fix(ai): current model seeds and a truthful Sync now notice

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Summary

Two related AI provider fixes, found while recording docs in Obsidian 1.13.7:

1. Stale shipped catalog. The built-in OpenAI seeds stopped at gpt-5.5, so a fresh install showed GPT-6 only after a sync. The seeds now include gpt-6-sol, gpt-6-luna, gpt-6-astra, gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-luna and gpt-5.6-terra. The gpt-5.4 family's sampling flag is corrected: it accepts temperature. Gemini (also a built-in provider) and the Anthropic preset were stale too and are refreshed.
2. "Sync now" said "already up to date" while new models appeared. The models came from the quiet sync that runs when Edit providers opens. Neither the "Sync now" click nor linking the API key added them.

Root cause of the misleading notice

AIAssistantProvidersModal starts autoSyncOnOpen() on open. That sync merges new models into the provider object in place, but deliberately skipped re-rendering while a provider was being edited. The OpenAI edit view therefore kept showing the old list. "Sync now" then compared against the already-updated provider, found 0 new models, and its reload() revealed the models the background sync had added. Linking a key plays no part: the models.dev source needs no key, and the secret control only sets apiKeyRef.

Timeline from Obsidian 1.13.7 on master, in a throwaway vault. Online features start off, as on a fresh install. The user flow is: enable online features → AI Assistant → Edit providers → Edit OpenAI → link a secret → Sync now. obj is the provider object; dom is the rendered list.

  ms  step                                   obj  obj has gpt-6  dom  dom has gpt-6
2558  Edit providers clicked                  10  false            0  false
2666  Edit on OpenAI clicked                  10  false           10  false
3879  secret linked (apiKeyRef=<secret id>)   42  true            10  false   <- on-open sync landed, view not refreshed
11891 Sync now clicked                        42  true            10  false
13891 after Sync now                          42  true            42  true    notice: "Synced from the models.dev directory: already up to date."

In an earlier run, the secret picker was never confirmed (apiKeyRef stayed undefined), and the object still reached 42 models. That rules out the key link as the cause.

Fix

• Every finished sync, from the on-open background pass or Sync now, goes through one applySyncResult path. It lands the result on whatever object currently represents the provider, following Cancel's snapshot swaps. It merges the result into an open edit's Cancel snapshot, because a sync is not a user edit, and re-renders the edit view's model list in place when that list is on screen.
• Sync now runs its own request immediately and is disabled while it runs. Its notice counts additions and updates against the list the user was looking at when they clicked, including anything the background sync lands meanwhile. It counts only models the source reports, so a hand-added model is not announced. The notice therefore never says "up to date" while the list visibly changes. After Cancel it stays silent, and the restored provider still receives the models.
• diffModelLists in modelSyncService replaces the length-based added count, which undercounted when entries had been deleted.
• Review-driven: a Cursor Agent commit (d77216e) added the Sync now → Cancel snapshot merge. Macroscope's findings are covered by tests: Cancel/Save while waiting, repeated Edit/Cancel, double clicks, a stalled unrelated provider, and hand-added models.

Tool calling on the new OpenAI models (found in review)

Every new GPT-6/GPT-5.6 seed reasons by default. OpenAI's /v1/chat/completions rejects function tools for these models unless reasoning_effort is "none":

gpt-6-sol  tools, reasoning_effort unset -> 400 "Function tools with reasoning_effort are not supported for gpt-6-sol in /v1/chat/completions. ... set reasoning_effort to 'none'."
gpt-6-sol  tools, reasoning_effort=none  -> 200 finish=tool_calls
gpt-5.5    tools, reasoning_effort unset -> 200 finish=tool_calls   (defaults to none; the older seeds were unaffected)

When a tool request gets exactly that 400 and the caller did not set reasoning_effort, chatRequest retries it once with reasoning_effort: "none". Other errors, requests without tools, and caller-chosen efforts are left alone.

In Obsidian 1.13.7, a real quickAddApi.ai.agent run with one read-only tool:

before: gpt-6-sol     -> Error while making request to OpenAI: OpenAI request failed (HTTP 400) ... Function tools with reasoning_effort are not supported ...
before: gpt-5.6-terra -> same 400
after:  gpt-6-sol     -> {"finishReason":"stop","steps":2,"toolExecutedWith":["Paris"],"text":"It’s sunny and 21°C in Paris."}
after:  gpt-5.6-terra -> {"finishReason":"stop","steps":2,"toolExecutedWith":["Paris"],"text":"Paris is sunny and 21°C."}

Catalog verification (live, 2026-09-26)

