fix: Preserve live model on resumed sessions (#848)

Closes #845

src/acp-agent.ts

@@ -2643,6 +2643,17 @@ export class ClaudeAcpAgent {
         : [];
     let validValue = allValues.find((o) => o.value === params.value);
 
+    // The option's reported currentValue is always a valid target, even when
+    // it has no options entry: a session running an out-of-picker model
+    // (resumed onto an allowlist-excluded model, or a refusal fallback)
+    // reports a currentValue that isn't selectable, and a client
+    // round-tripping it must not get "Invalid value". It flows through the
+    // normal apply path below — re-asserting an already-current value is
+    // harmless and can repair SDK drift.
+    if (!validValue && option.currentValue === params.value) {
+      validValue = { value: params.value, name: params.value };
+    }
+
     // For model options, fall back to resolveModelPreference when the exact
     // value doesn't match.  This lets callers use human-friendly aliases like
     // "opus" or "sonnet" instead of full model IDs like "claude-opus-4-6".
@@ -3802,11 +3813,45 @@ export class ClaudeAcpAgent {
       initializationResult.models,
       settingsManager,
       this.logger,
+      creationOpts.resume !== undefined,
     );
 
     // Gate `auto` (and future model-specific modes) on the resolved model's
     // `ModelInfo`. See `buildAvailableModes` for the canonical SDK signal.
-    const currentModelInfo = allowedModels.find((m) => m.value === models.currentModelId);
+    // A resumed session can be running a model outside the `availableModels`
+    // allowlist (currentModelId is then the verbatim live id, see
+    // `matchResumedModel`); its capabilities are still known to the SDK's
+    // unfiltered list, so fall back to that before treating the model as
+    // unknown — otherwise auto mode would be spuriously clamped and the
+    // Fast-mode/Effort options hidden for a model that supports them.
+    const allowlistedModelInfo = allowedModels.find((m) => m.value === models.currentModelId);
+    const fallbackModelInfo = allowlistedModelInfo
+      ? undefined
+      : (resolveModelPreference(initializationResult.models, models.currentModelId) ?? undefined);
+    const currentModelInfo = allowlistedModelInfo ?? fallbackModelInfo;
+    // Register the fallback-resolved capabilities under the verbatim live id
+    // so every modelInfos consumer (buildConfigOptions' effort lookup, later
+    // rebuilds via session.modelInfos) agrees with the gating below. The
+    // picker options themselves come from `models.availableModels`, so this
+    // adds no selectable entry. Capability flags only: the fuzzy-matched
+    // sibling's resolvedModel/displayName/description can describe a
+    // different context lane and would poison later resolvedModel matching
+    // (syncModelAfterRefusalFallback) and context-window inference
+    // (applyConfigOptionValue) if they traveled under this id.
+    const modelInfos = fallbackModelInfo
+      ? [
+          ...allowedModels,
+          {
+            value: models.currentModelId,
+            displayName: models.currentModelId,
+            description: "",
+            supportsAutoMode: fallbackModelInfo.supportsAutoMode,
+            supportsFastMode: fallbackModelInfo.supportsFastMode,
+            supportsEffort: fallbackModelInfo.supportsEffort,
+            supportedEffortLevels: fallbackModelInfo.supportedEffortLevels,
+          },
+        ]
+      : allowedModels;
     const availableModes = buildAvailableModes(currentModelInfo);
 
     // Clamp `permissionMode` if the resolved session does not offer it. The
@@ -3872,7 +3917,7 @@ export class ClaudeAcpAgent {
     const configOptions = buildConfigOptions(
       modes,
       models,
-      allowedModels,
+      modelInfos,
       settingsManager.getSettings().effortLevel,
       agents,
       currentAgent,
@@ -3905,7 +3950,7 @@ export class ClaudeAcpAgent {
       },
       modes,
       models,
-      modelInfos: allowedModels,
+      modelInfos,
       configOptions,
       agents,
       currentAgent,
@@ -3913,10 +3958,15 @@ export class ClaudeAcpAgent {
       abortController,
       emitRawSDKMessages: sessionMeta?.claudeCode?.emitRawSDKMessages ?? false,
       contextWindowSize:
+        // Deliberately keyed to the allowlisted entry: a fallback-resolved
+        // sibling's displayName/description can describe a different context
+        // lane than the verbatim live id (e.g. an "opus[1m]" row matched for
+        // a bare 200k id), so on the fallback path only the id itself is a
+        // trustworthy window signal.
         inferContextWindowFromModel(
           models.currentModelId,
-          currentModelInfo?.displayName,
+          allowlistedModelInfo?.displayName,
-          currentModelInfo?.description,
+          allowlistedModelInfo?.description,
         ) ?? DEFAULT_CONTEXT_WINDOW,
       taskState,
       toolUseCache: {},
@@ -4334,15 +4384,31 @@ export function buildConfigOptions(
 // but the SDK model list uses IDs like "claude-opus-4-6-1m".
 const MODEL_CONTEXT_HINT_PATTERN = /\[(\d+m)\]$/i;
 
