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Closes #1189

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What does this PR do?

Flagged for a human decision. Two gating conditions, both hard:

  1. Merge AFTER 2026-08-31T19:00:00Z — this is not a deadline to beat. That timestamp is the moment the removal becomes correct, not one this needs to land before. Until then both models still work, so merging early is the only action that harms anyone. Nothing here is racing a clock.
  2. Ship AFTER fix: build release binaries against the live models.dev catalog #1188. SATISFIED as of 2026-08-30. fix: build release binaries against the live models.dev catalog #1188 merged as 5993471bad and is the tip of main. Re-verified empirically against a catalog produced by the post-fix: build release binaries against the live models.dev catalog #1188 release build path: both replacement models are present, so this change no longer strands anyone. Numbers below have been re-measured — the earlier 3→1 figure described a catalog that release builds no longer embed.

Condition 1 still stands on its own. Only the date gates this now.

Removes gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-mini from OAUTH_ALLOWED_MODELS. Both retire from the ChatGPT-subscription model picker at 2026-08-31T19:00:00Z.

Evidence, fetched first-hand from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/codex/main/codex-rs/models-manager/models.json (the catalog openai/codex ships in its own repo):

gpt-5.4        visibility=hide  supported_in_api=True  retirement_at=2026-08-31T19:00:00Z  -> gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5.4-mini   visibility=hide  supported_in_api=True  retirement_at=2026-08-31T19:00:00Z  -> gpt-5.6-luna

The migration text is explicit: "GPT-5.4 is no longer available. Codex now uses GPT-5.6 Terra in place of GPT-5.4."

This is the subscription path only, not an API deprecation. The two follow different schedules and should not be conflated. Both ids still carry supported_in_api: true, neither is on OpenAI's API deprecations page, and models.dev marks neither deprecated. OAUTH_ALLOWED_MODELS is consulted only when auth.type === "oauth" — the models loader returns {} for every other auth type — so API-key users are unaffected and keep both ids.

The sequencing requirement — raised in review, and now satisfied

The allowlist only ever deletes from the catalog; it cannot add. No pre-#1188 bundled catalog contained either replacement model, which is what made the ordering matter.

#1188 has since merged (5993471bad), removing the MODELS_DEV_API_JSON pin from release.yml, so release builds now embed a release-time models.dev catalog instead of a 2026-03-30 test fixture. The figures below were re-measured after that merge by running the unmodified release build path (MODELS_DEV_API_JSON unset, which is what makes strictCatalog true) and applying the real disallowedOAuthModelKeys filter to the catalog it generates.

catalog providers before after
post-#1188 release build — what shipped binaries now embed 207 spark, 5.4, 5.4-mini, 5.5, sol, luna, terra (7) spark, 5.5, sol, luna, terra (5)
committed models-snapshot.ts blob — what a source checkout uses 144 spark, 5.4, 5.4-mini, 5.5 (4) spark, 5.5 (2)
release.yml fixture — no longer embedded in anything, kept for history 105 spark, 5.4, 5.4-mini (3) spark (1)

The gate is met. On a post-#1188 build this change costs a subscription user two models out of seven and leaves five, including both documented replacements (gpt-5.6-terra, gpt-5.6-luna, present with release_date 2026-07-09). The "drops cold-cache users to one model" scenario applied only to binaries built with the fixture pin, and no future release build produces one.

The source-checkout row is unchanged and re-verified: that blob predates every gpt-5.6 entry, so a developer running from source sees four models drop to two until the next release build refreshes it. That is a stale-blob artefact, not a regression this PR introduces, and it does not affect released users.

Why remove rather than leave it

The options were: remove, or leave it and let the failure surface.

Leaving it is the worse option. It does not self-heal. models.dev hard-deletes an id only once it stops serving traffic entirely (its stated policy in sst/models.dev#3707), and these remain live API models, so the catalog will keep listing them. They would stay in the subscription picker indefinitely and fail at request time with an opaque 400 — exactly the failure mode #1179 rebuilt this allowlist to eliminate.

Why open it before the date at all. Not to beat the timestamp — to have the change reviewed and queued so it can merge promptly once the timestamp passes, rather than being remembered on the day. Reviewing it costs the same either way; only the merge is gated.

I deliberately did not add a runtime date gate (allow the ids until Date.now() passes the retirement timestamp). It changes behaviour with no code change, which is surprising; retirement dates slip, and a hardcoded cutoff in a shipped binary would break working models with no override if OpenAI postpones; and it deepens the divergence from upstream's filter that this file already calls out as a maintenance problem. It also would not have fixed the cold-cache case, which was a missing catalog entry rather than a filter decision — #1188 was always the right fix for that, and it is now in.

