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+# Custom Models
+
+Add custom providers and models (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, proxies) via `~/.volt/agent/models.json`.
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [Minimal Example](#minimal-example)
+- [Full Example](#full-example)
+- [Supported APIs](#supported-apis)
+- [Provider Configuration](#provider-configuration)
+- [Model Configuration](#model-configuration)
+- [Overriding Built-in Providers](#overriding-built-in-providers)
+- [Per-model Overrides](#per-model-overrides)
+- [Anthropic Messages Compatibility](#anthropic-messages-compatibility)
+- [OpenAI Compatibility](#openai-compatibility)
+
+## Minimal Example
+
+For local models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM), only `id` is required per model:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "ollama": {
+      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:11434/v1",
+      "api": "openai-completions",
+      "apiKey": "ollama",
+      "models": [
+        { "id": "llama3.1:8b" },
+        { "id": "qwen2.5-coder:7b" }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The `apiKey` is required but Ollama ignores it, so any value works.
+
+Some OpenAI-compatible servers do not understand the `developer` role used for reasoning-capable models. For those providers, set `compat.supportsDeveloperRole` to `false` so volt sends the system prompt as a `system` message instead. If the server also does not support `reasoning_effort`, set `compat.supportsReasoningEffort` to `false` too.
+
+You can set `compat` at the provider level to apply to all models, or at the model level to override a specific model. This commonly applies to Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, and similar OpenAI-compatible servers.
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "ollama": {
+      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:11434/v1",
+      "api": "openai-completions",
+      "apiKey": "ollama",
+      "compat": {
+        "supportsDeveloperRole": false,
+        "supportsReasoningEffort": false
+      },
+      "models": [
+        {
+          "id": "gpt-oss:20b",
+          "reasoning": true
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Full Example
+
+Override defaults when you need specific values:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "ollama": {
+      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:11434/v1",
+      "api": "openai-completions",
+      "apiKey": "ollama",
+      "models": [
+        {
+          "id": "llama3.1:8b",
+          "name": "Llama 3.1 8B (Local)",
+          "reasoning": false,
+          "input": ["text"],
+          "contextWindow": 128000,
+          "maxTokens": 32000,
+          "cost": { "input": 0, "output": 0, "cacheRead": 0, "cacheWrite": 0 }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The file reloads each time you open `/model`. Edit during session; no restart needed.
+
+## Google AI Studio Example
+
+Use `google-generative-ai` with a `baseUrl` to add models from Google AI Studio, including custom Gemma 4 entries:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "my-google": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta",
+      "api": "google-generative-ai",
+      "apiKey": "$GEMINI_API_KEY",
+      "models": [
+        {
+          "id": "gemma-4-31b-it",
+          "name": "Gemma 4 31B",
+          "input": ["text", "image"],
+          "contextWindow": 262144,
+          "reasoning": true
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+The `baseUrl` is required when adding custom models to the `google-generative-ai` API type.
+
+## Supported APIs
+
+| API | Description |
+|-----|-------------|
+| `openai-completions` | OpenAI Chat Completions (most compatible) |
+| `openai-responses` | OpenAI Responses API |
+| `anthropic-messages` | Anthropic Messages API |
+| `google-generative-ai` | Google Generative AI |
+
+Set `api` at provider level (default for all models) or model level (override per model).
+
+## Provider Configuration
+
+| Field | Description |
+|-------|-------------|
+| `baseUrl` | API endpoint URL |
+| `api` | API type (see above) |
+| `apiKey` | API key (see value resolution below) |
+| `headers` | Custom headers (see value resolution below) |
+| `authHeader` | Set `true` to add `Authorization: Bearer <apiKey>` automatically |
+| `models` | Array of model configurations |
+| `modelOverrides` | Per-model overrides for built-in models on this provider |
+
+### Value Resolution
+
+The `apiKey` and `headers` fields support command execution, environment interpolation, and literals:
+
+- **Shell command:** `"!command"` at the start executes the whole value as a command and uses stdout
+  ```json
+  "apiKey": "!security find-generic-password -ws 'anthropic'"
+  "apiKey": "!op read 'op://vault/item/credential'"
+  ```
+- **Environment interpolation:** `"$ENV_VAR"` or `"${ENV_VAR}"` uses the value of the named variable. Interpolation works inside larger literals.
