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Closes #1132

What

Provider routes: a named selection over concrete providers - ordered, round-robin, or weighted, the model-route selection modes at provider level - declared once and then referenced from any route as an ordinary leaf, <provider-route>/<model>. Drew's directive: "make synthetic providers a concept which allow ordered round-robin weighted same as models except provider level."

Renamed 2026-10-31 (Drew): this concept was filed and first implemented as "synthetic providers"; it is now provider routes - experimental.provider_routes - for symmetry with model_routes (routes, at provider level). The second commit on this branch is the rename; terminology only, no behavior change.

"experimental": {
  "provider_routes": {
    "openai-plan": { "providers": ["openai.alternate", "openai"], "selection": "ordered" }
  }
}

A pool then seats openai-plan/gpt-6.1-terra (or -sol, -luna, ...) and resolution expands it, per model, into a group node over the members' concrete leaves for that model. The group runs through the same runtime walk as a nested route - selection, tiered weights (#1124), stickiness, health, budgets, gates - so there is no second selection engine.

How it works

• Grammar. New block experimental.provider_routes: a record keyed by provider route id (same id pattern as route ids). An entry is providers (member ids, in order), optional selection (default ordered), optional weights keyed by member provider id (unset = 1). The leaf reference is the ordinary target form - string ("openai-plan/gpt-6.1-terra", #variant included) or object - so a pool weights a provider route leaf by the target as written.
• Expansion. expand() resolves a provider route target by visiting a route shaped like the provider route for the one matched model: member targets for that exact model id, the provider route's selection, weights re-keyed <member>/<model>, autonomy inherited from the referencing route. All leaf machinery applies unchanged (variant producibility incl. the suffixed-id rule, dedup, ceilings, budgets, cache format); a target-level gate attaches to the group child, as for a nested route. A glob model fans out into one group per matched model - a group never mixes models. Retargeting (router: antigravity-agy / antigravity-ls leaves are never selected by routes (silent zero-expansion) #985/fix(ui,gui-extensions): bound remote JSON fetches in theme loader and whats-new (#1061) #1062) treats a provider route reference's members as the targeted providers, and keeps the provider route id itself out of the definitions map so it cannot shadow the provider route.
• Validation (configuredProviderRoutes, at config load; every drop warns, never silent, per fix(core): named route windows resolve silently — an unknown or unparseable window name drops the gate/rule with no diagnostic (PR #649) #734's rule): an id naming a concrete provider, opencode-route, or a configured route is dropped - concrete providers always win a reference, and a route's name would make decision records ambiguous. Members resolve concrete-first; a member naming no concrete provider that is another provider route or opencode-route is dropped (no nesting in v1); duplicates drop; an unknown member is kept with a warning and contributes no leaves; a provider route left with no members is dropped.
• Semantics per mode. Ordered: first ready member, failover in member order. Round-robin: per-session rotation with tiered weights (feat(core): round-robin weights are priority tiers, not shares #1124) - a heavier member is the top tier while ready. Weighted: per-session weighted draw, sticky per session. A provider route group's selection and weights are honored only when the referencing route uses rules-based autonomy: a fixed route sees the group as ordered with unit weights, exactly how a fixed route's own selection degrades.
• Member eligibility. A member contributes a leaf only when its catalog offers the model (globs match per member) and it can produce the requested variant - the existing leaf rule; otherwise it is skipped for that dispatch, never an error.
• Health. Resolution yields concrete leaves, so the per-target bench ladder, credential benching, quota demotion, holds, and budgets are all keyed on the concrete provider/model/credential as today. A benched or demoted member is simply absent from (or sunk within) the group's ready set, and fall-through follows the group's own mode - including the tier rule: a demoted member sinks below every live tier inside a round-robin provider route, and still serves as last resort.
• Decision records. The group node carries the provider route id (a providerRoute marker on the node). Its walk decision is recorded under the provider route id, with the concrete member leaves as candidates and the serving member as chosen; the parent route's decision labels the group openai-plan/gpt-6.1-terra (a plain group would read opencode-route/...). model-route-review's summarize already tolerates route ids outside the configured map ("pools seen only in history"), so provider route ids render there unchanged.
• Scope. Server-side only. The route proxy (developing-today/code bin/opencode-route-proxy.mjs) resolves routes itself from the config file - it shares no code with this package - so proxy-served doors do not gain provider routes here; that follow-up belongs to the code repo and is named in feat(routes): provider routes — provider-level pools with ordered/round-robin/weighted selection #1132.

Tests

• packages/core: the full model-route family plus the config and governance suites - 470 tests, 0 failures. Typecheck (tsgo -b tsconfig.json tsconfig.tests.json) clean.
• New coverage (19 tests): expansion shape and member order; group weights plus parent weighting by the target as written; member skipped for a missing model; member skipped for an unproducible variant; glob fan-out (one group per model, never mixed); fixed-autonomy degradation; concrete-provider shadowing at expansion; ordered fall-through; round-robin rotation; tiered round-robin inside a provider route; weighted draws and stickiness (seeded random); a quota-demoted member ordered last (ordered group) and below the live tier (round-robin group); decision records showing the group decision under the provider route id and the parent label; configuredProviderRoutes validation (collisions, nesting, duplicates, unknown members, concrete-first member resolution).

