@owlmeans/llm 0.1.18-rc.6 → 0.1.18-rc.9

package/agent-meta/manifest.json

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
   "schemaVersion": 2,
   "package": "@owlmeans/llm",
-  "version": "0.1.18-rc.6",
-  "generatedAt": "2026-08-18T14:48:00.516Z",
+  "version": "0.1.18-rc.8",
+  "generatedAt": "2026-08-29T20:14:19.669Z",
   "canonicalRepo": "https://github.com/owlmeans/common",
   "entries": [
     {

package/agent-meta/skills/llm/SKILL.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ user-invocable: false
 # @owlmeans/llm
 
 **Layer:** Core
-**Install:** `"@owlmeans/llm": "^0.1.18-rc.6"` in `dependencies` (plus the `@langchain/*` peers)
+**Install:** `"@owlmeans/llm": "^0.1.18-rc.8"` in `dependencies` (plus the `@langchain/*` peers)
 
 The inference runtime. Everything provider-specific is a **plugin**; the model itself only
 owns the provider-independent parts (streaming discipline, retries, validation,
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ observability). Serializable contracts live in `@owlmeans/llm-common`.
 | `makeLlmModel(options, spectator)` | The four-method model: `ask` / `talk` / `invoke` / `request`. |
 | `makeLlmService(options, alias?)` · `appendLlmService(ctx, options, alias?)` | Model factory/registry — resolves a `ModelConfig` by alias, memoized per alias+override. |
 | `llmServiceApi(options, self)` | The factory half WITHOUT `createService`, to compose into your own service (role accessors, domain helpers). |
-| `makeExecutionService(alias?, options?)` · `appendExecutionService(ctx, alias?, options?)` | Frozen 3-level executions + policy resolution + snapshot/restore/checkpoint. |
+| `makeExecutionService(alias?, options?)` · `appendExecutionService(ctx, alias?, options?)` | Frozen 3-level executions + policy resolution + snapshot/restore/checkpoint + advice. |
 | `makePromptService(options?, alias?)` · `appendPromptService(ctx, options?, alias?)` · `promptServiceApi(options, self)` | Skill registry + the composition plugin chain. Also at `@owlmeans/llm/prompt`. |
 | `rolePlugin`, `skillsPlugin`, `contextPlugin`, `BUILT_IN_PROMPT_PLUGINS` | The built-in composition plugins. |
 | `renderSkill`, `sortSkills`, `joinChunks`, `compareAlias`, `prefixHash` | Deterministic rendering primitives — reuse them, never re-implement. |
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ observability). Serializable contracts live in `@owlmeans/llm-common`.
 | `executionServiceApi(options, self)` | The execution half without `createService`, for the same composition pattern. |
 | `plugins`, `registerLlmPlugin`, `resolvePlugin`, `pluginOf`, `pluginFor` | The provider-plugin registry. Also at `@owlmeans/llm/plugins`. |
 | `anthropicPlugin`, `openAiPlugin`, `compatiblePlugin`, `openAiFamily` | Built-in providers; `openAiFamily` is the shared OpenAI-client behaviour to spread into a new plugin. |
+| `NO_SAMPLING_PREFIXES`, `rejectsSampling(model)` | Which Claude families reject `temperature`/`top_p`/`top_k` (4.7+ and the 5 family). Consumers pin presets against it. |
+| `RESPONSES_API_PREFIXES`, `usesResponsesApi(model)` | Which OpenAI families go through the Responses API and therefore reject `temperature`/`top_p` (`gpt-5*`, `codex-*`). The OpenAI counterpart of the pair above; consumers pin presets against it. |
 | `withRetry`, `registerFatalError`, `spectate`, `normalizeInput`, `parseJsonContent`, `coerceToSchema` | Helpers usable alongside a model. Also at `@owlmeans/llm/helpers`. |
 | `LlmError`, `LlmModelError`, `LlmMissconfiguredError`, `LlmPluginError`, `LlmRetryExceededError` | `ResilientError` family. `LlmModelError` is the RETRYABLE one. |
 | `mergePrompt`, `mergePolicy`, `resolveRole`, `effortPatch` | Execution merge helpers; `mergePrompt` unions skills and takes the deepest role. |
@@ -60,6 +62,32 @@ Adding a function? Decide which side it belongs to first, then place it. Do not
 | `cacheKey` (via `ModelConfig.cacheKey`) | provider cache-routing hints such as OpenAI's `prompt_cache_key` |
 | `isFatal` | "this error can never be retried" |
 
