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Closes #1797 — the two halves #1799 deliberately deferred.

A llama.cpp server splits one model's metadata across two arrays: an Ollama-style models[] carrying capabilities, and an OpenAI-style data[] carrying meta. Discovery reads only data[] (deliberately — a stray models key must not be trusted as a source of models), so the served context and the image signal never met. A server that truthfully advertised multimodality still produced a context-unknown, image-blind row.

Two changes:

  1. multimodal is recognized as an image signal. llama.cpp and Ollama-compatible servers emit it instead of vision/image-input. It is mapped to the closed text|image enum rather than passed through, because an out-of-enum modality makes Codex reject the entire catalog file.

  2. An admitted data[] row is enriched from a same-id sibling models[] entry.

The conservative boundary that refuses a stray models key is preserved, and review hardened it twice:

  • Admission is decided on the original data[] row, before any enrichment. The first attempt merged first, which let a sibling supply the exact field a provider filter required — reproduced against the real Chutes policy, where a row lacking supported_features: ["tools"] was admitted once a same-id sibling provided it. Enrichment may change what is known about a model, never which models are published.
  • Only capabilities, modalities, input_modalities are copied. supported_features and features are deliberately excluded despite being capability-shaped: they are the two keys real filters test (registry.ts:1591, :1883). Ordering already prevents a bypass, but a key that is both enrichable and filter-relevant is one refactor away from becoming one, and llama.cpp: multimodal capability and dual-envelope /v1/models metadata are not ingested #1797 does not need them.
  • Membership stays with data[]; a sibling-only entry is dropped. Matching is exact id equality (id, or Ollama's model/name), never fuzzy. An id claimed twice in the sibling array is skipped rather than guessed. The sibling array is bounded by the same limit as the primary envelope.

Verification

End to end on the verbatim payload from the reporting server:

{"id":"qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4","provider":"llama","owned_by":"llamacpp",
 "contextWindow":262144,"inputModalities":["text","image"],
 "capabilities":["completion","multimodal"]}

Independent audit (gpt-5.6-sol explorer) returned FAIL on the first attempt for the admission bypass, then PASS after the fix. It re-ran its own Chutes reproduction and attacked every allowlisted key:

CHUTES  withoutSibling -> items: []   withSibling -> items: []
ALLOWLIST_FILTER_ATTACK=capabilities       items: []
ALLOWLIST_FILTER_ATTACK=features           items: []
ALLOWLIST_FILTER_ATTACK=supported_features items: []
ALLOWLIST_FILTER_ATTACK=modalities         items: []
ALLOWLIST_FILTER_ATTACK=input_modalities   items: []

Prototype pollution, non-object siblings, oversized/deeply-nested siblings, cross-key id collisions, and hostile modality injection were all probed and produced no further defect. Raw modality tokens cannot leak: provider-fetch.ts filters to text|image|audio, maps multimodal, and catalog/parsing.ts filters again before serialization.

Commands, run on an isolated Linux checkout at the exact head:

  • bun x tsc --noEmit — exit 0
  • bun run test tests/catalog-llamacpp-capabilities.test.ts tests/routing-capability-catalog.test.ts tests/core-lab-boundary.test.ts — 32 pass / 0 fail
  • Auditor's broader run at the previous head — 317 pass / 0 fail across 9 files

Both new admission-boundary regressions fail without the source change (activation exit 1).

The test that previously characterized this gap is flipped, and three guards pin the boundary: data[] wins a conflict, sibling-only rows stay ignored, ambiguous ids are skipped.

Checklist

  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved model discovery for multimodal models, including image-input support.
    • Enriched model listings with compatible capability, modality, and input information when available.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of duplicate, ambiguous, or filtered model entries.
    • Preserved existing filtering and prioritization rules when combining model metadata.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for image-capable models, metadata precedence, ambiguous identifiers, and provider filtering.

…1797)

Closes the two halves #1799 deliberately deferred.

1. `multimodal` is now recognized as an image signal. llama.cpp and
   Ollama-compatible servers emit it instead of `vision`/`image-input`, so a
   server that truthfully advertised image support still produced an
   image-blind row. Mapped to the closed text|image enum rather than passed
   through: an out-of-enum modality makes Codex reject the whole catalog file.

2. A `data[]` row is enriched from a sibling `models[]` entry for the same id.
   llama.cpp splits one model's metadata across both arrays - capabilities in
   `models[]`, `meta` in `data[]` - so the two halves never met.

