cursor/auto is a sentinel, not a provider — and it is what a Cursor session records - #4607
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…ession records The `cursor-cli` host template seeds `modelId: "cursor/auto"`: a neutral sentinel, deliberately not a real provider model, because the Cursor CLI has no provider routing and the adapter passes no model at all. Registering `cursor` as a `ModelProvider` (so the id classifies honestly instead of falling through the bare-id rule to `ollama`) also made every provider-resolution path treat it as a BYOK provider needing a configured org key, which answered `provider_not_configured: cursor` — a setup error for a key that cannot exist. Two bugs, one cause. 1. Provider resolution. `isRuntimeChosenModelSentinel` / `runtimeChosenModelSentinelName` land in `shared/model-provider.ts`, beside the classification rules, so server and client share one answer instead of comparing against `"cursor/auto"` in a dozen places. `deriveOrgProviderKey` refuses the sentinel at the one chokepoint all three derivation sites go through; `resolveSyntheticModelSource` classifies it `external-account` without a round trip; `resolveTurnRuntime` maps that to the hosted shape carrying only the harness, and refuses it outright when no harness is selected. On the public sessions API the refusal moved ahead of the turn lease, which is what CREATES the session row — failing after it left a session that had run on nothing. The local `/api/mcp/chat-v2` rail takes the external-account exemption the web rail already had, so a Cursor host reaches the harness instead of the org-BYOK branch, tagged `external-account` rather than `mcpjam`. 2. What the session records. The Playground picker cannot hold the sentinel, and the host-model override was gated on scenario turns — so the browser's leftover pick was recorded verbatim, naming a model the turn never touched; with no usable id in the body it was recorded blank, because the harness rail is the one live path with no downstream model-id check. The host's model is now authoritative for an external-account harness on every surface, and the chat route validates the model's `id`, not just that an object was sent. Displayed as "Cursor Auto" wherever a label is rendered. The id is never rewritten: traces and eval metadata still record `cursor/auto`, because the whole point of the sentinel is that the model is unknown to MCPJam. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1041-1041: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winMint a guest bearer for external-account harness turns.
If an anonymous scenario resolves to an external-account harness,
isMcpJamProvidedModelis false.resolveMcpJamAuthHeader()then returns without minting a bearer, and theusesMcpjamFreePathbranch returns 503.Use
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/chat-v2.ts`:
- Around line 283-295: Add route-level regression tests covering missing, null,
empty, and whitespace-only model.id validation before persistence;
external-account harness model override and host-model selection on the web and
MCP routes; dispatch without hosted-model or org-BYOK classification; and
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asserting both success and validation/error outcomes.
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around lines 721 - 731: Covers the client sentinel label and disabled-reason
behavior.
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…t that carries it Four findings from review on the cursor/auto sentinel change, verified against the code and fixed at the chokepoint each belongs to. `resolveTurnRuntime` no longer hands back a runnable runtime for an external-account turn. Classifying the sentinel as `external-account` is right; advertising it as runnable there was not. An external-account runtime authenticates with the customer's own vendor credential, `runHarnessTurn` takes that credential only from the caller's materialized project secrets, and `runUnifiedAssistantTurn` — the facade every caller of this resolver drives — has no `runtimeSecrets` seam at all. The synthetic/swarm path therefore reached the harness and died inside it telling the user to add a `CURSOR_API_KEY` secret they may already have set. Refused up front with the real reason instead; wiring the secrets fetch AND the transcript scrubber into that runner is a security-relevant change with its own review. The local `/api/mcp/chat-v2` bearer mint now keys on the free-path predicate rather than "MCPJam provides this model". An external-account harness turn takes that branch and needs the same bearer for what the branch does with it, so an anonymous Cursor turn was answering 503 before the harness started, on a host the preflight had just called ready. `resolveHostModelDefinition` skips the org-model-config round-trip for a sentinel. No enabled provider can list `cursor/auto`, so on a live turn that call was pure latency (a 15 s timeout) plus a failure mode, sitting between the request and the first token. The host-wins gate on both rails now requires the host to actually carry the sentinel, and a host that does not is refused rather than mis-attributed. An external-account host pinned to an ordinary id describes nothing that runs either — Cursor ignores it — so promoting it over the body swapped one wrong model id for another. The shared harness gate (`checkHarnessRuntimeAvailable` and its dispatch twin `harnessModelEligibleForRuntime`, which a test asserts agree) now rejects it, naming the id it found. Tests: the refusals and the bypass, each proven non-vacuous by reverting the production line; the client sentinel label with its external-account reason plus the ordinary locked-model control; null/empty/whitespace-only `model.id` at hosted-chat ingress asserting 400 before the engine and before any persist; and host-model precedence for a sentinel host and a mis-configured one. Changeset corrected: `resolveSyntheticModelSource` classifies the sentinel, it does not refuse it — only the web and desktop derivation rails refuse. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1010-1013: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject empty model IDs at ingress.