+### A provider that removes a parameter is a plugin concern too
+
+`build` is not the only place a parameter reaches the wire, and `refine` is not only a retry
+hook — **every** call is made on the instance `refine` returns, attempt 0 included. A knob
+suppressed in `build` and re-applied in `refine` therefore ships on every single request, not
+on a retry: an unsupported `temperature` restored there 400s the model's whole family on the
+first call, and `isFatal` correctly refuses to retry it, so the failure is immediate and total.
+
+Both built-in plugins gate their rejected parameters in **both** hooks, through a predicate the
+package root exports:
+
+| Family | Rejects | Predicate |
+|---|---|---|
+| Claude 4.7+ and the 5 family | `temperature`, `top_p`, `top_k` | `NO_SAMPLING_PREFIXES` / `rejectsSampling(model)` |
+| OpenAI Responses API (`gpt-5*`, `codex-*`) | `temperature`, `top_p` | `RESPONSES_API_PREFIXES` / `usesResponsesApi(model)` |
+
+Models below those lines keep the deterministic `temperature: 0` default. `refine` reads the
+id off the ACTIVE base (`model.model ?? lc_kwargs.model`), so a same-family `fallback` rung is
+judged on its own id rather than the primary's, and the OpenAI check also accepts a
+`useResponsesApi` already on `lc_kwargs`.
+
+Export the predicate rather than keeping it private: consumers pin presets against it
+(`viable-agent`'s `tests/presets.test.ts` asserts no preset entry declares a parameter its
+model rejects), and a second hand-written copy of the list drifts exactly when a new family is
+added — the moment it has to be right.
+
 **Registration order is load-bearing.** Instance-based lookup (`pluginFor`) returns the
 FIRST plugin whose `owns` matches. `compatible` is registered before `openai` because both
 build a `ChatOpenAI`, and assuming the tool-calling hack for an unlabelled model is safe
@@ -102,6 +130,23 @@ inherited method signatures**, which would be a contravariance error.
 `snapshot` excludes `state` itself; without that, every `derive`/`escalate`/`withPurpose`
 on a task would nest another copy of the previous state.
 
+`forHelper` also accepts `output` — an initial `maxTokens` for a helper whose one answer is
+genuinely large (a whole source file rather than a decision). It is a model selector, not a
+field the helper carries: it becomes a call override, is clamped to `maxOutput`, doubles from
+there under retry, and survives `temperatureFactory`.
+
+### The plugin seam has two hooks, dispatched independently
+
+`ExecutionPlugin` carries `onCheckpoint`/`onRestore` (persist and resume an
+`ExecutionState`) and `advise` (answer a performer's question about the project it is
+working in — `ExecutionService.advise(exec, request)`, first usable answer wins, a throwing
+plugin is skipped, `null` when nobody answers). Advice is advisory by contract: a caller
+appends whatever comes back and proceeds unchanged on `null`.
+
+`checkpoint` dispatches on plugins that declare **`onCheckpoint`**, not on the plugin count —
+otherwise registering an advise-only plugin would silently start composing snapshots nobody
+consumes.
+
 ## Classify a provider error by walking `cause`, never by `instanceof` or a surface read
 
 Two independent layers hide the wire shape of a provider failure, and each one alone is
@@ -162,10 +207,70 @@ Note what this does NOT bound: a call that keeps streaming forever, and retries.
 error misclassified as retryable multiplies its own latency by `DEFAULT_MODEL_RETRIES` —
 see the `instanceof` trap above.
 
