diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index ebd496e564..e77870ec3a 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Durability is a plugin concern. Persistence backends buffer synchronous `session
 
 Messages contain typed blocks (`text`, `reasoning`, `tool-call`, `tool-result`) derived from merge-extensible `ContentBlockMap`; the same pattern types `MessageSource`, `FinishReason`, `TurnTrigger`, and `TurnEndReason`. New block types coordinate adapters, UI bridges, compaction pricing, token metering, and persistence as one repo-wide contract; replay measurement types live in [token-meter.md](core-data-structures/token-meter.md).
 
-Streaming is a raw chunk protocol (`block-start` through `finish`) with `BlockAssembler` as the shared chunk-to-block assembler. The loop logs raw chunks while assembling them for dispatch. `LlmAdapter` is the provider seam: subclass, implement `stream()`, and register with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, adapter)`. StreamChunk conventions live in [llm-streaming.md](core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md).
+Streaming uses raw chunks (`block-start` through `finish`) and `BlockAssembler`. The loop logs and assembles chunks, storing provider/model provenance plus replay state. An `LlmAdapter` implements `stream()`, registers provider routes, and may expose selector metadata; it resolves and validates model ids. Replay state reaches targets only when both routes map to one adapter instance, which owns validation and conversion. The contract lives in [llm-streaming.md](core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md).
 
 ## Extension And Composition
 
diff --git a/docs/config-catalog.md b/docs/config-catalog.md
index 8878d14578..3e3d8141fa 100644
--- a/docs/config-catalog.md
+++ b/docs/config-catalog.md
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ A `Requires:` line lists the service keys the plugin `inject`s: its `cordis.yml`
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp`
 
-Requires: `agents` · `sessions` · `sessionPersistence` · `tools` · `userInteraction`
+Requires: `agents` · `sessions` · `sessionPersistence` · `tools` · `userInteraction` · `llm` · `systemPrompt`
 
 ```ts config-catalog
 /** Plugin config: the agent template ACP sessions are created from. */
 export interface AcpConfig {
+  /** Provider route for created agents. */
+  provider?: string
   /** Model name for created agents (must have a registered adapter). */
   model?: string
   /** Runtime-only transport override for tests; production uses stdio. */
@@ -25,13 +27,13 @@ export interface AcpConfig {
 
 Depends on: `Stream` (`@agentclientprotocol/sdk`)
 
-Source: [`packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts:203`](../packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts:208`](../packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo`
 
 ```ts config-catalog
 /**
- * App config: the swappable per-deployment values. `model` configures the
+ * App config: the swappable per-deployment values. `provider` and `model` configure the
  * agent template the ACP bridge creates each session's agent from (NOT a
  * pre-created agent — ACP creates agents at `session/new`); `persona` is the
  * deployment persona (forwarded to the system-prompt plugin); `toolOrder` is
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@ Source: [`packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts:203`](../packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts)
  * through agent-spine-demo); `persistenceRoot` is the JSONL backend's directory.
  */
 export interface Config {
+  /** Provider route for ACP-created agents. */
+  provider: string
   /** Model name for ACP-created agents (must have a registered adapter). */
   model: string
   /** Deployment persona (the system-prompt plugin's `persona` config). */
@@ -238,7 +242,9 @@ export interface BasicCompactConfig {
   thresholdRatio?: number
   /** Recent surface tokens retained verbatim. Defaults to `floor(contextWindow * 0.16)`. */
   retainTokens?: number
-  /** Summary model; `''` resolves the latest routed model, then `AgentOptions.model`. Defaults to `''`. */
+  /** Summary provider; `''` resolves the latest routed pair, then the agent pair. Defaults to `''`. */
+  summarizationProvider?: string
+  /** Summary model; `''` resolves the latest routed pair, then the agent pair. Defaults to `''`. */
   summarizationModel?: string
   /** Provider generation cap for summarization. Defaults to `8192`. */
   maxTokens?: number
@@ -360,47 +366,70 @@ export interface Config {
   apiKey?: string
   /** Endpoint base; falls back to $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL, then the public API. */
   baseURL?: string
-  /** Model names to register (sent verbatim on the wire). */
-  models?: string[]
   /** Thinking-mode default for every request (provider default: enabled). */
   thinking?: 'enabled' | 'disabled'
   /** Thinking effort (only meaningful with thinking enabled). */
   reasoningEffort?: 'high' | 'max'
+  /** Advisory models shown by discovery consumers; defaults to V4 Flash and V4 Pro. */
+  models?: DeepSeekCatalogModel[]
+}
+
+/** One optional model entry advertised by the hand-written adapter. */
+export interface DeepSeekCatalogModel {
+  /** Wire model id accepted by the configured endpoint. */
+  id: string
+  /** Selector label; defaults to {@link id}. */
+  name?: string
+  /** Optional selector detail for deployments with similar model variants. */
+  description?: string
 }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts:30`](../packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts:36`](../packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai`
 
 Requires: `llm`
 
 ```ts config-catalog
-/**
- * Plugin config, validated by the same-named schemastery schema. Every field
- * is optional in yml: credentials/endpoint fall back to the environment (a
- * missing API key fails plugin load, not the first call).
- */
+/** Plugin configuration: the non-empty provider profiles this instance owns. */
 export interface Config {
-  /** API key; falls back to $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY. Required one way or the other. */
-  apiKey?: string
-  /** Endpoint base; falls back to $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL, then the public API. */
-  baseURL?: string
-  /** Model names to register (sent verbatim on the wire). */
-  models?: string[]
-  /**
-   * Thinking level for every request: 'off' disables thinking mode; 'high'
-   * and 'xhigh' (wire 'max') set the effort. Omitted = provider default
-   * (thinking enabled), matching llm-deepseek's omission semantics.
-   */
-  reasoning?: PiAiReasoning
+  /** Non-empty set of pi-ai provider routes this adapter instance owns. */
+  providers: PiAiProviderProfile[]
 }
 
-/** Reasoning levels surfaced by this adapter (DeepSeek wire: high|max). */
-export type PiAiReasoning = 'off' | 'high' | 'xhigh'
+/** Configuration for one pi-ai provider route. */
+export interface PiAiProviderProfile {
+  /** pi-ai provider catalog name and Harness route key. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Provider credential; when absent pi-ai uses its provider-native ambient discovery. */
+  apiKey?: string
+  /** Override the selected catalog model's endpoint without changing its protocol metadata. */
+  baseURL?: string
+  /** Provider request headers; Harness attribution wins reserved names. */
+  headers?: Record<string, string>
+  /** Provider-neutral pi-ai reasoning level. */
+  reasoning?: ThinkingLevel
+  /** Token budgets used by reasoning providers that support them. */
+  thinkingBudgets?: ThinkingBudgets
+  /** Prompt-cache retention preference. */
+  cacheRetention?: CacheRetention
+  /** Streaming transport preference. */
+  transport?: Transport
+  /** HTTP/provider SDK timeout in milliseconds. */
+  timeoutMs?: number
+  /** WebSocket connection timeout in milliseconds. */
+  websocketConnectTimeoutMs?: number
+  /** Provider SDK retry count. */
+  maxRetries?: number
+  /** Maximum provider-requested retry delay in milliseconds. */
+  maxRetryDelayMs?: number
+}
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts:37`](../packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts)
+Depends on: `CacheRetention` (`@earendil-works/pi-ai`) · `ThinkingBudgets` (`@earendil-works/pi-ai`) · `ThinkingLevel` (`@earendil-works/pi-ai`) · `Transport` (`@earendil-works/pi-ai`)
+
+Source: [`packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/config.ts:40`](../packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/config.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay`
 
@@ -419,10 +448,32 @@ export interface Config {
    * a nested-agent scenario; absent/empty for a single-session scenario.
    */
   childFiles?: string[]
+  /** Optional replay-only provider catalog; absent or empty selects catch-all waterfall replay. */
+  providers?: ReplayProviderConfig[]
+}
+
+/** One provider route exposed by the replay adapter. */
+export interface ReplayProviderConfig {
+  /** Provider route used for replay requests. */
+  id: string
+  /** Selector label; defaults to {@link id}. */
+  name?: string
+  /** Advisory models exposed to clients such as ACP editors. */
+  models?: ReplayModelConfig[]
+}
+
+/** One model exposed by a replay-only provider catalog. */
+export interface ReplayModelConfig {
+  /** Model id used for replay requests. */
+  id: string
+  /** Selector label; defaults to {@link id}. */
+  name?: string
+  /** Optional selector description. */
+  description?: string
 }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts:306`](../packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts:375`](../packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client`
 
@@ -719,7 +770,7 @@ Source: [`packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts:30`](../packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts)
 ```ts config-catalog
 /**
  * App config: the swappable per-demo values, each routed to where the app wires
- * it. `model`/`resumeSessionId` configure the pre-created `main` agent (through
+ * it. `provider`/`model`/`resumeSessionId` configure the pre-created `main` agent (through
  * {@link @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo}'s forwarded `agents` list); `persona` is
  * the deployment persona (forwarded to the system-prompt plugin); `toolOrder`
  * is the explicit model-facing tool order (forwarded to the system-prompt plugin);
@@ -728,6 +779,8 @@ Source: [`packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts:30`](../packages/ui/stdio/src/index.ts)
  * `welcome` is the UI banner.
  */
 export interface Config {
+  /** Provider route for the `main` agent. */
+  provider: string
   /** Model name for the `main` agent (must have a registered adapter). */
   model: string
   /** Deployment persona (the system-prompt plugin's `persona` config). */
diff --git a/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.i18n.yaml b/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.i18n.yaml
index 37f934f3e6..497ae08c32 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.i18n.yaml
+++ b/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.i18n.yaml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
-adding-an-llm-adapter.md: 70306ccf119f523dd812a859eef1e8628383bb48
-adding-an-llm-adapter.zh.md: e6d151adfc793a829a876031d5d7280ba078c8e9
+adding-an-llm-adapter.md: f20442b8c2ce823452a3ea13409f202185d12d04
+adding-an-llm-adapter.zh.md: 2864dd1e18742c7449e24f22504a5a38976ab450
diff --git a/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.md b/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.md
index 70306ccf11..f20442b8c2 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.md
+++ b/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.md
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ export const inject = ['llm']
 export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({ apiKey: z.string(), … })
 
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
-  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['model-a', 'model-b'], new MyAdapter(…))
+  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['my-provider'], new MyAdapter(…))
 }
 ```
 
-Registration is effect-based (HMR-safe); one adapter per model name — duplicates throw. Secrets are cordis-native: schemastery Config with env fallbacks, fed from cordis.yml via `!!js process.env.MY_KEY`. Never read ad-hoc key files in code.
+Registration is effect-based (HMR-safe); one adapter per provider route — duplicates throw, and multi-route registration is all-or-nothing. `options.provider` selects the adapter and `options.model` is the provider model id, so a dynamic catalog adapter can serve new models without lifecycle reconfiguration. Secrets are cordis-native: schemastery Config with env fallbacks, fed from cordis.yml via `!!js process.env.MY_KEY`. Never read ad-hoc key files in code.
 
 ## Protocol obligations (the contract two implementations verified)
 
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Registration is effect-based (HMR-safe); one adapter per model name — duplicat
 - Errors have exactly two sanctioned paths: THROW from `stream()` (transport and protocol failures — use `LlmError` with a stable code), or end the stream with `finish {kind: 'error' | 'aborted'}` (provider in-band failures). Consumers handle both; pick per failure class and document it.
 - Honor `options.signal` (pass it to fetch / your SDK).
 - A `GenerateOptions` field your provider cannot honor (e.g. a `stop` list on a provider without stop sequences): throw `LlmError(..., 'UNSUPPORTED')` rather than silently dropping it.
+- If the provider requires response ids, signatures, or other native metadata on follow-up calls, emit the minimal lossless-JSON projection as `finish.replayState`. Validate it when rebuilding history. `LlmService` passes it only when the historical provider route and target provider route are currently owned by the exact same adapter instance; your adapter decides whether same-model, cross-model, or cross-provider restoration is legal. Never infer native replay from provider/model names alone when state is absent.
 
 Provider-specific request knobs (thinking modes, effort levels) belong in the ADAPTER's Config, not in `GenerateOptions` — the core vocabulary stays provider-neutral.
 
@@ -41,5 +42,5 @@ Split the adapter into testable stages (llm-deepseek's layout): wire types (`typ
 
 - **Unit: mock the provider, not the harness.** A scripted `node:http` server speaking the provider's wire format covers happy paths, every error status, malformed payloads, premature closes, and aborts — no network, and it drives the 100% per-file coverage gate. Works for SDK-backed adapters too (point the SDK's baseURL at the mock).
 - **Hostile framing tests.** Split stream payloads at arbitrary byte positions (including mid-UTF-8) — real networks do.
-- **E2E: `tests/*.e2e.ts`** under `pnpm run test:e2e`, gated with `describe.skipIf(!process.env.MY_KEY)` so CI (no secrets) stays green. Cover each model × each provider mode you map (thinking on/off, effort levels), a tool-call round trip INCLUDING the follow-up turn with results in history, and loose assertions only (substring/structure, bounded maxTokens — real models are nondeterministic).
+- **E2E: `tests/*.e2e.ts`** under `pnpm run test:e2e`, gated with `describe.skipIf(!process.env.MY_KEY)` so CI (no secrets) stays green. Cover representative model/provider/API families and every provider mode you map, a tool-call round trip INCLUDING the follow-up turn with results in history, and loose assertions only (substring/structure, bounded maxTokens — real models are nondeterministic).
 - Register the e2e file pattern in `knip.json` (per-workspace `entry` override) or knip flags it unused.
diff --git a/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.zh.md b/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.zh.md
index e6d151adfc..2864dd1e18 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.zh.md
+++ b/docs/cookbook/adding-an-llm-adapter.zh.md
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ export const inject = ['llm']
 export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({ apiKey: z.string(), … })
 
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
-  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['model-a', 'model-b'], new MyAdapter(…))
+  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['my-provider'], new MyAdapter(…))
 }
 ```
 
-注册基于副作用（HMR 安全）；每个模型名称对应一个适配器，重复注册会抛出异常。密钥采用 Cordis 原生方式管理：schemastery Config 带环境变量回退，通过 cordis.yml 的 `!!js process.env.MY_KEY` 注入。代码中禁止临时读取密钥文件。
+注册基于副作用（HMR 安全）；每个提供方路由仅对应一个适配器，重复注册会抛出异常，多路由注册要么全部成功，要么全部失败。`options.provider` 用于选择适配器，`options.model` 是提供方模型 ID，因此动态模型目录适配器无需重新配置生命周期即可提供新模型。密钥采用 Cordis 原生方式管理：schemastery Config 带环境变量回退，通过 cordis.yml 的 `!!js process.env.MY_KEY` 注入。代码中禁止临时读取密钥文件。
 
 ## 协议义务（两个实现共同验证的契约）
 
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
 - 错误有且仅有两条合法路径：从 `stream()` **抛出**（传输与协议故障——使用带稳定 code 的 `LlmError`），或以 `finish {kind: 'error' | 'aborted'}` 结束流（提供方带内故障）。消费方两者都处理；按故障类别选择路径并加以文档化。
 - 遵守 `options.signal`（将其传递给 fetch 或你的 SDK）。
 - 如果 `GenerateOptions` 中某个字段你的提供方无法支持（例如提供方不支持 stop sequences 时收到 `stop` 列表）：抛出 `LlmError(..., 'UNSUPPORTED')`，而非静默丢弃。
+- 如果提供方在后续调用中需要响应 ID、签名或其他原生元数据，请将其最小无损 JSON 投影作为 `finish.replayState` 发出。重建历史时验证该状态。只有历史提供方路由和目标提供方路由当前由完全相同的适配器实例拥有时，`LlmService` 才会传递该状态；由适配器决定同模型、跨模型或跨提供方恢复是否合法。状态缺失时，切勿仅根据提供方/模型名称推断原生回放。
 
 提供方特有的请求旋钮（thinking 模式、effort 级别）放在**适配器**的 Config 中，而非 `GenerateOptions` 中——核心词汇保持提供方无关。
 
@@ -41,5 +42,5 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
 
 - **单元测试：mock 提供方，而非 harness。** 用脚本化的 `node:http` 服务器模拟提供方的协议格式，覆盖正常路径、所有错误状态码、畸形载荷、连接提前关闭和中止——无需网络，且能满足 100% 逐文件覆盖率门禁。对基于 SDK 的适配器同样适用（将 SDK 的 baseURL 指向 mock 服务器）。
 - **恶意分帧测试。** 在任意字节位置（包括 UTF-8 字符中间）切割流载荷——真实网络环境正是如此。
-- **E2E：`tests/*.e2e.ts`**，通过 `pnpm run test:e2e` 运行，以 `describe.skipIf(!process.env.MY_KEY)` 守卫，确保无密钥的 CI 保持绿色。覆盖你映射的每个模型 × 每种提供方模式（thinking 开/关、effort 级别）、一次包含后续轮次（历史中带工具结果）的工具调用往返，以及仅做宽松断言（子串/结构匹配、有界的 maxTokens——真实模型是非确定性的）。
+- **E2E：`tests/*.e2e.ts`**，通过 `pnpm run test:e2e` 运行，以 `describe.skipIf(!process.env.MY_KEY)` 守卫，确保无密钥的 CI 保持绿色。覆盖具有代表性的模型/提供方/API 系列以及你映射的每种提供方模式、一次包含后续轮次（历史中带工具结果）的工具调用往返，以及仅做宽松断言（子串/结构匹配、有界的 maxTokens——真实模型是非确定性的）。
 - 在 `knip.json` 中注册 e2e 文件模式（per-workspace `entry` 覆盖），否则 knip 会将其标记为未使用。
diff --git a/docs/cordis-catalog/events.md b/docs/cordis-catalog/events.md
index 1dc0a86b0a..9cf51c1de3 100644
--- a/docs/cordis-catalog/events.md
+++ b/docs/cordis-catalog/events.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ A fully configured agent and live session were published. Setup is composition-o
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:151`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:153`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/disposed` — emit
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ An agent left the registry; AgentLoop emits this after driver quiescence but bef
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:160`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:162`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/error` — emit
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ A step or turn errored. The loop reports a failure here (plus the logger) even w
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:295`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:297`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/pre-step` — serial
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Awaited serial checkpoint for session-surface mutation after prompt assembly and
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:214`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:216`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/prompt-submit` — waterfall
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Allow, rewrite, or block one drained prompt before it becomes a user message. Ca
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContentBlock](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:224`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:226`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/queued` — emit
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Detached, frozen content entered the agent's inbox. Source defaults have already
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [ContentBlock](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [MessageSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:179`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:181`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/request` — waterfall
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Replace the frozen call configuration. Model-visible content must use logged cha
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [LlmCallConfig](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:236`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:238`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/session-prefix` — waterfall
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result i
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:251`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:253`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/session-start` — emit
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ The session lifecycle began, once before the first turn. Use `agent.inject()` to
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [SessionStartSource](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:192`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:194`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/status` — emit
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Agent status changed (`idle` ⇄ `running`, or → `disposed`). `send()` does no
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:169`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:171`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/step-result` — waterfall
 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Waterfall: post-process the assembled assistant Message before tool dispatch (va
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [Message](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:262`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:264`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/turn-continuation` — waterfall
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Override whether the turn continues. The default continues after tool calls or s
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:272`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:274`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ### `agent/turn-stop` — serial
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Monotonic terminal-stop checkpoint after continuation and steering are folded; a
 
 Types: [Agent](../core-data-structures/core.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:282`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:284`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
 ## `approval/*`
 
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Waterfall around every streaming model call (retry, replay, routing). Bound to t
 
 Types: [GenerateOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [StreamChunk](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:39`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:40`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `session/*`
 
diff --git a/docs/cordis-catalog/services.md b/docs/cordis-catalog/services.md
index a92f0a4cad..2efe7e2a24 100644
--- a/docs/cordis-catalog/services.md
+++ b/docs/cordis-catalog/services.md
@@ -136,14 +136,15 @@ Source: [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:80`](../../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts)
 The abstract `llm` service: an adapter registry plus a streaming model-call surface, interceptable via the `llm/stream` waterfall.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
-registerAdapter(models: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void
-models(): string[]
+registerAdapter(providers: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void
+listProviders(): LlmProviderInfo[]
+async listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]>
 stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>
 ```
 
 Types: [GenerateOptions](../core-data-structures/core.md) · [StreamChunk](../core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
 
-Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:75`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:96`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.permission` — `PermissionService`
 
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ list(): Session[]
 fork(source: SessionForkSource, boundary?: number, childSessionId?: SessionId): Session
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:539`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
+Source: [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:566`](../../packages/core/session/src/index.ts)
 
 ## `ctx.skills` — `SkillService`
 
diff --git a/docs/core-data-structures/compaction.md b/docs/core-data-structures/compaction.md
index 3b861d5de4..9736b17948 100644
--- a/docs/core-data-structures/compaction.md
+++ b/docs/core-data-structures/compaction.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Compaction extends [`SessionEventMap`](session.md) with three event types via de
 | Event | Payload | Role |
 |---|---|---|
 | `compact/start` | `{ turn }` | acquires the log-recorded lock |
-| `compact/summary` | `{ summary, shadowedRange, shadowedSeqs, shadowedTokenCount, model, maxTokens? }` | provenance: the summary blocks, the shadowed surface-boundary pair (`start`/`end` seqs — a position span, not a numeric interval), the shadowed seqs in surface order, the estimated token count, and the summarize call's envelope (`model`, plus its generation cap when one applied) — logged so the one-shot request is reconstructable from log + code (the reconstructability RFC) |
+| `compact/summary` | `{ summary, shadowedRange, shadowedSeqs, shadowedTokenCount, provider, model, maxTokens? }` | provenance: the summary blocks, the shadowed surface-boundary pair (`start`/`end` seqs — a position span, not a numeric interval), the shadowed seqs in surface order, the estimated token count, and the summarize call's envelope (`provider`, `model`, plus its generation cap when one applied) — logged so the one-shot request is reconstructable from log + code (the reconstructability RFC) |
 | `compact/end` | `{ turn, error? }` | releases the lock (`error` set when summarization threw) |
 
 The lock brackets the **whole** operation: `compact/start` is appended first, then summarization, the `compact/summary` provenance record, and the `user/message` replacement all land, and only then `compact/end`. Releasing the lock last turns a crash mid-operation into a detectable orphaned lock (a `compact/start` with no matching `compact/end`) rather than a `compact/end` that falsely claims compaction finished.
diff --git a/docs/core-data-structures/core.md b/docs/core-data-structures/core.md
index c06f432fdf..284fbee3fd 100644
--- a/docs/core-data-structures/core.md
+++ b/docs/core-data-structures/core.md
@@ -105,12 +105,29 @@ interface ContentBlockMap {
 
 The block interfaces (full fields in source): `TextBlock` (`text`), `ReasoningBlock` (thinking, distinct from visible text), `ToolCallBlock` (`id: CallId`, `name`, raw-JSON `arguments`), `ToolResultBlock` (`toolCallId`, nested `content: ContentBlock[]`, `isError?`). `ContentBlock = ContentBlockMap[ContentBlockType]`. The core set is limited to blocks every shipping path honors — multimodal content (images, audio, …) has no core block type; a feature that needs one adds it via the merge-extensible map together with the adapter/UI/compaction support that honors it.
 
-A `Message` is a role plus blocks:
+A `Message` is a role plus blocks. Loop-derived assistant messages carry their durable provider/model identity and optional adapter-private replay metadata:
+
+```ts type-equiv
+interface AssistantProvenance {
+  /** Provider route that produced the message. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Provider model id that produced the message. */
+  model: string
+  /**
+   * Lossless-JSON adapter state needed to replay the provider response.
+   * `LlmService` exposes it to a target adapter only when that adapter instance
+   * currently owns both this historical provider and the target provider.
+   */
+  replayState?: unknown
+}
+```
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 interface Message {
   role: 'system' | 'user' | 'assistant'
   content: ContentBlock[]
+  /** Present only on assistant messages produced by a routed adapter. */
+  provenance?: AssistantProvenance
 }
 ```
 
@@ -135,8 +152,34 @@ One model call is a fully-assembled `GenerateOptions`. The adapter answers with
 
 Source: [`packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts)
 
+Provider and model discovery uses small provider-neutral descriptors. A model catalog is advisory: routing still keys on a registered provider, and an adapter may accept unlisted model ids.
+
+```ts type-equiv
+interface LlmProviderInfo {
+  /** Provider route key used by {@link GenerateOptions.provider}. */
+  id: string
+  /** Human-readable provider name for selectors and diagnostics. */
+  name: string
+}
+```
+
+```ts type-equiv
+interface LlmModelInfo {
+  /** Provider route that owns this model entry. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Model id passed to {@link GenerateOptions.model}. */
+  id: string
+  /** Human-readable model name for selectors. */
+  name: string
+  /** Optional user-facing distinction from otherwise similar models. */
+  description?: string
+}
+```
+
 ```ts type-equiv
 interface GenerateOptions {
+  /** Registered provider route selecting the adapter instance. */
+  provider: string
   model: string
   /**
    * Ordered conversation messages, exactly as the provider sees them (after
@@ -197,7 +240,7 @@ The model-facing `ToolSchema` is the wire shape; the registered `ToolDefinition`
 
 The loop builds each request from logged state. `EpochHeader` records call config, rendered prompt, authoritative returned tool order (configured by `toolOrder`, or lexicographic when unset), and session prefix through `request/header` snapshots and deltas. Together with derived history, this makes the request reconstructable from the session log. See [session.md](session.md#the-request-header-events-requestheader-and-requestheader-delta) and the [reconstructability RFC](../rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md).
 
-`agent/request` receives a frozen call-config seed and may return a replacement. `agent/session-prefix` composes request-only prefix messages once per loop instance, and the header records the exact result used. Requests reaching `llm/stream` are deep-frozen, so mutation throws.
+`agent/request` receives a frozen call-config seed and may return a replacement to switch provider, model, or sampling. `agent/session-prefix` composes request-only prefix messages once per loop instance, and the header records the exact result used. Requests reaching `llm/stream` are deep-frozen, so mutation throws.
 
 On the wire, a loop-built request reads in this order: the `system` slot (the rendered prompt assembly) → `messagePrefix` (the frozen session prefix) → the derived history — the boundary snapshot, whose tail is the newest `user/message` on a turn's first step and the previous step's tool results on later steps. The prefix never enters the derived history; its durable record is the header events, and the dev invariant recomputes exactly this equation against every loop-built request.
 
@@ -205,6 +248,7 @@ FIXME(call-config-shape): revisit the exact definition of this type — which fi
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 interface LlmCallConfig {
+  provider: string
   model: string
   temperature?: number
   maxTokens?: number
@@ -360,7 +404,7 @@ interface Agent {
 }
 ```
 
-`AgentStatus` is `'idle' | 'running' | 'disposed'`, and `AgentId` is branded. `AgentOptions` is merge-extensible and currently includes `model?`. Persona belongs to `dsh-system-prompt`: an agent-scoped `deployment:persona` may shadow the global default.
+`AgentStatus` is `'idle' | 'running' | 'disposed'`, and `AgentId` is branded. `AgentOptions` is merge-extensible and currently includes `provider?` and `model?`; dispatch requires both after `agent/request`. Persona belongs to `dsh-system-prompt`: an agent-scoped `deployment:persona` may shadow the global default.
 
 The [event taxonomy](../architecture.md#event) owns the `agent/*` lifecycle, checkpoint, and waterfall contracts. Turn and step boundaries are durable session events rather than agent emits.
 
diff --git a/docs/core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md b/docs/core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md
index fff329310a..f9489a6d7f 100644
--- a/docs/core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md
+++ b/docs/core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ type StreamChunk =
   | { type: 'tool-call-delta'; index: number; id: CallId; name?: string; argumentsDelta: string }
   | { type: 'block-end'; index: number; block: ContentBlock }
   | { type: 'usage'; usage: TokenUsage }
-  | { type: 'finish'; reason: FinishReason }
+  | {
+    type: 'finish'
+    reason: FinishReason
+    /** Adapter-private lossless-JSON state for replaying a successful response. */
+    replayState?: unknown
+  }
 ```
 
 ## The adapter contract
@@ -27,8 +32,9 @@ Every adapter MUST obey these, and every consumer may rely on them:
 - **Tool-call `arguments` stay raw JSON strings end-to-end.** Partial fragments stream via `argumentsDelta`; a provider that hands back parsed objects re-stringifies at `block-end`.
 - **Two sanctioned error paths.** A failure may either THROW from `stream()` (transport/protocol errors) **or** end the stream with `finish {kind:'error'|'aborted'}` (provider in-band errors, for adapters that can't throw mid-stream). Consumers must handle *both*. The agent loop translates a finish-error/aborted into a turn error — it never logs a normal completed assistant message for a failed step.
 - **Every provider HTTP request carries the app-attribution header.** Adapters send `attributionHeaders()` (below) - the `User-Agent` baseline - and prove it with a wire-level test (mock server asserting the received header, or the library's header hook for a library-backed adapter).
+- **Replay state is adapter-owned.** A successful `finish` may carry lossless-JSON state needed to reconstruct a native provider response. The loop stores it with the assembled assistant message unless an `agent/step-result` listener rewrote the content. On a later request, `LlmService` passes the state only when the historical provider and target provider are currently registered to the exact same adapter instance. That adapter validates the state and owns any cross-model or cross-provider conversion; other adapters receive the provider-neutral content and provenance without the private state.
 
-This contract is why two adapters exist as a deliberate pair: `dsh-llm-deepseek` (hand-rolled fetch/SSE) and `dsh-llm-pi-ai` (the same endpoint through `@earendil-works/pi-ai`). Two independent internals over one contract is what pinned the protocol down — the library-backed adapter can't throw mid-stream, so it exercises the finish-chunk error path the hand-rolled one might not.
+This contract was pinned down by two deliberately independent implementations: `dsh-llm-deepseek` (hand-rolled fetch/SSE) and `dsh-llm-pi-ai` (a generic multi-provider adapter through `@earendil-works/pi-ai`). The library-backed adapter cannot throw mid-stream, so it exercises the finish-chunk error path the hand-rolled one might not.
 
 ## `AppIdentity` — app attribution
 
@@ -58,11 +64,11 @@ interface TokenUsage {
 
 ## `BlockAssembler`
 
-`BlockAssembler` ([`packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts)) is the single shared implementation that folds a `StreamChunk` stream back into `ContentBlock`s and a final `Message`. The loop logs the raw chunks (for replay fidelity) while feeding the same chunks through an assembler — so the canonical log keeps token-level detail and the derived message is rebuilt deterministically. A consumer that needs the assembled result without re-implementing the fold uses this.
+`BlockAssembler` ([`packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts`](../../packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts)) is the single shared implementation that folds a `StreamChunk` stream back into `ContentBlock`s, usage, finish reason, and replay state. The loop logs the raw chunks while feeding the same chunks through an assembler, then stores the assembled assistant content with its provider/model provenance. A consumer that needs the assembled result without re-implementing the fold uses this.
 
 ## The seam
 
-`LlmAdapter` is the provider seam: subclass, implement `stream()`, register with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, adapter)`. The `block-start` / `block-end` `index` correlation and the assembler together mean an adapter only has to emit well-formed chunks — block reassembly is not each adapter's problem. The consumer surface (`ctx.llm.stream()`) and the `llm/stream` waterfall are described in [architecture.md § Content blocks and streaming](../architecture.md#content-blocks-and-streaming-dsh-llm).
+`LlmAdapter` is the provider seam: subclass, implement `stream()`, and register one adapter instance with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers, adapter)`. `GenerateOptions.provider` selects the registered adapter; `GenerateOptions.model` is passed to that adapter and need not be registered at lifecycle start. Duplicate provider routes fail atomically. Optional `providerInfo()` and asynchronous `listModels()` methods feed `LlmService.listProviders()` / `listModels()` with detached selector metadata. That catalog is advisory rather than a request whitelist: the adapter remains authoritative and may accept unlisted model ids. Adapter lookup happens at the terminal continuation of the `llm/stream` waterfall, so a listener may short-circuit the call or route a mutable one-shot request before lookup. The `block-start` / `block-end` `index` correlation and the assembler together mean an adapter only has to emit well-formed chunks — block reassembly is not each adapter's problem. The consumer surface (`ctx.llm.stream()`) and the `llm/stream` waterfall are described in [architecture.md § Content blocks and streaming](../architecture.md#content-blocks-and-streaming-dsh-llm).
 
 `ContentBlockType` (the key set the `index`-correlated blocks carry) derives from `ContentBlockMap`:
 
diff --git a/docs/core-data-structures/session.md b/docs/core-data-structures/session.md
index a506141b44..5867fc2c3b 100644
--- a/docs/core-data-structures/session.md
+++ b/docs/core-data-structures/session.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ interface SessionEventMap {
    * the model output and its accounting travel together (there is no separate
    * usage record). `usage` is absent when the adapter reported none.
    */
-  'assistant/message': { turn: number; step: number; content: ContentBlock[]; usage?: TokenUsage }
+  'assistant/message': { turn: number; step: number; content: ContentBlock[]; provenance: AssistantProvenance; usage?: TokenUsage }
   'tool/call': { turn: number; step: number; callId: CallId; name: string; arguments: string }
   'tool/result': { turn: number; step: number; callId: CallId; content: ContentBlock[]; isError: boolean; error?: { name: string; code: string }; meta?: unknown }
   /** Steering content injected between steps of a running turn. */
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ The request envelope — the `EpochHeader` (call config + rendered system prompt
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 export interface EpochHeader {
-  /** The conversation's call configuration (model + sampling scalars). */
+  /** The conversation's call configuration (provider + model + sampling scalars). */
   config: LlmCallConfig
   /** Rendered system prompt text; absent for a system-less request. */
   system?: string
@@ -242,12 +242,12 @@ export interface SurfaceFoldResult {
 `Session.deriveMessages()` projects the event log into the `Message[]` the model sees — cached (each surface node projected once, when first seen; a surface rewrite rebuilds) and frozen (a fresh array per call over shared, deep-frozen messages, so mutating logged history through a projection is unrepresentable). `deriveEventMessage(event)` is the per-node pure function the fold applies — public so external reconstructors and the dev invariant project a log prefix with exactly the same rules and cannot disagree with the cache. The projection rules:
 
 - `user/message` → a user message.
-- `assistant/message` → an assistant message. Raw `assistant/chunk` events are replay/UI data and are **skipped** in derivation (the assembled message is authoritative). An **empty-content** `assistant/message` is also skipped — a max-tokens step cut off with no content still records an `assistant/message` to host its `usage`, but a content-less assistant turn must not enter the provider transcript.
+- `assistant/message` → an assistant message with the event's provider/model provenance and optional adapter-private replay state. Raw `assistant/chunk` events are replay/UI data and are **skipped** in derivation (the assembled message is authoritative). An **empty-content** `assistant/message` is also skipped — a max-tokens step cut off with no content still records an `assistant/message` to host its usage/provenance, but a content-less assistant turn must not enter the provider transcript.
 - `tool/result` → a user message carrying a `tool-result` block.
 - `context/message` → a user-role message at its chronological position. The default `envelope` is `context`, which wraps content as `<context source="…">…</context>`; `envelope: 'raw'` uses caller-owned framing verbatim. Optional JSON `meta` remains in the event log and is never rendered.
 - `steering/message` → a user-role message wrapped in `<steering source="…">…</steering>` at its chronological position.
 
-Everything else (`turn/*`, `step/*`) is structural and does not project into a message. Token usage is observed on `assistant/message.usage` (the step that produced it); an operational error's step number is on `turn/end.reason` for `kind: 'error'`.
+Everything else (`turn/*`, `step/*`) is structural and does not project into a message. Token usage is observed on `assistant/message.usage` (the step that produced it); an operational error's step number is on `turn/end.reason` for `kind: 'error'`. Because this unreleased format intentionally has no compatibility promise, seed/load validation rejects request headers without provider+model and assistant messages without provider/model provenance instead of guessing a route for historical data.
 
 ## Live-session fork API
 
diff --git a/docs/event-producer-consumer.md b/docs/event-producer-consumer.md
index 20763647e8..d49cbf0f35 100644
--- a/docs/event-producer-consumer.md
+++ b/docs/event-producer-consumer.md
@@ -7,24 +7,24 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 
 | Event | Mode | Declared in | Dispatchers | Listeners |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:151`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
-| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:160`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
-| `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:295`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
-| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:214`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic), [`time-context`](../packages/context/time-context), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
-| `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:224`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard) |
-| `agent/queued` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:179`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
-| `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:236`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
-| `agent/session-prefix` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:251`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
-| `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:192`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
-| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:169`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
-| `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:262`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
-| `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:272`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
-| `agent/turn-stop` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:282`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
+| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:153`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
+| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:162`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
+| `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:297`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
+| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:216`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic), [`time-context`](../packages/context/time-context), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) |
+| `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:226`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard) |
+| `agent/queued` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:181`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
+| `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:238`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) |
+| `agent/session-prefix` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:253`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`tool-skill`](../packages/skill/tool-skill), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
+| `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:194`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
+| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:171`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio) |
+| `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:264`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
+| `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:274`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
+| `agent/turn-stop` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:284`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`subagent-inprocess`](../packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess) |
 | `approval/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/ui/user-approval/src/index.ts:31`](../packages/ui/user-approval/src/index.ts) | [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) |
 | `fs/edit-intent` | `waterfall` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:61`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`waterfall`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
 | `fs/observed` | `emit` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:70`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`emit`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
 | `fs/write-intent` | `waterfall` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:53`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`waterfall`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
-| `llm/stream` | `waterfall` | [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:39`](../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts) | [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm) (`waterfall`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`llm-replay`](../packages/support/llm-replay) |
+| `llm/stream` | `waterfall` | [`packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts:40`](../packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts) | [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm) (`waterfall`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`llm-replay`](../packages/support/llm-replay) |
 | `session/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:46`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
 | `session/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:56`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence) |
 | `session/event` | `emit` | [`packages/core/session/src/index.ts:68`](../packages/core/session/src/index.ts) | [`session`](../packages/core/session) (`events.dispatch`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`jsonrpc`](../packages/ui/jsonrpc), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`stdio`](../packages/ui/stdio), [`token-meter`](../packages/llm/token-meter), [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) |
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ This matrix shows which packages dispatch each harness-owned event and which pac
 | `subagent/provider-added` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:82`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`emit`) | [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent) |
 | `subagent/provider-removed` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:88`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`tool-subagent`](../packages/subagent/tool-subagent) |
 | `subagent/start` | `emit` | [`packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts:99`](../packages/subagent/subagent/src/index.ts) | [`subagent`](../packages/subagent/subagent) (`events.dispatch`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude) |
-| `system-prompt/assemble` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts:27`](../packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts) | [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt) (`waterfall`) | - |
+| `system-prompt/assemble` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts:27`](../packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts) | [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt) (`waterfall`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) |
 | `system-prompt/change` | `emit` | [`packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts:33`](../packages/core/system-prompt/src/index.ts) | [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt) (`emit`) | - |
 | `tools/change` | `emit` | [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:116`](../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts) | [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) (`emit`) | - |
 | `tools/execute` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/tools/src/index.ts:89`](../packages/core/tools/src/index.ts) | [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) (`waterfall`) | [`timeout-policy`](../packages/timeout/timeout-policy) |
diff --git a/docs/module-graph.md b/docs/module-graph.md
index 41dd8748c8..8b67c73d27 100644
--- a/docs/module-graph.md
+++ b/docs/module-graph.md
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ flowchart TD
   pkg_acp --> pkg_sandbox
   pkg_acp --> pkg_session
   pkg_acp --> pkg_session_persistence
+  pkg_acp --> pkg_system_prompt
   pkg_acp --> pkg_tools
   pkg_acp --> pkg_user_approval
   pkg_acp --> pkg_user_interaction
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@ flowchart TD
 | [`tool-cordis`](../packages/cordis/tool-cordis) | `cordis` | [`scope`](../packages/core/scope), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
 | [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) | `hooks` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`hook-protocol`](../packages/hooks/hook-protocol), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
 | [`agent-loop-testkit`](../packages/support/agent-loop-testkit) | `support` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
-| [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) | `ui` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`bash`](../packages/bash/bash), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`permission`](../packages/ui/permission), [`sandbox`](../packages/sandbox/sandbox), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |
+| [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp) | `ui` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`bash`](../packages/bash/bash), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`permission`](../packages/ui/permission), [`sandbox`](../packages/sandbox/sandbox), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`session-persistence`](../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence), [`system-prompt`](../packages/core/system-prompt), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-approval`](../packages/ui/user-approval), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |
 | [`tool-ask-user`](../packages/ui/tool-ask-user) | `ui` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools), [`user-interaction`](../packages/ui/user-interaction) |
 | [`workspace-context`](../packages/context/workspace-context) | `context` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`fs`](../packages/fs/fs), [`llm`](../packages/llm/llm), [`paths`](../packages/util/paths), [`session`](../packages/core/session), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
 | [`repeat-tool-guard`](../packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard) | `guard` | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent), [`tools`](../packages/core/tools) |
diff --git a/docs/persistence-catalog.md b/docs/persistence-catalog.md
index 1086623de7..c360c0644f 100644
--- a/docs/persistence-catalog.md
+++ b/docs/persistence-catalog.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts:253`](../packages/core/session/src/
 Assembled assistant message for one step (derived history uses this). Carries the step's `usage` when the adapter reported token accounting, so the model output and its accounting travel together (there is no separate usage record). `usage` is absent when the adapter reported none.
 
 ```ts persistence-catalog
-'assistant/message': { turn: number; step: number; content: ContentBlock[]; usage?: TokenUsage }
+'assistant/message': { turn: number; step: number; content: ContentBlock[]; provenance: AssistantProvenance; usage?: TokenUsage }
 ```
 
 Types: [ContentBlock](core-data-structures/core.md) · [TokenUsage](core-data-structures/llm-streaming.md)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Marks the end of a compaction — log-only, releases the lock. `error` set if su
 'compact/end': { turn: number; error?: string }
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts:38`](../packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts)
+Source: [`packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts:40`](../packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts)
 
 #### `compact/start` — log-only
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Source: [`packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts:15`](../packages/compact/compact
 Provenance record of a completed summarization — log-only, no surfaceOp. The summary content is in `data.summary`; the actual surface replacement is performed by a subsequent `user/message` event that shadows the compacted range.
 