+// The id-suffix spelling of a context hint ("-1m" in "claude-opus-4-6-1m");
+// shared by the strip and canonicalize helpers below so the two can't drift.
+const CONTEXT_HINT_SUFFIX_PATTERN = /-(\d+m)$/i;
+
+/** Remove context-window hints — the display form "[1m]" and the SDK id
+ *  suffix form "-1m" — from a model string. Those digits describe context
+ *  size, not model identity or generation version. */
+function stripContextHints(s: string): string {
+  return s.replace(/\[\d+m\]/gi, "").replace(CONTEXT_HINT_SUFFIX_PATTERN, "");
+}
+
+/** Canonicalize a model id for exact comparison: trimmed, lowercased, with
+ *  the id-suffix hint spelling unified to the bracket form ("-1m" → "[1m]").
+ *  The hint itself is kept — bare and 1M ids must stay distinct. */
+function canonicalizeModelId(s: string): string {
+  return s.trim().toLowerCase().replace(CONTEXT_HINT_SUFFIX_PATTERN, "[$1]");
+}
+
 // Captures a model family version: `4-6`/`4.7` for dated generations, or a
 // bare `5` for single-number ones like "Sonnet 5". Used to keep a pinned
 // `claude-opus-4-6` from matching the `opus` alias once it points at 4.7.
 const MODEL_FAMILY_VERSION_PATTERN = /\b(\d+)(?:[-.](\d+))?\b/;
 
 function extractModelFamilyVersion(s: string): string | null {
-  // Strip "[1m]"-style context hints first — that digit is context window
+  const match = stripContextHints(s).match(MODEL_FAMILY_VERSION_PATTERN);
-  // size, not a model generation version.
-  const match = s.replace(/\[\d+m\]/gi, "").match(MODEL_FAMILY_VERSION_PATTERN);
   if (!match) return null;
   return match[2] ? `${match[1]}.${match[2]}` : match[1];
 }
@@ -4408,13 +4474,18 @@ export function resolveModelPreference(models: ModelInfo[], preference: string):
   // Exact match on the alias's canonical resolved id (e.g. a pinned
   // "claude-sonnet-5" against the "sonnet" row's `resolvedModel`). SDK-
   // reported and unambiguous, so it's tried before the fuzzier tiers below.
-  // "default" is skipped first since it shares a resolvedModel with
+  // Compared on the canonical hint spelling so a "-1m"-suffix pin matches a
-  // whichever alias the CLI currently recommends — a specific pin should
+  // "[1m]"-spelled resolvedModel instead of falling into the substring tier
-  // land on that named alias, not "default".
+  // (which would land on the bare 200k sibling). "default" is skipped first
+  // since it shares a resolvedModel with whichever alias the CLI currently
+  // recommends — a specific pin should land on that named alias, not
+  // "default".
+  const canonicalPreference = canonicalizeModelId(trimmed);
+  const matchesResolved = (model: ModelInfo) =>
+    model.resolvedModel != null && canonicalizeModelId(model.resolvedModel) === canonicalPreference;
   const resolvedMatch =
-    models.find(
+    models.find((model) => model.value !== "default" && matchesResolved(model)) ??
-      (model) => model.value !== "default" && model.resolvedModel?.toLowerCase() === lower,
+    models.find(matchesResolved);
-    ) ?? models.find((model) => model.resolvedModel?.toLowerCase() === lower);
   if (resolvedMatch) return resolvedMatch;
 
