Custom Model Endpoint Profiles (#393) let a session point its CLI at a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint by injecting env vars or a config file and restarting the CLI in place. Review of the apply path found four things, two of them destructive. This lands all four plus the smaller items from the same review. 1. Clearing a selection did not clear it. The injected vars reach the CLI via `tmux setenv`, which persists at the tmux-session level and is inherited by `respawn-pane` (measured: `setenv FOO bar` survived two successive `respawn-pane -k`), so deleting the keys from the session's envOverrides relaunched the CLI still pointed at the old endpoint, and for the configDir kinds at a HOME/CODEX_HOME/GROK_HOME that had just been deleted. `Session.setCustomModel()` now reports the removed keys, queues them (`_pendingEnvUnsets`), and `RespawnPaneOptions.unsetEnvKeys` carries them into `applyEnvOverrides()`, which `setenv -u`s them before re-applying the live overrides, on the same path that already unsets the legacy CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL. Verified on a private tmux socket that `setenv -u HOME` hands the next respawn the global HOME back. 2. Applying a model to a local claude session killed the pane. The relaunch was `claude --session-id <id>` and Claude refuses an id that already has a transcript, and unlike the dead-pane respawn this one kills a working pane first. `restartCli()` now pins the live conversation id as the resume id for that respawn when the CLI's launch declares a `fallback` chain, which renders the same `--resume <id> || --session-id <id>` shape the docker and remote pane commands use. Gated on the registry shape, not the CLI id: an entry whose resume id is minted by the CLI itself never declares that chain. 3. pi, omp and grok wrote their config file and then launched without the `--model` that selects it, so the file was ignored. The registry entry now declares `customModelInjection.launchModel` (`custom/{modelId}` for pi and omp, grok's `[model.codeman-custom]` block name), the builder renders it, and `_withCustomModelLaunchModel()` applies it onto the respawn options through `legacyConfigField`, leaving the stored <Mode>Config untouched so a clear falls back to the user's own model. A model id the CLI's `model` token pattern cannot carry is refused with a 400 rather than silently dropped by the argv engine. 4. Remote (SSH) and Docker sessions reported `restarted: true` and changed nothing: their `restartCli()` reattaches the durable tmux rather than relaunching the agent, and the env lands on the local pane. Both are refused with a 400 until those paths are plumbed. Smaller items from the same review: - The selection survives a Codeman restart as the disk-only `__customModel` bookkeeping (endpoint, model, injected key NAMES, config dir, launch model; never the values, which carry the API key). Recovery re-derives the values from the endpoint store through the same apply path the route uses and keeps the bookkeeping even when the endpoint is gone, so a later clear still has keys to unset. - Discovery goes through `webviewFetch()`, so the RESOLVED address is judged by the same egress guard the web-tab proxy uses, and `baseUrl` reuses `webviewUrlSchema` (http(s) only, no embedded credentials, link-local and cloud-metadata addresses refused). undici's `fetch failed` wrapper is unwrapped so the user sees the ECONNREFUSED underneath. - `custom-model-hosts.json` is written 0600 via tmp+rename, the per-session config dir 0700/0600 (pi and omp embed the key literally), and that dir is removed with the session. - `PR.md` is gone from the repo root and the design doc moved to `docs/custom-model-endpoints-plan.md` with the LAN address and the personal name scrubbed; every reference follows. The guide's `authStyle` text matches the shipped schema (`bearer | api-key`, default `bearer`) and says that `customModelEndpointsEnabled` is read by nothing until the picker lands. - `config/tsconfig.scripts.json` typechecks `scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts` (four real type errors fixed). It is not yet wired into `npm run typecheck` because that line differs on master; adding `&& tsc -p config/tsconfig.scripts.json` there is the one-line follow-up. Tests: `test/session-custom-model-restart.test.ts` drives a real Session and fails on the unfixed code for items 1 to 3; the route suite covers item 4 and the pattern refusal; `test/tmux-manager.test.ts` pins that the unsets run before the overrides and that a shell-metachar key never reaches tmux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Custom Model Endpoint Profiles
Point any Codeman-supported harness — Claude, opencode, Codex, Gemini, Pi,
Grok, DeepSeek, or OMP — at a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint instead of
its native cloud backend, for a given session. "Custom endpoint" covers both
local hardware (llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, a home GPU rig, or purpose-built
boxes like NVIDIA DGX Spark or AMD Strix Halo mini-PCs) and cloud
services (Azure AI Foundry's OpenAI-compatible endpoint, OpenRouter, a
company gateway) — anything answering GET /v1/models and
POST /v1/chat/completions in the standard shape. Design doc, per-CLI
recipe confidence table, and security reasoning:
custom-model-endpoints-plan.md.
Status: backend is implemented and tested (registry capability, the injection engine, the endpoint store + discovery route, the session restart route). The toolbar picker / settings UI described below as the intended surface is not yet built — until it lands, use the HTTP API directly (examples below). Antigravity has no known custom-endpoint mechanism and is not supported.
