- OpenAI: gpt-6-astra
- Google: gemini-3.8-flash and gemini-3.5-flash-lite
- Anthropic: claude-opus-5 and claude-fable-5-1
- models taken out of the picker stay valid through LEGACY_MODELS, so configs
that name them run without an unknown-model warning
- refresh the Anthropic lineup to the current GA set (Fable 5, Opus 4.8,
Sonnet 5, Opus 4.7, Haiku 4.5)
- extend the effort gate to single-number Claude 5 IDs (claude-sonnet-5,
claude-fable-5) so their effort setting is honored
Interactive selections and flag defaults overrode TRADINGAGENTS_* env vars.
Rule: an explicit env value or CLI flag wins; otherwise the env-applied
default is kept.
- Research depth: skip the prompt when both round-count env vars are set, and
stop overwriting them (#977).
- Checkpoint: --checkpoint/--no-checkpoint is tri-state; omitting it keeps
TRADINGAGENTS_CHECKPOINT_ENABLED (#976).
- Docker ollama: use TRADINGAGENTS_LLM_PROVIDER + OLLAMA_BASE_URL, not a bare
LLM_PROVIDER the overlay never reads (#975).
- Reasoning/thinking knobs: settable via env; the prompt is skipped when set.
- Effort gating: forward effort only to models that accept it (Anthropic
Opus 4.5+/Sonnet 4.6+, OpenAI reasoning models); drop it elsewhere.
- Boolean env values: raise a named error on invalid input instead of
silently becoming False.
Haiku 4.5 rejects the effort parameter with 400. AnthropicClient.get_llm()
now drops effort when the model isn't in the supported set (Opus 4.5+,
Sonnet 4.5+, mythos-preview). Forward-compat regex catches future
claude-{opus,sonnet}-X-Y releases automatically; Haiku and unknown
models stay excluded conservatively.
14 tests cover Haiku exclusion, current Opus/Sonnet inclusion, future-
version inheritance via pattern, mythos-preview, unknown-default
exclusion, and other passthrough kwargs surviving the effort-skip path.