   // Substring match
@@ -4444,6 +4515,61 @@ export function resolveModelPreference(models: ModelInfo[], preference: string):
   return bestMatch;
 }
 
+/** Map the live model reported by a resumed session onto the picker's model
+ *  list. The CLI restores a resumed session's model from the transcript's
+ *  last assistant message, which records the concrete API id (e.g.
+ *  "claude-opus-4-6") with any "[1m]" context hint dropped. Tiers, in order:
+ *  1. Exact match with the Default entry's resolution — when a named alias
+ *     shares Default's resolvedModel verbatim, the live id can't tell the
+ *     two apart, and a never-customized session should stay on Default.
+ *  2. Exact resolvedModel match on a named row. Checked before the
+ *     hint-stripped Default comparison so a live "claude-sonnet-5[1m]" lands
+ *     on the "sonnet[1m]" row rather than a Default that resolves to the
+ *     bare "claude-sonnet-5" — the two rows differ in context window, which
+ *     drives `contextWindowSize` and capability gating downstream.
+ *  3. Hint-stripped match with Default's resolution — a session that never
+ *     left the default resumes as the bare transcript id, and shouldn't show
+ *     a concrete picker entry.
+ *  4. `resolveModelPreference` over the picker entries.
+ *  5. A model with no picker counterpart (e.g. excluded by an
+ *     `availableModels` allowlist) is tracked verbatim, mirroring
+ *     `syncModelAfterRefusalFallback`: the picker shows no selection, but the
+ *     model-dependent bookkeeping stays truthful to what the SDK is running. */
+export function matchResumedModel(models: ModelInfo[], liveModel: string): ModelInfo {
+  const live = canonicalizeModelId(liveModel);
+  const defaultEntry = models.find((m) => m.value === "default");
+  const defaultResolved = defaultEntry?.resolvedModel
+    ? canonicalizeModelId(defaultEntry.resolvedModel)
+    : undefined;
+
+  if (defaultEntry && defaultResolved === live) {
+    return defaultEntry;
+  }
+
+  // No default-row exclusion needed: a default row matching `live` exactly
+  // already returned at the tier above.
+  const exactMatch = models.find(
+    (m) => m.resolvedModel && canonicalizeModelId(m.resolvedModel) === live,
+  );
+  if (exactMatch) return exactMatch;
+
+  if (
+    defaultEntry &&
+    defaultResolved &&
+    stripContextHints(defaultResolved) === stripContextHints(live)
+  ) {
+    return defaultEntry;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    resolveModelPreference(models, liveModel) ?? {
+      value: liveModel,
+      displayName: liveModel,
+      description: "",
+    }
+  );
+}
+
 function resolveSettingsModel(
   models: ModelInfo[],
   settingsModel: unknown,
@@ -4536,12 +4662,32 @@ export function applyAvailableModelsAllowlist(
   return result;
 }
 
+/** Read the model a resumed session is actually running (via the
+ *  `getContextUsage` control request — the same source `/context` prints) and
+ *  map it onto the picker. Best-effort: a control-request failure is logged
+ *  and returns null so callers keep their current choice; failing the whole
+ *  session/load over an unreadable report would be worse. */
+async function readResumedLiveModel(
+  query: Query,
+  models: ModelInfo[],
+  logger: Logger,
+): Promise<ModelInfo | null> {
+  try {
+    const liveModel = (await query.getContextUsage()).model;
+    return liveModel ? matchResumedModel(models, liveModel) : null;
+  } catch (error) {
+    logger.error("Failed to read the resumed session's live model:", error);
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
 async function getAvailableModels(
   query: Query,
   models: ModelInfo[],
   sdkModels: ModelInfo[],
   settingsManager: SettingsManager,
   logger: Logger,
+  isResumedSession: boolean,
 ): Promise<SessionModelState> {
   const settings = settingsManager.getSettings();
 
@@ -4551,7 +4697,8 @@ async function getAvailableModels(
   // Model priority (highest to lowest):
   // 1. ANTHROPIC_MODEL environment variable
   // 2. settings.model (user configuration)
-  // 3. models[0] (default first model)
+  // 3. the resumed session's live model (resumed sessions only)
+  // 4. models[0] (default first model)
   if (process.env.ANTHROPIC_MODEL) {
     const match = resolveModelPreference(models, process.env.ANTHROPIC_MODEL);
     if (match) {
@@ -4566,22 +4713,49 @@ async function getAvailableModels(
     }
   }
 
