Account model mappings decide availability, but generated Codex catalogs previously inferred capabilities from local model-name tables. Compatible upstreams can expose unknown models such as OpenCode x-preview-f-free, so reasoning levels, image input, and context limits were missing or wrong.
Sync capability metadata from the account model endpoint, enrich incomplete lists from the Models.dev provider matching the account base URL, and persist only complete snapshots. Mixed groups consume the safe intersection across schedulable accounts. When IDs sync without complete metadata, return an explicit warning and preserve the previous snapshot.
Third-party Responses providers often omit /models. If that endpoint returns 404 or 405 and the account already has concrete model mappings, use those configured upstream IDs for capability enrichment. Authentication, rate-limit, server, and network failures remain hard errors, and metadata is never guessed across providers by model name alone.
Advertise a single none choice for non-reasoning models so current Codex can select them, then omit that catalog placeholder when forwarding to compatible Responses upstreams while preserving official OpenAI request semantics.
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