Note on upstream. Upstream's ALLOWED_MODELS in packages/opencode/src/plugin/openai/codex.ts is ["gpt-5.5", "gpt-5.3-codex-spark", "gpt-5.4", "gpt-5.4-mini"], so it still contains both ids and this PR diverges until they follow. That file is the unwired in-progress refactor in our fork, so it does not affect runtime behaviour here, and I have not touched it.

How did you verify your code works?

Verified the retirement claim first-hand rather than taking it from a review comment — fetched and parsed openai/codex's models.json (HTTP 200, 424,117 bytes, 10 slugs). gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-mini are the only two entries carrying a retirement_at.

Confirmed the blast radius is OAuth-only by reading the loader: packages/opencode/src/plugin/codex.ts returns {} when auth.type !== "oauth" before the filter is reached.

Confirmed models.dev still lists both, so the catalog will not remove them for us — parsed the live https://models.dev/api.json (207 providers, 47 openai models): both present, neither carrying status: "deprecated".

Measured the cold-cache effect across all three catalogs — the table above, computed by intersecting the allowlist before and after against each. This is the check I should have run before opening the PR; a reviewer caught its absence, and a second reviewer caught that my first correction still conflated two artefacts.

Re-measured after #1188 merged. Ran the unmodified release catalog path (packages/opencode/script/build.ts with MODELS_DEV_API_JSON and OPENCODE_MODELS_URL unset, so strictCatalog is true exactly as in a release build). It fetched models.dev live, passed the new fail-closed guard, and wrote models-snapshot.ts:

models.dev catalog from https://models.dev: 207 providers (anthropic=13, openai=47, google=39)
Generated models-snapshot.ts

Then applied the real runtime filters to that generated snapshot — the provider.ts pre-filters (gpt-5-chat-latest, status: alpha, status: deprecated) followed by disallowedOAuthModelKeys imported from src/plugin/codex.ts, not a reimplementation:

gpt-5.6-terra   present=true   release_date=2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-luna    present=true   release_date=2026-07-09
BEFORE #1190: 7 -> spark, 5.4, 5.4-mini, 5.5, luna, sol, terra
AFTER  #1190: 5 -> spark, 5.5, luna, sol, terra
lost: gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini

The generated snapshot and the temporary harness were both reverted; the working tree is unchanged apart from the committed comment fix.

Tests. gpt-5.4 / gpt-5.4-mini move out of VERIFIED_ACCEPTED into a new RETIRED_FROM_SUBSCRIPTION constant rather than into VERIFIED_REJECTED. That distinction is deliberate: both probed HTTP 200, so they stopped being offered rather than being refused, and folding them into the rejected list would misstate what was measured. Added two tests — each retired id is excluded from both the set and shouldAllowOAuthModel, and each documented replacement is still offered. Also updated the falls back to the key when api.id is absent expectation, where gpt-5.4 is now among the deleted keys.

Gates. Run on this branch and on unmodified main. Re-run after rebasing onto origin/main at 5993471bad (#1188), which was a clean rebase — the two PRs share no files:

gate main (baseline) this branch
bun run typecheck pass (13/13) pass (13/13)
bun run script/upstream/analyze.ts --markers --base origin/main --strict pass pass (no upstream-shared files modified)
bun run lint 5870 warnings, 1 error 5870 warnings, 1 error
bun test test/plugin/ 159 pass, 19 skip, 0 fail
bun test test/provider/build-models-catalog.test.ts (#1188's guard, post-rebase) 33 pass, 0 fail

The single lint error is pre-existing and unrelatedtypescript-eslint(consistent-return) at packages/http-recorder/test/record-replay.test.ts:285, identical on unmodified main. Warning count is unchanged from baseline.

Not verified: I did not re-probe either id against the live backend, and I have no way to observe the retirement taking effect ahead of the date. The claim rests on OpenAI's own shipped catalog, which is a primary source but is a client-side default — see the note in codex.ts about it disagreeing with the per-account discovery endpoint on other ids.

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Changes which models OAuth/Codex subscription users can select; scope is limited to the oauth auth path and documented replacements remain available on current release catalogs.

Overview
Removes gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-mini from the ChatGPT-subscription (OAuth) model allowlist so they no longer appear in the picker after Codex retires them (2026-08-31T19:00:00Z). Documented replacements gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna stay allowed.