+## An outer validation loop must pass its attempt in
+
+A caller that validates the OUTPUT — a diff that has to apply, a file that must not come
+back truncated — runs its own retry loop around whole `ask` calls. Every one of those calls
+starts a FRESH inner loop at attempt 0, so the escalator's two rungs never move: same model,
+same output budget, same deterministic answer, N times. Pass `escalation: <outer attempt>`
+in `LlmCallOptions` and the per-call escalator starts that far up its ladder instead —
+`maxTokens` doubling and the `FALLBACK_AFTER_ATTEMPTS` switch to `ModelConfig.fallback` both
+advance. It is clamped to `retries - 1`, moves the STARTING rung only, and never changes how
+many attempts the call itself makes.
+
+Two things this depends on, and both are preset data rather than code: the role must
+actually declare a `fallback`, and that fallback must be in the same plugin `family` (a
+cross-family one is skipped with a warning, because switching provider mid-call flips the
+structured-output shape).
+
+`LlmCallOptions.fatal` is the matching lever in the other direction — a per-call resolver
+consulted before the global ones and the plugin's `isFatal`, for an error the caller knows
+no retry can fix.
+
+## Output caps: what the deployment wants vs what the provider allows
+
+Four fields, and conflating them is what turns an escalation into a fatal 400 hours into a
+run:
+
+| Field | Means |
+|---|---|
+| `maxTokens` | the budget asked for on the FIRST attempt |
+| `maxTokensCap` | the ceiling the deployment budgets for the escalator |
+| `maxOutput` | what the PROVIDER accepts in one request — a fact about the model |
+| `contextWindow` | total window (input + output); informational, never sent |
+
+`resolveOutputCap` (`utils/config.ts`) is the one place that reconciles them: the declared
+cap chooses the ceiling and the capability trims it, and `DEFAULT_MAX_OUTPUT_CAP` applies
+only when neither is stated. `createModel` additionally clamps `maxTokens` to `maxOutput`
+and warns about a cap above it. For an aggregated model `maxOutput` is the limit of the
+`inferenceProvider` actually pinned, which is often far below what the model can do
+elsewhere. `combinedWindow: true` marks a model whose window is shared between input and
+output (MiniMax M2.x, gpt-oss) — nothing enforces it at runtime; it keeps presets honest
+about leaving room for the prompt.
+
+**A `fallback` that changes `model` must restate `contextWindow`/`maxOutput`** (and reset
+`combinedWindow`): the fallback config is `{...primaryConfig, ...fallback}`, so every field
+the patch does not name is inherited from a different model.
+
+## Config precedence: a preset is a base, not a final word
+
+`createModel` layers four sources, lowest first:
+
+    presetOf(base.preset)  <  base  <  presetOf(override.preset)  <  override
+
+A `preset` is a BASE that its referent refines, so it sits UNDER the config naming it.
+Assigning it last — as this did until the layering was fixed — meant a role declaring
+`preset:` silently discarded both its own fields and the caller's override, which is how
+effort-tier token caps and `temperatureFactory`'s temperature vanished for preset-based
+roles. An override naming a preset (how the execution layer delivers a `modelOverrides`
+string pin) outranks the alias but still yields to explicit override fields. Resolution is
+ONE level deep: a preset meant to carry a model must name one.
+
 ## Resilience already handled — do not reimplement
 
 Idle stream deadline · duplicate-final-chunk dedup · output-budget escalation · reasoning-cap
-shrink · same-family fallback model · schema coercion · JSON salvage from prose · `NullCapture`
+shrink · same-family fallback model · caller-seeded ladder position (`escalation`) · schema
+coercion · JSON salvage from prose · `NullCapture`
 diagnostics · fatal-error short-circuit · blank-content sanitization (whitespace-only text
 blocks are dropped before every call — a blank block, e.g. an empty file read pasted into a
 prompt, is otherwise a fatal Anthropic 400; blank tool results are stubbed to keep their

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package/build/execution/service.js