 ```ts persistence-catalog
-'compact/summary': { summary: ContentBlock[]; shadowedRange: { start: number; end: number }; shadowedSeqs: number[]; shadowedTokenCount: number; model: string; maxTokens?: number }
+'compact/summary': { summary: ContentBlock[]; shadowedRange: { start: number; end: number }; shadowedSeqs: number[]; shadowedTokenCount: number; provider: string; model: string; maxTokens?: number }
 ```
 
 Types: [ContentBlock](core-data-structures/core.md)
diff --git a/docs/rfc/INDEX.md b/docs/rfc/INDEX.md
index d7deeb1bc5..640c2f7736 100644
--- a/docs/rfc/INDEX.md
+++ b/docs/rfc/INDEX.md
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ Generated by `pnpm run gen-rfc-index` from the RFC tree — never edit by hand;
 | [Tool output spill policy](implemented/architecture/2026-07-08-tool-output-spill-files.md) | 2026-07-08 |
 | [Single-file executable SDK runtime distribution (single-exe)](implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md) | 2026-07-10 |
 | [Agent-scope runtime design and correctness](implemented/architecture/2026-07-12-agent-scope-runtime-design.md) | 2026-07-12 |
+| [Provider-routed LLM adapters and a generic pi-ai backend](implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md) | 2026-07-14 |
+| [Advisory LLM catalogs and per-session ACP model selection](implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) | 2026-07-15 |
 | [Replay token meter service](implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md) | 2026-07-15 |
 
 ### Process
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.i18n.yaml b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.i18n.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48055ef6b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.i18n.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
+# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
+# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+#   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
+2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md: 75ef047a7f95621d9a9c018b6dc57439e6f2bb22
+2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md: 75ac9adbe5f8e96930a72a977c1969ff3a119ee8
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..75ef047a7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# RFC: Provider-routed LLM adapters and a generic pi-ai backend
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+`dsh-llm` registered adapters by exact model name. A plugin supplied a model list at Cordis startup, `LlmService` stored one adapter per listed string, and `GenerateOptions.model` selected the adapter and the provider model at once. This worked while both shipping adapters targeted the same two DeepSeek models, but it conflated two independent decisions: which upstream provider owns a request, and which model that provider should run.
+
+The conflation prevents a provider gateway from serving an open-ended model catalog. OpenRouter, for example, is one provider with many model ids, while a private OpenAI-compatible endpoint may add models without changing the Harness plugin tree. Every newly selected model currently needs to have been registered during plugin startup. The same model id can also exist at multiple providers, so model-only registration cannot state which provider the caller intended.
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` exposed none of pi-ai's provider abstraction. It constructed an inline DeepSeek `openai-completions` model, applied DeepSeek-specific payload patches, and stamped every replayed assistant message as DeepSeek. pi-ai itself has a provider/model catalog, selects APIs such as `openai-responses`, `anthropic-messages`, and `google-generative-ai`, and preserves provider-specific response ids and reasoning/tool signatures for later turns. The Harness conversion dropped that provenance, so simply replacing the inline model with a catalog lookup would have made same-model replay and cross-provider handoff incomplete.
+
+The adapter configuration also assumes one DeepSeek API key and endpoint. A generic backend needs independent credentials and endpoint overrides per provider while leaving AWS, Google ADC, OAuth, and other ambient authentication mechanisms to pi-ai.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Provider is the adapter registration key
+
+`GenerateOptions` and `LlmCallConfig` carry `provider: string` beside `model: string`; `AgentOptions` carries the corresponding optional creation field. A loop request is valid only after both values are non-empty, and both values are part of the logged request header. `agent/request` may return a replacement pair on any step, so a session can switch providers and models without changing the Cordis plugin lifecycle.
+
+`LlmService` registers and resolves adapters by provider. `registerAdapter(providers, adapter)` checks the entire provider list before mutating the registry, rejects a duplicate with `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER`, and disposes the whole registration as one effect. Model ids are not registration keys; the selected adapter still validates or forwards them. The later [LLM catalog and ACP selection RFC](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) added advisory `listProviders()` / `listModels()` discovery without turning model membership into request validation.
+
+A provider has exactly one adapter owner in a Cordis context. `dsh-llm-deepseek` registers `deepseek`; `dsh-llm-pi-ai` may also register `deepseek`, but loading both owners is a configuration error rather than an ordering rule or fallback. A deployment that wants the hand-rolled DeepSeek implementation excludes `deepseek` from the pi-ai profiles. A deployment that wants pi-ai's DeepSeek implementation does not mount `dsh-llm-deepseek`.
+
+`dsh-llm-deepseek` removes its model registration list and accepts any model string routed through provider `deepseek`. Its request serialization, `/chat/completions` endpoint, thinking options, SSE parsing, and error behavior remain unchanged; `options.model` is still sent verbatim.
+
+### Explicit pi-ai provider profiles
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` takes one non-empty list of provider profiles. Provider names must be unique within the list and present in pi-ai's `getProviders()` result. Each profile contains the provider name plus optional `apiKey`, `baseURL`, headers, reasoning level and budgets, cache retention, transport, timeouts, and retry settings. Credentials are never global: an explicit key applies only to its profile, while an absent key lets pi-ai resolve its standard environment variable, OAuth token, AWS credential chain, Google ADC, or other provider-native ambient authentication. An explicitly empty key is invalid configuration rather than an environment fallback.
+
+The plugin registers all configured provider names against one `PiAiAdapter` in one all-or-nothing call. A request uses its provider to select the matching profile and finds its model in `getModels(provider)` to obtain the catalog descriptor. An unknown provider fails at plugin load; an unknown model fails before network I/O with `UNKNOWN_MODEL`. The catalog object is never mutated. When a profile supplies `baseURL`, the adapter clones the selected descriptor and overrides only `baseUrl`, so a private endpoint can retain pi-ai's API, capabilities, compatibility flags, context limits, and reasoning map. The private endpoint must implement the selected provider's protocol, and the model id must still exist in the installed pi-ai catalog.
+
+The adapter calls pi-ai's `streamSimple()` so each catalog model chooses its registered API implementation, including OpenAI Responses instead of Chat Completions where the descriptor says `openai-responses`. Harness temperature, maximum tokens, signal, session id, and the profile's common stream options flow through directly. Profile headers merge with the mandatory Harness attribution headers, with Harness attribution winning its reserved names. The adapter no longer maintains DeepSeek-specific payload rewrites or a provider-protocol matrix.
+
+pi-ai's common stream options do not expose stop sequences. `dsh-llm-pi-ai` rejects a defined Harness `stop` option with `UNSUPPORTED_OPTION` rather than silently ignoring it or growing a second provider-specific payload implementation. `dsh-llm-deepseek` continues to support `stop` through its native request serializer.
+
+### Durable assistant provenance and replay state
+
+Assistant messages carry provider-neutral provenance containing the request's `provider` and `model`, plus an optional JSON-serializable adapter replay state. A successful `assistant/message` session event records this provenance and `deriveMessages()` returns it with the assistant message. User, system, context, and tool-result messages carry no assistant provenance. The provider/model fields are authoritative loop data; an adapter owns only its opaque replay-state payload.
+
+A terminal successful `finish` chunk may carry replay state, and `BlockAssembler` retains it alongside usage and finish reason. The loop attaches it to the assistant provenance only when the post-`agent/step-result` content is structurally equal to the assembled provider output. A listener that rewrites content keeps the provider/model provenance but loses the now-stale replay state. Error and aborted responses do not produce a normal assistant message and therefore do not enter future model history.
+
+The pi-ai replay state is a versioned, minimal projection of its successful `AssistantMessage`: source API/provider/model, response id/model, stop reason, and index-aligned text, thinking, and tool-call signatures. It does not duplicate text or tool arguments already carried by Harness content blocks, and it omits diagnostics, timestamps, usage, and errors. On a later request, `LlmService` gives replay state to the target adapter only when the historical provider and target provider are currently owned by the same adapter instance. That adapter combines the logged Harness content with replay state when it can restore the historical response, and owns any required cross-model or cross-provider conversion. An adapter receiving replay state with an unknown version or mismatched block shape fails explicitly; a different adapter receives only provider-neutral content and provenance.
+
+This state is model-visible replay input and therefore follows the existing [reconstructable-request rule](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md): it is present in both the terminal `finish` chunk and the assembled `assistant/message` provenance that drives derivation. Resume and fork preserve it verbatim. Compaction that shadows the assistant message also removes its replay state from the active surface; the summary is ordinary provider-neutral content.
+
+### Propagate the target through every request producer
+
+Every model-selection surface carries provider and model together: declarative agents, ACP and stdio app config, the JSON-RPC initialize request, subagent overrides and inheritance, workflow child overrides, and direct compaction summarization. Subagents inherit both fields from their parent before applying request overrides. The system-prompt variable set gains `provider` beside `model`.
+
+Compaction configuration gains `summarizationProvider` beside `summarizationModel`. Both are empty to inherit, or both are non-empty to select an explicit target; a half-configured pair fails load. Inheritance uses the last logged request target when one exists and falls back to the agent's creation options. `compact/summary` records both fields with the existing model-call envelope.
+
+The JSON-RPC runtime receives provider and model explicitly. Its convenience fallback mounts `dsh-llm-deepseek` only for provider `deepseek` when that provider has no registered owner; other missing providers fail without guessing an adapter.
+
+The on-disk session format remains the pre-release pinned version `0`, with no compatibility promise. Seed/load validation rejects request headers lacking provider and assistant messages lacking required provenance instead of accepting an old shape that can no longer reconstruct the request.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Keep model names as registry keys and add wildcard adapters.** A wildcard introduces fallback ordering between exact registrations and catch-all plugins, makes duplicate ownership dependent on listener order, and still cannot distinguish the same model id at two providers without another convention.
+
+**Encode provider and model into one string.** Values such as OpenRouter's `openai/gpt-*` already contain provider-like prefixes and slashes. A delimiter convention would leak routing syntax into every model selector and require escaping rules; two explicit fields are unambiguous and independently loggable.
+
+**Add `backend + provider + model`.** A backend key would allow `dsh-llm-deepseek` and pi-ai's DeepSeek implementation to coexist and switch per request. The accepted deployment rule is instead one adapter owner per provider: implementations of the same upstream are alternatives selected by plugin composition. A third routing dimension would burden every request and configuration for a capability with no current consumer.
+
+**Let `dsh-llm-pi-ai` automatically register every pi-ai provider.** This would claim ambient credentials and provider names the deployment never intended to expose, and would conflict with native adapters such as `dsh-llm-deepseek`. Explicit profiles make capability and credential scope reviewable.
+
+**Mount one pi-ai plugin instance per provider.** Separate instances isolate config but repeat plugin declarations and cannot make profile registration atomic. One adapter already receives provider on every request, so a validated profile map is the smaller lifecycle surface.
+
+**Accept arbitrary inline pi-ai model descriptors.** This would support catalog-external private model ids, but it exposes pi-ai's model and compatibility schema as Harness configuration and makes the adapter responsible for validating protocol-specific combinations. The first version supports custom endpoints by overriding `baseURL` on catalog models; custom descriptors require a separate decision after a real catalog-external deployment is identified.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Provider names are deployment-wide route ownership keys: two providers may use the same model string, but mounting two adapters for one provider fails at load instead of creating fallback order.
+- Model selection no longer changes the Cordis plugin graph. Catalog-backed adapters can accept any installed catalog model selected after startup, while the native DeepSeek adapter forwards arbitrary DeepSeek model ids.
+- A custom `baseURL` preserves the selected catalog model's protocol and capabilities; it does not make catalog-external model ids valid. Private endpoints must implement that catalog entry's protocol.
+- pi-ai credentials and transport knobs are scoped per provider profile. An omitted key delegates to pi-ai ambient authentication, while an explicitly empty key is invalid.
+- `dsh-llm-pi-ai` rejects stop sequences because pi-ai's common stream API cannot express them; the native DeepSeek adapter retains its stop support.
+- Replay state is portable only within the adapter instance that owns both the historical and target providers. Cross-provider and cross-model restoration is an adapter responsibility, and another adapter receives provider-neutral history without the opaque state.
+- Current pre-release session JSONL requires provider/model request headers and assistant provenance. Older shapes remain version `0` but are rejected rather than migrated.
+
+## Testing
+
+- Unit coverage exercises registry conflicts, request reconstruction, session validation, profile resolution, option forwarding, native API selection including OpenAI Responses, conversion, replay validation, error mapping, cancellation, content rewrites, and same-instance versus different-instance replay dispatch.
+- Keyless loop/session tests and ACP snapshots exercise durable provider/model metadata, resume and fork propagation, workflow/subagent overrides, and unchanged user-visible transcripts; the key-gated DeepSeek e2e retains real provider streaming and tool follow-up coverage.
+- Public JSDoc, package READMEs, architecture and core-data-structure docs, generated catalogs, examples, session fixtures, and Python SDK pairs use provider/model targets consistently and are checked by the repository documentation and type-equivalence gates.
+
+## Risks
+
+This is a repo-wide pre-release API break: model-only request construction, adapter registration, app protocols, fixtures, and persisted version-0 event shapes all change together, with no compatibility aliases. The provider exclusivity rule deliberately prevents two implementations of the same upstream from coexisting in one context. A pi-ai dependency update can change the accepted provider/model catalog, so the lockfile and adapter e2e matrix define the tested set. Custom `baseURL` endpoints inherit the chosen catalog model's protocol assumptions and cannot repair an incompatible proxy. Catalog-external model descriptors and multimodal content remain unsupported. pi-ai replay state may contain opaque encrypted reasoning signatures; it is persisted because the provider requires it for continuity, but it is never rendered or logged outside the existing session record.
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..75ac9adbe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.zh.md
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# RFC: 基于提供方路由的 LLM 适配器与通用 pi-ai 后端
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-14-provider-routed-llm-adapters.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+`dsh-llm` 按精确模型名称注册适配器。插件在 Cordis 启动时提供模型列表，`LlmService` 为列表中的每个字符串保存一个适配器，`GenerateOptions.model` 同时选择适配器与提供方模型。两个正式适配器都只面向相同的两个 DeepSeek 模型时，这种方式可以工作，但它混淆了两个独立决策：由哪个上游提供方承接请求，以及该提供方应运行哪个模型。
+
+这种混淆使提供方网关无法提供开放的模型目录。例如，OpenRouter 是一个包含大量模型 ID 的提供方，私有 OpenAI 兼容端点也可能在不修改 Harness 插件树的情况下增加模型。目前，每个新选择的模型都必须在插件启动期间完成注册。同一个模型 ID 还可能存在于多个提供方中，因此仅按模型注册无法表达调用方预期使用的提供方。
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 没有暴露 pi-ai 的提供方抽象。它以内联方式构造 DeepSeek `openai-completions` 模型，应用 DeepSeek 专用的 payload 补丁，并将每条回放的助手消息标记为 DeepSeek。pi-ai 自身提供提供方/模型目录，能够选择 `openai-responses`、`anthropic-messages`、`google-generative-ai` 等 API，并保留提供方专用的响应 ID，以及后续轮次所需的推理和工具签名。Harness 转换丢弃了这些来源信息，因此仅将内联模型替换为目录查询，会导致同模型回放与跨提供方移交不完整。
+
+适配器配置同样假定只存在一个 DeepSeek API 密钥和端点。通用后端需要为各提供方分别配置凭据和端点覆盖，同时继续由 pi-ai 处理 AWS、Google ADC、OAuth 等环境认证机制。
+
+## 决策
+
+### 提供方作为适配器注册键
+
+`GenerateOptions` 与 `LlmCallConfig` 在 `model: string` 之外携带 `provider: string`，`AgentOptions` 则携带对应的可选创建字段。只有两个值都非空时，agent loop（智能体循环）请求才有效；两个值也都会写入请求头日志。`agent/request` 可以在任意步骤返回替换后的字段组合，因此会话可以切换提供方与模型，无需改变 Cordis 插件生命周期。
+
+`LlmService` 按提供方注册和解析适配器。`registerAdapter(providers, adapter)` 在修改注册表前检查整个提供方列表，遇到重复项时返回 `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER`，并将整组注册作为一个 effect 释放。模型 ID 不作为注册键；仍由选中的适配器负责验证或转发。后续的 [LLM 目录与 ACP 模型选择 RFC](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) 增加了建议性的 `listProviders()` / `listModels()` 发现接口，但不会把目录成员关系变成请求校验规则。
+
+在一个 Cordis 上下文中，一个提供方只能有一个适配器所有者。`dsh-llm-deepseek` 注册 `deepseek`；`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 也可以注册 `deepseek`，但同时加载两个所有者属于配置错误，不采用顺序规则或回退行为。若部署选择手写的 DeepSeek 实现，需从 pi-ai 配置中排除 `deepseek`；若部署选择 pi-ai 的 DeepSeek 实现，则不挂载 `dsh-llm-deepseek`。
+
+`dsh-llm-deepseek` 移除模型注册列表，接受通过 `deepseek` 提供方路由的任意模型字符串。其请求序列化、`/chat/completions` 端点、thinking 选项、SSE（Server-Sent Events）解析和错误行为保持不变；`options.model` 仍会原样发送。
+
+### 显式 pi-ai 提供方配置
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 接受一个非空的提供方配置列表。列表内的提供方名称必须唯一，并且存在于 pi-ai 的 `getProviders()` 结果中。每项配置包含提供方名称，以及可选的 `apiKey`、`baseURL`、headers、推理级别和预算、缓存保留设置、传输方式、超时和重试设置。凭据不设全局值：显式密钥仅对所属配置生效；未提供密钥时，pi-ai 使用标准环境变量、OAuth token、AWS 凭据链、Google ADC 或其他提供方原生环境认证。显式空密钥属于无效配置，不会回退到环境认证。
+
+插件通过一次全有或全无调用，将所有已配置的提供方名称注册到同一个 `PiAiAdapter`。请求按 provider 选择对应配置，并在 `getModels(provider)` 中查找模型以取得目录描述符。未知提供方会在插件加载时失败；未知模型会在网络 I/O 前以 `UNKNOWN_MODEL` 失败。适配器不会修改目录对象。当配置提供 `baseURL` 时，适配器复制选中的描述符，仅覆盖 `baseUrl`，使私有端点保留 pi-ai 的 API、能力、兼容标志、上下文限制与推理映射。私有端点必须实现所选提供方的协议，模型 ID 也仍须存在于已安装的 pi-ai 目录中。
+
+适配器调用 pi-ai 的 `streamSimple()`，因此每个目录模型会选择其注册的 API 实现；描述符为 `openai-responses` 时使用 OpenAI Responses，而非 Chat Completions。Harness 的 temperature、最大 token 数、signal、session ID，以及提供方配置中的通用流选项均直接传递。配置 headers 与 Harness 强制归因 headers 合并；发生保留名称冲突时，以 Harness 归因为准。适配器不再维护 DeepSeek 专用 payload 重写或提供方协议矩阵。
+
+pi-ai 的通用流选项不支持停止序列。若 Harness `stop` 选项已定义，`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 会以 `UNSUPPORTED_OPTION` 拒绝请求，不会静默忽略，也不会增加第二套提供方专用 payload 实现。`dsh-llm-deepseek` 继续通过原生请求序列化器支持 `stop`。
+
+### 持久化助手来源信息与回放状态
+
+助手消息携带提供方无关的来源信息，其中包含请求的 `provider` 和 `model`，以及可选的 JSON 可序列化适配器回放状态。成功的 `assistant/message` 会话事件记录这些来源信息，`deriveMessages()` 返回助手消息时也会包含这些信息。用户、system、context 与工具结果消息不携带助手来源信息。provider/model 字段是 agent loop 的权威数据；适配器仅拥有其不透明回放状态 payload。
+
+成功的终止 `finish` 分片可以携带回放状态，`BlockAssembler` 会将其与 token 用量和结束原因一起保留。只有当 `agent/step-result` 处理后的内容与提供方组装输出在结构上相等时，agent loop 才会把回放状态附加到助手来源信息。监听器重写内容后，provider/model 来源信息仍会保留，但已经陈旧的回放状态会被移除。错误或中止响应不会生成正常助手消息，因此不会进入后续模型历史。
+
+pi-ai 回放状态是其成功 `AssistantMessage` 的带版本最小投影，包含源 API/provider/model、响应 ID/model、停止原因，以及按索引对齐的文本、thinking 和工具调用签名。它不会重复 Harness 内容块中已有的文本或工具参数，也不包含诊断信息、时间戳、用量或错误。后续请求中，只有历史提供方和目标提供方当前归同一个适配器实例所有时，`LlmService` 才会把回放状态交给目标适配器。适配器在能够恢复历史响应时，将 Harness 记录的内容与回放状态组合，并负责所需的跨模型或跨提供方转换。适配器收到未知版本或块形状不匹配的回放状态时会显式失败；其他适配器只能收到提供方无关的内容与来源信息。
+
+该状态属于模型可见的回放输入，因此遵循现有的[请求可重建规则](../../implemented/architecture/2026-07-05-reconstructable-requests.md)：它同时存在于终止 `finish` 分片和驱动派生的已组装 `assistant/message` 来源信息中。恢复和 fork 会原样保留该状态。压缩（compaction）遮蔽助手消息时，也会从活动 surface 中移除其回放状态；摘要属于普通的提供方无关内容。
+
+### 在所有请求生产方中传播目标
+
+每个模型选择接口都同时携带 provider 与 model：声明式 agent、ACP（Agent Client Protocol）和 stdio 应用配置、JSON-RPC initialize 请求、subagent 覆盖与继承、工作流子 agent 覆盖，以及直接压缩摘要。subagent 先从父 agent 继承两个字段，再应用请求覆盖。系统提示词变量集合在 `model` 之外增加 `provider`。
+
+压缩配置在 `summarizationModel` 之外增加 `summarizationProvider`。两个值均为空时继承，均非空时选择显式目标；只配置其中一个会导致加载失败。继承优先使用最近一次记录的请求目标，没有时回退到 agent 创建选项。`compact/summary` 使用现有模型调用 envelope 记录两个字段。
+
+JSON-RPC 运行时显式接收 provider 与 model。仅当 `deepseek` 提供方没有注册所有者时，其便利回退才会挂载 `dsh-llm-deepseek`；其他缺失的提供方会直接失败，不会猜测适配器。
+
+磁盘会话格式仍使用预发布阶段固定的版本 `0`，且不承诺兼容性。seed/load 验证会拒绝缺少 provider 的请求头，以及缺少必需来源信息的助手消息，不会接受已无法重建请求的旧格式。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+**继续以模型名称作为注册表键，并增加通配适配器。** 通配机制会在精确注册与兜底插件之间引入回退顺序，使重复所有权取决于监听器顺序；若不再增加其他约定，仍无法区分不同提供方中相同的模型 ID。
+
+**将提供方与模型编码到一个字符串中。** OpenRouter 的 `openai/gpt-*` 等值已经包含类似提供方的前缀和斜杠。分隔符约定会把路由语法泄漏到每个模型选择接口，并需要转义规则；两个显式字段更清晰，也可以分别记录日志。
+
+**增加 `backend + provider + model`。** backend 键可以让 `dsh-llm-deepseek` 与 pi-ai 的 DeepSeek 实现共存，并按请求切换。最终采用的部署规则是一个提供方对应一个适配器所有者：同一上游的不同实现属于由插件组合选定的替代项。第三个路由维度会增加每个请求与配置的负担，却没有当前消费方。
+
+**让 `dsh-llm-pi-ai` 自动注册所有 pi-ai 提供方。** 这种方式会占用部署无意暴露的环境凭据和提供方名称，并与 `dsh-llm-deepseek` 等原生适配器冲突。显式配置可以审查能力和凭据范围。
+
+**每个提供方挂载一个 pi-ai 插件实例。** 独立实例可以隔离配置，但会重复插件声明，也无法实现配置注册的原子性。每个请求本就向同一个适配器提供 provider，因此经过验证的配置映射具有更小的生命周期接口。
+
+**接受任意内联 pi-ai 模型描述符。** 这种方式可支持目录外的私有模型 ID，但会将 pi-ai 的模型与兼容性 schema 暴露为 Harness 配置，并要求适配器验证协议专用组合。当前版本通过覆盖目录模型的 `baseURL` 支持自定义端点；只有实际出现目录外部署需求后，才会另行决策是否支持自定义描述符。
+
+## 影响
+
+- 提供方名称是部署范围内的路由所有权键：两个提供方可以使用相同的模型字符串，但为同一个提供方挂载两个适配器会在加载时失败，不会形成回退顺序。
+- 模型选择不再改变 Cordis 插件图。目录型适配器可以接受启动后选择的任意已安装目录模型，原生 DeepSeek 适配器则会转发任意 DeepSeek 模型 ID。
+- 自定义 `baseURL` 会保留所选目录模型的协议与能力，但不会让目录外模型 ID 变为有效。私有端点必须实现该目录项对应的协议。
+- pi-ai 凭据与传输选项按提供方配置隔离。省略密钥时委托 pi-ai 使用环境认证；显式空密钥无效。
+- pi-ai 的通用流 API 无法表达停止序列，因此 `dsh-llm-pi-ai` 会拒绝停止序列；原生 DeepSeek 适配器仍支持停止序列。
+- 仅当历史提供方与目标提供方归同一个适配器实例所有时，回放状态才可移植。适配器负责跨提供方和跨模型恢复；其他适配器只接收不含不透明状态的提供方无关历史。
+- 当前预发布会话 JSONL 要求请求头包含 provider/model，助手消息包含来源信息。旧格式仍使用版本 `0`，但会被拒绝，不执行迁移。
+
+## 测试
+
+- 单元测试覆盖注册表冲突、请求重建、会话验证、配置解析、选项转发、包括 OpenAI Responses 在内的原生 API 选择、转换、回放验证、错误映射、取消、内容重写，以及同一实例与不同实例间的回放分发。
+- 无密钥的 agent loop/会话测试和 ACP 快照覆盖持久化 provider/model 元数据、恢复与 fork 传播、工作流/subagent 覆盖，以及不变的用户可见 transcript（文本记录）；密钥门控的 DeepSeek e2e 测试保留真实提供方的流式输出与工具后续调用覆盖率。
+- 公共 JSDoc、package README、架构与核心数据结构文档、生成目录、示例、会话 fixture（测试前置数据）和 Python SDK 配对文档统一使用 provider/model 目标，并由仓库文档与类型等价门禁校验。
+
+## 风险
+
+这是一次覆盖全仓库的预发布 API 破坏性变更：仅模型的请求构造、适配器注册、应用协议、fixture，以及持久化版本 0 事件格式会同时变化，不提供兼容别名。提供方排他规则有意禁止同一上游的两个实现共存于同一上下文。pi-ai 依赖升级可能改变可接受的提供方/模型目录，因此锁文件与适配器 e2e 矩阵定义已验证集合。自定义 `baseURL` 端点会继承所选目录模型的协议假设，无法修复不兼容的代理。目录外模型描述符与多模态内容仍不受支持。pi-ai 回放状态可能包含不透明的加密推理签名；提供方需要该信息维持连续性，因此系统会持久化该状态，但不会在现有会话记录之外渲染或记录它。
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+# RFC: Advisory LLM catalogs and per-session ACP model selection
+
+Status: implemented
+
+English | [中文](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.zh.md)
+
+## Problem
+
+Provider-routed adapters let every request choose `provider + model`, but `LlmService` exposed only routing and streaming. A UI could not discover which providers were registered or which models an adapter was prepared to recommend. ACP clients therefore received no `model` session config option, so Zed, JetBrains, and VS Code integrations had no model list even though the request seam already supported runtime switching.
+
+Model discovery cannot become request validation. The hand-written DeepSeek adapter deliberately forwards arbitrary model ids to a public or private endpoint, while pi-ai has a finite installed catalog that is authoritative for its own request resolution. Treating one shared catalog as a whitelist would remove the private-endpoint behavior that provider routing was designed to preserve.
+
+ACP selection must also preserve the provider dimension. The same model id may appear under multiple routes, and switching a global adapter or agent template would leak one editor session's choice into every other session. Prompt variables and request routing must change together; a selection that lands during asynchronous prompt assembly cannot make `{{model}}` name one model while the request reaches another.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Provider-neutral advisory discovery
+
+`LlmAdapter` gains `providerInfo(provider)` and asynchronous `listModels(provider)` methods. Their provider-neutral results are `LlmProviderInfo { id, name }` and `LlmModelInfo { provider, id, name, description? }`. The defaults preserve existing adapter behavior by naming a provider after its route and advertising no models.
+
+`LlmService.listProviders()` returns detached metadata in registration order. `LlmService.listModels(provider)` delegates to the route owner, validates non-empty ids and names, rejects a mismatched provider or duplicate model id with `INVALID_CATALOG`, and returns detached values. Unknown providers still fail with `NO_ADAPTER`. Provider metadata is validated atomically during `registerAdapter()` so a malformed display record cannot leave a partial registration.
+
+Catalog membership is advisory. It drives selectors and diagnostics but never changes `stream()` routing and never rejects an otherwise valid request. Provider ownership remains exclusive and lifecycle-bound; model ids remain request-time adapter input.
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` maps the configured provider's installed `getModels(provider)` entries into the neutral catalog. Its existing request-time catalog lookup remains authoritative and still rejects unknown models with `UNKNOWN_MODEL`. `dsh-llm-deepseek` accepts an optional `models` config containing display entries, defaulting to `deepseek-v4-flash` and `deepseek-v4-pro`. An explicit list replaces those defaults and an empty list disables discovery. The entries improve selector UX for known public or private models, while every unlisted model id continues to pass through unchanged.
+
+### ACP session config option
+
+The ACP bridge advertises one select with `id: model` and `category: model` in `session/new` and `session/load` when the session has a complete target whose provider is registered. Each opaque option value encodes the full provider/model pair. Models are grouped by provider when multiple non-empty provider groups exist; a single group is flattened for clients that render simple selects better.
+
+The session's current target is added to the displayed options when its adapter omits it. This preserves custom DeepSeek and private-endpoint models while keeping the adapter catalog advisory. A target with an unregistered provider is not advertised, and a model-less agent remains available to another `agent/request` supplier.
+
+`session/set_config_option` accepts only values from the current catalog snapshot and updates a target reference owned by that ACP session. No global `LlmService` or `AgentOptions` state changes, so concurrent sessions may select different providers and models. The existing permission select remains independent, and every response returns the complete refreshed option state.
+
+### Prompt/request consistency and durability
+
+Agent setup installs scoped `system-prompt/assemble` and `agent/request` listeners. Prompt assembly snapshots the selected pair once per step, overwrites the assembled `provider` and `model` variables after downstream prompt listeners, and the request listener applies that same snapshot after downstream request listeners. A selection during asynchronous assembly therefore starts on the next step rather than splitting prompt text from routing. Other call-config fields remain untouched.
+
+The request header remains the durable source of truth. When a selected target is actually used, the existing `request/header` or `request/header-delta` event records it. `session/load` initializes the ACP selection from the folded last request header before falling back to bridge config. A selection that is never used by a request is intentionally in-memory only because it never became model-visible state.
+
+ACP's experimental `providers/*` capability is not used. That draft surface configures provider base URLs, protocols, and headers, including secrets; it does not enumerate models and would give the UI authority to rewrite deployment-owned adapter configuration.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+**Return model strings only.** A model-only value loses the provider route and becomes ambiguous as soon as two providers expose the same id.
+
+**Make catalogs mandatory whitelists.** This conflicts with the hand-written adapter's arbitrary model pass-through and private deployments. The selected adapter already owns authoritative request validation.
+
+**Store selection in `AgentOptions` or `LlmService`.** Those are creation-wide or deployment-wide objects. Mutating them would couple concurrent ACP sessions and bypass the logged `agent/request` replacement path.
+
+**Persist a new model-selection session event immediately.** An unused UI selection has not affected a model request. Recording the existing request header when the target is consumed preserves the model-visible-if-and-only-if-logged rule without adding a second source of truth.
+
+**Use ACP `providers/*`.** That unstable API changes endpoint and authentication configuration rather than selecting a model for one session, and its lifecycle and secret-handling semantics do not match this feature.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Any adapter can expose a dynamic model list without leaking provider-library types into the core seam.
+- Catalog consumers must treat absence as “not advertised,” never “invalid request.”
+- pi-ai-backed ACP deployments automatically inherit the installed pi-ai provider catalogs; hand-written DeepSeek deployments list known choices explicitly and retain arbitrary model support.
+- ACP clients receive a standard stable model config option, with provider-aware values and per-session isolation.
+- Request headers remain compatible with the provider-routed session shape; no new JSONL event or format version is required.
+- A catalog read can be asynchronous. ACP reads a detached snapshot before creating or resuming an agent, so discovery failure cannot leave a partially published session.
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit coverage validates catalog detachment and malformed metadata, pi-ai and DeepSeek catalog projection, ACP provider grouping, custom-current insertion, invalid values, provider/model request routing, prompt-variable alignment, concurrent-session isolation, model-less fallback, and load restoration from the request header. The existing ACP transport suites verify that the additional config option does not change prompt, cancellation, replay, approval, or tool-rendering behavior.
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.zh.md b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.zh.md
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+# RFC: 建议性 LLM 目录与 ACP 会话级模型选择
+
+Status: implemented
+
+[English](2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) | 中文
+
+## 问题
+
+基于提供方路由的适配器允许每次请求选择 `provider + model`，但 `LlmService` 只暴露路由和流式调用。UI 无法发现已注册的提供方，也无法知道适配器愿意推荐哪些模型。因此，ACP 客户端收不到 `model` 会话配置项；即使请求接缝已经支持运行时切换，Zed、JetBrains 和 VS Code 集成仍没有模型列表。
+
+模型发现不能变成请求校验。手写 DeepSeek 适配器会把任意模型 ID 原样转发给公开或私有端点，而 pi-ai 的有限安装目录则是其自身请求解析的权威依据。将共享目录视为白名单，会破坏提供方路由需要保留的私有端点能力。
+
+ACP 选择还必须保留提供方维度。同一个模型 ID 可能存在于多个路由下；切换全局适配器或 agent 模板会让一个编辑器会话的选择泄漏到其他会话。Prompt 变量与请求路由必须同时变化；如果选择发生在异步 prompt 组装期间，不能让 `{{model}}` 表示一个模型、实际请求却到达另一个模型。
+
+## 决策
+
+### 提供方中立的建议性发现
+
+`LlmAdapter` 增加 `providerInfo(provider)` 与异步 `listModels(provider)` 方法。其提供方中立结果分别为 `LlmProviderInfo { id, name }` 和 `LlmModelInfo { provider, id, name, description? }`。默认实现以路由名称作为提供方名称，并且不展示模型，从而保持现有适配器行为。
+
+`LlmService.listProviders()` 按注册顺序返回分离后的元数据。`LlmService.listModels(provider)` 委托给路由所有者，校验非空 ID 和名称，并在提供方不匹配或模型 ID 重复时以 `INVALID_CATALOG` 失败，最后返回分离后的值。未知提供方仍以 `NO_ADAPTER` 失败。提供方元数据在 `registerAdapter()` 期间进行原子校验，错误展示记录不会留下部分注册。
+
+目录成员关系仅提供建议。它驱动选择器与诊断，但不会改变 `stream()` 路由，也不会拒绝原本有效的请求。提供方所有权仍然具有排他性并绑定生命周期；模型 ID 仍是请求时传给适配器的输入。
+
+`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 将已配置提供方的安装目录 `getModels(provider)` 映射为中立目录。其现有请求时目录查询仍是权威依据，未知模型仍以 `UNKNOWN_MODEL` 失败。`dsh-llm-deepseek` 接受可选的 `models` 配置作为展示条目，默认包含 `deepseek-v4-flash` 和 `deepseek-v4-pro`。显式列表会替换这些默认值，空列表则关闭发现。这些条目改善已知公开或私有模型的选择体验，而所有未列出的模型 ID 仍会原样透传。
+
+### ACP 会话配置项
+
+当会话具有完整目标且目标提供方已注册时，ACP bridge 会在 `session/new` 与 `session/load` 中展示一个 `id: model`、`category: model` 的选择项。每个不透明选项值都编码完整的提供方/模型字段组合。存在多个非空提供方分组时按提供方分组；只有一个分组时将其展开，以便对简单选择器支持更好的客户端展示。
+
+如果适配器目录未包含会话当前目标，该目标仍会加入展示选项。这能保留自定义 DeepSeek 与私有端点模型，同时维持目录的建议性。提供方未注册的目标不会展示；缺少模型的 agent 仍可由其他 `agent/request` 提供者补齐。
+
+`session/set_config_option` 只接受当前目录快照中的值，并更新该 ACP 会话独占的目标引用。它不会修改全局 `LlmService` 或 `AgentOptions` 状态，因此并发会话可以选择不同的提供方和模型。现有权限选择项保持独立，每次响应都返回完整的刷新后配置项状态。
+
+### Prompt/请求一致性与持久化
+
+Agent setup 会安装作用域内的 `system-prompt/assemble` 与 `agent/request` 监听器。Prompt 组装为每个 step 只快照一次选中的字段组合，在下游 prompt 监听器完成后覆盖组装结果中的 `provider` 与 `model` 变量；请求监听器则在下游请求监听器完成后应用同一个快照。因此，异步组装期间发生的选择会从下一个 step 生效，不会导致 prompt 文本与路由分裂。其他调用配置字段保持不变。
+
+请求头仍是持久化事实来源。当选中目标被实际使用时，现有 `request/header` 或 `request/header-delta` 事件会记录它。`session/load` 先从折叠后的最后请求头初始化 ACP 选择，再回退到 bridge 配置。一个从未被请求使用的选择只保留在内存中，因为它从未成为模型可见状态。
+
+本功能不使用 ACP 的实验性 `providers/*` 能力。该草案接口配置提供方 base URL、协议和 headers，其中可能包含密钥；它不枚举模型，并且会赋予 UI 改写部署所有的适配器配置的权力。
+
+## 考虑过的替代方案
+
+**只返回模型字符串。** 仅模型值会丢失提供方路由；两个提供方暴露相同 ID 时立刻产生歧义。
+
+**将目录设为强制白名单。** 这与手写适配器的任意模型透传和私有部署冲突。请求的权威校验本就属于被选中的适配器。
+
+**将选择存入 `AgentOptions` 或 `LlmService`。** 这些对象分别面向创建过程或整个部署。修改它们会耦合并发 ACP 会话，并绕开带日志归因的 `agent/request` 替换路径。
+
+**立即写入新的模型选择会话事件。** 尚未使用的 UI 选择没有影响模型请求。目标被消费时记录现有请求头，既满足“模型可见当且仅当已记录”的规则，也不会引入第二个事实来源。
+
+**使用 ACP `providers/*`。** 该不稳定 API 用于修改端点与认证配置，而不是为单个会话选择模型；其生命周期和密钥处理语义都不适合本功能。
+
+## 结果
+
+- 任意适配器都能暴露动态模型列表，无需把提供方库类型泄漏到核心接缝。
+- 目录消费者必须把缺失理解为“未展示”，而不是“请求无效”。
+- 基于 pi-ai 的 ACP 部署会自动继承已安装的 pi-ai 提供方目录；手写 DeepSeek 部署显式列出已知选项，同时保留任意模型能力。
+- ACP 客户端会收到稳定标准的模型配置项，其中的值保留提供方信息，并按会话隔离。
+- 请求头继续使用基于提供方路由的会话结构；不需要增加 JSONL 事件或格式版本。
+- 目录读取可以是异步的。ACP 在创建或恢复 agent 前读取分离后的快照，因此发现失败不会留下部分发布的会话。
+
+## 测试
+
+单元测试覆盖目录分离与错误元数据、pi-ai 和 DeepSeek 目录投影、ACP 提供方分组、自定义当前模型补入、无效值、提供方/模型请求路由、prompt 变量一致性、并发会话隔离、无模型回退，以及从请求头恢复选择。现有 ACP 传输测试验证新增配置项不会改变 prompt、取消、回放、审批或工具展示行为。
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.i18n.yaml b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.i18n.yaml
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@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
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-2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md: e6a2e1163ac0803cd87b917f9d2a14ad2372c2f0
+2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md: 85e68217544ff1bf12d1c24ce94ab35444052ec4
+2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md: a7feeb99103114a12984cb58d55f4cb8fe1248d6
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md
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--- a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md
+++ b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ English | [中文](2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md)
 
 Context pressure is useful outside compaction. A compaction backend, an overflow guard, or a future request-policy plugin can all need the same answer: how much of the configured context window does the durable request consume? Keeping that fold inside `dsh-compact-basic` duplicates replay logic, makes measurement unavailable without compaction, and encourages callers to reuse stale accounting.
 
-Provider usage is not a complete answer. It describes one successful call under one exact request envelope, while the current surface can grow, shrink, or be replaced afterward. Sessions also switch models, old logs can lack chunk provenance, and provider fields separate input, cache-read, cache-write, output, and reasoning counts. A useful service therefore combines the latest exact anchor with conservative heuristic repricing and exposes the log revision consumed by each result.
+Provider usage is not a complete answer. It describes one successful call under one exact request envelope, while the current surface can grow, shrink, or be replaced afterward. Sessions also switch providers and models, old logs can lack chunk provenance, and usage fields separate input, cache-read, cache-write, output, and reasoning counts. A useful service therefore combines the latest exact anchor with conservative heuristic repricing and exposes the log revision consumed by each result.
 
 ## Decision
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Each session owns one isolated incremental fold. Active folds advance from `sess
 
 `measure(session, requestHeader?)` synchronizes the fold once and returns scalar pressure together with positional per-node prices. `totalTokens` remains request-and-response pressure; `surfaceTokens` is the surface-only heuristic total and equals the sum of `nodes[].tokens`. A `requestHeader` override changes pressure pricing only, while the surface fields always describe the current session. `estimateMessage(message)` applies the fixed heuristic without session state. Each result is one detached, deeply immutable snapshot carrying one `logRevision`. Every measurement clones the current nodes and is therefore O(surface).
 
-Provider usage is reused only when the measured canonical request envelope equals the latest successful-call anchor. Any model, system, prefix, tool, or call-config change causes complete heuristic repricing. Surface changes remain a signed delta from a matching anchor, including negative values after a shrinking replacement. A later successful request replaces the earlier anchor, including across model switches.
+Provider usage is reused only when the measured canonical request envelope equals the latest successful-call anchor. Any provider, model, system, prefix, tool, or call-config change causes complete heuristic repricing. Surface changes remain a signed delta from a matching anchor, including negative values after a shrinking replacement. A later successful request replaces the earlier anchor, including across provider or model switches.
 
 Usage sums the disjoint input, cache-read, cache-write, and output buckets. Reasoning is not added a second time. Every successful model call records an `assistant/message`, including content-less and max-token calls, with its exact earlier chunk seqs. An explicit empty provenance list means a known empty provider stream; absent legacy provenance conservatively treats the durable assistant output as provider output.
 
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ Usage sums the disjoint input, cache-read, cache-write, and output buckets. Reas
 
 Automatic compaction uses one unified measurement for each threshold-and-retention decision. The region transaction measures after appending its durable `compact/start` lock and again after asynchronous summarization; any intervening durable append changes `logRevision` and prevents replacement.
 
-Compact policy has service-wide defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, summarization model `''`, maximum summary output `8192`, one extra compaction attempt, and automatic triggering enabled. Top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the pressure policy; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. Empty summarization model resolves the latest logged routed model, then `AgentOptions.model`.
+Compact policy has service-wide defaults: threshold ratio `0.8`, retained tail `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`, empty summarization provider/model, maximum summary output `8192`, one extra compaction attempt, and automatic triggering enabled. Top-level `thresholdRatio` and `retainTokens` override the pressure policy; retention must remain below the resulting threshold. `summarizationProvider` and `summarizationModel` must both be set or both be empty; an empty pair resolves the latest logged request target, then the `AgentOptions` pair.
 
-The pre-step trigger measures a provisional envelope: the current prompt and prefix override logged values, while the latest logged header supplies model, tools, and other call config. A model-less router-only agent skips that provisional check because `agent/request` can route later; any routed model name can use the singleton estimator.
+The pre-step trigger measures a provisional envelope: the current prompt and prefix override logged values, while the latest logged header supplies provider, model, tools, and other call config. A router-only agent without a complete provider/model pair skips that provisional check because `agent/request` can route later; any routed target can use the singleton estimator.
 
 ## Testing
 
-Unit coverage pins service configuration, fixed estimation, envelope invalidation, latest-anchor replacement across model switches, usage and missing-usage paths, seeded append/replace replay, signed deltas, provenance modes, malformed boundaries, unified snapshot detachment and deep immutability, surface-total equality, listener ordering, reload, compact defaults, routing fallback, one-call automatic decisions, retention, convergence, and log-revision rollback. A real Loader/Include YAML fixture loads the exact zero-config token-meter and compact-basic package names in dependency order.
+Unit coverage pins service configuration, fixed estimation, envelope invalidation, latest-anchor replacement across provider/model switches, usage and missing-usage paths, seeded append/replace replay, signed deltas, provenance modes, malformed boundaries, unified snapshot detachment and deep immutability, surface-total equality, listener ordering, reload, compact defaults, routing fallback, one-call automatic decisions, retention, convergence, and log-revision rollback. A real Loader/Include YAML fixture loads the exact zero-config token-meter and compact-basic package names in dependency order.
 
 ## Alternatives considered
 
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md
index e6a2e1163a..a7feeb9910 100644
--- a/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md
+++ b/docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.zh.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 上下文压力并不只对压缩有用。压缩后端、溢出保护或未来的请求策略插件都可能需要回答同一个问题：持久请求占用了已配置上下文窗口的多少容量？如果把该折叠逻辑留在 `dsh-compact-basic` 内部，就会重复实现回放逻辑，使未加载压缩的调用方无法使用计量，并诱使调用方复用陈旧的核算结果。
 
-提供方 usage 也不是完整答案。它只描述某个精确请求信封下的一次成功调用，而当前表层之后还可能增长、缩小或被替换。会话也可能切换模型，旧日志可能缺少分片来源，提供方字段还会分别报告输入、缓存读取、缓存写入、输出与推理计数。因此，可用的服务必须把最新精确锚点与保守的启发式重新定价结合起来，并公开每个结果已经消费的日志修订号。
+提供方 usage 也不是完整答案。它只描述某个精确请求信封下的一次成功调用，而当前表层之后还可能增长、缩小或被替换。会话也可能切换提供方与模型，旧日志可能缺少分片来源，usage 字段还会分别报告输入、缓存读取、缓存写入、输出与推理计数。因此，可用的服务必须把最新精确锚点与保守的启发式重新定价结合起来，并公开每个结果已经消费的日志修订号。
 
 ## 决策
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Status: implemented
 
 `measure(session, requestHeader?)` 只同步一次折叠，并在返回标量压力的同时给出逐位置节点价格。`totalTokens` 仍表示请求与响应压力；`surfaceTokens` 是仅针对表层的启发式总量，并等于 `nodes[].tokens` 之和。`requestHeader` 覆盖只改变压力定价，表层字段始终描述当前会话。`estimateMessage(message)` 不依赖会话状态，直接应用固定启发式规则。每个结果都是一个分离且深度不可变的快照，只携带一个 `logRevision`。每次计量都会复制当前节点，因此成本为 O(surface)。
 
-只有当待计量的规范请求信封等于最近一次成功调用的锚点时，服务才复用提供方 usage。模型、系统提示词、前缀、工具或调用配置任一变化都会触发完整的启发式重新定价。表层变化相对匹配锚点保留有符号增量，包括缩小替换后的负值。后续成功请求会替换先前锚点，模型切换时也一样。
+只有当待计量的规范请求信封等于最近一次成功调用的锚点时，服务才复用提供方 usage。提供方、模型、系统提示词、前缀、工具或调用配置任一变化都会触发完整的启发式重新定价。表层变化相对匹配锚点保留有符号增量，包括缩小替换后的负值。后续成功请求会替换先前锚点，提供方或模型切换时也一样。
 
 Usage 会对互不重叠的输入、缓存读取、缓存写入与输出 bucket 求和，不会再次加入推理计数。每次成功模型调用都会记录 `assistant/message`，包括无内容调用与达到 token 上限的调用，并带上精确的更早分片 seq。显式空来源列表表示已知为空的提供方流；旧日志中缺失的来源则保守地把持久 assistant 输出视为提供方输出。
 
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ Usage 会对互不重叠的输入、缓存读取、缓存写入与输出 bucket
 
 自动压缩的每次阈值与保留联合决策只使用一次统一计量。区域事务先追加持久 `compact/start` 锁，再执行一次计量，并在异步摘要完成后再次计量；期间任何持久追加都会改变 `logRevision`，从而阻止替换。
 
-压缩策略采用服务级默认值：阈值比例 `0.8`、保留尾部 `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`、摘要模型 `''`、摘要最大输出 `8192`、一次额外压缩尝试，以及启用自动触发。顶层 `thresholdRatio` 与 `retainTokens` 覆盖压力策略；保留值必须小于最终阈值。空摘要模型先解析最近记录的实际路由模型，再使用 `AgentOptions.model`。
+压缩策略采用服务级默认值：阈值比例 `0.8`、保留尾部 `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`、空的摘要提供方/模型、摘要最大输出 `8192`、一次额外压缩尝试，以及启用自动触发。顶层 `thresholdRatio` 与 `retainTokens` 覆盖压力策略；保留值必须小于最终阈值。`summarizationProvider` 与 `summarizationModel` 必须同时设置或同时为空；空组合先解析最近记录的请求目标，再使用 `AgentOptions` 中的组合。
 
-pre-step 触发器计量临时请求信封：当前提示词与前缀覆盖日志值，最近记录的请求头提供模型、工具及其他调用配置。没有模型的纯路由 agent（智能体）会跳过该临时检查，因为 `agent/request` 仍可稍后路由；任意路由模型名都可使用这个单例估算器。
+pre-step 触发器计量临时请求信封：当前提示词与前缀覆盖日志值，最近记录的请求头给出提供方、模型、工具及其他调用配置。没有完整提供方/模型组合的纯路由 agent（智能体）会跳过该临时检查，因为 `agent/request` 仍可稍后路由；任意已路由目标都可使用这个单例估算器。
 
 ## 测试
 
-单元覆盖固定服务配置、固定估算、信封失效、模型切换时替换最新锚点、有无 usage 的路径、种子追加/替换回放、有符号增量、来源模式、畸形边界、统一快照的分离性与深度不可变性、表层总量相等性、监听器顺序、重载、压缩默认值、路由回退、自动决策单次调用、保留、收敛与日志修订回滚。真实 Loader/Include YAML fixture 按依赖顺序加载精确的零配置 token-meter 与 compact-basic 包名称。
+单元覆盖固定服务配置、固定估算、信封失效、提供方/模型切换时替换最新锚点、有无 usage 的路径、种子追加/替换回放、有符号增量、来源模式、畸形边界、统一快照的分离性与深度不可变性、表层总量相等性、监听器顺序、重载、压缩默认值、路由回退、自动决策单次调用、保留、收敛与日志修订回滚。真实 Loader/Include YAML fixture 按依赖顺序加载精确的零配置 token-meter 与 compact-basic 包名称。
 
 ## 考虑过的替代方案
 
diff --git a/docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md b/docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md
index bfd0e6a10e..ea4b98c31d 100644
--- a/docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md
+++ b/docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The precise supported and deferred protocol rows live in [`packages/ui/acp/acp-f
 
 Editors can create, load, prompt, cancel, render, ask, and reconfigure multiple harness sessions over one ACP connection without a loop-specific dependency. The session event log remains the durable source for replay, prompt settlement, cwd, and per-session configuration. Tool presentation and human-answer channels remain extensible plugin contracts instead of ACP-specific behavior.
 
-The bridge deliberately does not implement session list/delete/resume/close capabilities, MCP passthrough, additional directories, image/audio/embedded-resource prompts, runtime model selection, plans, slash commands, usage updates, editor filesystem delegation, or the ACP terminal execution sub-protocol. The feature checklist records these as unsupported rather than silently accepting them.
+The bridge deliberately does not implement session list/delete/resume/close capabilities, MCP passthrough, additional directories, image/audio/embedded-resource prompts, plans, slash commands, usage updates, editor filesystem delegation, or the ACP terminal execution sub-protocol. Runtime model selection was added later through standard session config options by the [LLM catalog and ACP selection RFC](../architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md).
 
 An idle config selection is truthful in the live response but not durable until the next `agent/prompt-submit` anchors it inside the open turn. Crashing before that boundary loses the pending selection; this is the cost of keeping session events turn-enclosed and replay-safe.
 
diff --git a/docs/tool-catalog.md b/docs/tool-catalog.md
index 048302db56..4dac505d4c 100644
--- a/docs/tool-catalog.md
+++ b/docs/tool-catalog.md
@@ -570,10 +570,10 @@ todo_write is session-owned state; UIs render the latest todo/write event as a c
 
 Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.
 
-The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.
+The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.
 
 Script-body hooks:
-- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.
+- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.
 - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.
 - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.
 - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.
@@ -620,6 +620,10 @@ Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, tim
                 "type": "string",
                 "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
               },
+              "provider": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+              },
               "model": {
                 "type": "string",
                 "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.snapshot.yml
index 24d944ea47..97ae72d222 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
@@ -27,3 +28,10 @@
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis'
           - id: llm-replay
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'
+            config:
+              providers:
+                - id: deepseek
+                  name: DeepSeek
+                  models:
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-pro
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.yml
index 16d913e4a0..fee31ebc0d 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/advanced.cordis.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml
index 0da3c5a644..85c1ff8239 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
@@ -27,3 +28,10 @@
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime-worker'
           - id: llm-replay
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'
+            config:
+              providers:
+                - id: deepseek
+                  name: DeepSeek
+                  models:
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-pro
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.yml
index a7fc0b924c..6b554abefb 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/both-mode.cordis.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml
index 9d3197fc8a..a741091cce 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.yml
index 3dbb1d1f44..b932f06e64 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode-workspace-context.cordis.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml
index 624255716e..f672c7a8d7 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
@@ -27,3 +28,10 @@
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-code-runtime-worker'
           - id: llm-replay
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'
+            config:
+              providers:
+                - id: deepseek
+                  name: DeepSeek
+                  models:
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-pro
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
index 16dbb56586..fee39ef22a 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml
index 90a2fa6a2a..e4d717a399 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -28,3 +28,10 @@
       - insert:
           - id: llm-replay
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'
+            config:
+              providers:
+                - id: deepseek
+                  name: DeepSeek
+                  models:
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-pro
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml
index 8495730a6b..cb8890dae7 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/cordis.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
     baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL
-    models:
-      - deepseek-v4-flash
-      - deepseek-v4-pro
 
 # The default composition confines bash to the workspace and asks before a
 # wider retry. Snapshots use danger-full-access; DSH_PERMISSION_MODE overrides
@@ -39,6 +36,7 @@
 - id: acp-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
   config:
+    provider: deepseek
     model: deepseek-v4-flash
     persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
     workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/fs.cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/fs.cordis.snapshot.yml
index 939bf07398..da0b2ca59b 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/fs.cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/fs.cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -27,3 +27,10 @@
               maxInlineBytes: 800
           - id: llm-replay
             name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'
+            config:
+              providers:
+                - id: deepseek
+                  name: DeepSeek
+                  models:
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+                    - id: deepseek-v4-pro
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts b/examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts
index 5c41f8c9fa..7f1c10eebe 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ const SCENARIOS: Scenario[] = [
   { name: 'fs-read-window', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true, headerClass: 'fs', configPath: FS_CONFIG },
   { name: 'fs-policy-reject', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true, headerClass: 'fs', configPath: FS_CONFIG },
   { name: 'multi-turn', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true },
+  // ACP exposes the adapter catalog as a session-scoped model select. This
+  // scenario pins the default flash request, the switch response, and the
+  // resulting request-header delta to pro.
+  {
+    name: 'model-switching',
+    hasModelTurn: true,
+    recorded: true,
+    pinsHeader: true,
+    expectedHeaderDeltas: 1,
+    headerClass: 'model-switching',
+  },
   { name: 'error-finish', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: false, overridden: true },
   // Keyless, authored (like error-finish/cancel): deterministically forcing a
   // LIVE model to repeat one call three times is not a stable recording, so
@@ -144,9 +155,9 @@ const SCENARIOS: Scenario[] = [
     configPath: CODE_MODE_WORKSPACE_CONTEXT_CONFIG,
   },
   { name: 'both-mode-turn', hasModelTurn: true, recorded: true, pinsHeader: true, headerClass: 'both', configPath: BOTH_MODE_CONFIG },
-  // The default tree owns the single Permissions select. Snapshot mode starts
-  // in danger-full-access so established fixtures stay runner-independent;
-  // these policy scenarios switch to workspace-write in their input scripts.
+  // The default tree also owns the Permissions select. Snapshot mode starts in
+  // danger-full-access so established fixtures stay runner-independent; these
+  // policy scenarios switch to workspace-write in their input scripts.
   // Real-kernel confinement remains in escalation.e2e.ts and the sandbox
   // packages' e2e suites.
   { name: 'config-options', hasModelTurn: false, recorded: false, headerClass: 'sandbox' },
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/escalation.e2e.ts b/examples/acp-agent/tests/escalation.e2e.ts
index 507e938950..e18ecd2f4c 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/escalation.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/escalation.e2e.ts
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ function spawnAcpAgent(cwd: string, answer: 'allow-once' | 'reject-once'): Spawn
       // A dummy key lets the deepseek adapter boot keyless (presence-checked at
       // apply, used only on a real model call); the with-key tests carry the
       // real key, so the fallback is inert there.
-      env: { ...process.env, DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY ?? 'sk-dummy-for-boot', TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: repoTsconfig },
+      env: { ...process.env, DEEPSEEK_API_KEY: process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY || 'sk-dummy-for-boot', TSX_TSCONFIG_PATH: repoTsconfig },
       stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
     },
   )
@@ -115,15 +115,16 @@ describe('default sandbox composition keyless smoke (real cordis.yml via the Loa
     expect(sessionId.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
   }, 30_000)
 
-  it('advertises the Permissions select and honors a switch end to end (no key, no model)', async () => {
+  it('advertises model and Permissions selects and honors a permission switch without a model call', async () => {
     workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'sandbox-acp-config-'))
     spawned = spawnAcpAgent(workdir, 'reject-once')
     const { client } = spawned
     await client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
     const created = await client.newSession({ cwd: workdir, mcpServers: [] })
     const advertised = created.configOptions ?? []
+    const modelValue = JSON.stringify(['deepseek', 'deepseek-v4-flash'])
     expect(advertised.map(option => [option.id, 'currentValue' in option ? option.currentValue : undefined]))
-      .toEqual([['permission', 'workspace-write']])
+      .toEqual([['model', modelValue], ['permission', 'workspace-write']])
     const afterFullAccess = await client.setSessionConfigOption({
       sessionId: created.sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access',
     })
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ describe('default sandbox composition keyless smoke (real cordis.yml via the Loa
       sessionId: created.sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access',
     })
     expect((again.configOptions ?? []).map(option => [option.id, 'currentValue' in option ? option.currentValue : undefined]))
-      .toEqual([['permission', 'danger-full-access']])
+      .toEqual([['model', modelValue], ['permission', 'danger-full-access']])
     await expect(client.setSessionConfigOption({
       sessionId: created.sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'plan',
     })).rejects.toThrow(/unknown permission value/)
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.1.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.1.jsonl
index d996251cd7..25a6f76411 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.1.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.1.jsonl
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":1783957884563,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":1783957884563,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Reply with exactly DIRECT_CHILD_OK and nothing else."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":4,"time":1783950001005,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"text"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":5,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"text-delta","index":0,"text":"DIRECT_CHILD_OK"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":6,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-end","index":0,"block":{"type":"text","text":"DIRECT_CHILD_OK"}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":7,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"usage","usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":8,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"stop"}}}}
-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":9,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"DIRECT_CHILD_OK"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":9,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"DIRECT_CHILD_OK"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":10,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"turn/end","seq":11,"time":1783957884564,"data":{"turn":1,"reason":{"kind":"completed"}}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.2.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.2.jsonl
index 391d5ce2ba..45d9043a4a 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.2.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.2.jsonl
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":1783957884700,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":1783957884700,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Reply with exactly WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK and nothing else."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":1783957884700,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":4,"time":1783950002005,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"text"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":5,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"text-delta","index":0,"text":"WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":6,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-end","index":0,"block":{"type":"text","text":"WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK"}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":7,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"usage","usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":8,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"stop"}}}}
-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":9,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":9,"time":1783957884701,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.jsonl
index 779844067a..39f867984a 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/session.jsonl
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":1783957884479,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
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-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783957884486,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783957884486,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
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+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":9,"time":1783957884487,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-mount","name":"cordis_mount","arguments":"{\"code\":\"return { name: 'snapshot-marker', apply() {} }\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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 {"type":"step/end","seq":12,"time":1783957884489,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
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-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":19,"time":1783957884490,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-code","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\":\"return await tools.cordis_inspect({ what: 'dynamic' })\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[14,15,16,17,18],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":19,"time":1783957884490,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-code","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\":\"return await tools.cordis_inspect({ what: 'dynamic' })\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[14,15,16,17,18],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
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-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":30,"time":1783957884562,"data":{"turn":1,"step":3,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-direct-child","name":"subagent","arguments":"{\"description\":\"Check direct child\",\"prompt\":\"Reply with exactly DIRECT_CHILD_OK and nothing else.\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[25,26,27,28,29],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":30,"time":1783957884562,"data":{"turn":1,"step":3,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-direct-child","name":"subagent","arguments":"{\"description\":\"Check direct child\",\"prompt\":\"Reply with exactly DIRECT_CHILD_OK and nothing else.\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[25,26,27,28,29],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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 {"type":"step/end","seq":33,"time":1783957884593,"data":{"turn":1,"step":3}}
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
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-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":40,"time":1783957884594,"data":{"turn":1,"step":4,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-workflow","name":"workflow","arguments":"{\"script\":\"phase('Delegate')\\nconst reply = await agent('Reply with exactly WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK and nothing else.', { label: 'workflow-child' })\\nreturn { reply }\",\"meta\":{\"name\":\"advanced-acp-snapshot\",\"description\":\"exercise one workflow child through ACP\"}}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[35,36,37,38,39],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":40,"time":1783957884594,"data":{"turn":1,"step":4,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-workflow","name":"workflow","arguments":"{\"script\":\"phase('Delegate')\\nconst reply = await agent('Reply with exactly WORKFLOW_CHILD_OK and nothing else.', { label: 'workflow-child' })\\nreturn { reply }\",\"meta\":{\"name\":\"advanced-acp-snapshot\",\"description\":\"exercise one workflow child through ACP\"}}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[35,36,37,38,39],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
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-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":50,"time":1783957884719,"data":{"turn":1,"step":5,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-unmount","name":"cordis_unmount","arguments":"{\"id\":\"dyn-1\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[45,46,47,48,49],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":50,"time":1783957884719,"data":{"turn":1,"step":5,"content":[{"type":"tool-call","id":"advanced-unmount","name":"cordis_unmount","arguments":"{\"id\":\"dyn-1\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[45,46,47,48,49],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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@@ -59,6 +59,6 @@
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-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":60,"time":1783957884720,"data":{"turn":1,"step":6,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"ADVANCED_ACP_OK"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[55,56,57,58,59],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":60,"time":1783957884720,"data":{"turn":1,"step":6,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"ADVANCED_ACP_OK"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3,"outputTokens":3}},"sourceEventSeqs":[55,56,57,58,59],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/stdout.golden.jsonl
index bc4da17bb0..45d5628762 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":1,"agentInfo":{"name":"deepseek-harness-acp","version":"0.0.1"},"agentCapabilities":{"loadSession":true,"promptCapabilities":{"image":false,"audio":false,"embeddedContext":false}},"authMethods":[]}}
-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
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 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"tool_call_update","toolCallId":"advanced-mount","status":"completed","content":[{"type":"content","content":{"type":"text","text":"mounted dyn-1 (plugin \"snapshot-marker\", state: active)"}}]}}}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/system-prompt.golden.md b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/system-prompt.golden.md
index 9d57691ab4..fb5b48c70c 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/system-prompt.golden.md
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/system-prompt.golden.md
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ declare const tools: {
       status: "pending" | "in_progress" | "completed";
     })[];
   }): Promise<string>;
-  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
+  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
   workflow(args: {
     /** The plain-JS workflow script body (top-level await allowed; NO `export const meta` statement; end with `return <json-value>`). */
     script: string;
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ declare const tools: {
         title: string;
         /** Optional one-line description of the phase. */
         detail?: string;
+        /** Optional provider override this phase is expected to use. */
+        provider?: string;
         /** Optional model override this phase is expected to use. */
         model?: string;
       }[];
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/tool-schemas.golden.json b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/tool-schemas.golden.json
index e6700c6611..0ca11765c0 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/advanced-toolchain/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
     },
     {
       "name": "workflow",
-      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
+      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
       "parameters": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
                     },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
                     "model": {
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/session.jsonl
index b456f9c2f9..66b41144bc 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/session.jsonl
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
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-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":0,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":0,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
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+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":19,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"text","text":"DONE"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":10,"outputTokens":2}},"sourceEventSeqs":[14,15,16,17,18],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/stdout.golden.jsonl
index c06f71be92..ad6c396981 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/bash-spill/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/session.jsonl
index b68703ad48..0ee3e67e2b 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/session.jsonl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
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 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":1783611774323,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Call the run_code tool (NOT the native bash tool directly) with a program that runs exactly `echo BOTH_OK` via tools.bash and returns its output. Then reply with that output only and stop."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
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-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783611774325,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783611774325,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
index 577f10445b..7b2dbd604c 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md
index 1d6918d142..f1a3b9ff92 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ declare const tools: {
       status: "pending" | "in_progress" | "completed";
     })[];
   }): Promise<string>;
-  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
+  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
   workflow(args: {
     /** The plain-JS workflow script body (top-level await allowed; NO `export const meta` statement; end with `return <json-value>`). */
     script: string;
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ declare const tools: {
         title: string;
         /** Optional one-line description of the phase. */
         detail?: string;
+        /** Optional provider override this phase is expected to use. */
+        provider?: string;
         /** Optional model override this phase is expected to use. */
         model?: string;
       }[];
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/tool-schemas.golden.json b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/tool-schemas.golden.json
index 8cc9f35ea2..b625462818 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/both-mode-turn/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
     },
     {
       "name": "workflow",
-      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
+      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
       "parameters": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
                     },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
                     "model": {
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/session.jsonl
index 7b2f5adff1..347951db62 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/session.jsonl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":0,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Start a long task; this turn will be cancelled mid-stream."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":0,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":0,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":4,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"text"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":5,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"text-delta","index":0,"text":"partial"}}}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":6,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/stdout.golden.jsonl
index 60235cac75..d31c8fdcfb 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/cancel/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":1,"agentInfo":{"name":"deepseek-harness-acp","version":"0.0.1"},"agentCapabilities":{"loadSession":true,"promptCapabilities":{"image":false,"audio":false,"embeddedContext":false}},"authMethods":[]}}
-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"agent_message_chunk","content":{"type":"text","text":"partial"}}}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"stopReason":"cancelled"}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/session.jsonl
index 8dac383517..0fe57055e8 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/session.jsonl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":1783611771394,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":1783611771394,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Using ONE run_code program: call the bash tool twice — exactly `echo CODE_ONE` then exactly `echo CODE_TWO` — and return the two outputs joined with a plus sign. Then reply with that joined string only and stop."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":1783611771396,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783611771396,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783611771396,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":4,"time":1783611771869,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"reasoning"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":5,"time":1783611771869,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"reasoning-delta","index":0,"text":"The"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":6,"time":1783611771978,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"reasoning-delta","index":0,"text":" user"}}}
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
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 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":107,"time":1783611772836,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"usage","usage":{"inputTokens":3009,"outputTokens":133,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":29}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":108,"time":1783611772836,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"tool-calls"}}}}
-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":109,"time":1783611772840,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The user wants a single run_code program that calls bash twice, then returns the two outputs joined with a plus sign. Let me write this."},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_00_DRxnM6R1TThfDwcudW0f2050","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const out1 = await tools.bash({ command: \\\"echo CODE_ONE\\\", description: \\\"First echo\\\" });\\nconst out2 = await tools.bash({ command: \\\"echo CODE_TWO\\\", description: \\\"Second echo\\\" });\\nreturn out1.trim() + \\\"+\\\" + out2.trim();\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3009,"outputTokens":133,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":29}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":109,"time":1783611772840,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The user wants a single run_code program that calls bash twice, then returns the two outputs joined with a plus sign. Let me write this."},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_00_DRxnM6R1TThfDwcudW0f2050","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const out1 = await tools.bash({ command: \\\"echo CODE_ONE\\\", description: \\\"First echo\\\" });\\nconst out2 = await tools.bash({ command: \\\"echo CODE_TWO\\\", description: \\\"Second echo\\\" });\\nreturn out1.trim() + \\\"+\\\" + out2.trim();\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3009,"outputTokens":133,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":29}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":110,"time":1783611772840,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_DRxnM6R1TThfDwcudW0f2050","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const out1 = await tools.bash({ command: \\\"echo CODE_ONE\\\", description: \\\"First echo\\\" });\\nconst out2 = await tools.bash({ command: \\\"echo CODE_TWO\\\", description: \\\"Second echo\\\" });\\nreturn out1.trim() + \\\"+\\\" + out2.trim();\"}"}}
 {"type":"tool/code-dispatch","seq":111,"time":1783611772933,"data":{"parentCallId":"call_00_DRxnM6R1TThfDwcudW0f2050","subCallId":"call_00_DRxnM6R1TThfDwcudW0f2050:code:1","name":"bash","arguments":{"command":"echo CODE_ONE","description":"First echo"},"isError":false,"resultSummary":"CODE_ONE\n"}}
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@@ -145,6 +145,6 @@
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-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":146,"time":1783611773687,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The output is exactly what the user asked for: CODE_ONE+CODE_TWO"},{"type":"text","text":"CODE_ONE+CODE_TWO"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":89,"outputTokens":25,"cacheReadTokens":3072,"reasoningTokens":17}},"sourceEventSeqs":[116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":146,"time":1783611773687,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The output is exactly what the user asked for: CODE_ONE+CODE_TWO"},{"type":"text","text":"CODE_ONE+CODE_TWO"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":89,"outputTokens":25,"cacheReadTokens":3072,"reasoningTokens":17}},"sourceEventSeqs":[116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":147,"time":1783611773687,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2}}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
index bfa379815e..31ec5df39a 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":1,"agentInfo":{"name":"deepseek-harness-acp","version":"0.0.1"},"agentCapabilities":{"loadSession":true,"promptCapabilities":{"image":false,"audio":false,"embeddedContext":false}},"authMethods":[]}}
-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"agent_thought_chunk","content":{"type":"text","text":"The"}}}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"agent_thought_chunk","content":{"type":"text","text":" user"}}}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"session/update","params":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","update":{"sessionUpdate":"agent_thought_chunk","content":{"type":"text","text":" wants"}}}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md
index 1d6918d142..f1a3b9ff92 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-turn/system-prompt.golden.md
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ declare const tools: {
       status: "pending" | "in_progress" | "completed";
     })[];
   }): Promise<string>;
-  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
+  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
   workflow(args: {
     /** The plain-JS workflow script body (top-level await allowed; NO `export const meta` statement; end with `return <json-value>`). */
     script: string;
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ declare const tools: {
         title: string;
         /** Optional one-line description of the phase. */
         detail?: string;
+        /** Optional provider override this phase is expected to use. */
+        provider?: string;
         /** Optional model override this phase is expected to use. */
         model?: string;
       }[];
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/session.jsonl
index f721d51c77..f744c1b000 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/session.jsonl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":1783921765269,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":1783921765269,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Using ONE run_code program, call tools.read on nested/task.txt. After the program finishes, answer the workspace handshake question using the newly discovered instructions: What is the Code Mode workspace handshake?"}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":1783921765275,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783921765275,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}","messagePrefix":[{"role":"user","content":[{"type":"text","text":"<system-reminder>\nThe following workspace instructions may be relevant to your work. Use them as guidance when applicable. More specific instructions take precedence over broader ones. They do not override system, developer, or direct user instructions.\n\nInstructions from: AGENTS.md\n\nWorkspace snapshot root instruction.\n\n</system-reminder>"}]}]},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":1783921765275,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}","messagePrefix":[{"role":"user","content":[{"type":"text","text":"<system-reminder>\nThe following workspace instructions may be relevant to your work. Use them as guidance when applicable. More specific instructions take precedence over broader ones. They do not override system, developer, or direct user instructions.\n\nInstructions from: AGENTS.md\n\nWorkspace snapshot root instruction.\n\n</system-reminder>"}]}]},"reason":"initial"}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":4,"time":1783921766287,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"block-start","index":0,"blockType":"reasoning"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":5,"time":1783921766287,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"reasoning-delta","index":0,"text":"The"}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":6,"time":1783921766483,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"reasoning-delta","index":0,"text":" user"}}}
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
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 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":81,"time":1783921767205,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"usage","usage":{"inputTokens":3195,"outputTokens":106,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":43}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":82,"time":1783921767205,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"tool-calls"}}}}
-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":83,"time":1783921767208,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The user wants me to write a single run_code program that reads a file called nested/task.txt and then answer the handshake question based on what's in that file. Let me start by reading the file."},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const content = await tools.read({ file_path: \\\"nested/task.txt\\\" });\\nreturn content;\"}"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":3195,"outputTokens":106,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":43}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":83,"time":1783921767208,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The user wants me to write a single run_code program that reads a file called nested/task.txt and then answer the handshake question based on what's in that file. Let me start by reading the file."},{"type":"tool-call","id":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const content = await tools.read({ file_path: \\\"nested/task.txt\\\" });\\nreturn content;\"}"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":3195,"outputTokens":106,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":43}},"sourceEventSeqs":[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82],"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"tool/call","seq":84,"time":1783921767208,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","name":"run_code","arguments":"{\"code\": \"const content = await tools.read({ file_path: \\\"nested/task.txt\\\" });\\nreturn content;\"}"}}
 {"type":"tool/code-dispatch","seq":85,"time":1783921767270,"data":{"parentCallId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","subCallId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139:code:1","name":"read","arguments":{"file_path":"nested/task.txt"},"isError":false,"resultSummary":"<path>./nested/task.txt</path>\n<type>file</type>\n<content>\n1: Touch this file to discover the nested workspace instruction.\n\n(End of file - total 1 lines)\n</content>"}}
 {"type":"tool/result","seq":86,"time":1783921767271,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1,"callId":"call_00_6APApmaKLRDlXKMdIcWL5139","content":[{"type":"text","text":"<path>/var/folders/_g/59jgff8x2gqd39f5vy1wnbfc0000gn/T/acp-snap-cwd-uorU26/nested/task.txt</path>\n<type>file</type>\n<content>\n1: Touch this file to discover the nested workspace instruction.\n\n(End of file - total 1 lines)\n</content>"}],"isError":false,"meta":{"logs":[]}},"sourceEventSeqs":[84],"surfaceOp":"append"}
@@ -184,6 +184,6 @@
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":182,"time":1783921769101,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"chunk":{"type":"block-end","index":1,"block":{"type":"text","text":"The **Code Mode workspace handshake** is: `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK`"}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":183,"time":1783921769101,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"chunk":{"type":"usage","usage":{"inputTokens":277,"outputTokens":90,"cacheReadTokens":3200,"reasoningTokens":71}}}}
 {"type":"assistant/chunk","seq":184,"time":1783921769101,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"chunk":{"type":"finish","reason":{"kind":"stop"}}}}
-{"type":"assistant/message","seq":185,"time":1783921769101,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The nested/task.txt told me to \"Touch this file to discover the nested workspace instruction.\" and the nested/AGENTS.md instructions say: \"When asked for the Code Mode workspace handshake, answer exactly `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK` and nothing else.\"\n\nSo the answer to the handshake question is `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK`."},{"type":"text","text":"The **Code Mode workspace handshake** is: `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK`"}],"usage":{"inputTokens":277,"outputTokens":90,"cacheReadTokens":3200,"reasoningTokens":71}},"sourceEventSeqs":[90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,184],"surfaceOp":"append"}
+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":185,"time":1783921769101,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The nested/task.txt told me to \"Touch this file to discover the nested workspace instruction.\" and the nested/AGENTS.md instructions say: \"When asked for the Code Mode workspace handshake, answer exactly `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK` and nothing else.\"\n\nSo the answer to the handshake question is `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK`."},{"type":"text","text":"The **Code Mode workspace handshake** is: `CODE_MODE_CONTEXT_OK`"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":277,"outputTokens":90,"cacheReadTokens":3200,"reasoningTokens":71}},"sourceEventSeqs":[90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,184],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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 {"type":"turn/end","seq":187,"time":1783921769101,"data":{"turn":1,"reason":{"kind":"completed"}}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/system-prompt.golden.md b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/system-prompt.golden.md
index bfedf3ed80..cc8e2d1301 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/system-prompt.golden.md
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/code-mode-workspace-context/system-prompt.golden.md
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ declare const tools: {
       status: "pending" | "in_progress" | "completed";
     })[];
   }): Promise<string>;
-  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
+  /** Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn. The workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result. Script-body hooks: - `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly. - `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages. - `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`. - `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim. Misused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`. Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes. */
   workflow(args: {
     /** The plain-JS workflow script body (top-level await allowed; NO `export const meta` statement; end with `return <json-value>`). */
     script: string;
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ declare const tools: {
         title: string;
         /** Optional one-line description of the phase. */
         detail?: string;
+        /** Optional provider override this phase is expected to use. */
+        provider?: string;
         /** Optional model override this phase is expected to use. */
         model?: string;
       }[];
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/config-options/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/config-options/stdout.golden.jsonl
index aa033fb673..1aca0c6586 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/config-options/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/config-options/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":1,"agentInfo":{"name":"deepseek-harness-acp","version":"0.0.1"},"agentCapabilities":{"loadSession":true,"promptCapabilities":{"image":false,"audio":false,"embeddedContext":false}},"authMethods":[]}}
-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"workspace-write","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
-{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"result":{"configOptions":[{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"workspace-write","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"result":{"configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":5,"error":{"code":-32602,"message":"Invalid params: unknown permission value \"plan\""}}
 {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":6,"error":{"code":-32602,"message":"Invalid params: unknown config option \"reasoning-effort\""}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/session.jsonl
index 98538a94c2..f0ef4267ac 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/session.jsonl
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 {"type":"turn/start","seq":0,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"trigger":{"kind":"message","source":{"kind":"user"}}}}
 {"type":"user/message","seq":1,"time":0,"data":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"This prompt triggers a recorded provider error."}],"source":{"kind":"user"}},"surfaceOp":"append"}
 {"type":"step/start","seq":2,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
-{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":0,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":3,"time":0,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"initial"}}
 {"type":"step/end","seq":4,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"step":1}}
 {"type":"turn/end","seq":5,"time":0,"data":{"turn":1,"reason":{"kind":"error","step":1,"message":"simulated provider error (HTTP 401)","code":"AUTH"}}}
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/stdout.golden.jsonl
index d5d4f1c400..484b241427 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/error-finish/stdout.golden.jsonl
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/model-switching/system-prompt.golden.md b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/model-switching/system-prompt.golden.md
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index 0000000000..0b95f67225
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+You are an AI agent powered by the DeepSeek Harness SDK.
+
+You are a coding assistant powered by the deepseek-v4-flash model. Your working directory is {{cwd}}. Your bash tool runs under a file sandbox — a `[sandbox: file access denied …]` result is policy, not a command bug.
+
+Verify your work by running the code or tests. Keep answers brief and factual.
+
+
+Check the [exit code: N] marker on every bash result; investigate failures before moving on.
+
+Track every background task id you start. You are notified in-session when a task finishes — do not busy-poll or sleep on one; keep working on independent steps and do not duplicate a running task's work. Before giving a final answer, collect every still-relevant task with task_output (set wait: true only when you are genuinely blocked on it), and task_kill tasks that stopped mattering.
+
+Approval prompts are disabled in this session: actions that require approval are rejected automatically — do not request sandbox escalation (do not set `sandbox_permissions`).
+<!-- dsh-user-approval-policy:never -->
+
+Use the workflow tool ONLY when the user explicitly asks for a workflow or for large multi-agent orchestration: you write a JavaScript script (the tool description documents the exact format) that fans work out across many subagents with phases and structured results. For one or two delegations, prefer plain subagent calls.
+
+<!-- request/header-delta 1: keepStart=2, keepEnd=12 -->
+
+You are a coding assistant powered by the deepseek-v4-pro model. Your working directory is {{cwd}}. Your bash tool runs under a file sandbox — a `[sandbox: file access denied …]` result is policy, not a command bug.
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/model-switching/tool-schemas.golden.json b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/model-switching/tool-schemas.golden.json
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+{
+  "initial": [
+    {
+      "name": "bash",
+      "description": "Execute a bash command (`bash -c`) and return its stdout/stderr. Each call runs in a fresh shell: no state (cwd, variables, functions) persists between calls — pass `workdir` instead of using `cd`. Non-zero exits are reported as `[exit code: N]`. Current harness environment facts are exposed through managed `$DSH_*` variables; inspect them when needed. Commands may run under a file sandbox; a blocked file operation is reported as `[sandbox: file access denied under <mode> mode]` — a policy denial, not a bug in the command; do not retry another way. Long output is truncated to its tail; the full output is saved to a file whose path is reported when available. Set `run_in_background: true` for long-running commands: the call returns a task id immediately; read its output with `task_output` and stop it with `task_kill`. Attempting a command the sandbox may deny is safe and expected: run it and read the marker rather than assuming the denial. When a command is denied and a wider mode would let it succeed, escalate immediately in the same turn — the one sanctioned exception to a denial: retry the exact same command once with `sandbox_permissions` (the narrowest wider mode that suffices) plus a one-sentence `justification`. Do not detour through chat to ask permission first — the approval prompt raised by that retry is how the user consents. If the session states approval prompts are disabled, there is no exception: a denial is final — do not set `sandbox_permissions`. Never escalate speculatively: ground the request in a real denial — normally the one this command just hit; escalating up front is fine only when this session already denied the same access. A rejected escalation is final for that command — stop and explain, never work around it — but it does not forbid attempting or escalating other commands later.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "command": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The bash command to execute."
+          },
+          "description": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Clear, concise description of what this command does in active voice, 5-10 words (shown in the UI). Examples: \"ls\" → \"List files in current directory\"; \"git status\" → \"Show working tree status\"; \"npm install\" → \"Install package dependencies\"."
+          },
+          "timeoutMs": {
+            "type": "number",
+            "description": "Timeout in milliseconds. The executor applies its configured default and cap, and kills the command on expiry."
+          },
+          "workdir": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Working directory for this command. Defaults to the session workspace; a relative path is resolved against it."
+          },
+          "run_in_background": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Run in the background and return a task id immediately (collect with task_output, stop with task_kill). No timeout applies."
+          },
+          "sandbox_permissions": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The wider sandbox mode this command needs. Only valid as a one-shot retry of a command the sandbox just denied; requires justification and user approval.",
+            "enum": [
+              "workspace-write",
+              "danger-full-access"
+            ]
+          },
+          "justification": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Required with sandbox_permissions: one sentence for the user explaining why this exact command needs the wider access."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "command",
+          "description"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "skill",
+      "description": "Load the full instructions for an available skill. Call this with the exact skill name from the session skill catalog before acting on a task that names or clearly matches that skill.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "name": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The exact skill name from the available skills list."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "name"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "subagent",
+      "description": "Delegate a self-contained task to a subagent (a separate agent that works in its own context) and return its final result. Use this to offload focused, independent work — research, a scoped implementation, an analysis — so it does not consume this conversation's context. The subagent runs to completion and you receive only its final answer, not its intermediate steps. Give it a complete, standalone prompt: it does not see this conversation. Set `run_in_background: true` to return a task id; collect with `task_output` and stop with `task_kill`.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "description": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "A short (3-5 word) description of the delegated task, for display."
+          },
+          "prompt": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The complete, self-contained task for the subagent. It does not share this conversation's context, so include everything it needs."
+          },
+          "run_in_background": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Run as a background task and return its id; collect with task_output or stop with task_kill."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "description",
+          "prompt"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "subagent_fork",
+      "description": "Delegate a task to a subagent that inherits this conversation: a child agent seeded with all completed turns so far (it does not see the current in-flight turn), returning only its final result. Use this when the subtask builds on this conversation's context — a follow-up analysis, a review, a continuation — without consuming this conversation's context for the work itself. You receive only its final answer, not its intermediate steps. Set `run_in_background: true` to return a task id; collect with `task_output` and stop with `task_kill`.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "description": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "A short (3-5 word) description of the delegated task, for display."
+          },
+          "prompt": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The task for the subagent. It already sees this conversation's completed turns, so build on them freely and state only what is new."
+          },
+          "run_in_background": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Run as a background task and return its id; collect with task_output or stop with task_kill."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "description",
+          "prompt"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "task_kill",
+      "description": "Request cancellation of a running background task by task id. Returns immediately; the task settles as killed once its work actually stops.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "task_id": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Task id returned by the tool that started the background work."
+          },
+          "reason": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Optional short reason, recorded in the log and forwarded to the task."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "task_id"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "task_list",
+      "description": "List your background tasks (running and finished) with their ids, kinds, and statuses.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {}
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "task_output",
+      "description": "Read a background task. Stream tasks return only output since the previous read; final-output tasks return their result after settlement. Every response ends with `[status: ...]`. Reads are non-blocking unless `wait: true`, which waits up to the configured cap.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "task_id": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Task id returned by the tool that started the background work."
+          },
+          "wait": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Block until the task reaches a terminal status or the timeout expires. A timed-out wait returns [status: running] and leaves the task alive."
+          },
+          "timeout_ms": {
+            "type": "number",
+            "description": "Max wait in milliseconds (only meaningful with wait: true). Defaults to the configured wait timeout; capped by the configured maximum."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "task_id"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "todo_write",
+      "description": "Record and update a structured task list for the current work. Send the ENTIRE list every call — it REPLACES the previous list (there are no partial updates, no per-item edits). Use it to plan multi-step work and show progress: add one todo per concrete step before you start. Keep AT MOST ONE todo `in_progress` at a time; while work remains, exactly one active task should be `in_progress`. Mark a todo `completed` the moment it is done (do not batch completions), and allow no `in_progress` item only once all work is complete. Skip the list for trivial single-step tasks. Statuses: `pending` (not started), `in_progress` (being worked on now), `completed` (finished).",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "todos": {
+            "type": "array",
+            "description": "The COMPLETE task list, replacing any previous list.",
+            "items": {
+              "type": "object",
+              "properties": {
+                "content": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "description": "What the task is — a short imperative line."
+                },
+                "status": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "description": "pending (not started) | in_progress (now) | completed (done).",
+                  "enum": [
+                    "pending",
+                    "in_progress",
+                    "completed"
+                  ]
+                }
+              },
+              "required": [
+                "content",
+                "status"
+              ]
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "todos"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "workflow",
+      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
+      "parameters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "script": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The plain-JS workflow script body (top-level await allowed; NO `export const meta` statement; end with `return <json-value>`)."
+          },
+          "meta": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "description": "The workflow identity block (plain JSON — never code).",
+            "properties": {
+              "name": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": "Short kebab-case workflow name."
+              },
+              "description": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": "One-line description of what the workflow does."
+              },
+              "whenToUse": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": "Optional guidance on when this workflow applies."
+              },
+              "phases": {
+                "type": "array",
+                "description": "Optional phase declarations matched by phase() calls.",
+                "items": {
+                  "type": "object",
+                  "properties": {
+                    "title": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "The phase title phase() calls match by exact string."
+                    },
+                    "detail": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
+                    },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
+                    "model": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
+                    }
+                  },
+                  "required": [
+                    "title"
+                  ]
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            "required": [
+              "name",
+              "description"
+            ]
+          },
+          "args": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "description": "Optional JSON input exposed to the script as the `args` global (wrap a bare list as a field, e.g. {\"files\": [...]})."
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "script",
+          "meta"
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "deltas": []
+}
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+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/multi-turn/session.jsonl
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index 651897e850..be9ca10cf5 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/permission-switching/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/permission-switching/stdout.golden.jsonl
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index c1da2056fa..f0415911be 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/permission-switching/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/permission-switching/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
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         "properties": {
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                       "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
                     },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
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                       "type": "string",
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/repeat-tool-guard/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/repeat-tool-guard/stdout.golden.jsonl
index a0901b6297..3a900cfe34 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/repeat-tool-guard/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/repeat-tool-guard/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/session.jsonl
index 62555f1e79..0fe1a5152c 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/session.jsonl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
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+{"type":"assistant/message","seq":25,"time":1783654655611,"data":{"turn":1,"step":2,"content":[{"type":"reasoning","text":"The skill is loaded."},{"type":"text","text":"DONE"}],"provenance":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"usage":{"inputTokens":180,"outputTokens":10,"cacheReadTokens":0,"reasoningTokens":4}},"sourceEventSeqs":[17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24],"surfaceOp":"append"}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/stdout.golden.jsonl
index 10198918d6..6a3dfcc4c4 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/stdout.golden.jsonl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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+{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"sessionId":"{{sessionId}}","configOptions":[{"id":"model","name":"Model","description":"Sets this session's provider and model.","category":"model","type":"select","currentValue":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","options":[{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-flash\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-flash"},{"value":"[\"deepseek\",\"deepseek-v4-pro\"]","name":"deepseek-v4-pro"}]},{"id":"permission","name":"Permissions","description":"Sets this session's sandbox and approval behavior.","category":"mode","type":"select","currentValue":"danger-full-access","options":[{"value":"workspace-write","name":"workspace-write","description":"Write inside the workspace and permitted temporary directories; wider retries require approval."},{"value":"danger-full-access","name":"danger-full-access","description":"Full file access without approval prompts."}]}]}}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/tool-schemas.golden.json b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/tool-schemas.golden.json
index c1da2056fa..f0415911be 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/skill-load/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
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       "name": "workflow",
-      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
+      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
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         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
@@ -241,6 +241,10 @@
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
                     },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
                     "model": {
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-fork/session.1.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-fork/session.1.jsonl
index 409fa1428d..4ecb61b60f 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-fork/session.1.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-fork/session.1.jsonl
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-{"type":"request/header","seq":40,"time":1783352137163,"data":{"header":{"config":{"model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"resume"}}
+{"type":"request/header","seq":40,"time":1783352137163,"data":{"header":{"config":{"provider":"deepseek","model":"deepseek-v4-flash"},"system":"{{system}}","tools":"{{tools}}"},"reason":"resume"}}
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-fork/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-fork/session.jsonl
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-mixed/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-mixed/stdout.golden.jsonl
index 08ad14dc9c..bfc195aa36 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-mixed/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-mixed/stdout.golden.jsonl
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.1.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.1.jsonl
index e046c226d0..86c481c5ff 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.1.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.1.jsonl
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.2.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.2.jsonl
index e113159d39..483e687a14 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.2.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.2.jsonl
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.jsonl
index c7a079391f..a8093fba04 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/subagent-multi/session.jsonl
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--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/text-turn/session.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/text-turn/session.jsonl
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index 1059a9cc6c..29528d9984 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/text-turn/stdout.golden.jsonl
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index c1da2056fa..f0415911be 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/text-turn/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/text-turn/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
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         "properties": {
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                     },
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+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
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                       "type": "string",
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index 49b1b21197..ac6cf51216 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-context/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-context/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
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+      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
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         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
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                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
                     },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
                     "model": {
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/stdout.golden.jsonl b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/stdout.golden.jsonl
index 5f6c7f4c52..1c76f1ac61 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/stdout.golden.jsonl
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/stdout.golden.jsonl
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diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/tool-schemas.golden.json b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/tool-schemas.golden.json
index 49b1b21197..ac6cf51216 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/tool-schemas.golden.json
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/tests/snapshots/workspace-edit/tool-schemas.golden.json
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
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     {
       "name": "workflow",
-      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), `model` (override). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
+      "description": "Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.\n\nThe workflow's identity rides the `meta` parameter as JSON: required `name` (short kebab-case) and `description` strings, optional `whenToUse` string and `phases` array (`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}`). The `script` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO `export const meta` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with `return <value>` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.\n\nScript-body hooks:\n- `agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>` — run one subagent to completion. Without `opts.schema` it resolves to the child's final text; with `opts.schema` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves `null` when the child fails (filter with `.filter(Boolean)`). Other opts: `label` (display), `phase` (progress group), and independent `provider`/`model` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (`effort`/`isolation`/`agentType`) is rejected loudly.\n- `pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives `(prev, item, index)`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to `null` and skips its remaining stages.\n- `parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to `null`.\n- `phase(title)` — start a progress phase; `log(message)` — narrate progress; `args` — the tool call's `args` input, verbatim.\n\nMisused hooks (bad arguments, unknown options, unsupported schemas, tripped caps) throw errors that ALWAYS kill the script — they never dissolve into a per-item `null`.\n\nConstraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, timers, or Node.js APIs are provided — the agents do the work, the script only coordinates them. The run executes in the foreground: this call returns when the whole script finishes.",
       "parameters": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {
@@ -295,6 +295,10 @@
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional one-line description of the phase."
                     },
+                    "provider": {
+                      "type": "string",
+                      "description": "Optional provider override this phase is expected to use."
+                    },
                     "model": {
                       "type": "string",
                       "description": "Optional model override this phase is expected to use."
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml b/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml
index d06620232d..e0b02cbb21 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.snapshot.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.yml b/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.yml
index 751b09c85e..1b8c0279f0 100644
--- a/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/acp-agent/workspace-context.cordis.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
       - id: acp-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           persistenceRoot: !!js process.env.DSH_SNAPSHOT_SESSIONS_ROOT ?? './.sessions'
           workspaceContext:
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml b/examples/coding-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
index a6f262457a..3fec40e0f3 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/code-mode.cordis.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
       - id: stdio-agent
         name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo'
         config:
+          provider: deepseek
           model: deepseek-v4-flash
           resumeSessionId: !!js process.env.RESUME_SESSION_ID
           persistenceRoot: './.sessions'
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/cordis.yml b/examples/coding-agent/cordis.yml
index 0b28018627..bc3b542592 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/cordis.yml
@@ -11,16 +11,12 @@
   config:
     root: ['.']
 
-# The DeepSeek adapter. Swap to '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai' for the pi-ai-backed
-# twin (same config shape; `reasoning: high` replaces thinking/reasoningEffort).
+# The native DeepSeek adapter.
 - id: llm-deepseek
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek'
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
     baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL
-    models:
-      - deepseek-v4-pro
-      - deepseek-v4-flash
 
 # Local executor for the app bundle's bash tool.
 - id: bash
@@ -32,6 +28,7 @@
 - id: stdio-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo'
   config:
+    provider: deepseek
     model: deepseek-v4-flash
     # Set RESUME_SESSION_ID to continue a prior persisted session (the ids live
     # under ./.sessions); unset starts a fresh session each run.
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/code-mode.e2e.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/code-mode.e2e.ts
index f60caac634..b6b55048e4 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/code-mode.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/code-mode.e2e.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ async function codeModeHarness(cwd: string): Promise<Context> {
   await harness.plugin(ToolRegistry, { mode: 'code' })
   await harness.plugin(AgentRegistry)
   await harness.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await harness.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await harness.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   await harness.plugin(LocalBashExecutor, { cwd, timeoutMs: 30_000 })
   await harness.plugin(ToolBash)
   await harness.plugin(WorkerCodeRuntime, {})
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ async function workspaceCodeModeHarness(): Promise<Context> {
   await harness.plugin(ToolFs)
   await harness.plugin(WorkspaceContext, { maxBytes: 65536 })
   await harness.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await harness.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await harness.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: [{ id: 'deepseek-v4-flash' }] })
   await harness.plugin(WorkerCodeRuntime, {})
   return harness
 }
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('Code Mode: real model writes a p
   it('collapses the wire tool list to [run_code], bridges sub-calls, and returns curated output', async () => {
     workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-code-mode-e2e-'))
     ctx = await codeModeHarness(workdir)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-code-mode'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-code-mode'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{
       type: 'text',
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('Code Mode: real model writes a p
       agentId: AgentId('e2e-code-mode-workspace'),
       sessionId: SessionId('e2e-code-mode-workspace-session'),
       meta: { cwd: workdir },
-      agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
     })
 
     handle.agent.send([{
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/coding-task.e2e.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/coding-task.e2e.ts
index ce716bdb2c..d53688835e 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/coding-task.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/coding-task.e2e.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('coding task: fix a failing test
     expect(before.status).not.toBe(0)
 
     ctx = await codingHarness(workdir, { persona: SYSTEM_PROMPT })
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-task'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-task'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{
       type: 'text',
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/compaction.e2e.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/compaction.e2e.ts
index aa9fda68e2..6ba2908ad3 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/compaction.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/compaction.e2e.ts
@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('compaction: a long session compa
       compact: {
         thresholdRatio: 0.5,
         retainTokens: 400,
+        summarizationProvider: '',
         summarizationModel: '',
         maxTokens: 1024,
         compactionRetries: 1,
       },
       persistenceRoot: join(workdir, '.sessions'),
     })
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-compaction'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-compaction'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{
       type: 'text',
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/full-loop.e2e.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/full-loop.e2e.ts
index 8718139ced..7314b7ab21 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/full-loop.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/full-loop.e2e.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('full loop: real model + real bas
   it('runs a bash command on request and reports its output', async () => {
     workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-full-loop-e2e-'))
     ctx = await codingHarness(workdir, { persona: SYSTEM_PROMPT })
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-loop'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-loop'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'Run `echo e2e-ok` with the bash tool and tell me its exact output.' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/harness.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/harness.ts
index ad91a0c353..944d01a0b9 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/harness.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/harness.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ export async function codingHarness(workdir: string, options: CodingHarnessOptio
     systemPrompt: { persona: options.persona ?? '' },
   })
   await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   await ctx.plugin(LocalBashExecutor, { cwd: workdir, timeoutMs: 30_000 })
   await ctx.plugin(ToolBash)
   await ctx.plugin(ToolTodo)
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/resume.e2e.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/resume.e2e.ts
index 70382b4beb..c9081c659f 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/resume.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/resume.e2e.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('resume: continue a persisted ses
     const first = (await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('resume-1'),
       sessionId: SESSION_ID,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
     })).agent as ReactLoopAgent
     first.send([{ type: 'text', text: `Remember this code for later: ${SECRET}. Just acknowledge it.` }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, first)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('resume: continue a persisted ses
     const resumed = (await ctx.agents.resume({
       agentId: AgentId('resume-2'),
       resumeSessionId: SESSION_ID,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
     })).agent as ReactLoopAgent
     expect(resumed.session.id).toBe(SESSION_ID)
     // The prior user turn is in the rehydrated log before the model is asked.
diff --git a/examples/coding-agent/tests/todo-write.e2e.ts b/examples/coding-agent/tests/todo-write.e2e.ts
index 698fbd9e9e..a16f15528d 100644
--- a/examples/coding-agent/tests/todo-write.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/coding-agent/tests/todo-write.e2e.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('todo_write: real model records a
   it('appends a todo/write event with the model-produced task list', async () => {
     workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-todo-write-e2e-'))
     ctx = await codingHarness(workdir, { persona: TODO_SYSTEM_PROMPT })
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-todo'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-todo'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text:
       'Use the todo_write tool to record a plan of exactly two steps: first '
diff --git a/examples/cordis-agent/cordis.yml b/examples/cordis-agent/cordis.yml
index ff8c5feee1..a567705cbd 100644
--- a/examples/cordis-agent/cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/cordis-agent/cordis.yml
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
     baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL
-    models:
-      - deepseek-v4-pro
-      - deepseek-v4-flash
 
 # Local bash executor for agent-spine-demo's tool-bash schema — gives the agent an
 # ordinary tool whose calls make the mounted listeners observably fire.
@@ -51,6 +48,7 @@
 - id: stdio-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo'
   config:
+    provider: deepseek
     model: deepseek-v4-flash
     resumeSessionId: !!js process.env.RESUME_SESSION_ID
     persistenceRoot: './.sessions'
diff --git a/examples/cordis-agent/tests/cordis-tools.e2e.ts b/examples/cordis-agent/tests/cordis-tools.e2e.ts
index 32eb90c1ac..68fe88038b 100644
--- a/examples/cordis-agent/tests/cordis-tools.e2e.ts
+++ b/examples/cordis-agent/tests/cordis-tools.e2e.ts
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('cordis tools: a real model modif
   it('mounts a status listener whose tagged output actually fires, then unmounts it', async () => {
     ctx = await cordisHarness()
     const log = vi.spyOn(console, 'log').mockImplementation(() => {})
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cordis-e2e-listener'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cordis-e2e-listener'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{
       type: 'text',
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('cordis tools: a real model modif
 
   it('builds itself a reverse_text tool and actually calls it', async () => {
     ctx = await cordisHarness()
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cordis-e2e-selftool'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cordis-e2e-selftool'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{
       type: 'text',
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('cordis tools: a real model modif
 
   it('composes two mounts through provide/inject, and unmounting the provider parks the consumer', async () => {
     ctx = await cordisHarness()
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cordis-e2e-compose'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cordis-e2e-compose'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{
       type: 'text',
diff --git a/examples/cordis-agent/tests/harness.ts b/examples/cordis-agent/tests/harness.ts
index 260a68bfbb..19868af14c 100644
--- a/examples/cordis-agent/tests/harness.ts
+++ b/examples/cordis-agent/tests/harness.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export async function cordisHarness(): Promise<Context> {
     systemPrompt: { persona: PERSONA },
   })
   await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   await ctx.plugin(ToolCordis)
   return ctx
 }
diff --git a/examples/echo-agent/cordis.yml b/examples/echo-agent/cordis.yml
index a7ada39115..429ca118d6 100644
--- a/examples/echo-agent/cordis.yml
+++ b/examples/echo-agent/cordis.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 - id: stdio-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo'
   config:
+    provider: mock
     model: mock-echo
     persona: 'You are echo-agent, a demo agent.'
     welcome: 'echo-agent ready. Type a message ("echo <text>" triggers the tool).'
diff --git a/examples/echo-agent/src/mock-llm.ts b/examples/echo-agent/src/mock-llm.ts
index 93132711de..1f61dc4ee3 100644
--- a/examples/echo-agent/src/mock-llm.ts
+++ b/examples/echo-agent/src/mock-llm.ts
@@ -55,5 +55,5 @@ export const name = 'mock-llm'
 export const inject = ['llm']
 
 export function apply(ctx: Context) {
-  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock-echo'], new MockEchoAdapter())
+  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockEchoAdapter())
 }
diff --git a/packages/bash/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts b/packages/bash/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts
index dbeac75e28..1f9055c67a 100644
--- a/packages/bash/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/bash/tool-bash/tests/integration.spec.ts
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ describe('bash tool through the agent loop', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('session-env'),
       sessionId: SessionId('session-env-id'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const agent = handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent
     const location = ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(agent.session.header)
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ describe('bash tool through the agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('The command printed integration-ok.'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-fg'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-fg'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'run echo integration-ok' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ describe('bash tool through the agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('It failed with code 9.'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-exit'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-exit'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'run exit 9' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ describe('bash tool through the agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('Background task finished.'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-bg'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-bg'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'run echo bg-ok in the background' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md b/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md
index d537848bd2..937120eebe 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/README.md
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ This backend owns the compaction policy:
 - **Measurement** — the singleton `ctx.tokenMeter` prices the provisional request envelope and current surface at one consumed-log revision. The current prompt and prefix override their logged values; the pre-step boundary reuses logged tools and call config.
 - **Retention** — compact the oldest whole surface units while preserving a recent tail and balanced tool-call/result cuts through the [`dsh-compact` boundary helpers](../compact/README.md#tool-pairing-boundaries). Turn boundaries do not protect old steps inside a runaway turn. An open indivisible tail declines until it closes; a single unit larger than the budget remains out of scope.
 - **Convergence** — retry head-checkpoint compaction up to `compactionRetries`; reject a summary that does not shrink its source, and throw if retries cannot return below threshold.
-- **Summarization** — a direct `llm/stream` call uses the configured model and cap without running the loop-only `agent/request` seam. The input transcript preserves non-text blocks as tagged placeholders; only returned text enters the checkpoint, excluding reasoning and tool calls that would leak private reasoning or create an orphaned call.
+- **Summarization** — a direct `llm/stream` call uses the configured provider/model pair and cap, falling back to the latest logged request target and then the agent target, without running the loop-only `agent/request` seam. The input transcript preserves non-text blocks as tagged placeholders; only returned text enters the checkpoint, excluding reasoning and tool calls that would leak private reasoning or create an orphaned call.
 - **Framing** — the replacement user message marks established checkpoint context with `<compacted-summary>` tags. The raw summary remains on the provenance event, and later automatic cycles merge the prior checkpoint.
 - **Lifecycle** — `compactRegion()` requires its agent to own the exact target session and rejects mismatch before resolution or mutation; a valid call records its start, summary, replacement, and end. The serial `agent/pre-step` listener checks pressure before every step, outside an open step, so a tool-heavy turn remains compactable and the loop derives history once after mutation.
 - **Failure handling** — an unmatched `compact/start` is an inert crash marker because no replacement landed. Recoverable failure records an error end and leaves the surface unchanged.
 
-`summarize()` is the sole subclass hook. A template- or remote-summarizer subclass can override it while pressure, retention, provenance, shrink validation, and shadowed-token accounting stay on `ctx.tokenMeter`. The hook returns the summary blocks together with the call envelope it used (`{ summary, model, maxTokens? }`), which is logged on `compact/summary`.
+`summarize()` is the sole subclass hook. A template- or remote-summarizer subclass can override it while pressure, retention, provenance, shrink validation, and shadowed-token accounting stay on `ctx.tokenMeter`. The hook returns the summary blocks together with the call envelope it used (`{ summary, provider, model, maxTokens? }`), which is logged on `compact/summary`.
 
 ## Config (`BasicCompactConfig`)
 
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Every setting is optional. The pressure and retention policy applies to the toke
 |---|---|---|
 | `thresholdRatio` | no (default `0.8`) | Compact at `floor(contextWindow × ratio)`. |
 | `retainTokens` | no (default `floor(contextWindow × 0.16)`) | Recent surface budget kept verbatim; must be below the threshold. |
-| `summarizationModel` | no (default `''`) | Empty resolves the latest logged routed model, then `AgentOptions.model`. |
+| `summarizationProvider` | no (default `''`) | Set together with `summarizationModel`; an empty pair resolves the latest logged request target, then the `AgentOptions` pair. |
+| `summarizationModel` | no (default `''`) | Set together with `summarizationProvider`; an empty pair resolves the latest logged request target, then the `AgentOptions` pair. |
 | `maxTokens` | no (default `8192`) | Provider generation cap for the summarization call; may include reasoning tokens. |
 | `compactionRetries` | no (default `1`) | Extra attempts after the first when pressure remains above threshold. |
 | `auto` | no (default `true`) | Register the `agent/pre-step` automatic listener. Set `false` for manual-only. |
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ Rules:
 
 ## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
 
-- **Pre-step sees a provisional request envelope** — the current prompt and prefix are exact, but routing and tool changes made later in `agent/request` are not logged yet. A router-only agent with no provisional model skips that check.
+- **Pre-step sees a provisional request envelope** — the current prompt and prefix are exact, but routing and tool changes made later in `agent/request` are not logged yet. A router-only agent with no provisional provider/model pair skips that check.
 - **Meter accuracy follows the fixed heuristic** — missing reusable provider usage falls back to character count plus structural overhead rather than exact tokenization.
 - **`compactRegion` requires an open turn** — a manual call on a fully-closed session throws ("no open turn") rather than compacting.
 - **Summarization failure fails closed with full, over-budget history** — including truncation at the summarization `maxTokens`, which hidden reasoning tokens can consume; the auto path logs a warning and proceeds.
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/config.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/config.ts
index 377bd21523..30241987a4 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/config.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/config.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ const DEFAULT_RETAIN_RATIO = 0.16
 const BASIC_COMPACT_CONFIG_KEYS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
   'thresholdRatio',
   'retainTokens',
+  'summarizationProvider',
   'summarizationModel',
   'maxTokens',
   'compactionRetries',
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ function validateConfigKeys(config: BasicCompactConfig): void {
     if (!BASIC_COMPACT_CONFIG_KEYS.has(key)) {
       throw new Error(
         `BasicCompactConfig: unknown key "${key}" `
-        + '(allowed: thresholdRatio, retainTokens, summarizationModel, maxTokens, compactionRetries, auto)',
+        + '(allowed: thresholdRatio, retainTokens, summarizationProvider, summarizationModel, maxTokens, compactionRetries, auto)',
       )
     }
   }
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ export function resolveConfig(
   const resolved: ResolvedConfig = {
     thresholdRatio,
     retainTokens,
+    summarizationProvider: config.summarizationProvider ?? '',
     summarizationModel: config.summarizationModel ?? '',
     maxTokens: config.maxTokens ?? 8192,
     compactionRetries: config.compactionRetries ?? 1,
@@ -69,9 +71,17 @@ export function resolveConfig(
   }
   assertPositiveInteger('maxTokens', resolved.maxTokens)
   assertNonNegativeInteger('compactionRetries', resolved.compactionRetries)
+  if (typeof resolved.summarizationProvider !== 'string') {
+    throw new Error('BasicCompactConfig: summarizationProvider must be a string')
+  }
   if (typeof resolved.summarizationModel !== 'string') {
     throw new Error('BasicCompactConfig: summarizationModel must be a string')
   }
+  if ((resolved.summarizationProvider.length === 0) !== (resolved.summarizationModel.length === 0)) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'BasicCompactConfig: summarizationProvider and summarizationModel must both be set or both be empty',
+    )
+  }
   if (typeof resolved.auto !== 'boolean') {
     throw new Error('BasicCompactConfig: auto must be a boolean')
   }
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts
index 285ad5163e..60452581c5 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/index.ts
@@ -27,9 +27,15 @@ export type {
   ResolvedConfig,
 } from './types.ts'
 
-/** Resolve the latest actual routed model, then the agent's configured fallback. */
-function effectiveModel(agent: Agent): string | undefined {
-  return agent.session.requestHeader()?.config.model ?? agent.options.model
+/** Resolve the latest actual routed provider/model, then the complete agent fallback pair. */
+function effectiveTarget(agent: Agent): { provider: string; model: string } | undefined {
+  const latest = agent.session.requestHeader()?.config
+  if (latest !== undefined) return { provider: latest.provider, model: latest.model }
+  const { provider, model } = agent.options
+  if (provider === undefined || provider.length === 0 || model === undefined || model.length === 0) {
+    return undefined
+  }
+  return { provider, model }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -38,14 +44,14 @@ function effectiveModel(agent: Agent): string | undefined {
  * later request middleware has not run yet.
  */
 function provisionalHeader(
-  model: string,
+  target: { provider: string; model: string },
   session: Session,
   fullSystemPrompt: string,
   sessionPrefix: readonly Message[],
 ): EpochHeader {
   const latest = session.requestHeader()
   return canonicalHeader({
-    config: latest === undefined ? { model } : { ...latest.config, model },
+    config: latest === undefined ? target : { ...latest.config, ...target },
     ...fullSystemPrompt.length === 0 ? {} : { system: fullSystemPrompt },
     ...latest?.tools === undefined ? {} : { tools: latest.tools },
     ...sessionPrefix.length === 0 ? {} : { messagePrefix: [...sessionPrefix] },
@@ -66,6 +72,7 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
   static Config: z<BasicCompactConfig> = z.object({
     thresholdRatio: z.number().default(0.8),
     retainTokens: z.number().step(1),
+    summarizationProvider: z.string().default(''),
     summarizationModel: z.string().default(''),
     maxTokens: z.number().step(1).min(1).default(8192),
     compactionRetries: z.number().step(1).min(0).default(1),
@@ -93,7 +100,7 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
     text: string,
     agent: Agent,
     signal?: AbortSignal,
-  ): Promise<{ summary: ContentBlock[]; model: string; maxTokens?: number }> {
+  ): Promise<{ summary: ContentBlock[]; provider: string; model: string; maxTokens?: number }> {
     return summarizeWithLlm(this.ctx, this.config, text, agent, signal)
   }
 
@@ -101,7 +108,7 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
    * Check replayed pressure for the provisional pre-step envelope and compact
    * a tool-balanced head until it falls below the service-wide threshold.
    * A genuinely model-less router-first step skips this provisional check.
-   * @param agent - agent whose session and provisional model are measured.
+   * @param agent - agent whose session and provisional provider/model are measured.
    * @param fullSystemPrompt - current assembled system prompt override.
    * @param sessionPrefix - current request-only prefix override.
    * @param signal - live step cancellation signal forwarded to summarization.
@@ -113,10 +120,10 @@ export class BasicCompactService extends CompactService {
     sessionPrefix: readonly Message[],
     signal: AbortSignal,
   ): Promise<CompactionResult | null> {
-    const model = effectiveModel(agent)
-    if (model === undefined || model.length === 0) return null
+    const target = effectiveTarget(agent)
+    if (target === undefined) return null
     const meter = this.ctx.tokenMeter
-    const requestHeader = provisionalHeader(model, agent.session, fullSystemPrompt, sessionPrefix)
+    const requestHeader = provisionalHeader(target, agent.session, fullSystemPrompt, sessionPrefix)
     const threshold = Math.floor(meter.contextWindow * this.config.thresholdRatio)
     let measurement = meter.measure(agent.session, requestHeader)
     if (measurement.totalTokens < threshold) return null
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/region.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/region.ts
index 60bec61048..85d0c6af9f 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/region.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/region.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ export async function compactSurfaceRegion(
     }
     const shadowedTokenCount = selected.reduce((total, node) => total + node.tokens, 0)
     const text = renderTranscript(session.events, shadowedSeqs)
-    const { summary, model, maxTokens } = await dependencies.summarize(text, agent, signal)
+    const { summary, provider, model, maxTokens } = await dependencies.summarize(text, agent, signal)
 
     const currentMeasurement = dependencies.meter.measure(session)
     if (currentMeasurement.logRevision !== lockedMeasurement.logRevision) {
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ export async function compactSurfaceRegion(
       shadowedRange: { start, end },
       shadowedSeqs,
       shadowedTokenCount,
+      provider,
       model,
       ...maxTokens === undefined ? {} : { maxTokens },
     })
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/summarizer.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/summarizer.ts
index 359421f0f5..c814c7ecc8 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/summarizer.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/summarizer.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ const CHECKPOINT_PREAMBLE =
 /** Safe summary content plus the exact auxiliary call envelope recorded in provenance. */
 export interface SummaryResult {
   summary: ContentBlock[]
+  provider: string
   model: string
   maxTokens?: number
 }
@@ -78,17 +79,27 @@ export async function summarizeWithLlm(
   agent: Agent,
   signal?: AbortSignal,
 ): Promise<SummaryResult> {
-  const latestModel = agent.session.requestHeader()?.config.model
-  const model = config.summarizationModel || latestModel || agent.options.model || ''
-  if (model.length === 0) {
+  const latest = agent.session.requestHeader()?.config
+  const configured = config.summarizationProvider.length === 0
+    ? undefined
+    : { provider: config.summarizationProvider, model: config.summarizationModel }
+  const agentTarget = agent.options.provider !== undefined
+    && agent.options.provider.length > 0
+    && agent.options.model !== undefined
+    && agent.options.model.length > 0
+    ? { provider: agent.options.provider, model: agent.options.model }
+    : undefined
+  const target = configured ?? latest ?? agentTarget
+  if (target === undefined) {
     throw new Error(
-      'no model available for summarization: set BasicCompactConfig.summarizationModel, route one request, or set AgentOptions.model',
+      'no provider/model available for summarization: set both BasicCompactConfig summarization fields, route one request, or set both AgentOptions fields',
     )
   }
 
   const assembler = new BlockAssembler()
   const options: GenerateOptions = {
-    model,
+    provider: target.provider,
+    model: target.model,
     messages: [{
       role: 'user',
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Summarize this conversation history:\n\n${text}\n\nSummary:` }],
@@ -106,7 +117,12 @@ export async function summarizeWithLlm(
   if (!summary.some(block => block.text.trim().length > 0)) {
     throw new Error('summarization produced no text summary content')
   }
-  return { summary, model, maxTokens: config.maxTokens }
+  return {
+    summary,
+    provider: target.provider,
+    model: target.model,
+    maxTokens: config.maxTokens,
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/types.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/types.ts
index b9f6c4742c..8145ce164e 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/src/types.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ export interface BasicCompactConfig {
   thresholdRatio?: number
   /** Recent surface tokens retained verbatim. Defaults to `floor(contextWindow * 0.16)`. */
   retainTokens?: number
-  /** Summary model; `''` resolves the latest routed model, then `AgentOptions.model`. Defaults to `''`. */
+  /** Summary provider; `''` resolves the latest routed pair, then the agent pair. Defaults to `''`. */
+  summarizationProvider?: string
+  /** Summary model; `''` resolves the latest routed pair, then the agent pair. Defaults to `''`. */
   summarizationModel?: string
   /** Provider generation cap for summarization. Defaults to `8192`. */
   maxTokens?: number
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ export interface BasicCompactConfig {
 export interface ResolvedConfig {
   readonly thresholdRatio: number
   readonly retainTokens: number
+  readonly summarizationProvider: string
   readonly summarizationModel: string
   readonly maxTokens: number
   readonly compactionRetries: number
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts
index 486955b187..ce870a65f9 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-basic.spec.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ function createContext(contextWindow = 1_000): Context {
 }
 
 function agent(session: Session, model?: string): Agent {
-  return { session, options: model === undefined ? {} : { model } } as Agent
+  return { session, options: model === undefined ? {} : { provider: model, model } } as Agent
 }
 
 /** Closed two-message turns followed by one open turn for durable compaction events. */
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ function conversation(turns = 4, text = 'fixture '.repeat(40).trim()): Session {
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     session.append('step/start', { turn, step: 1 })
     session.append('assistant/message', {
+      provenance: { provider: MODEL, model: MODEL },
       turn,
       step: 1,
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: `${text} assistant ${turn}` }],
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ function toolConversation(): Session {
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     session.append('step/start', { turn, step: 1 })
     session.append('assistant/message', {
+      provenance: { provider: MODEL, model: MODEL },
       turn,
       step: 1,
       content: [
@@ -83,6 +85,7 @@ function toolConversation(): Session {
 
 class TestCompactService extends BasicCompactService {
   summary: ContentBlock[] = [{ type: 'text', text: 'small checkpoint' }]
+  summaryProvider = 'summary-provider'
   summaryModel = 'summary-model'
   error: unknown
   mutateDuringSummary: (() => void) | undefined
@@ -92,11 +95,16 @@ class TestCompactService extends BasicCompactService {
     text: string,
     _agent: Agent,
     signal?: AbortSignal,
-  ): Promise<{ summary: ContentBlock[]; model: string; maxTokens?: number }> {
+  ): Promise<{ summary: ContentBlock[]; provider: string; model: string; maxTokens?: number }> {
     this.calls.push({ text, signal })
     this.mutateDuringSummary?.()
     if (this.error !== undefined) throw this.error
-    return { summary: this.summary, model: this.summaryModel, maxTokens: 123 }
+    return {
+      summary: this.summary,
+      provider: this.summaryProvider,
+      model: this.summaryModel,
+      maxTokens: 123,
+    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -125,6 +133,7 @@ describe('compact configuration and defaults', () => {
     expect(resolved).toEqual({
       thresholdRatio: 0.8,
       retainTokens: 160,
+      summarizationProvider: '',
       summarizationModel: '',
       maxTokens: 8192,
       compactionRetries: 1,
@@ -158,7 +167,10 @@ describe('compact configuration and defaults', () => {
       [{ maxTokens: 0 }, /maxTokens/],
       [{ compactionRetries: -1 }, /compactionRetries/],
       [{ auto: 'yes' }, /auto must be a boolean/],
+      [{ summarizationProvider: 1 }, /summarizationProvider must be a string/],
       [{ summarizationModel: 1 }, /summarizationModel must be a string/],
+      [{ summarizationProvider: MODEL }, /must both be set or both be empty/],
+      [{ summarizationModel: MODEL }, /must both be set or both be empty/],
       [{ thresholdRatio: 0 }, /number in \(0, 1\]/],
       [{ thresholdRatio: 1.1 }, /number in \(0, 1\]/],
       [{ retainTokens: -1 }, /non-negative integer/],
@@ -232,13 +244,14 @@ describe('pressure measurement and retention', () => {
     }, ctx)
     const session = conversation(4)
     session.append('request/header', {
-      header: { config: { model: 'actual' } },
+      header: { config: { provider: 'actual', model: 'actual' } },
       reason: 'initial',
     })
     const measure = vi.spyOn(ctx.tokenMeter, 'measure')
 
     const result = await compactIfNeeded(compact, session, 'fallback')
     expect(result).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(measure.mock.calls[0]?.[1]?.config.provider).toBe('actual')
     expect(measure.mock.calls[0]?.[1]?.config.model).toBe('actual')
   })
 
@@ -315,6 +328,7 @@ describe('pressure measurement and retention', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     session.append('assistant/message', {
+      provenance: { provider: MODEL, model: MODEL },
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: callId, name: 'read', arguments: '{}' }],
@@ -375,6 +389,7 @@ describe('compaction region transaction', () => {
     expect(summary?.data).toMatchObject({
       shadowedSeqs: result.shadowedSeqs,
       shadowedTokenCount: result.shadowedTokenCount,
+      provider: 'summary-provider',
       model: 'summary-model',
       maxTokens: 123,
     })
@@ -526,7 +541,7 @@ describe('compaction region transaction', () => {
     const session = conversation(2)
     compact.mutateDuringSummary = () => {
       session.append('request/header', {
-        header: { config: { model: MODEL } },
+        header: { config: { provider: MODEL, model: MODEL } },
         reason: 'initial',
       })
     }
@@ -621,6 +636,7 @@ describe('default one-shot summarizer', () => {
       { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('unexpected'), name: 'x', arguments: '{}' },
     ], undefined, MODEL, {
       auto: false,
+      summarizationProvider: MODEL,
       summarizationModel: MODEL,
       maxTokens: 321,
     })
@@ -629,10 +645,12 @@ describe('default one-shot summarizer', () => {
 
     expect(output).toEqual({
       summary: [{ type: 'text', text: 'public summary' }],
+      provider: MODEL,
       model: MODEL,
       maxTokens: 321,
     })
     expect(adapter.lastOptions).toMatchObject({
+      provider: MODEL,
       model: MODEL,
       maxTokens: 321,
       signal: SIGNAL,
@@ -641,25 +659,27 @@ describe('default one-shot summarizer', () => {
     expect(adapter.lastOptions?.system).toContain('## Primary Request and Intent')
   })
 
-  it('resolves latest routed model before AgentOptions.model', async () => {
+  it('resolves the latest routed provider/model before the AgentOptions pair', async () => {
     const { adapter, compact } = await summarizerHarness([{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }], undefined, 'routed')
     const session = conversation(1)
     session.append('request/header', {
-      header: { config: { model: 'routed' } },
+      header: { config: { provider: 'routed', model: 'routed' } },
       reason: 'initial',
     })
     const output = await compact.summarize('history', agent(session, 'fallback'))
+    expect(output.provider).toBe('routed')
     expect(output.model).toBe('routed')
+    expect(adapter.lastOptions?.provider).toBe('routed')
     expect(adapter.lastOptions?.model).toBe('routed')
   })
 
-  it('fails clearly when no summarization model can be resolved', async () => {
+  it('fails clearly when no complete summarization target can be resolved', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     void new TokenMeterService(ctx)
     const compact = new BasicCompactService(ctx, { auto: false })
     await expect(compact.summarize('history', agent(new Session(SessionId('model-less')))))
-      .rejects.toThrow(/no model available for summarization/)
+      .rejects.toThrow(/no provider\/model available for summarization/)
   })
 
   it.each([
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-loop-repro.spec.ts b/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-loop-repro.spec.ts
index 077ae78cbb..22341be838 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-loop-repro.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact-basic/tests/compact-loop-repro.spec.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,12 @@ import type { SurfaceEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
  */
 
 class ReproCompactService extends BasicCompactService {
-  override async summarize(): Promise<{ summary: ContentBlock[]; model: string }> {
-    return { summary: [{ type: 'text', text: 'CHECKPOINT SUMMARY' }], model: 'stub' }
+  override async summarize(): Promise<{ summary: ContentBlock[]; provider: string; model: string }> {
+    return {
+      summary: [{ type: 'text', text: 'CHECKPOINT SUMMARY' }],
+      provider: 'mock',
+      model: 'stub',
+    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -94,7 +98,7 @@ describe('CBR-001: a real-loop checkpoint is a valid boundary on both sides', ()
   it('the head checkpoint the loop lands is a balanced cut on both sides', async () => {
     const { ctx } = await harness(8)
     try {
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('repro'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('repro'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'do a long multi-step task' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact/README.md b/packages/compact/compact/README.md
index 59494e8c85..21ef458029 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact/README.md
+++ b/packages/compact/compact/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The private per-session cache is keyed by `session.surface.replaceGeneration` an
 
 1. appends `compact/start` (log-only) — acquires the lock,
 2. summarizes the range,
-3. appends `compact/summary` (log-only) — provenance: summary, range, shadowed seqs, token count,
+3. appends `compact/summary` (log-only) — provenance: summary, range, shadowed seqs, token count, and provider/model call envelope,
 4. appends a single `user/message` with `surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start, end }` carrying the summary — **the only surface mutation**,
 5. appends `compact/end` (log-only) — releases the lock.
 
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts b/packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts
index 10a5eabfcc..e831573d5a 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact/src/types.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ declare module '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session' {
       shadowedRange: { start: number; end: number }
       shadowedSeqs: number[]
       shadowedTokenCount: number
+      /** The provider route that wrote the summary. */
+      provider: string
       /**
        * The model that wrote the summary — the summarize call's envelope,
        * reported by the backend that made the call, logged so the one-shot
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact/tests/compact.spec.ts b/packages/compact/compact/tests/compact.spec.ts
index c4daa8cc5a..f272b1fe85 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact/tests/compact.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact/tests/compact.spec.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class StubCompactService extends CompactService {
       shadowedRange: { start, end },
       shadowedSeqs: [],
       shadowedTokenCount: 0,
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'stub',
     })
     const endEvent = session.append('compact/end', { turn: 0 })
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact/tests/render.spec.ts b/packages/compact/compact/tests/render.spec.ts
index 1a22296565..3b4bb41ac2 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact/tests/render.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact/tests/render.spec.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe('renderTranscript', () => {
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'fix the bug' }],
       source: { kind: 'user' },
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    const assistant = s.append('assistant/message', {
+    const assistant = s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       turn: 0, step: 0,
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'looking' }],
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ describe('renderTranscript', () => {
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: '' }],
       source: { kind: 'user' },
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    const emptyAssistant = s.append('assistant/message', {
+    const emptyAssistant = s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       turn: 0, step: 0,
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: '' }],
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
diff --git a/packages/compact/compact/tests/tool-pairing.spec.ts b/packages/compact/compact/tests/tool-pairing.spec.ts
index 14bb00488a..d8c6b92bce 100644
--- a/packages/compact/compact/tests/tool-pairing.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/compact/compact/tests/tool-pairing.spec.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ function closedToolStep(): Session {
     turn: 1,
     step: 1,
     content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' }],
+    provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
   }, SURFACE)
   session.append('tool/result', {
     turn: 1,
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ describe('tool-pairing boundaries', () => {
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('open'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' }],
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     }, SURFACE)
     expect(toolPairingBalancedAfter(open, open.surface.nodes[0]!)).toBe(false)
   })
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ describe('tool-pairing boundaries', () => {
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'one', arguments: '{}' },
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c2'), name: 'two', arguments: '{}' },
       ],
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     }, SURFACE)
     session.append('tool/result', {
       turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId('c1'), content: [], isError: false,
@@ -91,6 +94,7 @@ describe('tool-pairing boundaries', () => {
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' }],
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     }, SURFACE)
     midStep.append('context/message', {
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'background update' }],
@@ -165,7 +169,12 @@ describe('tool-pairing cache refresh', () => {
       },
       {
         type: 'assistant/message', seq: 1, time: 1,
-        data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'one', arguments: '{}' }] },
+        data: {
+          turn: 1,
+          step: 1,
+          content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'one', arguments: '{}' }],
+          provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
+        },
         surfaceOp: 'append',
       },
       {
@@ -230,7 +239,12 @@ describe('tool-pairing cache refresh', () => {
     events.push(
       {
         type: 'assistant/message', seq: 5, time: 5,
-        data: { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c2'), name: 'two', arguments: '{}' }] },
+        data: {
+          turn: 2,
+          step: 1,
+          content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c2'), name: 'two', arguments: '{}' }],
+          provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
+        },
         surfaceOp: 'append',
       },
       {
diff --git a/packages/context/time-context/tests/fixtures/cordis.yml b/packages/context/time-context/tests/fixtures/cordis.yml
index a84985ef5e..480a93c39b 100644
--- a/packages/context/time-context/tests/fixtures/cordis.yml
+++ b/packages/context/time-context/tests/fixtures/cordis.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 - id: stdio-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo'
   config:
+    provider: mock
     model: mock-echo
     persona: 'Test the time-context plugin.'
     welcome: 'time-context e2e ready.'
diff --git a/packages/context/time-context/tests/time-context.spec.ts b/packages/context/time-context/tests/time-context.spec.ts
index f5f8616f7f..2d6cb49056 100644
--- a/packages/context/time-context/tests/time-context.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/context/time-context/tests/time-context.spec.ts
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ describe('real agent-loop request history', () => {
       if (mode === 'throws') throw new Error('later pre-step failure')
       subject.cancel('later pre-step cancellation')
     })
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId(`late-${mode}`), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId(`late-${mode}`), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'start' }])
     await agent.whenIdle()
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ describe('real agent-loop request history', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'advanced' }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('loop'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('loop'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'start' }])
     await agent.whenIdle()
diff --git a/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.e2e.ts b/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.e2e.ts
index 120740aec4..eab9603fa5 100644
--- a/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.e2e.ts
@@ -44,12 +44,12 @@ async function harness(): Promise<{ ctx: Context; agent: Agent }> {
   await ctx.plugin(ToolFs)
   await ctx.plugin(WorkspaceContext, { maxBytes: 65536 })
   await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: [{ id: 'deepseek-v4-flash' }] })
   const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
     agentId: AgentId('workspace-context-e2e'),
     sessionId: SessionId('workspace-context-e2e-session'),
     meta: { cwd: workdir },
-    agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+    agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
   })
   return { ctx, agent: handle.agent }
 }
diff --git a/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.spec.ts b/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.spec.ts
index 0132a64eb8..b3a9947221 100644
--- a/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/context/workspace-context/tests/workspace-context.spec.ts
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ describe('dynamic nested workspace context injection', () => {
       await ctx.plugin(workspaceContext, { dshHome: home, maxBytes: 65536 })
       await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
       ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('workspace-context-abort'), { model: 'mock' }, { cwd: root })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('workspace-context-abort'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, { cwd: root })
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
         name: 'abort_step',
         description: 'Abort the current test step.',
diff --git a/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts b/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts
index 0fa2410604..b49cb54026 100644
--- a/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts
+++ b/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts
@@ -133,8 +133,9 @@ export const SERVICE_API: readonly ServiceApiEntry[] = [
     key: 'llm',
     summary: 'The abstract `llm` service: an adapter registry plus a streaming model-call surface, interceptable via the `llm/stream` waterfall.',
     methods: [
-      'registerAdapter(models: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void',
-      'models(): string[]',
+      'registerAdapter(providers: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void',
+      'listProviders(): LlmProviderInfo[]',
+      'async listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]>',
       'stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>',
     ],
   },
@@ -547,7 +548,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'AgentOptions',
-    declaration: 'export interface AgentOptions {\n    model?: string;\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface AgentOptions {\n    provider?: string;\n    model?: string;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'AgentStatus',
@@ -593,6 +594,10 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
     name: 'AssembledSection',
     declaration: 'export interface AssembledSection {\n    name: string;\n    text: string;\n}',
   },
+  {
+    name: 'AssistantProvenance',
+    declaration: 'export interface AssistantProvenance {\n    provider: string;\n    model: string;\n    replayState?: unknown;\n}',
+  },
   {
     name: 'BashEnvContributor',
     declaration: 'export interface BashEnvContributor {\n    name: string;\n    variables: Readonly<Record<DshEnvironmentKey, BashEnvVariable>>;\n    resolve(execution: ToolExecution): Readonly<Partial<Record<DshEnvironmentKey, string>>>;\n}',
@@ -779,7 +784,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'GenerateOptions',
-    declaration: 'export interface GenerateOptions {\n    model: string;\n    messages: Message[];\n    system?: string;\n    tools?: ToolSchema[];\n    temperature?: number;\n    maxTokens?: number;\n    stop?: string[];\n    signal?: AbortSignal;\n    sessionId?: Branded<\'SessionId\'>;\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface GenerateOptions {\n    provider: string;\n    model: string;\n    messages: Message[];\n    system?: string;\n    tools?: ToolSchema[];\n    temperature?: number;\n    maxTokens?: number;\n    stop?: string[];\n    signal?: AbortSignal;\n    sessionId?: Branded<\'SessionId\'>;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'GenericCallView',
@@ -803,11 +808,19 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'LlmCallConfig',
-    declaration: 'export interface LlmCallConfig {\n    model: string;\n    temperature?: number;\n    maxTokens?: number;\n    stop?: string[];\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface LlmCallConfig {\n    provider: string;\n    model: string;\n    temperature?: number;\n    maxTokens?: number;\n    stop?: string[];\n}',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'LlmModelInfo',
+    declaration: 'export interface LlmModelInfo {\n    provider: string;\n    id: string;\n    name: string;\n    description?: string;\n}',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'LlmProviderInfo',
+    declaration: 'export interface LlmProviderInfo {\n    id: string;\n    name: string;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'Message',
-    declaration: 'export interface Message {\n    role: \'system\' | \'user\' | \'assistant\';\n    content: ContentBlock[];\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface Message {\n    role: \'system\' | \'user\' | \'assistant\';\n    content: ContentBlock[];\n    provenance?: AssistantProvenance;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'MessageSource',
@@ -871,7 +884,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'SessionEventMap',
-    declaration: 'export interface SessionEventMap {\n    \'turn/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        trigger: TurnTrigger;\n    };\n    \'turn/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        reason: TurnEndReason;\n    };\n    \'step/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'step/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'user/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n    };\n    \'prompt/blocked\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        reason: string;\n    };\n    \'context/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        envelope?: ContextEnvelope;\n        meta?: JsonValue;\n    };\n    \'assistant/chunk\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        chunk: StreamChunk;\n    };\n    \'assistant/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        usage?: TokenUsage;\n    };\n    \'tool/call\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        name: string;\n        arguments: string;\n    };\n    \'tool/result\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        isError: boolean;\n        error?: {\n            name: string;\n            code: string;\n        };\n        meta?: unknown;\n    };\n    \'steering/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n    };\n    \'todo/write\': {\n        todos /* …truncated — full shape in source */',
+    declaration: 'export interface SessionEventMap {\n    \'turn/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        trigger: TurnTrigger;\n    };\n    \'turn/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        reason: TurnEndReason;\n    };\n    \'step/start\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'step/end\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n    };\n    \'user/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n    };\n    \'prompt/blocked\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        reason: string;\n    };\n    \'context/message\': {\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource;\n        envelope?: ContextEnvelope;\n        meta?: JsonValue;\n    };\n    \'assistant/chunk\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        chunk: StreamChunk;\n    };\n    \'assistant/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        provenance: AssistantProvenance;\n        usage?: TokenUsage;\n    };\n    \'tool/call\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        name: string;\n        arguments: string;\n    };\n    \'tool/result\': {\n        turn: number;\n        step: number;\n        callId: CallId;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        isError: boolean;\n        error?: {\n            name: string;\n            code: string;\n        };\n        meta?: unknown;\n    };\n    \'steering/message\': {\n        turn: number;\n        content: ContentBlock[];\n        source: MessageSource; /* …truncated — full shape in source */',
   },
   {
     name: 'SessionEventReadRequest',
@@ -979,7 +992,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'StreamChunk',
-    declaration: 'export type StreamChunk = {\n    type: \'block-start\';\n    index: number;\n    blockType: ContentBlockType;\n} | {\n    type: \'text-delta\';\n    index: number;\n    text: string;\n} | {\n    type: \'reasoning-delta\';\n    index: number;\n    text: string;\n} | {\n    type: \'tool-call-delta\';\n    index: number;\n    id: CallId;\n    name?: string;\n    argumentsDelta: string;\n} | {\n    type: \'block-end\';\n    index: number;\n    block: ContentBlock;\n} | {\n    type: \'usage\';\n    usage: TokenUsage;\n} | {\n    type: \'finish\';\n    reason: FinishReason;\n};',
+    declaration: 'export type StreamChunk = {\n    type: \'block-start\';\n    index: number;\n    blockType: ContentBlockType;\n} | {\n    type: \'text-delta\';\n    index: number;\n    text: string;\n} | {\n    type: \'reasoning-delta\';\n    index: number;\n    text: string;\n} | {\n    type: \'tool-call-delta\';\n    index: number;\n    id: CallId;\n    name?: string;\n    argumentsDelta: string;\n} | {\n    type: \'block-end\';\n    index: number;\n    block: ContentBlock;\n} | {\n    type: \'usage\';\n    usage: TokenUsage;\n} | {\n    type: \'finish\';\n    reason: FinishReason;\n    replayState?: unknown;\n};',
   },
   {
     name: 'StructuredOutputSchema',
@@ -1227,7 +1240,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'WorkflowPhase',
-    declaration: 'export interface WorkflowPhase {\n    title: string;\n    detail?: string;\n    model?: string;\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface WorkflowPhase {\n    title: string;\n    detail?: string;\n    provider?: string;\n    model?: string;\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'WorkflowResult',
diff --git a/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/tests/integration.spec.ts b/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/tests/integration.spec.ts
index 8892dd47e5..9823e119b5 100644
--- a/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/tests/integration.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/cordis/tool-cordis/tests/integration.spec.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ describe('cordis tools through the agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('Done.'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-cordis'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-cordis'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'give yourself reverse_text, use it, clean up' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/README.md b/packages/core/agent-loop/README.md
index 1511ea34af..0f26a457c2 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/README.md
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ The config-driven `ctx.agentLoop.create()` path keeps its agent owned by the loo
 interface Config {
   agents: Array<{
     id: string                 // required
+    provider?: string
     model?: string
     resumeSessionId?: string   // load this persisted session instead of creating one
     cwd?: string               // optional workspace cwd for the fresh session
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ interface Config {
 }
 ```
 