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modelobject. It accepts{ id: "", provider: "…" }and whitespace-only IDs. Those values then reach later routing or model-construction paths instead of returning a validation error.Match the hosted route guard with
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P2: On eval/synthetic turns, an external-account host with an ordinary model id now falls through to the emulated engine rather than being refused. `runAssistantTurn` interprets this `false` as `useHarness = false`, while `sessionSimulation/runner.ts` does not run `checkHarnessRuntimeAvailable`, so the run can complete without Cursor ever running. Propagate a hard model-unsupported result to these callers instead of using eligibility false as a fallback.</violation>
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| if (args.adapter.modelAccess === "external-account") return true; | ||
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P2: On eval/synthetic turns, an external-account host with an ordinary model id now falls through to the emulated engine rather than being refused. runAssistantTurn interprets this false as useHarness = false, while sessionSimulation/runner.ts does not run checkHarnessRuntimeAvailable, so the run can complete without Cursor ever running. Propagate a hard model-unsupported result to these callers instead of using eligibility false as a fallback.
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<comment>On eval/synthetic turns, an external-account host with an ordinary model id now falls through to the emulated engine rather than being refused. `runAssistantTurn` interprets this `false` as `useHarness = false`, while `sessionSimulation/runner.ts` does not run `checkHarnessRuntimeAvailable`, so the run can complete without Cursor ever running. Propagate a hard model-unsupported result to these callers instead of using eligibility false as a fallback.</comment>
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}): boolean {
- if (args.adapter.modelAccess === "external-account") return true;
+ if (args.adapter.modelAccess === "external-account") {
+ return isRuntimeChosenModelSentinel(args.modelId);
+ }
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Valid, and you were right that this is the serious one — fixed in 6e3482f420.
Both halves of your claim check out. assistant-turn.ts:643 is literally const useHarness = harnessRequested && modelEligible; with a warn-and-continue into runChatEngineLoop. And sessionSimulation/runner.ts contains no reference to checkHarnessRuntimeAvailable at all — it drives turns straight through runUnifiedAssistantTurn; only its swarm caller admits targets through the pre-flight.
So the previous round's false did convert a mis-configured Cursor host into a completed emulated run stamped executionEngineLabel: harness:cursor. That is worse than the mis-attributed model id it was meant to fix, because the record contains nothing wrong-looking at all.
Fix. The dispatch now throws for an external-account adapter instead of degrading, wrapped in the same sentence the chat routes build around a pre-flight refusal. The brokered fallback is deliberately untouched and still degrades — there the emulated engine genuinely runs the refused model on org BYOK. The shared condition lives in externalAccountHostModelRefusalReason, read by both the pre-flight and the dispatch, so the two cannot drift while acting on it differently.
Non-vacuity: REFUSES an ordinary model rather than falling back to the emulated engine fails when the throw is removed — and fails with promise resolved "{ messages: [...] }" instead of rejecting, which is precisely the silent-completion mode. Worth noting the proof needed the suite's logger mock completed first (event/systemEvent); without it the reverted code died on a missing mock method and the test would have passed for the wrong reason.