Every new OpenAI seed was checked three ways: listed by GET /v1/models, a real chat completion, and a second completion with temperature: 0.5. Only model ids and status codes were printed:

gpt-6-sol     no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-6-luna    no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-6-astra   no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-5.6-sol   no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-5.6-luna  no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-5.6-terra no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-5.5       no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400 unsupported_value (temperature)
gpt-5.4       no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 200   <- seed said false; fixed to true
gpt-5.4-mini  no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 200   <- seed said false; fixed to true
gpt-5.4-nano  no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 200   <- seed said false; fixed to true
gpt-4.1 / gpt-4.1-mini / gpt-4o / gpt-4o-mini  -> 200 both
o3 / o4-mini  no temp -> 200   temperature=0.5 -> 400

Context and output limits come from models.dev: 1,050,000 context and 128,000 output for GPT-6 and GPT-5.6. All 34 seeds (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) now match models.dev exactly, and the new opt-in live test enforces that:

$ LIVE_DISCOVERY_TESTS=1 OPENAI_API_KEY=<from env> pnpm vitest run src/ai/modelSeeds.live.test.ts
      Tests  2 passed (2)
# against master's Provider.ts the same test fails (gpt-5.4 sampling flags, gemini-3-pro-preview missing from models.dev)

Other built-in providers:

• Gemini was stale. gemini-3-pro-preview was shut down 2026-03-09 and now aliases gemini-3.1-pro-preview, so it is dropped from the seeds. The missing GA models gemini-3.8-flash, gemini-3.7-flash, gemini-3.6-flash and gemini-3.5-flash-lite are added.
• Anthropic preset: adds claude-opus-5-5 and claude-fable-5-1, per Anthropic's models overview (1M context, 128K output).
• The Gemini and Anthropic additions are not live-verified with a completion because no key was available. Their metadata comes from models.dev, cross-checked against the vendors' docs.

Decisions to veto

• gpt-5.6 (base id) is not seeded. It is absent from /v1/models for our key, and a completion with it answers as gpt-5.6-sol, so it's an alias. models.dev lists it, so auto-sync still adds it.

• o4-mini stays seeded. models.dev marks it deprecated, but it still serves (200).

• No migration for existing users. Their built-in providers already have auto-sync on, and the daily or on-open sync adds these models and fixes the gpt-5.4 flags from models.dev (visible in the "after" screenshot). The seeds matter for fresh installs and as the offline metadata fallback. gemini-3-pro-preview is not added to RETIRED_SEED_MODELS: it aliases rather than 404s, so existing users keep it.

• Claude forced tool choice is not guarded (CodeRabbit). Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 reject tool_choice any/tool. QuickAdd sends a forced choice only when a script asks for it explicitly, and the provider's 400 is surfaced verbatim. A local guard would need a hard-coded model list, so this is left for a follow-up if wanted.

• reasoning_effort: "none" rather than the Responses API. This is the smallest change that makes tool turns work on the new models, and it is what OpenAI's error recommends. The tradeoff: those tool turns run without reasoning.

Screenshots (throwaway vault, no secret linked)

Before (master): the on-open sync has already added GPT-6 to the provider object, but the edit view still shows the stale list, with gpt-5.4 wrongly marked "Fixed sampling":

Before (master): after Sync now, GPT-6 appears, but the notice says "already up to date":

After: GPT-6 is listed first from a fresh install. Sync now clicked while the on-open sync was in flight reports what changed:

Verification in Obsidian 1.13.7 (e2e runner, isolated vault)

Same scripted UI flow on this branch:

# idle on the edit view, then Sync now
2694  Edit on OpenAI clicked                  16 true   16 true    <- GPT-6 shipped in the seeds
3904  secret linked                           42 true   42 true    <- list re-rendered when the on-open sync landed
13914 after Sync now                          42 true   42 true    notice: "…: already up to date."   (true: the list did not change)

# Sync now clicked immediately, while the on-open sync was in flight
2556  Sync now clicked                        16 true   16 true
3057  waiting                                 42 true   42 true    notice: "Synced from the models.dev directory: 26 new model(s), 0 updated."

# Cancel after the background sync landed
{"atEdit":16,"afterBackgroundSync":42,"afterCancelAndClose":42,"hasGpt6":true}

# Sync now, then Cancel immediately (review follow-up)
{"atEdit":16,"syncNotices":[],"savedAfterClose":42,"hasGpt6":true}

$ pnpm run obsidian:e2e -- dev:errors
No errors captured.