-Configured agents start automatically. `cwd` applies only to fresh sessions; `resumeSessionId` retains persisted metadata. They use the deployment persona. Programmatic setup can shadow it per agent. This plugin supplies the per-agent `model` and `cwd` prompt variables; harness identity and deployment persona belong to `dsh-system-prompt`.
+Configured agents start automatically. A model call requires both `provider` and `model`; `agent/request` may supply a missing pair before dispatch. `cwd` applies only to fresh sessions, while `resumeSessionId` retains persisted metadata. Configured agents use the deployment persona, and programmatic setup can shadow it per agent. This plugin supplies the per-agent `provider`, `model`, and `cwd` prompt variables; harness identity and deployment persona belong to `dsh-system-prompt`.
 
 ### Exported concrete class
 
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts
index 6cd66f622c..a4d23671e7 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ export class AgentLoop extends Service implements AgentFactory {
   static Config = z.object({
     agents: z.array(z.object({
       id: z.string().required(),
+      provider: z.string(),
       model: z.string(),
       cwd: z.string(),
       resumeSessionId: z.string(),
@@ -355,6 +356,7 @@ export class AgentLoop extends Service implements AgentFactory {
     this.runtime = { ctx }
     ctx.effect(() => () => this.ownership.dispose(), 'agentLoop.transactions()')
     ctx.effect(() => ctx.agents.setFactory(this), 'agentLoop.setFactory()')
+    ctx.systemPrompt.variable('provider', context => context.agent?.options.provider)
     ctx.systemPrompt.variable('model', context => context.agent?.options.model)
     ctx.systemPrompt.variable('cwd', context => context.agent?.session.header.cwd)
 
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts
index ea5fd64d6c..a4427c5311 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/src/loop.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
  */
 
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
-import type { FinishReason, GenerateOptions, LlmCallConfig, Message, TokenUsage } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { ContentBlock, FinishReason, GenerateOptions, LlmCallConfig, Message } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import { isDeepStrictEqual } from 'node:util'
 import { BlockAssembler, HarnessError, deepFreeze } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { agentEvents, assembleContextFor } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
 import type { AgentEventDispatch, ContinuationDecision, HookContext, PromptDecision } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
@@ -482,12 +483,12 @@ async function runStep(
   const seedConfig: LlmCallConfig = deepFreeze(structuredClone(transmission.loggedHeader
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion -- loggedHeader ⟹ a snapshot is in the log
     ? session.requestHeader()!.config
-    : { model: options.model ?? '' }))
+    : { provider: options.provider ?? '', model: options.model ?? '' }))
 
   // Listener replacements are recorded in the request header before dispatch.
   const config = await events.waterfall('agent/request', turn, step, seedConfig, () => Promise.resolve(seedConfig))
-  if (!config.model) {
-    throw new Error(`agent "${agent.id}" has no model: set AgentOptions.model or supply one via the agent/request waterfall`)
+  if (!config.provider || !config.model) {
+    throw new Error(`agent "${agent.id}" has no provider/model: set AgentOptions.provider and AgentOptions.model or supply both via the agent/request waterfall`)
   }
 
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion -- runTurn composes the prefix before every runStep call
@@ -504,6 +505,7 @@ async function runStep(
 
   // Freeze the logged header plus boundary snapshot; the prefix precedes derived history.
   const request: GenerateOptions = deepFreeze({
+    provider: header.config.provider,
     model: header.config.model,
     messages: [...header.messagePrefix ?? [], ...boundaryMessages],
     ...header.system !== undefined ? { system: header.system } : {},
@@ -531,28 +533,28 @@ async function runStep(
   if (stepError) throw stepError
 
   if (assembler.finish.kind === 'max-tokens') {
-    let message: Message = withoutToolCalls(assembler.message())
+    const assembled = assembler.message()
+    const assembledContent = structuredClone(assembled.content)
+    let message: Message = withoutToolCalls(assembled)
     message = withoutToolCalls(await processStepResult(
-      events, session, turn, step, message, assembler.usage, chunkSeqs,
+      events, session, turn, step, header.config, assembledContent, message, assembler, chunkSeqs,
     ))
-    appendAssistantCompletion(
-      session, turn, step, message.content, assembler.usage, chunkSeqs,
-    )
+    // Preserve usage even when max-token truncation produced no content.
+    recordAssistantMessage(session, turn, step, header.config, assembledContent, message, assembler, chunkSeqs)
     return { hadToolCalls: false, finish: assembler.finish }
   }
 
   // Record the post-waterfall message that tool dispatch uses.
-  let message: Message = assembler.message()
+  const assembled = assembler.message()
+  const assembledContent = structuredClone(assembled.content)
+  let message: Message = assembled
   message = await processStepResult(
-    events, session, turn, step, message, assembler.usage, chunkSeqs,
+    events, session, turn, step, header.config, assembledContent, message, assembler, chunkSeqs,
   )
 
-  // Every successful call records its completion anchor. A present empty
-  // source set means the provider stream was known to contain no chunks;
-  // omission remains the conservative legacy/unrecorded representation.
-  appendAssistantCompletion(
-    session, turn, step, message.content, assembler.usage, chunkSeqs,
-  )
+  // Every successful call records its completion anchor, including explicit
+  // empty chunk provenance for a contentless, usage-less provider response.
+  recordAssistantMessage(session, turn, step, header.config, assembledContent, message, assembler, chunkSeqs)
 
   // Tool execution stays sequential; recheck abort around each normalized result.
   const toolCalls = message.content.filter(block => block.type === 'tool-call')
@@ -608,42 +610,76 @@ async function runStep(
   return { hadToolCalls: toolCalls.length > 0, finish: assembler.finish }
 }
 
-/** Append the single durable completion anchor for one successful provider call. */
-function appendAssistantCompletion(
-  session: Session,
-  turn: number,
-  step: number,
-  content: Message['content'],
-  usage: TokenUsage | undefined,
-  sourceEventSeqs: number[],
-): void {
-  session.append(
-    'assistant/message',
-    { turn, step, content, ...(usage ? { usage } : {}) },
-    { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs },
-  )
-}
-
 /** Preserve successful-call accounting without retaining output that result processing rejected. */
 async function processStepResult(
   events: AgentEventDispatch,
   session: Session,
   turn: number,
   step: number,
+  config: LlmCallConfig,
+  assembledContent: ContentBlock[],
   message: Message,
-  usage: TokenUsage | undefined,
-  sourceEventSeqs: number[],
+  assembler: BlockAssembler,
+  chunkSeqs: number[],
 ): Promise<Message> {
   try {
     return await events.waterfall(
       'agent/step-result', turn, step, message, () => Promise.resolve(message),
     )
   } catch (error: unknown) {
-    appendAssistantCompletion(session, turn, step, [], usage, sourceEventSeqs)
+    recordAssistantMessage(
+      session,
+      turn,
+      step,
+      config,
+      assembledContent,
+      { ...message, content: [] },
+      assembler,
+      chunkSeqs,
+      false,
+    )
     throw error
   }
 }
 
+/** Record one content-or-usage assistant message with replay-safe provenance. */
+function recordAssistantMessage(
+  session: Session,
+  turn: number,
+  step: number,
+  config: LlmCallConfig,
+  assembledContent: ContentBlock[],
+  message: Message,
+  assembler: BlockAssembler,
+  chunkSeqs: number[],
+  preserveReplayState = true,
+): void {
+  session.append(
+    'assistant/message',
+    {
+      turn,
+      step,
+      content: message.content,
+      provenance: assistantProvenance(
+        config,
+        assembler.replayState,
+        preserveReplayState && isDeepStrictEqual(message.content, assembledContent),
+      ),
+      ...assembler.usage === undefined ? {} : { usage: assembler.usage },
+    },
+    { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: chunkSeqs },
+  )
+}
+
+/** Build durable assistant provenance, dropping replay state after any content rewrite. */
+function assistantProvenance(config: LlmCallConfig, replayState: unknown, contentUnchanged: boolean): NonNullable<Message['provenance']> {
+  return {
+    provider: config.provider,
+    model: config.model,
+    ...contentUnchanged && replayState !== undefined ? { replayState } : {},
+  }
+}
+
 function withoutToolCalls(message: Message): Message {
   return { ...message, content: message.content.filter(block => block.type !== 'tool-call') }
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/agent.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/agent.spec.ts
index 581b6fa207..70c596cd10 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/agent.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/agent.spec.ts
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(SessionStore)
     const session = ctx.sessions.create(SessionId('exclusive-driver'))
-    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('first-driver'), { model: 'mock' }, session)
+    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('first-driver'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, session)
 
     expect(() => prepared.agent.ctx).toThrow('context is not bound')
-    expect(() => prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('second-driver'), { model: 'mock' }, session))
+    expect(() => prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('second-driver'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, session))
       .toThrow('already has a concrete agent driver')
 
     await prepared.dispose()
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
 
   it('borrows caller options and binds its scoped context exactly once', async () => {
     const ctx = await harness(new MockAdapter([textResponse('unused')]))
-    const options = { model: 'mock' }
+    const options = { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }
     const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-bindings'), options)
 
     expect(agent.options).toBe(options)
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('inject() decides enclosure from the LOG (open turn), not agent status', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Simulate an OPEN turn in the log while the agent is idle (status is not a
     // reliable open-turn signal). inject must append into that open turn, NOT
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     // A persistence-like listener whose flush rejects.
     ctx.on('session/flush', () => { throw new Error('disk gone') })
     const warn = vi.spyOn(ctx.logger, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // inject() is synchronous and fires a fire-and-forget flush; a rejecting
     // flush must be contained (logged), never thrown into the caller.
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('idle inject() closes its one-shot turn AND still checkpoints even if the append throws', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let flushes = 0
     ctx.on('session/flush', () => { flushes += 1 })
 
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('idle inject() still checkpoints when a listener throws on the synthetic turn/end', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let flushes = 0
     ctx.on('session/flush', () => { flushes += 1 })
     // Session contains a throwing post-commit turn/end observer. The accepted
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     // A non-Error rejection exercises the String() normalization branch.
     ctx.on('session/flush', () => { throw 'disk gone' })
     const warn = vi.spyOn(ctx.logger, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const errors: { turn: number; step: number; message: string }[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/error', (_a, turn, step, error) => void errors.push({ turn, step, message: error.message }))
 
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('idle inject() with a non-serializable source opens no turn (nothing to close)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // A non-serializable source makes the turn/start append throw BEFORE the
     // event is pushed (Session.append validates before push), so NO turn opens.
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('steer() when idle falls through to send() and starts a turn', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // steer while idle delegates to send
     agent.steer([{ type: 'text', text: 'steer idle' }], { source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' } })
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(SessionStore)
     const session = ctx.sessions.create(SessionId('test'))
-    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('bare'), { model: 'mock' }, session)
+    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('bare'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, session)
     const { agent } = prepared
 
     prepared.markPublished()
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(SessionStore)
     const session = ctx.sessions.create(SessionId('pre-start-dispose'))
-    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('pre-start-dispose'), { model: 'mock' }, session)
+    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('pre-start-dispose'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, session)
 
     await prepared.dispose()
     expect(prepared.agent.status).toBe('disposed')
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('setting the same status does not emit agent/status again', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const statuses: string[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/status', (subject, status) => {
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('whenIdle() resolves immediately when the agent is not running', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Fresh agent is idle — whenIdle() takes the not-running fast path and
     // resolves without subscribing. await must not hang.
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('whenIdle() waits for queued work that has not flipped status yet', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang'])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'queued')
     let settled = false
@@ -334,8 +334,8 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
   it('whenIdle() awaits the running→idle transition, ignoring other subjects/running events', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok'), textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
-    const other = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a2'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
+    const other = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a2'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Drive `agent` into `running`, then await whenIdle() — it subscribes to
     // agent/status and resolves on the first transition out of running.
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang'])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
     const session = ctx.sessions.create(SessionId('bare'))
-    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('bare'), { model: 'mock' }, session)
+    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx, AgentId('bare'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, session)
     const { agent } = prepared
     prepared.markPublished()
     const dispose = prepared.startDriver()
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     const warn = vi.spyOn(ctx.logger, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     ctx.on('agent/status', (_subject, status) => {
       if (status === 'running') throw new Error('bad running listener')
     })
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ describe('ReactLoopAgent', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     const warn = vi.spyOn(ctx.logger, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     ctx.on('agent/status', (_subject, status) => {
       if (status === 'idle') throw new Error('bad idle listener')
     })
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts
index cad830e827..fc6055a00c 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/cancel.spec.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel() on an idle agent with nothing queued is a no-op; the next prompt runs (F2 leak guard)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('reply')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // The loop is parked at the idle wait with nothing queued. A cancel here must
     // NOT arm the marker — otherwise the next legitimate prompt would be dropped.
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('pre-step cancel drops the about-to-start turn (no turn is opened)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not run')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // send() queues synchronously (status still idle, loop microtask not yet
     // resumed). Cancel in that pre-step window: the queued turn must not run.
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('a whenIdle() waiter registered BEFORE a pre-step cancel resolves (F1 hang guard)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('x')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // This waiter cannot rely on a running→idle transition because cancellation
     // drops the turn before it runs; the skip path must settle it directly.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel() mid-step aborts the in-flight model call; the turn ends aborted', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang'])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel() with no reason defaults to "cancelled" when aborting an in-flight step', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang'])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('a prompt sent AFTER a cancelled turn settles runs normally (marker reset)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang', textResponse('second reply')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // First turn hangs; cancel it mid-step.
     send(agent, 'first')
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel from inside the agent/session-prefix waterfall drops the step (prefix-composition window)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not stream')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Prefix composition runs before the pre-step seam on the instance's first
     // step; a cancel landing inside it must drop the about-to-start step
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('a-dispose-prefix'),
       sessionId: SessionId('dispose-prefix-session'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const agent = handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent
 
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('a cancel-interrupted prefix composition is discarded: the next send recomposes and ships the fresh prefix (stale-cache guard)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('reply')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // The interrupted first composition must not cache its degraded empty value;
     // the next prompt recomposes and logs/sends the fresh prefix.
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel from a synchronous turn/start session-event listener drops the step (step-start window)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not stream')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // A turn/start listener fires before a step controller exists, so the
     // turn-scoped marker—not step abort—must drop the pending step.
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel from a synchronous step/start session-event listener drops the step (post-step-start window)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not stream')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // A step/start session-event listener fires AFTER step/start is appended
     // (and after the pre-step seam), so cancelling there lands in the SECOND
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('a-dispose-step-start'),
       sessionId: SessionId('dispose-step-start-session'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const agent = handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent
 
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
     // `aborted` and run NO second step.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let steps = 0
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it('cancel from a synchronous agent/status(running) listener drops the turn (window 2)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not run')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // `agent/status` is synchronous, so cancellation can land after the first
     // pre-step check; the second check must drop the now-empty turn.
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
     // Cancellation must not settle idle while replacement work remains queued.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('A reply'), textResponse('B reply')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let replaced = false
     const dispose = ctx.on('agent/status', (subject, status) => {
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
     // prompt B is queued before the loop resumes from the idle wait.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('A reply'), textResponse('B reply')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'A')           // queues A (status still idle, loop microtask pending)
     const idle = agent.whenIdle() // registers a waiter (idle + hasQueued → no fast path)
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ describe('Agent.cancel()', () => {
   it("cancel clears the turn's steering — it is not re-enqueued as a fresh turn", async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang'])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/config-session-id.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/config-session-id.spec.ts
index 8a5d9ce264..86db33a8ca 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/config-session-id.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/config-session-id.spec.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ describe('config-driven session id', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
     const loopFiber = await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, {
-      agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), model: 'mock', resumeSessionId: SessionId('deferred') }],
+      agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', resumeSessionId: SessionId('deferred') }],
     })
 
     const resumeEffect = loopFiber.getEffects().find(effect => effect.label === 'agentLoop.resume(main)')
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ describe('config-driven session id', () => {
     await ctx1.plugin(SystemPrompt)
     await ctx1.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx1.plugin(AgentRegistry)
-    await ctx1.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('cfg'), model: 'mock' }] })
+    await ctx1.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('cfg'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }] })
     await ctx1.plugin(SessionPersistenceJsonl, { root })
     ctx1.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter([textResponse('cfg')]))
     const a1 = ctx1.agents.get(AgentId('cfg')) as ReactLoopAgent
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ describe('config-driven session id', () => {
     await ctx2.plugin(SystemPrompt)
     await ctx2.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx2.plugin(AgentRegistry)
-    await ctx2.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('cfg'), model: 'mock' }] })
+    await ctx2.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('cfg'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }] })
     await ctx2.plugin(SessionPersistenceJsonl, { root })
     ctx2.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter([textResponse('cfg2')]))
     const a2 = ctx2.agents.get(AgentId('cfg')) as ReactLoopAgent
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ describe('config-driven session id', () => {
     await ctx2.plugin(SystemPrompt)
     await ctx2.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx2.plugin(AgentRegistry)
-    await ctx2.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), model: 'mock', resumeSessionId: SessionId('sticky-1') }] })
+    await ctx2.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', resumeSessionId: SessionId('sticky-1') }] })
     await ctx2.plugin(SessionPersistenceJsonl, { root })
     ctx2.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter([textResponse('second')]))
 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ describe('config-driven session id', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(SystemPrompt)
     await ctx.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
-    await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), model: 'mock', resumeSessionId: SessionId('does-not-exist') }] })
+    await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', resumeSessionId: SessionId('does-not-exist') }] })
     const warn = vi.spyOn((ctx.agentLoop as unknown as { ctx: { logger: { warn: (...a: unknown[]) => void } } }).ctx.logger, 'warn')
       .mockImplementation(() => undefined)
     await ctx.plugin(SessionPersistenceJsonl, { root })
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/contract-regressions.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/contract-regressions.spec.ts
index 3907434395..43fb30ec29 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/contract-regressions.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/contract-regressions.spec.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ function send(agent: ReactLoopAgent, text: string) {
 
 describe('session log records what agent/step-result actually produced', () => {
   it('a step-result rewrite is what the log, derived history, and tool dispatch all see', async () => {
-    const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('original'), textResponse('done')])
+    const original = textResponse('original')
+    original[original.length - 1] = { type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'stop' }, replayState: { private: 'original-state' } }
+    const adapter = new MockAdapter([original, textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     const executed: string[] = []
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ describe('session log records what agent/step-result actually produced', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ran' }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Plugin rewrites the message: replaces the text AND adds a tool call.
     let rewritten = false
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ describe('session log records what agent/step-result actually produced', () => {
     const recorded = agent.session.events.find(e => e.type === 'assistant/message')!
     expect(JSON.stringify(recorded.data)).toContain('rewritten')
     expect(JSON.stringify(recorded.data)).not.toContain('original')
+    expect(recorded.type === 'assistant/message' && recorded.data.provenance.replayState).toBeUndefined()
     // tool/call + tool/result correlate with the injected call id
     const callEvent = agent.session.events.find(e => e.type === 'tool/call')!
     if (callEvent.type !== 'tool/call') throw new Error('wrong event type')
@@ -87,6 +90,46 @@ describe('session log records what agent/step-result actually produced', () => {
     expect(JSON.stringify(derived)).toContain('rewritten')
     expect(JSON.stringify(derived)).not.toContain('original')
   })
+
+  it('records adapter replay state when step-result preserves the assembled content', async () => {
+    const response = textResponse('unchanged')
+    const replayState = { private: 'state' }
+    response[response.length - 1] = { type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'stop' }, replayState }
+    const adapter = new MockAdapter([response])
+    const ctx = await harness(adapter)
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('replay-state'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'next-model' })
+
+    send(agent, 'go')
+    await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
+
+    const recorded = agent.session.events.find(e => e.type === 'assistant/message')
+    expect(recorded?.type === 'assistant/message' && recorded.data.provenance).toEqual({
+      provider: 'mock', model: 'next-model', replayState,
+    })
+    expect(agent.session.deriveMessages().at(-1)?.provenance).toEqual({
+      provider: 'mock', model: 'next-model', replayState,
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('drops adapter replay state when step-result mutates assembled content in place', async () => {
+    const response = textResponse('original')
+    response[response.length - 1] = { type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'stop' }, replayState: { private: 'state' } }
+    const adapter = new MockAdapter([response])
+    const ctx = await harness(adapter)
+    ctx.on('agent/step-result', async (_agent, _turn, _step, message) => {
+      const block = message.content[0]
+      if (block?.type === 'text') block.text = 'mutated'
+      return message
+    })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('mutated-replay-state'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'next-model' })
+
+    send(agent, 'go')
+    await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
+
+    const recorded = agent.session.events.find(event => event.type === 'assistant/message')
+    expect(recorded?.type === 'assistant/message' && recorded.data.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'mutated' }])
+    expect(recorded?.type === 'assistant/message' && recorded.data.provenance.replayState).toBeUndefined()
+  })
 })
 
 describe('successful provider completion survives agent/step-result failure', () => {
@@ -98,7 +141,7 @@ describe('successful provider completion survives agent/step-result failure', ()
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([response])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     await ctx.plugin(Invariants)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId(id), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId(id), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const failure = new Error(`${id} result processing failed`)
     const reported: Error[] = []
 
@@ -120,6 +163,7 @@ describe('successful provider completion survives agent/step-result failure', ()
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [],
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       usage: { inputTokens: 10, outputTokens: providerText.length },
     })
     expect(completions[0]?.sourceEventSeqs).toEqual(chunks.map(event => event.seq))
@@ -170,7 +214,7 @@ describe('abort during tool execution ends the turn', () => {
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     const executed: string[] = []
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
       name: 'aborter',
       description: '',
@@ -214,7 +258,7 @@ describe('steering from late extension points is never stranded', () => {
       textResponse('continued because of steering'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let steeredOnce = false
     ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async (_agent, _turn, _decision, next) => {
@@ -240,7 +284,7 @@ describe('steering from late extension points is never stranded', () => {
       textResponse('after goal reminder'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let steeredOnce = false
     ctx.on('session/event', (subject, event) => {
@@ -268,7 +312,7 @@ describe('steering from late extension points is never stranded', () => {
   it('steer() from a turn/end session-event listener becomes a queued message for the next turn', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('turn 1'), textResponse('turn 2')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const turns: number[] = []
     let steeredOnce = false
@@ -294,7 +338,7 @@ describe('steering from late extension points is never stranded', () => {
   it('steering queued during an aborted step is re-delivered, not silently consumed', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang', textResponse('recovered')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 30))
@@ -317,7 +361,7 @@ describe('plugin exceptions are contained', () => {
   it('a throwing agent/turn-continuation listener ends the turn with an error, loop survives', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threwOnce = false
     ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async (): Promise<ContinuationDecision> => {
@@ -345,7 +389,7 @@ describe('plugin exceptions are contained', () => {
   it('a rejecting session/flush listener is reported but does not kill the agent', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let rejectedOnce = false
     ctx.on('session/flush', async () => {
@@ -375,7 +419,7 @@ describe('disposed status is part of the agent/status contract', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const statuses: string[] = []
@@ -398,7 +442,7 @@ describe('disposed status is part of the agent/status contract', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     ctx.on('agent/status', (_agent, status) => {
@@ -424,7 +468,7 @@ describe('adapter registration, routing, and accepted-input ownership', () => {
     expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['m1'], new MockAdapter([])))
       .toThrow('already registered')
     // the original registration survives the failed attempt
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual(['m1'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'm1', name: 'm1' }])
   })
 
   it('an agent without a model fails the step with a clear error (not NO_ADAPTER for "default")', async () => {
@@ -438,7 +482,7 @@ describe('adapter registration, routing, and accepted-input ownership', () => {
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     expect(errors).toHaveLength(1)
-    expect(errors[0]!.message).toContain('has no model')
+    expect(errors[0]!.message).toContain('has no provider/model')
     expect(errors[0]!.message).toContain('agent/request')
   })
 
@@ -448,7 +492,7 @@ describe('adapter registration, routing, and accepted-input ownership', () => {
     const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), {}) // no model — router plugin decides
 
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, config, _next) => {
-      return { ...config, model: 'mock' }
+      return { ...config, provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }
     })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
@@ -460,7 +504,7 @@ describe('adapter registration, routing, and accepted-input ownership', () => {
   it('agent/queued carries the resolved source; steering/message records its source', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'noop', {}), textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
       name: 'noop',
       description: '',
@@ -488,7 +532,7 @@ describe('adapter registration, routing, and accepted-input ownership', () => {
   it('send() owns content and source before notification and delivery', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-send'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-send'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const content = [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'accepted-send' }]
     const source = { kind: 'plugin' as const, plugin: 'accepted-source' }
     let notifiedContent: ContentBlock[] | undefined
@@ -524,7 +568,7 @@ describe('adapter registration, routing, and accepted-input ownership', () => {
   it('running steer() owns content and source before notification and delivery', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'gate', {}), textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-steer'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-steer'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const entered = Promise.withResolvers<undefined>()
     const release = Promise.withResolvers<undefined>()
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
@@ -578,7 +622,7 @@ describe('turn numbering continues across seeded sessions', () => {
   it('a forked agent continues turn numbers after the seed log', async () => {
     const first = new MockAdapter([textResponse('turn one')])
     const ctx = await harness(first)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     send(agent, 'first')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -594,7 +638,7 @@ describe('turn numbering continues across seeded sessions', () => {
     ctx2.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], second)
 
     const seeded = ctx2.sessions.create(SessionId('forked'), { seed: [...agent.session.events] })
-    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx2, AgentId('forked-agent'), { model: 'mock' }, seeded)
+    const prepared = prepareReactLoopAgent(ctx2, AgentId('forked-agent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, seeded)
     const forked = prepared.agent
     prepared.markPublished()
     ctx2.effect(() => prepared.startDriver())
@@ -638,7 +682,7 @@ describe('a finish-error stream chunk ends the turn as error, not completed', ()
     ]
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([errorStream])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-finish-error'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-finish-error'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -663,7 +707,7 @@ describe('a finish-error stream chunk ends the turn as error, not completed', ()
     ]
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([abortedStream])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-finish-aborted'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-finish-aborted'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -681,7 +725,7 @@ describe('a finish-error stream chunk ends the turn as error, not completed', ()
     ]
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([errorStream])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-finish-error-nocode'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-finish-error-nocode'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -697,7 +741,7 @@ describe('step boundary publication order', () => {
   it('the step/start event is in session.events when its session/event listener fires', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-step-order'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-step-order'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Append commits before observers run.
     const observed: { turn: number; step: number; lastEventType: string | undefined; sawStepStart: boolean }[] = []
@@ -752,7 +796,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
   it('a throwing step/start observer cannot change a successful turn', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('request completed')])
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepstart'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepstart'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Session owns post-commit containment. The loop sees a successful append,
     // runs the request, and balances the ordinary step and turn boundaries.
@@ -781,7 +825,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
   it('a pre-commit step/start validation failure does not invent a step boundary', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('never reached')])
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepstart-veto'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepstart-veto'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let rejected = false
     ctx.on('internal/dispatch', (_mode, name, args) => {
       if (name !== 'session/event') return
@@ -812,7 +856,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
     const errorStream: StreamChunk[] = [{ type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'error', message: 'provider failed' } }]
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([errorStream])
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-turnend-veto'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-turnend-veto'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let rejected = false
     ctx.on('internal/dispatch', (_mode, name, args) => {
       if (name !== 'session/event') return
@@ -846,7 +890,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
   it('a one-shot step/end validation failure keeps the step open until retry succeeds', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('completed before close validation')])
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepend-veto'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepend-veto'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let rejected = false
     ctx.on('internal/dispatch', (_mode, name, args) => {
       if (name !== 'session/event') return
@@ -878,7 +922,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
     const errorStream: StreamChunk[] = [{ type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'error', message: 'provider 500' } }]
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([errorStream, textResponse('turn 2 ok')])
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-errorlistener'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-errorlistener'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threw = false
     ctx.on('agent/error', () => { if (!threw) { threw = true; throw new Error('boom error-listener') } })
@@ -911,7 +955,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -938,7 +982,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-prestep-dispose-throw'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-prestep-dispose-throw'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     let threw = false
@@ -969,7 +1013,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
   it('a throwing turn/start observer cannot starve the loop or later turns', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('turn 1'), textResponse('turn 2')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-preturn'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-preturn'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threw = false
     ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => {
@@ -1000,7 +1044,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
   it('a throwing step/end observer cannot rewrite the turn outcome', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('all good'), textResponse('turn 2 ok')])
     const ctx = await balancedHarness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepend-throw'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stepend-throw'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threw = false
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => {
@@ -1039,7 +1083,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
     const errorStream: StreamChunk[] = [{ type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'error', message: 'provider 500' } }]
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([errorStream, textResponse('turn 2 ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stependthrow'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-stependthrow'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threw = false
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => {
@@ -1069,7 +1113,7 @@ describe('turn and step boundary recovery', () => {
     // boundary stays authoritative and the loop continues normally.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('turn 1'), textResponse('turn 2')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-turnendappend'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-turnendappend'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threw = false
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => {
@@ -1115,7 +1159,7 @@ describe('tool result call identity', () => {
       return Promise.resolve({ kind: 'accept', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] })
     }, { prepend: true })
 
