Brennan Benson 6ba86414bf Show model and effort choices for every agent before its session starts (#26407)
* feat(native-chat): one saved model catalog for every structured agent

Every agent registration now declares how its models are listed without a
session (a probe, or explicitly none). Probes share one supervised runner
(15 s budget, bounded output, teardown on every path). Grok lists from
initialize (or x.ai/models/list), OpenCode from models --verbose, Pi from
--list-models; Claude moves onto the shared runner. ACP option reads no
longer copy the running model's effort menu or selection onto every model.
Desktop and phone pickers read the same catalog for every agent, with a
non-pickable provider-default model pill before any list exists.

* fix(native-chat): host names a listing's configured model; live listings saved for every agent

- The catalog answer carries an optional listingNamesConfiguredModel field, set
  per registration (Codex, Grok) and per workspace; pickers name the listed
  default from it instead of a Codex-only client flag (older hosts fall back).
- Grok, OpenCode and Pi live option reads save their model list through one
  host step, keeping the account's known default and per-model efforts.
- Phone reads the host catalog like the desktop and seeds every agent.
- Saved picks accept any known agent id (OpenCode, Pi).
- ACP agents with no session-free listing register as unavailable; Grok's live
  effort menu falls back to the session's when the advertised one is empty.

* fix(native-chat): discovery and live listings kept apart; every agent's live listing saved by the host; phone-created chats name their model

* fix(native-chat): phone new-chat mark clears on the chat's first live answer; Claude's startup listing reaches the host catalog

* fix(native-chat): live-listing type lives beside the catalog entry so wire types don't pull the store's persistence into the phone

* fix(native-chat): the model picker never waits on a listing; a first listing lands in place

* feat(native-chat): the host lists every agent's catalog ahead of use and traces each listing

* feat(native-chat): a new Claude chat names the model and effort its config resolves to

* test(native-chat): catalog service fakes gain prewarm

* test(native-chat): prewarm span recorder without a type assertion

* fix(native-chat): project agent config overrides the account default only when it sets a model or effort

A committed .claude/settings.json for permissions or hooks, or the settings.local.json Claude writes on always-allow, no longer hides the configured Claude model in that project. Unreadable config still counts; Codex config.toml follows the same rule.

* test(native-chat): the Codex picker read and the launch it starts resolve one account key, through the real resolvers

Runs resolveHostCodexHomePathForLaunchReadOnly and prepareCodexRuntimeHomeForLaunch as the runtime service wires them, for the system account on the real home, on the shared runtime home, and a managed account. Also scopes the prewarm suite to agents in use.

* fix(native-chat): Claude's configured model and effort are saved together behind the project check; prewarm lists only agents in use and stops with its host

A live Claude chat no longer stamps its effort onto the account catalog; the effort travels with the configured default, which a no-pick chat whose config resolves to no listed model now forgets. Prewarm lists agents with a saved catalog or a chat, and host teardown (quit included) starts no queued listing and stops running ones through an abort signal the listing runners honor.

* test(native-chat): new catalog tests use typed hoisted state and type-only namespace imports

* test(native-chat): a prewarm probe sets and clears the sign-in verdict like a read's, and re-checks an aged one beside a fresh catalog

* fix(native-chat): an aged sign-in verdict re-probes only from probe paths, not a Codex chat's picker

The main merge put the held-verdict check into store.shouldRefresh, which also gates
the live Codex picker. A chat's own listing never clears the verdict, so a signed-out
Codex whose chat works re-listed model/list on every picker read. shouldRefresh is
back to main's rule; the catalog read's probe and prewarm ask probeDue instead.

* fix(native-chat): Claude project settings with an effort cap, a main-thread agent or an Anthropic cloud provider count as an override

maxEffortLevel clamps every effort including the model default, and agent applies that
agent's model (both from the bundled SDK settings type). CLAUDE_CODE_USE_ANTHROPIC_AWS
and CLAUDE_CODE_USE_ANTHROPIC_GOOGLE_CLOUD sit in the SDK's provider-switch list beside
Bedrock and Vertex. A project that sets only these no longer shows, or saves as the
account default, the account's model or effort.

* refactor(native-chat): the catalog store's picker waiters live in their own module

No behavior change: pendingListing and the waiter notifications move as they were,
which keeps the store under its line limit for the fixes that follow.

