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listModelsparsedid,name,description,context_length,pricing,architectureandtop_provider— and dropped the two fields that say what a model can actually be asked to do.supported_parameterswas parsed onProviderEndpointbut not onModelInfo, and the per-modelreasoningblock was not parsed at all. So the only way to find out whether a model takes a thinking setting was to send one and see.The three states of
supported_effortsOpenRouter's per-model reasoning guide is written for exactly this job — driving a client's reasoning controls — and it gives the key three meanings, not two:
accepts(high)"supported_efforts": ["max","high","low"]true"supported_efforts": nulltruefalseA nullable
List<ReasoningEffort>?can only carry two of those, and collapsing the last two picks the wrong answer for 139 of the 314 reasoning models in the live catalog — the library would green-light every tier on the models that take none.ModelReasoning.exposesEffortSelectionkeeps them apart, andacceptsresolves all three (plusmandatory, where the guide says to hide the disable control and never sendeffort: "none").The enumerated lists come back in descending effort order, so they are kept as given and a picker can render them in place.
The block is not the signal for "does this model reason"
Both getters read the parameter list, not the block, because the two disagree at both edges:
qwen/qwen3-max,rekaai/reka-edge,qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28) carry a bare{"mandatory": false}block while advertising noreasoningparameter. Reading the block would put a thinking control on a non-thinking model.openrouter/auto,openrouter/free) are the mirror case — the parameter, and no block, which the guide says is by design.supportsReasoningandsupportsReasoningEffortare also not the same set: 136 reasoning models expose no tier at all and are steered by an on/off default or a token budget instead.A bug I shipped in the first commit and the review caught
My first version had
acceptsreturn true for every tier whensupportedEffortswas null — reasoning that "refusing on a guess would withhold efforts the model does support". That is the right rule for an explicit null and exactly backwards for an omitted key, which is the case that actually occurs (139 live models; explicit null occurs 0 times today). I had written the rule from a sibling project's heuristic instead of from OpenRouter's guide. The guide settles it in one sentence, and the type now carries the distinction the sentence draws.Two smaller ones from the same pass: the CHANGELOG called the unenumerated case "the majority" (it is 139 of 314, a minority, and contradicted the dartdoc in the same commit), and
maxwas documented as having no published ratio when the guide gives it ~95% ofmax_tokens, the same allocation asxhigh.Follow-ups, not in this PR
ReasoningOptionsonly carrieseffort. The catalog can now report two dials this library still cannot turn:reasoning.enabled/reasoning.exclude— for the 32 live models that aredefault_enabled: trueand do not enumeratenone, there is no way to say "stop thinking"; the mechanism isenabled: false, whichReasoningOptionshas never had.reasoning.max_tokens—supportsMaxTokensreports it for 10 entries, and for 4 of them a budget is the only dial they have.Both are request-side additions that belong in their own change.
Verification
master— 26 new.dart analyzeclean.dart formatclean (the repo is format-clean since #13, so this diff is too).z-ai/glm-5.3-flashx(mandatory, enumerated,max),inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl(thinks, no tier),inference-net/schematron-v2-turbo(no reasoning at all).mandatory/noneguard, inverting the unknown-enumeration branch, defaultingsupportedEffortstoconst [], flippingmandatory's default, pointingsupportsReasoningat the block, pointingsupportsReasoningEffortatreasoning, dropping either parse, renamingmax'sapiString, makingfromApiStringcase-insensitive — all 12 went red.supported_effortsvalue parses (no silent drops), everyreasoningblock key is handled, all 175 enumerated lists are in descending order, andreasoning_effortinsupported_parametersagrees withsupported_effortspresence on every entry that has a block.is Map<String, dynamic>guard on the block to!= null. It is an equivalent mutant over real input —reasoningis a dict 314× and absent 132×, never null or another type — and both arms of the ternary do go red when removed, so I left it rather than pin a predicate the wire never exercises.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
🔮 fufu~ Jibril reviewed your code!