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-callid'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-callid'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     send(agent, 'use tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -1146,7 +1190,7 @@ describe('surface: assistant/message records exact empty provenance when no chun
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([[]])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     await ctx.plugin(Invariants)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/step-result', async (_agent, _turn, _step, _message, _next) => ({
       role: 'assistant' as const,
@@ -1193,7 +1237,7 @@ describe('disposal and cancellation during pre-step assembly', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose-assemble'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose-assemble'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -1243,7 +1287,7 @@ describe('disposal and cancellation during pre-step assembly', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-cancel-assemble'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-cancel-assemble'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -1297,7 +1341,7 @@ describe('disposal and cancellation during pre-step assembly', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose-prestep'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose-prestep'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -1348,7 +1392,7 @@ describe('disposal and cancellation during pre-step assembly', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-cancel-prestep'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-cancel-prestep'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -1398,7 +1442,7 @@ describe('disposal and cancellation during pre-step assembly', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose-no-leak'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-dispose-no-leak'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     send(agent, 'go')
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/coverage-edges.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/coverage-edges.spec.ts
index 5deee8e159..ddbac2716d 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/coverage-edges.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/coverage-edges.spec.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ describe('inbox acceptance', () => {
   it('rejects non-serializable content or source synchronously before notification or enqueue', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('turn 1')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let queued = 0
     ctx.on('agent/queued', () => { queued += 1 })
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ describe('tool JSON parse', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: typeof args === 'string' ? `raw: ${args}` : JSON.stringify(args) }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'use tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ describe('tool JSON parse', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ran with empty args' }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'use tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ describe('toError normalization', () => {
   it('normalizes non-Error throws from pre-commit dispatch validation via the runLoop backstop', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threwOnce = false
     ctx.on('internal/dispatch', (_mode, name, args) => {
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ describe('toError normalization', () => {
   it('normalizes non-Error throws from agent/request waterfall via inline toError in runStep catch', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('irrelevant')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threwOnce = false
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, _options, _next) => {
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ describe('coded error data emission', () => {
   it('errorData includes code when a coded error (LlmError) is thrown from a plugin', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('turn 1')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threwOnce = false
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, _options, next) => {
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ describe('disposed vs aborted branching', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ describe('structured tool error propagation (the runtime-validation RFC, part 2)
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
       name: 'boom',
       description: 'always fails',
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts
index 00f40c99cd..799de3e517 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/interception.spec.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
   it('allow (default via next) records the user/message unchanged', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const seen: string[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async (_agent, content, _source, next) => {
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
   it('allow with content REWRITES the prompt before it is recorded', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async (): Promise<PromptDecision> =>
       ({ kind: 'allow', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'REWRITTEN' }] }))
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
   it('allow with additionalContexts injects separate context/message events into the turn', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const meta = { kind: 'prompt-context', version: 1 }
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async (): Promise<PromptDecision> =>
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
     // compaction listener measures the current surface before the single derive.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async (): Promise<PromptDecision> =>
       ({
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
   it('block drops the (only) prompt → zero-step turn ends rejected, model never called', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not run')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async (): Promise<PromptDecision> =>
       ({ kind: 'block', reason: 'blocked by policy' }))
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
     // the allowed prompt keeps the turn from ending rejected.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ran once')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async (_agent, content, _source, next): Promise<PromptDecision> => {
       const text = content.map(b => (b.type === 'text' ? b.text : '')).join('')
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ describe('agent/prompt-submit', () => {
   it('a throwing prompt-submit listener ends the turn balanced (error), loop survives', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('after')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let threw = false
     ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async () => {
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ describe('agent/session-start', () => {
     const sources: SessionStartSource[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/session-start', (_agent, source) => void sources.push(source))
 
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     // fires synchronously at create, before any turn
     expect(sources).toEqual(['startup'])
     expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'turn/start')).toBe(false)
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ describe('agent/session-start', () => {
       agent.inject([{ type: 'text', text: 'session preamble' }], { source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' } })
     })
 
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ describe('agent/session-start', () => {
     ctx.on('agent/session-start', () => { throw new Error('session-start hook broke') })
 
     // create must not throw — the listener error is contained/logged
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     expect(agent.id).toBe(AgentId('a1'))
 
     // and the agent still runs
@@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
   it('dispatches to global and matching agent-scope listeners only', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('a done'), textResponse('b done')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agentA = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('prefix-a'), { model: 'mock' })
-    const agentB = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('prefix-b'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agentA = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('prefix-a'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
+    const agentB = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('prefix-b'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const seen: string[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/session-prefix', async (agent, _prefix, _signal, next) => {
       seen.push(`global:${agent.id}`)
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
       name: 'echo', description: 'echo', parameters: { text: { type: 'string' } },
       async execute(args) { return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reminder: Message = { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: '<system-reminder>catalog</system-reminder>' }] }
     let composed = 0
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
   it('composes before the first pre-step and hands the prefix to the seam (pressure gates see the real value)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reminder: Message = { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'opener' }] }
     const order: string[] = []
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
   it('the canonical prepend pattern composes contributions in registration order', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Both listeners use the canonical `[mine, ...await next()]` prepend: the
     // waterfall unwinds innermost-first (the second listener's array is built
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
   it('with no contributions the header omits messagePrefix and the request is the bare derivation', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // A listener that delegates without contributing — the canonical no-op.
     ctx.on('agent/session-prefix', async (_agent, _prefix, _signal, next) => next())
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
   it('the frozen seed rejects in-place mutation — a contribution is a returned extension', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let mutationError: unknown
     ctx.on('agent/session-prefix', async (_agent, prefix, _signal, next): Promise<Message[]> => {
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ describe('agent/session-prefix', () => {
       name: 'echo', description: 'echo', parameters: { text: { type: 'string' } },
       async execute(args) { return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const held: Message = { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'v1' }] }
     ctx.on('agent/session-prefix', async (_agent, _prefix, _signal, next): Promise<Message[]> => [...await next(), held])
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-continuation (ContinuationDecision)', () => {
   it('a continue decision with a reason records next-step steering in the same turn', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('step 1 no tools'), textResponse('step 2')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let forced = false
     ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async (_agent, _turn, _default, next): Promise<ContinuationDecision> => {
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-continuation (ContinuationDecision)', () => {
       name: 'echo', description: 'echo', parameters: { text: { type: 'string' } },
       async execute(args) { return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async (): Promise<ContinuationDecision> => ({ action: 'stop' }))
 
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ describe('tool additionalContexts buffering across a step', () => {
       name: 'echo', description: 'echo', parameters: { text: { type: 'string' } },
       async execute(args) { return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // Each call attaches one context naming itself.
     ctx.on('tools/post-execute', async (exec, _result): Promise<PostToolDecision> =>
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ describe('tool additionalContexts buffering across a step', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: 'outer result' }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ describe('tools/pre-execute gate (native-plugin permission pattern, end-to-end t
       name: 'danger', description: 'danger', parameters: {},
       async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'should not run' }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('tools/pre-execute', async (exec, next): Promise<PreToolDecision> => {
       if (exec.name === 'danger') return { kind: 'deny', reason: 'blocked dangerous tool' }
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ describe('worked example: a native hook plugin is just a cordis plugin on the se
       name: 'echo', description: 'echo', parameters: { text: { type: 'string' } },
       async execute(args) { return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'please echo hi')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ describe('worked example: a native hook plugin is just a cordis plugin on the se
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not run')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     await ctx.plugin(NativeGuard)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a2'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a2'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event: SessionEvent) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ describe('worked example: a native hook plugin is just a cordis plugin on the se
     await fiber.dispose()
 
     // After disposal, a destructive prompt is NOT blocked (the listener is gone).
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a3'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a3'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     send(agent, 'run rm -rf /')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     // the prompt ran (not rejected) — proving the prompt-submit listener was disposed
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/loop.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/loop.spec.ts
index cac0e74c73..f3d58c4a6c 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/loop.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/loop.spec.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('runs a simple turn: queued message → model → idle, with ordered events', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('hello there')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     // All boundaries — turn and step — are durable session events on the
     // session/event feed (no agent/* mirror). Record them in fire order to
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: `echo: ${args.text}` }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'use the tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], meta: { diffs: [{ path: 'a.txt', oldText: null, newText: 'x' }] } }
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'use the tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return []
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'hi')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       agentId: AgentId('a-cwd'),
       sessionId: SessionId('s-cwd'),
       meta: { cwd: '/work/space' },
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
 
     const agent = handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(adapter, 'In {{cwd}}.')
     const errors: Error[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/error', (_agent, _turn, _step, error) => void errors.push(error))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'hi')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -223,11 +223,12 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter, 'You run on {{model}}.')
     ctx.on('system-prompt/assemble', async (assembly, _context, next) => {
+      assembly.variables['provider'] = 'mock'
       assembly.variables['model'] = 'mock'
       return next()
     })
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, config, _next) => {
-      return { ...config, model: 'mock' }
+      return { ...config, provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }
     })
     const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-late-model'), {})
 
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       parameters: {},
       execute: () => Promise.resolve({ content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'apparent success' }], meta }),
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('bad-meta-agent'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('bad-meta-agent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'use the tool')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     ctx.on('system-prompt/assemble', async () => ({ sections: [], tools: [], variables: {} }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-no-system'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a-no-system'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'hi')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('records raw chunks for replay as assistant/chunk session events', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('abc')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'hi')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
 
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({
       name: 'slow',
       description: '',
@@ -352,7 +353,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('steering while idle behaves like send (starts a turn)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.steer([{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -362,7 +363,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('inject() while idle wraps context in a one-shot turn, visible to the next request', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.inject([{ type: 'text', text: 'file changed: a.ts' }], { source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'watcher' } })
     // The idle inject records a self-contained turn (turn/start → context/message
@@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('inject() can persist raw structured context without the generic context envelope', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('raw-context'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('raw-context'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const text = '<system-reminder>Additional instructions from: pkg/AGENTS.md</system-reminder>'
     const meta = {
       kind: 'workspace-instructions',
@@ -415,7 +416,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     // A tool that injects mid-execution: at this point the agent is running, so
     // inject must append the context/message into the ALREADY-open turn rather
     // than wrap it in its own one-shot turn.
@@ -449,7 +450,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('step 3'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let steps = 0
     ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => { if (event.type === 'step/end') steps++ })
@@ -475,7 +476,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/turn-continuation', async () => ({ action: 'stop' }) as const)
 
@@ -490,8 +491,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('agent/request waterfall switches models by returning a replacement config; the switch is logged', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['other-model'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, config, _next) => {
       // The seed is frozen — config is not a mutable per-call knob; a switch
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       name: 'echo', description: 'echo', parameters: {},
       async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'echoed' }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const fires: { turn: number; step: number; fullSystemPrompt: string }[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/pre-step', (subject, turn, step, fullSystemPrompt) => {
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     // same step's request must include it.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let injected = false
     ctx.on('agent/pre-step', (subject) => {
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     // closing, the turn records error, and the loop remains available.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('second turn ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let throwOnce = true
     ctx.on('agent/pre-step', () => {
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('cancel() mid-stream ends the turn with reason aborted', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter(['hang'])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     // turn stops by default and ends max-tokens, not completed.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([maxTokensResponse('truncat')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('second half'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let steps = 0
     ctx.on('session/event', (_session, event) => { if (event.type === 'step/end') steps++ })
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(2)
     expect(adapter.requests[1]!.messages).toEqual([
       { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }] },
-      { role: 'assistant', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'first half' }] },
+      { role: 'assistant', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'first half' }], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } },
     ])
     expect(reasons).toEqual([{ kind: 'max-tokens' }])
   })
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     // stop. The per-turn reason must be independent — turn 2 ends completed.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([maxTokensResponse('cut'), textResponse('clean')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: 'should not run' }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     // skips that host so it does not create a spurious assistant turn.
     const assistantMessage = agent.session.events.find(e => e.type === 'assistant/message')
     expect(assistantMessage?.type === 'assistant/message' && assistantMessage.data).toEqual({
-      turn: 1, step: 1, content: [], usage: { inputTokens: 10, outputTokens: 5 },
+      turn: 1, step: 1, content: [], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, usage: { inputTokens: 10, outputTokens: 5 },
     })
   })
 
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       parameters: { text: { type: 'string' } },
       async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'should not run' }] },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -774,6 +774,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [],
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     expect(assistant.sourceEventSeqs?.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
     expect(agent.session.deriveMessages()).toEqual([{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }] }])
@@ -784,7 +785,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     // a durable successful-call boundary for replay consumers.
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([[{ type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'stop' } }]])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/end') reasons.push(event.data.reason) })
@@ -798,6 +799,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [],
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     expect(assistant.sourceEventSeqs?.length).toBe(1)
     expect(agent.session.deriveMessages()).toEqual([{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }] }])
@@ -820,7 +822,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
       expect(message.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'partial text' }])
       return next()
     })
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -829,7 +831,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     expect(agent.session.events.some(e => e.type === 'tool/call')).toBe(false)
     expect(agent.session.deriveMessages()).toEqual([
       { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }] },
-      { role: 'assistant', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'partial text' }] },
+      { role: 'assistant', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'partial text' }], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } },
     ])
   })
 
@@ -847,7 +849,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     let threw = false
     // Post-commit session observers cannot control the loop. The tool call still
     // drives the second model request, and the turn completes normally.
@@ -866,7 +868,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('chains queued messages into consecutive turns', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('first'), textResponse('second')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const turns: number[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (_s, event) => { if (event.type === 'turn/start') turns.push(event.data.turn) })
@@ -891,7 +893,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('awaits session/flush at turn end (persistence checkpoint)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let flushed = 0
     let flushedBeforeIdle = false
@@ -911,7 +913,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
   it('errors from the model surface as agent/error and end the turn', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([]) // script exhausted → throws
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const errors: Error[] = []
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
@@ -936,7 +938,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
 
     let agent!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { model: 'mock' })
+      agent = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('scoped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
 
     expect(ctx.agents.get(AgentId('scoped'))).toBe(agent)
@@ -961,7 +963,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
     await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, {
-      agents: [{ id: AgentId('config-agent'), model: 'mock' }],
+      agents: [{ id: AgentId('config-agent'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }],
     })
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
 
@@ -984,7 +986,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(ToolRegistry)
     await ctx.plugin(AgentRegistry)
     await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, {
-      agents: [{ id: AgentId('config-agent'), model: 'mock', cwd: '/work/project' }],
+      agents: [{ id: AgentId('config-agent'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', cwd: '/work/project' }],
     })
 
     const agent = ctx.agents.get(AgentId('config-agent'))! as ReactLoopAgent
@@ -1005,7 +1007,7 @@ describe('agent loop', () => {
         return [{ type: 'text', text: String(args.text) }]
       },
     }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     send(agent, 'run')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/properties.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/properties.spec.ts
index dbc43ad985..6e502187a6 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/properties.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/properties.spec.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ describe('agent loop scheduling properties', () => {
       async (texts) => {
         const ctx = await harness()
         try {
-          const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { model: 'mock' })
+          const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
           const { seen: trace } = recordStatus(ctx, agent)
           const idle = nextIdle(ctx, agent)
           // Send all in one synchronous tick: they queue before the loop wakes.
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ describe('agent loop scheduling properties', () => {
       async (texts) => {
         const ctx = await harness()
         try {
-          const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { model: 'mock' })
+          const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
           for (const text of texts) {
             const idle = nextIdle(ctx, agent)
             agent.send([{ type: 'text', text }])
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ describe('agent loop scheduling properties', () => {
       async (steps) => {
         const ctx = await harness()
         try {
-          const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { model: 'mock' })
+          const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
           // Capture before each send; the last waiter covers the final turn, and
           // awaiting an already-settled earlier waiter is harmless.
           let lastIdle: Promise<void> | undefined
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts
index 9b8513d16f..72c2c577ab 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-cache.e2e.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ async function loopHarness(): Promise<Context> {
   await created.plugin(ToolRegistry)
   await created.plugin(AgentRegistry)
   await created.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await created.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await created.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   created.tools.register(defineTool({
     name: 'lookup',
     description: 'Look up the stored value for a key.',
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ function waitForIdle(context: Context, agent: Agent): Promise<void> {
 describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('log-derived request cache hits (real API)', () => {
   it('every request after the first hits the provider prefix cache', async () => {
     ctx = await loopHarness()
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cache-e2e'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('cache-e2e'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     // Turn 1: forces a tool call → at least two steps (two model requests).
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'Look up the key "deploy-color" with the lookup tool and tell me the value.' }])
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-log.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-log.spec.ts
index a6befde84e..912a13892c 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-log.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-log.spec.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ describe('recordRequestHeader', () => {
   it("anchors a new conversation with an 'initial' snapshot, then logs nothing while unchanged", () => {
     const session = openSession('rl-initial')
     const state = createTransmissionLog()
-    const header = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 's', tools: [tool('t')] })
+    const header = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 's', tools: [tool('t')] })
 
     recordRequestHeader(session, state, header)
     const [first] = headerEvents(session)
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ describe('recordRequestHeader', () => {
 
   it("anchors a fresh loop instance over an anchored log with a 'resume' snapshot, even unchanged", () => {
     const session = openSession('rl-resume')
-    const header = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 's' })
+    const header = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 's' })
     recordRequestHeader(session, createTransmissionLog(), header)
 
     // A second instance (process restart / fork): the boundary itself is a
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ describe('recordRequestHeader', () => {
   it('logs a round-tripping delta for a mid-run change, and the fold reproduces the header', () => {
     const session = openSession('rl-delta')
     const state = createTransmissionLog()
-    const first = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nb', tools: [tool('t')] })
+    const first = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nb', tools: [tool('t')] })
     recordRequestHeader(session, state, first)
 
-    const second = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nc', tools: [tool('t'), tool('u')] })
+    const second = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nc', tools: [tool('t'), tool('u')] })
     recordRequestHeader(session, state, second)
     const events = headerEvents(session)
     expect(events).toHaveLength(2)
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ describe('recordRequestHeader', () => {
   it("records a change the delta cannot express (pure reordering) as a 'fallback' snapshot", () => {
     const session = openSession('rl-fallback')
     const state = createTransmissionLog()
-    const first = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, tools: [tool('a'), tool('b')] })
+    const first = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, tools: [tool('a'), tool('b')] })
     recordRequestHeader(session, state, first)
 
-    const reordered = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, tools: [tool('b'), tool('a')] })
+    const reordered = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, tools: [tool('b'), tool('a')] })
     recordRequestHeader(session, state, reordered)
     const events = headerEvents(session)
     expect(events).toHaveLength(2)
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-reconstruction.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-reconstruction.spec.ts
index c4fe471bd0..55e5c2fd1d 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-reconstruction.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/request-reconstruction.spec.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     registerEcho(ctx)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('a later turn append-extends the previous turn (one conversation, one log)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'first')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('a compaction replace rewrites the resend, and the log explains it', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'first')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('a real system-prompt change is a logged header delta; a stable prompt logs nothing', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two'), textResponse('three')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'first')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('an inject() during the agent/request waterfall joins the NEXT request (the step/start boundary)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     let injected = false
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, _config, next) => {
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('a mutation attempt on the frozen request content throws into the step (loud, not silent)', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const errors: Error[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/error', (_agent, _turn, _step, error) => void errors.push(error))
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('a fresh loop instance over a seeded log anchors with a resume snapshot and stays cache-aligned', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('gen1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('gen1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     send(agent, 'first')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
       agentId: AgentId('gen2'),
       sessionId: SessionId('gen2-session'),
       seed: [...agent.session.events],
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const agent2 = handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent
     send(agent2, 'second')
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
   it('a delegating listener cannot mutate the seed through next() — the fold stays log-true', async () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, _config, next) => {
       const config = await next()
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ describe('request stability across the loop', () => {
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     registerEcho(ctx)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     send(agent, 'go')
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/resume.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/resume.spec.ts
index 3747824231..aa131009c6 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/resume.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/resume.spec.ts
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
     const resuming = ctx.agents.resume({
       agentId: AgentId('resumed-atomic'),
       resumeSessionId: sessionId,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup: async (agentCtx) => {
         expect(agentCtx.agent?.id).toBe(AgentId('resumed-atomic'))
         expect(agentCtx.agent?.session.events).toHaveLength(2)
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.resume({
       agentId,
       resumeSessionId: sessionId,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const transactionLabels = [
       `agentLoop.owner(${agentId})`,
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
     await expect(ctx.agents.resume({
       agentId: AgentId('resume-reject'),
       resumeSessionId: sessionId,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup: async () => {
         await Promise.resolve()
         throw new Error('resume setup failed')
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
     const retry = await ctx.agents.resume({
       agentId: AgentId('resume-reject'),
       resumeSessionId: sessionId,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     await retry.dispose()
     await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
       resuming = inner.agents.resume({
         agentId: AgentId('resume-owner-race'),
         resumeSessionId: sessionId,
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
         setup: async () => {
           setupStarted.resolve(undefined)
           await gate.promise
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
 
     let resuming!: ReturnType<typeof ctx.agents.resume>
     const owner = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      resuming = inner.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      resuming = inner.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
     await loadStarted.promise
 
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
 
     // owner.dispose() awaited transaction settlement, so the same identities
     // can be reused before awaiting the public rejection.
-    const retry = await promptly(ctx.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } }))
+    const retry = await promptly(ctx.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } }))
     await rejection
     expect(loads).toBe(2)
     expect(published).toEqual(['session/created', 'agent/created', 'agent/session-start'])
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ describe('the session-persistence RFC: AgentLoop factory create/resume', () => {
     ctx.on('session/created', () => void published.push('session/created'))
     ctx.on('agent/created', () => void published.push('agent/created'))
 
-    const resuming = ctx.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const resuming = ctx.agents.resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId: sessionId, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     await loadStarted.promise
     const rejection = expect(promptly(resuming)).rejects.toThrow(/agent loop is not active/)
     await promptly(loopFiber.dispose())
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/scope-lifecycle.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/scope-lifecycle.spec.ts
index 40272ac42b..472cb8cd8a 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/scope-lifecycle.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/scope-lifecycle.spec.ts
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
 
   it('wires agent.ctx: tagged with the agent, DX field set, ctx.agent safe elsewhere', async () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     expect(scopeOf(agent.ctx)).toBe(agent)
     expect(agent.ctx.agent).toBe(agent)
     // The root accessor default: a plain context answers undefined, not a throw.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
 
   it('scoped registrations live in the agent world and die with the agent', async () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
-    const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     const { agent } = handle
     agent.ctx.systemPrompt.section({ name: 'deployment:persona', order: 0, text: 'You run tests.' })
     agent.ctx.tools.register({
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
 
   it('agent.ctx listeners hear only their own agent (scoped dispatch end to end)', async () => {
     const ctx = await harness(new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')]))
-    const a = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { model: 'mock' })
-    const b = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('b'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const a = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
+    const b = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('b'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     const heard: string[] = []
     a.ctx.on('agent/status', (subject, status) => void heard.push(`a-sees:${subject.id}:${status}`))
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('child'),
       sessionId: SessionId('child-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup: async (agentCtx) => {
         order.push('setup')
         await Promise.resolve()
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     })
     ctx.on('agent/created', () => void order.push('agent/created'))
     ctx.on('agent/session-start', () => void order.push('agent/session-start'))
-    const acceptedOptions = { model: 'mock' }
+    const acceptedOptions = { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }
 
     const creating = ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('atomic'),
@@ -285,13 +285,13 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const first = ctx.agents.create({
       agentId,
       sessionId: SessionId('concurrent-final-enter-a'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup,
     })
     const second = ctx.agents.create({
       agentId,
       sessionId: SessionId('concurrent-final-enter-b'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup,
     })
     await bothStarted.promise
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const pending = ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('signal-pending'),
       sessionId: SessionId('signal-pending-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       signal: pendingController.signal,
       setup: async () => {
         setupStarted.resolve(undefined)
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const live = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('signal-live'),
       sessionId: SessionId('signal-live-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       signal: liveController.signal,
     })
     liveController.abort(new Error('too late'))
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('owner-race'),
         sessionId: SessionId('owner-race-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
         setup: async () => {
           setupStarted.resolve(undefined)
           await gate.promise
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating2 = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('owner-race-2'),
         sessionId: SessionId('owner-race-s-2'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
         setup: async () => {
           setupStarted2.resolve(undefined)
           await gate2.promise
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const creating = ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('factory-setup-race'),
       sessionId: SessionId('factory-setup-race-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup: async () => {
         setupStarted.resolve(undefined)
         await gate.promise
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const creating = ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('factory-scope-race'),
       sessionId: SessionId('factory-scope-race-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup: () => { setupCalls += 1 },
     })
     await expect(creating).rejects.toThrow(/agent loop is not active/)
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('caller-scope-race'),
         sessionId: SessionId('caller-scope-race-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
 
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       void loopFiber.dispose()
     })
 
-    expect(() => ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('config-scope-race'), { model: 'mock' }))
+    expect(() => ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('config-scope-race'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }))
       .toThrow(/agent loop is not active/)
     await loopFiber.dispose()
     expect(ctx.agents.get(AgentId('config-scope-race'))).toBeUndefined()
@@ -523,9 +523,9 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
     const id = AgentId('config-prepare-failure')
 
-    expect(() => ctx.agentLoop.create(id, { model: 'mock' }, { cwd: 'relative' }))
+    expect(() => ctx.agentLoop.create(id, { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, { cwd: 'relative' }))
       .toThrow(/absolute path/)
-    const replacement = ctx.agentLoop.create(id, { model: 'mock' }, { cwd: '/recovered' })
+    const replacement = ctx.agentLoop.create(id, { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, { cwd: '/recovered' })
     expect(ctx.agents.get(id)).toBe(replacement)
     await replacement.whenIdle()
     await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     await expect(ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('factory-scope-throw'),
       sessionId: SessionId('factory-scope-throw-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })).rejects.toThrow('scope preparation failed')
     await loopFiber.dispose()
     expect(ctx.agents.get(AgentId('factory-scope-throw'))).toBeUndefined()
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId,
       sessionId: SessionId('factory-live-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
 
     await loopFiber.dispose()
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('dependency-origin'),
         sessionId: SessionId('dependency-origin-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
         setup: (agentCtx) => {
           agentCtx.tools.register({
             name: 'dependency-origin-tool',
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('session-created-barrier'),
         sessionId: SessionId('session-created-barrier-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
 
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('agent-created-barrier'),
         sessionId: SessionId('agent-created-barrier-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
 
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('listener-dispose'),
         sessionId: SessionId('listener-dispose-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
 
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       creating = inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('session-start-dispose'),
         sessionId: SessionId('session-start-dispose-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
 
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     await expect(ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('bad'),
       sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup: async () => {
         await Promise.resolve()
         throw new Error('boom setup')
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     expect(published).toEqual([])
     expect(ctx.agents.get(AgentId('bad'))).toBeUndefined()
     expect(ctx.sessions.get(SessionId('bad-s'))).toBeUndefined()
-    const retry = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('bad'), sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const retry = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('bad'), sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     await retry.dispose()
   })
 
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     await expect(ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('exotic-seed'),
       sessionId: SessionId('exotic-seed-session'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       seed,
     })).rejects.toThrow(/seed event at index 0 is not losslessly JSON-serializable/)
 
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const retry = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('exotic-seed'),
       sessionId: SessionId('exotic-seed-session'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     await retry.dispose()
   })
@@ -843,13 +843,13 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       if (boom) { boom = false; throw new Error('boom created') }
     })
     await expect(ctx.agents.create({
-      agentId: AgentId('bad'), sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentId: AgentId('bad'), sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })).rejects.toThrow('boom created')
     expect(ctx.agents.get(AgentId('bad'))).toBeUndefined()
     expect(ctx.sessions.get(SessionId('bad-s'))).toBeUndefined()
     expect(disposed).toEqual([]) // inserted but never announced: no impossible disposed edge
     // The rollback also disposed the scope fiber: re-creating works cleanly.
-    const retry = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('bad'), sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const retry = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('bad'), sessionId: SessionId('bad-s'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     expect(scopeOf(retry.agent.ctx)).toBe(retry.agent)
     await retry.dispose()
   })
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     await expect(ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('partial-agent'),
       sessionId: SessionId('partial-session'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })).rejects.toThrow('agent observer failed')
 
     expect(lifecycle).toEqual([
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       }
     })
 
-    expect(() => ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('config-bad'), { model: 'mock' }))
+    expect(() => ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('config-bad'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }))
       .toThrow('config publish failed')
     expect(ctx.agents.get(AgentId('config-bad'))).toBeUndefined()
     expect(ctx.sessions.list()).toHaveLength(sessionsBefore)
@@ -900,15 +900,15 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
 
   it('registrations through a disposed agent ctx throw INACTIVE_EFFECT', async () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
-    const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     await handle.dispose()
     expect(() => handle.agent.ctx.on('agent/status', () => {})).toThrow(/inactive context/)
   })
 
   it('agentEvents fuses carrier and subject for custom drivers', async () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
-    const other = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a2'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
+    const other = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a2'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const heard: string[] = []
     agent.ctx.on('agent/error', (subject: Agent, turn: number) => void heard.push(`${subject.id}:${turn}`))
 
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
     let handle!: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof ctx.agents.create>>
     const owner = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign(async (inner: Context) => {
-      handle = await inner.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('o1'), sessionId: SessionId('o1-s'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      handle = await inner.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('o1'), sessionId: SessionId('o1-s'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
     const { agent } = handle
 
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const ctx = await harness()
     let handle!: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof ctx.agents.create>>
     const owner = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign(async (inner: Context) => {
-      handle = await inner.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('h1'), sessionId: SessionId('h1-s'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      handle = await inner.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('h1'), sessionId: SessionId('h1-s'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     }, { inject: ['agents'] }))
 
     const teardownDone: string[] = []
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId,
       sessionId: SessionId('retired-owner-effect-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
 
     expect(ctx.fiber.getEffects().map(effect => effect.label)).toContain(`agentLoop.owner(${agentId})`)
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
       handle = await inner.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('manual-first'),
         sessionId: SessionId('manual-first-s'),
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
         setup(agentCtx) {
           agentCtx.effect(() => async () => {
             cleanupStarted.resolve(undefined)
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const first = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId,
       sessionId,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       setup(agentCtx) {
         agentCtx.effect(() => async () => {
           cleanupStarted.resolve(undefined)
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     await Promise.all([sessionDisposed.promise, cleanupStarted.promise])
     expect(ctx.agents.get(agentId)).toBeUndefined()
     expect(ctx.sessions.get(sessionId)).toBeUndefined()
-    const replacement = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId, sessionId, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const replacement = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId, sessionId, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     expect(ctx.agents.get(agentId)).toBe(replacement.agent)
     expect(ctx.sessions.get(sessionId)).toBe(replacement.agent.session)
 
@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ describe('agent scope lifecycle', () => {
     const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('idle-flush'),
       sessionId: SessionId('idle-flush-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const gate = Promise.withResolvers<undefined>()
     let flushStarted = false
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/tool-order.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/tool-order.spec.ts
index 13e731b7b8..940b7fdabe 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/tool-order.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/tool-order.spec.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ async function runTurn(registrationOrder: string[], toolOrder?: SystemPromptConf
   const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('done')])
   const ctx = await harness(adapter, toolOrder)
   for (const name of registrationOrder) registerNamed(ctx, name)
-  const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
   await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
   return { ctx, agent, adapter }
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ describe('loop-level canonical tool order', () => {
     registerNamed(ctx, 'alpha')
     const errors: Error[] = []
     ctx.on('agent/error', (_agent, _turn, _step, error) => void errors.push(error))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(0)
diff --git a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/turn-stop.spec.ts b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/turn-stop.spec.ts
index c275fee88c..5e979988d7 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/turn-stop.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent-loop/tests/turn-stop.spec.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-stop', () => {
       textResponse('must not be requested'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('terminal-steering'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('terminal-steering'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.ctx.on('agent/turn-stop', (): ContinuationStop => ({ action: 'stop' }))
 
     let steered = false
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-stop', () => {
       textResponse('must not become a late-steering turn'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('terminal-flush-steering'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('terminal-flush-steering'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.ctx.on('agent/turn-stop', (): ContinuationStop => ({ action: 'stop' }))
 
     let injected = false
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-stop', () => {
       textResponse('queued follow-up answer'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('terminal-flush-send'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('terminal-flush-send'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.ctx.on('agent/turn-stop', (): ContinuationStop => ({ action: 'stop' }))
 
     let queued = false
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ describe('agent/turn-stop', () => {
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     registerEcho(ctx)
-    const stopped = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('stopped'), { model: 'mock' })
-    const ordinary = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('ordinary'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const stopped = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('stopped'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
+    const ordinary = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('ordinary'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     stopped.ctx.on('agent/turn-stop', (): ContinuationStop => ({ action: 'stop' }))
 
     await send(stopped)
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-stop', () => {
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
     registerEcho(ctx)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-listener'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('owned-listener'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const disposeStop = agent.ctx.on('agent/turn-stop', (): ContinuationStop => ({ action: 'stop' }))
 
     await send(agent, 'first turn')
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ describe('agent/turn-stop', () => {
       textResponse('healthy later turn'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('bad-policy'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('bad-policy'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const reasons: TurnEndReason[] = []
     const errors: string[] = []
     ctx.on('session/event', (session, event) => {
diff --git a/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts b/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts
index 1c9f678ea5..5f411f4b9a 100644
--- a/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ declare module '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt' {
 
 /** Merge-extensible agent creation options. Persona belongs to system-prompt sections. */
 export interface AgentOptions {
-  /** Model name (must have a registered adapter at call time). */
+  /** Provider route (must have a registered adapter at call time). */
+  provider?: string
+  /** Model id interpreted by the selected provider adapter. */
   model?: string
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/core/session/README.md b/packages/core/session/README.md
index 7b0e4b2aa7..0e932b5d2f 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/README.md
+++ b/packages/core/session/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The store pairs announced creation with disposal, publishes post-commit append n
 Plain class (not a Cordis Service). Create via `ctx.sessions.create()`.
 
 - `session.append(type, data, opts?)` snapshots and freezes durable data and surface metadata, validates marker shape, provenance, and complete replacement coverage, commits synchronously, then notifies observers with independent failure containment. Reentrant attached-session appends reject, and runtime checks cover widened unions and loaded logs.
-- `session.deriveMessages()` incrementally projects each new surface node once and returns a fresh array over shared frozen messages. A surface rewrite rebuilds the projection; there is no raw-log fallback.
+- `session.deriveMessages()` incrementally projects each new surface node once and returns a fresh array over shared frozen messages. Assistant projections preserve provider/model provenance and adapter-private replay state. A surface rewrite rebuilds the projection; there is no raw-log fallback.
 - `session.deriveEventMessage(event)` is the canonical per-event projection used by reconstruction and invariants.
 - `session.surface` lazily folds only new `surfaceOp` markers; `replaceGeneration` changes on every rewrite.
 - `session.events` is a cached frozen snapshot invalidated by append; accepted events remain deeply frozen.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Durable values need one accepted representation, not a check followed by a secon
 
 ### Session event vocabulary (`types.ts`)
 
-The append-only log's event types, enumerated member by member — payloads, surface badges, provenance — in the generated [persistence log event catalog](../../../docs/persistence-catalog.md). Token usage rides on `assistant/message.usage`; an operational error's step is on `turn/end.reason` for `kind: 'error'`.
+The append-only log's event types, enumerated member by member — payloads, surface badges, provenance — in the generated [persistence log event catalog](../../../docs/persistence-catalog.md). Token usage and provider/model/replay provenance ride on `assistant/message`; an operational error's step is on `turn/end.reason` for `kind: 'error'`.
 
 Merge-extensible via `SessionEventMap` — a plugin declaration-merges its own types (the compaction seam's `compact/*`, the hook bridges' `hook/*`); merged members appear in the same catalog.
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Every `SessionEvent` carries two optional top-level fields (structural metadata)
 ### Extension points
 
 - Persistence plugins: subscribe to `session/event` (write-behind) and drain on `session/flush` (awaited) and fiber dispose. A durable backend reads the log and reloads it into a live session; the metadata seam (`SessionHeader`, `session.header`) is what such a backend stores beside the log.
-- Replay/fork: `create(id, { seed })` validates and freezes a contiguous log and rebuilds its surface. `fork(source, boundary?, childSessionId?)` selects a completed-turn prefix and records lineage.
+- Replay/fork: `create(id, { seed })` validates and freezes a contiguous current-format log and rebuilds its surface; request headers require provider/model and assistant messages require provider/model provenance. `fork(source, boundary?, childSessionId?)` selects a completed-turn prefix and records lineage.
 - Compaction: the `dsh-compact-basic` plugin appends a `user/message` with `surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start, end }` to shadow old surface nodes behind a summary checkpoint. Tool-pairing boundary policy and its cache belong to the [`dsh-compact` seam](../../compact/compact/README.md), while this package owns surface membership, positional links, and `replaceGeneration`.
 
 ## Model Experience
diff --git a/packages/core/session/src/index.ts b/packages/core/session/src/index.ts
index ff0f8556ab..9ba4aa60b2 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/src/index.ts
@@ -143,6 +143,33 @@ function assertSessionEventEnvelope(value: Record<string, unknown>, index: numbe
     || !Object.hasOwn(event, 'data')) {
     throw new Error(`seed event at index ${index} has an invalid event envelope`)
   }
+  assertCurrentLlmShape(event, index)
+}
+
+/** Reject pre-provider request headers and assistant messages at the seed/load boundary. */
+function assertCurrentLlmShape(event: Record<string, unknown>, index: number): void {
+  const data = event['data']
+  if (typeof data !== 'object' || data === null) return
+  const record = data as Record<string, unknown>
+  if (event['type'] === 'request/header') {
+    const header = record['header']
+    const config = typeof header === 'object' && header !== null ? (header as Record<string, unknown>)['config'] : undefined
+    if (!hasProviderModel(config)) throw new Error(`seed request/header at index ${index} lacks provider/model`)
+  }
+  if (event['type'] === 'request/header-delta' && record['config'] !== undefined && !hasProviderModel(record['config'])) {
+    throw new Error(`seed request/header-delta at index ${index} lacks provider/model`)
+  }
+  if (event['type'] === 'assistant/message' && !hasProviderModel(record['provenance'])) {
+    throw new Error(`seed assistant/message at index ${index} lacks provider/model provenance`)
+  }
+}
+
+/** Whether an unknown value carries the current provider/model pair. */
+function hasProviderModel(value: unknown): boolean {
+  if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null) return false
+  const pair = value as Record<string, unknown>
+  return typeof pair['provider'] === 'string' && pair['provider'].length > 0
+    && typeof pair['model'] === 'string' && pair['model'].length > 0
 }
 
 type SessionCallback = (...args: unknown[]) => unknown
@@ -479,7 +506,7 @@ export class Session {
         // max-tokens step's usage and must not inject a content-less assistant
         // turn into the provider transcript.
         if (event.data.content.length === 0) return null
-        return { role: 'assistant', content: event.data.content }
+        return { role: 'assistant', content: event.data.content, provenance: event.data.provenance }
       }
       case 'tool/result': {
         const { callId, content, isError } = event.data
diff --git a/packages/core/session/src/types.ts b/packages/core/session/src/types.ts
index e571ab9de6..c05c7fa963 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/src/types.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { Branded } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-brand'
-import type { CallId, ContentBlock, LlmCallConfig, Message, MessageSource, StreamChunk, TokenUsage, ToolSchema } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { AssistantProvenance, CallId, ContentBlock, LlmCallConfig, Message, MessageSource, StreamChunk, TokenUsage, ToolSchema } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { JsonValue } from './json.ts'
 
 /** Canonical context-tag framing, or caller-owned framing rendered verbatim. */
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ export interface TodoItem {
  * canonical empty optional fields are absent.
  */
 export interface EpochHeader {
-  /** The conversation's call configuration (model + sampling scalars). */
+  /** The conversation's call configuration (provider, model, and sampling scalars). */
   config: LlmCallConfig
   /** Rendered system prompt text; absent for a system-less request. */
   system?: string
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ export interface SessionEventMap {
    * the model output and its accounting travel together (there is no separate
    * usage record). `usage` is absent when the adapter reported none.
    */
-  'assistant/message': { turn: number; step: number; content: ContentBlock[]; usage?: TokenUsage }
+  'assistant/message': { turn: number; step: number; content: ContentBlock[]; provenance: AssistantProvenance; usage?: TokenUsage }
   /**
    * The model requested one tool invocation: `name` with the raw `arguments`
    * JSON string exactly as the model produced it (unparsed). `callId` pairs the
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/derived-cache.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/derived-cache.spec.ts
index 5314c5e88f..8cead0642e 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/derived-cache.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/derived-cache.spec.ts
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ describe('derived-message cache', () => {
     userText(session, 'one')
     expect(session.deriveMessages()).toEqual(scratch(session))
     userText(session, 'two')
-    session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'reply' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'reply' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     expect(session.deriveMessages()).toEqual(scratch(session))
-    session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 2, content: [], usage: { inputTokens: 1, outputTokens: 0 } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 2, content: [], usage: { inputTokens: 1, outputTokens: 0 } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     expect(session.deriveMessages()).toEqual(scratch(session))
   })
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ describe('Session.deriveEventMessage — the per-event projection', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     const boundary = session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     expect(session.deriveEventMessage(boundary)).toBeNull()
-    const empty = session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+    const empty = session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     expect(session.deriveEventMessage(empty)).toBeNull()
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/fork.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/fork.spec.ts
index af143ea5ee..5344449078 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/fork.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/fork.spec.ts
@@ -195,14 +195,14 @@ describe('SessionStore.fork', () => {
       ['assistant/message', (session) => {
         session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
         session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-        session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'partial' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+        session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'partial' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
         return lastSeq(session)
       }],
       ['tool/call', (session) => {
         const callId = CallId('call-open')
         session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
         session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-        session.append('assistant/message', {
+        session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
           turn: 1,
           step: 1,
           content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: callId, name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' }],
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/properties.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/properties.spec.ts
index d599536db5..9cb744c312 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/properties.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/properties.spec.ts
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ const textContentArb = fc.array(
 // explicit `surfaceOp: 'append'` intent — the marker the real loop passes.
 const messageEventArb: fc.Arbitrary<Appendable> = fc.oneof(
   textContentArb.map((content): Appendable => ({ type: 'user/message', data: { content, source: { kind: 'user' } }, intent: { surfaceOp: 'append' } })),
-  textContentArb.map((content): Appendable => ({ type: 'assistant/message', data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content }, intent: { surfaceOp: 'append' } })),
-  textContentArb.map((content): Appendable => ({ type: 'assistant/message', data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content, usage: { inputTokens: 1, outputTokens: 1 } }, intent: { surfaceOp: 'append' } })),
+  textContentArb.map((content): Appendable => ({ type: 'assistant/message', data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content, provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } }, intent: { surfaceOp: 'append' } })),
+  textContentArb.map((content): Appendable => ({ type: 'assistant/message', data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content, provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, usage: { inputTokens: 1, outputTokens: 1 } }, intent: { surfaceOp: 'append' } })),
   fc.record({ id: fc.string({ minLength: 1 }), content: textContentArb, isError: fc.boolean() })
     .map((r): Appendable => ({ type: 'tool/result', data: { turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId(r.id), content: r.content, isError: r.isError }, intent: { surfaceOp: 'append' } })),
 )
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/repair.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/repair.spec.ts
index e0f6a5bb6e..765502b8ce 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/repair.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/repair.spec.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'text', text: 'calling a tool' },
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
     ]
     const closers = interruptedTurnClosers(events)
     // tool/result (for the orphaned call) → step/end → turn/end, contiguous seqs.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 1, time: 1, data: { turn: 2, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
       { type: 'tool/result', seq: 3, time: 3, data: { turn: 2, step: 1, callId: CallId('call-1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], isError: false } },
     ]
     // The call is answered, so only the open step + turn need closing.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 1, time: 1, data: { turn: 2, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
       { type: 'step/end', seq: 3, time: 3, data: { turn: 2, step: 1 } },
     ]
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 1, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('old-call'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
       { type: 'tool/result', seq: 3, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId('old-call'), content: [], isError: false } },
       { type: 'step/end', seq: 4, time: 4, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'turn/end', seq: 5, time: 5, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } },
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 7, time: 7, data: { turn: 2, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 8, time: 8, data: { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('new-call'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
     ]
     const closers = interruptedTurnClosers(events)
     expect(closers.map(e => e.type)).toEqual(['tool/result', 'step/end', 'turn/end'])
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-a'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-b'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
       // call-a got answered before the crash; call-b did not.
       { type: 'tool/result', seq: 3, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId('call-a'), content: [], isError: false } },
     ]
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ describe('interruptedTurnClosers', () => {
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 1, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-      ] } },
+      ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
       { type: 'tool/call', seq: 3, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId('call-1'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' } },
     ]
     const closers = interruptedTurnClosers(events)
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/request-header.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/request-header.spec.ts
index 8a5af819c3..6cd2e2c7fb 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/request-header.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/request-header.spec.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { Session, SessionId, applyHeaderDelta, canonicalHeader, diffHeader, fold
 import type { EpochHeader, SessionEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import type { Message, ToolSchema } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 
-const CONFIG = { model: 'm' }
+const CONFIG = { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }
 
 function tool(name: string, description = 'd'): ToolSchema {
   return { name, description, parameters: { type: 'object' } }
@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ describe('diffHeader / applyHeaderDelta', () => {
   })
 
   it('replaces the config whole and leaves untouched parts alone', () => {
-    const prev = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 's', tools: [tool('t')] })
-    const next = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm2', temperature: 0.1 }, system: 's', tools: [tool('t')] })
+    const prev = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 's', tools: [tool('t')] })
+    const next = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm2', temperature: 0.1 }, system: 's', tools: [tool('t')] })
     const delta = roundTrip(prev, next)
-    expect(delta).toEqual({ config: { model: 'm2', temperature: 0.1 } })
+    expect(delta).toEqual({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm2', temperature: 0.1 } })
   })
 })
 
@@ -163,16 +163,16 @@ describe('foldRequestHeader', () => {
   it('folds snapshot then deltas into the header in force, skipping unrelated events', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('fold'))
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
-    const first = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nb', tools: [tool('t')] })
+    const first = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nb', tools: [tool('t')] })
     session.append('request/header', { header: first, reason: 'initial' })
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
 
-    const second = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nc', tools: [tool('t')] })
+    const second = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' }, system: 'a\nc', tools: [tool('t')] })
     session.append('request/header-delta', diffHeader(first, second)!)
     expect(foldRequestHeader(headerEvents(session))).toEqual(second)
 
     // A later snapshot replaces the state wholesale (the 'resume'/'fallback' anchor).
-    const third = canonicalHeader({ config: { model: 'other' } })
+    const third = canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'other' } })
     session.append('request/header', { header: third, reason: 'resume' })
     expect(foldRequestHeader(headerEvents(session))).toEqual(third)
   })
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ describe('foldRequestHeader', () => {
   it('throws on a delta before any snapshot (corrupt log)', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('fold-corrupt'))
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
-    session.append('request/header-delta', { config: { model: 'x' } })
+    session.append('request/header-delta', { config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'x' } })
     expect(() => foldRequestHeader(headerEvents(session))).toThrow(/before any request\/header snapshot/)
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/session.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/session.spec.ts
index a598e1f2bd..6b36dfaa77 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/session.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/session.spec.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ describe('Session', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     session.append('assistant/chunk', { turn: 1, step: 1, chunk: { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'hi' } })
-    session.append('assistant/message', {
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       turn: 1, step: 1,
       content: [
         { type: 'text', text: 'let me check' },
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ describe('Session', () => {
     const original = new Session(SessionId('s3'))
     original.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     original.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'q' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    original.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+    original.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     original.append('turn/end', { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } })
 
     const replayed = new Session(SessionId('s3-replay'), [...original.events])
@@ -93,6 +93,43 @@ describe('Session', () => {
     expect(replayed.seq).toBe(original.seq)
   })
 
+  it('rejects pre-provider request headers and assistant messages on seed/load', () => {
+    const requestHeader = {
+      type: 'request/header', seq: 0, time: 1,
+      data: { header: { config: { model: 'old-model' } }, reason: 'initial' },
+    } as unknown as SessionEvent
+    expect(() => new Session(SessionId('old-header'), [requestHeader]))
+      .toThrow('seed request/header at index 0 lacks provider/model')
+
+    const requestDelta = {
+      type: 'request/header-delta', seq: 0, time: 1,
+      data: { config: { model: 'old-model' } },
+    } as unknown as SessionEvent
+    expect(() => new Session(SessionId('old-delta'), [requestDelta]))
+      .toThrow('seed request/header-delta at index 0 lacks provider/model')
+
+    const assistantMessage = {
+      type: 'assistant/message', seq: 0, time: 1,
+      data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'old' }] },
+      surfaceOp: 'append',
+    } as unknown as SessionEvent
+    expect(() => new Session(SessionId('old-assistant'), [assistantMessage]))
+      .toThrow('seed assistant/message at index 0 lacks provider/model provenance')
+
+    const malformedHeader = {
+      type: 'request/header', seq: 0, time: 1,
+      data: { header: 'old-header' },
+    } as unknown as SessionEvent
+    expect(() => new Session(SessionId('malformed-header'), [malformedHeader]))
+      .toThrow('seed request/header at index 0 lacks provider/model')
+
+    const unrelatedPrimitiveData = {
+      type: 'plugin/event', seq: 0, time: 1, data: null,
+    } as unknown as SessionEvent
+    expect(new Session(SessionId('primitive-plugin-data'), [unrelatedPrimitiveData]).events)
+      .toEqual([unrelatedPrimitiveData])
+  })
+
   it('isolates the log from mutation through a derived message (append-only contract)', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('s4'))
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'original' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
diff --git a/packages/core/session/tests/surface.spec.ts b/packages/core/session/tests/surface.spec.ts
index 7a013b3d56..c24e63d259 100644
--- a/packages/core/session/tests/surface.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/session/tests/surface.spec.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ function surfaceSession(): Session {
   const s = new Session(SessionId('ss'))
   s.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
   s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-  s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+  s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
   s.append('turn/end', { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } })
   return s
 }
@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ describe('foldSurface provenance', () => {
       type: 'assistant/message',
       seq: 0,
       time: 0,
-      data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] },
+      data: {
+        provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
+        turn: 1,
+        step: 1,
+        content: [],
+      },
       surfaceOp: 'append',
       sourceEventSeqs: [],
     } as SessionEvent
@@ -94,8 +99,8 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('shared-fold'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 2, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary 2' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 1 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2, 1] })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 2, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary 2' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 1 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2, 1] })
 
     const folded = foldSurface(s.events)
     expect(folded.nodes).toEqual(s.surface.nodes)
@@ -112,7 +117,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
   it('does not retain fold-only replacement history in incremental state', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('incremental-state'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
 
     expect(s.surface.nodes).toEqual([{ seq: 1, prev: null, next: null }])
     const manager = s.surface as unknown as { _state: object }
@@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
 
     expect(() => s.append(
       'assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'invalid' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'invalid' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 } },
     )).toThrow(/missing 0/)
 
@@ -223,7 +228,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     const s = surfaceSession()
     // Replace surface seqs 1 (user) and 2 (assistant) with the summary.
     s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 2, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1, 2] },
     )
     expect(s.surface.nodes.length).toBe(1)
@@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'c' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 2
     // Replace seq 0 through 1 inclusive: shadow a and b, keep c.
     s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 1 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0, 1] },
     ) // seq 3
     expect(s.surface.nodes.map(n => n.seq)).toEqual([3, 2])
@@ -256,7 +261,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 1
     // Replace only seq 1 (single node).
     s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 1 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1] },
     ) // seq 2
     expect(s.surface.nodes.map(n => n.seq)).toEqual([0, 2])
@@ -268,7 +273,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('bad-start'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 0
     expect(() => s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'y' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'y' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 5, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] },
     )).toThrow(/surface replace: start seq 5 not found/)
   })
@@ -277,7 +282,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('bad-end'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 0
     expect(() => s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'y' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'y' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 99 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] },
     )).toThrow(/surface replace: end seq 99 not found/)
   })
@@ -288,7 +293,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 1
     // start=1, end=0 would be reversed order.
     expect(() => s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'y' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'y' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1, 0] },
     )).toThrow(/start seq 1.*after end seq 0/)
   })
@@ -297,7 +302,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('immutable'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'source' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     const sources = [0]
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'h' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: sources })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'h' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: sources })
     // Mutate caller's array after append.
     sources.push(1)
     sources[0] = 99
@@ -312,7 +317,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'c' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 2
     // Replace the middle node (seq 1) only, keeping seq 0 and seq 2.
     s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 1 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1] },
     ) // seq 3
     expect(s.surface.nodes.map(n => n.seq)).toEqual([0, 3, 2])
@@ -329,7 +334,7 @@ describe('SurfaceManager', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('immutable-op'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     const op = { op: 'replace' as const, start: 0, end: 0 }
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 's' }] }, { surfaceOp: op, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 's' }] }, { surfaceOp: op, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
     // Mutate caller's object after append.
     op.start = 99
     const logged = s.events[1]! as SurfaceEvent
@@ -354,7 +359,7 @@ describe('deriveMessages with surface', () => {
     s.append('assistant/chunk', { turn: 1, step: 1, chunk: { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'h' } })
     s.append('assistant/chunk', { turn: 1, step: 1, chunk: { type: 'text-delta', index: 1, text: 'i' } })
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     s.append('turn/end', { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } })
     // Chunks and boundaries are NOT in the surface, so only 2 messages.
     expect(s.deriveMessages()).toHaveLength(2)
@@ -363,7 +368,7 @@ describe('deriveMessages with surface', () => {
   it('deriveMessages via surface respects replace (shadowed nodes are excluded)', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('compacted'))
     s.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'original' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'compacted' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
+    s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'compacted' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 0, end: 0 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
     // Only the compaction node is visible.
     const messages = s.deriveMessages()
     expect(messages).toHaveLength(1)
@@ -387,7 +392,7 @@ describe('Session.append surface opts', () => {
     s.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     s.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     const event = s.append('assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'h' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'h' }] },
       { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [0, 1] },
     )
     expect(event.sourceEventSeqs).toEqual([0, 1])
@@ -404,7 +409,7 @@ describe('Session.append surface opts', () => {
     const seed: SessionEvent[] = [
       { type: 'turn/start', seq: 0, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } } },
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 1, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
-      { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, surfaceOp: 'append' },
+      { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 2, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } }, surfaceOp: 'append' },
       { type: 'step/end', seq: 3, time: 4, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'turn/end', seq: 4, time: 5, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } },
     ]
@@ -422,7 +427,7 @@ describe('Session.append surface opts', () => {
 
   it('surfaceOp primitives are not cloned (they are immutable)', () => {
     const s = new Session(SessionId('prim'))
-    const event = s.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+    const event = s.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     // The string 'append' is a primitive — identity-preserving is fine.
     expect(event.surfaceOp).toBe('append')
   })
diff --git a/packages/examples/acp-demo/README.md b/packages/examples/acp-demo/README.md
index 5809e9ab49..bf6c00e3ce 100644
--- a/packages/examples/acp-demo/README.md
+++ b/packages/examples/acp-demo/README.md
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ Because the package wires no logger entry, an ACP leaf has **nothing to get wron
 
 | Key | Default | Routed to |
 |---|---|---|
-| `model` | (required) | the per-session agent template the bridge creates agents from |
-| `persona` | — | the deployment persona template (may reference `{{model}}`/`{{cwd}}`), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
+| `provider` | (required) | the initial provider route for each per-session agent the bridge creates; ACP model selection may replace it per session |
+| `model` | (required) | the initial model for each per-session agent; ACP clients may switch among adapter-advertised models |
+| `persona` | — | the deployment persona template (may reference `{{provider}}`/`{{model}}`/`{{cwd}}`), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
 | `toolOrder` | — | explicit model-facing tool order (a name list with one `'<unlisted-tools>'` rest entry; absent — lexicographic; an unregistered name fails each turn at prompt assembly), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
 | `dshHome` | `$DSH_HOME` or `~/.dsh` | Harness home exposed to model bash and used by local skill discovery |
 | `tools` | `{ mode: 'native' }` | tool-registry presentation config (`native` / `code` / `both`), routed through `dsh-agent-spine-demo` |
diff --git a/packages/examples/acp-demo/src/index.ts b/packages/examples/acp-demo/src/index.ts
index c6a58af2f0..257aae5b12 100644
--- a/packages/examples/acp-demo/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/acp-demo/src/index.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import UserInteractionService from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction'
 export const name = 'acp-demo'
 
 /**
- * App config: the swappable per-deployment values. `model` configures the
+ * App config: the swappable per-deployment values. `provider` and `model` configure the
  * agent template the ACP bridge creates each session's agent from (NOT a
  * pre-created agent — ACP creates agents at `session/new`); `persona` is the
  * deployment persona (forwarded to the system-prompt plugin); `toolOrder` is
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ export const name = 'acp-demo'
  * through agent-spine-demo); `persistenceRoot` is the JSONL backend's directory.
  */
 export interface Config {
+  /** Provider route for ACP-created agents. */
+  provider: string
   /** Model name for ACP-created agents (must have a registered adapter). */
   model: string
   /** Deployment persona (the system-prompt plugin's `persona` config). */
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ export interface Config {
 // the common fields would make two small app contracts depend on a new facade.
 /* jscpd:ignore-start */
 export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
+  provider: z.string().required(),
   model: z.string().required(),
   persona: z.string(),
   // The array default is forced to undefined: ABSENT means "lexicographic
@@ -79,11 +82,11 @@ export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
  * NO agents (its `agents` list defaults to `[]`) and carries the deployment
  * `persona`; the JSONL backend persists under `persistenceRoot`; the ACP
  * bridge owns stdout for JSON-RPC and creates one agent per `session/new`
- * from `model`. No logger, no `hmr` — stdout stays pure.
+ * from the provider/model pair. No logger, no `hmr` — stdout stays pure.
  */
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
   ctx.plugin(agentCore, agentCore.pickSpineConfig(config))
   ctx.plugin(UserInteractionService)
   ctx.plugin(SessionPersistenceJsonl, { root: config.persistenceRoot ?? './.sessions' })
-  ctx.plugin(acp, { model: config.model })
+  ctx.plugin(acp, { provider: config.provider, model: config.model })
 }
diff --git a/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/acp-agent.spec.ts b/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/acp-agent.spec.ts
index a86d1261e8..e717cf57fa 100644
--- a/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/acp-agent.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/acp-agent.spec.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ async function withIsolatedSkillHomes<T>(run: () => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
 
 describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
   it('brings up the spine + persistence + the ACP bridge', async () => {
-    const ctx = await mount({ model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-acp-demo-test', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
+    const ctx = await mount({ provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-acp-demo-test', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
     expect(ctx.get('agents')).toBeDefined()
     expect(ctx.get('sessions')).toBeDefined()
     expect(ctx.get('sessionPersistence')).toBeDefined()
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
     // persistenceRoot, so the runtime fallback is the one that fires.
     const ctx = new Context()
     // No persona: covers the omitted-persona forwarding branch too.
-    acpAgent.apply(ctx, { model: 'mock', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
+    acpAgent.apply(ctx, { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
     await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 50))
     expect(ctx.get('sessionPersistence')).toBeDefined()
     await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
 
   it('forwards explicit project-instruction controls to the bundled spine', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       persona: 'hi',
       persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-acp-demo-workspace-context',
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
   it('uses default skill config when apply is called directly without skills', async () => {
     await withIsolatedSkillHomes(async () => {
       const ctx = new Context()
-      acpAgent.apply(ctx, { model: 'mock', workspaceContext: false })
+      acpAgent.apply(ctx, { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', workspaceContext: false })
       await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 50))
       expect(ctx.skills).toBeDefined()
       expect(await ctx.skills.list()).toEqual([])
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
 
   it('forwards skill config and dshHome into agent-spine-demo', async () => {
     const skills = await isolatedSkillsConfig(6)
-    const ctx = await mount({ model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', dshHome: skills.local!.dshHome!, skills, workspaceContext: false })
+    const ctx = await mount({ provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', dshHome: skills.local!.dshHome!, skills, workspaceContext: false })
     ctx.skills.register({ name: 'acp-skill', description: 'ACP skill', source: 'runtime', content: 'body' })
     expect(JSON.stringify(await composePrefix(ctx))).toContain('- `acp-skill`: ACP...')
     await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
 
   it('forwards bundled tool config into agent-core', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       workspaceContext: false,
       toolBash: { enableRunInBackground: false },
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ describe('dsh-acp-demo composition', () => {
 
   it('forwards toolOrder through agent-spine-demo to the system-prompt assembly', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       toolOrder: ['zulu', TOOL_ORDER_REST],
       persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-acp-demo-test-tool-order',
diff --git a/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts b/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
index f612d599a9..3f90485679 100644
--- a/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
@@ -78,12 +78,12 @@ async function makeConsumer(): Promise<string> {
     '  name: \'@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek\'',
     '  config:',
     '    apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY',
-    '    models: [deepseek-v4-flash]',
     '- id: bash',
     '  name: \'@deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-local\'',
     '- id: acp-agent',
     '  name: \'@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo\'',
     '  config:',
+    '    provider: deepseek',
     '    model: deepseek-v4-flash',
     '    persona: \'test agent\'',
     '    workspaceContext: false',
diff --git a/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/load-path.e2e.ts b/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/load-path.e2e.ts
index 81988dd435..982fac3b50 100644
--- a/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/load-path.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/acp-demo/tests/load-path.e2e.ts
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ const CORDIS_YML = `
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek'
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-    models: [deepseek-v4-flash]
 - id: bash
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-local'
 - id: acp-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-acp-demo'
   config:
+    provider: deepseek
     model: deepseek-v4-flash
     persona: 'You are a test agent.'
     workspaceContext: false
diff --git a/packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/tests/agent-core.spec.ts b/packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/tests/agent-core.spec.ts
index 0df76e3164..3629fdd838 100644
--- a/packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/tests/agent-core.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/agent-spine-demo/tests/agent-core.spec.ts
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ describe('dsh-agent-spine-demo bundle', () => {
 
   it('forwards a pre-created agent to the loop and the persona to system-prompt', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
-      agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), model: 'mock' }],
+      agents: [{ id: AgentId('main'), provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }],
       persona: 'You are main.',
       workspaceContext: false,
     })
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ describe('dsh-agent-spine-demo bundle', () => {
         agentId: AgentId('main'),
         sessionId: SessionId('main-session'),
         meta: { cwd: root },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
       const agent = handle.agent
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ describe('dsh-agent-spine-demo bundle', () => {
         agentId: AgentId('main'),
         sessionId: SessionId('main-disabled-session'),
         meta: { cwd: root },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
 
       handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }])
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ describe('dsh-agent-spine-demo bundle', () => {
         agentId: AgentId('main'),
         sessionId: SessionId('prefix-order-session'),
         meta: { cwd: root },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
       })
 
       handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }])
diff --git a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/README.md b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/README.md
index 5719eaff9f..ba5381bbba 100644
--- a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/README.md
+++ b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ A terminal chat always wants the same cluster, so the package owns it rather tha
 | Plugin | Why it is here |
 |---|---|
 | `@cordisjs/plugin-logger-console` | the console logger — stdout is just the terminal here, so logging to it is correct (the ACP app must NOT have this) |
-| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo` | the spine, pre-creating a `main` agent from this app's `model` with `process.cwd()` as the fresh session cwd and carrying its `persona` |
+| `@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo` | the spine, pre-creating a `main` agent from this app's provider/model pair with `process.cwd()` as the fresh session cwd and carrying its `persona` |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` | durable JSONL session log under `persistenceRoot` |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction` | the human question/answer seam used by confirmation tools |
 | `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user` | the model-facing `ask_user_question` tool |
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ The leaf `cordis.yml` supplies only the **swappable backends** — an LLM adapte
 