@@ -61,10 +61,13 @@ export const executionServiceApi = (options, self) => {
             return freeze(taskExec);
         },
         forHelper: (parent, input) => {
-            const { role, effort, dedication, prompt, ...extras } = input;
+            const { role, effort, dedication, prompt, output, ...extras } = input;
             const localPolicy = effort != null ? mergePolicy(parent.policy, { effort }) : parent.policy;
             const scoped = { ...parent, policy: localPolicy };
             const merged = mergePrompt(parent.prompt, prompt);
+            // Destructured out of `extras` deliberately: `output` selects a model budget, it is
+            // not a field the helper carries around.
+            const sizing = output != null ? { maxTokens: output } : undefined;
             const helperExec = {
                 ...parent,
                 ...extras,
@@ -75,8 +78,8 @@ export const executionServiceApi = (options, self) => {
                 policy: localPolicy,
                 ...(merged != null ? { prompt: merged } : {}),
                 role: resolveRole(localPolicy, role),
-                model: self().model(scoped, role),
-                temperatureFactory: self().temperatureFactory(scoped, role),
+                model: self().model(scoped, role, sizing),
+                temperatureFactory: self().temperatureFactory(scoped, role, sizing),
             };
             // A helper is not resumable — drop a parent task's composed state.
             delete helperExec.state;
@@ -93,7 +96,10 @@ export const executionServiceApi = (options, self) => {
             const clean = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(merged).filter(([, value]) => value !== undefined));
             return exec.models().getModel(effectiveRole, clean);
         },
-        temperatureFactory: (exec, role) => temperature => self().model(exec, role, {
+        temperatureFactory: (exec, role, baseOverride) => temperature => self().model(exec, role, {
+            // A budget the helper was built with survives a temperature refinement — the
+            // work is the same size whether or not it is being retried creatively.
+            ...(typeof baseOverride === 'object' ? baseOverride : {}),
             ...(temperature != null ? { temperature } : {}),
             ...(temperature != null && temperature > 0.2 ? { topP: 0.8 } : {}),
         }),
@@ -101,12 +107,31 @@ export const executionServiceApi = (options, self) => {
             plugins.push(plugin);
         },
         checkpoint: async (exec, key) => {
-            if (plugins.length === 0) {
+            // Guarded on the HOOK, not on the plugin count: a plugin registered for `advise`
+            // alone must not make checkpointing start composing snapshots nobody consumes.
+            if (!plugins.some(plugin => plugin.onCheckpoint != null)) {
                 return;
             }
             const state = self().snapshot(exec);
             await Promise.all(plugins.map(plugin => plugin.onCheckpoint?.(state, exec, key)));
         },
+        advise: async (exec, request) => {
+            for (const plugin of plugins) {
+                if (plugin.advise == null)
+                    continue;
+                try {
+                    const advice = await plugin.advise(exec, request);
+                    if (advice != null && advice.trim() !== '') {
+                        return advice;
+                    }
+                }
+                catch (e) {
+                    // Advice is an optimization. A broken advisor must never take the work with it.
+                    console.warn(`Execution advisor failed for "${request.kind}":`, e);
+                }
+            }
+            return null;
+        },
         snapshot: exec => {
             if (exec.level === ExecutionLevel.Task) {
                 return freeze({ ...exec.state });

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package/build/execution/types.d.ts