+  // A resumed session restores the model it was previously running (the CLI
+  // re-reads it from the transcript), so without an env/settings override the
+  // freshly-computed default above can disagree with what the session actually
+  // runs — session/load then reports a model the session isn't using (issue
+  // #845). Ask the CLI for the live model and reflect it. No `setModel` here:
+  // the SDK is already running this model, and pushing a picker alias back
+  // (e.g. "opus[1m]") could change the live model rather than describe it.
+  if (resolvedFromInput === undefined && isResumedSession) {
+    currentModel = (await readResumedLiveModel(query, models, logger)) ?? currentModel;
+  }
+
   // Skip the setModel round-trip when we can prove the SDK has already landed
   // on the same model. Two cases qualify:
-  //  (a) No override applied — currentModel stayed at models[0]; the SDK is on
+  //  (a) No override applied — currentModel is the SDK's own default (or, on
-  //      its own default and we have nothing to sync.
+  //      resume, the live model read back from the SDK above); nothing to sync.
   //  (b) The resolver returned the user's input verbatim AND that value exists
   //      in the SDK's original model list — meaning no fuzzy match or
   //      allowlist rewrite was involved, and the SDK (which reads the same
   //      ANTHROPIC_MODEL / settings.json) will have arrived at the same entry.
+  //      This only holds for fresh sessions: a resumed session lands on the
+  //      transcript's model regardless of env/settings, so the override must
+  //      be re-asserted to keep the reported model truthful.
   // Anything else (fuzzy match, allowlist-synthesized value, alias) gets a
   // setModel call so we don't drift from the user's intended pin.
   const sdkSawSameValue = sdkModels.some((m) => m.value === currentModel.value);
   const skipSetModel =
     resolvedFromInput === undefined ||
-    (currentModel.value === resolvedFromInput && sdkSawSameValue);
+    (!isResumedSession && currentModel.value === resolvedFromInput && sdkSawSameValue);
   if (!skipSetModel) {
-    await query.setModel(currentModel.value);
+    try {
+      await query.setModel(currentModel.value);
+    } catch (error) {
+      // On a fresh session the pin is a defining option — fail loudly. A
+      // resumed session already runs fine on the transcript's model, so
+      // failing the whole session/load over the re-assert would be worse
+      // than loading with the pin unapplied (mirrors the setPermissionMode
+      // containment in createSession). The SDK then stayed on the
+      // transcript's model, so read that back rather than reporting the
+      // pin the session isn't running.
+      if (!isResumedSession) throw error;
+      logger.error(`Failed to re-assert model "${currentModel.value}" on resume:`, error);
+      currentModel = (await readResumedLiveModel(query, models, logger)) ?? currentModel;
+    }
   }
 
   return {

src/tests/model-resolution.test.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
 import { randomUUID } from "crypto";
 import { query } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";
 import type { ModelInfo } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";
-import { resolveModelPreference, applyAvailableModelsAllowlist } from "../acp-agent.js";
+import {
+  resolveModelPreference,
+  applyAvailableModelsAllowlist,
+  matchResumedModel,
+} from "../acp-agent.js";
 