 | Key | Default | Routed to |
 |---|---|---|
+| `provider` | (required) | the pre-created `main` agent's registered provider route |
 | `model` | (required) | the pre-created `main` agent's model |
-| `persona` | — | the deployment persona template (may reference `{{model}}`/`{{cwd}}`), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
+| `persona` | — | the deployment persona template (may reference `{{provider}}`/`{{model}}`/`{{cwd}}`), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
 | `toolOrder` | — | explicit model-facing tool order (a name list with one `'<unlisted-tools>'` rest entry; absent — lexicographic; an unregistered name fails each turn at prompt assembly), routed to `dsh-system-prompt` |
 | `dshHome` | `$DSH_HOME` or `~/.dsh` | Harness home exposed to model bash and used by local skill discovery |
 | `tools` | `{ mode: 'native' }` | tool-registry presentation config (`native` / `code` / `both`), routed through `dsh-agent-spine-demo` |
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ Fresh stdio sessions use the process launch directory as `session.header.cwd`, s
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek'
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-    models: [deepseek-v4-flash]
 - id: bash
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-local'
   config:
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Fresh stdio sessions use the process launch directory as `session.header.cwd`, s
 - id: stdio-agent
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo'
   config:
+    provider: deepseek
     model: deepseek-v4-flash
     persona: 'You are a coding assistant powered by the {{model}} model.'
 ```
diff --git a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/src/index.ts b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/src/index.ts
index 04c06ad5db..89871cada4 100644
--- a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/src/index.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export const name = 'stdio-demo'
 
 /**
  * App config: the swappable per-demo values, each routed to where the app wires
- * it. `model`/`resumeSessionId` configure the pre-created `main` agent (through
+ * it. `provider`/`model`/`resumeSessionId` configure the pre-created `main` agent (through
  * {@link @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-spine-demo}'s forwarded `agents` list); `persona` is
  * the deployment persona (forwarded to the system-prompt plugin); `toolOrder`
  * is the explicit model-facing tool order (forwarded to the system-prompt plugin);
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ export const name = 'stdio-demo'
  * `welcome` is the UI banner.
  */
 export interface Config {
+  /** Provider route for the `main` agent. */
+  provider: string
   /** Model name for the `main` agent (must have a registered adapter). */
   model: string
   /** Deployment persona (the system-prompt plugin's `persona` config). */
@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ export interface Config {
 }
 
 export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
+  provider: z.string().required(),
   model: z.string().required(),
   persona: z.string(),
   // The array default is forced to undefined: ABSENT means "lexicographic
@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
     ...agentCore.pickSpineConfig(config),
     agents: [{
       id: AgentId('main'),
+      provider: config.provider,
       model: config.model,
       cwd: process.cwd(),
       ...config.resumeSessionId !== undefined ? { resumeSessionId: SessionId(config.resumeSessionId) } : {},
diff --git a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
index de953ac77e..d3e0a32d09 100644
--- a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/built-bin.e2e.ts
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ async function makeConsumer(
     '- id: stdio-agent',
     '  name: \'@deepseek-ai/dsh-stdio-demo\'',
     '  config:',
+    '    provider: mock',
     '    model: mock-echo',
     '    persona: \'demo\'',
     '    workspaceContext: false',
diff --git a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/stdio-agent.spec.ts b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/stdio-agent.spec.ts
index c0557ca512..ecbff63d2f 100644
--- a/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/stdio-agent.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/examples/stdio-demo/tests/stdio-agent.spec.ts
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async function withIsolatedSkillHomes<T>(run: () => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
 
 describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
   it('composes the spine + front-door cluster and pre-creates the main agent', async () => {
-    const ctx = await mount({ model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-stdio-demo-spec', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
+    const ctx = await mount({ provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-stdio-demo-spec', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
     // The spine services (brought up by the agent-spine-demo bundle) are all present.
     expect(ctx.get('agents')).toBeDefined()
     expect(ctx.get('agentLoop')).toBeDefined()
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
     // schema-bypassing direct-mount caller.
     const ctx = new Context()
     // No persona: covers the omitted-persona forwarding branch too.
-    stdioAgent.apply(ctx, { model: 'mock', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
+    stdioAgent.apply(ctx, { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', skills: await isolatedSkillsConfig(), workspaceContext: false })
     await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 80))
     expect(ctx.get('sessionPersistence')).toBeDefined()
     expect(ctx.get('agents')?.get(AgentId('main'))).toBeDefined()
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
 
   it('forwards explicit project-instruction controls to the bundled spine', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       persona: 'hi',
       persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-stdio-demo-spec-workspace-context',
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
   it('uses default skill config when apply is called directly without skills', async () => {
     await withIsolatedSkillHomes(async () => {
       const ctx = new Context()
-      stdioAgent.apply(ctx, { model: 'mock', workspaceContext: false })
+      stdioAgent.apply(ctx, { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', workspaceContext: false })
       await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 80))
       expect(ctx.skills).toBeDefined()
       expect(await ctx.skills.list()).toEqual([])
@@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
     // session the resume is contained + logged, so no `main` agent registers —
     // the branch that maps resumeSessionId through is what this covers.
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       persona: 'hi',
       persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-stdio-demo-spec-resume',
@@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
 
   it('forwards skill config and dshHome into agent-spine-demo', async () => {
     const skills = await isolatedSkillsConfig(6)
-    const ctx = await mount({ model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', dshHome: skills.local!.dshHome!, skills, workspaceContext: false })
+    const ctx = await mount({ provider: 'mock', model: 'mock', persona: 'hi', dshHome: skills.local!.dshHome!, skills, workspaceContext: false })
     ctx.skills.register({ name: 'stdio-skill', description: 'Stdio skill', source: 'runtime', content: 'body' })
     expect(JSON.stringify(await composePrefix(ctx))).toContain('- `stdio-skill`: Std...')
     await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -142,6 +144,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
 
   it('forwards bundled tool config into agent-core', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       workspaceContext: false,
       toolBash: { enableRunInBackground: false },
@@ -161,6 +164,7 @@ describe('dsh-stdio-demo app', () => {
 
   it('forwards toolOrder through agent-spine-demo to the system-prompt assembly', async () => {
     const ctx = await mount({
+      provider: 'mock',
       model: 'mock',
       toolOrder: ['zulu', TOOL_ORDER_REST],
       persistenceRoot: '/tmp/dsh-stdio-demo-spec-tool-order',
diff --git a/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/fs-tools.e2e.ts b/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/fs-tools.e2e.ts
index a270e7c6d8..ca93bad63d 100644
--- a/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/fs-tools.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/fs-tools.e2e.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('fs tools with-key smoke', () =>
     ctx = await fsHarness(workdir, SYSTEM)
     // agentLoop.create prepares a session with no cwd, so the provider default
     // (config.cwd = workdir) is the workspace.
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('fs-e2e'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('fs-e2e'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text:
       'Create a file named note.txt containing exactly the line: status: draft. '
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('fs tools with-key smoke', () =>
         agentId: AgentId('fs-e2e-cwd'),
         sessionId: SessionId(`fs-e2e-cwd-${Date.now()}`),
         meta: { cwd: sessionDir },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
       })
       handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text:
         'Use the write tool to create a file named where.txt containing exactly the line: here. Tell me when done.' }])
diff --git a/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/harness.ts b/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/harness.ts
index 3666447ad9..eff2588ec2 100644
--- a/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/harness.ts
+++ b/packages/fs/tool-fs/tests/harness.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export async function fsHarness(fsCwd: string, persona = ''): Promise<Context> {
   const ctx = new Context()
   await mountAgentLoopTestDependencies(ctx, { systemPrompt: { persona } })
   await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   await ctx.plugin(LocalFileSystem, { cwd: fsCwd })
   await ctx.plugin(FsPolicy)
   await ctx.plugin(ToolFs)
diff --git a/packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/tests/repeat-tool-guard.spec.ts b/packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/tests/repeat-tool-guard.spec.ts
index c95189912e..3c5c9051bf 100644
--- a/packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/tests/repeat-tool-guard.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/guard/repeat-tool-guard/tests/repeat-tool-guard.spec.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ describe('threshold escalation', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ describe('threshold escalation', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       toolCallResponse('b3', 'probe', { q: 1 }),
       textResponse('done'),
     ]))
-    const agentA = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { model: 'mock-a' })
-    const agentB = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('b'), { model: 'mock-b' })
+    const agentA = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a'), { provider: 'mock-a', model: 'model-a' })
+    const agentB = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('b'), { provider: 'mock-b', model: 'model-b' })
     agentA.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     agentB.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await Promise.all([waitForIdle(ctx, agentA), waitForIdle(ctx, agentB)])
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('turn two done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'again' }])
@@ -252,14 +252,14 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
     // (the loop.spec pattern): a child plugin fiber owns `first`.
     let first!: ReactLoopAgent
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
-      first = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('reused'), { model: 'mock' })
+      first = inner.agentLoop.create(AgentId('reused'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     }, { inject: ['agentLoop'] }))
     first.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, first)
     await fiber.dispose()
     await first.done
 
-    const second = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('reused'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const second = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('reused'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     second.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, second)
 
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ describe('chain semantics', () => {
       toolCallResponse('c1', 'probe', { q: 1 }), // if the direct call had counted, this would be #2
       textResponse('done'),
     ]))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ describe('fold onto the downstream decision', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ describe('fold onto the downstream decision', () => {
       textResponse('done'),
     ])
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
diff --git a/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/bridge.spec.ts b/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/bridge.spec.ts
index 6d9e89d5ed..672a89188a 100644
--- a/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/bridge.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/bridge.spec.ts
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — UserPromptSubmit', () => {
 
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not run')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'do something' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — UserPromptSubmit', () => {
 
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — PreToolUse', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
     let ran = false
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'danger', description: 'd', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'should not run' }] } }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'use danger' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — PreToolUse', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
     let ran = false
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'safe', description: 's', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ran ok' }] } }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'use safe' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — PostToolUse', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'raw output' }] } }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — PostToolUse', () => {
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — PostToolUse', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
     let ran = false
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] } }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — SessionStart', () => {
 
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     // session-start fires async (detached .then → agent.inject); wait for the
     // injected context/message to actually land before sending, rather than a
     // fixed sleep that flakes under load.
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — load resilience', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LocalBashExecutor, { timeoutMs: 10_000 })
     await ctx.plugin(HooksClaude, { configPath: '/nonexistent/hooks.json' })
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     // The turn ran normally — no hooks, no crash.
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ describe('hooks-claude bridge — load resilience', () => {
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(HooksClaude, { configPath: join(dir, 'hooks.json') })
     await fiber.dispose()
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(1) // not blocked → the listener is gone
diff --git a/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/coverage-cases.ts b/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/coverage-cases.ts
index a08f9b5b96..774e2a8451 100644
--- a/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/coverage-cases.ts
+++ b/packages/hooks/hooks-claude/tests/coverage-cases.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
         const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
         const ctx = await harness(path, adapter, { ...sessionRoot !== undefined ? { sessionRoot } : {} })
         ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-        const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('transcript'), { model: 'mock' })
+        const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('transcript'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
         agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
         await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
         return {
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter, { pluginRoot: d, projectDir: d })
       ctx.logger.warn = warn as never
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(existsSync(marker)).toBe(true) // substituted command ran
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       ctx.logger.warn = warn as never
       let sawArgs: unknown
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute(args) { sawArgs = args; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       // updatedInput is NOT honored — the tool ran with the ORIGINAL args.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const path = hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: s }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ran')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       // The prompt proceeded unchanged; no context/message injected.
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter, { stderrSummaryMaxChars: 40 })
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const path = hooks(d, { Stop: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: s }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(2)
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const path = hooks(d, { Stop: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: s }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       // A second model request ran → the empty-reason block forced continuation.
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const path = hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: s }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('no')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const turnEnd = events(agent).findLast(e => e.type === 'turn/end')
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'x' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       // ask (no reason) → degrades to deny with the registry's generic message.
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       // the protocol lib's reference default, not a config knob).
       HooksClaude.apply(ctx, { configPath: join(d, 'hooks.json') })
       ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(existsSync(marker)).toBe(true)
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(true)
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(true) // the mismatched deny was discarded → the tool ran
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter) // NB: no projectDir
       // The factory create() path honors meta.cwd (the plain agentLoop.create() does not).
       const { SessionId } = await import('@deepseek-ai/dsh-session')
-      const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), meta: { cwd: workspace }, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), meta: { cwd: workspace }, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
       handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent)
       expect(events(handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent).some(e => e.type === 'context/message'
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       // A later listener that blocks every prompt (registered AFTER the bridge).
       const { AgentId: AId } = await import('@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent')
       ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async () => ({ kind: 'block' as const, reason: 'policy veto' }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       // the downstream block won: the model was never called, no user/message was
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const req = JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
       ctx.on('tools/post-execute', async () => ({ kind: 'accept' as const, content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'rewritten-result' }] }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
       ctx.on('tools/post-execute', async () => ({ kind: 'block' as const, feedback: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'downstream-block' }] }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const bash = ctx.bash
       bash.run = (() => Promise.reject(new Error('executor down')))
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const path = hooks(d, { SessionStart: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: s }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       // Make inject throw, forcing the SessionStart .catch path.
       const original = agent.inject.bind(agent)
       let threw = false
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
 
       const { SessionId } = await import('@deepseek-ai/dsh-session')
-      const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), meta: { cwd: sessionDir }, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), meta: { cwd: sessionDir }, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
       handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent)
 
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
 
       // Register a live child on its own session cwd; emit subagent/end with its id.
       const { SessionId } = await import('@deepseek-ai/dsh-session')
-      const childHandle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('child-stop'), sessionId: SessionId('child-stop-session'), meta: { cwd: childDir }, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      const childHandle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('child-stop'), sessionId: SessionId('child-stop-session'), meta: { cwd: childDir }, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
       ctx.emit('subagent/end', { provider: 'inproc', id: childHandle.agent.id, stopReason: 'completed' })
 
       await waitFor(() => existsSync(marker))
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
       const warn = vi.fn(); ctx.logger.warn = warn as never
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('systemMessage'))
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(group: CoverageGroup): void {
       const path = hooks(d, { SessionStart: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: s }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(path, adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       // Send immediately — do NOT wait for the session-start inject.
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
diff --git a/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/bridge.spec.ts b/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/bridge.spec.ts
index 72e3f45184..e686b565f2 100644
--- a/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/bridge.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/bridge.spec.ts
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ describe('hooks-codex bridge', () => {
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
     let ran = false
     ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'no' }] } }))
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'run ls' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ describe('hooks-codex bridge', () => {
 
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('first answer'), textResponse('second answer after goal')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ describe('hooks-codex bridge', () => {
 
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('fine')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(1)
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ describe('hooks-codex bridge', () => {
     const dir = configDir() // no hooks.json written
     const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
     const ctx = await harness(dir, adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(1)
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ describe('hooks-codex bridge', () => {
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(HooksCodex, { configPath: join(dir, 'hooks.json'), model: 'm' })
     await fiber.dispose()
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
     expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(1) // not blocked → the listener is gone
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ describe('hooks-codex bridge', () => {
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter([]))
     const warn = vi.fn()
     ctx.logger.warn = warn as never
-    ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' }) // fires agent/session-start
+    ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }) // fires agent/session-start
     await waitFor(() => existsSync(marker))
     const pid = Number(readFileSync(pidFile, 'utf8').trim())
     await fiber.dispose()
diff --git a/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/coverage-cases.ts b/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/coverage-cases.ts
index 2f40751876..d11c74951d 100644
--- a/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/coverage-cases.ts
+++ b/packages/hooks/hooks-codex/tests/coverage-cases.ts
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
         const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'echo', {}), textResponse('done')])
         const ctx = await harness(path, adapter, { ...sessionRoot !== undefined ? { sessionRoot } : {} })
         ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-        const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('transcript'), { model: 'mock' })
+        const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('transcript'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
         agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
         await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
         return {
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'b.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\nexit 2\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('no')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(0)
       const te = events(agent).findLast(e => e.type === 'turn/end')
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'c.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho \'{"hookSpecificOutput":{"hookEventName":"UserPromptSubmit","additionalContext":"ctx-x"}}\'\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)).toContain('ctx-x')
     })
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('should not run')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.on('agent/prompt-submit', async () => ({ kind: 'block' as const, reason: 'policy veto' }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(0)
       expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'user/message')).toBe(false)
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const req = JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)
       expect(req).toContain('from-bridge')
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
       ctx.on('tools/post-execute', async () => ({ kind: 'accept' as const, content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'rewritten-result' }] }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
       expect(result?.type === 'tool/result' && result.data.content.some(b => b.type === 'text' && b.text === 'rewritten-result')).toBe(true)
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
           meta: { owner: 'policy' },
         }],
       }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
 
       const contexts = events(agent).filter(event => event.type === 'context/message')
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'echo', description: 'e', parameters: {}, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
       ctx.on('tools/post-execute', async () => ({ kind: 'block' as const, feedback: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'downstream-block' }] }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const result = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
       expect(result?.type === 'tool/result' && result.data.isError).toBe(true)
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { SessionStart: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 's.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho \'{"hookSpecificOutput":{"hookEventName":"SessionStart","additionalContext":"start-ctx"}}\'\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       await waitFor(() => events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'context/message'
       && e.data.content.some(b => b.type === 'text' && b.text.includes('start-ctx'))))
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'ls' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const r = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
       expect(r?.type === 'tool/result' && r.data.isError).toBe(true)
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'ls' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'context/message' && e.data.content.some(b => b.type === 'text' && b.text.includes('post-ctx')))).toBe(true)
     })
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: {}, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(true) // clean-exit hook allows; commandOf returned ''
     })
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'x' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
       expect(res?.type === 'hook/result' && res.data.exitCode).toBe(0)
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'x' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
       expect(res?.type === 'hook/result' && res.data.stderrSummary?.endsWith('…')).toBe(true)
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'x' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter, { stderrSummaryMaxChars: 40 })
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
       expect(res?.type === 'hook/result' && res.data.stderrSummary).toBe('x'.repeat(40) + '…')
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       // Direct apply (schema bypass) → the `model ?? ''` fallback is exercised.
       HooksCodex.apply(ctx, { configPath: join(d, 'hooks.json') })
       ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(existsSync(marker)).toBe(true)
       expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('async hook'))
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(true)
     })
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { SessionStart: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 's.sh', `#!/usr/bin/env bash\ntouch "${marker}"\nexit 0\n`) }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       await waitFor(() => existsSync(marker)) // the clean no-output hook has finished
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'context/message')).toBe(false)
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       const warn = vi.fn(); ctx.logger.warn = warn as never
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.inject = (() => { throw new Error('inject boom') })
       await waitFor(() => warn.mock.calls.some(c => String(c[0]).includes('SessionStart hook failed')))
       expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('SessionStart hook failed'))
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(true)
     })
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(true) // matcher didn't match → no hook ran → tool proceeded
       expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'hook/invoked')).toBe(false)
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
       expect(res?.type === 'hook/result' && res.data.decision).toBe('stop') // recorded
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'x' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const r = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
       expect(r?.type === 'tool/result' && r.data.content.some(b => b.type === 'text' && b.text.includes('blocked by PreToolUse hook'))).toBe(true)
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 'x' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const r = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'tool/result')
       expect(r?.type === 'tool/result' && r.data.isError).toBe(true)
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'Bash', { command: 7 }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'number' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const payload = JSON.parse(readFileSync(cap, 'utf8')) as { tool_input: { command: string } }
       expect(payload.tool_input.command).toBe('')
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.bash.run = (() => Promise.reject(new Error('executor down')))
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const res = events(agent).find(e => e.type === 'hook/result')
       expect(res?.type === 'hook/result' && 'exitCode' in res.data).toBe(false)
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { Stop: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 's.sh', `#!/usr/bin/env bash\nif [ -e "${marker}" ]; then exit 0; fi\ntouch "${marker}"\nexit 2\n`) }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('one'), textResponse('two')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(2) // empty-reason block forced continuation
       expect(JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[1]!.messages)).toContain('blocked by Stop hook')
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'ctx.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho "extra guidance from a plain hook"\nexit 0\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)).toContain('extra guidance from a plain hook')
     })
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { SessionStart: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'b.sh', `#!/usr/bin/env bash\ntouch "${marker}"\necho "stale"\nexit 2\n`) }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       await waitFor(() => existsSync(marker)) // the exit-2 hook has finished
       expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'context/message'
       && e.data.content.some(b => b.type === 'text' && b.text.includes('stale')))).toBe(false)
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'e.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho "stale"\nexit 1\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(adapter.requests).toHaveLength(1) // exit 1 is non-blocking → the turn ran
       expect(JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)).not.toContain('stale')
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { SessionStart: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'ss.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho "session preamble"\nexit 0\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       await waitFor(() => events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'context/message'
       && e.data.content.some(b => b.type === 'text' && b.text.includes('session preamble'))))
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       hooks(d, { UserPromptSubmit: [{ hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: sh(d, 'j.sh', '#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho \'{"unrelated":"json"}\'\nexit 0\n') }] }] })
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)).not.toContain('unrelated')
     })
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([toolCallResponse('c1', 'shell', { command: 'ls' }), textResponse('done')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'shell', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       const payload = JSON.parse(readFileSync(cap, 'utf8')) as { tool_name: string; tool_input: { command: string } }
       expect(payload.tool_name).toBe('shell')
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       let ran = false
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'shell', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { ran = true; return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(ran).toBe(false) // the matcher fired → the hook denied the tool
       expect(events(agent).some(e => e.type === 'hook/invoked' && e.data.point === 'PreToolUse')).toBe(true)
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       const adapter = new MockAdapter([textResponse('ok')])
       const ctx = await harness(join(d, 'hooks.json'), adapter)
       const warn = vi.fn(); ctx.logger.warn = warn as never
-      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { model: 'mock' })
+      const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('a1'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
       agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }]); await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
       expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('systemMessage'))
       expect(JSON.stringify(adapter.requests[0]!.messages)).not.toContain('heads up')
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ export function defineCoverageCases(groups: CoverageGroup | readonly CoverageGro
       ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
       ctx.tools.register(defineTool({ name: 'Bash', description: 'b', parameters: { command: { type: 'string' } }, async execute() { return [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }] } }))
       const { SessionId } = await import('@deepseek-ai/dsh-session')
-      const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), meta: { cwd: sessionDir }, agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+      const handle = await ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('a1'), sessionId: SessionId('s1'), meta: { cwd: sessionDir }, agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
       handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
       await waitForIdle(ctx, handle.agent as ReactLoopAgent)
       expect(existsSync(marker)).toBe(true)
diff --git a/packages/llm/README.md b/packages/llm/README.md
index 61368d81f0..4a5e6769e2 100644
--- a/packages/llm/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ The LLM seam and its provider adapters. The interface package (`llm`) owns the a
 | `llm/` | Abstract LLM service + content-block vocabulary + chunk assembler | `ctx.llm` |
 | `token-meter/` | Replay-aware request and surface token measurement | `ctx.tokenMeter` |
 | `llm-deepseek/` | DeepSeek API adapter (hand-rolled fetch/SSE) | (registers on `ctx.llm`) |
-| `llm-pi-ai/` | DeepSeek adapter via `@earendil-works/pi-ai` (design twin) | (registers on `ctx.llm`) |
+| `llm-pi-ai/` | Multi-provider adapter via `@earendil-works/pi-ai` | (registers on `ctx.llm`) |
 
-The interface lives at `llm/llm/`; adapters and the reusable token meter are flat siblings under the group. A new provider adapter joins here and registers on `ctx.llm` without touching the interface. See [twin LLM adapters](../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) for why two adapters exist and the [replay token meter RFC](../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md) for measurement ownership.
+The interface lives at `llm/llm/`; adapters and the reusable token meter are flat siblings under the group. Requests route by `provider`, while `model` is passed through to the selected adapter. A new provider adapter joins here and registers one or more provider routes on `ctx.llm` without touching the interface. See [twin LLM adapters](../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) for the contract-validation origin of the two shipping implementations and the [replay token meter RFC](../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-replay-token-meter-service.md) for measurement ownership.
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md
index 1270ad40a5..7da98cdebf 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 DeepSeek chat-completions adapter for the harness LLM seam: hand-rolled `fetch` + SSE translation from the official wire format (source of truth: the API docs — guides/thinking_mode, guides/tool_calls, api/create-chat-completion) into the `StreamChunk` protocol.
 
-A second, independent implementation of the same seam exists in `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai` (library-backed). Same Config shape — pick one per context (registering both for the same model names throws by design).
+A second, library-backed implementation of the same seam exists in `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai`. This package always owns the `deepseek` provider route; mounting a pi-ai profile with `provider: deepseek` in the same context throws `LlmError('DUPLICATE_ADAPTER')` by design.
 
 ## Config
 
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ A second, independent implementation of the same seam exists in `@deepseek-ai/ds
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY    # or rely on the env fallback
     baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL  # default: https://api.deepseek.com
-    models: [deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-pro] # one adapter, registered for each name
     thinking: enabled        # optional; provider default is enabled
     reasoningEffort: high    # optional; high | max — omitted ⇒ not sent
+    models:                  # optional; defaults to V4 Flash and V4 Pro
+      - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+        name: DeepSeek V4 Flash
+      - id: private-reasoner
+        description: Company-hosted reasoning model
 ```
 
-`models` lists every model name this one adapter instance serves: the adapter registers itself for each (the harness model name IS the wire `model` string), so a `generate`/`stream` call routes to it whenever `options.model` is any of them. Registering a second adapter for a name already taken throws `LlmError('DUPLICATE_ADAPTER')` (the LLM service enforces one adapter per model, all-or-nothing).
+The plugin registers the single provider route `deepseek`. A request selects it with `provider: deepseek`; its `model` is passed through as the wire `model` string, so changing DeepSeek models does not require lifecycle-time registration. Omitting `models` advertises `deepseek-v4-flash` and `deepseek-v4-pro`; an explicit list replaces those defaults, while `models: []` advertises none. Catalog entries are exposed through `ctx.llm.listModels('deepseek')` for clients such as ACP editors, but remain advisory: unlisted model ids still pass through unchanged. An omitted entry name defaults to its id. Registering another adapter for `deepseek` throws `LlmError('DUPLICATE_ADAPTER')`.
 
 `reasoningEffort` is **omitted by default** — when unset, the `reasoning_effort` wire field is not sent and the server applies its own default for the model. The only accepted values are `high` and `max` (DeepSeek's official effort levels). It is meaningful only with thinking enabled (the provider default).
 
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/adapter.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/adapter.ts
index 30760a8fbc..ece053c6b3 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/adapter.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/adapter.ts
@@ -6,13 +6,23 @@
  */
 
 import { attributionHeaders, LlmAdapter, LlmError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import type { GenerateOptions, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { GenerateOptions, LlmModelInfo, LlmProviderInfo, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { serializeRequest } from './serialize.ts'
 import type { RequestDefaults } from './serialize.ts'
 import { parseSse } from './sse.ts'
 import { translate } from './translate.ts'
 import type { WireError } from './types.ts'
 
+/** One optional model entry advertised by the hand-written adapter. */
+export interface DeepSeekCatalogModel {
+  /** Wire model id accepted by the configured endpoint. */
+  id: string
+  /** Selector label; defaults to {@link id}. */
+  name?: string
+  /** Optional selector detail for deployments with similar model variants. */
+  description?: string
+}
+
 /** Constructor options for {@link DeepSeekAdapter}; the plugin's `apply` resolves them from Config + environment. */
 export interface DeepSeekAdapterOptions {
   /** Bearer token sent in the `authorization` header on every request. */
@@ -21,6 +31,8 @@ export interface DeepSeekAdapterOptions {
   baseURL: string
   /** Request defaults applied to every call (thinking mode, effort). */
   defaults?: RequestDefaults
+  /** Advisory models exposed to discovery consumers; requests remain unrestricted. */
+  models?: readonly DeepSeekCatalogModel[]
 }
 
 /**
@@ -49,6 +61,19 @@ export class DeepSeekAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
     super()
   }
 
+  override providerInfo(provider: string): LlmProviderInfo {
+    return { id: provider, name: 'DeepSeek' }
+  }
+
+  override listModels(provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    return Promise.resolve((this.options.models ?? []).map(model => ({
+      provider,
+      id: model.id,
+      name: model.name ?? model.id,
+      ...model.description === undefined ? {} : { description: model.description },
+    })))
+  }
+
   async * stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
     const body = serializeRequest(options, this.options.defaults ?? {})
 
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts
index b816e2e7cf..695831b1bd 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Register a {@link DeepSeekAdapter} for configured model names on `ctx.llm`. Configuration uses
+ * Register a {@link DeepSeekAdapter} for the `deepseek` provider route on `ctx.llm`. Configuration uses
  * Cordis schemastery; pass secrets from environment variables through `cordis.yml` with `!!js`,
  * as shown in the package README, rather than reading ad hoc files.
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ import type { Context } from 'cordis'
 import z from 'schemastery'
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { DeepSeekAdapter } from './adapter.ts'
+import type { DeepSeekCatalogModel } from './adapter.ts'
 
 export { DeepSeekAdapter, httpErrorCode } from './adapter.ts'
-export type { DeepSeekAdapterOptions } from './adapter.ts'
+export type { DeepSeekAdapterOptions, DeepSeekCatalogModel } from './adapter.ts'
 export { serializeMessages, serializeRequest } from './serialize.ts'
 export type { RequestDefaults } from './serialize.ts'
 export { DONE, parseSse } from './sse.ts'
@@ -21,6 +22,11 @@ export type * from './types.ts'
 export const name = 'llm-deepseek'
 export const inject = ['llm']
 
+const DEFAULT_MODELS: DeepSeekCatalogModel[] = [
+  { id: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+  { id: 'deepseek-v4-pro' },
+]
+
 /**
  * Plugin config, validated by the same-named schemastery schema. Every field
  * is optional in yml: credentials/endpoint fall back to the environment (a
@@ -32,40 +38,62 @@ export interface Config {
   apiKey?: string
   /** Endpoint base; falls back to $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL, then the public API. */
   baseURL?: string
-  /** Model names to register (sent verbatim on the wire). */
-  models?: string[]
   /** Thinking-mode default for every request (provider default: enabled). */
   thinking?: 'enabled' | 'disabled'
   /** Thinking effort (only meaningful with thinking enabled). */
   reasoningEffort?: 'high' | 'max'
+  /** Advisory models shown by discovery consumers; defaults to V4 Flash and V4 Pro. */
+  models?: DeepSeekCatalogModel[]
 }
 
+const catalogModel: z<DeepSeekCatalogModel> = z.object({
+  id: z.string().required(),
+  name: z.string(),
+  description: z.string(),
+})
+
 export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
   apiKey: z.string(),
   baseURL: z.string(),
-  models: z.array(z.string()).default(['deepseek-v4-flash', 'deepseek-v4-pro']),
   thinking: z.union(['enabled', 'disabled']),
   reasoningEffort: z.union(['high', 'max']),
+  models: z.array(catalogModel).default(DEFAULT_MODELS),
 })
 
 /** Public API default; the internal endpoint comes from $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL. */
 export const PUBLIC_BASE_URL = 'https://api.deepseek.com'
 
+/** Resolve, validate, and detach the advisory model catalog. */
+function resolveModels(models: readonly DeepSeekCatalogModel[] | undefined): DeepSeekCatalogModel[] {
+  const seen = new Set<string>()
+  return (models ?? DEFAULT_MODELS).map((model) => {
+    if (model.id.length === 0) throw new Error('llm-deepseek: catalog model ids must be non-empty')
+    if (model.name !== undefined && model.name.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error(`llm-deepseek: catalog model "${model.id}" has an empty name`)
+    }
+    if (seen.has(model.id)) throw new Error(`llm-deepseek: duplicate catalog model "${model.id}"`)
+    seen.add(model.id)
+    return {
+      id: model.id,
+      ...model.name === undefined ? {} : { name: model.name },
+      ...model.description === undefined ? {} : { description: model.description },
+    }
+  })
+}
+
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
   const apiKey = config.apiKey ?? process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
   if (apiKey === undefined || apiKey.length === 0) {
     throw new Error('llm-deepseek: an API key is required (Config.apiKey or $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)')
   }
   const baseURL = config.baseURL ?? process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL ?? PUBLIC_BASE_URL
-  // schemastery's .default() guarantees models is set after validation.
-  const models = config.models as string[]
-
-  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, new DeepSeekAdapter({
+  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['deepseek'], new DeepSeekAdapter({
     apiKey,
     baseURL,
     defaults: {
       thinking: config.thinking,
       reasoningEffort: config.reasoningEffort,
     },
+    models: resolveModels(config.models),
   }))
 }
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.e2e.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.e2e.ts
index b01b498dff..e02476eaef 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.e2e.ts
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ const FLASH = 'deepseek-v4-flash'
 const PRO = 'deepseek-v4-pro'
 const contexts: Context[] = []
 
-async function harness(model: string, config: Partial<Config> = {}) {
+async function harness(_model: string, config: Partial<Config> = {}) {
   const ctx = new Context()
   contexts.push(ctx)
   await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: [model], ...config })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, config)
   return ctx
 }
 
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('llm-deepseek e2e (real API)', ()
     const ctx = await harness(FLASH, { thinking: 'disabled' })
     const kinds: string[] = []
     for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: FLASH,
       messages: ask('Count from 1 to 5, digits only.'),
       maxTokens: 50,
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts
index 46f123a1c7..c0a2f8f482 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ const textEvents = [
 async function harness(baseURL: string, config: object = {}) {
   const ctx = new Context()
   await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { apiKey: 'test-key', baseURL, models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'], ...config })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { apiKey: 'test-key', baseURL, ...config })
   return ctx
 }
 
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ describe('DeepSeekAdapter against a mock server', () => {
 
     const kinds: string[] = []
     for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
       messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }],
     })) {
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ describe('DeepSeekAdapter against a mock server', () => {
     )
     try {
       const iterate = async (): Promise<void> => {
-        for await (const _chunk of adapter.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] })) { /* drain */ }
+        for await (const _chunk of adapter.stream({ provider: 'deepseek', model: 'm', messages: [] })) { /* drain */ }
       }
       await expect(iterate()).rejects.toThrow(/no response body/)
     } finally {
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ describe('DeepSeekAdapter against a mock server', () => {
     const pending = (async () => {
       const chunks = []
       for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({
+        provider: 'deepseek',
         model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
         messages: [],
         signal: controller.signal,
@@ -239,25 +241,81 @@ describe('DeepSeekAdapter against a mock server', () => {
 })
 
 describe('plugin registration and config', () => {
-  it('registers the configured models and unregisters on dispose (HMR safety)', async () => {
+  it('registers the deepseek provider and unregisters on dispose (HMR safety)', async () => {
     const server = await mockServer([])
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {
       apiKey: 'k',
       baseURL: server.url,
-      models: ['deepseek-v4-flash', 'deepseek-v4-pro'],
     })
-    expect(ctx.llm.models().sort()).toEqual(['deepseek-v4-flash', 'deepseek-v4-pro'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
     await fiber.dispose()
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
-  it('defaults the model list', async () => {
+  it('owns the deepseek provider and advertises the default models', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1' })
-    expect(ctx.llm.models().sort()).toEqual(['deepseek-v4-flash', 'deepseek-v4-pro'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('deepseek')).resolves.toEqual([
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'deepseek-v4-flash', name: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'deepseek-v4-pro', name: 'deepseek-v4-pro' },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('uses the default model catalog when apply is called directly', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    LlmDeepSeek.apply(ctx, { apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1' })
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('deepseek')).resolves.toEqual([
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'deepseek-v4-flash', name: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'deepseek-v4-pro', name: 'deepseek-v4-pro' },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('advertises configured models without restricting arbitrary request ids', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {
+      apiKey: 'k',
+      baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1',
+      models: [
+        { id: 'private-fast' },
+        { id: 'private-reasoner', name: 'Private Reasoner', description: 'Higher reasoning budget' },
+      ],
+    })
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('deepseek')).resolves.toEqual([
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'private-fast', name: 'private-fast' },
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'private-reasoner', name: 'Private Reasoner', description: 'Higher reasoning budget' },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('allows an explicit empty model catalog', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {
+      apiKey: 'k',
+      baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1',
+      models: [],
+    })
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('deepseek')).resolves.toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    [[{ id: '' }], /ids must be non-empty/],
+    [[{ id: 'm', name: '' }], /empty name/],
+    [[{ id: 'm' }, { id: 'm' }], /duplicate catalog model/],
+  ] as const)('rejects invalid advisory model config', async (models, message) => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    await expect(ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {
+      apiKey: 'k',
+      baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1',
+      models: [...models],
+    })).rejects.toThrow(message)
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
   it('falls back to DEEPSEEK_API_KEY and DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL env vars', async () => {
@@ -266,7 +324,7 @@ describe('plugin registration and config', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {})
-    expect(ctx.llm.models().length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
   })
 
   it('throws a clear error when no API key is available', async () => {
@@ -275,7 +333,7 @@ describe('plugin registration and config', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     await expect(ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {}))
       .rejects.toThrow(/an API key is required/)
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
   it('prefers explicit config over env for key and base URL', async () => {
@@ -292,7 +350,7 @@ describe('plugin registration and config', () => {
     vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL', server.url)
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { apiKey: 'k', models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { apiKey: 'k' })
     await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
     expect(server.requests).toHaveLength(1)
   })
@@ -304,11 +362,12 @@ describe('plugin registration and config', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     // Registration succeeds; no call is made (would hit api.deepseek.com).
     await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {})
-    expect(ctx.llm.models().length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
   })
 
-  it('adapter is constructible directly for embedding', () => {
+  it('adapter is constructible directly for embedding', async () => {
     const adapter = new DeepSeekAdapter({ apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1' })
     expect(adapter).toBeInstanceOf(DeepSeekAdapter)
+    await expect(adapter.listModels('deepseek')).resolves.toEqual([])
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/assemble.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/assemble.ts
index b0182615e0..494eeac494 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/assemble.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/assemble.ts
@@ -15,11 +15,19 @@ export interface AssembledResult {
   finish: FinishReason
 }
 
-export async function assemble(ctx: Context, options: GenerateOptions): Promise<AssembledResult> {
+export async function assemble(ctx: Context, options: Omit<GenerateOptions, 'provider'> & { provider?: string }): Promise<AssembledResult> {
   const assembler = new BlockAssembler()
-  for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream(options)) assembler.push(chunk)
+  const request = { provider: 'deepseek', ...options }
+  for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream(request)) assembler.push(chunk)
   return {
-    message: assembler.message(),
+    message: {
+      ...assembler.message(),
+      provenance: {
+        provider: request.provider,
+        model: request.model,
+        ...assembler.replayState === undefined ? {} : { replayState: assembler.replayState },
+      },
+    },
     ...assembler.usage !== undefined ? { usage: assembler.usage } : {},
     finish: assembler.finish,
   }
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/serialize.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/serialize.spec.ts
index 5944f8d30a..0a5d10e23b 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/serialize.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/serialize.spec.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { ContentBlock, GenerateOptions, Message } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-ll
 import { serializeMessages, serializeRequest } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek'
 
 function request(overrides: Partial<GenerateOptions> = {}): GenerateOptions {
-  return { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [], ...overrides }
+  return { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [], ...overrides }
 }
 
 describe('serializeMessages', () => {
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md
index dd1cb5b48c..bb63d82010 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md
@@ -1,60 +1,79 @@
 # @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai
 
-DeepSeek adapter for the harness LLM seam backed by [`@earendil-works/pi-ai`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@earendil-works/pi-ai) (the LLM library behind the pi agent).
-
-## Why a second adapter exists
-
-`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek` already talks to the same endpoint. This package is its **design-verification twin**: same models, same wire protocol, completely different internals — a unified LLM library with its own event vocabulary versus hand-rolled fetch/SSE. Anything the harness `StreamChunk` protocol cannot express for BOTH implementations is a core-vocabulary bug. The differences it exercised on purpose:
-
-- pi-ai hands tool-call `arguments` around as **parsed objects**; the harness keeps raw JSON strings. The adapter patches replay payloads back to the original raw strings before sending them, and re-stringifies parsed output tool calls at `block-end`.
-- pi-ai reports failures as **in-stream error events** (it never throws mid-stream); these map to `finish {kind:'error'|'aborted'}` chunks — the protocol's other sanctioned error path besides throwing (which llm-deepseek uses).
-- pi-ai folds reasoning tokens into `usage.output`; there is no separate reasoning count to map.
-- pi-ai's options omit some DeepSeek/OpenAI-compatible details; the adapter uses its `onPayload` hook to preserve the harness contract (`stop`, scrubbing pi-ai's own per-tool `strict` default — the hand-rolled twin sends no such field — omitted reasoning effort, raw replayed tool arguments).
+Generic multi-provider adapter for the harness LLM seam backed by [`@earendil-works/pi-ai`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@earendil-works/pi-ai). One plugin instance owns an explicit list of provider profiles; every request selects a profile with `GenerateOptions.provider` and resolves `GenerateOptions.model` dynamically from pi-ai's installed catalog.
 
 ## Config
 
-Same shape as llm-deepseek (one-line swap in cordis.yml), with pi-ai's thinking-level vocabulary:
+Configure credentials and deployment-specific transport settings per provider. Omitting `apiKey` delegates authentication to pi-ai's provider-native ambient discovery. `baseURL` overrides only the endpoint of the selected catalog model, preserving its API family and compatibility metadata, so private proxies such as `https://proxy.example.com:8443` remain supported.
 
 ```yaml
 - id: llm
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
   config:
-    apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-    baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL
-    models: [deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-pro]
-    reasoning: high   # off | high | xhigh (xhigh → wire 'max')
+    providers:
+      - provider: openai
+        apiKey: !!js process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY
+        baseURL: https://proxy.example.com:8443
+        reasoning: high
+      - provider: anthropic
+        apiKey: !!js process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
+        maxRetries: 2
+      - provider: openrouter
+        apiKey: !!js process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY
+        headers:
+          X-Deployment: production
 ```
 
+Each provider name must exist in pi-ai's installed catalog and may appear only once in this plugin instance. Registration with `ctx.llm` is atomic: a collision with any provider route already owned by another adapter fails plugin loading without registering the remaining routes. Model ids are not lifecycle config; an unknown model fails before any provider request with `LlmError('UNKNOWN_MODEL')`.
+
+The adapter exposes each configured provider's installed pi-ai models through `ctx.llm.listModels(provider)`. This is provider-neutral selector metadata derived from `getModels(provider)`; request-time resolution still performs the authoritative catalog lookup, so discovery does not create a second model registry.
+
+Supported profile fields are `provider`, `apiKey`, `baseURL`, `headers`, `reasoning`, `thinkingBudgets`, `cacheRetention`, `transport`, `timeoutMs`, `websocketConnectTimeoutMs`, `maxRetries`, and `maxRetryDelayMs`. They map to pi-ai's common stream options. Harness app attribution wins a conflicting configured header name.
+
+## Provider/model routing and replay
+
+The selected pi-ai catalog descriptor supplies the protocol implementation. This includes native API differences such as OpenAI models whose descriptor uses the Responses API rather than Chat Completions; the harness adapter does not hardcode endpoint selection by model name.
+
+Successful assistant responses store a versioned, lossless-JSON replay state beside their durable provider/model provenance. At request time, `LlmService` passes replay state only when the historical provider route and target provider route are currently owned by this same `PiAiAdapter` instance. The adapter validates the state and restores pi-ai response ids and provider signatures even when the target provider or model changes; pi-ai then decides which metadata its target API can reuse. History without replay state is translated as foreign provider-neutral content and never impersonates a native pi-ai response.
+
+If a listener rewrites assembled assistant content, the loop drops replay state before logging the message because its provider metadata no longer describes the content. Invalid versions, malformed metadata, provenance provider/model mismatches, and content/block mismatches fail explicitly with `LlmError('INVALID_REPLAY_STATE')`.
+
+## Vocabulary differences
+
+- pi-ai tool-call arguments are parsed objects; the harness stores raw JSON strings. The adapter parses input and re-stringifies output.
+- pi-ai reports failures as in-stream error events; these map to `finish {kind:'error'|'aborted'}` chunks.
+- pi-ai folds reasoning tokens into output usage; there is no separate reasoning count to map.
+- `GenerateOptions.stop` is rejected with `UNSUPPORTED_OPTION` because pi-ai's common streaming surface cannot guarantee it across providers.
+
 ## App attribution
 
-Every request carries the shared attribution header from dsh-llm's `attributionHeaders()`, passed through pi-ai's `headers` stream option (pi-ai merges caller headers last, so it always reaches the wire - the unit suite asserts arrival on the mock server, same as llm-deepseek). OpenRouter-specific app attribution headers are intentionally not sent by this adapter contract; they are deferred to a future explicit OpenRouter adapter or mode. See [dsh-llm § App attribution](../llm/README.md#app-attribution-attributionts).
+Every request carries the shared attribution header from dsh-llm's `attributionHeaders()`, merged through pi-ai's `headers` stream option. Provider-specific app-attribution headers are not synthesized. See [dsh-llm § App attribution](../llm/README.md#app-attribution-attributionts).
 
 ## Dependency weight
 
-pi-ai declares the openai/anthropic/google/mistral/AWS SDKs as install-time dependencies. They are lazy-loaded — only the openai SDK actually loads for this adapter — but they do land in `node_modules`. Accepted for a package whose purpose is design verification.
+pi-ai installs several provider SDKs and lazy-loads the one selected by the catalog model. The dependency weight is isolated to this opt-in adapter package.
 
 ## Testing
 
-Unit suites run against a local `node:http` mock SSE server (pi-ai's openai SDK happily talks to any base URL). Real-API coverage in `tests/adapter.e2e.ts` (`pnpm run test:e2e`, key-gated): V4 Flash + V4 Pro across all exposed reasoning levels (off/high/xhigh), the thinking+tools round trip, and a cross-adapter structural-equivalence check against llm-deepseek.
+Unit tests use pi-ai catalog models redirected to local mock servers and cover provider/profile routing, native API selection, endpoint overrides, attribution, conversion, replay-state validation, and cross-provider/model replay within one adapter instance. Real-API coverage remains key-gated under `pnpm run test:e2e`.
 
 ## Model Experience
 
-### DeepSeek request through pi-ai
+### Provider request through pi-ai
 
-**What the model sees**: The selected model receives the same logical system prompt, history, tools, stop sequences, and raw replayed tool arguments as the hand-written adapter. This package adds no prompt prose and removes pi-ai's own per-tool `strict` default to preserve that contract.
+**What the model sees**: The selected catalog model receives `GenerateOptions.system`, history, tools, and sampling fields supported by pi-ai's common streaming API. This package adds no prompt prose. Provider-native replay metadata is restored only when the adapter validates it for the historical content.
 
-**Token effect**: Provider tokenization governs exact input. Reasoning level changes generated and passback content; pi-ai reports reasoning inside output usage rather than as a separate count.
+**Token effect**: Provider tokenization governs exact input. Conversion adds no model-visible text; replay metadata may let a native API reuse provider-side state.
 
-### DeepSeek response
+### Provider response
 
-**What the model sees**: pi-ai events become harness reasoning, text, tool-call, usage, and finish chunks; parsed tool arguments are restored to raw JSON strings at the harness boundary.
+**What the model sees**: pi-ai events become harness reasoning, text, tool-call, usage, and finish chunks. Parsed tool arguments cross the harness boundary as raw JSON strings.
 
-**Token effect**: Generated content affects later inputs only after the loop records it; adapter conversion adds no model-visible text.
+**Token effect**: Generated content affects later inputs only after the loop records it. pi-ai folds reasoning tokens into output usage when the provider does not report them separately.
 
 ## Known Limitations and Deferred Work
 
-- **`tool_choice` is not mapped** — same MVP contract as llm-deepseek.
-- **In-history `system`-role messages fold into `user`-role wire messages** — pi-ai exposes a single `systemPrompt` slot, diverging from the hand-rolled twin's `role: 'system'` passthrough.
-- **`LlmError.status` is never set** — pi-ai reports failures as in-stream events with no HTTP status, so error codes are regex-classified from the error text.
-- **`buildModel` hardcodes descriptor metadata** — `contextWindow: 128000`, `maxTokens: 64000`, zero cost, identically for every registered model name; not configurable.
-- **pi-ai's built-in retries are disabled (`maxRetries: 0`)** — failures surface immediately; retry policy belongs to `llm/stream` listeners.
+- **Catalog membership is required** — custom model ids that are absent from the installed pi-ai catalog fail with `UNKNOWN_MODEL`, even when a provider profile supplies a custom endpoint.
+- **`GenerateOptions.stop` is unsupported** — pi-ai's common stream options cannot guarantee stop-sequence behavior across providers, so the adapter rejects the field.
+- **In-history `system` messages use pi-ai's common context conversion** — provider-specific placement follows pi-ai rather than a harness-owned wire override.
+- **`LlmError.status` is unavailable for in-stream failures** — pi-ai error events do not expose a stable HTTP status across providers.
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts
index 4b93b5e87d..26e28ecd1f 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/adapter.ts
@@ -1,147 +1,101 @@
 /**
- * Pi-ai-backed DeepSeek adapter and design twin of the hand-rolled adapter.
- * Both implementations must fit the same provider-neutral stream vocabulary.
+ * Generic pi-ai-backed implementation of the Harness LLM seam.
+ *
  * @module dsh-llm-pi-ai/adapter
  */
 
-import { stream as piStream } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
-import type { Model } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
-import { attributionHeaders, LlmAdapter } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import { CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import type { GenerateOptions, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import { toPiContext, toStreamChunks } from './convert.ts'
+import {
+  getModels,
+  streamSimple,
+} from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+import type {
+  Api,
+  KnownProvider,
+  Model,
+  SimpleStreamOptions,
+} from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+import { attributionHeaders, LlmAdapter, LlmError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { GenerateOptions, LlmModelInfo, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { PiAiProviderProfile } from './config.ts'
+import { toPiContext } from './context.ts'
+import { toStreamChunks } from './stream.ts'
 
-/** Reasoning levels surfaced by this adapter (DeepSeek wire: high|max). */
-export type PiAiReasoning = 'off' | 'high' | 'xhigh'
-
-/** Constructor options for {@link PiAiAdapter}; the plugin's `apply` resolves them from Config + environment. */
+/** Constructor options for {@link PiAiAdapter}. */
 export interface PiAiAdapterOptions {
-  /** Bearer token pi-ai sends on every request. */
-  apiKey: string
-  /** Endpoint base; `/chat/completions` is appended. */
-  baseURL: string
-  /** Thinking level applied to every request ('off' disables thinking). */
-  reasoning?: PiAiReasoning | undefined
+  /** Validated provider profiles this adapter instance owns. */
+  profiles: readonly PiAiProviderProfile[]
 }
 
 /**
- * Build the inline pi-ai model descriptor for one DeepSeek model name.
- * @param modelId - harness model name; sent verbatim on the wire.
- * @param options - adapter options; only `baseURL` is read here (key and reasoning apply per request, not per descriptor).
- * @returns a descriptor with every DeepSeek compat flag explicit — pi-ai's URL-based auto-detection is never relied on.
+ * Resolve a catalog model dynamically and apply only the configured endpoint
+ * override, preserving the catalog's API/capability/compatibility metadata.
  */
-export function buildModel(modelId: string, options: PiAiAdapterOptions): Model<'openai-completions'> {
+function resolveModel(profile: PiAiProviderProfile, modelId: string): Model<Api> {
+  const model = getModels(profile.provider as KnownProvider).find(candidate => candidate.id === modelId) as Model<Api> | undefined
+  if (model === undefined) {
+    throw new LlmError(`pi-ai provider "${profile.provider}" has no catalog model "${modelId}"`, 'UNKNOWN_MODEL')
+  }
+  return profile.baseURL === undefined ? model : { ...model, baseUrl: profile.baseURL }
+}
+
+/** Copy profile stream knobs into pi-ai's common option vocabulary. */
+function profileOptions(profile: PiAiProviderProfile): SimpleStreamOptions {
   return {
-    id: modelId,
-    name: modelId,
-    api: 'openai-completions',
-    provider: 'deepseek',
-    baseUrl: options.baseURL,
-    // Keep reasoning support enabled so `off` can send DeepSeek's explicit
-    // disabled marker rather than falling back to the provider's enabled default.
-    reasoning: true,
-    // DeepSeek's official effort levels: high|max (xhigh maps to max).
-    thinkingLevelMap: { minimal: null, low: null, medium: null, high: 'high', xhigh: 'max' },
-    input: ['text'],
-    cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
-    contextWindow: 128_000,
-    maxTokens: 64_000,
-    compat: {
-      // Auto-detection only fires for *.deepseek.com base URLs; the internal
-      // endpoint (and test mocks) need these set explicitly.
-      thinkingFormat: 'deepseek',
-      requiresReasoningContentOnAssistantMessages: true,
-      supportsReasoningEffort: true,
-      // DeepSeek documents max_tokens (not OpenAI's max_completion_tokens).
-      maxTokensField: 'max_tokens',
-    },
+    ...profile.apiKey === undefined ? {} : { apiKey: profile.apiKey },
+    ...profile.reasoning === undefined ? {} : { reasoning: profile.reasoning },
+    ...profile.thinkingBudgets === undefined ? {} : { thinkingBudgets: profile.thinkingBudgets },
+    ...profile.cacheRetention === undefined ? {} : { cacheRetention: profile.cacheRetention },
+    ...profile.transport === undefined ? {} : { transport: profile.transport },
+    ...profile.timeoutMs === undefined ? {} : { timeoutMs: profile.timeoutMs },
+    ...profile.websocketConnectTimeoutMs === undefined ? {} : { websocketConnectTimeoutMs: profile.websocketConnectTimeoutMs },
+    ...profile.maxRetries === undefined ? {} : { maxRetries: profile.maxRetries },
+    ...profile.maxRetryDelayMs === undefined ? {} : { maxRetryDelayMs: profile.maxRetryDelayMs },
   }
 }
 
-type Payload = {
-  tools?: { function?: { strict?: unknown } }[]
-  messages?: {
-    role?: unknown
-    tool_calls?: { id?: unknown; function?: { arguments?: unknown } }[]
-  }[]
-  reasoning_effort?: unknown
-  stop?: unknown
-}
-
-function rawToolArguments(options: GenerateOptions): Map<CallId, string> {
-  const raw = new Map<CallId, string>()
-  for (const message of options.messages) {
-    if (message.role !== 'assistant') continue
-    for (const block of message.content) {
-      if (block.type === 'tool-call') raw.set(block.id, block.arguments)
-    }
+/** Merge deployment headers while removing case-insensitive attribution collisions. */
+function requestHeaders(headers: Readonly<Record<string, string>> | undefined): Record<string, string> {
+  const attribution = attributionHeaders()
+  const reserved = new Set(Object.keys(attribution).map(name => name.toLowerCase()))
+  return {
+    ...Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(headers ?? {}).filter(([name]) => !reserved.has(name.toLowerCase()))),
+    ...attribution,
   }
-  return raw
-}
-
-function patchPayload(payload: unknown, options: GenerateOptions, reasoning: PiAiReasoning | undefined): unknown {
-  /* v8 ignore next -- pi-ai onPayload always receives an object; tolerate unusual future hooks defensively */
-  if (typeof payload !== 'object' || payload === null) return payload
-  const body = payload as Payload
-
-  if (reasoning === undefined) {
-    delete body.reasoning_effort
-  }
-  if (options.stop !== undefined) {
-    body.stop = options.stop
-  }
-
-  // pi-ai stamps its own `strict` default on every serialized tool; the
-  // harness tool contract has no strict field and the hand-rolled twin sends
-  // none, so scrub it for wire parity.
-  for (const tool of body.tools ?? []) {
-    /* v8 ignore next -- malformed pi-ai payload guard: real tool entries always carry function */
-    if (tool.function === undefined) continue
-    delete tool.function.strict
-  }
-
-  const rawById = rawToolArguments(options)
-  /* v8 ignore next -- defensive for non-chat payloads; OpenAI chat payloads always carry messages */
-  for (const message of body.messages ?? []) {
-    if (message.role !== 'assistant') continue
-    /* v8 ignore next -- assistant messages without tool_calls need no raw-argument patch */
-    for (const call of message.tool_calls ?? []) {
-      /* v8 ignore next -- malformed pi-ai payload guard: real tool calls always carry a string id */
-      if (typeof call.id !== 'string') continue
-      const raw = rawById.get(CallId(call.id))
-      /* v8 ignore next -- pi-ai always emits a function object for assistant tool_calls; guard malformed payloads defensively */
-      if (raw !== undefined && call.function !== undefined) call.function.arguments = raw
-    }
-  }
-
-  return body
 }
 
 /**
- * pi-ai-backed adapter. One instance serves every registered model name.
- *
- * Implementation notes:
- * - `onPayload` patches provider payload details pi-ai cannot express directly:
- *   stop sequences, scrubbing pi-ai's own per-tool `strict` default (the
- *   hand-rolled twin sends no such field), omitted reasoning effort, and raw
- *   replayed tool-call arguments.
- * - pi-ai reports request failures as in-stream error events; convert.ts
- *   maps them to `finish {kind:'error'|'aborted'}` chunks rather than
- *   throwing — both are sanctioned StreamChunk error paths.
+ * pi-ai-backed multi-provider adapter. Model descriptors are resolved for each
+ * request, so models need not be registered during the Cordis lifecycle.
  */
 export class PiAiAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
-  constructor(private readonly options: PiAiAdapterOptions) {
+  private readonly profiles: ReadonlyMap<string, PiAiProviderProfile>
+
+  constructor(options: PiAiAdapterOptions) {
     super()
+    this.profiles = new Map(options.profiles.map(profile => [profile.provider, profile]))
+  }
+
+  override listModels(provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    const profile = this.profiles.get(provider)
+    if (profile === undefined) {
+      return Promise.reject(new LlmError(`pi-ai adapter does not own provider "${provider}"`, 'NO_ADAPTER'))
+    }
+    return Promise.resolve(getModels(profile.provider as KnownProvider).map(model => ({
+      provider,
+      id: model.id,
+      name: model.name,
+    })))
   }
 
   async * stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
-    const model = buildModel(options.model, this.options)
-    // Undefined config means "provider default" (DeepSeek: thinking ENABLED),
-    // matching llm-deepseek's omission semantics. pi-ai derives the wire
-    // thinking toggle from whether reasoningEffort is passed, so undefined maps
-    // internally to 'high' to get `thinking: enabled`; patchPayload then removes
-    // `reasoning_effort` so the provider chooses its default effort.
-    const reasoning = this.options.reasoning ?? 'high'
+    if (options.stop !== undefined) {
+      throw new LlmError('llm-pi-ai does not support GenerateOptions.stop', 'UNSUPPORTED_OPTION')
+    }
+    const profile = this.profiles.get(options.provider)
+    if (profile === undefined) {
+      throw new LlmError(`pi-ai adapter does not own provider "${options.provider}"`, 'NO_ADAPTER')
+    }
+    const model = resolveModel(profile, options.model)
 
     // Pi-ai has no iterator-return cancellation hook. Chain an internal signal
     // and abort it when this generator exits so early consumers stop the HTTP stream.
@@ -151,19 +105,16 @@ export class PiAiAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
     else options.signal?.addEventListener('abort', onCallerAbort, { once: true })
 
     try {
-      const events = piStream(model, toPiContext(options), {
-        apiKey: this.options.apiKey,
-        // pi-ai merges caller headers last over its provider defaults, so the
-        // harness attribution always reaches the wire.
-        headers: attributionHeaders(),
-        ...options.temperature !== undefined ? { temperature: options.temperature } : {},
-        ...options.maxTokens !== undefined ? { maxTokens: options.maxTokens } : {},
+      const events = streamSimple(model, toPiContext(options), {
+        ...profileOptions(profile),
+        ...options.temperature === undefined ? {} : { temperature: options.temperature },
+        ...options.maxTokens === undefined ? {} : { maxTokens: options.maxTokens },
+        ...options.sessionId === undefined ? {} : { sessionId: String(options.sessionId) },
         signal: controller.signal,
-        ...reasoning !== 'off' ? { reasoningEffort: reasoning } : {},
-        onPayload: payload => patchPayload(payload, options, this.options.reasoning),
-        maxRetries: 0,
+        // Profile headers are deployment-owned; attribution names are
+        // Harness-owned and therefore win collisions.
+        headers: requestHeaders(profile.headers),
       })
-
       yield* toStreamChunks(events)
     } finally {
       options.signal?.removeEventListener('abort', onCallerAbort)
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/config.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7570aff64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+/**
+ * Configuration schema and provider-profile validation for the pi-ai adapter.
+ *
+ * @module dsh-llm-pi-ai/config
+ */
+
+import { getProviders } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+import type { CacheRetention, ThinkingBudgets, ThinkingLevel, Transport } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+import z from 'schemastery'
+
+/** Configuration for one pi-ai provider route. */
+export interface PiAiProviderProfile {
+  /** pi-ai provider catalog name and Harness route key. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Provider credential; when absent pi-ai uses its provider-native ambient discovery. */
+  apiKey?: string
+  /** Override the selected catalog model's endpoint without changing its protocol metadata. */
+  baseURL?: string
+  /** Provider request headers; Harness attribution wins reserved names. */
+  headers?: Record<string, string>
+  /** Provider-neutral pi-ai reasoning level. */
+  reasoning?: ThinkingLevel
+  /** Token budgets used by reasoning providers that support them. */
+  thinkingBudgets?: ThinkingBudgets
+  /** Prompt-cache retention preference. */
+  cacheRetention?: CacheRetention
+  /** Streaming transport preference. */
+  transport?: Transport
+  /** HTTP/provider SDK timeout in milliseconds. */
+  timeoutMs?: number
+  /** WebSocket connection timeout in milliseconds. */
+  websocketConnectTimeoutMs?: number
+  /** Provider SDK retry count. */
+  maxRetries?: number
+  /** Maximum provider-requested retry delay in milliseconds. */
+  maxRetryDelayMs?: number
+}
+
+/** Plugin configuration: the non-empty provider profiles this instance owns. */
+export interface Config {
+  /** Non-empty set of pi-ai provider routes this adapter instance owns. */
+  providers: PiAiProviderProfile[]
+}
+
+const thinkingBudgets = z.object({
+  minimal: z.number(),
+  low: z.number(),
+  medium: z.number(),
+  high: z.number(),
+})
+
+const profile = z.object({
+  provider: z.string().required(),
+  apiKey: z.string(),
+  baseURL: z.string(),
+  headers: z.dict(z.string()),
+  reasoning: z.union(['minimal', 'low', 'medium', 'high', 'xhigh']),
+  thinkingBudgets,
+  cacheRetention: z.union(['none', 'short', 'long']),
+  transport: z.union(['sse', 'websocket', 'websocket-cached', 'auto']),
+  timeoutMs: z.natural(),
+  websocketConnectTimeoutMs: z.natural(),
+  maxRetries: z.natural(),
+  maxRetryDelayMs: z.natural(),
+})
+
+/** Runtime schema for {@link Config}. */
+export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
+  providers: z.array(profile).required(),
+})
+
+/**
+ * Validate profiles against the installed pi-ai catalog and return a detached
+ * shallow copy suitable for adapter construction.
+ * @param profiles - configured provider profiles.
+ * @returns validated profiles in configuration order.
+ */
+export function resolveProfiles(profiles: readonly PiAiProviderProfile[]): PiAiProviderProfile[] {
+  if (profiles.length === 0) throw new Error('llm-pi-ai: providers must contain at least one profile')
+  const supported = new Set<string>(getProviders())
+  const seen = new Set<string>()
+  return profiles.map((source) => {
+    if (source.provider.length === 0) throw new Error('llm-pi-ai: provider names must be non-empty')
+    if (!supported.has(source.provider)) throw new Error(`llm-pi-ai: unknown pi-ai provider "${source.provider}"`)
+    if (seen.has(source.provider)) throw new Error(`llm-pi-ai: duplicate provider profile "${source.provider}"`)
+    if (source.apiKey !== undefined && source.apiKey.trim().length === 0) {
+      throw new Error(`llm-pi-ai: provider "${source.provider}" has an empty apiKey; omit it to use ambient authentication`)
+    }
+    if (source.baseURL !== undefined && source.baseURL.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error(`llm-pi-ai: provider "${source.provider}" has an empty baseURL`)
+    }
+    seen.add(source.provider)
+    return {
+      ...source,
+      ...source.headers === undefined ? {} : { headers: { ...source.headers } },
+      ...source.thinkingBudgets === undefined ? {} : { thinkingBudgets: { ...source.thinkingBudgets } },
+    }
+  })
+}
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/context.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/context.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ddb8284448
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/context.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/**
+ * Harness request-history conversion into pi-ai's Context vocabulary.
+ *
+ * @module dsh-llm-pi-ai/context
+ */
+
+import { CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { GenerateOptions, Message } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { Context as PiContext, Message as PiMessage, Tool as PiTool } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+import { toPiAssistant } from './replay.ts'
+
+/** Join the text blocks of a harness message. */
+function flattenText(message: Message): string {
+  return message.content
+    .filter(block => block.type === 'text')
+    .map(block => block.text)
+    .join('')
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert harness history to a pi-ai Context. Tool results need the tool
+ * NAME (pi-ai's `toolName`), which the harness doesn't carry on the result
+ * block — it is recovered from the preceding assistant tool-call with the
+ * same id.
+ * @param options - the harness request; `options.system` maps to pi-ai's single `systemPrompt` slot.
+ * @returns the pi-ai context; `tools` is omitted entirely when the request declares none.
+ */
+export function toPiContext(options: GenerateOptions): PiContext {
+  const toolNames = new Map<CallId, string>()
+  const messages: PiMessage[] = []
+
+  for (const message of options.messages) {
+    if (message.role === 'system') {
+      // pi-ai has a single systemPrompt slot; in-history system messages are
+      // folded into user messages to preserve order (rare in practice — the
+      // harness sends the system prompt via options.system).
+      messages.push({ role: 'user', content: flattenText(message), timestamp: 0 })
+      continue
+    }
+    if (message.role === 'assistant') {
+      const assistant = toPiAssistant(message)
+      for (const block of assistant.content) {
+        if (block.type === 'toolCall') toolNames.set(CallId(block.id), block.name)
+      }
+      messages.push(assistant)
+      continue
+    }
+    // user role: text + tool results (each result becomes its own message).
+    const text = flattenText(message)
+    const results = message.content.filter(block => block.type === 'tool-result')
+    if (text.length > 0 || results.length === 0) {
+      messages.push({ role: 'user', content: text, timestamp: 0 })
+    }
+    for (const result of results) {
+      messages.push({
+        role: 'toolResult',
+        toolCallId: result.toolCallId,
+        toolName: toolNames.get(result.toolCallId) ?? 'unknown',
+        content: [{
+          type: 'text',
+          text: result.content
+            .filter(block => block.type === 'text')
+            .map(block => block.text)
+            .join('') || '(no output)',
+        }],
+        isError: result.isError ?? false,
+        timestamp: 0,
+      })
+    }
+  }
+
+  const tools: PiTool[] | undefined = options.tools?.map(tool => ({
+    name: tool.name,
+    description: tool.description,
+    // ToolSchema.parameters is a JSON Schema object; pi-ai's TSchema
+    // (TypeBox) is structurally JSON Schema, so it assigns directly.
+    parameters: tool.parameters,
+  }))
+
+  return {
+    ...options.system !== undefined ? { systemPrompt: options.system } : {},
+    messages,
+    ...tools !== undefined && tools.length > 0 ? { tools } : {},
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts
index 43468ba507..cbd0dcd435 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts
@@ -1,76 +1,45 @@
 /**
- * pi-ai-backed DeepSeek adapter plugin. Same Config shape as
- * `@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek` (one-line swap in cordis.yml), different
- * implementation underneath — see `./adapter.ts` for why both exist.
+ * Generic pi-ai-backed LLM adapter plugin. One plugin instance registers an
+ * explicit set of provider profiles; requests select a profile by provider and
+ * resolve the model dynamically from pi-ai's installed catalog.
  *
  * ```yaml
  * - id: llm
  *   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
  *   config:
- *     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
- *     baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL
- *     models: [deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-pro]
- *     reasoning: high
+ *     providers:
+ *       - provider: openai
+ *         apiKey: !!js process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY
+ *       - provider: anthropic
+ *         apiKey: !!js process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
+ *       - provider: openrouter
+ *         apiKey: !!js process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY
+ *         baseURL: https://proxy.example.com/v1
  * ```
  *
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai
  */
 
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
-import z from 'schemastery'
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { PiAiAdapter } from './adapter.ts'
-import type { PiAiReasoning } from './adapter.ts'
+import { Config, resolveProfiles } from './config.ts'
 
-export { buildModel, PiAiAdapter } from './adapter.ts'
-export type { PiAiAdapterOptions, PiAiReasoning } from './adapter.ts'
-export { mapStopReason, mapUsage, toPiContext, toStreamChunks } from './convert.ts'
+export { PiAiAdapter } from './adapter.ts'
+export type { PiAiAdapterOptions } from './adapter.ts'
+export { Config, resolveProfiles } from './config.ts'
+export type { PiAiProviderProfile } from './config.ts'
+export { toPiContext } from './context.ts'
+export { toPiReplayState } from './replay.ts'
+export type { PiAiReplayState } from './replay.ts'
+export { mapStopReason, mapUsage, toStreamChunks } from './stream.ts'
 
 export const name = 'llm-pi-ai'
 export const inject = ['llm']
 