@@ -69,6 +69,16 @@ export interface HelperExecutionInput {
     prompt?: PromptPolicy;
     /** Refines `purpose.dedication`. */
     dedication?: string;
+    /**
+     * Initial output-token budget for this helper's model (`ModelConfig.maxTokens`), for
+     * work whose ONE answer is genuinely large — a whole source file rather than a decision.
+     *
+     * The role's preset value sizes the common case; a helper that routinely needs more
+     * would otherwise spend its first attempt producing a truncated answer and only reach a
+     * workable budget through the retry escalator, which doubles from this number. Clamped
+     * to the provider's `maxOutput` and preserved across `temperatureFactory`.
+     */
+    output?: number;
 }
 /** Collaborators re-attached to a state that was restored from storage. */
 export interface RestoreCollaborators {
@@ -77,16 +87,35 @@ export interface RestoreCollaborators {
     files?: FileProviderRef;
 }
 /**
- * Resilience extension seam. A plugin observes flow boundaries (via
+ * What a performer wants to know before it acts. Runtime-only — never snapshotted, so it
+ * carries whatever the advisor and its callers agree on.
+ */
+export interface AdviceRequest {
+    /** Which advisor is being asked; an advisor that does not own this kind returns null. */
+    kind: string;
+    /** The work at hand, in the caller's own words — normally the assignment text. */
+    task: string;
+    /** Anything that narrows the answer (a subproject, a path prefix, an entity). */
+    hints?: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+/**
+ * Extension seam. A plugin observes flow boundaries (via
  * {@link ExecutionService.checkpoint}) and can persist/enqueue the JSON-safe
- * {@link ExecutionState}, or supply one back on resume. This package ships NO concrete
- * implementation — with no plugin registered, `checkpoint` is a no-op.
+ * {@link ExecutionState}, or supply one back on resume; it may also ANSWER a performer's
+ * question about its surroundings (`advise`). This package ships NO concrete
+ * implementation — with no plugin registered, both seams are no-ops.
  */
 export interface ExecutionPlugin {
     /** Fired at a flow boundary with a JSON-safe snapshot; persist/enqueue as desired. */
     onCheckpoint?: (state: ExecutionState, exec: Execution, key?: string) => Promise<void>;
     /** Resume hook: return a previously persisted state for `key`, or `null`. */
     onRestore?: (key: string) => Promise<ExecutionState | null>;
+    /**
+     * Answer a performer's question about the project it is working in. Return the text to
+     * hand the model, or `null` when this plugin does not own the request's `kind` — or
+     * cannot answer it. Advice is advisory: a `null` never blocks the work.
+     */
+    advise?: (exec: Execution, request: AdviceRequest) => Promise<string | null>;
 }
 /**
  * The set of domain types an {@link ExecutionService} works with. A consumer declares
@@ -117,13 +146,25 @@ export interface ExecutionService<S extends ExecutionShape = ExecutionShape> ext
     withPurpose: <E extends S['exec']>(exec: E, patch: Partial<S['purpose']>) => E;
     escalate: <E extends S['exec']>(exec: E, patch: Partial<ModelPolicy>) => E;
     model: (exec: S['exec'], role?: ModelRole, override?: ModelConfigOverride) => BaseChatModel;
-    temperatureFactory: (exec: S['exec'], role?: ModelRole) => TemperatureFactory;
-    /** Register a resilience plugin (checkpoint/resume). No-op seam until one is provided. */
+    /**
+     * A factory that re-resolves the same role at another temperature. `baseOverride` is
+     * layered UNDER the temperature patch, so a caller-chosen budget (see
+     * `HelperExecutionInput.output`) survives the refinement.
+     */
+    temperatureFactory: (exec: S['exec'], role?: ModelRole, baseOverride?: ModelConfigOverride) => TemperatureFactory;
+    /** Register an execution plugin (checkpoint/resume, advice). No-op seam until provided. */
     use: (plugin: ExecutionPlugin) => void;
     /** Snapshot `exec` and dispatch it to every registered plugin. No-op if none. */
     checkpoint: (exec: S['exec'], key?: string) => Promise<void>;
     snapshot: (exec: S['exec']) => ExecutionState;
     restore: (state: ExecutionState, collaborators?: S['collaborators']) => S['exec'];
+    /**
+     * Ask the registered plugins about the project this execution runs in. Plugins are
+     * consulted in registration order and the FIRST usable answer wins, so one advisor owns
+     * each `kind` rather than several concatenating half-answers. Never throws: a plugin
+     * that fails is skipped, and `null` means nobody answered.
+     */
+    advise: (exec: S['exec'], request: AdviceRequest) => Promise<string | null>;
 }
 export interface ExecutionServiceOptions {
     /**

package/build/execution/types.d.ts.map

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package/build/helpers/spectate.d.ts.map

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package/build/helpers/spectate.js

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 import { BaseMessage } from '@langchain/core/messages';
 import { SpectatorContentType } from '@owlmeans/llm-common';
 import { hasCacheActivity, readCacheUsage } from './cache.js';
+/**
+ * The trace's `content` column is a string; LangChain content is a string-or-blocks union, and
+ * tool calls are arrays. Anything non-string must be stored as JSON — a plain string coercion
+ * downstream turns it into `[object Object]` and destroys the readable half of the trace
+ * (`raw` keeps the payload, but `content` is what trace readers query).
+ */
+const asText = (content) => typeof content === 'string' ? content : JSON.stringify(content) ?? '';
 /** Normalize one prompt message into the spectator's storage shape. */
 const describeInput = (msg, callType) => {
     const entry = {
@@ -11,7 +18,7 @@ const describeInput = (msg, callType) => {
     };
     if (msg instanceof BaseMessage) {
         entry.type = msg.type;
-        entry.content = msg.content;
+        entry.content = asText(msg.content);
         entry.name = msg.name;
         entry.contentType = typeof msg.content === 'string' ? SpectatorContentType.Text : SpectatorContentType.Json;
         entry.usage = 'usage_metadata' in msg ? msg.usage_metadata : undefined;
@@ -19,11 +26,11 @@ const describeInput = (msg, callType) => {
     }
     else if (typeof msg === 'object' && 'content' in msg) {
         entry.type = msg.role ?? 'unknown';
-        entry.content = msg.content ?? msg;
+        entry.content = asText(msg.content ?? msg);
         entry.raw = JSON.stringify(msg);
     }
     else {
-        entry.content = msg;
+        entry.content = asText(msg);
         entry.raw = JSON.stringify(msg);
     }
     return entry;
@@ -44,11 +51,11 @@ export const spectate = (spectator, callType) => async (input, message, action,
         raw: JSON.stringify({ message, content: message.content, meta: message.response_metadata }),
     };
     if (message.tool_calls != null && message.tool_calls.length > 0) {
-        completion.content = message.tool_calls;
+        completion.content = asText(message.tool_calls);
         completion.contentType = SpectatorContentType.ToolCall;
     }
     else {
-        completion.content = message.content;
+        completion.content = asText(message.content);
     }
     // Silent unless the provider reported cache activity, so it costs nothing when
     // caching is off — and is the one signal that tells a stable prefix from a broken one.