* fix(native-chat): changing an agent's command or environment re-lists its catalogs and re-checks its notice

The settings change called prewarm, but prewarm skipped any catalog still fresh (the
catalog key is agent + account, not the command), and a held "not installed" verdict
kept its 30-second window. The change now marks that agent's catalogs due and ages its
held verdicts, so the prewarm it triggers re-lists them and re-checks the notice. Only
agents whose command or env actually changed are touched.

* test(native-chat): the sign-in notice tests check the model picker is really usable

They checked only that a model entry existed, which a disabled or empty pill also
passes. They now check it is settable, carries no disabled reason, and offers the
catalog's or the seed's model.

* fix(native-chat): a probe the host stops keeps the held notice reason, and a stopped prewarm reads nothing

A probe aborted because the host is going away says nothing about the account, so it
no longer replaces a held sign-in or not-installed reason with a plain failure. A
prewarm after stop returns before reading chat records.

* test(codex): the catalog account-key test uses the runtime's real Codex launch-home resolvers

The resolvers move to codex-launch-preparation as one export the runtime service
spreads, so the test runs exactly what the runtime is handed instead of a copy.

* feat(native-chat): keep each host's saved model lists in the renderer

A chat picker could only learn the host's saved model list by reading it
after it mounted, so its first frame was a guess. The renderer now keeps
the host's answers per host and agent: this machine's lists are read once
its runtime answers, for the agents its chats were used with; a paired
host's again when this client regains contact; and an account or launch
setting change drops this machine's lists. Every entry is a host answer.

* fix(native-chat): render the model pills once, from the host's list

A new chat's composer painted its first frame from the built-in model list:
a saved pick that list lacks (Claude's `opus[1m]`) showed as a raw id with
no effort pill, then jumped to "Opus (1M context) · High" when the host's
list landed. Every new chat painted a guess and then corrected it.

Now the first frame reads the host's saved list the renderer already holds,
so it is the final frame. Without one, the quiet "Model" placeholder stands
until the host answers; a host with nothing saved makes the built-in list
usable, naming nothing, until its listing lands. A saved pick is named only
from a host or session list that names it. The phone follows the same rule
and keeps the host's list across a new fence.

* feat(native-chat): answer a saved-only model catalog read

The app could preload a host's saved model lists only for agents with a
saved pick, because the catalog read starts a listing (spawns the agent's
CLI) when nothing is saved. Grok, OpenCode and OMP chats with no saved pick
were never preloaded, so their pickers showed "Model" before the host's list.

`agentSession.modelCatalog` now takes `savedOnly`: the host answers from
what it saved (the entry, configured default and held reason) and starts,
joins or re-checks no listing. Its params are strict, so the host
advertises `agent-session.model-catalog.saved-only.v1` and clients send it
only to hosts that do.

An answer also says when its named default holds in every workspace (Grok
reads no project config for its model), so a new chat in any workspace can
use it on its first frame.

OMP stays without a session-free listing: `omp models --json` lists every
model without the `enabledModels` filter its chats apply.

* fix(native-chat): preload every registered agent's saved model list

Grok, OpenCode and OMP chats painted the "Model" placeholder, then the
host's pills, because the app preloaded only agents with a saved pick.

Now the app reads every agent a host registered through the saved-only
read: this machine once its runtime and agents are known, a paired host at
connect and on each reconnect, and this machine again after an account or
agent-setting change. A host that does not advertise the saved-only read
keeps the earlier rule (saved picks only; a paired host's answered agents).
An agent the host saved nothing for stays unknown. An answer sent before
the host's lists were dropped is not recorded.

* test(native-chat): drop a type assertion from the snapshot sync test

* fix(native-chat): learn an ACP agent's default from a chat started with no pick

Grok's session-free listing named the model `initialize` computed (grok-4.7), but chats ran
another (grok-4.6), so a new chat painted 4.7 and then jumped. The listing no longer names a
default; a new ACP session with no model pick reports what it runs, and the host saves that as
the account's configured default behind the workspace check. A catalog read waits for a
recording still in flight, so the chat's own follow-up read names it.

* feat(native-chat): check OpenCode and OMP project config before naming their default

OpenCode reads opencode.json(c) and .opencode/ in every ancestor of the workspace; OMP merges its
.omp settings and other agents' project settings. A workspace whose config sets a model, effort
or provider key (or can't be parsed) names no default; any other lets a no-pick chat's model
become the account's default, so the next new chat names it on its first frame.

* fix(native-chat): re-read the host's list once a no-pick chat reports its model

The renderer kept the answer it read before the chat started, so the next new chat's first frame
still named no model. A new chat that named no model reads the host's list again once it reports
what it runs; a default no workspace can replace also serves chats in other worktrees.
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