+  ```json
+  "apiKey": "$MY_API_KEY"
+  "apiKey": "${KEY_PREFIX}_${KEY_SUFFIX}"
+  ```
+  `$FOO_BAR` is the variable `FOO_BAR`; use `${FOO}_BAR` when `BAR` is literal text. Missing environment variables make the value unresolved.
+- **Escapes:** `"$$"` emits a literal `"$"`; `"$!"` emits a literal `"!"` without triggering command execution.
+  ```json
+  "apiKey": "$$literal-dollar-prefix"
+  "apiKey": "$!literal-bang-prefix"
+  ```
+- **Literal value:** Used directly. Plain uppercase strings such as `MY_API_KEY` are literals; use `$MY_API_KEY` for environment variables.
+  ```json
+  "apiKey": "sk-..."
+  ```
+
+Legacy uppercase env-var-like values such as `MY_API_KEY` are migrated to `$MY_API_KEY` on startup.
+
+For `models.json`, shell commands are resolved at request time. volt intentionally does not apply built-in TTL, stale reuse, or recovery logic for arbitrary commands. Different commands need different caching and failure strategies, and volt cannot infer the right one.
+
+If your command is slow, expensive, rate-limited, or should keep using a previous value on transient failures, wrap it in your own script or command that implements the caching or TTL behavior you want.
+
+`/model` availability checks use configured auth presence and do not execute shell commands.
+
+### Custom Headers
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "custom-proxy": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://proxy.example.com/v1",
+      "apiKey": "$MY_API_KEY",
+      "api": "anthropic-messages",
+      "headers": {
+        "x-portkey-api-key": "$PORTKEY_API_KEY",
+        "x-secret": "!op read 'op://vault/item/secret'"
+      },
+      "models": [...]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Model Configuration
+
+| Field | Required | Default | Description |
+|-------|----------|---------|-------------|
+| `id` | Yes | — | Model identifier (passed to the API) |
+| `name` | No | `id` | Human-readable model label. Used for matching (`--model` patterns) and shown as secondary model detail text. |
+| `api` | No | provider's `api` | Override provider's API for this model |
+| `reasoning` | No | `false` | Supports extended thinking |
+| `thinkingLevelMap` | No | omitted | Maps volt thinking levels to provider values and marks unsupported levels (see below) |
+| `input` | No | `["text"]` | Input types: `["text"]` or `["text", "image"]` |
+| `contextWindow` | No | `128000` | Context window size in tokens |
+| `maxTokens` | No | `16384` | Maximum output tokens |
+| `cost` | No | all zeros | `{"input": 0, "output": 0, "cacheRead": 0, "cacheWrite": 0}` (per million tokens) |
+| `compat` | No | provider `compat` | Provider compatibility overrides. Merged with provider-level `compat` when both are set. |
+
+Current behavior:
+- `/model`, `--list-models`, and the interactive footer display entries by model `id`.
+- The configured `name` is used for model matching and secondary model detail text. It does not replace the footer/status-bar model id.
+
+### Thinking Level Map
+
+Use `thinkingLevelMap` on a model to describe model-specific thinking controls. Keys are volt thinking levels: `off`, `minimal`, `low`, `medium`, `high`, `xhigh`, `max`.
+
+Values are tristate:
+
+| Value | Meaning |
+|-------|---------|
+| omitted | Level is supported and uses the provider's default mapping |
+| string | Level is supported and this value is sent to the provider |
+| `null` | Level is unsupported and hidden/skipped/clamped away |
+
+Example for a model that only supports off, high, and max reasoning:
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "deepseek-v4-pro",
+  "reasoning": true,
+  "thinkingLevelMap": {
+    "minimal": null,
+    "low": null,
+    "medium": null,
+    "high": "high",
+    "xhigh": null,
+    "max": "max"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Example for a model where thinking cannot be disabled:
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "always-thinking-model",
+  "reasoning": true,
+  "thinkingLevelMap": {
+    "off": null
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Migration: older configs that used `compat.reasoningEffortMap` should move that mapping to model-level `thinkingLevelMap`. Use `null` for levels that should not appear in the UI.
+
+## Overriding Built-in Providers
+
+Route a built-in provider through a proxy without redefining models:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "anthropic": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://my-proxy.example.com/v1"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+All built-in Anthropic models remain available. Existing OAuth or API key auth continues to work.