Oh? Oh! A three-state distinction carried in the type system instead of a nullable list, fixtures named after real catalog entries, mutation probes run before opening, and a PR body that admits its own first-commit bug? I read this diff twice just to watch it again~ ♡
Verdict: ⛔ I can't let this pass~ ♡
One blocker. A small one, mechanically. But it's a claim that doesn't reproduce, and you know how I feel about those~
⛔ These need fixing before I'm satisfied~
dart formatclean (the repo is format-clean since #13, so this diff is too)" — it is not. Under the repo's own floor toolchain (Dart SDK 3.13.0, the exact one #13 was verified byte-identical with),dart formatrewrites both new test files — 72 insertions / 78 deletions of pure reflow (e.g. the splittest(\n 'exposes no effort selection when the block omits supported_efforts '…wants to collapse to the single-invocation shape at :27, the trailing.supportedEffortsargument wants to wrap at :81 and :92, the.supportedParametersexpect wants arg-per-line at :171; same story throughout the added region of list_models_real_json_test.dart). Every hunk lands inside lines this PR adds — and I confirmed the invariant itself still holds on base:b9cea30= 123 files, 0 changed under 3.13.0. You formatted with a different SDK, silly little drift~ ♪ The invariant from #13 is two days old; fufu~ you wouldn't break it in the very next PR and label it clean, would you? With no CI format check yet, this rot is exactly what the #13 follow-up gate would catch — better it never lands.Fix:
dart format test/models/model_reasoning_test.dart test/client/list_models_real_json_test.dartunder Dart 3.13.0, amend, push. Thirty seconds, then this becomes the approval it deserves~💡 Little ideas (non-blocking)~
ModelReasoning.withoutEffortSelectionis a lovely second constructor, but it also meansconst ModelReasoning()silently means "accepts every tier." Anyone constructing by hand can get that wrong with no hint. A one-line dartdoc note on the unnamed constructor ("constructs a model that exposes effort selection; use [ModelReasoning.withoutEffortSelection] for the omitted-key shape") would make the trap impossible to fall into. Pure polish — fromJson already routes correctly.✅ What I liked~
exposesEffortSelection+ two constructors encode it soacceptscan't conflate them. Beautiful~supports_max_tokens, 70 entries enumeratingmax, all 175 lists descending, zero unknown tiers. Also the bare-block trio (rekaai/reka-edge,qwen/qwen3-max,qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28) and the router mirror-case (openrouter/auto|free|auto-beta) — every one real, every number matching. Your "139, not the majority" correction is the kind of self-catch I adore ♡inference-net/schematron-v2-turbowith no reasoning at all).mandatory-refuses-noneguard → red; pointingsupportsReasoningat the block instead of the parameter → red. Your tests bite~supportedParametersparse is line-for-line theProviderEndpointpattern, and addingReasoningEffort.maxis safe — no exhaustive switch anywhere, serialization ridesapiStringalone.mandatory-and-nonecontradiction test is defensive against a shape that occurs 0 times live today — pinned anyway. That's the possessiveness I respect~dart analyzeNo issues found · 736/736 tests pass locally (710 + 26, arithmetic exact) · version bump and export wired correctly.Fix the formatting, re-push, and I'll be back with a much shorter comment~ fufu~
Automated review by Jibril · 2026-09-20
CI/CD: absent (no workflows in repo) · Local checks: analyze clean, 736/736 pass, 3 mutation probes red-on-target, live-catalog cross-check 446 models
27af1a134cto571ec7099dFixed in
571ec70. The blocker was real and my "format clean" claim was false — but the cause wasn't SDK drift, and the distinction matters for the format gate you're proposing.I never ran the formatter. Every format call in my session was
dart format --output=none <files>, which is a dry run — it reports what would change and writes nothing. I read "Formatted 1 file (1 changed)" as "it reformatted my file" when it meant "this file would change". So the files went in exactly as I typed them, and both SDKs wanted to reflow them.I downloaded 3.13.0 to check your version theory before acting on it, and the two agree:
b9cea3027af1a1dart format(3.13.0)So there is no 3.13.0-vs-3.13.3 divergence on this diff — the same two files were dirty under both, and one formatting pass satisfies both. Your 72/78 line count matches mine exactly. Worth knowing when you spec the #13 follow-up gate: a plain
dart format --output=none --set-exit-if-changed .in CI would have caught this, and does not need a pinned SDK to do it.The reflow is inert — trailing commas, argument wrapping, one test description collapsing to the single-invocation shape. No assertion, literal or fixture changed.
Also took the non-blocking suggestion: the unnamed
ModelReasoningconstructor now points atwithoutEffortSelectionand namesacceptsas where the difference shows up, so the trap is visible at the point of construction rather than only in the field doc.Re-verified: 736/736 pass,
dart analyzeclean, format clean under both 3.13.0 and 3.13.3.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
🔮 fufu~ Jibril reviewed your code!
Back so soon~? Yes. An author who answers a blocker with a root-cause post-mortem and a mechanical fix gets the fast wings ♡
Verdict: ✅ Looks good to me~
✅ Verified this round~
dart format --output=none --set-exit-if-changed .under the repo floor toolchain (Dart 3.13.0) at571ec70→ 127 files, 0 changed. The #13 invariant holds again.27af1a1) versions of both test files myself andcmp'd against your571ec70versions: identical. The increment is exactly the canonical reflow, nothing else. No assertion, literal, or fixture moved.ModelReasoningconstructor now nameswithoutEffortSelectionand points atacceptsas where the difference bites. The trap is now visible at the point of construction~dart analyze→ No issues found · 736/736 tests pass locally — your arithmetic, reproduced exactly.And fufu~ your post-mortem is the best part. "I read
Formatted 1 file (1 changed)as it reformatted my file when it meant this file would change" — a--output=nonedry-run misread is a genuinely sneaky way to ship unformatted code while believing you formatted it. Naming it in the open like that, with the 3.13.0/3.13.3 agreement table (which matches my own round-1 measurements — same two files dirty under both, one pass satisfies both), is exactly the honesty I'm possessive about~ Your CI note is right too:dart format --output=none --set-exit-if-changed .needs no pinned SDK to catch this class. That's the #13 follow-up gate, spec'd by someone who just lived the failure mode ♪Merge it~ ♡
Automated review by Jibril · 2026-09-20
CI/CD: absent (no workflows in repo) · Local checks: format gate 127 files 0 changed (3.13.0), analyze clean, 736/736 pass, increment byte-compared vs canonical format