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package/build/index.d.ts

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 export { plugins, registerLlmPlugin, pluginOf, pluginFor, resolvePlugin } from './plugins/index.js';
-export { anthropicPlugin, ANTHROPIC_FAMILY } from './plugins/anthropic.js';
+export { anthropicPlugin, ANTHROPIC_FAMILY, NO_SAMPLING_PREFIXES, rejectsSampling } from './plugins/anthropic.js';
 export { compatiblePlugin } from './plugins/compatible.js';
-export { openAiPlugin, openAiFamily, OPENAI_FAMILY } from './plugins/openai.js';
+export { openAiPlugin, openAiFamily, OPENAI_FAMILY, RESPONSES_API_PREFIXES, usesResponsesApi, } from './plugins/openai.js';
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package/build/index.js

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-export { anthropicPlugin, ANTHROPIC_FAMILY } from './plugins/anthropic.js';
+export { anthropicPlugin, ANTHROPIC_FAMILY, NO_SAMPLING_PREFIXES, rejectsSampling } from './plugins/anthropic.js';
 export { compatiblePlugin } from './plugins/compatible.js';
-export { openAiPlugin, openAiFamily, OPENAI_FAMILY } from './plugins/openai.js';
+export { openAiPlugin, openAiFamily, OPENAI_FAMILY, RESPONSES_API_PREFIXES, usesResponsesApi, } from './plugins/openai.js';
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package/build/model.js