+
+To merge custom models into a built-in provider, include the `models` array:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "anthropic": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://my-proxy.example.com/v1",
+      "apiKey": "$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
+      "api": "anthropic-messages",
+      "models": [...]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Merge semantics:
+- Built-in models are kept.
+- Custom models are upserted by `id` within the provider.
+- If a custom model `id` matches a built-in model `id`, the custom model replaces that built-in model.
+- If a custom model `id` is new, it is added alongside built-in models.
+
+## Per-model Overrides
+
+Use `modelOverrides` to customize specific built-in models without replacing the provider's full model list.
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "openrouter": {
+      "modelOverrides": {
+        "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4": {
+          "name": "Claude Sonnet 4 (Bedrock Route)",
+          "compat": {
+            "openRouterRouting": {
+              "only": ["amazon-bedrock"]
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`modelOverrides` supports these fields per model: `name`, `reasoning`, `input`, `cost` (partial), `contextWindow`, `maxTokens`, `headers`, `compat`.
+
+Behavior notes:
+- `modelOverrides` are applied to built-in provider models.
+- Unknown model IDs are ignored.
+- You can combine provider-level `baseUrl`/`headers` with `modelOverrides`.
+- Overriding `name` changes model matching and secondary detail text only; the footer and primary model lists continue to show the model `id`.
+- If `models` is also defined for a provider, custom models are merged after built-in overrides. A custom model with the same `id` replaces the overridden built-in model entry.
+
+## Anthropic Messages Compatibility
+
+For providers or proxies using `api: "anthropic-messages"`, use `compat` to control Anthropic-specific request compatibility.
+
+By default volt sends per-tool `eager_input_streaming: true`. If a proxy or Anthropic-compatible backend rejects that field, set `supportsEagerToolInputStreaming` to `false`. Volt will omit `tools[].eager_input_streaming` and send the legacy `fine-grained-tool-streaming-2025-05-14` beta header for tool-enabled requests instead.
+
+Some Anthropic models require adaptive thinking (`thinking.type: "adaptive"` plus `output_config.effort`) instead of the legacy budget-based thinking payload. Built-in models set this automatically. For custom providers or aliases that route to those models, set `forceAdaptiveThinking` to `true`.
+
+Some Anthropic-compatible providers emit thinking blocks with empty signatures and still expect them on replay. Set `allowEmptySignature` to `true` only for those providers; real Anthropic rejects empty thinking signatures.
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "anthropic-proxy": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://proxy.example.com",
+      "api": "anthropic-messages",
+      "apiKey": "$ANTHROPIC_PROXY_KEY",
+      "compat": {
+        "supportsEagerToolInputStreaming": false,
+        "supportsLongCacheRetention": true,
+        "forceAdaptiveThinking": true,
+        "allowEmptySignature": true
+      },
+      "models": [
+        {
+          "id": "claude-opus-4-7",
+          "reasoning": true,
+          "input": ["text", "image"]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+| Field | Description |
+|-------|-------------|
+| `supportsEagerToolInputStreaming` | Whether the provider accepts per-tool `eager_input_streaming`. Default: `true`. Set to `false` to omit that field and use the legacy fine-grained tool streaming beta header on tool-enabled requests. |
+| `supportsLongCacheRetention` | Whether the provider accepts Anthropic long cache retention (`cache_control.ttl: "1h"`) when cache retention is `long`. Default: `true`. |
+| `sendSessionAffinityHeaders` | Whether to send `x-session-affinity` from the session id when caching is enabled. Default: auto-detected for known providers. |
+| `supportsCacheControlOnTools` | Whether the provider accepts Anthropic-style `cache_control` markers on tool definitions. Default: `true`. |
+| `forceAdaptiveThinking` | Whether to send adaptive thinking (`thinking.type: "adaptive"` plus `output_config.effort`) for this model. Built-in adaptive models set this automatically. Default: `false`. |
+| `allowEmptySignature` | Whether to replay empty thinking signatures as `signature: ""` instead of converting thinking to text. Default: `false`. |
+
+## OpenAI Compatibility
+
+For providers with partial OpenAI compatibility, use the `compat` field.
+
+- Provider-level `compat` applies defaults to all models under that provider.
+- Model-level `compat` overrides provider-level values for that model.