Because models.dev still lists these as live API models, the catalog would not drop them—the static OAUTH_ALLOWED_MODELS filter is what prevents subscription users from selecting ids that would fail at request time. API-key auth is unchanged; the filter runs only when auth.type === "oauth".

Tests move the two ids from verified-accepted into RETIRED_FROM_SUBSCRIPTION, assert they are blocked by the set and shouldAllowOAuthModel, confirm replacements still pass, and update disallowedOAuthModelKeys expectations (including when api.id is missing).

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The Codex OAuth tests now verify that gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-mini are excluded, while gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna remain accepted. The allowlist documentation explains catalog timing and replacement availability.

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anandgupta42 and others added 3 commits August 29, 2026 19:45
Both retire from the ChatGPT-subscription model picker at
2026-08-31T19:00:00Z. `openai/codex`'s shipped catalog
(codex-rs/models-manager/models.json, fetched first-hand) marks both
`visibility: "hide"` with `upgrade.retirement_at: "2026-08-31T19:00:00Z"` and
names the replacements: gpt-5.4 -> gpt-5.6-terra, gpt-5.4-mini -> gpt-5.6-luna.
Both replacements are already in `OAUTH_ALLOWED_MODELS`, so affected users land
on a working model with no further change.

This is a subscription-picker retirement, NOT an API deprecation: both ids
still carry `supported_in_api: true`, neither is on OpenAI's deprecations page,
and models.dev marks neither `deprecated`. The filter only runs when
`auth.type === "oauth"`, so API-key users are unaffected.

It will not self-heal. models.dev hard-deletes an id only once it stops serving
entirely, and these remain live API models, so the catalog keeps them. Left in
the allowlist they would sit in the subscription picker past the deadline and
fail at request time with the same opaque 400 that #1179 rebuilt this list to
prevent.

Tests: gpt-5.4 / gpt-5.4-mini move out of VERIFIED_ACCEPTED into a new
RETIRED_FROM_SUBSCRIPTION constant rather than into VERIFIED_REJECTED — they
probed HTTP 200, so they stopped being offered rather than being refused, and
collapsing the two would misrepresent the evidence. Adds coverage that each
retired id is excluded and that its documented replacement is still offered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review caught a case I had not checked. The filter only ever deletes, so it
cannot add a model the catalog lacks. Release binaries built before the
release.yml MODELS_DEV_API_JSON fix (#1186/#1188) embed a 2026-03-30 fixture
that contains neither gpt-5.6-terra nor gpt-5.6-luna, so on a cold cache this
removal takes an OAuth user from three selectable models to one:

  shipped snapshot, before: gpt-5.3-codex-spark, gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini
  shipped snapshot, after:  gpt-5.3-codex-spark
  live catalog, after:      gpt-5.3-codex-spark, gpt-5.5, sol, luna, terra

Released after #1188 the replacements are present and the regression does not
occur. Comment-only; records the ordering constraint where the next reader of
this allowlist will find it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review correctly flagged the previous note as imprecise. It said the removal
leaves "only gpt-5.3-codex-spark", which is true of shipped release binaries but
not of a source checkout: the committed models-snapshot.ts blob is newer than
the release.yml fixture and does carry gpt-5.5.

Measured against all three catalogs:

  release fixture (105 providers): 3 allowed -> 1  (spark)
  committed blob  (144 providers): 4 allowed -> 2  (spark, gpt-5.5)
  live models.dev (207 providers): 7 allowed -> 5  (spark, 5.5, sol/luna/terra)

The sequencing rationale is unchanged and holds on either reading: no pre-#1188
bundled catalog contains gpt-5.6-terra or gpt-5.6-luna, so the user loses models
with no documented replacement to move to until #1188 ships.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ
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#1188 merged as `5993471bad`, so `release.yml` no longer pins
`MODELS_DEV_API_JSON` to the 2026-03-30 test fixture and release builds embed a
release-time models.dev catalog.

The cold-cache figures in this comment were measured against pre-#1188 catalogs
and read in the present tense, so they now describe a state that no longer
exists. Re-measured by running the unmodified release build path
(`MODELS_DEV_API_JSON` unset, which makes `strictCatalog` true) and inspecting
the `models-snapshot.ts` it generates: 207 providers, 47 openai models, both
`gpt-5.6-terra` and `gpt-5.6-luna` present.