Follow-up (config change, not this PR)

Once this deploys, the laptop config (~/code/.opencode/opencode.jsonc) collapses the three per-model pools into the one provider route:

• Delete the openai-plan-terra, openai-plan-sol, and openai-plan-luna route definitions (each currently an ordered [openai.alternate/<model>, openai/<model>] pair) and their seatings in the terra-plan / sol-plan / luna-plan pools.
• Add:

"experimental": {
  "provider_routes": {
    "openai-plan": { "providers": ["openai.alternate", "openai"], "selection": "ordered" }
  }
}

• Seat openai-plan/gpt-6.1-terra in terra-plan, openai-plan/gpt-6.1-sol in sol-plan (keeping its current pool weight 3), and openai-plan/gpt-6.1-luna in luna-plan (keeping its current pool weight 2.5) - the same seats and weights the pools hold today, with the alternate-first order defined once.

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• New Features
  • Added named provider routes that let you group concrete providers and select among them using ordered, round-robin, or weighted selection.
  • Provider routes can be used with model pools; matching models are expanded across eligible providers, with selection and weights applied.
  • Decision records identify the provider route and selected model, while health tracking remains associated with the concrete provider, model, and credential.
  • Invalid or conflicting route definitions are filtered, and unknown provider members generate warnings.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on configuring provider routes, member eligibility, selection modes, and how routes appear in decision records and pool labels.

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The PR adds configurable provider-route groups with ordered, round-robin, or weighted selection. Route expansion creates groups for matching models and eligible concrete providers. Retargeting includes transformed models from route members, and decision records identify provider-route groups.

Changes: Provider-route groups

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and validation packages/schema/src/config/model-routes.ts, packages/schema/src/config/experimental.ts, packages/core/src/model-route.ts, packages/core/src/config/plugin/model-routes.ts, packages/core/test/model-routes-expand.test.ts	Adds the provider_routes schema and runtime type. Configuration loading applies defaults, filters duplicate and reserved members, warns about unknown members, and drops conflicting route IDs or routes without remaining members.
Expansion and retargeting packages/core/src/config/plugin/model-routes.ts, packages/core/test/model-routes-expand.test.ts	Provider and model transforms pass configured provider routes into expansion and retargeting. Expansion creates per-model groups from eligible member providers, with configured selection and weights. Retargeting includes member providers when merging transformed models.
Decision records and documentation packages/core/src/model-route.ts, packages/core/test/model-route.test.ts, packages/core/src/plugin/skill/routing-config.md	Provider-route decision labels identify the route and served model. Tests cover group selection and decision records. Documentation describes configuration, selection modes, and member eligibility.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Config as ConfigExperimental
  participant Validator as configuredProviderRoutes
  participant Expander as expand
  participant Group as Provider-route group
  participant Log as ModelRouteLog
  Config->>Validator: provider_routes declarations
  Validator->>Expander: validated provider-route map
  Expander->>Group: per-model group with eligible member leaves
  Group->>Log: decision with candidates and chosen member

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Possibly related PRs

• developing-today/opencode#569: Introduces matchingModels, which provider-route expansion uses to find matching models.
• developing-today/opencode#883: Hardens weight lookup used by provider-route selection.
• developing-today/opencode#1113: Changes quota state scoped to serving credentials, which affects quota demotion of provider-route members.

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An invalid provider-route member can survive retargeting and create a nested route. Fix the reserved-member check before merging; the repeated warnings are less consequential.

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Out of Scope Changes check		Changed areas and their link to #1132: - packages/core/src/config/plugin/model-routes.ts: provider-route config reader, validation with warnings, expansion into per-model groups, and retargeting ove…

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• [#1132] Define once, reference from any route: experimental.provider_routes (schema ProviderRoutes) is parsed by configuredProviderRoutes. expand() resolves <provider-route>/<model> targets into per-model group nodes. Met per the summary.
• [#1132] Ordered, round-robin with tiered weights, and weighted selection: the group reuses the nested-route walk with its selection and weights. Tests cover ordered fall-through, round-robin rotation, tiered round-robin, and seeded weighted draws with stickiness.
• [#1132] Skip members that lack the model or variant: the existing leaf rule applies per member. Tests cover a missing model and an unproducible variant.
• [#1132] Benched or demoted members fall through: resolution yields concrete leaves, so health stays keyed per concrete target. Tests cover a quota-demoted member ordered last (ordered group) and below the live tier (round-robin group).
• [#1132] Collisions rejected at load with a warning; concrete provider keeps the reference: configuredProviderRoutes drops IDs naming a concrete provider, opencode-route, or a configured route. Collision tests are listed.
• [#1132] No nesting in v1: members naming a provider route or opencode-route are dropped with a warning. Tests cover nesting rejection.
• [#1132] Decision records: the group node carries providerRoute; the walk decision is recorded under the provider route ID; the parent label reads <route>/<model>. Tests cover this.
• [#1132] Route proxy support is excluded by the issue and is not in this PR.