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 import { Ajv } from 'ajv';
 import { AIMessage, BaseMessage } from '@langchain/core/messages';
 import { StructuredMode } from '@owlmeans/llm-common';
-import { DEFAULT_MAX_OUTPUT_CAP, DEFAULT_MODEL_RETRIES, FALLBACK_AFTER_ATTEMPTS, MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, } from './consts.js';
+import { DEFAULT_MODEL_RETRIES, FALLBACK_AFTER_ATTEMPTS, MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, } from './consts.js';
 import { LlmModelError } from './errors.js';
 import { pluginFor, pluginOf } from './plugins/index.js';
 import { coerceToSchema, parseJsonContent } from './helpers/json.js';
 import { normalizeInput } from './helpers/messages.js';
 import { withRetry } from './helpers/retry.js';
 import { spectate } from './helpers/spectate.js';
-import { idleTimeout, readConfig } from './utils/config.js';
+import { idleTimeout, readConfig, resolveOutputCap } from './utils/config.js';
 import { reportNull } from './utils/null-report.js';
 import { applyNoThink, dropBlankContent, ensureJsonMention, stripCacheMarkers } from './utils/prompt.js';
 import { resolveSchemaValidator, toToolName, unwrapNamed } from './utils/schema.js';
@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ export const makeLlmModel = ({ model, outputErrors = false, captureNull = false,
     const config = readConfig(model);
     const plugin = pluginOf(config.provider) ?? pluginFor(model);
     const timeout = idleTimeout(config);
+    /**
+     * Where on the escalation ladder this call starts.
+     *
+     * The ladder has exactly `retries` rungs, so a seed past the last one buys nothing and
+     * would only inflate the attempt number handed to `refine`. Clamped, `refineModel` sees
+     * at most `2 * (retries - 1)` — the escalator's own doubling stays bounded by the
+     * output cap either way.
+     */
+    const ladderSeed = (escalation) => Math.max(0, Math.min(Math.floor(escalation ?? 0), retries - 1));
     /**
      * Normalize, compose the system prompt, then apply every in-place prompt adaptation, in
      * dependency order.
@@ -158,9 +167,9 @@ export const makeLlmModel = ({ model, outputErrors = false, captureNull = false,
         const basePlugin = pluginOf(baseConfig.provider) ?? pluginFor(base);
         if (basePlugin == null)
             return base;
-        const maxOutputCap = typeof baseConfig.maxTokensCap === 'number' && baseConfig.maxTokensCap > 0
-            ? baseConfig.maxTokensCap
-            : DEFAULT_MAX_OUTPUT_CAP;
+        // Read from the ACTIVE base — after the fallback swap that is the fallback's own
+        // config, so the escalator sizes the model it is actually talking to.
+        const maxOutputCap = resolveOutputCap(baseConfig);
         const refined = basePlugin.refine({ base, attempt, temperature, maxOutputCap });
         if (attempt > 0) {
             const maxTokens = refined.maxTokens;
@@ -220,10 +229,11 @@ export const makeLlmModel = ({ model, outputErrors = false, captureNull = false,
         return { piece, result, mode };
     };
     const helper = {
-        ask: async (input, { ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills }) => {
+        ask: async (input, { ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills, escalation, fatal, }) => {
             const msgs = await prepare(input, action, useCache, cacheMax, false, skills);
-            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors }, async (i) => {
-                const refined = refineModel(i);
+            const seed = ladderSeed(escalation);
+            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors, fatal }, async (i) => {
+                const refined = refineModel(seed + i);
                 console.log('Use model to ask: ', refined.getName(), refined.lc_kwargs.model);
                 const startedAt = Date.now();
                 let result = null;
@@ -258,10 +268,11 @@ export const makeLlmModel = ({ model, outputErrors = false, captureNull = false,
                 return output;
             });
         },
-        talk: async (input, { ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills }) => {
+        talk: async (input, { ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills, escalation, fatal, }) => {
             const msgs = await prepare(input, action, useCache, cacheMax, false, skills);
-            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors }, async (i) => {
-                const refined = refineModel(i);
+            const seed = ladderSeed(escalation);
+            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors, fatal }, async (i) => {
+                const refined = refineModel(seed + i);
                 console.log('Use model to talk: ', refined.getName(), refined.lc_kwargs.model);
                 const startedAt = Date.now();
                 let result = null;
@@ -285,12 +296,13 @@ export const makeLlmModel = ({ model, outputErrors = false, captureNull = false,
                 return message;
             });
         },
-        invoke: async (input, schema, { temperature, ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills }) => {
+        invoke: async (input, schema, { temperature, ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills, escalation, fatal, }) => {
             const msgs = await prepare(input, action, useCache, cacheMax, true, skills);
             const { name, innerSchema, validate } = resolveSchemaValidator(ajv, schema);
             const toolName = toToolName(innerSchema.title ?? name);
-            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors }, async (i) => {
-                const refined = refineModel(i, temperature);
+            const seed = ladderSeed(escalation);
+            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors, fatal }, async (i) => {
+                const refined = refineModel(seed + i, temperature);
                 console.log('Use model invoke: ', refined.getName(), refined.lc_kwargs.model);
                 const startedAt = Date.now();
                 const { piece, result: collected } = await streamStructured(refined, msgs, innerSchema, toolName, action);
@@ -323,12 +335,13 @@ export const makeLlmModel = ({ model, outputErrors = false, captureNull = false,
                 return result;
             });
         },
-        request: async (input, schema, { ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills }) => {
+        request: async (input, schema, { ref, filter, action, useCache = false, cacheMax = MAX_CACHE_BREAKPOINTS, skills, escalation, fatal, }) => {
             const msgs = await prepare(input, action, useCache, cacheMax, true, skills);
             const { name, innerSchema, validate } = resolveSchemaValidator(ajv, schema);
             const toolName = toToolName(innerSchema.title ?? name);
-            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors }, async (i) => {
-                const refined = refineModel(i);
+            const seed = ladderSeed(escalation);
+            return withRetry({ retries, outputErrors, fatal }, async (i) => {
+                const refined = refineModel(seed + i);
                 console.log('Use model request: ', refined.getName(), refined.lc_kwargs.model);
                 const startedAt = Date.now();
                 const { piece, result: collected } = await streamStructured(refined, msgs, innerSchema, toolName, action);