Turning it on
App Settings → Agents & CLIs → Custom Model Endpoints (synced setting
customModelEndpointsEnabled, default OFF). Until the toolbar picker
lands, nothing reads this setting: the HTTP routes below work whether it is
on or off, and it exists now only so the picker has a switch to hang off
when it ships. The API equivalent:
curl -sk -X PUT https://localhost:3000/api/settings \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"customModelEndpointsEnabled": true}'
Adding an endpoint
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/model-endpoints \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"id": "llama-box", "label": "Home llama.cpp", "baseUrl": "http://192.168.1.50:8080"}'
apiKey is optional (most local servers don't check it). authStyle
(bearer | api-key, default bearer) controls which auth header
convention discovery uses: bearer is Authorization: Bearer <key>
(llama.cpp, OpenAI-compatible servers, most gateways), api-key is the
api-key: <key> header Azure AI Foundry wants. There is deliberately no
"send both" option: measured against a real llama-swap server, a request
carrying both headers hung indefinitely. baseUrl must be http(s), carry
no embedded credentials, and may not point at a link-local or cloud-metadata
address; discovery re-checks the address the name actually resolves to.
Discover its available models:
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/model-endpoints/llama-box/discover-models
This calls the endpoint's own GET /v1/models and stores the returned list
on the endpoint record; GET /api/model-endpoints lists everything
configured, PUT/DELETE /api/model-endpoints/:id update or remove one.
Endpoint management is admin-only in multi-user mode, same as remote/docker
hosts — these are machine-level infra, not per-user settings.
Applying a model to a session
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/sessions/<sessionId>/custom-model \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"endpointId": "llama-box", "modelId": "qwen3"}'
This computes the CLI-specific env vars / config for that session's mode
(see the recipe table in custom-model-endpoints-plan.md) and restarts the session's
CLI process in place — same pane, same tmux session, fresh env. That
restart is necessary, not incidental: every supported harness reads its
endpoint config at process start, not per-turn, so there is no live
hot-swap. A Claude session is relaunched with --resume <conversation> || --session-id <id>, so it continues the conversation it was on; pi, omp and
grok are relaunched with the --model value that selects the injected
provider (custom/<modelId> for pi and omp, codeman-custom for grok),
since for those three the config file alone does not switch the model.
Remote (SSH) and Docker sessions are refused (400) for now: their restart
reattaches the durable remote/in-container tmux rather than relaunching the
agent, so the selection would report success and change nothing.
Clear back to the harness's native cloud default with:
curl -sk -X POST https://localhost:3000/api/sessions/<sessionId>/custom-model \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"clear": true}'
Clearing also removes the env vars the selection injected from the tmux
session (they persist there and would otherwise be inherited by the
relaunched CLI) and deletes the per-session config directory
(~/.codeman/custom-model-configs/<sessionId>, written 0600 because pi and
omp embed the API key in it). That directory is also removed when the
session is deleted. The selection survives a Codeman restart: the endpoint
id, model and injected key NAMES are persisted, the values are re-derived
from the endpoint store on recovery, and the pane keeps running against the
endpoint in between because tmux retains its environment.
New sessions always default back to the harness's native backend. A custom-endpoint selection is a per-session choice, never a sticky global default — starting a fresh session doesn't inherit whatever the last one was pointed at.
Confidence per harness
Every harness except Antigravity has now been run end-to-end against a real
llama-swap server via scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts (a dynamic
script that reads the live CLI registry, so a registry change is picked up
automatically). Results:
- Claude, opencode, Pi, Grok, OMP — verified: a real "hello world" reply came back through the endpoint.
- Codex — the config is structurally correct, but Codex only speaks the Responses API since Feb 2026, which llama.cpp/llama-swap don't implement. This is a real protocol incompatibility, not a bug here; Codex support needs a Responses-API-compatible endpoint.
- Gemini — fails with
Invalid auth method selected, traced to an undocumentedGATEWAYauth path gemini-cli selects onceGOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URLis set. Unresolved after real investigation (several auth workarounds were tried and ruled out); do not rely on Gemini support yet. - DeepSeek — the request reaches the server (env vars are read) but
gets a consistent
HTTP_404. Root cause not identified; best-effort only. - Antigravity — no known custom-endpoint mechanism at all; unsupported.
See the confidence table in custom-model-endpoints-plan.md for the full detail behind
each result. scripts/test-local-llm-harnesses.ts is the standalone script
used to check a harness against a real endpoint outside the web UI
entirely; see its own --help for usage.
Security note
Every env var this feature can set that redirects a session's traffic
(ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL, CODEX_HOME, etc.) is
listed in that CLI's privilegedEnvKeys in the CLI registry, so a
non-granted multi-user owner cannot set one directly via the generic
envOverrides API field — only through this feature's own route, which
computes the value from an admin-configured, SSRF-guarded endpoint rather
than trusting arbitrary client input. See the "Multi-user security
hardening" section of custom-model-endpoints-plan.md for the full reasoning; several
of these were reachable via the generic envOverrides field even before
this feature existed, and building this surfaced and closed that gap.