The conservative boundary that refuses a stray `models` key is preserved
deliberately, because that refusal exists for a reason:

- membership is decided entirely by `data[]`; a sibling-only entry is dropped
- matching is exact id equality (id, or Ollama's model/name), never fuzzy
- an id claimed twice in the sibling array is skipped rather than guessed
- only keys ABSENT from the `data[]` row are filled, so `data[]` always wins
- the sibling array is bounded by the same limit as the primary envelope

Verified against the verbatim payload from the reporting server: contextWindow
262144 and inputModalities ["text","image"], where before it was context-only.
The characterization test that pinned the gap is flipped, and three guards pin
the boundary: data[] wins a conflict, sibling-only rows stay ignored, ambiguous
ids are skipped.
Review found the first attempt unsound in a way that crossed a real safety
boundary. mergeSiblingModelMetadata ran BEFORE providerModelMatchesDiscoveryFilter
and copied every absent key, so a models[] entry could supply the exact field a
provider filter required. Reproduced against the real Chutes policy:

    withoutSibling -> items: []
    withSibling    -> items: [{id:not-proven-tool-capable, supported_features:[tools]}]

That contradicts the claimed membership boundary and affects every filtered
provider, not just llama.cpp.

Two corrections:
- Enrichment now runs AFTER admission, on already-published rows only, so it can
  change what is KNOWN about a model but never WHICH models are published.
- Only capability keys are copied (capabilities, features, supported_features,
  modalities, input_modalities) instead of every absent key.

Verified: the reproduction now yields [], #1797 still resolves 262144 and
[text,image], and a non-whitelisted sibling key is ignored.
Ordering already prevents a sibling from flipping an admission verdict, but
supported_features and features are exactly the two keys real provider filters
test (registry.ts:1591 requires supported_features to contain "tools";
registry.ts:1883 tests features.tool_use). A key that is both enrichable and
filter-relevant is one refactor away from becoming a bypass again, and #1797
does not need either. Enrichable set is now capabilities, modalities,
input_modalities.
The header still described the image half as unfixed and claimed a merged item
would stay image-unknown, contradicting the end-to-end assertion below it.
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Walkthrough

The change enriches admitted provider models from matching models[] metadata in dual-envelope responses. It preserves data[] precedence, rejects ambiguous or sibling-only entries, and maps multimodal capability to ["text", "image"].

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Provider model metadata enrichment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dual-envelope discovery and validation
src/providers/model-discovery.ts, tests/catalog-llamacpp-capabilities.test.ts
Discovery indexes unambiguous sibling models[] entries, filters and deduplicates original data[] rows first, then copies only approved absent capability fields. Tests cover precedence, exclusion, ambiguity, provider filtering, and field restrictions.
Multimodal input mapping
src/codex/catalog/provider-fetch.ts, tests/catalog-llamacpp-capabilities.test.ts
multimodal capability now maps to ["text", "image"]. Regression coverage verifies image modalities and context metadata from dual envelopes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a88b7

The change enriches published model metadata from sibling records, but ambiguous identifiers could attach capabilities to the wrong model, and duplicate test declarations currently prevent validation from running. The PR should not merge until both issues are fixed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Provider as Provider endpoint
  participant Discovery as extractProviderModelItems
  participant Filter as Provider filtering
  participant Catalog as Catalog normalization

  Provider->>Discovery: Return models[] and data[]
  Discovery->>Discovery: Index unambiguous sibling IDs
  Discovery->>Filter: Process original data[] rows
  Filter->>Discovery: Admit matching rows
  Discovery->>Catalog: Enrich admitted rows with approved metadata
  Catalog->>Catalog: Map multimodal to text and image modalities
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In `@src/providers/model-discovery.ts`:
- Around line 334-363: Update the sibling enrichment logic to collect non-empty
raw identity fields from each sibling, skip siblings whose identifiers disagree,
and require one unambiguous identifier for matching. Match only against the
original data[] row ID before stripIdPrefix processing, not finalId, while
preserving admission-before-enrichment ordering. Add regression coverage for
conflicting sibling aliases and prefix-stripped IDs.