-/**
- * Plugin config, validated by the same-named schemastery schema. Every field
- * is optional in yml: credentials/endpoint fall back to the environment (a
- * missing API key fails plugin load, not the first call).
- */
-export interface Config {
-  /** API key; falls back to $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY. Required one way or the other. */
-  apiKey?: string
-  /** Endpoint base; falls back to $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL, then the public API. */
-  baseURL?: string
-  /** Model names to register (sent verbatim on the wire). */
-  models?: string[]
-  /**
-   * Thinking level for every request: 'off' disables thinking mode; 'high'
-   * and 'xhigh' (wire 'max') set the effort. Omitted = provider default
-   * (thinking enabled), matching llm-deepseek's omission semantics.
-   */
-  reasoning?: PiAiReasoning
-}
-
-export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
-  apiKey: z.string(),
-  baseURL: z.string(),
-  models: z.array(z.string()).default(['deepseek-v4-flash', 'deepseek-v4-pro']),
-  reasoning: z.union(['off', 'high', 'xhigh']),
-})
-
-/** Public API default; the internal endpoint comes from $DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL. */
-export const PUBLIC_BASE_URL = 'https://api.deepseek.com'
-
+/** Register one generic pi-ai adapter for all configured provider routes. */
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
-  const apiKey = config.apiKey ?? process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-  if (apiKey === undefined || apiKey.length === 0) {
-    throw new Error('llm-pi-ai: an API key is required (Config.apiKey or $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)')
-  }
-  const baseURL = config.baseURL ?? process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL ?? PUBLIC_BASE_URL
-  // schemastery's .default() guarantees models is set after validation.
-  const models = config.models as string[]
-
-  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, new PiAiAdapter({
-    apiKey,
-    baseURL,
-    reasoning: config.reasoning,
-  }))
+  const profiles = resolveProfiles(config.providers)
+  const adapter = new PiAiAdapter({ profiles })
+  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(profiles.map(entry => entry.provider), adapter)
 }
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/replay.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/replay.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4e4fe679a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/replay.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+/**
+ * Durable pi-ai replay metadata and assistant-history reconstruction.
+ *
+ * Harness content remains the durable source for text and tool calls. This
+ * module stores only the provider-native metadata needed to reconstruct a
+ * pi-ai assistant message on a later request.
+ *
+ * @module dsh-llm-pi-ai/replay
+ */
+
+import { LlmError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { Message } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { Api, AssistantMessage, Usage as PiUsage } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+
+type PiAiReplayBlock =
+  | { type: 'text'; textSignature?: string }
+  | { type: 'reasoning'; thinkingSignature?: string; redacted?: boolean }
+  | { type: 'tool-call'; thoughtSignature?: string }
+
+/** Versioned adapter-private projection required to replay a pi-ai response. */
+export interface PiAiReplayState {
+  kind: 'pi-ai'
+  version: 1
+  api: Api
+  provider: string
+  model: string
+  responseModel?: string
+  responseId?: string
+  stopReason: AssistantMessage['stopReason']
+  blocks: PiAiReplayBlock[]
+}
+
+/** Parse tool-call argument JSON; tolerate model malformations with {}. */
+function parseArguments(raw: string): Record<string, unknown> {
+  try {
+    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(raw)
+    if (typeof parsed === 'object' && parsed !== null && !Array.isArray(parsed)) {
+      return parsed as Record<string, unknown>
+    }
+  } catch {
+    // fall through
+  }
+  return {}
+}
+
+/** Construct the zero usage value required by historical pi-ai messages. */
+function emptyPiUsage(): PiUsage {
+  return {
+    input: 0,
+    output: 0,
+    cacheRead: 0,
+    cacheWrite: 0,
+    totalTokens: 0,
+    cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0, total: 0 },
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Project a successful pi-ai response into the minimal durable replay state.
+ * @param message - completed native pi-ai assistant response.
+ * @returns the versioned lossless-JSON replay projection.
+ */
+export function toPiReplayState(message: AssistantMessage): PiAiReplayState {
+  return {
+    kind: 'pi-ai',
+    version: 1,
+    api: message.api,
+    provider: message.provider,
+    model: message.model,
+    ...message.responseModel === undefined ? {} : { responseModel: message.responseModel },
+    ...message.responseId === undefined ? {} : { responseId: message.responseId },
+    stopReason: message.stopReason,
+    blocks: message.content.map((block): PiAiReplayBlock => {
+      switch (block.type) {
+        case 'text': return {
+          type: 'text',
+          ...block.textSignature === undefined ? {} : { textSignature: block.textSignature },
+        }
+        case 'thinking': return {
+          type: 'reasoning',
+          ...block.thinkingSignature === undefined ? {} : { thinkingSignature: block.thinkingSignature },
+          ...block.redacted === undefined ? {} : { redacted: block.redacted },
+        }
+        case 'toolCall': return {
+          type: 'tool-call',
+          ...block.thoughtSignature === undefined ? {} : { thoughtSignature: block.thoughtSignature },
+        }
+      }
+    }),
+  }
+}
+
+function invalidReplay(message: string): never {
+  throw new LlmError(`invalid pi-ai replay state: ${message}`, 'INVALID_REPLAY_STATE')
+}
+
+/** Validate the adapter-private state before it reaches pi-ai. */
+function readReplayState(value: unknown): PiAiReplayState {
+  if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null || Array.isArray(value)) return invalidReplay('expected an object')
+  const state = value as Record<string, unknown>
+  if (state['kind'] !== 'pi-ai') return invalidReplay('unknown state kind')
+  if (state['version'] !== 1) return invalidReplay(`unsupported version ${String(state['version'])}`)
+  for (const key of ['api', 'provider', 'model'] as const) {
+    if (typeof state[key] !== 'string' || state[key].length === 0) return invalidReplay(`${key} must be a non-empty string`)
+  }
+  if (!['stop', 'length', 'toolUse', 'error', 'aborted'].includes(String(state['stopReason']))) {
+    return invalidReplay('unknown stopReason')
+  }
+  if (state['responseModel'] !== undefined && typeof state['responseModel'] !== 'string') return invalidReplay('responseModel must be a string')
+  if (state['responseId'] !== undefined && typeof state['responseId'] !== 'string') return invalidReplay('responseId must be a string')
+  if (!Array.isArray(state['blocks'])) return invalidReplay('blocks must be an array')
+  for (const [index, value] of state['blocks'].entries()) {
+    if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null || Array.isArray(value)) return invalidReplay(`block ${index} must be an object`)
+    const block = value as Record<string, unknown>
+    if (!['text', 'reasoning', 'tool-call'].includes(String(block['type']))) return invalidReplay(`block ${index} has an unknown type`)
+    for (const signature of ['textSignature', 'thinkingSignature', 'thoughtSignature'] as const) {
+      if (block[signature] !== undefined && typeof block[signature] !== 'string') return invalidReplay(`block ${index} ${signature} must be a string`)
+    }
+    if (block['redacted'] !== undefined && typeof block['redacted'] !== 'boolean') return invalidReplay(`block ${index} redacted must be boolean`)
+  }
+  return state as unknown as PiAiReplayState
+}
+
+/** Convert provider-neutral blocks without trusting them as same-model replay. */
+function foreignAssistant(message: Message): AssistantMessage {
+  const content: AssistantMessage['content'] = []
+  for (const block of message.content) {
+    switch (block.type) {
+      case 'text': content.push({ type: 'text', text: block.text }); break
+      case 'reasoning': content.push({ type: 'thinking', thinking: block.text }); break
+      case 'tool-call': content.push({
+        type: 'toolCall',
+        id: block.id,
+        name: block.name,
+        arguments: parseArguments(block.arguments),
+      }); break
+      default:
+        // plugin-added block types are not representable in pi-ai.
+        break
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    role: 'assistant',
+    content,
+    // Deliberately never equals a catalog API: absent replay state is foreign
+    // even if provenance names the same provider/model as this request.
+    api: 'dsh-foreign',
+    provider: message.provenance?.provider ?? 'dsh-foreign',
+    model: message.provenance?.model ?? 'dsh-foreign',
+    usage: emptyPiUsage(),
+    stopReason: content.some(piece => piece.type === 'toolCall') ? 'toolUse' : 'stop',
+    timestamp: 0,
+  }
+}
+
+/** Recombine durable Harness content with validated pi-ai replay metadata. */
+function replayedAssistant(message: Message, rawState: unknown): AssistantMessage {
+  const state = readReplayState(rawState)
+  const provenance = message.provenance
+  if (state.provider !== provenance?.provider) return invalidReplay('provider does not match assistant provenance')
+  if (state.model !== provenance.model) return invalidReplay('model does not match assistant provenance')
+  if (state.blocks.length !== message.content.length) return invalidReplay('block count does not match assistant content')
+  const content: AssistantMessage['content'] = message.content.map((block, index) => {
+    const replay = state.blocks[index]
+    if (replay === undefined || replay.type !== block.type) return invalidReplay(`block ${index} does not match assistant content`)
+    switch (block.type) {
+      case 'text': return {
+        type: 'text',
+        text: block.text,
+        ...replay.type === 'text' && replay.textSignature !== undefined ? { textSignature: replay.textSignature } : {},
+      }
+      case 'reasoning': return {
+        type: 'thinking',
+        thinking: block.text,
+        ...replay.type === 'reasoning' && replay.thinkingSignature !== undefined ? { thinkingSignature: replay.thinkingSignature } : {},
+        ...replay.type === 'reasoning' && replay.redacted !== undefined ? { redacted: replay.redacted } : {},
+      }
+      case 'tool-call': return {
+        type: 'toolCall',
+        id: block.id,
+        name: block.name,
+        arguments: parseArguments(block.arguments),
+        ...replay.type === 'tool-call' && replay.thoughtSignature !== undefined ? { thoughtSignature: replay.thoughtSignature } : {},
+      }
+      /* v8 ignore next -- readReplayState rejects unknown replay tags, so an equal plugin-added Harness tag cannot reach this switch */
+      default: return invalidReplay(`block ${index} has an unsupported Harness type`)
+    }
+  })
+  return {
+    role: 'assistant',
+    content,
+    api: state.api,
+    provider: state.provider,
+    model: state.model,
+    ...state.responseModel === undefined ? {} : { responseModel: state.responseModel },
+    ...state.responseId === undefined ? {} : { responseId: state.responseId },
+    usage: emptyPiUsage(),
+    stopReason: state.stopReason,
+    timestamp: 0,
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert one durable Harness assistant message into pi-ai history.
+ * @param message - assistant content with optional adapter-owned replay metadata.
+ * @returns a native pi-ai assistant message reconstructed from durable content.
+ */
+export function toPiAssistant(message: Message): AssistantMessage {
+  const replayState = message.provenance?.replayState
+  return replayState === undefined ? foreignAssistant(message) : replayedAssistant(message, replayState)
+}
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/convert.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/stream.ts
similarity index 50%
rename from packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/convert.ts
rename to packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/stream.ts
index 098b93edb3..5bdce3c528 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/convert.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/stream.ts
@@ -1,152 +1,17 @@
 /**
- * Bidirectional mapping between the harness vocabulary and pi-ai's:
- * Convert harness requests to pi-ai context and pi-ai assistant events to harness stream chunks.
- * pi-ai parses tool arguments while the harness preserves raw JSON, so conversion parses inbound
- * arguments and re-stringifies outbound values while the adapter restores provider payloads.
- * In-stream pi-ai errors become harness error/aborted finishes, and its reasoning tokens remain
- * folded into output usage because it reports no separate count.
- * @module dsh-llm-pi-ai/convert
+ * pi-ai assistant event translation into the Harness streaming protocol.
+ *
+ * pi-ai tool-call arguments are parsed objects while the Harness keeps their
+ * raw JSON representation. pi-ai also reports failures as terminal stream
+ * events, which this module maps into Harness finish chunks.
+ *
+ * @module dsh-llm-pi-ai/stream
  */
 
 import { CallId, LlmError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import type { FinishReason, GenerateOptions, Message, StreamChunk, TokenUsage } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import type {
-  AssistantMessage,
-  AssistantMessageEvent,
-  Context as PiContext,
-  Message as PiMessage,
-  Tool as PiTool,
-  Usage as PiUsage,
-} from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
-
-/** Join the text blocks of a harness message. */
-function flattenText(message: Message): string {
-  return message.content
-    .filter(block => block.type === 'text')
-    .map(block => block.text)
-    .join('')
-}
-
-/** Parse tool-call argument JSON; tolerate model malformations with {}. */
-function parseArguments(raw: string): Record<string, unknown> {
-  try {
-    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(raw)
-    if (typeof parsed === 'object' && parsed !== null && !Array.isArray(parsed)) {
-      return parsed as Record<string, unknown>
-    }
-  } catch {
-    // fall through
-  }
-  return {}
-}
-
-/**
- * Convert harness history to a pi-ai Context. Tool results need the tool
- * NAME (pi-ai's `toolName`), which the harness doesn't carry on the result
- * block — it is recovered from the preceding assistant tool-call with the
- * same id.
- * @param options - the harness request; `options.system` maps to pi-ai's single `systemPrompt` slot.
- * @returns the pi-ai context; `tools` is omitted entirely when the request declares none.
- */
-export function toPiContext(options: GenerateOptions): PiContext {
-  const toolNames = new Map<CallId, string>()
-  const messages: PiMessage[] = []
-
-  for (const message of options.messages) {
-    if (message.role === 'system') {
-      // pi-ai has a single systemPrompt slot; in-history system messages are
-      // folded into user messages to preserve order (rare in practice — the
-      // harness sends the system prompt via options.system).
-      messages.push({ role: 'user', content: flattenText(message), timestamp: 0 })
-      continue
-    }
-    if (message.role === 'assistant') {
-      const content: AssistantMessage['content'] = []
-      for (const block of message.content) {
-        switch (block.type) {
-          case 'text':
-            content.push({ type: 'text', text: block.text })
-            break
-          case 'reasoning':
-            // Without this wire-field name, pi-ai replays an empty `reasoning_content`, violating
-            // DeepSeek's thinking-mode passback rule on tool-call turns.
-            content.push({ type: 'thinking', thinking: block.text, thinkingSignature: 'reasoning_content' })
-            break
-          case 'tool-call':
-            toolNames.set(block.id, block.name)
-            content.push({
-              type: 'toolCall',
-              id: block.id,
-              name: block.name,
-              arguments: parseArguments(block.arguments),
-            })
-            break
-          default:
-            // plugin-added block types: not representable here.
-            break
-        }
-      }
-      messages.push({
-        role: 'assistant',
-        content,
-        api: 'openai-completions',
-        provider: 'deepseek',
-        model: options.model,
-        usage: emptyPiUsage(),
-        stopReason: content.some(piece => piece.type === 'toolCall') ? 'toolUse' : 'stop',
-        timestamp: 0,
-      })
-      continue
-    }
-    // user role: text + tool results (each result becomes its own message).
-    const text = flattenText(message)
-    const results = message.content.filter(block => block.type === 'tool-result')
-    if (text.length > 0 || results.length === 0) {
-      messages.push({ role: 'user', content: text, timestamp: 0 })
-    }
-    for (const result of results) {
-      messages.push({
-        role: 'toolResult',
-        toolCallId: result.toolCallId,
-        toolName: toolNames.get(result.toolCallId) ?? 'unknown',
-        content: [{
-          type: 'text',
-          text: result.content
-            .filter(block => block.type === 'text')
-            .map(block => block.text)
-            .join('') || '(no output)',
-        }],
-        isError: result.isError ?? false,
-        timestamp: 0,
-      })
-    }
-  }
-
-  const tools: PiTool[] | undefined = options.tools?.map(tool => ({
-    name: tool.name,
-    description: tool.description,
-    // ToolSchema.parameters is a JSON Schema object; pi-ai's TSchema
-    // (TypeBox) is structurally JSON Schema, so it assigns directly.
-    parameters: tool.parameters,
-  }))
-
-  return {
-    ...options.system !== undefined ? { systemPrompt: options.system } : {},
-    messages,
-    ...tools !== undefined && tools.length > 0 ? { tools } : {},
-  }
-}
-
-function emptyPiUsage(): PiUsage {
-  return {
-    input: 0,
-    output: 0,
-    cacheRead: 0,
-    cacheWrite: 0,
-    totalTokens: 0,
-    cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0, total: 0 },
-  }
-}
+import type { FinishReason, StreamChunk, TokenUsage } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { AssistantMessage, AssistantMessageEvent, Usage as PiUsage } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
+import { toPiReplayState } from './replay.ts'
 
 /**
  * Map pi-ai usage (reasoning folded into output by pi-ai).
@@ -259,7 +124,7 @@ export async function* toStreamChunks(events: AsyncIterable<AssistantMessageEven
         break
       case 'done':
         yield { type: 'usage', usage: mapUsage(event.message.usage) }
-        yield { type: 'finish', reason: mapStopReason(event.message) }
+        yield { type: 'finish', reason: mapStopReason(event.message), replayState: toPiReplayState(event.message) }
         return
       case 'error':
         // In-stream error delivery (pi-ai's style) → error finish chunk
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.e2e.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.e2e.ts
index fa30226ddf..77d2cc81dd 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.e2e.ts
@@ -3,26 +3,33 @@ import { Context } from 'cordis'
 import LlmService, { CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { Message, ToolSchema } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import * as LlmPiAi from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
-import type { Config } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
+import type { PiAiProviderProfile } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
 import * as LlmDeepSeek from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek'
 import { assemble, type AssembledResult } from './assemble.ts'
 
 /**
- * Real-API e2e for the pi-ai-backed adapter: V4 Flash + V4 Pro across all
- * reasoning levels the adapter exposes (off / high / xhigh→wire 'max').
- * Mirrors the llm-deepseek matrix so the two independent implementations
- * verify the same StreamChunk contract. Key-gated.
+ * Real-API e2e for the pi-ai-backed adapter: V4 Flash + V4 Pro with provider
+ * defaults and representative high/xhigh reasoning. Mirrors the native
+ * adapter's StreamChunk contract and exercises a replayed tool follow-up.
+ * Key-gated.
  */
 
 const FLASH = 'deepseek-v4-flash'
 const PRO = 'deepseek-v4-pro'
 const contexts: Context[] = []
 
-async function harness(model: string, config: Partial<Config> = {}) {
+async function harness(_model: string, config: Partial<PiAiProviderProfile> = {}) {
   const ctx = new Context()
   contexts.push(ctx)
   await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, { models: [model], ...config })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, {
+    providers: [{
+      provider: 'deepseek',
+      ...process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY === undefined ? {} : { apiKey: process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY },
+      ...process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL === undefined ? {} : { baseURL: process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL },
+      ...config,
+    }],
+  })
   return ctx
 }
 
@@ -56,8 +63,8 @@ const weatherTool: ToolSchema = {
 }
 
 describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('llm-pi-ai e2e (real API)', () => {
-  it.each([FLASH, PRO])('%s + reasoning off: plain text generation', async (model) => {
-    const ctx = await harness(model, { reasoning: 'off' })
+  it.each([FLASH, PRO])('%s + provider-default reasoning: plain text generation', async (model) => {
+    const ctx = await harness(model)
     const result = await assemble(ctx,{
       model,
       messages: ask('Reply with exactly the word: pong'),
@@ -65,7 +72,6 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('llm-pi-ai e2e (real API)', () =>
     })
     expect(result.finish.kind).toBe('stop')
     expect(textOf(result).toLowerCase()).toContain('pong')
-    expect(result.message.content.some(block => block.type === 'reasoning')).toBe(false)
   })
 
   it.each([FLASH, PRO])('%s + reasoning high: reasoning blocks present', async (model) => {
@@ -99,7 +105,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('llm-pi-ai e2e (real API)', () =>
       model: PRO,
       messages: [
         ...ask('What is the weather in Paris right now? Use the get_weather tool.'),
-        { role: 'assistant', content: first.message.content },
+        first.message,
         {
           role: 'user',
           content: [{
@@ -123,9 +129,9 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('llm-pi-ai e2e (real API)', () =>
     const deepseekCtx = new Context()
     contexts.push(deepseekCtx)
     await deepseekCtx.plugin(LlmService)
-    await deepseekCtx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: [FLASH], thinking: 'disabled' })
+    await deepseekCtx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { thinking: 'disabled' })
 
-    const piCtx = await harness(FLASH, { reasoning: 'off' })
+    const piCtx = await harness(FLASH)
 
     const prompt = ask('Reply with exactly the word: pong')
     const [fromDeepSeek, fromPiAi] = await Promise.all([
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.spec.ts
index f3f12666a3..1767447d7d 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/adapter.spec.ts
@@ -2,34 +2,35 @@ import { createServer } from 'node:http'
 import type { IncomingMessage, Server, ServerResponse } from 'node:http'
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import { Context } from 'cordis'
-import LlmService, { CallId, userAgent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import LlmService, { LlmError, userAgent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import * as LlmPiAi from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
-import { buildModel, PiAiAdapter } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
+import { PiAiAdapter, resolveProfiles } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
 import { assemble } from './assemble.ts'
 
-/** Scripted SSE responses, one per request (OpenAI chat-completions shape). */
 interface MockServer {
   url: string
+  paths: string[]
   requests: unknown[]
-  /** Header bags of received requests, in order (parallel to `requests`). */
   headers: IncomingMessage['headers'][]
-  close(): Promise<void>
 }
 
 const servers: Server[] = []
 
 afterEach(async () => {
+  vi.unstubAllEnvs()
   await Promise.all(servers.splice(0).map(server => new Promise(resolve => server.close(resolve))))
 })
 
-async function mockServer(script: { status?: number; events?: string[]; body?: string }[]): Promise<MockServer> {
+async function mockServer(script: { status?: number; events?: string[]; body?: string; delayMs?: number }[]): Promise<MockServer> {
+  const paths: string[] = []
   const requests: unknown[] = []
   const headers: IncomingMessage['headers'][] = []
   const server = createServer((request: IncomingMessage, response: ServerResponse) => {
     let body = ''
     request.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => { body += chunk.toString('utf8') })
     request.on('end', () => {
-      requests.push(JSON.parse(body))
+      paths.push(request.url ?? '')
+      requests.push(body.length === 0 ? undefined : JSON.parse(body))
       headers.push(request.headers)
       const behavior = script.shift() ?? { status: 500, body: 'script exhausted' }
       if (behavior.status !== undefined && behavior.status !== 200) {
@@ -38,20 +39,22 @@ async function mockServer(script: { status?: number; events?: string[]; body?: s
         return
       }
       response.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/event-stream' })
-      for (const event of behavior.events ?? []) response.write(`data: ${event}\n\n`)
-      response.end()
+      let index = 0
+      const writeNext = (): void => {
+        const event = behavior.events?.[index++]
+        if (event === undefined) { response.end(); return }
+        response.write(`data: ${event}\n\n`)
+        if (behavior.delayMs === undefined) writeNext()
+        else setTimeout(writeNext, behavior.delayMs)
+      }
+      writeNext()
     })
   })
   servers.push(server)
   await new Promise<void>(resolve => server.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', resolve))
   const address = server.address()
   if (address === null || typeof address === 'string') throw new Error('no port')
-  return {
-    url: `http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`,
-    requests,
-    headers,
-    close: () => new Promise(resolve => server.close(() => { resolve() })),
-  }
+  return { url: `http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`, paths, requests, headers }
 }
 
 const textEvents = [
@@ -61,347 +64,231 @@ const textEvents = [
   '[DONE]',
 ]
 
-const toolEvents = [
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{"role":"assistant","content":null},"index":0,"finish_reason":null}]}',
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{"tool_calls":[{"index":0,"id":"call-1","type":"function","function":{"name":"get_weather","arguments":""}}]},"index":0,"finish_reason":null}]}',
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{"tool_calls":[{"index":0,"function":{"arguments":"{\\"city\\":\\"Paris\\"}"}}]},"index":0,"finish_reason":null}]}',
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{},"index":0,"finish_reason":"tool_calls"}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":20,"completion_tokens":6}}',
-  '[DONE]',
-]
-
-const thinkingEvents = [
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{"role":"assistant","content":null,"reasoning_content":""},"index":0,"finish_reason":null}]}',
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{"reasoning_content":"pondering"},"index":0,"finish_reason":null}]}',
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{"content":"answer","reasoning_content":null},"index":0,"finish_reason":null}]}',
-  '{"choices":[{"delta":{},"index":0,"finish_reason":"stop"}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":5,"completion_tokens":9}}',
-  '[DONE]',
-]
-
-async function harness(baseURL: string, config: object = {}) {
+async function harness(baseURL: string, overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}): Promise<Context> {
   const ctx = new Context()
   await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, { apiKey: 'test-key', baseURL, models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'], ...config })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, {
+    providers: [{ provider: 'deepseek', apiKey: 'test-key', baseURL, ...overrides }],
+  })
   return ctx
 }
 
-describe('PiAiAdapter against a mock server', () => {
-  it('streams a text generation through the assembler', async () => {
+describe('PiAiAdapter provider routing', () => {
+  it('resolves a catalog model dynamically and uses a private endpoint', async () => {
     const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
     const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-
     const result = await assemble(ctx, {
       model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
       messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }],
     })
     expect(result.message.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }])
     expect(result.finish).toEqual({ kind: 'stop' })
-    expect(result.usage).toMatchObject({ inputTokens: 3, outputTokens: 1 })
+    expect(result.usage).toEqual({ inputTokens: 3, outputTokens: 1 })
+    expect(server.paths).toEqual(['/chat/completions'])
+  })
 
-    // Attribution reaches the wire through pi-ai's headers hook: the exact
-    // shared User-Agent, and no provider-specific headers under the
-    // User-Agent-only contract.
+  it('merges profile headers with Harness attribution winning', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url, {
+      headers: { 'x-company': 'private', 'User-Agent': 'wrong' },
+    })
+    await assemble(ctx, { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
+    expect(server.headers[0]?.['x-company']).toBe('private')
     expect(server.headers[0]?.['user-agent']).toBe(userAgent())
-    expect(server.headers[0]).not.toHaveProperty('http-referer')
-    expect(server.headers[0]).not.toHaveProperty('x-openrouter-title')
-    expect(server.headers[0]).not.toHaveProperty('x-openrouter-categories')
   })
 
-  it('streams tool calls with re-stringified arguments', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: toolEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-
-    const result = await assemble(ctx,{
-      model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
-      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'weather?' }] }],
-      tools: [{
-        name: 'get_weather',
-        description: 'Get weather',
-        parameters: { type: 'object', properties: { city: { type: 'string' } } },
-      }],
+  it('forwards common stream options and profile reasoning', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url, {
+      reasoning: 'xhigh',
+      cacheRetention: 'none',
+      transport: 'sse',
+      timeoutMs: 5000,
+      websocketConnectTimeoutMs: 3000,
+      maxRetries: 0,
+      maxRetryDelayMs: 10,
+      thinkingBudgets: { high: 2048 },
     })
-    expect(result.finish).toEqual({ kind: 'tool-calls' })
-    const call = result.message.content.find(block => block.type === 'tool-call')
-    expect(call).toMatchObject({ name: 'get_weather', arguments: '{"city":"Paris"}' })
-  })
-
-  it('maps reasoning_content streams to reasoning blocks', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: thinkingEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url, { reasoning: 'high' })
-
-    const result = await assemble(ctx,{
-      model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
-      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'think' }] }],
-    })
-    expect(result.message.content).toEqual([
-      { type: 'reasoning', text: 'pondering' },
-      { type: 'text', text: 'answer' },
-    ])
-  })
-
-  it('sends DeepSeek thinking fields when reasoning is configured', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url, { reasoning: 'xhigh' })
-    await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
-    expect(server.requests[0]).toMatchObject({
-      thinking: { type: 'enabled' },
-      reasoning_effort: 'max', // xhigh maps to max via thinkingLevelMap
-    })
-  })
-
-  it('disables thinking for reasoning: off', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url, { reasoning: 'off' })
-    await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
-    expect(server.requests[0]).toMatchObject({ thinking: { type: 'disabled' } })
-  })
-
-  it('injects stop sequences through onPayload', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [], stop: ['END'] })
-    expect(server.requests[0]).toMatchObject({ stop: ['END'] })
-  })
-
-  it('scrubs pi-ai\'s own per-tool strict default through onPayload', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    await assemble(ctx,{
+    await assemble(ctx, {
       model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
       messages: [],
-      tools: [
-        { name: 'alpha', description: 'a', parameters: {} },
-        { name: 'beta', description: 'b', parameters: {} },
-      ],
+      temperature: 0.2,
+      maxTokens: 77,
+      sessionId: 'session-for-pi' as never,
     })
-
-    // pi-ai stamps `strict` on every serialized tool function; the harness
-    // contract has none and the hand-rolled twin sends no such field, so the
-    // payload fixup must have deleted it from every tool.
-    const request = server.requests[0] as { tools: { function: { name: string; strict?: boolean } }[] }
-    expect(request.tools.map(tool => tool.function.name)).toEqual(['alpha', 'beta'])
-    for (const tool of request.tools) {
-      expect('strict' in tool.function).toBe(false)
-    }
-  })
-
-  it('preserves raw replayed tool-call arguments in the provider payload', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    await assemble(ctx,{
+    expect(server.requests[0]).toMatchObject({
       model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
-      messages: [{
-        role: 'assistant',
-        content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('broken'), name: 'f', arguments: '{broken' }],
-      }],
+      temperature: 0.2,
+      max_completion_tokens: 77,
+      thinking: { type: 'enabled' },
+      reasoning_effort: 'max',
     })
-
-    const request = server.requests[0] as { messages: { role: string; tool_calls?: { id: string; function: { arguments: string } }[] }[] }
-    const assistant = request.messages.find(message => message.role === 'assistant')
-    expect(assistant?.tool_calls?.[0]?.function.arguments).toBe('{broken')
   })
 
-  it('maps HTTP errors to error finish chunks (pi-ai in-stream style)', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{
-      status: 401,
-      body: JSON.stringify({ error: { message: 'bad key' } }),
-    }])
+  it('preserves omitted profile options when constructing the adapter directly', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['deepseek'], new PiAiAdapter({
+      profiles: [{ provider: 'deepseek', apiKey: 'test-key', baseURL: server.url }],
+    }))
+
+    const result = await assemble(ctx, { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
+
+    expect(result.message.content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }])
+  })
+
+  it('rejects stop sequences rather than silently ignoring them', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([])
     const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    const result = await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
-    expect(result.finish).toMatchObject({ kind: 'error', code: 'AUTH' })
-    expect((result.finish as { message: string }).message).toMatch(/bad key|401/)
+    await expect(assemble(ctx, { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [], stop: ['END'] }))
+      .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'UNSUPPORTED_OPTION' })
+    expect(server.requests).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('rejects unknown catalog models before network I/O', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([])
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
+    await expect(assemble(ctx, { model: 'not-in-the-catalog', messages: [] }))
+      .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'UNKNOWN_MODEL' })
+    expect(server.requests).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('uses the catalog API implementation, including OpenAI Responses', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ status: 401, body: JSON.stringify({ error: { message: 'expected mock failure' } }) }])
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, {
+      providers: [{ provider: 'openai', apiKey: 'test-key', baseURL: `${server.url}/v1`, maxRetries: 0 }],
+    })
+    const result = await assemble(ctx, { provider: 'openai', model: 'gpt-4.1', messages: [] })
+    expect(result.finish.kind).toBe('error')
+    expect(server.paths).toEqual(['/v1/responses'])
   })
 
   it.each([
+    [401, 'AUTH'],
     [400, 'INVALID_REQUEST'],
     [429, 'RATE_LIMIT'],
     [500, 'SERVER'],
-  ] as const)('maps HTTP %s to stable error code %s', async (status, code) => {
+  ] as const)('maps HTTP %s failures to %s', async (status, code) => {
     const server = await mockServer([{ status, body: JSON.stringify({ error: { message: `provider ${status}` } }) }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    const result = await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url, { maxRetries: 0 })
+    const result = await assemble(ctx, { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
     expect(result.finish).toMatchObject({ kind: 'error', code })
   })
+})
 
-  it('registers/unregisters models on the llm service (HMR safety)', async () => {
+describe('provider profile lifecycle', () => {
+  it('registers every profile atomically and unregisters on dispose', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-    const fiber = await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, { apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:1' })
-    expect(ctx.llm.models().sort()).toEqual(['deepseek-v4-flash', 'deepseek-v4-pro'])
+    const fiber = await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, {
+      providers: [{ provider: 'openai' }, { provider: 'anthropic' }],
+    })
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([
+      { id: 'openai', name: 'openai' },
+      { id: 'anthropic', name: 'anthropic' },
+    ])
     await fiber.dispose()
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
-  it('throws a clear error when no API key is available', async () => {
-    const previous = process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-    delete process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
-    try {
-      const ctx = new Context()
-      await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-      await expect(ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, {})).rejects.toThrow(/an API key is required/)
-    } finally {
-      if (previous !== undefined) process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY = previous
-    }
-  })
-})
-
-describe('option spreads and env fallbacks', () => {
-  it('forwards temperature, maxTokens, and signal', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    const controller = new AbortController()
-    await assemble(ctx,{
-      model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
-      messages: [],
-      temperature: 0.5,
-      maxTokens: 40,
-      signal: controller.signal,
+  it('exposes the installed pi-ai model catalog through provider-neutral metadata', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, { providers: [{ provider: 'openai' }] })
+    const models = await ctx.llm.listModels('openai')
+    expect(models.find(model => model.id === 'gpt-4.1')).toEqual({
+      provider: 'openai', id: 'gpt-4.1', name: 'GPT-4.1',
     })
-    expect(server.requests[0]).toMatchObject({ temperature: 0.5, max_tokens: 40 })
+    expect(models.every(model => model.provider === 'openai')).toBe(true)
   })
 
-  it('falls back to DEEPSEEK_API_KEY / DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL env vars', async () => {
+  it('accepts absent credentials for pi-ai ambient authentication', async () => {
+    vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY', 'ambient-key')
     const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY', 'env-key')
-    vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL', server.url)
-    try {
-      const ctx = new Context()
-      await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-      await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
-      await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
-      expect(server.requests).toHaveLength(1)
-    } finally {
-      vi.unstubAllEnvs()
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url, { apiKey: undefined })
+    await assemble(ctx, { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
+    expect(server.headers[0]?.authorization).toBe('Bearer ambient-key')
+  })
+
+  it('validates empty, duplicate, unknown, and explicitly blank profiles', () => {
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([])).toThrow(/at least one/)
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([{ provider: '' }])).toThrow(/non-empty/)
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([{ provider: 'not-real' }])).toThrow(/unknown/)
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([{ provider: 'openai' }, { provider: 'openai' }])).toThrow(/duplicate/)
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([{ provider: 'openai', apiKey: '' }])).toThrow(/empty apiKey/)
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([{ provider: 'openai', apiKey: '  ' }])).toThrow(/empty apiKey/)
+    expect(() => resolveProfiles([{ provider: 'openai', baseURL: '' }])).toThrow(/empty baseURL/)
+  })
+
+  it('rejects negative or fractional stream tunables at schema validation', () => {
+    const invalid = [
+      { timeoutMs: -1 },
+      { websocketConnectTimeoutMs: -1 },
+      { maxRetries: -1 },
+      { maxRetries: 0.5 },
+      { maxRetryDelayMs: -1 },
+    ]
+    for (const entry of invalid) {
+      expect(() => new LlmPiAi.Config({ providers: [{ provider: 'openai', ...entry }] })).toThrow()
     }
   })
 
-  it('defaults to the public base URL without config or env', async () => {
-    vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY', 'k')
-    vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL', undefined)
-    try {
-      const ctx = new Context()
-      await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-      await ctx.plugin(LlmPiAi, {})
-      expect(ctx.llm.models().length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
-    } finally {
-      vi.unstubAllEnvs()
-    }
+  it('constructs the adapter directly and rejects routes it does not own', async () => {
+    const adapter = new PiAiAdapter({ profiles: [{ provider: 'openai' }] })
+    await expect(adapter.listModels('anthropic')).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'NO_ADAPTER' })
+    await expect((async () => {
+      for await (const _chunk of adapter.stream({ provider: 'anthropic', model: 'claude-sonnet-4', messages: [] })) { /* drain */ }
+    })()).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'NO_ADAPTER' })
+    expect(new LlmError('x', 'X')).toBeInstanceOf(Error)
   })
 })
 
-describe('buildModel', () => {
-  it('builds a DeepSeek-compat openai-completions model descriptor', () => {
-    const model = buildModel('deepseek-v4-pro', { apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://x', reasoning: 'high' })
-    expect(model).toMatchObject({
-      id: 'deepseek-v4-pro',
-      api: 'openai-completions',
+describe('abort wiring', () => {
+  it('resolves catalog endpoints without an override before honoring pre-abort', async () => {
+    const adapter = new PiAiAdapter({ profiles: [{ provider: 'deepseek', apiKey: 'test-key', maxRetries: 0 }] })
+    const controller = new AbortController()
+    controller.abort('already stopped')
+    const chunks = []
+    for await (const chunk of adapter.stream({
       provider: 'deepseek',
-      baseUrl: 'http://x',
-      reasoning: true,
-      compat: { thinkingFormat: 'deepseek', requiresReasoningContentOnAssistantMessages: true },
-    })
-  })
-
-  it('keeps reasoning true even for off (pi-ai gates the thinking field on it)', () => {
-    // 'off' yields {thinking: {type: 'disabled'}} on the wire — pi-ai only
-    // emits the field at all when model.reasoning is true.
-    expect(buildModel('m', { apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://x', reasoning: 'off' }).reasoning).toBe(true)
-  })
-
-  it('adapter is constructible directly for embedding', () => {
-    expect(new PiAiAdapter({ apiKey: 'k', baseURL: 'http://x' })).toBeInstanceOf(PiAiAdapter)
-  })
-})
-
-describe('provider reasoning, passback, and early-stream cancellation', () => {
-  it('defaults omitted reasoning config to thinking ENABLED (provider default)', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url) // no reasoning key at all
-    await assemble(ctx,{ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })
-    const request = server.requests[0] as Record<string, unknown>
-    expect(request.thinking).toEqual({ type: 'enabled' })
-    expect('reasoning_effort' in request).toBe(false)
-  })
-
-  it('replays reasoning_content on assistant tool-call turns (passback rule)', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
-    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
-    await assemble(ctx,{
-      model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
-      messages: [
-        { role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'weather?' }] },
-        {
-          role: 'assistant',
-          content: [
-            { type: 'reasoning', text: 'I should check.' },
-            { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'get_weather', arguments: '{"city":"Paris"}' },
-          ],
-        },
-        {
-          role: 'user',
-          content: [{ type: 'tool-result', toolCallId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Sunny' }] }],
-        },
-      ],
-    })
-    const request = server.requests[0] as { messages: { role: string; reasoning_content?: string }[] }
-    const assistant = request.messages.find(message => message.role === 'assistant')
-    expect(assistant?.reasoning_content).toBe('I should check.')
-  })
-
-  it('aborts the upstream request when the consumer stops streaming early', async () => {
-    // Slow server: write one chunk, then hold the connection open and record
-    // whether the socket closes (the adapter must cancel on early break).
-    let socketClosed = false
-    const server = createServer((request: IncomingMessage, response: ServerResponse) => {
-      request.on('data', () => undefined)
-      request.on('end', () => {
-        response.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/event-stream' })
-        response.write(`data: ${textEvents[0]}\n\n`)
-        response.write(`data: ${textEvents[1]}\n\n`)
-        // never finish; rely on client abort
-        request.socket.on('close', () => { socketClosed = true })
-      })
-    })
-    servers.push(server)
-    await new Promise<void>(resolve => server.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', resolve))
-    const address = server.address()
-    if (address === null || typeof address === 'string') throw new Error('no port')
-    const ctx = await harness(`http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`)
-
-    for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })) {
-      if (chunk.type === 'text-delta') break // stop early mid-stream
-    }
-    // The finally-abort must reach the server as a closed socket.
-    await vi.waitFor(() => { expect(socketClosed).toBe(true) }, { timeout: 5_000 })
-  })
-})
-
-describe('caller cancellation', () => {
-  it('honors a pre-aborted caller signal', async () => {
-    const ctx = await harness('http://127.0.0.1:1')
-    const controller = new AbortController()
-    controller.abort('already cancelled')
-    // pi-ai surfaces the abort as an in-stream error event → aborted finish.
-    const result = await assemble(ctx,{
       model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
       messages: [],
       signal: controller.signal,
-    })
+    })) chunks.push(chunk)
+    expect(chunks.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'aborted' } })
+  })
+
+  it('honors a pre-aborted caller signal', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents, delayMs: 20 }])
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
+    const controller = new AbortController()
+    controller.abort('already stopped')
+    const result = await assemble(ctx, { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })
     expect(result.finish.kind).toBe('aborted')
   })
 
-  it('propagates a mid-stream caller abort to the upstream request', async () => {
-    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents }])
+  it('forwards an abort that arrives while provider streaming is active', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents, delayMs: 30 }])
     const ctx = await harness(server.url)
     const controller = new AbortController()
-    const pending = assemble(ctx,{
-      model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
-      messages: [],
-      signal: controller.signal,
+    const resultPromise = assemble(ctx, {
+      model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [], signal: controller.signal,
     })
-    controller.abort()
-    const result = await pending
-    // Either the abort lands before any chunk (aborted) or after the tiny
-    // mock stream finished (stop) — both are valid races; never a hang.
-    expect(['aborted', 'stop']).toContain(result.finish.kind)
+    setTimeout(() => { controller.abort('stopped during stream') }, 10)
+    const result = await resultPromise
+    expect(result.finish.kind).toBe('aborted')
+  })
+
+  it('aborts upstream when a consumer stops early', async () => {
+    const server = await mockServer([{ events: textEvents, delayMs: 30 }])
+    const ctx = await harness(server.url)
+    for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', messages: [] })) {
+      if (chunk.type === 'block-start') break
+    }
+    await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 20))
+    expect(server.requests).toHaveLength(1)
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/assemble.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/assemble.ts
index b0182615e0..494eeac494 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/assemble.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/assemble.ts
@@ -15,11 +15,19 @@ export interface AssembledResult {
   finish: FinishReason
 }
 
-export async function assemble(ctx: Context, options: GenerateOptions): Promise<AssembledResult> {
+export async function assemble(ctx: Context, options: Omit<GenerateOptions, 'provider'> & { provider?: string }): Promise<AssembledResult> {
   const assembler = new BlockAssembler()
-  for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream(options)) assembler.push(chunk)
+  const request = { provider: 'deepseek', ...options }
+  for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream(request)) assembler.push(chunk)
   return {
-    message: assembler.message(),
+    message: {
+      ...assembler.message(),
+      provenance: {
+        provider: request.provider,
+        model: request.model,
+        ...assembler.replayState === undefined ? {} : { replayState: assembler.replayState },
+      },
+    },
     ...assembler.usage !== undefined ? { usage: assembler.usage } : {},
     finish: assembler.finish,
   }
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/convert.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/convert.spec.ts
index 078d2a4d3b..50955f0607 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/convert.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/convert.spec.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import { CallId, LlmError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { ContentBlock, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { AssistantMessage, AssistantMessageEvent, Usage } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai'
-import { mapStopReason, mapUsage, toPiContext, toStreamChunks } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
+import { mapStopReason, mapUsage, toPiContext, toPiReplayState, toStreamChunks } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai'
 
 function usage(input = 0, output = 0, cacheRead = 0, cacheWrite = 0): Usage {
   return {
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ async function collect(stream: AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>): Promise<StreamChunk[
 describe('toPiContext', () => {
   it('maps system prompt, user text, and tools', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
       system: 'be helpful',
       messages: [{ role: 'user', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }] }],
@@ -55,13 +56,14 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
   })
 
   it('omits empty tools and absent system prompt', () => {
-    const context = toPiContext({ model: 'm', messages: [], tools: [] })
+    const context = toPiContext({ provider: 'deepseek', model: 'm', messages: [], tools: [] })
     expect(context.systemPrompt).toBeUndefined()
     expect(context.tools).toBeUndefined()
   })
 
   it('maps assistant text/reasoning/tool-call blocks', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [{
         role: 'assistant',
@@ -76,8 +78,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
     expect(message.role).toBe('assistant')
     expect(message.stopReason).toBe('toolUse')
     expect(message.content).toEqual([
-      // thinkingSignature names the replay field — DeepSeek's passback rule.
-      { type: 'thinking', thinking: 'hmm', thinkingSignature: 'reasoning_content' },
+      { type: 'thinking', thinking: 'hmm' },
       { type: 'text', text: 'calling' },
       { type: 'toolCall', id: 'c1', name: 'f', arguments: { a: 1 } },
     ])
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('marks tool-call-free assistant messages with stopReason stop', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [{ role: 'assistant', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }] }],
     })
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('parses malformed tool-call arguments to {}', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [{
         role: 'assistant',
@@ -105,6 +108,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('parses non-object argument JSON (arrays, scalars) to {}', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [{
         role: 'assistant',
@@ -116,6 +120,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('recovers toolName for tool results from the preceding assistant call', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [
         {
@@ -140,6 +145,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('labels unmatched tool results with toolName unknown and keeps isError', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [{
         role: 'user',
@@ -156,6 +162,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('splits mixed user text + tool results and folds history system messages', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [
         { role: 'system', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'rule' }] },
@@ -173,6 +180,7 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
 
   it('skips plugin-added (unknown) blocks in assistant content', () => {
     const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
       model: 'm',
       messages: [{
         role: 'assistant',
@@ -184,6 +192,195 @@ describe('toPiContext', () => {
     })
     expect((context.messages[0] as AssistantMessage).content).toEqual([{ type: 'text', text: 'visible' }])
   })
+
+  it('recombines durable content with pi-ai replay metadata across target providers and models', () => {
+    const state = toPiReplayState(assistant({
+      api: 'openai-responses',
+      provider: 'openai',
+      model: 'gpt-5',
+      responseModel: 'gpt-5-2026-01-01',
+      responseId: 'resp_123',
+      stopReason: 'toolUse',
+      content: [
+        { type: 'thinking', thinking: 'private reasoning', thinkingSignature: 'think-sig', redacted: true },
+        { type: 'text', text: 'calling', textSignature: 'text-sig' },
+        { type: 'toolCall', id: 'c1', name: 'f', arguments: { a: 1 }, thoughtSignature: 'tool-sig' },
+      ],
+    }))
+    const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'anthropic',
+      model: 'claude-next',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [
+          { type: 'reasoning', text: 'private reasoning' },
+          { type: 'text', text: 'calling' },
+          { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'f', arguments: '{"a":1}' },
+        ],
+        provenance: { provider: 'openai', model: 'gpt-5', replayState: state },
+      }],
+    })
+
+    expect(context.messages[0]).toMatchObject({
+      role: 'assistant',
+      api: 'openai-responses',
+      provider: 'openai',
+      model: 'gpt-5',
+      responseModel: 'gpt-5-2026-01-01',
+      responseId: 'resp_123',
+      stopReason: 'toolUse',
+      content: [
+        { type: 'thinking', thinking: 'private reasoning', thinkingSignature: 'think-sig', redacted: true },
+        { type: 'text', text: 'calling', textSignature: 'text-sig' },
+        { type: 'toolCall', id: 'c1', name: 'f', arguments: { a: 1 }, thoughtSignature: 'tool-sig' },
+      ],
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('replays all native block kinds when optional metadata is absent', () => {
+    const state = toPiReplayState(assistant({
+      content: [
+        { type: 'thinking', thinking: 'private reasoning' },
+        { type: 'text', text: 'calling' },
+        { type: 'toolCall', id: 'c1', name: 'f', arguments: { a: 1 } },
+      ],
+    }))
+    const context = toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
+      model: 'new-model',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [
+          { type: 'reasoning', text: 'private reasoning' },
+          { type: 'text', text: 'calling' },
+          { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'f', arguments: '{"a":1}' },
+        ],
+        provenance: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', replayState: state },
+      }],
+    })
+
+    expect(context.messages[0]).toMatchObject({
+      role: 'assistant',
+      content: [
+        { type: 'thinking', thinking: 'private reasoning' },
+        { type: 'text', text: 'calling' },
+        { type: 'toolCall', id: 'c1', name: 'f', arguments: { a: 1 } },
+      ],
+    })
+    expect(context.messages[0]).not.toHaveProperty('responseModel')
+    expect(context.messages[0]).not.toHaveProperty('responseId')
+  })
+
+  it('rejects unsupported replay-state versions with a stable error code', () => {
+    try {
+      toPiContext({
+        provider: 'deepseek',
+        model: 'm',
+        messages: [{
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }],
+          provenance: {
+            provider: 'deepseek',
+            model: 'old',
+            replayState: { kind: 'pi-ai', version: 2 },
+          },
+        }],
+      })
+      expect.fail('expected invalid replay state')
+    } catch (error: unknown) {
+      expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(LlmError)
+      expect((error as LlmError).code).toBe('INVALID_REPLAY_STATE')
+      expect((error as Error).message).toContain('unsupported version 2')
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('rejects replay metadata whose blocks do not match the durable content', () => {
+    const state = toPiReplayState(assistant({ content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }] }))
+    expect(() => toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
+      model: 'm',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [{ type: 'reasoning', text: 'done' }],
+        provenance: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', replayState: state },
+      }],
+    })).toThrow(/block 0 does not match assistant content/)
+  })
+
+  it('rejects replay metadata whose block count differs from durable content', () => {
+    const state = toPiReplayState(assistant())
+    expect(() => toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
+      model: 'm',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }],
+        provenance: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', replayState: state },
+      }],
+    })).toThrow(/block count does not match assistant content/)
+  })
+
+  const validReplay = {
+    kind: 'pi-ai',
+    version: 1,
+    api: 'openai-completions',
+    provider: 'deepseek',
+    model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
+    stopReason: 'stop',
+    blocks: [{ type: 'text' }],
+  }
+
+  it.each([
+    ['provider', { ...validReplay, provider: 'openai' }],
+    ['model', { ...validReplay, model: 'deepseek-v4-pro' }],
+  ])('rejects replay metadata whose %s differs from assistant provenance', (field, replayState) => {
+    try {
+      toPiContext({
+        provider: 'deepseek',
+        model: 'next-model',
+        messages: [{
+          role: 'assistant',
+          content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }],
+          provenance: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', replayState },
+        }],
+      })
+      expect.fail('expected invalid replay state')
+    } catch (error: unknown) {
+      expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(LlmError)
+      expect((error as LlmError).code).toBe('INVALID_REPLAY_STATE')
+      expect((error as Error).message).toContain(`${field} does not match assistant provenance`)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    ['number state', 1, 'expected an object'],
+    ['null state', null, 'expected an object'],
+    ['array state', [], 'expected an object'],
+    ['unknown kind', { ...validReplay, kind: 'other' }, 'unknown state kind'],
+    ['non-string api', { ...validReplay, api: 1 }, 'api must be a non-empty string'],
+    ['empty provider', { ...validReplay, provider: '' }, 'provider must be a non-empty string'],
+    ['missing model', { ...validReplay, model: undefined }, 'model must be a non-empty string'],
+    ['unknown stop reason', { ...validReplay, stopReason: 'pause' }, 'unknown stopReason'],
+    ['non-string response model', { ...validReplay, responseModel: 1 }, 'responseModel must be a string'],
+    ['non-string response id', { ...validReplay, responseId: 1 }, 'responseId must be a string'],
+    ['non-array blocks', { ...validReplay, blocks: 'text' }, 'blocks must be an array'],
+    ['number block', { ...validReplay, blocks: [1] }, 'block 0 must be an object'],
+    ['null block', { ...validReplay, blocks: [null] }, 'block 0 must be an object'],
+    ['array block', { ...validReplay, blocks: [[]] }, 'block 0 must be an object'],
+    ['unknown block type', { ...validReplay, blocks: [{ type: 'audio' }] }, 'block 0 has an unknown type'],
+    ['non-string signature', { ...validReplay, blocks: [{ type: 'text', textSignature: 1 }] }, 'textSignature must be a string'],
+    ['non-boolean redaction', { ...validReplay, blocks: [{ type: 'reasoning', redacted: 'yes' }] }, 'redacted must be boolean'],
+  ])('rejects malformed replay state: %s', (_name, replayState, message) => {
+    expect(() => toPiContext({
+      provider: 'deepseek',
+      model: 'm',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }],
+        provenance: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash', replayState },
+      }],
+    })).toThrow(message)
+  })
 })
 
 describe('toStreamChunks', () => {
@@ -205,7 +402,19 @@ describe('toStreamChunks', () => {
       { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'hi' },
       { type: 'block-end', index: 0, block: { type: 'text', text: 'hi' } },
       { type: 'usage', usage: { inputTokens: 3, outputTokens: 2 } },
-      { type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'stop' } },
+      {
+        type: 'finish',
+        reason: { kind: 'stop' },
+        replayState: {
+          kind: 'pi-ai',
+          version: 1,
+          api: 'openai-completions',
+          provider: 'deepseek',
+          model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
+          stopReason: 'stop',
+          blocks: [{ type: 'text' }],
+        },
+      },
     ])
   })
 
@@ -234,7 +443,7 @@ describe('toStreamChunks', () => {
         toolCall: { type: 'toolCall', id: 'call-1', name: 'f', arguments: { a: 1 } },
         partial: partialWithToolCall,
       },
-      { type: 'done', reason: 'toolUse', message: assistant({ stopReason: 'toolUse' }) },
+      { type: 'done', reason: 'toolUse', message: assistant({ content: partialWithToolCall.content, stopReason: 'toolUse' }) },
     )))
     expect(chunks).toEqual([
       { type: 'block-start', index: 0, blockType: 'tool-call' },
@@ -242,7 +451,19 @@ describe('toStreamChunks', () => {
       { type: 'tool-call-delta', index: 0, id: 'call-1', name: 'f', argumentsDelta: ':1}' },
       { type: 'block-end', index: 0, block: { type: 'tool-call', id: 'call-1', name: 'f', arguments: '{"a":1}' } },
       { type: 'usage', usage: { inputTokens: 0, outputTokens: 0 } },
-      { type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'tool-calls' } },
+      {
+        type: 'finish',
+        reason: { kind: 'tool-calls' },
+        replayState: {
+          kind: 'pi-ai',
+          version: 1,
+          api: 'openai-completions',
+          provider: 'deepseek',
+          model: 'deepseek-v4-flash',
+          stopReason: 'toolUse',
+          blocks: [{ type: 'tool-call' }],
+        },
+      },
     ])
   })
 
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/README.md b/packages/llm/llm/README.md
index 296fd0c3d3..a67859ed19 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/README.md
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ An adapter registry plus a single streaming call surface, interceptable via a wa
 
 ### Public API
 
-- `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void` Register an adapter for the given model names. Disposed with the calling fiber.
-- `ctx.llm.models(): string[]` — model names with a registered adapter.
+- `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void` Register one adapter instance for the given provider routes. Registration is all-or-nothing, and is disposed with the calling fiber.
+- `ctx.llm.listProviders(): LlmProviderInfo[]` Describe registered provider routes in registration order.
+- `ctx.llm.listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]>` Discover the models one registered provider currently advertises.
 - `ctx.llm.stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>` Stream one model call as raw chunks (token-level deltas). Consumers assemble the chunks into blocks/messages with `BlockAssembler`.
 
+Provider and model metadata is a discovery surface, not a routing whitelist. `registerAdapter()` still owns provider exclusivity, while an adapter may accept model ids absent from `listModels()`; consumers must not reject a request because its model is unlisted. Returned metadata is detached and invalid or duplicate adapter entries fail with `INVALID_ADAPTER` or `INVALID_CATALOG`.
+
 ### Events
 
 | Event | Mode | Purpose |
@@ -20,18 +23,18 @@ An adapter registry plus a single streaming call surface, interceptable via a wa
 
 ### Extension points
 
-- Subclass `LlmAdapter` and call `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, adapter)` to add a new model provider.
+- Subclass `LlmAdapter` and call `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers, adapter)` to add one or more provider routes. `GenerateOptions.provider` selects the adapter; `GenerateOptions.model` is adapter-owned and may be resolved dynamically. Override `providerInfo()` and asynchronous `listModels()` to expose selector metadata; their defaults use the route id as its name and advertise no models.
 - Wrap `llm/stream` via `ctx.on()` waterfall listeners for caching, retry, logging, rate-limiting, etc.
 
 ### Content-block vocabulary (`types.ts`)
 
-Messages are arrays of typed content blocks: `text`, `reasoning`, `tool-call`, `tool-result`. The union is derived from the merge-extensible `ContentBlockMap`, so plugins can add block types via declaration merging. The core set is limited to blocks every shipping path honors — multimodal content (images, audio, …) has no core block type; a feature that needs one adds it via the map together with the adapter/UI/compaction support that honors it.
+Messages are arrays of typed content blocks: `text`, `reasoning`, `tool-call`, `tool-result`. The union is derived from the merge-extensible `ContentBlockMap`, so plugins can add block types via declaration merging. Assistant messages produced by the loop also carry provider/model provenance and optional adapter-private replay state. Before dispatch, `LlmService` retains that state only when the historical provider route and target provider route are currently owned by the exact same adapter instance; the adapter then decides whether it can restore or convert the state across models/providers. The core block set is limited to blocks every shipping path honors — multimodal content (images, audio, …) has no core block type; a feature that needs one adds it via the map together with the adapter/UI/compaction support that honors it.
 
 Streaming is a raw chunk protocol (`block-start`, `text-delta`, `reasoning-delta`, `tool-call-delta`, `block-end`, `usage`, `finish`). `BlockAssembler` is the single shared implementation that assembles chunks into blocks/messages.
 
 ### Call configuration (`call-config.ts`)
 
-`LlmCallConfig` is the model + sampling scalars of one conversation's requests (`model`, `temperature`, `maxTokens`, `stop` — each mapping 1:1 onto the same-named `GenerateOptions` field). It is per-conversation state recorded in the session log as part of the request header (see the dsh-session `request/header` events), never a silently-adjustable per-call knob: the `agent/request` waterfall proposes a replacement and the loop logs a real change. `callConfigEquals(a, b)` is the field-wise real-change detector; `deepFreeze(value)` is the ownership helper the loop applies to every built request before dispatch (`llm/stream` listeners and adapters read, never rewrite).
+`LlmCallConfig` is the provider + model + sampling scalars of one conversation's requests (`provider`, `model`, `temperature`, `maxTokens`, `stop` — each mapping 1:1 onto the same-named `GenerateOptions` field). It is per-conversation state recorded in the session log as part of the request header (see the dsh-session `request/header` events), never a silently-adjustable per-call knob: the `agent/request` waterfall proposes a replacement and the loop logs a real change. `callConfigEquals(a, b)` is the field-wise real-change detector; `deepFreeze(value)` is the ownership helper the loop applies to every built request before dispatch (`llm/stream` listeners and adapters read, never rewrite).
 
 ### App attribution (`attribution.ts`)
 
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ Every product adapter sends application identity on provider HTTP requests. `att
 
 ### Real adapters
 
-Two adapters implement `LlmAdapter` on different internals: [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`](../llm-deepseek) uses hand-rolled fetch/SSE, while [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai`](../llm-pi-ai) uses `@earendil-works/pi-ai`. Both follow the `StreamChunk` conventions in `types.ts`: usage precedes finish, tool arguments remain raw strings, and errors take one of two sanctioned paths. See [the twin LLM adapters](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) for the design rationale.
+Two adapters implement `LlmAdapter` on different internals: [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek`](../llm-deepseek) uses hand-rolled fetch/SSE for the `deepseek` route, while [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-pi-ai`](../llm-pi-ai) dynamically resolves configured provider/model pairs through `@earendil-works/pi-ai`. Both follow the `StreamChunk` conventions in `types.ts`: usage precedes finish, tool arguments remain raw strings, and errors take one of two sanctioned paths. See [the twin LLM adapters](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-twin-llm-adapters.md) for the design rationale.
 
 ## Model Experience
 
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts
index 163bb5679a..8780718c7a 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/assembler.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export class BlockAssembler {
   private order: number[] = []
   private _usage: TokenUsage | undefined
   private _finish: FinishReason | undefined
+  private _replayState: unknown = undefined
 
   /**
    * Feed one chunk. Returns the completed block when the chunk closes one
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ export class BlockAssembler {
       }
       case 'finish': {
         this._finish = chunk.reason
+        this._replayState = chunk.replayState
         return
       }
       default: return assertNever(chunk, 'BlockAssembler.push')
@@ -142,6 +144,11 @@ export class BlockAssembler {
     return this._finish ?? { kind: 'stop' }
   }
 
+  /** Adapter-private replay state from the terminal finish chunk, if any. */
+  get replayState(): unknown {
+    return this._replayState
+  }
+
   /**
    * The assembled assistant message.
    * @returns an assistant-role message over `blocks()` (same open-block assembly rules).
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/call-config.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/call-config.ts
index aa4c871e2f..e4fd703b24 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/call-config.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/call-config.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 /**
  * Conversation call configuration and freeze utilities. Model and sampling
- * values are request-header state that can affect cache reuse; request
+ * values, including provider routing, are request-header state that can affect cache reuse; request
  * waterfalls replace them and the loop logs changes instead of allowing
  * silent per-call drift.
  * @module dsh-llm/call-config
  */
 
 /**
- * Model + sampling scalars of one conversation's requests. Every field maps
+ * Provider + model + sampling scalars of one conversation's requests. Every field maps
  * 1:1 onto the same-named `GenerateOptions` field; the loop builds requests
  * from the logged header rather than accepting these per call.
  */
 export interface LlmCallConfig {
+  provider: string
   model: string
   temperature?: number
   maxTokens?: number
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ export interface LlmCallConfig {
  * @returns whether every field (including the `stop` list, element-wise) matches.
  */
 export function callConfigEquals(a: LlmCallConfig, b: LlmCallConfig): boolean {
-  if (a.model !== b.model || a.temperature !== b.temperature || a.maxTokens !== b.maxTokens) return false
+  if (a.provider !== b.provider || a.model !== b.model || a.temperature !== b.temperature || a.maxTokens !== b.maxTokens) return false
   if (a.stop === undefined || b.stop === undefined) return a.stop === b.stop
   return a.stop.length === b.stop.length && a.stop.every((s, i) => s === b.stop?.[i])
 }
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts
index 08f3f54c51..26e9e3b289 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
  */
 
 import { Context, Service } from 'cordis'
-import type { GenerateOptions, StreamChunk } from './types.ts'
+import type { GenerateOptions, LlmModelInfo, LlmProviderInfo, Message, StreamChunk } from './types.ts'
 import { HarnessError } from './error.ts'
+import { deepFreeze } from './call-config.ts'
 
 export * from './attribution.ts'
 export * from './brand.ts'
@@ -55,11 +56,31 @@ export class LlmError extends HarnessError {
 
 /**
  * Provider-wire adapter for the harness message and stream vocabulary. Register implementations
- * with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, adapter)`. Every provider HTTP request must include
+ * with `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers, adapter)`. Every provider HTTP request must include
  * `attributionHeaders()`; prove that at the wire or library header-hook boundary. The hand-rolled
  * DeepSeek and pi-ai adapters intentionally exercise this contract through different internals.
  */
 export abstract class LlmAdapter {
+  /**
+   * Describe one provider route owned by this adapter.
+   * @param provider - a route passed to `registerAdapter()` for this instance.
+   * @returns detached display metadata whose id must equal `provider`.
+   */
+  providerInfo(provider: string): LlmProviderInfo {
+    return { id: provider, name: provider }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * List models this adapter can currently advertise for one owned provider.
+   * The result is advisory: an adapter may accept unlisted model ids, and
+   * consumers must not turn absence into request rejection.
+   * @param _provider - one provider route owned by this adapter.
+   * @returns discoverable models in adapter-preferred order.
+   */
+  listModels(_provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    return Promise.resolve([])
+  }
+
   /**
    * Stream one model call as raw chunks. The only required method.
    * @param options - the fully-assembled request; implementations must honor `options.signal`.
@@ -73,30 +94,40 @@ export abstract class LlmAdapter {
  * surface, interceptable via the `llm/stream` waterfall.
  */
 export class LlmService extends Service {
-  private adapters = new Map<string, LlmAdapter>()
+  private adapters = new Map<string, { adapter: LlmAdapter; provider: LlmProviderInfo }>()
 
   constructor(ctx: Context) {
     super(ctx, 'llm')
   }
 
   /**
-   * Register an adapter for the given model names. Throws `LlmError` with code
-   * `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER` if any model already has an adapter (all-or-nothing).
+   * Register an adapter for the given provider routes. Throws `LlmError` with code
+   * `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER` if any provider already has an adapter (all-or-nothing).
    * Disposed with the fiber.
-   * @param models - every model name this adapter should serve.
-   * @param adapter - the adapter that streams calls for those models.
+   * @param providers - every provider route this adapter should serve.
+   * @param adapter - the adapter that streams calls for those providers.
    * @returns the disposer that unregisters all of them.
    */
-  registerAdapter(models: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void {
+  registerAdapter(providers: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void {
     const dispose = this.ctx.effect(function* (this: LlmService) {
-      for (const model of models) {
-        if (this.adapters.has(model)) {
-          throw new LlmError(`an adapter for model "${model}" is already registered`, 'DUPLICATE_ADAPTER')
+      if (providers.length === 0) throw new LlmError('an adapter must register at least one provider', 'INVALID_ADAPTER')
+      const unique = new Set<string>()
+      const registrations: { adapter: LlmAdapter; provider: LlmProviderInfo }[] = []
+      for (const provider of providers) {
+        if (provider.length === 0) throw new LlmError('adapter provider names must be non-empty', 'INVALID_ADAPTER')
+        if (unique.has(provider) || this.adapters.has(provider)) {
+          throw new LlmError(`an adapter for provider "${provider}" is already registered`, 'DUPLICATE_ADAPTER')
         }
+        const info = adapter.providerInfo(provider)
+        if (typeof info.id !== 'string' || info.id !== provider || typeof info.name !== 'string' || info.name.length === 0) {
+          throw new LlmError(`adapter metadata for provider "${provider}" must preserve its id and have a non-empty name`, 'INVALID_ADAPTER')
+        }
+        unique.add(provider)
+        registrations.push({ adapter, provider: { id: info.id, name: info.name } })
       }
-      for (const model of models) this.adapters.set(model, adapter)
+      for (const registration of registrations) this.adapters.set(registration.provider.id, registration)
       yield () => {
-        for (const model of models) this.adapters.delete(model)
+        for (const provider of providers) this.adapters.delete(provider)
       }
     }.bind(this), 'llm.registerAdapter()')
     // ctx.effect's disposer returns Promise<void>; our disposer API is
@@ -105,29 +136,81 @@ export class LlmService extends Service {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Model names with a registered adapter.
-   * @returns the registered names, in registration order.
+   * Describe provider routes with a registered adapter.
+   * @returns detached provider metadata in registration order.
    */
-  models(): string[] {
-    return [...this.adapters.keys()]
+  listProviders(): LlmProviderInfo[] {
+    return [...this.adapters.values()].map(({ provider }) => ({ ...provider }))
   }
 
-  private adapter(model: string): LlmAdapter {
-    const adapter = this.adapters.get(model)
-    if (!adapter) throw new LlmError(`no adapter registered for model "${model}"`, 'NO_ADAPTER')
-    return adapter
+  /**
+   * Discover models advertised by one registered provider. Catalog membership
+   * is advisory and never changes routing or request validation.
+   * @param provider - registered provider route to inspect.
+   * @returns detached model metadata in adapter-preferred order.
+   */
+  async listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    const adapter = this.registration(provider).adapter
+    const models = await adapter.listModels(provider)
+    const seen = new Set<string>()
+    return models.map((model) => {
+      if (
+        typeof model.provider !== 'string'
+        || model.provider !== provider
+        || typeof model.id !== 'string'
+        || model.id.length === 0
+        || typeof model.name !== 'string'
+        || model.name.length === 0
+        || (model.description !== undefined && typeof model.description !== 'string')
+        || seen.has(model.id)
+      ) {
+        throw new LlmError(`adapter returned invalid or duplicate model metadata for provider "${provider}"`, 'INVALID_CATALOG')
+      }
+      seen.add(model.id)
+      return {
+        provider: model.provider,
+        id: model.id,
+        name: model.name,
+        ...model.description === undefined ? {} : { description: model.description },
+      }
+    })
+  }
+
+  private registration(provider: string): { adapter: LlmAdapter; provider: LlmProviderInfo } {
+    const registration = this.adapters.get(provider)
+    if (!registration) throw new LlmError(`no adapter registered for provider "${provider}"`, 'NO_ADAPTER')
+    return registration
+  }
+
+  /** Remove replay state whose historical route is owned by another adapter. */
+  private forAdapter(options: GenerateOptions, adapter: LlmAdapter): GenerateOptions {
+    const messages: Message[] = options.messages.map((message) => {
+      const provenance = message.provenance
+      if (message.role !== 'assistant' || provenance?.replayState === undefined) return message
+      if (this.adapters.get(provenance.provider)?.adapter === adapter) return message
+      return {
+        ...message,
+        provenance: { provider: provenance.provider, model: provenance.model },
+      }
+    })
+    if (messages.every((message, index) => message === options.messages[index])) return options
+    const filtered = { ...options, messages }
+    return Object.isFrozen(options) ? deepFreeze(filtered) : filtered
   }
 
   /**
    * Stream one model call as raw chunks (token-level deltas). Throws
    * `LlmError` with code `NO_ADAPTER` if no adapter is registered for
-   * `options.model`. Dispatches through the `llm/stream` waterfall.
-   * @param options - the full request; `options.model` selects the adapter.
+   * `options.provider`. Replay state is retained only when the same adapter
+   * instance owns its historical provider and the target provider. Dispatches
+   * through the `llm/stream` waterfall.
+   * @param options - the full request; `options.provider` selects the adapter.
    * @returns the chunk stream, possibly wrapped by `llm/stream` listeners.
    */
   stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
     return this.ctx.waterfall(this, 'llm/stream', options, () => {
-      return this.adapter(options.model).stream(options)
+      const adapter = this.registration(options.provider).adapter
+      return adapter.stream(this.forAdapter(options, adapter))
     })
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts
index 8f5fcf0d1e..b8054c2046 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts
@@ -53,10 +53,29 @@ export type ContentBlockType = keyof ContentBlockMap
 /** Any known content block, derived from {@link ContentBlockMap}; switch on `type` and fall through unknowns (merge-extensible). */
 export type ContentBlock = ContentBlockMap[ContentBlockType]
 
-/** A single message in a conversation history. */
+/** Provider ownership and adapter-private replay data for an assistant message. */
+export interface AssistantProvenance {
+  /** Provider route that produced the message. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Provider model id that produced the message. */
+  model: string
+  /**
+   * Lossless-JSON adapter state needed to replay the provider response.
+   * `LlmService` exposes it to a target adapter only when that adapter instance
+   * currently owns both this historical provider and the target provider.
+   */
+  replayState?: unknown
+}
+
+/**
+ * A single message in a conversation history. Loop-derived assistant messages
+ * always carry provenance; callers may omit it on hand-built foreign history.
+ */
 export interface Message {
   role: 'system' | 'user' | 'assistant'
   content: ContentBlock[]
+  /** Present only on assistant messages produced by a routed adapter. */
+  provenance?: AssistantProvenance
 }
 
 /**
@@ -102,6 +121,26 @@ export interface TokenUsage {
   reasoningTokens?: number
 }
 
+/** Display metadata for one registered provider route. */
+export interface LlmProviderInfo {
+  /** Provider route key used by {@link GenerateOptions.provider}. */
+  id: string
+  /** Human-readable provider name for selectors and diagnostics. */
+  name: string
+}
+
+/** One adapter-discovered model; catalog membership is advisory, not request validation. */
+export interface LlmModelInfo {
+  /** Provider route that owns this model entry. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Model id passed to {@link GenerateOptions.model}. */
+  id: string
+  /** Human-readable model name for selectors. */
+  name: string
+  /** Optional user-facing distinction from otherwise similar models. */
+  description?: string
+}
+
 /**
  * Raw streaming protocol emitted by adapters.
  * Block indexes correlate interleaved deltas, and `block-end` carries the
@@ -116,7 +155,12 @@ export type StreamChunk =
   | { type: 'tool-call-delta'; index: number; id: CallId; name?: string; argumentsDelta: string }
   | { type: 'block-end'; index: number; block: ContentBlock }
   | { type: 'usage'; usage: TokenUsage }
-  | { type: 'finish'; reason: FinishReason }
+  | {
+    type: 'finish'
+    reason: FinishReason
+    /** Adapter-private lossless-JSON state for replaying a successful response. */
+    replayState?: unknown
+  }
 
 /**
  * JSON-schema description of a tool, as sent to the model.
@@ -134,6 +178,8 @@ export interface ToolSchema {
 
 /** A single model request, fully assembled. */
 export interface GenerateOptions {
+  /** Registered provider route selecting the adapter instance. */
+  provider: string
   model: string
   /**
    * Ordered conversation messages, exactly as the provider sees them (after
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/tests/call-config.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm/tests/call-config.spec.ts
index 65ff7d7d34..4bccd2520a 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/tests/call-config.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/tests/call-config.spec.ts
@@ -9,14 +9,16 @@ import { callConfigEquals, deepFreeze } from '../src/call-config.ts'
 
 describe('callConfigEquals', () => {
   it('compares every field, including the stop list element-wise', () => {
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm' }, { model: 'm' })).toBe(true)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm' }, { model: 'x' })).toBe(false)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm', temperature: 0.5 }, { model: 'm' })).toBe(false)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm', maxTokens: 1 }, { model: 'm', maxTokens: 2 })).toBe(false)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm', stop: ['a'] }, { model: 'm' })).toBe(false)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm', stop: ['a'] }, { model: 'm', stop: ['a', 'b'] })).toBe(false)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm', stop: ['a'] }, { model: 'm', stop: ['b'] })).toBe(false)
-    expect(callConfigEquals({ model: 'm', stop: ['a', 'b'] }, { model: 'm', stop: ['a', 'b'] })).toBe(true)
+    const base = { provider: 'p', model: 'm' }
+    expect(callConfigEquals(base, base)).toBe(true)
+    expect(callConfigEquals(base, { provider: 'x', model: 'm' })).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals(base, { provider: 'p', model: 'x' })).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals({ ...base, temperature: 0.5 }, base)).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals({ ...base, maxTokens: 1 }, { ...base, maxTokens: 2 })).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals({ ...base, stop: ['a'] }, base)).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals({ ...base, stop: ['a'] }, { ...base, stop: ['a', 'b'] })).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals({ ...base, stop: ['a'] }, { ...base, stop: ['b'] })).toBe(false)
+    expect(callConfigEquals({ ...base, stop: ['a', 'b'] }, { ...base, stop: ['a', 'b'] })).toBe(true)
   })
 })
 
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/tests/service.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm/tests/service.spec.ts
index f669069c44..83429ba0cd 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/tests/service.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/tests/service.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { Context } from 'cordis'
 import LlmService, { GenerateOptions, LlmAdapter, LlmError, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { LlmModelInfo, LlmProviderInfo } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 
 class ScriptedAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
   constructor(private script: StreamChunk[]) {
@@ -12,6 +13,32 @@ class ScriptedAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
   }
 }
 
+class RecordingAdapter extends ScriptedAdapter {
+  lastOptions: GenerateOptions | undefined
+
+  override async * stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
+    this.lastOptions = options
+    yield * super.stream(options)
+  }
+}
+
+class CatalogAdapter extends ScriptedAdapter {
+  constructor(
+    private readonly provider: LlmProviderInfo,
+    private readonly models: readonly LlmModelInfo[],
+  ) {
+    super(SCRIPT)
+  }
+
+  override providerInfo(_provider: string): LlmProviderInfo {
+    return this.provider
+  }
+
+  override listModels(_provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    return Promise.resolve(this.models)
+  }
+}
+
 const SCRIPT: StreamChunk[] = [
   { type: 'block-start', index: 0, blockType: 'text' },
   { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'hi' },
@@ -22,18 +49,18 @@ describe('LlmService', () => {
   it('routes stream() to the registered adapter', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['test-model'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['test-provider'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
 
     const chunks: StreamChunk[] = []
-    for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'test-model', messages: [] })) chunks.push(chunk)
+    for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'test-provider', model: 'test-model', messages: [] })) chunks.push(chunk)
     expect(chunks).toEqual(SCRIPT)
   })
 
-  it('throws NO_ADAPTER for unregistered models', async () => {
+  it('throws NO_ADAPTER for unregistered providers', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     await expect((async () => {
-      for await (const _ of ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'nope', messages: [] })) { /* drain */ }
+      for await (const _ of ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'nope', model: 'any-model', messages: [] })) { /* drain */ }
     })()).rejects.toThrow('no adapter registered')
   })
 
