overwrite capability existed at the base; no independently exploitable producer or privilege gain was established here.
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Title check Passed The title is concise, specific, and accurately summarizes the main ACP change: exposing and preserving later model choices.
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Batch other-providers-23: blocked on dependency reconciliation and native verification; no takeover implementation has been published for this PR.

#19575 is still open at afea60c, and overlapping #19567 is still open at 88c2eca. Neither is on the pinned main used for this batch. Their agents must establish the final shared model-option contract before this PR is rebuilt on it; carrying all three conflicting implementations forward would duplicate ownership of that contract.

This headless Linux environment also has no authenticated Cline/native ACP installation. A human with that provider must verify a session advertising multiple model-category selectors: the dedicated picker controls the canonical first selector, later selectors remain exposed, saved later selections survive client reload/server restart and a fresh catalog, changing the primary model does not apply another model’s options, and web/mobile round trips preserve the saved values. Capture real provider transcripts and obtain maintainer approval for the resulting contract behavior. The existing mocked coverage alone does not establish those native/provider claims.

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