Applying the real `disallowedOAuthModelKeys` filter to that catalog, a
subscription user goes from seven selectable models to five, losing only the two
retired ids. The pre-#1188 wording is kept in the past tense because it is the
reason the sequencing existed.

The source-checkout figure (four down to two, off the committed
`models-snapshot.ts` blob) is unchanged and re-verified.

Comment only — no behaviour change.

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P1 Badge Refresh stale caches before hiding retired models

When an upgrading OAuth user already has a valid models.json cached from before the GPT-5.6 variants appeared, #1188 does not make these replacements available: ModelsDev.Data returns any structurally valid disk cache before consulting the newly embedded release snapshot, without checking its age, and the only refresh runs after the process has stayed alive for an hour. This removal therefore leaves such users without either the retired models or Terra/Luna—indefinitely for short-lived CLI invocations—despite the release containing the refreshed snapshot. Invalidate/refresh old caches or retain the retired entries until the replacement IDs are actually present.

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Gate 2 (ship after #1188) is satisfied — verified, not inferred

#1188 merged at 2026-08-30T02:42:44Z as 5993471bad and is the tip of main. Confirmed the override is genuinely gone: MODELS_DEV_API_JSON no longer appears anywhere in .github/workflows/release.yml, replaced by a comment recording why it must stay unset. ci.yml and pre-release-check.ts keep the fixture pin, which is correct — a hermetic build belongs there.

What was actually run

Rather than reason about it, I ran the unmodified release catalog path: packages/opencode/script/build.ts with MODELS_DEV_API_JSON and OPENCODE_MODELS_URL unset, which is what makes strictCatalog true, exactly as in a release build. It fetched models.dev live, passed #1188's new fail-closed guard, and wrote the snapshot a binary would embed:

models.dev catalog from https://models.dev: 207 providers (anthropic=13, openai=47, google=39)
Generated models-snapshot.ts

I then applied the real runtime filters to that generated snapshot — the provider.ts pre-filters (gpt-5-chat-latest, status: alpha, status: deprecated) and then disallowedOAuthModelKeys imported from src/plugin/codex.ts itself, not a reimplementation of the policy.

Both replacements are present:

gpt-5.6-terra   present=true   status=(none)   release_date=2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-luna    present=true   status=(none)   release_date=2026-07-09
gpt-5.6-sol     present=true   status=(none)   release_date=2026-07-09

That is the gate condition, and it holds.

Corrected model counts

The 3→1 and 4→2 figures were measured against pre-#1188 catalogs. The first is now obsolete, because no release build embeds the fixture any more. Re-measured:

catalog before #1190 after #1190
post-#1188 release build (what binaries now embed, 207 providers / 47 openai) 7 — spark, 5.4, 5.4-mini, 5.5, luna, sol, terra 5 — spark, 5.5, luna, sol, terra
committed models-snapshot.ts blob (source checkout, 144 providers) 4 — spark, 5.4, 5.4-mini, 5.5 2 — spark, 5.5
release.yml fixture (no longer embedded in anything) 3 1

So on a shipped, post-#1188 binary this change removes exactly the two retired ids and leaves five, replacements included. Nobody is stranded. The source-checkout row is unchanged and re-verified — that blob predates every gpt-5.6 entry, so a developer running from source still sees 4→2 until the next release build refreshes it. That is a stale-blob artefact, not something this PR introduces, and it does not reach released users.

Rebase and gates

The branch was 1 commit behind. Rebased onto origin/main at 5993471bad — clean, with zero conflicts, since #1188 touches only release.yml, script/build.ts, script/models-catalog.ts and its test, and this PR touches only src/plugin/codex.ts and its test. Re-run on the rebased branch:

gate result
bun run typecheck pass (13/13)
bun run script/upstream/analyze.ts --markers --base origin/main --strict pass — no upstream-shared files modified
bun test test/plugin/ 159 pass, 19 skip, 0 fail
bun test test/provider/build-models-catalog.test.ts (#1188's guard) 33 pass, 0 fail

Nothing regressed. The generated snapshot and the temporary analysis harness were both reverted; the only tree change is one commit correcting the now-stale comment in codex.ts, which described the pre-#1188 catalog in the present tense.

Still not mergeable, and not because of this

Gate 1 is untouched: this must merge after 2026-08-31T19:00:00Z. That timestamp is when the removal becomes correct, not a deadline to beat. Both models work today, so merging before it is the only action that costs anyone anything. There is nothing to race — the PR simply sits until the date passes.

I have deliberately not merged or approved it.

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