Naming deviation: #1132 specifies experimental.synthetic_providers and SyntheticProvider. The PR uses experimental.provider_routes and ProviderRoute. The PR states that the issue author renamed the concept on 2026-10-31 and that the rename is terminology only. This is a documented terminology change, not an unmet requirement. The grammar, validation, and mode semantics otherwise match the issue design.

Evidence limits: test counts and results come from the PR description. Test coverage comes from the summary of test file changes. The source test bodies were not read, and the tests were not run during this review. The issue cites tiered weights as #1122 and the PR cites #1124. This does not change any requirement.

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Changed areas and their link to #1132:

• packages/core/src/config/plugin/model-routes.ts: provider-route config reader, validation with warnings, expansion into per-model groups, and retargeting over provider-route members. Implements #1132 grammar, validation, and expansion. The retargeting extension treats provider-route members as targeted providers, which follows from the reference form.
• packages/core/src/model-route.ts: ProviderRoute type, optional Node.providerRoute, and the <route>/<model> decision label. Implements the #1132 decision-record criterion. Other nested groups keep the opencode-route/<id> label, so existing behavior is unchanged.
• packages/schema/src/config/model-routes.ts and experimental.ts: schema for the new block. Implements the #1132 grammar.
• packages/core/src/plugin/skill/routing-config.md: documentation for the new block. Supporting documentation for the feature.
• packages/core/test/model-route.test.ts and model-routes-expand.test.ts: tests for the criteria in #1132. Supporting tests.
• Second commit (rename to provider routes): terminology change within the same feature.

The route proxy in developing-today/code is not changed, as #1132 requires. The laptop config consolidation is described as a separate follow-up and is not part of the diff.

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Expand synthetic members in model governance as well

When a subagent selects a route containing a synthetic provider, runtime expansion now resolves it to concrete members, but routeTargets() in packages/core/src/session/model-governance.ts still judges the literal synthetic reference because that provider is absent from the catalog. For example, a parent policy excluding openai/* will permit a route targeting openai-plan/m even when its serving member is openai/m, bypassing the exclusion enforced by assertAllowed(). Conversely, an allowlist containing the concrete members rejects the same route. Update governance expansion alongside runtime expansion so child creation and model switching check the concrete providers that can actually serve.

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Preserve synthetic providers during config normalization

For configuration loaded through Config, adding this schema field does not make synthetic providers available: packages/core/src/config.ts normalizes the input before decoding it, and normalizeExperimental() in packages/core/src/config/normalize.ts builds a fresh object from explicitly supported fields without copying synthetic_providers. The new block is therefore silently discarded, configuredSynthetics() receives no definitions, and synthetic targets contribute no leaves—making a route unavailable when they are its only targets, or silently removing them from mixed routes. Add normalization support for this block so the documented configuration reaches the routing plugin.

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Reject wildcard members before expanding synthetic providers

If a synthetic lists both a concrete provider and "*", such as providers: ["openai", "*"], validation retains the wildcard with a warning that it contributes no leaves. Once the concrete member supplies a matching model, however, this mapping turns the wildcard into an ordinary door-set target, and the existing ref.providerID === "*" branch expands it across every catalog provider offering that model. The synthetic can consequently dispatch to providers outside its concrete membership, contrary to the validation warning and documented concrete-only semantics. Reject wildcard members or ensure synthetic member expansion cannot invoke door-set expansion.

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Addressed by #1454: provider-route validation now drops * members before expansion, with a regression proving providers: ["openai", "*"] cannot expand beyond openai.

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packages/core/src/config/plugin/model-routes.ts: 1

191-196: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Build providerRoutes once, before the route-model loop.

configuredProviderRoutes runs once for each route model, inside the loop at lines 191-195. Its inputs do not change between iterations. Each call repeats its console.warn output for dropped, duplicate, and unknown members. A misconfigured provider route therefore logs its warning once per route model on each transform pass. The provider transform logs it once more.

Move the call above the for loop. expand and retargetDefinition only read the returned map, so one shared instance is safe. The hoisted call also logs its warnings when there are no route models. The current code logs nothing in that case.

♻️ Proposed refactor

       const windows = configuredWindows(loaded.entries)
+      const providerRoutes = configuredProviderRoutes(
+        loaded.entries,
+        new Set(models.provider.list().map((record) => record.provider.id)),
+        routes,
+      )
       for (const routeModel of models.list(ModelRoute.PROVIDER_ID)) {
         const current = ModelRoute.definition(routeModel)
         if (!current) continue
-        const providerRoutes = configuredProviderRoutes(
-          loaded.entries,
-          new Set(models.provider.list().map((record) => record.provider.id)),
-          routes,
-        )
         const next = retargetDefinition(current, routes, models, windows, providerRoutes)

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Move the `configuredProviderRoutes` call out of the route-model loop and compute
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- Line 332: Update the nesting check in retargetDefinition to reject
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apply the known-provider and declared-member checks to other members.

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Review comments at @packages/core/src/config/plugin/model-routes.ts:
- Around line 191-196: Move the `configuredProviderRoutes` call out of the
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