Tests

• src/gui/AIAssistantProvidersModal.sync.test.ts (new, 11 tests) drives the real modal with controlled discovery timing. 3 of the 4 original tests fail on master: the list does not update, "Sync now" reports "up to date" when the background sync lands first, and Cancel drops synced models. The 4th guards against over-reporting. The other 7 cover the review findings, and each fails on the commit before its fix.
• src/ai/modelSyncService.test.ts: diffModelLists counts by name, not by length.
• src/ai/Provider.test.ts: fresh-install OpenAI seeds include GPT-6/5.6 with the verified metadata; gpt-5.4 sampling; no shut-down Gemini id; no duplicate seeds.

$ pnpm run build-with-lint   # ok
$ pnpm run test              # Test Files 447 passed | 6 skipped; Tests 5820 passed | 26 skipped
$ pnpm run check             # svelte-check found 0 errors and 0 warnings

Release / migration impact

This is a patch release (fix:), with no settings migration and no data changes. The docs gain one sentence under Auto-sync and a note on GPT-5.6/GPT-6 tool calls in the API reference.

Note

Fix AI model seeds and make 'Sync now' notice count visible models accurately

• Refreshes CURRENT_MODEL_SEEDS in Provider.ts: adds OpenAI GPT-6/GPT-5.6, Google Gemini 3.6–3.8 and 3.5-lite, and two Anthropic entries; removes the retired Google preview seed; marks GPT-5.4 as temperature-capable while GPT-5.5+ stays fixed-sampling
• Reworks the Sync now button in AIAssistantProvidersModal.ts to snapshot the displayed model list at click time, so the notice counts additions and updates against what the user actually sees, including overlapping background-sync results and excluding manually added models
• Adds a provider identity resolver so a sync that completes after Cancel merges its discovered models into the restored provider snapshot instead of being lost
• Retries OpenAI tool requests once with reasoning disabled when the provider rejects them for default reasoning, keeping caller-supplied reasoning effort (OpenAIRequest.ts)
• syncProviderModels in modelSyncService.ts now returns the full discovered model list plus separate added/updated counts based on name matching
• Behavioral Change: diffModelLists counts additions even when before/after list lengths are equal, and sync result consumers receive a new discovered-models field; existing callers must handle it

^{Macroscope summarized b36170a.}

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The change refreshes shipped OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic model seeds. It also updates synchronization results and the provider modal so discovered models can appear during editing and sync notices count changes relative to the displayed list.

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Shipped model seeds

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Refresh model seeds and verify metadata src/ai/Provider.ts, src/ai/Provider.test.ts, src/ai/modelSeeds.live.test.ts	Seed entries and metadata change for OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic. Tests check seed names, limits, temperature support, uniqueness, and optional live metadata.

Provider model synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compare model lists and return discoveries src/ai/modelSyncService.ts, src/ai/modelSyncService.test.ts	diffModelLists counts additions and metadata updates. syncProviderModels returns the counts and discovered models. Tests cover the diff and sync result.
Apply sync results in the modal src/gui/AIAssistantProvidersModal.ts, src/gui/AIAssistantProvidersModal.sync.test.ts, docs/src/content/docs/docs/AIAssistant.md	The modal applies sync results to current or replacement provider snapshots and updates the displayed model list. “Sync now” runs without waiting for on-open sync and counts changes relative to the list displayed at click time. Tests cover sync ordering, Save, and Cancel. The documentation describes the displayed-list count.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AIAssistantProvidersModal
  participant syncProviderModels
  User->>AIAssistantProvidersModal: Open provider editor
  AIAssistantProvidersModal->>syncProviderModels: Start on-open sync
  syncProviderModels-->>AIAssistantProvidersModal: Return discovered models and counts
  AIAssistantProvidersModal->>AIAssistantProvidersModal: Update displayed provider models
  User->>AIAssistantProvidersModal: Click Sync now
  AIAssistantProvidersModal->>syncProviderModels: Start manual sync without awaiting on-open sync
  syncProviderModels-->>AIAssistantProvidersModal: Return discovered models and counts
  AIAssistantProvidersModal->>AIAssistantProvidersModal: Apply results and report counts

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Overlapping refreshes could leave older capability limits in a provider’s settings. The review found no new network or secret access, and no verified security finding.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Concurrent on-open and manual refreshes can apply an older discovery response after a newer one, regressing the provider’s model metadata when responses differ.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed result handling affects model metadata in the edited provider list and its replacement snapshots. The inspected entrypoints do not add a network destination or new credential authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Discovered metadata crosses from the configured provider API or mapped directory into provider settings through the existing discovery and merge path. The provider-API path checks whether online features are disabled; a cached directory can be returned without a new network request.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Identical repeated results are merge-idempotent, but the overlapping requests have no result-order check. Configuration drift requires their responses to differ; the reviewed overlap test does not exercise that case.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider coalescing refreshes per provider or rejecting stale results, and exercise divergent responses completed out of order to define which metadata should prevail.

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