 // Mirrors a real `supportedModels()` response: alias rows carry
 // `resolvedModel`, and "Sonnet 5" has no `major.minor` dot unlike older
@@ -68,6 +72,105 @@ describe("resolveModelPreference - resolvedModel matching", () => {
   it("returns null for a preference that matches nothing", () => {
     expect(resolveModelPreference(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-gpt-99")).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  it("matches a '-1m' id-suffix preference against a '[1m]'-spelled resolvedModel", () => {
+    // Without hint canonicalization the exact tier misses and the substring
+    // tier lands on the bare 200k sibling, silently downgrading a 1M pin.
+    const models: ModelInfo[] = [
+      {
+        value: "sonnet",
+        resolvedModel: "claude-sonnet-5",
+        displayName: "Sonnet",
+        description: "Sonnet 5 · Efficient for routine tasks",
+      },
+      {
+        value: "sonnet[1m]",
+        resolvedModel: "claude-sonnet-5[1m]",
+        displayName: "Sonnet",
+        description: "Sonnet 5 with 1M context",
+      },
+    ];
+    expect(resolveModelPreference(models, "claude-sonnet-5-1m")?.value).toBe("sonnet[1m]");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("matchResumedModel", () => {
+  // Environment shape from issue #845: the default resolves to Sonnet, the
+  // session was explicitly switched to Opus before the process restart.
+  const SONNET_DEFAULT_MODELS: ModelInfo[] = [
+    {
+      value: "default",
+      resolvedModel: "claude-sonnet-5",
+      displayName: "Default (recommended)",
+      description: "Use the default model (currently Sonnet 5)",
+    },
+    {
+      value: "opus",
+      resolvedModel: "claude-opus-4-6[1m]",
+      displayName: "Opus",
+      description: "Opus 4.6 · Most capable for complex work",
+    },
+    {
+      value: "sonnet",
+      resolvedModel: "claude-sonnet-5",
+      displayName: "Sonnet",
+      description: "Sonnet 5 · Efficient for routine tasks",
+    },
+    {
+      value: "sonnet[1m]",
+      resolvedModel: "claude-sonnet-5[1m]",
+      displayName: "Sonnet",
+      description: "Sonnet 5 with 1M context",
+    },
+  ];
+
+  it("maps an explicitly-switched session's live model to its picker alias", () => {
+    expect(matchResumedModel(SONNET_DEFAULT_MODELS, "claude-opus-4-6").value).toBe("opus");
+    expect(matchResumedModel(SONNET_DEFAULT_MODELS, "claude-opus-4-6[1m]").value).toBe("opus");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps Default selected when the live model is what Default resolves to", () => {
+    expect(matchResumedModel(SONNET_DEFAULT_MODELS, "claude-sonnet-5").value).toBe("default");
+  });
+
+  it("prefers an exact named-row resolvedModel match over the hint-stripped Default tier", () => {
+    // "claude-sonnet-5[1m]" differs from Default's "claude-sonnet-5" only by
+    // the context hint; stripping both would misreport the explicit 1M row as
+    // Default (and infer the wrong context window downstream). Both hint
+    // spellings must land on the row regardless of which one it uses.
+    expect(matchResumedModel(SONNET_DEFAULT_MODELS, "claude-sonnet-5[1m]").value).toBe(
+      "sonnet[1m]",
+    );
+    expect(matchResumedModel(SONNET_DEFAULT_MODELS, "claude-sonnet-5-1m").value).toBe("sonnet[1m]");
+  });
+
+  it("normalizes the '-1m' id-suffix hint form and casing against Default's resolution", () => {
+    expect(matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-opus-4-8-1m").value).toBe("default");
+    expect(matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "Claude-Opus-4-8[1M]").value).toBe("default");
+  });
+
+  it("prefers Default over a named row sharing the identical resolvedModel", () => {
+    // "opus[1m]" carries the same resolvedModel as Default; the live id can't
+    // tell the two apart, so a never-customized session stays on Default.
+    expect(matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-opus-4-8[1m]").value).toBe("default");
+  });
+
+  it("ignores '[1m]' context hints when comparing against Default's resolution", () => {
+    // The transcript-restored model drops the "[1m]" context hint, so a
+    // session that never left the 1M-context default resumes as the bare id.
+    expect(matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-opus-4-8").value).toBe("default");
+  });
+
+  it("still resolves non-default live models against the picker entries", () => {
+    expect(matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-sonnet-5").value).toBe("sonnet");
+    expect(matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001").value).toBe("haiku");
+  });
+
+  it("tracks a live model with no picker counterpart verbatim", () => {
+    const result = matchResumedModel(LIVE_SHAPED_MODELS, "claude-gpt-99");
+    expect(result.value).toBe("claude-gpt-99");
+    expect(result.displayName).toBe("claude-gpt-99");
+  });
 });
 
 describe("applyAvailableModelsAllowlist - resolvedModel matching", () => {

src/tests/session-config-options.test.ts

@@ -819,6 +819,29 @@ describe("session config options", () => {
       expect(setModelSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith("claude-sonnet-4-6");
     });
 