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "local-llm": {
+      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
+      "api": "openai-completions",
+      "compat": {
+        "supportsUsageInStreaming": false,
+        "maxTokensField": "max_tokens"
+      },
+      "models": [...]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+| Field | Description |
+|-------|-------------|
+| `supportsStore` | Provider supports `store` field |
+| `supportsDeveloperRole` | Use `developer` vs `system` role |
+| `supportsReasoningEffort` | Support for `reasoning_effort` parameter |
+| `supportsUsageInStreaming` | Supports `stream_options: { include_usage: true }` (default: `true`) |
+| `maxTokensField` | Use `max_completion_tokens` or `max_tokens` |
+| `requiresToolResultName` | Include `name` on tool result messages |
+| `requiresAssistantAfterToolResult` | Insert an assistant message before a user message after tool results |
+| `requiresThinkingAsText` | Convert thinking blocks to plain text |
+| `requiresReasoningContentOnAssistantMessages` | Include empty `reasoning_content` on all replayed assistant messages when reasoning is enabled |
+| `thinkingFormat` | Use `reasoning_effort`, `openrouter`, `deepseek`, `together`, `zai`, `qwen`, or `qwen-chat-template` thinking parameters |
+| `cacheControlFormat` | Use Anthropic-style `cache_control` markers on the system prompt, last tool definition, and last user/assistant text content. Currently only `anthropic` is supported. |
+| `supportsStrictMode` | Include the `strict` field in tool definitions |
+| `supportsLongCacheRetention` | Whether the provider accepts long cache retention when cache retention is `long`: `prompt_cache_retention: "24h"` for OpenAI prompt caching, or `cache_control.ttl: "1h"` when `cacheControlFormat` is `anthropic`. Default: `true`. |
+| `openRouterRouting` | OpenRouter provider routing preferences. This object is sent as-is in the `provider` field of the [OpenRouter API request](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/routing/provider-selection). |
+| `vercelGatewayRouting` | Vercel AI Gateway routing config for provider selection (`only`, `order`) |
+
+`openrouter` uses `reasoning: { effort }`. `together` uses `reasoning: { enabled }` and also `reasoning_effort` when `supportsReasoningEffort` is enabled. `qwen` uses top-level `enable_thinking`. Use `qwen-chat-template` for local Qwen-compatible servers that require `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking`.
+
+`cacheControlFormat: "anthropic"` is for OpenAI-compatible providers that expose Anthropic-style prompt caching through `cache_control` markers on text content and tool definitions.
+
+Example:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "openrouter": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
+      "apiKey": "$OPENROUTER_API_KEY",
+      "api": "openai-completions",
+      "models": [
+        {
+          "id": "openrouter/anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet",
+          "name": "OpenRouter Claude 3.5 Sonnet",
+          "compat": {
+            "openRouterRouting": {
+              "allow_fallbacks": true,
+              "require_parameters": false,
+              "data_collection": "deny",
+              "zdr": true,
+              "enforce_distillable_text": false,
+              "order": ["anthropic", "amazon-bedrock", "google-vertex"],
+              "only": ["anthropic", "amazon-bedrock"],
+              "ignore": ["gmicloud", "friendli"],
+              "quantizations": ["fp16", "bf16"],
+              "sort": {
+                "by": "price",
+                "partition": "model"
+              },
+              "max_price": {
+                "prompt": 10,
+                "completion": 20
+              },
+              "preferred_min_throughput": {
+                "p50": 100,
+                "p90": 50
+              },
+              "preferred_max_latency": {
+                "p50": 1,
+                "p90": 3,
+                "p99": 5
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Vercel AI Gateway example:
+
+```json
+{
+  "providers": {
+    "vercel-ai-gateway": {
+      "baseUrl": "https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1",
+      "apiKey": "$AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY",
+      "api": "openai-completions",
+      "models": [
+        {
+          "id": "moonshotai/kimi-k2.5",
+          "name": "Kimi K2.5 (Fireworks via Vercel)",
+          "reasoning": true,
+          "input": ["text", "image"],
+          "cost": { "input": 0.6, "output": 3, "cacheRead": 0, "cacheWrite": 0 },
+          "contextWindow": 262144,
+          "maxTokens": 262144,
+          "compat": {
+            "vercelGatewayRouting": {
+              "only": ["fireworks", "novita"],
+              "order": ["fireworks", "novita"]
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+```