In `@tests/catalog-llamacpp-capabilities.test.ts`:
- Line 90: Remove the duplicate const items declarations from each affected test
callback, retaining one declaration per callback in the listed regression tests.
Keep identical items names where they are scoped to separate test() callbacks.
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Comment on lines +334 to +363
/**
* Metadata a sibling `models[]` array may contribute to an ALREADY-ADMITTED
* `data[]` row (#1797).
*
* llama.cpp serves a dual-envelope body: an Ollama-style `models[]` array
* carrying `capabilities` alongside the OpenAI-style `data[]` array carrying
* `meta`, so the two halves of one model's metadata never meet and a server
* that truthfully advertises "multimodal" produced an image-blind row.
*
* Two boundaries make this safe, and both were added after review found the
* first attempt unsound:
*
* 1. It runs AFTER admission filtering. Enriching first let a sibling supply
* the exact field a provider filter requires — reproduced against the real
* Chutes policy, where a row lacking `supported_features: ["tools"]` was
* admitted once a same-id sibling provided it. Enrichment may change what is
* KNOWN about a model, never WHICH models are published.
* 2. Only the capability keys #1797 needs are copied. A blanket "fill every
* absent key" made the untrusted `models[]` array a way into any field the
* pipeline consumes.
*
* The list deliberately EXCLUDES `supported_features` and `features`, even
* though both are capability-shaped: they are the two keys real provider
* filters test (`registry.ts:1591` requires `supported_features` to contain
* "tools"; `registry.ts:1883` tests `features.tool_use`). Ordering already
* prevents a sibling from flipping an admission verdict, but a key that is
* both enrichable and filter-relevant is one refactor away from becoming a
* bypass again. #1797 does not need them.
*/
const SIBLING_ENRICHABLE_KEYS = new Set(["capabilities", "modalities", "input_modalities"]);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require one unambiguous raw sibling identifier before enrichment.

Line 376 indexes every id, model, and name value as an independent identity. A sibling such as { id: "model-a", name: "model-b", capabilities: ["multimodal"] } can therefore enrich data[] row "model-b", although the sibling ID is "model-a".

Line 446 also looks up finalId after stripIdPrefix processing. A raw data[] ID of "prefix/model-a" can therefore match a sibling raw ID of "model-a". This violates the required exact same-ID boundary and can publish incorrect capability metadata for an admitted model.

Collect the non-empty sibling identity fields first. Skip the sibling when they disagree. Match enrichment against the original data[] ID, not finalId. Add regression tests for conflicting sibling aliases and prefix-stripped IDs.

Proposed direction
 function buildSiblingIndex(value: unknown, limit: number): SiblingIndex | null {
   // ...
   for (const raw of sibling) {
     const entry = plainObject(raw);
     if (!entry) continue;
-    for (const key of ["id", "model", "name"]) {
-      const id = entry[key];
-      if (typeof id !== "string" || id.length === 0) continue;
-      byId.set(id, byId.has(id) && byId.get(id) !== entry ? null : entry);
-    }
+    const ids = new Set(
+      ["id", "model", "name"]
+        .map(key => entry[key])
+        .filter((id): id is string => typeof id === "string" && id.length > 0),
+    );
+    if (ids.size !== 1) continue;
+    const [id] = ids;
+    byId.set(id, byId.has(id) && byId.get(id) !== entry ? null : entry);
   }
 }

-function enrichAdmittedModel(item: ProviderModelsApiItem, siblings: SiblingIndex): ProviderModelsApiItem {
-  const extra = siblings.get(item.id);
+function enrichAdmittedModel(
+  item: ProviderModelsApiItem,
+  rawId: string,
+  siblings: SiblingIndex,
+): ProviderModelsApiItem {
+  const extra = siblings.get(rawId);
   // ...
 }

-    items.push(siblings ? enrichAdmittedModel(item, siblings) : item);
+    items.push(siblings ? enrichAdmittedModel(item, id, siblings) : item);

Also applies to: 376-382, 387-396, 404-420, 438-446

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In `@src/providers/model-discovery.ts` around lines 334 - 363, Update the sibling
enrichment logic to collect non-empty raw identity fields from each sibling,
skip siblings whose identifiers disagree, and require one unambiguous identifier
for matching. Match only against the original data[] row ID before stripIdPrefix
processing, not finalId, while preserving admission-before-enrichment ordering.
Add regression coverage for conflicting sibling aliases and prefix-stripped IDs.

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models: [{ id: "m", context_length: 999 }],
data: [{ id: "m", context_length: 111 }],
}, { maxModels: 100 } as never);
const items = (extracted as { ok: true; items: Array<Record<string, unknown>> }).items;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate items declarations.

Each listed test callback declares const items twice in the same lexical scope. Bun will reject the file with a block-scoped redeclaration error before it evaluates these regression cases.

Keep one declaration at each location. The declarations in different test() callbacks can keep the same name.

Also applies to: 101-101, 110-110, 127-127, 139-139

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/catalog-llamacpp-capabilities.test.ts` at line 90, Remove the duplicate
const items declarations from each affected test callback, retaining one
declaration per callback in the listed regression tests. Keep identical items
names where they are scoped to separate test() callbacks.

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