+    // A session can be running a model with no picker entry (resumed onto a
+    // model excluded by the availableModels allowlist, or a refusal
+    // fallback); its verbatim id is then the option's currentValue. A client
+    // round-tripping that reported value must not get "Invalid value".
+    it("accepts the reported currentValue even when it has no options entry", async () => {
+      const session = (agent as unknown as { sessions: Record<string, any> }).sessions[SESSION_ID];
+      session.models = { ...session.models, currentModelId: "claude-offlist-9" };
+      session.configOptions = session.configOptions.map((o: { id: string }) =>
+        o.id === "model" ? { ...o, currentValue: "claude-offlist-9" } : o,
+      );
+
+      const response = await agent.setSessionConfigOption({
+        sessionId: SESSION_ID,
+        configId: "model",
+        value: "claude-offlist-9",
+      });
+
+      expect(setModelSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith("claude-offlist-9");
+      expect(response.configOptions?.find((o) => o.id === "model")?.currentValue).toBe(
+        "claude-offlist-9",
+      );
+    });
+
     it("setSessionMode also syncs configOptions", async () => {
       await agent.setSessionMode({ sessionId: SESSION_ID, modeId: "plan" });
 

src/tests/session-load.test.ts

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ import { AcpClient, ClaudeAcpAgent } from "../acp-agent.js";
 import { Pushable } from "../utils.js";
 import type { SDKUserMessage } from "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk";
 
-function createMockClient(): AcpClient {
+function createMockClient(
+  sessionUpdate: (notification: SessionNotification) => Promise<void> = async () => {},
+): AcpClient {
   return {
-    sessionUpdate: async (_notification: SessionNotification) => {},
+    sessionUpdate,
     requestPermission: async () => ({ outcome: { outcome: "cancelled" } }),
     readTextFile: async () => ({ content: "" }),
     writeTextFile: async () => ({}),
@@ -330,4 +332,52 @@ describe.skipIf(!process.env.RUN_INTEGRATION_TESTS)("session load/resume lifecyc
     }
     expect(recordedUserChunks.some((c) => c.includes("hi"))).toBe(true);
   }, 60000);
+
+  // Regression test for https://github.com/agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp/issues/845
+  // On resume the CLI restores the model the session's transcript was running,
+  // so loadSession must report that live model instead of recomputing the
+  // env/settings/default choice from scratch. Haiku is used because no account
+  // resolves its default there, so the restored model provably differs from
+  // the freshly-computed default. Requires no ANTHROPIC_MODEL env var and no
+  // "model" key in settings.json (either would pin the model on resume and
+  // mask the reconciliation this test covers).
+  it("ACP: loadSession reports the model the resumed session is actually running", async () => {
+    const agentChunks: string[] = [];
+    const client = createMockClient(async (notification) => {
+      if (notification.update.sessionUpdate === "agent_message_chunk") {
+        const content = notification.update.content;
+        if (content.type === "text") agentChunks.push(content.text);
+      }
+    });
+
+    const modelOf = (opts: { id: string; currentValue?: unknown }[] | null | undefined) =>
+      opts?.find((o) => o.id === "model")?.currentValue;
+
+    const agent = new ClaudeAcpAgent(client);
+    try {
+      const cwd = process.cwd();
+      const { sessionId, configOptions } = await agent.newSession({ cwd, mcpServers: [] });
+      expect(modelOf(configOptions)).not.toBe("haiku");
+
+      await agent.setSessionConfigOption({ sessionId, configId: "model", value: "haiku" });
+      // A real turn on Haiku, so the transcript's last assistant message —
+      // which is what the CLI restores the model from — records it.
+      await agent.prompt({
+        sessionId,
+        prompt: [{ type: "text", text: "Reply with only the word OK" }],
+      });
+      await agent.closeSession({ sessionId });
+
+      const loadResp = await agent.loadSession({ sessionId, cwd, mcpServers: [] });
+      expect(modelOf(loadResp.configOptions)).toBe("haiku");
+
+      // And the reported option agrees with the live session (`/context`).
+      agentChunks.length = 0;
+      await agent.prompt({ sessionId, prompt: [{ type: "text", text: "/context" }] });
+      const liveModel = agentChunks.join("\n").match(/\*\*Model:\*\*\s*(\S+)/)?.[1];
+      expect(liveModel).toContain("haiku");
+    } finally {
+      await agent.dispose();
+    }
+  }, 120000);
 });