@@ -44,10 +71,80 @@ describe('LlmService', () => {
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(Object.assign((inner: Context) => {
       inner.llm.registerAdapter(['scoped-model'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
     }, { inject: ['llm'] }))
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual(['scoped-model'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'scoped-model', name: 'scoped-model' }])
 
     await fiber.dispose()
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('discovers detached provider and advisory model metadata', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const provider = { id: 'catalog', name: 'Catalog Provider' }
+    const model = { provider: 'catalog', id: 'fast', name: 'Fast', description: 'Low latency' }
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['catalog'], new CatalogAdapter(provider, [model]))
+
+    const providers = ctx.llm.listProviders()
+    const models = await ctx.llm.listModels('catalog')
+    expect(providers).toEqual([provider])
+    expect(models).toEqual([model])
+
+    providers[0]!.name = 'mutated'
+    models[0]!.name = 'mutated'
+    provider.name = 'source mutated'
+    model.name = 'source mutated'
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'catalog', name: 'Catalog Provider' }])
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('catalog')).resolves.toEqual([{
+      provider: 'catalog', id: 'fast', name: 'source mutated', description: 'Low latency',
+    }])
+  })
+
+  it('defaults adapters to their route name and an empty advisory model list', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['plain'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'plain', name: 'plain' }])
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('plain')).resolves.toEqual([])
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('missing')).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'NO_ADAPTER' })
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    [{ id: 1, name: 'Name' }, 'non-string id'],
+    [{ id: 'other', name: 'Name' }, 'mismatched id'],
+    [{ id: 'route', name: 1 }, 'non-string name'],
+    [{ id: 'route', name: '' }, 'empty name'],
+  ] as const)('rejects invalid provider metadata atomically (%s: %s)', async (metadata, _label) => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const adapter = new CatalogAdapter(metadata as unknown as LlmProviderInfo, [])
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['route'], adapter)).toThrow(expect.objectContaining({ code: 'INVALID_ADAPTER' }))
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    [{ provider: 1, id: 'm', name: 'M' }, 'non-string provider'],
+    [{ provider: 'other', id: 'm', name: 'M' }, 'mismatched provider'],
+    [{ provider: 'route', id: 1, name: 'M' }, 'non-string id'],
+    [{ provider: 'route', id: '', name: 'M' }, 'empty id'],
+    [{ provider: 'route', id: 'm', name: 1 }, 'non-string name'],
+    [{ provider: 'route', id: 'm', name: '' }, 'empty name'],
+    [{ provider: 'route', id: 'm', name: 'M', description: 1 }, 'non-string description'],
+  ] as const)('rejects invalid model metadata (%s: %s)', async (metadata, _label) => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['route'], new CatalogAdapter(
+      { id: 'route', name: 'Route' },
+      [metadata as unknown as LlmModelInfo],
+    ))
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('route')).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'INVALID_CATALOG' })
+  })
+
+  it('rejects duplicate model ids in one provider catalog', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const model = { provider: 'route', id: 'same', name: 'Same' }
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['route'], new CatalogAdapter({ id: 'route', name: 'Route' }, [model, model]))
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('route')).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'INVALID_CATALOG' })
   })
 
   it('lets llm/stream waterfall listeners wrap the underlying stream', async () => {
@@ -64,11 +161,90 @@ describe('LlmService', () => {
     })
 
     const chunks: StreamChunk[] = []
-    for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'test-model', messages: [] })) chunks.push(chunk)
+    for await (const chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'test-model', model: 'dynamic-model', messages: [] })) chunks.push(chunk)
     expect(chunks).toHaveLength(4)
     expect(chunks[0]).toMatchObject({ index: 99 })
   })
 
+  it('resolves the provider after llm/stream listeners have had a chance to route it', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const adapter = new RecordingAdapter(SCRIPT)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['routed'], adapter)
+    ctx.on('llm/stream', (options, next) => {
+      options.provider = 'routed'
+      return next()
+    })
+
+    for await (const _chunk of ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'initial', model: 'm', messages: [] })) { /* drain */ }
+    expect(adapter.lastOptions?.provider).toBe('routed')
+  })
+
+  it('keeps replay state when historical and target providers belong to the same adapter instance', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const adapter = new RecordingAdapter(SCRIPT)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['historical', 'target'], adapter)
+    const replayState = { private: 'state' }
+
+    for await (const _chunk of ctx.llm.stream({
+      provider: 'target',
+      model: 'new-model',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'old response' }],
+        provenance: { provider: 'historical', model: 'old-model', replayState },
+      }],
+    })) { /* drain */ }
+
+    expect(adapter.lastOptions?.messages[0]?.provenance).toEqual({
+      provider: 'historical', model: 'old-model', replayState,
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('strips replay state but preserves provenance when the target uses a different adapter instance', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['historical'], new RecordingAdapter(SCRIPT))
+    const target = new RecordingAdapter(SCRIPT)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['target'], target)
+
+    for await (const _chunk of ctx.llm.stream({
+      provider: 'target',
+      model: 'new-model',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant',
+        content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'old response' }],
+        provenance: { provider: 'historical', model: 'old-model', replayState: { private: 'state' } },
+      }],
+    })) { /* drain */ }
+
+    expect(target.lastOptions?.messages[0]?.provenance).toEqual({ provider: 'historical', model: 'old-model' })
+  })
+
+  it('preserves immutability while stripping replay state from frozen requests', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['historical'], new RecordingAdapter(SCRIPT))
+    const target = new RecordingAdapter(SCRIPT)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['target'], target)
+    const options = Object.freeze({
+      provider: 'target',
+      model: 'new-model',
+      messages: [{
+        role: 'assistant' as const,
+        content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'old response' }],
+        provenance: { provider: 'historical', model: 'old-model', replayState: { private: 'state' } },
+      }],
+    })
+
+    for await (const _chunk of ctx.llm.stream(options)) { /* drain */ }
+
+    expect(target.lastOptions).not.toBe(options)
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(target.lastOptions)).toBe(true)
+    expect(target.lastOptions?.messages[0]?.provenance).toEqual({ provider: 'historical', model: 'old-model' })
+  })
+
   it('creates LlmError with a code for programmatic handling', () => {
     const err = new LlmError('something went wrong', 'CUSTOM_CODE')
     expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(Error)
@@ -104,9 +280,9 @@ describe('LlmService', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
 
     const dispose = ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['m1'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual(['m1'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'm1', name: 'm1' }])
     dispose()
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
   it('rejects duplicate adapter registration with DUPLICATE_ADAPTER code', async () => {
@@ -123,19 +299,30 @@ describe('LlmService', () => {
     }
   })
 
+  it('rejects empty and internally duplicated provider registrations atomically', async () => {
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const adapter = new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT)
+
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter([], adapter)).toThrow(expect.objectContaining({ code: 'INVALID_ADAPTER' }))
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter([''], adapter)).toThrow(expect.objectContaining({ code: 'INVALID_ADAPTER' }))
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['first', 'first'], adapter)).toThrow(expect.objectContaining({ code: 'DUPLICATE_ADAPTER' }))
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
   it('re-registers a model after its prior registration is disposed', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
 
     const dispose = ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['m1'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual(['m1'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'm1', name: 'm1' }])
     dispose()
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
 
     // The duplicate check is not wedged: the same model registers cleanly again.
     const disposeAgain = ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['m1'], new ScriptedAdapter(SCRIPT))
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual(['m1'])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'm1', name: 'm1' }])
     disposeAgain()
-    expect(ctx.llm.models()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/llm/token-meter/README.md b/packages/llm/token-meter/README.md
index d879112897..fa52f8a3d6 100644
--- a/packages/llm/token-meter/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/token-meter/README.md
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ Indirectly, through consumers such as `dsh-compact-basic`; the service itself ad
 
 - **The fixed heuristic is approximate** — content without reusable provider usage is priced by character count plus structural overhead, not an exact provider tokenizer or request serializer.
 - **Every measurement clones the current surface** — coherent immutable snapshots make reads O(surface), including below-threshold pressure checks.
-- **Provider usage is only reusable for an identical canonical envelope** — prompt, prefix, tools, model, or call-config changes deliberately fall back to full heuristic estimation.
+- **Provider usage is only reusable for an identical canonical envelope** — prompt, prefix, tools, provider, model, or call-config changes deliberately fall back to full heuristic estimation.
 - **Legacy provenance is conservative** — assistant messages without `sourceEventSeqs` cannot distinguish provider output from listener rewrites, so the fold avoids claiming a known empty or exact chunk stream.
diff --git a/packages/llm/token-meter/tests/token-meter.spec.ts b/packages/llm/token-meter/tests/token-meter.spec.ts
index ae0fddefc1..1c8c111ab1 100644
--- a/packages/llm/token-meter/tests/token-meter.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/token-meter/tests/token-meter.spec.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import TokenMeterService from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-token-meter'
 import type { TokenMeasurement, TokenMeterConfig } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-token-meter'
 
 function header(model: string, extras: Omit<EpochHeader, 'config'> = {}): EpochHeader {
-  return canonicalHeader({ config: { model }, ...extras })
+  return canonicalHeader({ config: { provider: 'mock', model }, ...extras })
 }
 
 function textMessage(text: string, role: Message['role'] = 'user'): Message {
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ function appendSuccessfulCall(
     ? { surfaceOp: 'append' as const }
     : { surfaceOp: 'append' as const, sourceEventSeqs: provenance === 'empty' ? [] : sources }
   session.append('assistant/message', {
+    provenance: {
+      provider: value.config.provider,
+      model: value.config.model,
+    },
     turn,
     step,
     content: durableText.length === 0 ? [] : [{ type: 'text', text: durableText }],
@@ -374,7 +378,7 @@ describe('replay anchors and surface folds', () => {
   it('folds valid header deltas into the effective envelope', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('header-delta'))
     appendHeader(session, header('deepseek-v4-flash'))
-    session.append('request/header-delta', { config: { model: 'deepseek-v4-pro' } })
+    session.append('request/header-delta', { config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-pro' } })
     const result = meter().measure(session)
     expect(result.baseline.kind).toBe('estimated')
     expect(result.logRevision).toBe(2)
@@ -438,7 +442,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
 
   it('rejects a header delta before any snapshot transactionally', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('bad-delta'))
-    session.append('request/header-delta', { config: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' } })
+    session.append('request/header-delta', { config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' } })
     expectRepeatedFailure(meter(), session, /no preceding header/)
   })
 
@@ -446,6 +450,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
     const session = new Session(SessionId('bad-step'))
     appendHeader(session, header('deepseek-v4-flash'))
     session.append('assistant/message', {
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'bad' }],
@@ -468,6 +473,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
     appendHeader(late, header('deepseek-v4-flash'))
     late.append('step/end', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     late.append('assistant/message', {
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [],
@@ -522,6 +528,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
       appendHeader(session, header('deepseek-v4-flash'))
       const sourceEventSeqs = testCase.appendSource(session)
       session.append('assistant/message', {
+        provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
         turn: 1,
         step: 1,
         content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'bad' }],
@@ -545,6 +552,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
       seq: duplicate.seq,
       time: 0,
       data: {
+        provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
         turn: 1,
         step: 1,
         content: [],
@@ -563,6 +571,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
       seq: future.seq,
       time: 0,
       data: {
+        provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
         turn: 1,
         step: 1,
         content: [],
@@ -583,6 +592,7 @@ describe('malformed replay and listener lifecycle', () => {
     appendHeader(session, header('deepseek-v4-flash'))
     const head = session.events[0]!.seq
     session.append('assistant/message', {
+      provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
       turn: 1,
       step: 1,
       content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'replacement' }],
diff --git a/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/tests/jsonl.spec.ts b/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/tests/jsonl.spec.ts
index 3c76616796..3e4aec1e97 100644
--- a/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/tests/jsonl.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/tests/jsonl.spec.ts
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: durability and crash semantics', () => {
       { type: 'step/start', seq: 1, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'assistant/chunk', seq: 2, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, chunk: { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'he' } } },
       { type: 'assistant/chunk', seq: 3, time: 4, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, chunk: { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'llo' } } },
-      { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 4, time: 5, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }] }, surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [2, 3] },
+      { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 4, time: 5, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } }, surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [2, 3] },
       { type: 'step/end', seq: 5, time: 6, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'turn/end', seq: 6, time: 7, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } },
     ]
diff --git a/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite/tests/sqlite.spec.ts b/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite/tests/sqlite.spec.ts
index 81316b9d2a..0e3ffb65f1 100644
--- a/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite/tests/sqlite.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite/tests/sqlite.spec.ts
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ describe('surface field round-trip', () => {
     const session = ctx.sessions.create(SessionId('roundtrip-surface'))
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [0] })
     session.append('turn/end', { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } })
     await ctx.parallel('session/flush', session)
     const loaded = await ctx.sessionPersistence.load(SessionId('roundtrip-surface'))
diff --git a/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/tests/contract.ts b/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/tests/contract.ts
index d8cd9fc230..84386c016b 100644
--- a/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/tests/contract.ts
+++ b/packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/tests/contract.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export function oneTurnLog(): SessionEvent[] {
     { type: 'turn/start', seq: 0, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } } },
     { type: 'user/message', seq: 1, time: 2, data: { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, surfaceOp: 'append' },
     { type: 'step/start', seq: 2, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
-    { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 3, time: 4, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }] }, surfaceOp: 'append' },
+    { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 3, time: 4, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } }, surfaceOp: 'append' },
     { type: 'step/end', seq: 4, time: 5, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
     { type: 'turn/end', seq: 5, time: 6, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } },
   ]
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ export function runPersistenceContract(name: string, make: () => Promise<Contrac
           { type: 'step/start', seq: 7, time: 8, data: { turn: 2, step: 1 } },
           { type: 'assistant/message', seq: 8, time: 9, data: { turn: 2, step: 1, content: [
             { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('call-x'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
-          ] } },
+          ], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } } },
         ])
 
         const loaded = await persistence.load(m.id)
diff --git a/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/session-query.spec.ts b/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/session-query.spec.ts
index 733b746a6a..f532edf168 100644
--- a/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/session-query.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/session-query.spec.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ describe('session-query exact reads', () => {
     })
     session.append(
       'assistant/message',
-      { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'replacement' }] },
+      { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'replacement' }] },
       { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: first.seq, end: first.seq }, sourceEventSeqs: [first.seq] },
     )
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ describe('session-query exact reads', () => {
       type: 'assistant/message',
       seq: 0,
       time: 1,
-      data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] },
+      data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } },
       surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 9, end: 9 },
     })
     await expect(ctx.sessionQuery.listEvents(session.id))
diff --git a/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/tracing.spec.ts b/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/tracing.spec.ts
index d897a5bf67..03e1adad89 100644
--- a/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/tracing.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/session-query/session-query/tests/tracing.spec.ts
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ function appendTraceEvents(session: Session): void {
   )
   session.append(
     'assistant/message',
-    { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary one' }] },
+    { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary one' }] },
     { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 1 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1, 0] },
   )
   session.append(
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ function appendTraceEvents(session: Session): void {
   )
   session.append(
     'assistant/message',
-    { turn: 1, step: 2, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary two' }] },
+    { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 2, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'summary two' }] },
     { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [0, 2] },
   )
 }
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ describe('session event tracing', () => {
       type: 'assistant/message',
       seq: 1,
       time: 2,
-      data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] },
+      data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } },
       surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 9, end: 9 },
       sourceEventSeqs: [],
     }]
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/multi-subagent.spec.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/multi-subagent.spec.ts
index 110c4f83e4..4a2c6b9133 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/multi-subagent.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/multi-subagent.spec.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ async function setup(script: Script) {
   await ctx.plugin(Spawn, { providerName: 'spawn' })
   await ctx.plugin(fork, { providerName: 'fork' })
   ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter(script))
-  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   return { ctx, parent }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/subagent-fork.spec.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/subagent-fork.spec.ts
index 59a148d779..f1ca8f0b75 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/subagent-fork.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-fork/tests/subagent-fork.spec.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ async function setup(script: Script) {
   await ctx.plugin(SubagentService)
   await ctx.plugin(fork, { providerName: 'fork' })
   ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter(script))
-  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   return { ctx, parent }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts
index f6de7200cf..8ec8a6aac2 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/src/index.ts
@@ -107,8 +107,10 @@ export async function startInProcessRun(
   const childId = AgentId(randomUUID())
   const seedLength = options.seed?.length ?? 0
   const parentHeader = parent.session.header
+  const parentProvider = parent.options.provider
   const parentModel = parent.options.model
   const agentOptions: AgentOptions = {
+    ...parentProvider !== undefined ? { provider: parentProvider } : {},
     ...parentModel !== undefined ? { model: parentModel } : {},
     ...request.agentOptions,
     subagentDepth: childDepth,
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/structured.spec.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/structured.spec.ts
index 06d39d5d65..4222dde760 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/structured.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/structured.spec.ts
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ async function setup(script: Script, options: SetupOptions = {}) {
     start: (request: SubagentStartRequest) => startInProcessRun(request, {}),
   })
   ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   return { ctx, parent, adapter, disposeProvider }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/subagent-inprocess.spec.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/subagent-inprocess.spec.ts
index e7d856e112..eeab453e40 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/subagent-inprocess.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-inprocess/tests/subagent-inprocess.spec.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ async function setup(script: Script) {
   await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
   await ctx.plugin(SubagentService)
   ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], new MockAdapter(script))
-  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   return { ctx, parent }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/harness.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/harness.ts
index bb0b49fbcb..3b9342a90e 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/harness.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/harness.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export async function spawnHarness(workdir: string): Promise<Context> {
     systemPrompt: { persona: 'You are a coding agent. Report only when the requested work is done.' },
   })
   await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   await ctx.plugin(LocalBashExecutor, { cwd: workdir, timeoutMs: 30_000 })
   await ctx.plugin(ToolBash)
   await ctx.plugin(SubagentService)
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/spawn.e2e.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/spawn.e2e.ts
index daa032199e..1b278c9748 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/spawn.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/spawn.e2e.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('spawn backend with-key smoke', (
   it('a parent delegates to a child that writes a file on disk', async () => {
     workdir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-subagent-spawn-e2e-'))
     ctx = await spawnHarness(workdir)
-    const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-parent'), { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
+    const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('e2e-parent'), { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' })
 
     parent.send([{ type: 'text', text:
       'Use the subagent tool to delegate this exact task: "Use the bash tool to write the text '
diff --git a/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/subagent-spawn.spec.ts b/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/subagent-spawn.spec.ts
index 3862f110c5..147b83dd9a 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/subagent-spawn.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/subagent-spawn/tests/subagent-spawn.spec.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ async function setup(script: Script) {
   await ctx.plugin(SubagentService)
   await ctx.plugin(spawn, { providerName: 'spawn' })
   ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   return { ctx, parent, adapter }
 }
 
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ describe('dsh-subagent-spawn', () => {
       agentId: AgentId('cwd-parent'),
       sessionId: SessionId('cwd-parent-session'),
       meta: { cwd: '/tmp/parent-workspace' },
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const run = await start(ctx, 'spawn', { prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'p' }], parent: parentHandle.agent })
     await run.result
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ describe('dsh-subagent-spawn', () => {
     const run = await start(ctx, 'spawn', {
       prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'p' }],
       parent: parentHandle.agent,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const result = await run.result
     expect(result.stopReason).toBe('completed')
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ describe('dsh-subagent-spawn', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(SubagentService)
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(spawn, { providerName: 'spawn' })
     ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-    const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const controller = new AbortController()
     const run = await start(ctx, 'spawn', {
       prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'q' }],
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ describe('dsh-subagent-spawn', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
     await ctx.plugin(SubagentService)
     const fiber = await ctx.plugin(spawn, { providerName: 'spawn' })
-    const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
     const parentEffects = parent.ctx.fiber.getEffects().length
     const published: string[] = []
     ctx.on('session/created', () => void published.push('session/created'))
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ describe('dsh-subagent-spawn', () => {
     const parentHandle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('doomed-parent'),
       sessionId: SessionId('doomed-s'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     await parentHandle.dispose()
     const before = ctx.agents.list().length
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ describe('dsh-subagent-spawn', () => {
     const parentHandle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('setup-race-parent'),
       sessionId: SessionId('setup-race-parent-session'),
-      agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const published: string[] = []
     ctx.on('session/created', () => void published.push('session/created'))
diff --git a/packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts b/packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts
index cee354bdfe..fdfaacef08 100644
--- a/packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/subagent/tool-subagent/src/index.ts
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ export const Config: z<Config> = z.object({
   enableRunInBackground: z.boolean().default(true),
   // Prevent Schemastery from materializing omitted agentOptions as `{}`.
   agentOptions: z.object({
+    provider: z.string(),
     model: z.string(),
-  }).default(undefined as unknown as { model: string }),
+  }).default(undefined as unknown as { provider: string; model: string }),
   persona: z.string(),
   // Preserve omission; Schemastery's `{ allow: [] }` default would deny every tool.
   toolFilter: z.object({
diff --git a/packages/support/invariants/tests/invariants.spec.ts b/packages/support/invariants/tests/invariants.spec.ts
index a197580940..559ab8f208 100644
--- a/packages/support/invariants/tests/invariants.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/support/invariants/tests/invariants.spec.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ describe('session-log invariants', () => {
       session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
       session.append('assistant/chunk', { turn: 1, step: 1, chunk: { type: 'text-delta', index: 0, text: 'h' } })
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: '{}' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: '{}' }] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       session.append('tool/call', { turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId('c1'), name: 'echo', arguments: '{}' })
       session.append('tool/result', { turn: 1, step: 1, callId: CallId('c1'), content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'ok' }], isError: false }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       session.append('step/end', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ describe('session-log invariants', () => {
     expect(() => {
       session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
       session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [
         { type: 'tool-call', id: CallId('crashed'), name: 'bash', arguments: '{}' },
       ] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       session.append('tool/result', {
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ describe('session-log invariants', () => {
     expect(() => {
       session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
       session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       session.append('step/end', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
       session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 2 })
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 2, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 2, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
       session.append('step/end', { turn: 1, step: 2 })
       session.append('turn/end', { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } })
       session.append('turn/start', { turn: 2, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ describe('session-log invariants', () => {
     const session = ctx.sessions.create()
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-    expect(() => session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 2, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }))
+    expect(() => session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 2, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }))
       .toThrow(/open is turn 1\/step 1/)
   })
 })
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     expect(() => {
       session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1] })
     }).not.toThrow()
   })
 
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] })
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] })
     // no throw — well-formed replace op
   })
 
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [] })
     }).not.toThrow()
     expect(() => {
       session.append('user/message', { content: [], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [] })
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1, 1] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1, 1] })
     }).toThrow(/must not contain duplicates/)
   })
 
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     // The next event is seq 1. Referencing its own seq fails on "must reference
     // earlier events" (the check order is: earlier first, then unknown).
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1] })
     }).toThrow(/must reference earlier/)
   })
 
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
     // seqs so far: 0, 1. The next event at seq 2 references seq 1 → valid.
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [1] })
     }).not.toThrow()
   })
 
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     const session = ctx.sessions.create()
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [99] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: 'append', sourceEventSeqs: [99] })
     }).toThrow(/must reference earlier/)
   })
 
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 3
     // Reversed range: start seq 3 is at a later surface position than end seq 2.
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 3, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2, 3] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 3, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2, 3] })
     }).toThrow(/is after end seq 2/)
   })
 
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 3
     // Replace shadows surface nodes [2, 3] but records provenance for only [2].
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'sum' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'sum' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] })
     }).toThrow(/must include every shadowed surface node; missing 3/)
   })
 
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 2
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 3
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'sum' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2, 3] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'sum' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2, 3] })
     }).not.toThrow()
   })
 
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 2
     // seq 1 (step/start) is a real earlier event but never entered the surface.
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1, 2] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 1, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [1, 2] })
     }).toThrow(/start seq 1 not found in surface/)
   })
 
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 2
     // start (2) is on the surface but end (99) never entered it.
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 99 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 99 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] })
     }).toThrow(/end seq 99 not found in surface/)
   })
 
@@ -614,11 +614,11 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 3
     // Replace node 2 (position 0) with seq 4 — surface is now [4, 3], so seq 4
     // precedes seq 3 in linked-list order even though 4 > 3 numerically.
-    session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 's' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] }) // seq 4
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 's' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] }) // seq 4
     // A replace with start=3, end=4 passes the seq check (3 <= 4) but is
     // reversed positionally (3 is at pos 1, 4 is at pos 0).
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 3, end: 4 }, sourceEventSeqs: [3, 4] }) // seq 5
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 3, end: 4 }, sourceEventSeqs: [3, 4] }) // seq 5
     }).toThrow(/is after end seq 4/)
   })
 
@@ -633,9 +633,9 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     // head seq (4) is numerically GREATER than the tail seq (3): the surface is
     // not seq-ordered. A replace spanning start=4 (pos 0) … end=3 (pos 1) is
     // valid positionally and must be accepted even though start seq > end seq.
-    session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 's' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] }) // seq 4
+    session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 's' }] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] }) // seq 4
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 4, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [4, 3] }) // seq 5
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 4, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [4, 3] }) // seq 5
     }).not.toThrow()
   })
 
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' }) // seq 2
     // A replace with no sourceEventSeqs records no provenance for the node it shadows.
     expect(() => {
-      session.append('assistant/message', { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 } })
+      session.append('assistant/message', { provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, turn: 1, step: 1, content: [] }, { surfaceOp: { op: 'replace', start: 2, end: 2 } })
     }).toThrow(/must include every shadowed surface node; missing 2/)
   })
 
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ describe('surface contract under the invariants composition', () => {
       { type: 'step/start' as const, seq: 1, time: 0, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } },
       { type: 'user/message' as const, seq: 2, time: 0, data: { content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'a' }], source: { kind: 'user' as const } }, surfaceOp: 'append' as const },
       { type: 'user/message' as const, seq: 3, time: 0, data: { content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'b' }], source: { kind: 'user' as const } }, surfaceOp: 'append' as const },
-      { type: 'assistant/message' as const, seq: 4, time: 0, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'sum' }] }, surfaceOp: { op: 'replace' as const, start: 2, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] },
+      { type: 'assistant/message' as const, seq: 4, time: 0, data: { turn: 1, step: 1, content: [{ type: 'text' as const, text: 'sum' }], provenance: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } }, surfaceOp: { op: 'replace' as const, start: 2, end: 3 }, sourceEventSeqs: [2] },
     ]
     expect(() => ctx.sessions.create(undefined, { seed: badSeed })).toThrow(/must include every shadowed surface node; missing 3/)
   })
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ describe('request-reconstruction cross-check (llm/stream)', () => {
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     const boundary = session.deriveMessages()
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-    session.append('request/header', { header: { config: { model: 'm' } }, reason: 'initial' })
+    session.append('request/header', { header: { config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' } }, reason: 'initial' })
     return { ctx, session, boundary }
   }
 
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ describe('request cross-check ordering (prepend)', () => {
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } })
     session.append('user/message', { content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }], source: { kind: 'user' } }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
     session.append('step/start', { turn: 1, step: 1 })
-    session.append('request/header', { header: { config: { model: 'm' } }, reason: 'initial' })
+    session.append('request/header', { header: { config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'm' } }, reason: 'initial' })
 
     const divergent = Object.freeze({
       model: 'm',
diff --git a/packages/support/llm-replay/README.md b/packages/support/llm-replay/README.md
index 847064b160..3272f29b9a 100644
--- a/packages/support/llm-replay/README.md
+++ b/packages/support/llm-replay/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay
 
-A replay LLM plugin for keyless snapshot tests. It installs a single `llm/stream` waterfall listener that short-circuits the waterfall (never calls `next()`) and yields model streams reconstructed from a recorded **session JSONL** fixture — so a test can boot the real agent against a fixed model transcript with no API key.
+A replay LLM plugin for keyless snapshot tests. It yields model streams reconstructed from a recorded **session JSONL** fixture, so a test can boot the real agent against a fixed model transcript with no API key. With `providers` configured it registers a replay-only adapter whose catalog is visible to clients such as ACP editors; without `providers` it installs the catch-all `llm/stream` waterfall used by tests that do not need discovery.
 
 Its consumer is the ACP snapshot harness in `examples/acp-agent`, which loads this plugin (via `cordis.snapshot.yml`) in place of a real LLM adapter. The package exists so its derive/parse/replay logic falls under the per-file 100% coverage gate on `packages/*/src` (the same logic, while it lived under `examples/`, was outside the gate).
 
