Claude Code's own fixed per-turn overhead (system prompt + tool schemas,
~36.4K tokens measured live) can exceed a small local model's entire real
context before any conversation history exists to compact — confirmed
live twice as an in:0 out:0 failure on the very first message sent.
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS cannot fix this: it only governs when
history gets compacted, and there is none on message one.
- exceedsSafeContextFloor() (custom-model-routes.ts): true when a CLI's
registry entry declares contextLengthVar (currently only claude) and
the model's discovered context is below CLAUDE_MIN_SAFE_CONTEXT_TOKENS
(40000). A no-op for every other CLI by construction.
- Both apply routes (POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model and the
quick-start customModel path) check this before the swap-conflict
check and before launching/restarting anything, returning
{requiresContextWarning, modelId, contextLength, minSafeContextTokens}
— skipped when confirmed:true.
- Frontend: #customModelContextWarningModal + _confirmContextWarning/
_resolveContextWarningConfirm (session-ui.js), wired into both
_quickStartWithCustomModelConfirm and _runCustomModelEntryViaRestart
(the path Claude actually uses) ahead of the swap-confirmation check.
Explains the fix in-modal: give the model an explicit larger -c/
--ctx-size in llama-swap instead of relying on --fit-ctx, which
optimizes for the biggest model that fits rather than the biggest
context.
Tests added for the route-level warning/confirm/skip cases and the
frontend modal + launch-flow wiring. Docs updated (custom-model-
endpoints.md, wiki/Custom-Model-Endpoints.md) and the PR's running
changeset extended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqZeHrRS6DYcGcGX2p9EwG
Root cause of "it doesn't look like llama-swap is actually switching the
model" (confirmed live: no load_model line in llama-swap's own logs after
applying a selection). llama-swap has no "switch model" admin endpoint - the
ONLY thing that starts a swap is a real inference request naming the model.
Every previous fix (the conflict check, the loading banner) assumed a swap
would start on its own; nothing ever actually asked llama-swap to load
anything until the launched CLI's first real prompt did, which could be
much later than "applying the selection" implied.
Adds triggerLlamaSwapLoad() (custom-model-routes.ts): sends the smallest
real request that will start a load - POST <baseUrl>/v1/chat/completions,
max_tokens: 1, one throwaway message - fire-and-forget (never awaited by
the caller; the frontend's own running-status polling is what actually
confirms readiness). Wired into both apply paths (the dedicated restart
route and the one-shot quick-start route), fired whenever the target model
isn't already the one loaded and ready - a broader condition than the
existing swapNeeded (which only gates the "this will evict another
session's model" confirmation ask and deliberately stays narrow to that).
modelSwapInProgress in both routes' responses now reflects this same
broader condition too, so the frontend's loading banner actually correlates
with a real in-flight load rather than only firing when something else
happened to be loaded already.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqZeHrRS6DYcGcGX2p9EwG
Fixes the visible double-launch reported on Codex: picking a custom-model
Run-menu entry launched natively first, waited for it to settle, then
restarted it in place with the endpoint applied. Necessary for the design at
the time, but visibly a native boot immediately followed by a second one -
worst on a CLI whose TUI fully reinitializes on a restart, confirmed live on
Codex.
POST /api/quick-start gains an optional customModel field
({endpointId, modelId, confirmed?}). When present, the route mints the
session's id itself (crypto.randomUUID()) before constructing it, computes
the same injection the existing POST /api/sessions/:id/custom-model route
computes (including the llama-swap conflict check from the last commit -
same {requiresConfirmation, currentlyLoadedModel, affectedSessions} shape,
no session created until confirmed), and launches the session already
pointed at the endpoint: env vars via the constructor, and the launchModel
override merged onto piConfig/grokConfig/ompConfig using the registry's own
launch.legacyConfigField the same way session.ts's restart path already
does. No restart at all - setCustomModel() afterward is bookkeeping only.
Wired into 7 of 8 launch functions (session-ui.js): openCode, codex, gemini,
pi, grok, deepseek, omp. Claude stays on the original launch-then-restart
path for now: its own --resume-based restart is far less jarring than the
other seven's, and runClaude()'s multi-tab launch plus docker-config-drift
confirm/retry loop make folding it into the one-shot path separate,
higher-risk work than the other seven's each-a-single-simple-launch shape.
Also fixes a pre-existing 'mode === omp' branch flagged by the CLI-id
static guard (test/cli-registry-no-id-branching.test.ts) - the ompConfig
launchModel merge is the same 'legacy <Mode>Config plumbing' category as
the six sibling branches already allowlisted there, just newly literal
where it was previously only inside resolveOmpConfigForCreate's own check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqZeHrRS6DYcGcGX2p9EwG
