diff --git a/src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts b/src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts
index caa73a03..6a0a9c3a 100644
--- a/src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts
+++ b/src/config/cli-registry/stock.ts
@@ -1240,8 +1240,14 @@ const DEEPSEEK: CliEntry = {
     // and, on the row right under its bottom border, ` qwen3.8-27b · medium · <cwd>`.
     // The border anchors it: nothing the agent writes can sit below the composer, and a
     // suggestion popup there starts with `/` or `+`, never a model id.
+    // ⚠ The first field is the model only while the status bar's model field is on (the
+    // default). Switched off, the first field is the next one: the reasoning effort
+    // (` medium · th-scratch`), else the mode, else the cwd's basename. So the field must
+    // carry a digit, which a model id does (a version) and an effort word, a mode name or
+    // most folder names do not. A model id without one (`deepseek-chat`) is not read,
+    // and the session falls back to its route config: silent, never wrong.
     modelDetect: {
-      screenLine: String.raw`╰─+╯\n ?([A-Za-z0-9][\w.:/@+-]{0,79})(?= · |\n|$)`,
+      screenLine: String.raw`╰─+╯\n ?((?=[\w.:/@+-]*\d)[A-Za-z0-9][\w.:/@+-]{0,79})(?= · |\n|$)`,
       screenLines: 3,
       // With the status bar's model field off (or before it paints), the route the
       // session's profile pins, read the way dsh-TUI resolves it: src/deepseek-route-config.ts.
diff --git a/test/session-display-model.test.ts b/test/session-display-model.test.ts
index 3421c189..13b4613c 100644
--- a/test/session-display-model.test.ts
+++ b/test/session-display-model.test.ts
@@ -127,6 +127,16 @@ describe('readScreenModel', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("never reads the field after a switched-off model as the model (dsh's effort, mode, cwd)", () => {
+    // dsh-TUI with `statusBar.model: false`: the effort word comes first.
+    expect(readScreenModel(dshPane(' medium · th-scratch'), DSH, DSH_ROWS)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(readScreenModel(dshPane(' xhigh · plan · th-scratch'), DSH, DSH_ROWS)).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(readScreenModel(dshPane(' th-scratch'), DSH, DSH_ROWS)).toBeUndefined();
+    // A model id carries a version digit; one that does not is left to the config.
+    expect(readScreenModel(dshPane(' deepseek-v4-flash · max · th-scratch'), DSH, DSH_ROWS)).toBe('deepseek-v4-flash');
+    expect(readScreenModel(dshPane(' deepseek-chat · max'), DSH, DSH_ROWS)).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
   it("reads codex's model off its status line (0.147.0 and 0.154.0 layouts)", () => {
     expect(readScreenModel(CODEX_LIVE, CODEX, CODEX_ROWS)).toBe('gpt-5.6-terra');
     expect(readScreenModel(CODEX_154, CODEX, CODEX_ROWS)).toBe('gpt-5.6-sol');