@@ -23,10 +23,18 @@ Replay keys every call by its calling session id (`GenerateOptions.sessionId`, s
 | `file` | string | `$DSH_SNAPSHOT_FILE` | Path to the primary (parent) `session.jsonl` fixture. Required (config or env). |
 | `overrideFile` | string | `$DSH_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE` | Optional path to a `ReplayEntry[]` sidecar that replaces the PRIMARY session's derived script. |
 | `childFiles` | string[] | `$DSH_SNAPSHOT_CHILD_FILES` (path-delimited) | Recorded subagent child-session logs for a nested scenario; empty for a single-session scenario. |
+| `providers` | `ReplayProviderConfig[]` | — | Optional replay-only provider and model catalog. Configured routes dispatch through the replay adapter and never perform provider I/O. |
 
 ```yaml
 - id: llm-replay
   name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-replay'
+  config:
+    providers:
+      - id: deepseek
+        name: DeepSeek
+        models:
+          - id: deepseek-v4-flash
+          - id: deepseek-v4-pro
   # file/overrideFile/childFiles default to $DSH_SNAPSHOT_FILE /
   # $DSH_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE / $DSH_SNAPSHOT_CHILD_FILES, set by the snapshot
   # harness per scenario.
@@ -34,11 +42,11 @@ Replay keys every call by its calling session id (`GenerateOptions.sessionId`, s
 
 ## Exports
 
-- `installLlmReplay(ctx, config)` — install the `llm/stream` listener; returns the disposer (HMR safety). Use this in tests to drive replay without the Loader or env vars.
+- `installLlmReplay(ctx, config)` — install the configured replay adapter or catch-all `llm/stream` listener; returns the disposer (HMR safety). Use this in tests to drive replay without the Loader or env vars.
 - `loadSessionScripts(config)` — resolve the ordered `SessionScript[]` (primary + children) for a scenario, ready to bind to live sessions in first-call order.
 - `loadReplayScript(config)` — resolve the `ReplayEntry[]` for the PRIMARY session only (sidecar override if present, else derived from the JSONL; fail-loud if the fixture is missing).
 - `deriveReplayScript(events)` / `parseSessionLog(text)` / `parseSessionHeader(text)` — the pure helpers that turn a recorded session log into a script and read its header `id`/`createdAt`. A derived group must end in a `finish` chunk; a group without one is the fingerprint of a thrown `stream()` and must instead be expressed via an override sidecar.
-- Types `ReplayEntry` / `SessionScript` / `ReplayConfig` / `Config`.
+- Types `ReplayEntry` / `SessionScript` / `ReplayConfig` / `ReplayProviderConfig` / `ReplayModelConfig` / `Config`.
 
 ## Plugin export shape
 
diff --git a/packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts b/packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts
index 2e509973e5..51e799114f 100644
--- a/packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/support/llm-replay/src/index.ts
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { delimiter as pathDelimiter } from 'node:path'
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
 import type { SessionEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
-import type { GenerateOptions, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
-import { LlmError, assertNever } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { GenerateOptions, LlmModelInfo, LlmProviderInfo, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import { LlmAdapter, LlmError, assertNever } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 
 /**
  * One recorded model call. `throw` may replay prefix chunks before failing;
@@ -23,6 +23,26 @@ export type ReplayEntry =
   | { kind: 'throw'; chunks: StreamChunk[]; message: string; code: string; status?: number }
   | { kind: 'hang' }
 
+/** One model exposed by a replay-only provider catalog. */
+export interface ReplayModelConfig {
+  /** Model id used for replay requests. */
+  id: string
+  /** Selector label; defaults to {@link id}. */
+  name?: string
+  /** Optional selector description. */
+  description?: string
+}
+
+/** One provider route exposed by the replay adapter. */
+export interface ReplayProviderConfig {
+  /** Provider route used for replay requests. */
+  id: string
+  /** Selector label; defaults to {@link id}. */
+  name?: string
+  /** Advisory models exposed to clients such as ACP editors. */
+  models?: ReplayModelConfig[]
+}
+
 /** Resolved plugin configuration. */
 export interface ReplayConfig {
   /**
@@ -45,6 +65,12 @@ export interface ReplayConfig {
    * for a single-session scenario.
    */
   childFiles?: string[]
+  /**
+   * Optional provider catalog. When non-empty, replay registers an adapter for
+   * these routes; when absent or empty, it retains the catch-all waterfall used
+   * by tests that do not need discovery.
+   */
+  providers?: ReplayProviderConfig[]
 }
 
 /**
@@ -203,6 +229,42 @@ export function loadSessionScripts(config: ReplayConfig): SessionScript[] {
   return [primary, ...children]
 }
 
+/** Replay adapter that makes a configured provider catalog discoverable without provider I/O. */
+class ReplayAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
+  private readonly providers: ReadonlyMap<string, ReplayProviderConfig>
+
+  constructor(
+    providers: readonly ReplayProviderConfig[],
+    private readonly replay: (options: GenerateOptions) => AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>,
+  ) {
+    super()
+    this.providers = new Map(providers.map(provider => [provider.id, provider]))
+  }
+
+  override providerInfo(provider: string): LlmProviderInfo {
+    const configured = this.providers.get(provider)
+    /* v8 ignore next -- LlmService only asks about routes registered from this same map. */
+    if (configured === undefined) return super.providerInfo(provider)
+    return { id: provider, name: configured.name ?? provider }
+  }
+
+  override listModels(provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    const configured = this.providers.get(provider)
+    /* v8 ignore next -- LlmService only asks about routes registered from this same map. */
+    if (configured === undefined) return Promise.resolve([])
+    return Promise.resolve((configured.models ?? []).map(model => ({
+      provider,
+      id: model.id,
+      name: model.name ?? model.id,
+      ...model.description === undefined ? {} : { description: model.description },
+    })))
+  }
+
+  override stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
+    return this.replay(options)
+  }
+}
+
 /** Yield a recorded stream back, honoring abort like a real adapter. */
 async function* replayEntry(entry: ReplayEntry, signal: AbortSignal | undefined): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
   switch (entry.kind) {
@@ -243,12 +305,14 @@ async function* replayEntry(entry: ReplayEntry, signal: AbortSignal | undefined)
 /**
  * Install per-session positional replay. A newly seen live session takes the
  * next ordered recorded script, then advances its own cursor synchronously at
- * invocation time; calls without `sessionId` share one anonymous session.
- * Returns the effect disposer for HMR-safe removal.
+ * invocation time; calls without `sessionId` share one anonymous session. A
+ * non-empty provider catalog registers a routed replay adapter; otherwise a
+ * catch-all waterfall intercepts requests. Returns the effect disposer for
+ * HMR-safe removal.
  *
- * @param ctx - the context whose `llm/stream` waterfall the listener short-circuits.
+ * @param ctx - the context whose LLM service receives the replay route or waterfall.
  * @param config - the resolved fixture paths (env-var defaulting is `apply`'s job).
- * @returns the `ctx.on` disposer that removes the listener.
+ * @returns the disposer that removes the registered adapter or listener.
  */
 export function installLlmReplay(ctx: Context, config: ReplayConfig): () => void {
   const scripts = loadSessionScripts(config)
@@ -258,7 +322,7 @@ export function installLlmReplay(ctx: Context, config: ReplayConfig): () => void
   const bound = new Map<string, { entries: ReplayEntry[]; cursor: number }>()
   let nextScript = 0
   const ANON = '\0anon\0' // the key for a call that carries no sessionId
-  return ctx.on('llm/stream', (options: GenerateOptions, _next) => {
+  const replay = (options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> => {
     const key = options.sessionId ?? ANON
     let state = bound.get(key)
     let unrecorded = false
@@ -296,7 +360,12 @@ export function installLlmReplay(ctx: Context, config: ReplayConfig): () => void
       }
       yield* replayEntry(entry, options.signal)
     })()
-  })
+  }
+  const providers = config.providers ?? []
+  if (providers.length > 0) {
+    return ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers.map(provider => provider.id), new ReplayAdapter(providers, replay))
+  }
+  return ctx.on('llm/stream', (options: GenerateOptions, _next) => replay(options))
 }
 
 export const name = 'llm-replay'
@@ -314,6 +383,8 @@ export interface Config {
    * a nested-agent scenario; absent/empty for a single-session scenario.
    */
   childFiles?: string[]
+  /** Optional replay-only provider catalog; absent or empty selects catch-all waterfall replay. */
+  providers?: ReplayProviderConfig[]
 }
 
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config = {}): void {
@@ -329,5 +400,6 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config = {}): void {
     file,
     ...overrideFile !== undefined && overrideFile.length > 0 ? { overrideFile } : {},
     ...childFiles.length > 0 ? { childFiles } : {},
+    ...config.providers !== undefined ? { providers: config.providers } : {},
   })
 }
diff --git a/packages/support/llm-replay/tests/llm-replay.spec.ts b/packages/support/llm-replay/tests/llm-replay.spec.ts
index ac52ec11c9..c9bd545b36 100644
--- a/packages/support/llm-replay/tests/llm-replay.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/support/llm-replay/tests/llm-replay.spec.ts
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ describe('loadReplayScript', () => {
   })
 })
 
-describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
+describe('installLlmReplay (through the real LlmService)', () => {
   function writeLog(...calls: StreamChunk[][]): void {
     let seq = 1
     const events: SessionEvent[] = []
@@ -214,7 +214,41 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     // No adapter registered for 'm' — replay must not reach it.
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file })
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+  })
+
+  it('registers a replay-only provider catalog when configured', async () => {
+    writeLog(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const dispose = installLlmReplay(ctx, {
+      file,
+      providers: [
+        {
+          id: 'deepseek',
+          name: 'DeepSeek',
+          models: [
+            { id: 'flash' },
+            { id: 'pro', name: 'Pro', description: 'Larger model' },
+          ],
+        },
+        { id: 'empty' },
+      ],
+    })
+
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([
+      { id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' },
+      { id: 'empty', name: 'empty' },
+    ])
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('deepseek')).resolves.toEqual([
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'flash', name: 'flash' },
+      { provider: 'deepseek', id: 'pro', name: 'Pro', description: 'Larger model' },
+    ])
+    await expect(ctx.llm.listModels('empty')).resolves.toEqual([])
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'deepseek', model: 'pro', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+
+    dispose()
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
   it('serves the Nth call the Nth derived entry (positional)', async () => {
@@ -227,8 +261,8 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file })
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(second)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(second)
   })
 
   it('replays a sidecar throw-entry as an LlmError with code/status, after its prefix chunks', async () => {
@@ -244,7 +278,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
 
     const seen: StreamChunk[] = []
     await expect((async () => {
-      for await (const c of ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] })) seen.push(c)
+      for await (const c of ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] })) seen.push(c)
     })()).rejects.toMatchObject({ message: 'unauthorized', code: 'AUTH', status: 401 })
     expect(seen).toEqual(partial)
   })
@@ -258,7 +292,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file, overrideFile })
 
     const controller = new AbortController()
-    const iterator = ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })[Symbol.asyncIterator]()
+    const iterator = ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })[Symbol.asyncIterator]()
     // Deterministically consume the two pre-hang chunks (no sleep), then abort
     // and assert the next pull rejects — event-driven, per the no-sleeps rule.
     expect((await iterator.next()).value).toMatchObject({ type: 'block-start' })
@@ -272,8 +306,8 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file })
-    await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))
-    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).rejects.toThrow(/exhausted/)
+    await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))
+    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).rejects.toThrow(/exhausted/)
   })
 
   it('aborts mid-replay when the signal is already set', async () => {
@@ -283,7 +317,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file })
     const controller = new AbortController()
     controller.abort()
-    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })))
+    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })))
       .rejects.toThrow('aborted')
   })
 
@@ -305,11 +339,11 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     }, { inject: ['llm'] }))
 
     // While installed, replay short-circuits to the derived fixture ('hi').
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
 
     await fiber.dispose()
     // After dispose the listener is gone; the call reaches the real adapter.
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] })))
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] })))
       .toEqual([{ type: 'finish', reason: { kind: 'stop' } }])
   })
 
@@ -321,7 +355,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file, overrideFile })
-    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] })))
+    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] })))
       .rejects.toThrow(/llm-replay replay entry/)
   })
 
@@ -333,7 +367,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file, overrideFile })
     const controller = new AbortController()
-    const iterator = ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })[Symbol.asyncIterator]()
+    const iterator = ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })[Symbol.asyncIterator]()
     // Consume the two pre-hang chunks, then start the third pull so the generator
     // is parked inside the await (signal NOT yet aborted — exercises the
     // addEventListener('abort') registration), and only THEN abort.
@@ -359,7 +393,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     controller.abort()
     // Already aborted: the throw-entry's prefix loop surfaces 'aborted' before
     // it can reach the recorded LlmError.
-    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })))
+    await expect(drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })))
       .rejects.toThrow('aborted')
   })
 
@@ -373,7 +407,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (through the real waterfall)', () => {
     const controller = new AbortController()
     controller.abort()
     // The two pre-hang chunks still flow; the abort surfaces at the await.
-    const iterator = ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })[Symbol.asyncIterator]()
+    const iterator = ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], signal: controller.signal })[Symbol.asyncIterator]()
     await iterator.next()
     await iterator.next()
     await expect(iterator.next()).rejects.toThrow('aborted')
@@ -503,7 +537,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (per-session keying)', () => {
   ]
 
   const live = (id: string): GenerateOptions =>
-    ({ model: 'm', messages: [], sessionId: id as NonNullable<GenerateOptions['sessionId']> })
+    ({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], sessionId: id as NonNullable<GenerateOptions['sessionId']> })
 
   it('routes each live session to its own script by FIRST-CALL order', async () => {
     const parentFile = writeSession('session.jsonl', { id: 'rec-parent', createdAt: 100 }, [TEXT_CHUNKS])
@@ -540,7 +574,7 @@ describe('installLlmReplay (per-session keying)', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     installLlmReplay(ctx, { file: parentFile })
     // No sessionId at all — the legacy single-session path.
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
   })
 
   it('fails loud when more distinct live sessions call than were recorded', async () => {
@@ -574,12 +608,13 @@ describe('apply (the plugin entry)', () => {
     expect(inject).toEqual(['llm'])
   })
 
-  it('installs replay from an explicit config.file', async () => {
+  it('installs replay and its catalog from explicit config', async () => {
     writeFileSync(file, sessionJsonl(TEXT_CHUNKS.map((c, i) => chunkEvent(i + 1, 1, 1, c))), 'utf8')
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
-    apply(ctx, { file })
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    apply(ctx, { file, providers: [{ id: 'm', models: [{ id: 'm' }] }] })
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'm', name: 'm' }])
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
   })
 
   it('falls back to $DSH_SNAPSHOT_FILE / $DSH_SNAPSHOT_OVERRIDE when config is empty', async () => {
@@ -591,7 +626,7 @@ describe('apply (the plugin entry)', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     apply(ctx)
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
   })
 
   it('uses only the file when no override path is configured or in the env', async () => {
@@ -601,7 +636,7 @@ describe('apply (the plugin entry)', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     apply(ctx)
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
   })
 
   it('throws when no fixture path is given by config or env', async () => {
@@ -631,7 +666,7 @@ describe('apply (the plugin entry)', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     apply(ctx, { file, childFiles: [childFile] })
     const live = (id: string): GenerateOptions =>
-      ({ model: 'm', messages: [], sessionId: id as NonNullable<GenerateOptions['sessionId']> })
+      ({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], sessionId: id as NonNullable<GenerateOptions['sessionId']> })
     expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream(live('A')))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
     expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream(live('B')))).toEqual(childSecond)
   })
@@ -651,7 +686,7 @@ describe('apply (the plugin entry)', () => {
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     apply(ctx)
     const live = (id: string): GenerateOptions =>
-      ({ model: 'm', messages: [], sessionId: id as NonNullable<GenerateOptions['sessionId']> })
+      ({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [], sessionId: id as NonNullable<GenerateOptions['sessionId']> })
     expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream(live('A')))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
     expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream(live('B')))).toEqual(childChunks)
   })
@@ -663,6 +698,6 @@ describe('apply (the plugin entry)', () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
     apply(ctx)
-    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
+    expect(await drain(ctx.llm.stream({ provider: 'm', model: 'm', messages: [] }))).toEqual(TEXT_CHUNKS)
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/todo/tool-todo/tests/integration.spec.ts b/packages/todo/tool-todo/tests/integration.spec.ts
index c13a0f76f8..97c24a822e 100644
--- a/packages/todo/tool-todo/tests/integration.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/todo/tool-todo/tests/integration.spec.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ describe('todo_write tool through the agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('Plan recorded.'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-todo'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-todo'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'plan a two-step task' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ describe('todo_write tool through the agent loop', () => {
       textResponse('Done planning.'),
     ])
     const ctx = await harness(adapter)
-    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-todo-2'), { model: 'mock' })
+    const agent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('it-todo-2'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
 
     agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'plan then update' }])
     await waitForIdle(ctx, agent)
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/README.md b/packages/ui/acp/README.md
index 3650cf27d4..300cd69023 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/README.md
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/README.md
@@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ It is a **client-driver / UI plugin**, the structured analogue of the readline `
 
 `apply(ctx, config)` — wires an `AgentSideConnection` (from `@agentclientprotocol/sdk`) to `process.stdin`/`process.stdout` and implements the ACP `Agent` method surface.
 
-The plugin injects `agents`, `sessions`, `sessionPersistence`, `tools`, and `userInteraction`, never the concrete loop. Persistence backs `session/load`; tool definitions own presentation; user interaction maps agent questions to ACP forms.
+The plugin injects `agents`, `sessions`, `sessionPersistence`, `tools`, `userInteraction`, `llm`, and `systemPrompt`, never the concrete loop. Persistence backs `session/load`; the LLM catalog backs model selection; prompt assembly keeps model variables aligned with routing; tool definitions own presentation; user interaction maps agent questions to ACP forms.
 
 ### Config
 
 | Key | Default | Meaning |
 |---|---|---|
-| `model` | — | Model name for created agents (must have a registered adapter). |
+| `provider` | — | Initial provider route for created agents (must have a registered adapter). |
+| `model` | — | Initial model id for created agents. |
 
 (No persona key: `dsh-system-prompt`'s own `persona` config supplies the global default section, so ACP-created agents render it without the bridge carrying prompt text. An agent-scoped same-name section may still shadow that default.)
 
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ The `initialize` handshake reports a fixed server identity (`agentInfo: { name:
 | `session/update` | `session/event` | streams user replay, assistant text/reasoning, and tool render intents |
 | `elicitation/create` | `ctx.userInteraction.ask()` | maps `ask_user_question` questions to ACP form elicitations; option descriptions are shown in enum titles, `multi_select` uses ACP array enums, optionless requests use a required `custom` field, and a non-empty custom answer overrides any selected choice |
 | `session/request_permission` | `approval/request` listener | answers one-shot allow/reject requests for bridge-owned calls; foreign or call-less requests delegate and fail closed if unanswered — see "Permission prompts" |
-| `session/set_config_option` | `ctx.permission.set()` | per-session permission-preset switching over [session config options](https://agentclientprotocol.com/protocol/session-config-options) — see "Session config options" |
+| `session/set_config_option` | agent-scoped request target / `ctx.permission.set()` | per-session provider+model and permission-preset switching over [session config options](https://agentclientprotocol.com/protocol/session-config-options) — see "Session config options" |
 
 ## Multi-session
 
@@ -40,7 +41,9 @@ Forward and reverse indexes route every event, prompt, cancel, and approval to o
 
 ## Session config options
 
-When `ctx.permission` is composed, the bridge advertises one `permission` select in `session/new` and `session/load`. Options come from the deployment's preset table; the current value comes from the session fold, with switch-away-only `custom` for unmatched knobs. `session/set_config_option` accepts advertised presets and writes both sandbox-mode and approval-policy events through `PermissionService.set()`. Open-turn switches append immediately; idle switches overlay responses and anchor at the next `agent/prompt-submit`, before request assembly. A crash before anchoring restores the durable fold. See the [sandbox RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md), [`dsh-permission`](../permission/README.md), and [protocol matrix](acp-feature-support.md#6-session-config-options).
+The bridge advertises a `model`-category select in `session/new` and `session/load` when the session has a complete target whose provider is registered. Values encode the complete provider/model pair, are grouped by provider when more than one group is available, and come from `ctx.llm.listProviders()` / `listModels()`. The configured or last-requested model is added when absent because catalogs are advisory and private adapters may accept unlisted ids. A selection changes only that ACP session. Agent-scoped prompt assembly snapshots the selected pair for one step, supplies matching `{{provider}}` / `{{model}}` variables, and the `agent/request` waterfall applies the same pair; a concurrent selection therefore takes effect on the next step instead of splitting prompt text from routing. The resulting request header is the durable record restored by `session/load`; a selection never used by a request remains in-memory only.
+
+When `ctx.permission` is composed, the bridge also advertises a `permission` select. Options come from the deployment's preset table; the current value comes from the session fold, with switch-away-only `custom` for unmatched knobs. `session/set_config_option` accepts advertised presets and writes both sandbox-mode and approval-policy events through `PermissionService.set()`. Open-turn switches append immediately; idle switches overlay responses and anchor at the next `agent/prompt-submit`, before request assembly. A crash before anchoring restores the durable fold. See the [model-catalog RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md), [sandbox RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md), [`dsh-permission`](../permission/README.md), and [protocol matrix](acp-feature-support.md#6-session-modes--config-options--models).
 
 The shared [`ctx.tasks` runtime](../../tasks/tasks/) fences access to predictable task ids by the owning session; ACP sessions therefore cannot read or stop one another's background work.
 
@@ -107,6 +110,12 @@ The JSON-RPC frames go on stdout, so this plugin MUST run in an example that loa
 
 **Token effect**: Zero direct tokens from the ACP option or the log-only `permission/preset` event. Downstream cost is limited to the owning plugins' policy prompt, conditional retained change notice, and any changed tool outcome.
 
+### Model switches
+
+**What the model sees**: The ACP selector itself emits no message. The selected provider/model pair supplies the next step's `{{provider}}` / `{{model}}` prompt variables and request routing together; all other call-config fields continue through the `agent/request` waterfall unchanged.
+
+**Token effect**: The selector adds no direct tokens. A changed model may tokenize the same retained prompt/history differently, and any persona text that interpolates provider or model changes accordingly.
+
 ### Loaded sessions
 
 **What the model sees**: `session/load` resumes the persisted log, after which the loop sends its reconstructed history and request header. Replaying that log to the editor is not an extra model message.
@@ -117,6 +126,5 @@ The JSON-RPC frames go on stdout, so this plugin MUST run in an example that loa
 
 - **`additionalDirectories`** — rejected. A session operates in its single `cwd` (see Per-session cwd); widening the tool/filesystem scope to extra roots is a separate sandbox concern, not yet implemented.
 - **Prompt content is `text` + `resource_link` only** — image, audio, and embedded-resource blocks are rejected, as is a non-empty `mcpServers` list at `session/new`.
-- **One configured `model` for every created session** — per-session model selection has no config or protocol surface here yet.
 - **Terminal cards render completed output** — live incremental streaming and command classification are named follow-ups of [the terminal-rendering RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-06-18-acp-terminal-and-tool-rendering.md).
 - **Permission answers are one-shot only** — the bridge offers `allow_once` / `reject_once`; durable `allow_always` grants and their storage/revocation policy remain deferred to the approval seam.
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/acp-feature-support.md b/packages/ui/acp/acp-feature-support.md
index 29b0abc073..34e3caae8a 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/acp-feature-support.md
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/acp-feature-support.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Legend: ✅ supported · ⚠️ partial / fallback · ❌ not yet · — n/a. Th
 
 ## At a glance
 
-The bridge implements the **core prompt-turn loop** for N concurrent sessions: initialize, session new/load, prompt, cancel, streamed assistant/thought chunks, tool-call rendering (including Zed terminal cards), resumable session replay, one-shot permission prompts, and per-session permission presets. The largest **unbuilt** areas are **MCP passthrough**, runtime model selection, **slash commands**, and **agent plans**, plus the client **filesystem** and **terminal** method families (which the adapters mostly do NOT drive either — see rows 43-49). See [Gap summary](#gap-summary).
+The bridge implements the **core prompt-turn loop** for N concurrent sessions: initialize, session new/load, prompt, cancel, streamed assistant/thought chunks, tool-call rendering (including Zed terminal cards), resumable session replay, one-shot permission prompts, per-session model selection, and permission presets. The largest **unbuilt** areas are **MCP passthrough**, **slash commands**, and **agent plans**, plus the client **filesystem** and **terminal** method families (which the adapters mostly do NOT drive either — see rows 43-49). See [Gap summary](#gap-summary).
 
 ## 1. Agent methods (client → agent)
 
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ The bridge implements the **core prompt-turn loop** for N concurrent sessions: i
 | `session/prompt` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Maps to `agent.send`; one in-flight prompt per session; settles on the owning turn's end. |
 | `session/cancel` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Queue-aware `agent.cancel`; settles the in-flight prompt `cancelled`, scoped to the one session. |
 | `session/set_mode` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Session modes deliberately skipped: config options are the spec's replacement and modes are slated for removal in ACP v2 (see [§6](#6-session-modes--config-options--models)). |
-| `session/set_config_option` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | One `permission` select when `ctx.permission` is composed; values come from the deployment preset table, a switch writes its preset event through to both knob events, and the response carries the complete refreshed state ([sandbox RFC § Per-session mode switching](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md)). |
-| model selection | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | No distinct stable `session/set_model` — model is the `model`-category `session/set_config_option`. The bridge fixes the model per-bridge via config; no runtime switch. Codex still uses the legacy `unstable_setSessionModel` ext method. |
+| `session/set_config_option` | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | A provider/model select is present for a complete registered target; one `permission` select is added when `ctx.permission` is composed. Every response carries the complete refreshed state. |
+| model selection | S | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | No distinct stable `session/set_model` — model is the `model`-category `session/set_config_option`. Values preserve the provider/model pair, catalogs come from `ctx.llm`, selection is per session, and `session/load` restores the last requested pair. Codex also supports the legacy `unstable_setSessionModel` ext method. |
 | `session/list` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Gated by `sessionCapabilities.list`. The harness HAS `sessionPersistence.list()` (used internally for load-cwd validation) but does not expose it over ACP. |
 | `session/delete` | S | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Gated by `sessionCapabilities.delete`. |
 | `session/fork` | U | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | Claude ships `unstable_forkSession`; Codex does not. |
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Tool-call presentation is **owned by each tool** (`presentCall` / `presentResult
 
 ## 6. Session modes / config options / models
 
-Config options ✅ (the [sandbox RFC § Per-session mode switching](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md)): when `ctx.permission` is composed, the bridge advertises one `permission` select whose values come from the deployment preset table and whose current value derives from the session log; `session/set_config_option` switches the preset end to end, with idle switches anchoring at the next `agent/prompt-submit` inside its open turn. Session modes stay deliberately unmodeled because config options replace them in ACP v2. Runtime model selection is still not modeled — the harness fixes the model per bridge via `AcpConfig.model` (both reference adapters ship a model selector).
+Config options ✅: the bridge advertises a `model` select from the advisory LLM provider/model catalog, preserving each provider/model pair in an opaque value and grouping multiple providers. A selected pair is isolated to one session, snapshotted with the prompt for each step, applied through `agent/request`, and restored from the logged request header on load. When `ctx.permission` is composed, the bridge also advertises one `permission` select whose values come from the deployment preset table and whose current value derives from the session log; idle permission switches anchor at the next `agent/prompt-submit` inside its open turn. Session modes stay deliberately unmodeled because config options replace them in ACP v2. See the [model-catalog RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-15-llm-model-catalog-and-acp-selection.md) and [sandbox RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md).
 
 ## 7. Content blocks
 
@@ -141,13 +141,12 @@ The bridge rejects unsupported prompt blocks rather than silently dropping them
 Ranked by how commonly the reference adapters ship them and how much UX they unlock:
 
 1. **Session lifecycle** — `session/list` + `session/delete` (the persistence layer already lists), then `session/resume` / `session/close`.
-2. **Model selection** — sandbox and approval config options are implemented; selecting the bridge's model at runtime remains open.
-3. **Agent plan** (`sessionUpdate: 'plan'`) — surface the loop's plan as structured entries.
-4. **Slash commands** (`available_commands_update`).
-5. **MCP passthrough** (`mcpServers` on `session/new` + `mcpCapabilities`).
-6. **Richer prompt content** — image / embedded `resource` blocks (needs a multimodal model path).
-7. **Usage reporting** (`usage_update`) — the harness already records token usage internally (on `assistant/message`).
-8. **Editor filesystem delegation** (`fs/read_text_file` / `fs/write_text_file`) — lets the agent see unsaved buffers; lower priority since the harness has direct disk access.
+2. **Agent plan** (`sessionUpdate: 'plan'`) — surface the loop's plan as structured entries.
+3. **Slash commands** (`available_commands_update`).
+4. **MCP passthrough** (`mcpServers` on `session/new` + `mcpCapabilities`).
+5. **Richer prompt content** — image / embedded `resource` blocks (needs a multimodal model path).
+6. **Usage reporting** (`usage_update`) — the harness already records token usage internally (on `assistant/message`).
+7. **Editor filesystem delegation** (`fs/read_text_file` / `fs/write_text_file`) — lets the agent see unsaved buffers; lower priority since the harness has direct disk access.
 
 ## Out of scope
 
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/package.json b/packages/ui/acp/package.json
index 0a28c4f6da..84e4dcbda9 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/package.json
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/package.json
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-sandbox": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence": "^0.0.1",
+    "@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval": "^0.0.1",
     "@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-interaction": "^0.0.1",
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts b/packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts
index c464ffd22b..e8fb326d9b 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/src/index.ts
@@ -34,13 +34,15 @@ import {
   type PromptRequest,
   type PromptResponse,
   type SessionConfigOption,
+  type SessionConfigSelectGroup,
+  type SessionConfigSelectOption,
   type SessionNotification,
   type SetSessionConfigOptionRequest,
   type SetSessionConfigOptionResponse,
   type Stream,
   type StopReason,
 } from '@agentclientprotocol/sdk'
-import type { ContentBlock } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { ContentBlock, LlmCallConfig, LlmModelInfo, LlmProviderInfo } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { assertNever, CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { Agent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
 import { AgentId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent'
@@ -52,6 +54,9 @@ import type { ToolCallView, ToolRegistry, ToolResultView, TerminalResultView } f
 // Side-effect type import: declaration-merges `ctx.sessionPersistence` onto
 // Context (the bridge injects it and reads `list()` for load cwd validation).
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence'
+// Side-effect type import: declaration-merges prompt assembly onto Context and
+// the scoped waterfall used to keep persona variables aligned with requests.
+import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt'
 // Side-effect type import: declaration-merges the `approval/request` waterfall
 // the bridge answers for its own agents (see the approval answerer below).
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-user-approval'
@@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ import {
 export const name = 'acp'
 // Interface services back advertised loading, tool-owned presentation with a generic fallback, and interaction.
 // TODO(acp-session-inject): remove `sessions`; the bridge never reads it, and ownership is already behind `agents`.
-export const inject = ['agents', 'sessions', 'sessionPersistence', 'tools', 'userInteraction']
+export const inject = ['agents', 'sessions', 'sessionPersistence', 'tools', 'userInteraction', 'llm', 'systemPrompt']
 
 /** Build an ACP invalid-params error with visible human detail. */
 function invalidParams(detail: string): RequestError {
@@ -201,6 +206,8 @@ function stringArrayContent(
 
 /** Plugin config: the agent template ACP sessions are created from. */
 export interface AcpConfig {
+  /** Provider route for created agents. */
+  provider?: string
   /** Model name for created agents (must have a registered adapter). */
   model?: string
   /** Runtime-only transport override for tests; production uses stdio. */
@@ -208,9 +215,35 @@ export interface AcpConfig {
 }
 
 export const Config: Schema<AcpConfig> = Schema.object({
+  provider: Schema.string(),
   model: Schema.string(),
 })
 
+/** Provider/model pair selected for one ACP session. */
+interface LlmTarget {
+  provider: string
+  model: string
+}
+
+/** Mutable target shared by one agent's scoped assembly and request listeners. */
+interface LlmTargetRef {
+  current: LlmTarget | undefined
+  /** Step snapshot captured by prompt assembly so target switches cannot split prompt and request. */
+  assembled: LlmTarget | undefined
+}
+
+/** One resolved ACP model selector plus its opaque value lookup. */
+interface ModelDirectory {
+  option: Extract<SessionConfigOption, { type: 'select' }> | undefined
+  targets: ReadonlyMap<string, LlmTarget>
+}
+
+/** One provider and its adapter-advertised models, detached for one RPC. */
+interface ModelCatalogEntry {
+  provider: LlmProviderInfo
+  models: LlmModelInfo[]
+}
+
 /** Per-session bridge state keyed by ACP session id. */
 interface SessionRecord {
   sessionId: SessionId
@@ -221,6 +254,8 @@ interface SessionRecord {
   presenter: ToolPresenter
   /** Session-creation snapshot of terminal-card support for call/result consistency. */
   terminalEnabled: boolean
+  /** Session-local provider/model selection and the current step snapshot. */
+  target: LlmTargetRef
   /** In-flight prompt and its captured turn number for exact settlement. */
   inflight: {
     resolve: (reason: StopReason) => void
@@ -243,6 +278,7 @@ interface SessionRecord {
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
   // Handlers run later outside this injection scope, so capture services now.
   const agents = ctx.agents
+  const llm = ctx.llm
   const sessionPersistence = ctx.sessionPersistence
   const logger = ctx.logger
   const tools = ctx.tools
@@ -250,6 +286,101 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
   // Presenter failures are logged and contained per session or replay.
   const makePresenter = (agent?: Agent): ToolPresenter => new ToolPresenter(tools, (message) => { logger.warn(message) }, agent)
 
+  /** Resolve a complete target only; partial config remains available to other request listeners. */
+  const configuredTarget = (): LlmTarget | undefined => config.provider !== undefined && config.model !== undefined
+    ? { provider: config.provider, model: config.model }
+    : undefined
+
+  /** Install the ACP target as an agent-scoped prompt/request override. */
+  const installTarget = (agentCtx: Context, target: LlmTargetRef): void => {
+    const agent = agentCtx.agent
+    /* v8 ignore next -- setup is invoked only with the freshly created agent's scoped context. */
+    if (agent === undefined) throw new Error('acp: agent setup has no scoped agent')
+    const logged = agent.session.requestHeader()?.config
+    if (logged !== undefined) target.current = { provider: logged.provider, model: logged.model }
+
+    // Capture once at assembly entry and apply the same pair after downstream
+    // prompt listeners. A selector change during async assembly therefore takes
+    // effect on the following step instead of splitting {{model}} from routing.
+    agentCtx.on('system-prompt/assemble', async (_assembly, _context, next) => {
+      const selected = target.current
+      const assembled = await next()
+      target.assembled = selected
+      if (selected === undefined) return assembled
+      return {
+        ...assembled,
+        variables: {
+          ...assembled.variables,
+          provider: selected.provider,
+          model: selected.model,
+        },
+      }
+    })
+    agentCtx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, _callConfig, next): Promise<LlmCallConfig> => {
+      const resolved = await next()
+      const selected = target.assembled
+      return selected === undefined ? resolved : {
+        ...resolved,
+        provider: selected.provider,
+        model: selected.model,
+      }
+    })
+  }
+
+  /** Opaque ACP value preserving both routing dimensions. */
+  const targetValue = (target: LlmTarget): string => JSON.stringify([target.provider, target.model])
+
+  /** Read one detached advisory catalog snapshot before mutating session state. */
+  const readModelCatalog = async (): Promise<ModelCatalogEntry[]> => Promise.all(
+    llm.listProviders().map(async provider => ({
+      provider,
+      models: await llm.listModels(provider.id),
+    })),
+  )
+
+  /** Resolve one catalog snapshot into the ACP model selector for a session. */
+  const modelDirectory = (catalog: readonly ModelCatalogEntry[], current: LlmTarget | undefined): ModelDirectory => {
+    if (current === undefined) return { option: undefined, targets: new Map() }
+    const models = catalog.map(entry => ({ provider: entry.provider, models: [...entry.models] }))
+    const currentProvider = models.find(entry => entry.provider.id === current.provider)
+    if (currentProvider === undefined) return { option: undefined, targets: new Map() }
+    if (!currentProvider.models.some(model => model.id === current.model)) {
+      currentProvider.models = [...currentProvider.models, {
+        provider: current.provider,
+        id: current.model,
+        name: current.model,
+      }]
+    }
+
+    const targets = new Map<string, LlmTarget>()
+    const groups = models.flatMap(({ provider, models: entries }) => {
+      if (entries.length === 0) return []
+      const options = entries.map((model): SessionConfigSelectOption => {
+        const target = { provider: model.provider, model: model.id }
+        const value = targetValue(target)
+        targets.set(value, target)
+        return {
+          value,
+          name: model.name,
+          ...model.description === undefined ? {} : { description: model.description },
+        }
+      })
+      return [{ group: provider.id, name: provider.name, options } satisfies SessionConfigSelectGroup]
+    })
+    return {
+      option: {
+        id: 'model',
+        name: 'Model',
+        description: 'Sets this session\'s provider and model.',
+        category: 'model',
+        type: 'select',
+        currentValue: targetValue(current),
+        options: groups.length === 1 ? groups.flatMap(group => group.options) : groups,
+      },
+      targets,
+    }
+  }
+
   // TODO(derive-acp-session-id): derive event ids from `agent.session`, verify ownership, then remove the reverse map.
   // Agent events currently carry only the Agent, so retain `SessionRecord.sessionId` and update both indexes together.
   // Dropping the forward record lets the weak reverse entry expire.
@@ -433,16 +564,17 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
 
   // --- The ACP Agent method surface -----------------------------------------
 
-  /**
-   * Build the single Permissions option when `ctx.permission` is composed.
-   * Its value comes from the session log, overlaid by an unanchored idle
-   * switch, so `session/load` needs no catch-up state.
-   */
-  const configOptionsFor = (agent: Agent, pending: SessionRecord['pendingSwitches'] = {}): SessionConfigOption[] => {
+  /** Build every ACP session option from the model directory and live services. */
+  const configOptionsFor = (
+    agent: Agent,
+    directory: ModelDirectory,
+    pending: SessionRecord['pendingSwitches'] = {},
+  ): SessionConfigOption[] => {
+    const options = directory.option === undefined ? [] : [directory.option]
     const presets = ctx.get('permission')
-    if (presets === undefined) return []
+    if (presets === undefined) return options
     const currentValue = pending.preset ?? presets.current(agent.session.events)
-    return [{
+    return [...options, {
       id: 'permission',
       name: 'Permissions',
       description: 'Sets this session\'s sandbox and approval behavior.',
@@ -541,11 +673,15 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
         validateWorkspaceParams(params)
         validateMcpServers(params)
         const sessionId = SessionId(randomUUID())
+        const target: LlmTargetRef = { current: configuredTarget(), assembled: undefined }
+        const directory = modelDirectory(await readModelCatalog(), target.current)
+        assertOpen()
         const handle = await agents.create({
           agentId: AgentId(sessionId),
           sessionId,
           meta: { cwd: params.cwd },
           agentOptions: agentOptions(config),
+          setup: (agentCtx) => { installTarget(agentCtx, target) },
         })
         // Creation awaits the unpublished setup transaction. A client disconnect
         // can therefore close this bridge
@@ -564,10 +700,11 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
           dispose: () => handle.dispose(),
           presenter: makePresenter(handle.agent),
           terminalEnabled: terminalOutputCap,
+          target,
           inflight: undefined,
           pendingSwitches: {},
         })
-        const configOptions = configOptionsFor(handle.agent)
+        const configOptions = configOptionsFor(handle.agent, directory)
         return { sessionId, ...configOptions.length > 0 ? { configOptions } : {} }
       },
 
@@ -612,10 +749,14 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
               throw invalidParams(`session ${sessionId} cwd mismatch: persisted ${persistedCwd}, requested ${params.cwd}`)
             }
           }
+          const catalog = await readModelCatalog()
+          assertOpen()
+          const target: LlmTargetRef = { current: configuredTarget(), assembled: undefined }
           const handle = await agents.resume({
             agentId: AgentId(sessionId),
             resumeSessionId: sessionId,
             agentOptions: agentOptions(config),
+            setup: (agentCtx) => { installTarget(agentCtx, target) },
           })
           // The bridge may have torn down (disposal / client disconnect) while
           // resume() was pending. Its listeners are gone, so installing a record
@@ -631,6 +772,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
             await handle.dispose()
             throw invalidParams('connection closed during session/load')
           }
+          const directory = modelDirectory(catalog, target.current)
           const agent = handle.agent
           bySession.set(agent, sessionId)
           // Snapshot the terminal capability ONCE for this session (used by both
@@ -643,6 +785,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
             dispose: () => handle.dispose(),
             presenter: makePresenter(agent),
             terminalEnabled,
+            target,
             inflight: undefined,
             pendingSwitches: {},
           }
@@ -668,7 +811,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
           for (const event of agent.session.events) {
             streamSessionEventUpdate(sessionId, event, notify, replayPresenter, replayTerminal)
           }
-          const configOptions = configOptionsFor(agent)
+          const configOptions = configOptionsFor(agent, directory)
           return configOptions.length > 0 ? { configOptions } : {}
         } finally {
           loadingIds.delete(sessionId)
@@ -722,18 +865,35 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
         return Promise.resolve()
       },
 
-      setSessionConfigOption(params: SetSessionConfigOptionRequest): Promise<SetSessionConfigOptionResponse> {
+      async setSessionConfigOption(params: SetSessionConfigOptionRequest): Promise<SetSessionConfigOptionResponse> {
         assertOpen()
         const rec = requireSession(SessionId(params.sessionId))
-        // The advertised option is a select, so the boolean-shaped variant of
-        // the request is a protocol misuse regardless of configId.
+        // Every advertised option is a select, so the boolean-shaped variant
+        // is a protocol misuse regardless of configId.
         if (typeof params.value !== 'string') {
           throw invalidParams(`config option ${params.configId} is a select; boolean values are not accepted`)
         }
+        let directory = modelDirectory(await readModelCatalog(), rec.target.current)
         // Open-turn switches append immediately; idle switches wait for the
         // next prompt-submit. Only values advertised by this composition are
         // accepted, and the session log remains the durable store.
         switch (params.configId) {
+          case 'model': {
+            const target = directory.targets.get(params.value)
+            if (target === undefined) {
+              throw invalidParams(`unknown model value ${JSON.stringify(params.value)}`)
+            }
+            rec.target.current = { ...target }
+            const option = directory.option
+            /* v8 ignore next -- `targets` is populated only while constructing
+               this selector; a found target therefore proves it exists. */
+            if (option === undefined) throw internalError('model directory target has no selector')
+            directory = {
+              ...directory,
+              option: { ...option, currentValue: params.value },
+            }
+            break
+          }
           case 'permission': {
             const presets = ctx.get('permission')
             if (presets === undefined) {
@@ -755,7 +915,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
         }
         // The spec requires the COMPLETE refreshed config state in the response
         // (a change may cascade); ours are independent, but the contract holds.
-        return Promise.resolve({ configOptions: configOptionsFor(rec.agent, rec.pendingSwitches) })
+        return { configOptions: configOptionsFor(rec.agent, directory, rec.pendingSwitches) }
       },
     }
   }
@@ -851,11 +1011,12 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: AcpConfig): void {
  * Build per-agent options from the plugin config, omitting absent fields
  * (exactOptionalPropertyTypes: never assign `undefined` to an optional key).
  * Exported for unit coverage of both the present and absent branches.
- * @param config - the plugin config carrying the optional model name.
- * @returns the per-agent options, with `model` present only when configured.
+ * @param config - the plugin config carrying the optional provider/model target.
+ * @returns the per-agent options, with each configured target field present.
  */
-export function agentOptions(config: AcpConfig): { model?: string } {
+export function agentOptions(config: AcpConfig): { provider?: string; model?: string } {
   return {
+    ...config.provider !== undefined ? { provider: config.provider } : {},
     ...config.model !== undefined ? { model: config.model } : {},
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/tests/config-options.spec.ts b/packages/ui/acp/tests/config-options.spec.ts
index f914004e8b..806aaa3ab6 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/tests/config-options.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/tests/config-options.spec.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,26 @@ function permissionOption(currentValue: string): object {
   }
 }
 
+function modelValue(provider = 'mock', model = 'mock'): string {
+  return JSON.stringify([provider, model])
+}
+
+function modelOption(currentValue = modelValue()): object {
+  return {
+    id: 'model',
+    name: 'Model',
+    description: 'Sets this session\'s provider and model.',
+    category: 'model',
+    type: 'select',
+    currentValue,
+    options: [{ value: modelValue(), name: 'Mock' }],
+  }
+}
+
+function optionsWithPermission(currentValue: string): object[] {
+  return [modelOption(), permissionOption(currentValue)]
+}
+
 describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
   let storageDir: string
   let h: BridgeHarness | undefined
@@ -64,19 +84,111 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     return harness
   }
 
-  it('advertises no configOptions without the permission service — even with both knobs composed', async () => {
+  it('advertises the model selector without requiring the permission service', async () => {
     h = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir })
     await h.ctx.plugin(SandboxedLocalExecutor, { timeoutMs: 10_000 })
     await h.ctx.plugin(ApprovalService)
     await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
     const res = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
-    expect(res.configOptions).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(res.configOptions).toEqual([modelOption()])
+  })
+
+  it('groups models by provider and switches routing plus prompt variables as one session target', async () => {
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({
+      storageDir,
+      script: [textResponse('ok')],
+      config: { provider: 'alpha', model: 'a1' },
+      persona: 'Route {{provider}} / {{model}}',
+      catalog: {
+        providers: [{ id: 'alpha', name: 'Alpha' }, { id: 'beta', name: 'Beta' }],
+        models: [
+          { provider: 'alpha', id: 'a1', name: 'Alpha One', description: 'Fast' },
+          { provider: 'beta', id: 'b1', name: 'Beta One' },
+        ],
+      },
+    })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const created = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    expect(created.configOptions).toEqual([{
+      id: 'model',
+      name: 'Model',
+      description: 'Sets this session\'s provider and model.',
+      category: 'model',
+      type: 'select',
+      currentValue: modelValue('alpha', 'a1'),
+      options: [
+        { group: 'alpha', name: 'Alpha', options: [{ value: modelValue('alpha', 'a1'), name: 'Alpha One', description: 'Fast' }] },
+        { group: 'beta', name: 'Beta', options: [{ value: modelValue('beta', 'b1'), name: 'Beta One' }] },
+      ],
+    }])
+
+    const switched = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({
+      sessionId: created.sessionId,
+      configId: 'model',
+      value: modelValue('beta', 'b1'),
+    })
+    expect(switched.configOptions?.[0]).toMatchObject({ currentValue: modelValue('beta', 'b1') })
+    await h.client.prompt({ sessionId: created.sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'use beta' }] })
+    expect(h.adapter.requests[0]).toMatchObject({
+      provider: 'beta',
+      model: 'b1',
+    })
+    expect(h.adapter.requests[0]?.system).toContain('Route beta / b1')
+    expect(h.ctx.agents.list()[0]?.session.requestHeader()?.config).toMatchObject({ provider: 'beta', model: 'b1' })
+  })
+
+  it('adds the configured private model to an advisory catalog and ignores empty non-current groups', async () => {
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({
+      storageDir,
+      config: { provider: 'alpha', model: 'private-model' },
+      catalog: {
+        providers: [{ id: 'alpha', name: 'Alpha' }, { id: 'empty', name: 'Empty' }],
+        models: [{ provider: 'alpha', id: 'public-model', name: 'Public Model' }],
+      },
+    })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const res = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    expect(res.configOptions?.[0]).toMatchObject({
+      currentValue: modelValue('alpha', 'private-model'),
+      options: [
+        { value: modelValue('alpha', 'public-model'), name: 'Public Model' },
+        { value: modelValue('alpha', 'private-model'), name: 'private-model' },
+      ],
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('omits model selection without a complete or registered current target', async () => {
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, config: { model: undefined } })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const missing = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    expect(missing.configOptions).toBeUndefined()
+    await h.dispose()
+
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, config: { provider: 'unregistered', model: 'm' } })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const unknown = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    expect(unknown.configOptions).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
+  it('leaves model-less agents available to another agent/request supplier', async () => {
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, config: { model: undefined }, script: [textResponse('ok')] })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    const agent = h.ctx.agents.list()[0]
+    if (agent === undefined) throw new Error('expected an agent')
+    agent.ctx.on('agent/request', async (_agent, _turn, _step, callConfig, _next) => ({
+      ...callConfig,
+      provider: 'mock',
+      model: 'mock',
+    }))
+    await h.client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'supplied elsewhere' }] })
+    expect(h.adapter.requests[0]).toMatchObject({ provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   })
 
   it('advertises the Permissions select with the default preset current', async () => {
     h = await presetStack()
     const res = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
-    expect(res.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('workspace-write')])
+    expect(res.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('workspace-write'))
   })
 
   it('an idle switch is pending (overlaid, not yet logged), then anchors inside the next prompt\'s turn', async () => {
@@ -84,7 +196,7 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
 
     const after = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
-    expect(after.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('danger-full-access')])
+    expect(after.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('danger-full-access'))
 
     const session = h.ctx.agents.list()[0]?.session
     expect(session?.events.some(e => e.type === 'permission/preset' || e.type === 'bash/sandbox-mode' || e.type === 'approval/policy')).toBe(false)
@@ -105,7 +217,7 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
     await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
     const again = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
-    expect(again.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('danger-full-access')])
+    expect(again.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('danger-full-access'))
     await h.client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'anchor' }] })
     const events = h.ctx.agents.list()[0]?.session.events ?? []
     expect(events.filter(e => e.type === 'permission/preset')).toHaveLength(1)
@@ -119,7 +231,7 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
     await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
     const back = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'workspace-write' })
-    expect(back.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('workspace-write')])
+    expect(back.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('workspace-write'))
     await h.client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'anchor' }] })
     const events = h.ctx.agents.list()[0]?.session.events ?? []
     expect(events.some(e => e.type === 'permission/preset' || e.type === 'bash/sandbox-mode' || e.type === 'approval/policy')).toBe(false)
@@ -129,10 +241,10 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     h = await presetStack({ script: [textResponse('ok')] })
     const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
     const echo = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'workspace-write' })
-    expect(echo.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('workspace-write')])
+    expect(echo.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('workspace-write'))
     await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
     const repeat = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
-    expect(repeat.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('danger-full-access')])
+    expect(repeat.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('danger-full-access'))
     await h.client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'anchor' }] })
     const events = h.ctx.agents.list()[0]?.session.events ?? []
     expect(events.filter(e => e.type === 'permission/preset').map(e => e.data)).toEqual([{ preset: 'danger-full-access' }])
@@ -167,6 +279,8 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     // This composition never advertised `permission`.
     await expect(h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' }))
       .rejects.toThrow(/unknown permission value/)
+    await expect(h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'model', value: modelValue('mock', 'missing') }))
+      .rejects.toThrow(/unknown model value/)
     await expect(h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', type: 'boolean', value: true }))
       .rejects.toThrow(/select; boolean values are not accepted/)
   })
@@ -184,9 +298,31 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     const b = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
     await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId: a.sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
     const bAfter = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId: b.sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'workspace-write' })
-    expect(bAfter.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('workspace-write')])
+    expect(bAfter.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('workspace-write'))
     const aAfter = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId: a.sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
-    expect(aAfter.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('danger-full-access')])
+    expect(aAfter.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('danger-full-access'))
+  })
+
+  it('keeps model targets isolated across concurrent sessions', async () => {
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({
+      storageDir,
+      script: [textResponse('a'), textResponse('b')],
+      config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'one' },
+      catalog: {
+        providers: [{ id: 'mock', name: 'Mock' }],
+        models: [
+          { provider: 'mock', id: 'one', name: 'One' },
+          { provider: 'mock', id: 'two', name: 'Two' },
+        ],
+      },
+    })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const a = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    const b = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId: a.sessionId, configId: 'model', value: modelValue('mock', 'two') })
+    await h.client.prompt({ sessionId: a.sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'a' }] })
+    await h.client.prompt({ sessionId: b.sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'b' }] })
+    expect(h.adapter.requests.map(request => request.model)).toEqual(['two', 'one'])
   })
 
   it('a knob drifted outside the table derives a visible-but-untargetable custom current', async () => {
@@ -199,12 +335,12 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
     agent.session.append('bash/sandbox-mode', { mode: 'read-only' })
     agent.session.append('turn/end', { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } })
     const echo = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'custom' })
-    const option = echo.configOptions?.[0]
+    const option = echo.configOptions?.find(entry => entry.id === 'permission')
     expect(option).toMatchObject({ currentValue: 'custom' })
     if (option === undefined || !('options' in option)) throw new Error('expected a select option')
     expect(option.options.map(o => 'value' in o ? o.value : o)).toEqual(['workspace-write', 'danger-full-access', 'custom'])
     const away = await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'permission', value: 'danger-full-access' })
-    const afterOption = away.configOptions?.[0]
+    const afterOption = away.configOptions?.find(entry => entry.id === 'permission')
     expect(afterOption).toMatchObject({ currentValue: 'danger-full-access' })
     if (afterOption === undefined || !('options' in afterOption)) throw new Error('expected a select option')
     expect(afterOption.options.map(o => 'value' in o ? o.value : o)).toEqual(['workspace-write', 'danger-full-access'])
@@ -223,6 +359,52 @@ describe('acp bridge — session config options', () => {
 
     loader = await presetStack()
     const res = await loader.client.loadSession({ sessionId, cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
-    expect(res.configOptions).toEqual([permissionOption('danger-full-access')])
+    expect(res.configOptions).toEqual(optionsWithPermission('danger-full-access'))
+  })
+
+  it('session/load restores the last requested provider/model from the request header', async () => {
+    const catalog = {
+      providers: [{ id: 'mock', name: 'Mock' }],
+      models: [
+        { provider: 'mock', id: 'one', name: 'One' },
+        { provider: 'mock', id: 'two', name: 'Two' },
+      ],
+    }
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({
+      storageDir,
+      script: [textResponse('ok')],
+      config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'one' },
+      catalog,
+    })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    await h.client.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: 'model', value: modelValue('mock', 'two') })
+    await h.client.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: [{ type: 'text', text: 'persist target' }] })
+    await h.dispose()
+    h = undefined
+
+    loader = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'one' }, catalog })
+    await loader.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const loaded = await loader.client.loadSession({ sessionId, cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    expect(loaded.configOptions?.find(option => option.id === 'model')).toMatchObject({
+      currentValue: modelValue('mock', 'two'),
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('session/load omits config options when the persisted session has no target or permission service', async () => {
+    h = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, config: { model: undefined } })
+    await h.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const { sessionId } = await h.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    const agent = h.ctx.agents.list()[0]
+    if (agent === undefined) throw new Error('expected an agent')
+    agent.inject([{ type: 'text', text: 'checkpoint' }], { source: { kind: 'plugin', plugin: 'test' } })
+    await agent.whenIdle()
+    await h.dispose()
+    h = undefined
+
+    loader = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, config: { model: undefined } })
+    await loader.client.initialize({ protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION, clientCapabilities: {} })
+    const loaded = await loader.client.loadSession({ sessionId, cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
+    expect(loaded.configOptions).toBeUndefined()
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/tests/dispose.spec.ts b/packages/ui/acp/tests/dispose.spec.ts
index e63658f12a..30faf9aafe 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/tests/dispose.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/tests/dispose.spec.ts
@@ -175,10 +175,10 @@ describe('acp bridge — disposal & HMR safety', () => {
     // published, which guards against context-wide teardown.
     const harness = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, script: [] })
     const handleA = await harness.ctx.agents.create({
-      agentId: AgentId('sib-a'), sessionId: SessionId('sib-a'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentId: AgentId('sib-a'), sessionId: SessionId('sib-a'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     const handleB = await harness.ctx.agents.create({
-      agentId: AgentId('sib-b'), sessionId: SessionId('sib-b'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentId: AgentId('sib-b'), sessionId: SessionId('sib-b'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     expect(harness.ctx.agents.get(AgentId('sib-a'))).toBe(handleA.agent)
     expect(harness.ctx.agents.get(AgentId('sib-b'))).toBe(handleB.agent)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ describe('acp bridge — disposal & HMR safety', () => {
     const harness = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, script: [textResponse('ok')] })
     harness.ctx.on('agent/disposed', () => { throw new Error('boom disposed listener') })
     const handle = await harness.ctx.agents.create({
-      agentId: AgentId('guard-a'), sessionId: SessionId('guard-a'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentId: AgentId('guard-a'), sessionId: SessionId('guard-a'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     handle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'go' }])
     await handle.agent.whenIdle()
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ describe('acp bridge — disposal & HMR safety', () => {
     // clears. AgentHandle must memoize the whole async teardown so every caller awaits quiescence.
     const harness = await makeBridgeHarness({ storageDir, script: ['hang'] })
     const handle = await harness.ctx.agents.create({
-      agentId: AgentId('conc-a'), sessionId: SessionId('conc-a'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' },
+      agentId: AgentId('conc-a'), sessionId: SessionId('conc-a'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' },
     })
     // A hanging turn makes disposal produce a final flush; gate it so the second call arrives while
     // teardown is observably in flight.
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/tests/edges.spec.ts b/packages/ui/acp/tests/edges.spec.ts
index e86fb9fc94..de3a7a6f03 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/tests/edges.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/tests/edges.spec.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ describe('acp bridge — demux & config edges', () => {
     await harness.client.newSession({ cwd: process.cwd(), mcpServers: [] })
     const before = harness.updates.length
 
-    const { agent: foreign } = await harness.ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('foreign'), sessionId: SessionId('foreign-session'), agentOptions: { model: 'mock' } })
+    const { agent: foreign } = await harness.ctx.agents.create({ agentId: AgentId('foreign'), sessionId: SessionId('foreign-session'), agentOptions: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' } })
     foreign.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'hi' }])
     await foreign.whenIdle()
     await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 10))
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/tests/harness.ts b/packages/ui/acp/tests/harness.ts
index f8e2e37627..1796cbf868 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/tests/harness.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/tests/harness.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 import { Context } from 'cordis'
-import { CallId, type GenerateOptions, type StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import { CallId, type GenerateOptions, type LlmModelInfo, type LlmProviderInfo, type StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { LlmAdapter } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import AgentLoop from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-loop'
 import { mountAgentLoopTestDependencies } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-loop-testkit'
@@ -36,10 +36,24 @@ import { type AcpConfig } from '../src/index.ts'
 /** A scripted mock adapter (mirrors the agent-loop test adapter). */
 class MockAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
   requests: GenerateOptions[] = []
-  constructor(private script: (StreamChunk[] | 'hang')[]) {
+  constructor(
+    private script: (StreamChunk[] | 'hang')[],
+    private readonly providers: readonly LlmProviderInfo[],
+    private readonly models: readonly LlmModelInfo[],
+  ) {
     super()
   }
 
+  override providerInfo(provider: string): LlmProviderInfo {
+    const info = this.providers.find(entry => entry.id === provider)
+    if (info === undefined) throw new Error(`MockAdapter: unknown provider ${provider}`)
+    return info
+  }
+
+  override listModels(provider: string): Promise<readonly LlmModelInfo[]> {
+    return Promise.resolve(this.models.filter(model => model.provider === provider))
+  }
+
   async * stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
     this.requests.push(options)
     const entry = this.script.shift()
@@ -139,6 +153,9 @@ export interface BridgeHarness {
   storageDir: string
 }
 
+/** Test-only overrides preserve explicit undefined to suppress harness defaults. */
+type AcpConfigOverrides = { [K in keyof AcpConfig]?: AcpConfig[K] | undefined }
+
 /**
  * Build the bridge + a connected client over an in-memory transport pair.
  *
@@ -147,12 +164,13 @@ export interface BridgeHarness {
  * The bridge's `apply` receives the agent-side `Stream` via `config.stream`;
  * the test holds the `ClientSideConnection`.
  *
- * Pass `config: { model: undefined }` to override the default `model: 'mock'`
- * (the model key is dropped entirely when explicitly undefined).
+ * Pass an explicit undefined route field to suppress its mock default.
  */
 export async function makeBridgeHarness(options: {
   script?: (StreamChunk[] | 'hang')[]
-  config?: Partial<AcpConfig>
+  config?: AcpConfigOverrides
+  /** Provider-neutral directory exposed to ACP model-selection tests. */
+  catalog?: { providers: LlmProviderInfo[]; models: LlmModelInfo[] }
   /** Deployment persona for the tree (the system-prompt plugin's config). */
   persona?: string
   storageDir: string
@@ -182,7 +200,11 @@ export async function makeBridgeHarness(options: {
   withFs?: boolean
   fsCwd?: string
 } = { storageDir: '' }): Promise<BridgeHarness> {
-  const adapter = new MockAdapter(options.script ?? [])
+  const catalog = options.catalog ?? {
+    providers: [{ id: 'mock', name: 'Mock' }],
+    models: [{ provider: 'mock', id: 'mock', name: 'Mock' }],
+  }
+  const adapter = new MockAdapter(options.script ?? [], catalog.providers, catalog.models)
 
   const ctx = new Context()
   await mountAgentLoopTestDependencies(ctx, {
@@ -206,7 +228,7 @@ export async function makeBridgeHarness(options: {
     await ctx.plugin(FsPolicy)
     await ctx.plugin(ToolFs)
   }
-  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
+  ctx.llm.registerAdapter(catalog.providers.map(provider => provider.id), adapter)
 
   // Two identity byte pipes cross-wired into the two ndJsonStreams: bytes the agent writes flow
   // to the client's reader and vice versa. (ndJsonStream takes (output, input): the agent
@@ -266,9 +288,9 @@ export async function makeBridgeHarness(options: {
     },
   })
 
-  // Default to `mock` only when the caller omitted the key; explicit `model: undefined` means no
-  // model and must survive the object spread.
-  const cfg: AcpConfig = { stream: agentStream, ...options.config }
+  // Default route fields only when the caller omitted them; explicit undefined values must survive.
+  const cfg = { stream: agentStream, ...options.config } as AcpConfig
+  if (!(options.config && 'provider' in options.config)) cfg.provider = 'mock'
   if (!(options.config && 'model' in options.config)) cfg.model = 'mock'
   // Mount the bridge the way production does: as a cordis plugin (via `ctx.plugin` with the
   // real `inject`), not `AcpPlugin.apply(ctx, cfg)` on the ungated root. Later JSON-RPC callbacks run
diff --git a/packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts b/packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts
index 2afa49e1d4..415e9afb33 100644
--- a/packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/acp/tests/stream-update.spec.ts
@@ -794,5 +794,6 @@ describe('agentOptions', () => {
   it('includes only the fields present in config', () => {
     expect(agentOptions({})).toEqual({})
     expect(agentOptions({ model: 'm' })).toEqual({ model: 'm' })
+    expect(agentOptions({ provider: 'p', model: 'm' })).toEqual({ provider: 'p', model: 'm' })
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/README.md b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/README.md
index bf686ea800..c814919079 100644
--- a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/README.md
+++ b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Stdio JSON-RPC plugin for out-of-process SDK clients such as Python `deepseek_ha
 
 ## Wiring
 
-`inject: ['agents']`. The server gets or creates one agent per `sessionId` on `session/prompt` and demuxes `subagent/end` through the registry. If `initialize.model` lacks a registered adapter, it mounts `dsh-llm-deepseek` using `$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` and `$DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`; a config-registered adapter wins. Persistence, tools, and other adapters come from the surrounding `cordis.yml`.
+`inject: ['agents']`. The server gets or creates one agent per `sessionId` from the `initialize.provider`/`initialize.model` pair and demuxes `subagent/end` through the registry. A registered owner for the provider route wins; an unowned `deepseek` route mounts `dsh-llm-deepseek` using `$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` and `$DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL`, while any other unowned provider fails initialization. Persistence, tools, and other adapters come from the surrounding `cordis.yml`.
 
 ## Config
 
diff --git a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/src/server.ts b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/src/server.ts
index 91ef655c0c..2b3646c731 100644
--- a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/src/server.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/src/server.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import type { JsonRpcTransportPeer } from './transport.ts'
 export interface InitializeParams {
   /** Working directory recorded on every SDK-created session's header. */
   cwd: string
+  /** Provider route every SDK-created agent runs on. */
+  provider: string
   /** Model name every SDK-created agent runs on (see {@link HarnessSdkServer.initialize} for adapter fallback). */
   model: string
 }
@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ interface SubagentRecord {
  */
 export class HarnessSdkServer {
   private cwd = process.cwd()
+  private provider = 'deepseek'
   private model = 'deepseek'
   private llmFiber: { dispose(): Promise<void> } | undefined
   private readonly sessions = new Map<string, SessionRecord>()
@@ -124,16 +127,18 @@ export class HarnessSdkServer {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Record cwd and model, mounting the DeepSeek adapter only when the config
-   * registered no adapter for that model.
+   * Record cwd and provider/model, mounting the DeepSeek adapter only when the
+   * `deepseek` provider route has no configured owner.
    * @param params - the SDK handshake parameters.
    * @returns the server identity for the handshake.
    */
   async initialize(params: InitializeParams): Promise<InitializeResult> {
     this.cwd = resolve(params.cwd)
+    this.provider = params.provider
     this.model = params.model
-    if (!this.llmFiber && !this.hasAdapterFor(this.model)) {
-      this.llmFiber = await this.ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: [this.model] })
+    if (!this.hasAdapterFor(this.provider)) {
+      if (this.provider !== 'deepseek') throw new Error(`no adapter registered for provider "${this.provider}"`)
+      this.llmFiber = await this.ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, {})
     }
     return { serverInfo: { name: 'deepseek-harness-sdk-runtime', version: '0.0.1' } }
   }
@@ -244,7 +249,7 @@ export class HarnessSdkServer {
       agentId: AgentId(sessionId),
       sessionId: SessionId(sessionId),
       meta: { cwd: this.cwd },
-      agentOptions: { model: this.model },
+      agentOptions: { provider: this.provider, model: this.model },
     })
     const rec: SessionRecord = { handle, lastTurnEnd: undefined, activePrompt: false }
     this.sessions.set(sessionId, rec)
@@ -256,7 +261,7 @@ export class HarnessSdkServer {
     return reason.kind === 'completed' ? 'ok' : 'error'
   }
 
-  private hasAdapterFor(model: string): boolean {
-    return this.ctx.get('llm')?.models().includes(model) ?? false
+  private hasAdapterFor(provider: string): boolean {
+    return this.ctx.get('llm')?.listProviders().some(entry => entry.id === provider) ?? false
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/plugin-apply.spec.ts b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/plugin-apply.spec.ts
index b65907f4c0..0eef295911 100644
--- a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/plugin-apply.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/plugin-apply.spec.ts
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ describe('dsh-jsonrpc plugin apply', () => {
     vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY', 'test-key')
     const harness = await mountPlugin(storageDir)
     try {
-      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'init-1', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, model: 'apply-model' } })
+      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'init-1', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'apply-model' } })
 
       const response = await harness.waitForFrame(frame => frame.id === 'init-1', 'initialize response')
       expect(response).toEqual({
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ describe('dsh-jsonrpc plugin apply', () => {
     vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL', llmServer.url)
     const harness = await mountPlugin(storageDir)
     try {
-      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, model: 'dsagent-model' } })
+      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'dsagent-model' } })
       await harness.waitForFrame(frame => frame.id === 1, 'initialize response')
 
       harness.send({
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ describe('dsh-jsonrpc plugin apply', () => {
       expect(harness.exits()).toEqual([0])
 
       const before = harness.frames().length
-      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'after-exit', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, model: 'x' } })
+      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'after-exit', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'x' } })
       await settle()
       expect(harness.frames().length).toBe(before)
     } finally {
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ describe('dsh-jsonrpc plugin apply', () => {
       expect(harness.outputErrors.map(error => error.message)).toEqual(['flush callback failed'])
 
       const before = harness.frames().length
-      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'after-flush-failure', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, model: 'x' } })
+      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'after-flush-failure', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'x' } })
       await settle()
       expect(harness.frames().length).toBe(before)
     } finally {
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ describe('dsh-jsonrpc plugin apply', () => {
       await harness.fiber.dispose()
 
       const before = harness.frames().length
-      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'probe-2', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, model: 'x' } })
+      harness.send({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 'probe-2', method: 'initialize', params: { cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'x' } })
       await settle()
       expect(harness.frames().length).toBe(before)
       expect(harness.exits()).toEqual([])
diff --git a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/server.spec.ts b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/server.spec.ts
index c993bd4e2c..22f01178ec 100644
--- a/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/server.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/jsonrpc/tests/server.spec.ts
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
 
       const init = await server.handleRequest('initialize', {
         cwd: storageDir,
+        provider: 'deepseek',
         model: 'dsagent-model',
       }) as { serverInfo: { name: string } }
       expect(init.serverInfo.name).toBe('deepseek-harness-sdk-runtime')
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
         agentId: AgentId('orphan-agent'),
         sessionId: SessionId('orphan-session'),
         meta: { cwd: storageDir },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'dsagent-model' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'dsagent-model' },
       })
       orphanHandle.agent.send([{ type: 'text', text: 'outside the sdk session map' }])
       await orphanHandle.agent.whenIdle()
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
     try {
       const server = new HarnessSdkServer(ctx, new FakeTransport())
 
-      await server.initialize({ cwd: storageDir, model: 'plain-model' })
+      await server.initialize({ cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'plain-model' })
       await server.prompt({
         sessionId: 'plain',
         contentBlocks: [{ type: 'text', text: 'hello' }],
@@ -266,13 +267,13 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
         agentId: AgentId('parent-agent'),
         sessionId: SessionId('main'),
         meta: { cwd: storageDir },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek' },
       })
       const handle = await ctx.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('child-agent'),
         sessionId: SessionId('child-session'),
         meta: { cwd: storageDir, parentSession: SessionId('main') },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek' },
       })
       await settleSubagent(ctx, parentHandle.agent, {
         provider: 'spawn',
@@ -314,19 +315,19 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
         agentId: AgentId('fallback-parent-agent'),
         sessionId: SessionId('fallback-parent'),
         meta: { cwd: storageDir },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek' },
       })
       handle = await ctx.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('fallback-child-agent'),
         sessionId: SessionId('fallback-child-session'),
         meta: { cwd: storageDir, parentSession: SessionId('fallback-parent') },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek' },
       })
       failedHandle = await ctx.agents.create({
         agentId: AgentId('failed-child-agent'),
         sessionId: SessionId('failed-child-session'),
         meta: { cwd: storageDir },
-        agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek' },
+        agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek' },
       })
       const transport = new FakeTransport()
       const server = new HarnessSdkServer(ctx, transport)
@@ -385,20 +386,20 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
     }
   })
 
-  it('does not re-register an LLM adapter that already exists', async () => {
+  it('does not re-register an LLM adapter whose provider already has an owner', async () => {
     const storageDir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-jsonrpc-existing-llm-'))
     const ctx = await makeHarness(storageDir)
     vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY', 'test-key')
-    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['preinstalled-model'] })
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
     try {
       const server = new HarnessSdkServer(ctx, new FakeTransport())
-      const inspect = server as unknown as { hasAdapterFor(model: string): boolean }
+      const inspect = server as unknown as { hasAdapterFor(provider: string): boolean }
 
-      expect(inspect.hasAdapterFor('preinstalled-model')).toBe(true)
-      expect(inspect.hasAdapterFor('missing-model')).toBe(false)
-      await server.initialize({ cwd: storageDir, model: 'preinstalled-model' })
+      expect(inspect.hasAdapterFor('deepseek')).toBe(true)
+      expect(inspect.hasAdapterFor('missing-provider')).toBe(false)
+      await server.initialize({ cwd: storageDir, provider: 'deepseek', model: 'preinstalled-model' })
 
-      expect(ctx.get('llm')?.models().filter(model => model === 'preinstalled-model')).toEqual(['preinstalled-model'])
+      expect(ctx.get('llm')?.listProviders().filter(provider => provider.id === 'deepseek')).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
       await server.shutdown()
     } finally {
       await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -406,17 +407,18 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
     }
   })
 
-  it('registers a missing model when an LLM service already exists', async () => {
+  it('rejects a missing non-DeepSeek provider when an LLM service already exists', async () => {
     const storageDir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-jsonrpc-new-llm-'))
     const ctx = await makeHarness(storageDir)
     vi.stubEnv('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY', 'test-key')
-    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['other-model'] })
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
     try {
       const server = new HarnessSdkServer(ctx, new FakeTransport())
 
-      await server.initialize({ cwd: storageDir, model: 'new-model' })
+      await expect(server.initialize({ cwd: storageDir, provider: 'private', model: 'new-model' }))
+        .rejects.toThrow('no adapter registered for provider "private"')
 
-      expect(ctx.get('llm')?.models()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['other-model', 'new-model']))
+      expect(ctx.get('llm')?.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
       await server.shutdown()
     } finally {
       await ctx.fiber.dispose()
@@ -517,15 +519,15 @@ describe('HarnessSdkServer', () => {
     const ctx = {
       on: vi.fn(() => () => undefined),
       agents: { create, get: () => undefined },
-      get: () => ({ models: () => ['model'] }),
+      get: () => ({ listProviders: () => [{ id: 'mock', name: 'Mock' }] }),
     } as unknown as Context
     const server = new HarnessSdkServer(ctx, new FakeTransport()) as unknown as {
-      initialize(params: { cwd: string; model: string }): Promise<unknown>
+      initialize(params: { cwd: string; provider: string; model: string }): Promise<unknown>
       getOrCreateSession(sessionId: string): Promise<unknown>
       shutdown(): Promise<Record<string, never>>
     }
 
-    await server.initialize({ cwd: '.', model: 'model' })
+    await server.initialize({ cwd: '.', provider: 'mock', model: 'model' })
     await server.getOrCreateSession('relative')
 
     expect(create).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ meta: { cwd: process.cwd() } }))
diff --git a/packages/ui/user-approval/tests/approval.spec.ts b/packages/ui/user-approval/tests/approval.spec.ts
index f248e5c468..9219734c9f 100644
--- a/packages/ui/user-approval/tests/approval.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/user-approval/tests/approval.spec.ts
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ describe('approval policy (the approval/policy fold)', () => {
 
   /** Append a `request/header` snapshot whose system text is exactly `system`. */
   function appendHeader(session: Session, system: string): void {
-    session.append('request/header', { header: { config: { model: 'mock' }, system }, reason: 'initial' })
+    session.append('request/header', { header: { config: { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' }, system }, reason: 'initial' })
   }
 
   it('folds to the last event, or undefined without one', () => {
diff --git a/packages/workflow/tool-workflow/src/index.ts b/packages/workflow/tool-workflow/src/index.ts
index 33f2939164..2a8ef96682 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/tool-workflow/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/tool-workflow/src/index.ts
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ type ResolvedConfig = Required<Config>
  */
 const DESCRIPTION = `Run a JavaScript workflow script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Use this for work that fans out across many independent pieces — an audit over many files, a migration, multi-angle research, adversarial verification of findings — where you write the orchestration as a script instead of delegating turn by turn.
 
-The workflow's identity rides the \`meta\` parameter as JSON: required \`name\` (short kebab-case) and \`description\` strings, optional \`whenToUse\` string and \`phases\` array (\`{title, detail?, model?}\`). The \`script\` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO \`export const meta\` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with \`return <value>\` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.
+The workflow's identity rides the \`meta\` parameter as JSON: required \`name\` (short kebab-case) and \`description\` strings, optional \`whenToUse\` string and \`phases\` array (\`{title, detail?, provider?, model?}\`). The \`script\` parameter is the plain JavaScript body ONLY (NOT TypeScript, and NO \`export const meta\` statement — meta is a parameter, not code), running with top-level await; end with \`return <value>\` — the value must be JSON-serializable and is this tool's result.
 
 Script-body hooks:
-- \`agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>\` — run one subagent to completion. Without \`opts.schema\` it resolves to the child's final text; with \`opts.schema\` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves \`null\` when the child fails (filter with \`.filter(Boolean)\`). Other opts: \`label\` (display), \`phase\` (progress group), \`model\` (override). Anything else (\`effort\`/\`isolation\`/\`agentType\`) is rejected loudly.
+- \`agent(prompt, opts?): Promise<any>\` — run one subagent to completion. Without \`opts.schema\` it resolves to the child's final text; with \`opts.schema\` (an object-rooted JSON Schema using ONLY type/properties/required/additionalProperties/items/enum/const — no oneOf/pattern/format/numeric bounds) it resolves to the validated object. Resolves \`null\` when the child fails (filter with \`.filter(Boolean)\`). Other opts: \`label\` (display), \`phase\` (progress group), and independent \`provider\`/\`model\` LLM target overrides (either may be provided alone). Anything else (\`effort\`/\`isolation\`/\`agentType\`) is rejected loudly.
 - \`pipeline(items, ...stages): Promise<any[]>\` — run each item through the stages independently with NO barrier between stages (prefer this for multi-stage work). Each stage receives \`(prev, item, index)\`. An ordinary stage throw drops that ITEM to \`null\` and skips its remaining stages.
 - \`parallel(thunks): Promise<any[]>\` — run zero-argument functions concurrently and await ALL of them (a barrier; use only when a stage genuinely needs every prior result together). A throwing thunk resolves to \`null\`.
 - \`phase(title)\` — start a progress phase; \`log(message)\` — narrate progress; \`args\` — the tool call's \`args\` input, verbatim.
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@ Constraints: concurrency and total-agent caps apply; no filesystem, network, tim
 
 type WorkflowCallArgs = {
   script: string
-  meta: { name: string; description: string; whenToUse?: string; phases?: { title: string; detail?: string; model?: string }[] }
+  meta: {
+    name: string
+    description: string
+    whenToUse?: string
+    phases?: { title: string; detail?: string; provider?: string; model?: string }[]
+  }
   args?: Record<string, unknown>
 }
 
@@ -140,6 +145,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
               properties: {
                 title: { type: 'string', required: true, description: 'The phase title phase() calls match by exact string.' },
                 detail: { type: 'string', description: 'Optional one-line description of the phase.' },
+                provider: { type: 'string', description: 'Optional provider override this phase is expected to use.' },
                 model: { type: 'string', description: 'Optional model override this phase is expected to use.' },
               },
             },
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/host.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/host.ts
index 34d0fce2d8..57570a5098 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/host.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/host.ts
@@ -326,7 +326,14 @@ export class WorkerRun implements WorkflowRun {
         parent: this.parent,
         signal: this.controller.signal,
         ...request.schema !== undefined ? { outputSchema: request.schema } : {},
-        ...request.model !== undefined ? { agentOptions: { model: request.model } } : {},
+        ...request.provider !== undefined || request.model !== undefined
+          ? {
+            agentOptions: {
+              ...request.provider !== undefined ? { provider: request.provider } : {},
+              ...request.model !== undefined ? { model: request.model } : {},
+            },
+          }
+          : {},
       })
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       const failure = this.childAdmissionFailure()
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/meta.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/meta.ts
index c223be28fa..5412345178 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/meta.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/meta.ts
@@ -35,15 +35,17 @@ function validateMetaShape(meta: unknown): { meta?: WorkflowMeta; violations: st
         }
         const entry = phase as Record<string, unknown>
         for (const key of Object.keys(entry)) {
-          if (!['title', 'detail', 'model'].includes(key)) violations.push(`meta.phases[${index}].${key} is not a recognized field`)
+          if (!['title', 'detail', 'provider', 'model'].includes(key)) violations.push(`meta.phases[${index}].${key} is not a recognized field`)
         }
         if (typeof entry.title !== 'string' || entry.title.length === 0) violations.push(`meta.phases[${index}].title must be a non-empty string`)
         if (entry.detail !== undefined && typeof entry.detail !== 'string') violations.push(`meta.phases[${index}].detail must be a string`)
+        if (entry.provider !== undefined && typeof entry.provider !== 'string') violations.push(`meta.phases[${index}].provider must be a string`)
         if (entry.model !== undefined && typeof entry.model !== 'string') violations.push(`meta.phases[${index}].model must be a string`)
         if (violations.length === 0) {
           phases.push({
             title: entry.title as string,
             ...entry.detail !== undefined ? { detail: entry.detail as string } : {},
+            ...entry.provider !== undefined ? { provider: entry.provider as string } : {},
             ...entry.model !== undefined ? { model: entry.model as string } : {},
           })
         }
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/runtime.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/runtime.ts
index a99ce495a4..b5dbed1744 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/runtime.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/runtime.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export interface ExecutionObserver {
 }
 
 /** The `agent()` options the script may pass; everything else rejects loud. */
-const SUPPORTED_AGENT_OPTIONS = new Set(['label', 'phase', 'schema', 'model'])
+const SUPPORTED_AGENT_OPTIONS = new Set(['label', 'phase', 'schema', 'provider', 'model'])
 /** Deferred Claude Code options we name explicitly in the rejection message. */
 const DEFERRED_AGENT_OPTIONS = new Set(['effort', 'isolation', 'agentType'])
 
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ export class WorkflowExecution {
         run = await this.children.startAgent({
           prompt: rawPrompt,
           ...opts.schema !== undefined ? { schema: opts.schema } : {},
+          ...opts.provider !== undefined ? { provider: opts.provider } : {},
           ...opts.model !== undefined ? { model: opts.model } : {},
         })
       } catch (error: unknown) {
@@ -344,7 +345,13 @@ export class WorkflowExecution {
   }
 
   /** Materialize + validate the `agent()` options bag from the realm. */
-  private readAgentOptions(rawOpts: unknown): { label?: string; phase?: string; model?: string; schema?: StructuredOutputSchema } {
+  private readAgentOptions(rawOpts: unknown): {
+    label?: string
+    phase?: string
+    provider?: string
+    model?: string
+    schema?: StructuredOutputSchema
+  } {
     if (rawOpts === undefined) return {}
     let opts: unknown
     try {
@@ -361,11 +368,11 @@ export class WorkflowExecution {
     for (const key of Object.keys(record)) {
       if (SUPPORTED_AGENT_OPTIONS.has(key)) continue
       if (DEFERRED_AGENT_OPTIONS.has(key)) {
-        throw new WorkflowError(`agent() option "${key}" is deferred and not supported by this engine (supported: label, phase, schema, model)`, 'UNSUPPORTED_OPTION')
+        throw new WorkflowError(`agent() option "${key}" is deferred and not supported by this engine (supported: label, phase, schema, provider, model)`, 'UNSUPPORTED_OPTION')
       }
-      throw new WorkflowError(`agent() option "${key}" is not recognized (supported: label, phase, schema, model)`, 'UNSUPPORTED_OPTION')
+      throw new WorkflowError(`agent() option "${key}" is not recognized (supported: label, phase, schema, provider, model)`, 'UNSUPPORTED_OPTION')
     }
-    for (const key of ['label', 'phase', 'model'] as const) {
+    for (const key of ['label', 'phase', 'provider', 'model'] as const) {
       if (record[key] !== undefined && typeof record[key] !== 'string') {
         throw new WorkflowError(`agent() option "${key}" must be a string`, 'INVALID_ARGUMENT')
       }
@@ -384,6 +391,7 @@ export class WorkflowExecution {
     return {
       ...record.label !== undefined ? { label: record.label as string } : {},
       ...record.phase !== undefined ? { phase: record.phase as string } : {},
+      ...record.provider !== undefined ? { provider: record.provider as string } : {},
       ...record.model !== undefined ? { model: record.model as string } : {},
       ...schema !== undefined ? { schema } : {},
     }
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/types.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/types.ts
index 6adb422b2a..7e2bfff36c 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/src/types.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ export interface ChildStartRequest {
   prompt: string
   /** The structured-output schema, if the call passed one (already subset-checked). */
   schema?: StructuredOutputSchema
+  /** The per-child provider override, if the call passed one. */
+  provider?: string
   /** The per-child model override, if the call passed one. */
   model?: string
 }
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/integration.spec.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/integration.spec.ts
index 7b30f13f4f..25aa76cf48 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/integration.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/integration.spec.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ async function setup(script: Script) {
   await ctx.plugin(spawn, { providerName: 'spawn' })
   await ctx.plugin(WorkerWorkflowEngine, {})
   ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['mock'], adapter)
-  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { model: 'mock' })
+  const parent = ctx.agentLoop.create(AgentId('parent'), { provider: 'mock', model: 'mock' })
   return { ctx, parent, adapter }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/meta.spec.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/meta.spec.ts
index 37b86440be..00505a6435 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/meta.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/meta.spec.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ describe('validateMeta', () => {
       description: 'migrate call sites',
       whenToUse: 'large mechanical sweeps',
       phases: [
-        { title: 'Discover' },
+        { title: 'Discover', provider: 'openai' },
         { title: 'Transform', detail: 'one agent per file', model: 'deepseek-v4-pro' },
       ],
     })
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ describe('validateMeta', () => {
       description: 'migrate call sites',
       whenToUse: 'large mechanical sweeps',
       phases: [
-        { title: 'Discover' },
+        { title: 'Discover', provider: 'openai' },
         { title: 'Transform', detail: 'one agent per file', model: 'deepseek-v4-pro' },
       ],
     })
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ describe('validateMeta', () => {
     expectInvalid({ name: 'x', description: 'd', phases: [{ title: '' }] }, 'meta.phases[0].title must be a non-empty string')
     expectInvalid({ name: 'x', description: 'd', phases: [{ title: 'Scan', order: 1 }] }, 'meta.phases[0].order is not a recognized field')
     expectInvalid({ name: 'x', description: 'd', phases: [{ title: 'Scan', detail: 9 }] }, 'meta.phases[0].detail must be a string')
+    expectInvalid({ name: 'x', description: 'd', phases: [{ title: 'Scan', provider: 9 }] }, 'meta.phases[0].provider must be a string')
     expectInvalid({ name: 'x', description: 'd', phases: [{ title: 'Scan', model: 9 }] }, 'meta.phases[0].model must be a string')
   })
 
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/session.spec.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/session.spec.ts
index 07a9bac8d0..102bcbd9a0 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/session.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/session.spec.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ interface FakeHost {
 
 interface FakeHostOptions {
   /** Auto-respond to child-start: reply started + settled per child index. Omit a reply to leave the child pending. */
-  reply?: (request: { prompt: string; schema?: unknown; model?: string }, index: number) => ChildResult | undefined
+  reply?: (request: { prompt: string; schema?: unknown; provider?: string; model?: string }, index: number) => ChildResult | undefined
   /** Reject the start instead (child-start-error) when returning a string. */
   refuse?: (index: number) => string | undefined
   /** Auto-send `go` on `ready` (default true). */
@@ -143,6 +143,17 @@ describe('runWorkerSession over an in-process MessageChannel', () => {
     host.close()
   })
 
+  it('agent({provider}) forwards a provider without inventing a model', async () => {
+    const host = fakeHost({ reply: () => text('ok') })
+    void runWorkerSession(host.port, init("return await agent('route me', { provider: 'openai' })"))
+    const result = await host.result()
+    expect(result.value).toBe('ok')
+    const start = host.ofType(WorkerToHostType.ChildStart)[0]!
+    expect(start.request.provider).toBe('openai')
+    expect(start.request.model).toBeUndefined()
+    host.close()
+  })
+
   it('a schema child completing WITHOUT a structured value resolves null with a failed outcome', async () => {
     const host = fakeHost({ reply: () => text('prose, no structure') })
     void runWorkerSession(host.port, init("return await agent('p', { schema: { type: 'object' } })"))
@@ -330,7 +341,7 @@ describe('runWorkerSession over an in-process MessageChannel', () => {
       ["return await agent('p', { label: 3 })", '"label" must be a string'],
       ["return await agent('p', { get label() { throw new Error('read failed') } })", 'options must be plain JSON data'],
       ["return await agent('p', { bogus: true })", '"bogus" is not recognized'],
-      ["return await agent('p', { effort: 'high' })", '"effort" is deferred'],
+      ["return await agent('p', { effort: 'high' })", '"effort" is deferred and not supported by this engine (supported: label, phase, schema, provider, model)'],
       ["return await agent('p', { schema: { type: 'object', oneOf: [] } })", 'outside the supported subset'],
       ['return await parallel([() => 1, () => 2, () => 3])', 'over the per-call cap (2)'],
       ['return await pipeline([1, 2, 3], (x) => x)', 'maxItemsPerCall'],
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.e2e.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.e2e.ts
index 1d6f61432a..d49633636d 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.e2e.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ async function harness(): Promise<Context> {
   await built.plugin(ToolRegistry)
   await built.plugin(AgentRegistry)
   await built.plugin(AgentLoop, { agents: [] })
-  await built.plugin(LlmDeepSeek, { models: ['deepseek-v4-flash'] })
+  await built.plugin(LlmDeepSeek)
   await built.plugin(SubagentService)
   await built.plugin(Spawn, { providerName: 'spawn' })
   await built.plugin(WorkerWorkflowEngine, { provider: 'spawn' })
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)('worker workflow engine with-key
     const parentHandle = await ctx.agents.create({
       agentId: AgentId('wf-worker-e2e-parent'),
       sessionId: 'wf-worker-e2e-session' as never,
-      agentOptions: { model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
+      agentOptions: { provider: 'deepseek', model: 'deepseek-v4-flash' },
     })
 
     const events: string[] = []
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.spec.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.spec.ts
index 0e12f6e4d9..dffb5c3f9d 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow-workerthread/tests/workflow-workerthread.spec.ts
@@ -223,6 +223,14 @@ describe('dsh-workflow-workerthread', () => {
       expect(provider.runs[0]!.request.parent).toBeDefined()
     })
 
+    it('agent({provider}) forwards provider-only agentOptions across the thread', async () => {
+      const { ctx, parent, provider } = await setup()
+      const result = await run(ctx, parent, scripted("return await agent('route me', { provider: 'openai' })"))
+
+      expect(result.value).toBe('stub reply')
+      expect(provider.runs[0]!.request.agentOptions).toEqual({ provider: 'openai' })
+    })
+
     it('a fatal hook error inside the worker kills the script and reports the error', async () => {
       const { ctx, parent } = await setup()
       const result = await run(ctx, parent, scripted("return await parallel([() => agent('x', { isolation: 'worktree' })])"))
diff --git a/packages/workflow/workflow/src/types.ts b/packages/workflow/workflow/src/types.ts
index 5a00cfbb6d..21d8b4a4fb 100644
--- a/packages/workflow/workflow/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/workflow/workflow/src/types.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ export interface WorkflowPhase {
   title: string
   /** Optional one-line description of what the phase does. */
   detail?: string
+  /** Optional provider override this phase is expected to use (informational). */
+  provider?: string
   /** Optional model override this phase is expected to use (informational). */
   model?: string
 }
diff --git a/python/sdk-runtime/src/deepseek_harness_runtime/runtime/cordis.yml b/python/sdk-runtime/src/deepseek_harness_runtime/runtime/cordis.yml
index ac61a8eb15..a0eccdf483 100644
--- a/python/sdk-runtime/src/deepseek_harness_runtime/runtime/cordis.yml
+++ b/python/sdk-runtime/src/deepseek_harness_runtime/runtime/cordis.yml
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
   config:
     apiKey: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
     baseURL: !!js process.env.DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL
-    models:
-      - deepseek-v4-flash
-      - deepseek-v4-pro
 
 # JSONL persistence; $DSH_SESSION_ROOT wins over ./.sessions in the process cwd.
 - id: sessions
diff --git a/python/sdk/README.i18n.yaml b/python/sdk/README.i18n.yaml
index c6f8e4de1d..bb012a90db 100644
--- a/python/sdk/README.i18n.yaml
+++ b/python/sdk/README.i18n.yaml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write
-README.md: 441b335b9e850c221fbd6a657c7de539ceca070d
-README.zh.md: 65134c0e856b933c793510c2ed528e97f940f47d
+README.md: 80c9d1f50d26fc4f4670800fd7d7f5ea442ad891
+README.zh.md: ffedb5eb30f17388fe589863dbc654b22716b40c
diff --git a/python/sdk/README.md b/python/sdk/README.md
index 441b335b9e..80c9d1f50d 100644
--- a/python/sdk/README.md
+++ b/python/sdk/README.md
@@ -25,12 +25,15 @@ By default, the SDK launches the bundled single-file `dsh-jsonrpc-agent` executa
 from deepseek_harness import DeepSeekHarness
 
 with DeepSeekHarness(
+    provider="deepseek",
     model="deepseek-v4-flash",
     cordis="examples/dsbench-coding-agent/cordis.yml",
 ) as harness:
     result = harness.run("Make the requested code change.")
 ```
 
+`provider` selects a provider route registered by the chosen Cordis composition; `model` is the model id resolved by that adapter. The bundled default composition registers `deepseek`. A custom composition can mount `llm-pi-ai`, configure provider-specific credentials/endpoints there, and select any provider/model present in pi-ai's installed catalog.
+
 `TurnResult.final_response` is the text content from the last
 `assistant/message` event in the turn. Use `TurnResult.events` for the complete
 event stream, including intermediate assistant messages and tool activity.
diff --git a/python/sdk/README.zh.md b/python/sdk/README.zh.md
index 65134c0e85..ffedb5eb30 100644
--- a/python/sdk/README.zh.md
+++ b/python/sdk/README.zh.md
@@ -21,12 +21,15 @@ with DeepSeekHarness() as harness:
 from deepseek_harness import DeepSeekHarness
 
 with DeepSeekHarness(
+    provider="deepseek",
     model="deepseek-v4-flash",
     cordis="examples/dsbench-coding-agent/cordis.yml",
 ) as harness:
     result = harness.run("Make the requested code change.")
 ```
 
+`provider` 用于选择当前 Cordis 组合已注册的提供方路由；`model` 是该适配器解析的模型 ID。内置默认组合注册 `deepseek`。自定义组合可以挂载 `llm-pi-ai`，在其中配置各提供方的凭据与端点，再选择 pi-ai 已安装目录中的任意提供方/模型组合。
+
 `TurnResult.final_response` 是本轮次最后一个 `assistant/message` 事件的文本内容。完整的事件流（包括中间的助手消息与工具活动）用 `TurnResult.events` 获取。
 
 同样的行为也可以通过 `DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG` 为运行时子进程选定。注入逻辑位于 `HarnessClient.start()`，因此底层客户端的默认启动也具有此行为：当启动解析到内置运行时，且 `cordis` 与非空的 `DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG` 均未设置时（运行时把空值视为缺省，注入检查与之一致），使用内置的默认配置；显式给出 `runtime_bin`、`bridge_bin` 或 `launch_args_override` 则完全禁用注入。运行时载体（生产用 exe 与仅限开发的 `node` 闭包）及其获取方式见 [sdk-runtime README](../sdk-runtime/README.md)。
diff --git a/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/api.py b/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/api.py
index 3743371cea..2b44a50c64 100644
--- a/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/api.py
+++ b/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/api.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ class DeepSeekHarnessConfig:
     intentionally override or inject variables for a subprocess.
     """
 
+    provider: str = "deepseek"
     model: str = "deepseek-v4-flash"
     cwd: str | None = None
     runtime_cwd: str | None = None
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ class DeepSeekHarness:
         self._client.start()
         self._client.initialize(
             cwd=self._cwd,
+            provider=self.config.provider,
             model=self.config.model,
         )
         self._initialized = True
diff --git a/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/client.py b/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/client.py
index f5126c21c6..e552c8b685 100644
--- a/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/client.py
+++ b/python/sdk/src/deepseek_harness/client.py
@@ -115,10 +115,12 @@ class HarnessClient:
         self,
         *,
         cwd: str,
+        provider: str,
         model: str,
     ) -> InitializeResponse:
         payload: JsonObject = {
             "cwd": str(Path(cwd).resolve()),
+            "provider": provider,
             "model": model,
         }
         try:
diff --git a/python/sdk/tests/test_bundled_runtime.py b/python/sdk/tests/test_bundled_runtime.py
index adbc99d867..bc1da849b2 100644
--- a/python/sdk/tests/test_bundled_runtime.py
+++ b/python/sdk/tests/test_bundled_runtime.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def test_bundled_runtime_boots_a_cordis_config(tmp_path: Path, mode: str) -> Non
     (tmp_path / "cordis.yml").write_text(_CORDIS_YML)
 
     with _client(tmp_path, launch_args) as client:
-        init = client.initialize(cwd=str(tmp_path), model="deepseek-v4-pro")
+        init = client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd=str(tmp_path), model="deepseek-v4-pro")
 
     assert init.serverInfo is not None
     assert init.serverInfo.name == "deepseek-harness-sdk-runtime"
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def test_bundled_runtime_surfaces_unbundled_plugin_failure(tmp_path: Path, mode:
     client.start()
     try:
         with pytest.raises((TransportClosedError, TimeoutError)) as excinfo:
-            client.initialize(cwd=str(tmp_path), model="deepseek-v4-pro")
+            client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd=str(tmp_path), model="deepseek-v4-pro")
     finally:
         client.close()
 
diff --git a/python/sdk/tests/test_client.py b/python/sdk/tests/test_client.py
index f7d0cfa8a3..f66abf4b36 100644
--- a/python/sdk/tests/test_client.py
+++ b/python/sdk/tests/test_client.py
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
     with HarnessClient(
         HarnessConfig(launch_args_override=(sys.executable, str(script)))
     ) as client:
-        init = client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+        init = client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
         assert init.serverInfo.name == "fake-dsh"
 
         client.session_prompt("main", [{"type": "text", "text": "fix it"}])
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
         raise RuntimeError("bad notification filter")
 
     with HarnessClient(HarnessConfig(launch_args_override=(sys.executable, str(script)))) as client:
-        client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+        client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
         with (
             client.subscribe_notifications(broken_filter) as broken,
             client.subscribe_notifications(lambda notification: notification.method == "tick") as healthy,
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
     )
 
     with HarnessClient(HarnessConfig(launch_args_override=(sys.executable, str(script)))) as client:
-        client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+        client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
         with pytest.raises(ValueError):
             client.session_prompt("main", [{"type": "text", "text": "fix it"}])
 
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
     with HarnessClient(
         HarnessConfig(launch_args_override=(sys.executable, str(script)))
     ) as client:
-        client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+        client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
 
         request = client.next_request()
         assert request.id == "bridge-req-1"
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
     with HarnessClient(
         HarnessConfig(launch_args_override=(sys.executable, str(script)))
     ) as client:
-        init = client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+        init = client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
         assert init.serverInfo.name == "fake-dsh"
 
 
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ time.sleep(60)
     ) as client:
         start = time.monotonic()
         try:
-            client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+            client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
         except TimeoutError:
             assert time.monotonic() - start < 2
         else:
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
     client.start()
     proc = client._proc
     assert proc is not None
-    client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+    client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
     start = time.monotonic()
     client.close()
     assert time.monotonic() - start < 2
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
     assert proc is not None
 
     with pytest.raises(Exception, match="bad initialize"):
-        client.initialize(cwd=".", model="dsagent")
+        client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd=".", model="dsagent")
 
     assert proc.wait(timeout=1) is not None
     assert client._proc is None
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin:
 
     client = HarnessClient(HarnessConfig(launch_args_override=(sys.executable, str(script))))
     client.start()
-    client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+    client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
     client.close()
     client.close()
 
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ sys.exit(42)
         )
     ) as client:
         with pytest.raises(Exception, match="fatal bridge exploded"):
-            client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+            client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
 
 
 def test_client_serializes_concurrent_writes(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ with open(os.environ["SEEN"], "w") as seen:
             env={"SEEN": str(output)},
         )
     ) as client:
-        client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
+        client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="dsagent")
         threads = [
             threading.Thread(target=client.notify, args=(f"notice-{index}", {"index": index}))
             for index in range(50)
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ def test_client_default_launch_uses_bundled_runtime_and_injects_default_config(
         monkeypatch.setenv("DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG", ambient_config)
 
     with HarnessClient(HarnessConfig(env={"ENV_DUMP": str(env_dump)})) as client:
-        init = client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="deepseek-v4-pro")
+        init = client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="deepseek-v4-pro")
 
     assert init.serverInfo.name == "bundled-runtime"
     assert json.loads(env_dump.read_text())["DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG"] == str(default_config)
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ def test_client_respects_explicit_config_over_bundled_default(
     with HarnessClient(
         HarnessConfig(env={"ENV_DUMP": str(env_dump), "DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG": "./explicit.yml"})
     ) as client:
-        client.initialize(cwd="/workspace", model="deepseek-v4-pro")
+        client.initialize(provider="deepseek", cwd="/workspace", model="deepseek-v4-pro")
 
     assert json.loads(env_dump.read_text())["DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG"] == "./explicit.yml"
 
diff --git a/scripts/smoke-python-runtime.py b/scripts/smoke-python-runtime.py
index 918505693b..7fc7c47b6a 100644
--- a/scripts/smoke-python-runtime.py
+++ b/scripts/smoke-python-runtime.py
@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ def smoke_sdk_default(base_url: str) -> None:
         root = Path(temporary).resolve()
         sessions = root / "sessions"
         with DeepSeekHarness(
+            provider="deepseek",
             model="smoke-model",
             cwd=str(root),
             session_root=str(sessions),
@@ -402,6 +403,7 @@ def smoke_sdk_custom(base_url: str, executable: Path) -> None:
         cordis = root / "cordis.yml"
         cordis.write_text(CUSTOM_CORDIS)
         with DeepSeekHarness(
+            provider="deepseek",
             model="smoke-model",
             cwd=str(root),
             session_root=str(sessions),
@@ -433,6 +435,7 @@ def smoke_sdk_snapshot(base_url: str, executable: Path, update_snapshots: bool)
         cordis = root / "cordis.yml"
         cordis.write_text(CUSTOM_CORDIS)
         with DeepSeekHarness(
+            provider="deepseek",
             model="smoke-model",
             cwd=str(root),
             session_root=str(sessions),
@@ -482,7 +485,7 @@ def smoke_direct(base_url: str, executable: Path) -> None:
         }
         peer = RuntimePeer([str(executable)], root, environment)
         try:
-            peer.send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "initialize", "method": "initialize", "params": {"cwd": str(root), "model": "smoke-model"}})
+            peer.send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "initialize", "method": "initialize", "params": {"cwd": str(root), "provider": "deepseek", "model": "smoke-model"}})
             peer.read_until(lambda message: message.get("id") == "initialize")
             peer.send({
                 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
diff --git a/scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json b/scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json
index 90fe560af7..05430c9f97 100644
--- a/scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json
+++ b/scripts/type-equiv.manifest.json
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@
   "entries": [
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "Branded", "source": "packages/util/brand/src/index.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "ContentBlockMap", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
+    { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "AssistantProvenance", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "Message", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "MessageSourceMap", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "FinishReasonMap", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
+    { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "LlmProviderInfo", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
+    { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "LlmModelInfo", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "GenerateOptions", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "ToolSchema", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts" },
     { "doc": "docs/core-data-structures/core.md", "symbol": "LlmCallConfig", "source": "packages/llm/llm/src/call-config.ts" },
diff --git a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/agent-loop.md b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/agent-loop.md
index bf7492639b..9c99b81fc6 100644
--- a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/agent-loop.md
+++ b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/agent-loop.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Create an agent on a fresh per-run session, owned by the accessing fiber. Constr
 
 **Returns** the published running agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts#L389)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts#L391)
 
 ### ctx.agentLoop.createAgent(ownerCtx, options)
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Create an owned agent on a caller-supplied session id.
 
 **Returns** the published handle.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts#L412)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts#L414)
 
 ### ctx.agentLoop.resume(ownerCtx, options)
 
@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ Resume an owned agent from the configured persistence service.
 
 **Returns** the published handle.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts#L443)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent-loop/src/index.ts#L445)
diff --git a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/events.md b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/events.md
index dbc778b593..cee0b34c72 100644
--- a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/events.md
+++ b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/events.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A fully configured agent and live session were published. Setup is composition-o
 
 - `agent` — the newly registered agent with its live session and completed setup. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L151)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L153)
 
 ### agent/disposed
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ An agent left the registry; AgentLoop emits this after driver quiescence but bef
 
 - `agent` — the exact agent removed from the registry. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L160)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L162)
 
 ### agent/error
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ A step or turn errored. The loop reports a failure here (plus the logger) even w
 - `step` — the step at which the failure surfaced.
 - `error` — the failure, verbatim. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L295)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L297)
 
 ### agent/pre-step
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Awaited serial checkpoint for session-surface mutation after prompt assembly and
 - `sessionPrefix` — the frozen request prefix.
 - `signal` — the turn abort signal.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L214)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L216)
 
 ### agent/prompt-submit
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Allow, rewrite, or block one drained prompt before it becomes a user message. Ca
 - `content` — the drained message's blocks, as queued.
 - `source` — the message's resolved source. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L224)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L226)
 
 ### agent/queued
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Detached, frozen content entered the agent's inbox. Source defaults have already
 - `content` — the accepted content blocks retained by the inbox.
 - `info` — the accepted source plus whether it entered as steering. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L179)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L181)
 
 ### agent/request
 
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Replace the frozen call configuration. Model-visible content must use logged cha
 - `step` — the step whose request this is.
 - `config` — the config the loop would use (frozen); return a replacement to switch. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L236)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L238)
 
 ### agent/session-prefix
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Compose request-only messages placed before derived history. The frozen result i
 - `prefix` — the frozen seed; return an extended replacement.
 - `signal` — aborts composition when the step is torn down.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L251)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L253)
 
 ### agent/session-start
 
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ The session lifecycle began, once before the first turn. Use `agent.inject()` to
 - `agent` — the agent whose session lifecycle began.
 - `source` — why the session started (fresh startup, resume, …). Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L192)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L194)
 
 ### agent/status
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Agent status changed (`idle` ⇄ `running`, or → `disposed`). `send()` does no
 - `agent` — the agent whose status flipped.
 - `status` — the status just entered (the transition's destination). Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L169)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L171)
 
 ### agent/step-result
 
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Waterfall: post-process the assembled assistant Message before tool dispatch (va
 - `step` — the step that produced the message.
 - `message` — the assistant message as assembled from the stream. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L262)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L264)
 
 ### agent/turn-continuation
 
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Override whether the turn continues. The default continues after tool calls or s
 - `turn` — the turn being continued or stopped.
 - `defaultDecision` — what the loop would do absent an override. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L272)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L274)
 
 ### agent/turn-stop
 
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Monotonic terminal-stop checkpoint after continuation and steering are folded; a
 - `agent` — the agent whose composed continuation outcome may be stopped.
 - `turn` — the turn at its terminal-stop checkpoint. Scope-filtered dispatch (`@deepseek-ai/dsh-scope`): agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L282)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/agent/src/types.ts#L284)
 
 ## approval/*
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Waterfall around every streaming model call (retry, replay, routing). Bound to t
 
 - `options` — the full request. A LOOP-built request arrives deep-frozen (mutation throws): its content is a pure function of the session log (the reconstructability RFC), so listeners read it, never rewrite it. A hand-built one-shot (compaction summarize) is the caller's own object and stays mutable here.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L39)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L40)
 
 ## session/*
 
diff --git a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/llm.md b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/llm.md
index 65c622e9f9..200e926d15 100644
--- a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/llm.md
+++ b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/llm.md
@@ -6,34 +6,48 @@
 
 The abstract `llm` service: an adapter registry plus a streaming model-call surface, interceptable via the `llm/stream` waterfall.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L75)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L96)
 
-### ctx.llm.registerAdapter(models, adapter)
+### ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers, adapter)
 
 ```ts website-api
-registerAdapter(models: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void
+registerAdapter(providers: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void
 ```
 
-Register an adapter for the given model names. Throws `LlmError` with code `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER` if any model already has an adapter (all-or-nothing). Disposed with the fiber.
+Register an adapter for the given provider routes. Throws `LlmError` with code `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER` if any provider already has an adapter (all-or-nothing). Disposed with the fiber.
 
-- `models` — every model name this adapter should serve.
-- `adapter` — the adapter that streams calls for those models.
+- `providers` — every provider route this adapter should serve.
+- `adapter` — the adapter that streams calls for those providers.
 
 **Returns** the disposer that unregisters all of them.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L90)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L111)
 
-### ctx.llm.models()
+### ctx.llm.listProviders()
 
 ```ts website-api
-models(): string[]
+listProviders(): LlmProviderInfo[]
 ```
 
-Model names with a registered adapter.
+Describe provider routes with a registered adapter.
 
-**Returns** the registered names, in registration order.
+**Returns** detached provider metadata in registration order.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L111)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L142)
+
+### ctx.llm.listModels(provider)
+
+```ts website-api
+async listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]>
+```
+
+Discover models advertised by one registered provider. Catalog membership is advisory and never changes routing or request validation.
+
+- `provider` — registered provider route to inspect.
+
+**Returns** detached model metadata in adapter-preferred order.
+
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L152)
 
 ### ctx.llm.stream(options)
 
@@ -41,10 +55,10 @@ Model names with a registered adapter.
 stream(options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>
 ```
 
-Stream one model call as raw chunks (token-level deltas). Throws `LlmError` with code `NO_ADAPTER` if no adapter is registered for `options.model`. Dispatches through the `llm/stream` waterfall.
+Stream one model call as raw chunks (token-level deltas). Throws `LlmError` with code `NO_ADAPTER` if no adapter is registered for `options.provider`. Replay state is retained only when the same adapter instance owns its historical provider and the target provider. Dispatches through the `llm/stream` waterfall.
 
-- `options` — the full request; `options.model` selects the adapter.
+- `options` — the full request; `options.provider` selects the adapter.
 
 **Returns** the chunk stream, possibly wrapped by `llm/stream` listeners.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L128)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts#L210)
diff --git a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/sessions.md b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/sessions.md
index cdbb67c17d..b778d4e44c 100644
--- a/website/zh-CN/api/harness/sessions.md
+++ b/website/zh-CN/api/harness/sessions.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 In-memory session store (`ctx.sessions`).
 Persistence is intentionally not implemented here — persistence plugins subscribe to `session/event` and flush on `session/flush` / dispose.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L539)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L566)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.create(id?, options?)
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For an agent whose session must be torn down IN ORDER with its loop (so the loop
 
 **Returns** the live session, already entered and announced.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L568)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L595)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.prepare(id?, options?)
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Build a session WITHOUT entering it into the store — validate the id/cwd and c
 
 **Returns** the constructed session, NOT yet in the store.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L597)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L624)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.enter(session)
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Re-checks the id for a duplicate: `prepare` and `enter` are public cross-package
 
 **Returns** the detach disposer (publication hooks + store removal). When called from a synchronous `session/created` listener, removal and disposal wait until that creation dispatch unwinds.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L641)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L668)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.announce(session)
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Emit `session/created` exactly once for an entered session (with the carrier ent
 
 - `session` — the entered session to announce to listeners.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L696)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L723)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.flush(session)
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Dispatch the awaited `session/flush` durability checkpoint for `session`, with t
 
 **Returns** resolves when every flush listener has settled; after all settle, rejects with the first registered listener failure if any listener failed.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L748)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L775)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.get(id)
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Look up a live session.
 
 **Returns** the session, or undefined when no live session has that id.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L780)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L807)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.list()
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ All live sessions, in creation order.
 
 **Returns** a fresh array; mutating it does not affect the store.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L788)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L815)
 
 ### ctx.sessions.fork(source, boundary?, childSessionId?)
 
@@ -121,4 +121,4 @@ Create a live child session from a turn-enclosed prefix of a live source. `bound
 
 **Returns** The created live child session.
 
-[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L805)
+[Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L832)
diff --git a/website/zh-CN/develop/basic/config.md b/website/zh-CN/develop/basic/config.md
index 8b1edf385f..c912f49111 100644
--- a/website/zh-CN/develop/basic/config.md
+++ b/website/zh-CN/develop/basic/config.md
@@ -83,23 +83,26 @@ export interface Config {
 
 ### 配置错误要响亮
 
-如果配置引用了不存在的东西（比如一个不存在的模型名），应该尽早报错，而不是静默跳过：
+如果配置引用了不存在的东西（比如一个未注册的 LLM 提供方路由），应该尽早报错，而不是静默跳过：
 
 ```ts
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 
 export interface Config {
+  provider: string
   model: string
 }
 
 export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config) {
-  if (!ctx.llm.models().includes(config.model)) {
-    throw new Error(`Model "${config.model}" is not registered by any LLM adapter`)
+  if (!ctx.llm.listProviders().some(provider => provider.id === config.provider)) {
+    throw new Error(`LLM provider "${config.provider}" is not registered`)
   }
 }
 ```
 
+模型目录只用于发现；适配器可能接受目录之外的模型 ID，因此不能把 `listModels()` 当作请求白名单。
+
 ## 配合 HMR
 
 配置变更会触发插件热替换：修改 `cordis.yml` 中某个插件的 `config`，框架会卸载旧实例、加载新实例。由于注册都是效果（自动清理），这个过程是安全的。