Coherence with last round's refusal — the two cover disjoint causes and neither can become an emulated run: a correctly configured external-account host on a synthetic surface classifies as external-account and resolveTurnRuntime throws (the credential can never arrive there), firing first inside drainAssistantTurn; a mis-configured host classifies as byok/mcpjam, never reaches that arm, and is stopped by the new dispatch throw. Interactive rails fail closed at the pre-flight in both cases.
…e instead of degrading Both re-review findings on the sentinel validation hold. Verified, and fixed so that neither the rule nor its enforcement can become a run that never ran Cursor. THE GATE VALIDATED THE WRONG ID. The external-account rule asks a question about the HOST — does it carry the runtime's sentinel? — and nothing consumes the turn's model on that arm, so holding the rule to `model.id` let a caller satisfy it by POSTing `cursor/auto` at a host that pinned an ordinary id: the same mis-configured host, admitted from the other side. The pre-flight now takes the host's configured id as its own `hostModelId` input, and every call site supplies it (both chat rails, both eval-admission halves, the swarm target gate). With no model pinned at all it falls back to the turn's model, which is then the only description of what that host runs — a sentinel body is true, an ordinary one is still refused. The route half of the same finding: the host-wins promotion for an external-account harness is unconditional again. Last round I narrowed it to hosts carrying the sentinel, which looks safer and is the opposite — it leaves the body's model standing on exactly the hosts that must be refused, and the body's model is what the pre-flight then sees. ELIGIBILITY-FALSE WAS BEING READ AS "USE THE EMULATED ENGINE". `runAssistantTurn` computes `useHarness = harnessRequested && modelEligible` and warns-and-emulates otherwise. Sound for a brokered harness, where the emulated engine runs the refused model itself on org BYOK. Not sound here: that engine cannot run a sentinel at all, and the id a mis-configured host carries is one the runtime would have ignored. What the fallback produced is worse than the bug the rule was added for — a swarm or eval turn that completes, reports success, records `executionEngineLabel: harness:cursor`, and never ran Cursor, indistinguishable in the transcript from a real run. The interactive rails fail closed at the pre-flight; the dispatch now throws the same sentence for the paths that never call it (`sessionSimulation/runner.ts` drives turns with no pre-flight of its own; only its swarm caller admits targets through one). The condition itself moved into `externalAccountHostModelRefusalReason` so the two readers cannot drift while acting on it differently — one returns a typed refusal, the other throws. Coherent with the refusal added last round, which covers a disjoint cause: a CORRECTLY configured host on a synthetic surface still fails at `resolveTurnRuntime`, because that surface can never deliver the runtime's own credential. A MIS-configured host classifies as byok/mcpjam and never reaches that arm, so it is this dispatch throw that stops it. Neither path can become an emulated run. Tests: the gate holds the host's id over a body-supplied sentinel, accepts a sentinel host whatever the body says, and falls back when nothing is pinned; the routes hand the pre-flight the promoted host model plus `hostModelId`; the dispatch refuses an ordinary model with no engine run at all, while the brokered fallback still degrades as before. Each proven non-vacuous by reverting the production line — with the suite's logger mock completed first, so the "no engine ran" assertion fails by the turn RESOLVING rather than by a missing mock method. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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P1: When a `cursor/auto` host runs an eval case with an ordinary `test.model`, this admission accepts the case using the host id, but eval execution still sends the case model downstream. Promote the host model in the eval execution path too, or reject mismatched case models before admitting the run.</violation>
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P1: When a Cursor host pins cursor/auto but an eval case carries an ordinary model id, this helper validates the case id instead of the host id and rejects the turn. Pass the configured host model through the dispatch eligibility check, or otherwise preserve the host sentinel when evaluating external-account harnesses.
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+ return (
+ externalAccountHostModelRefusalReason({
+ adapter: args.adapter,
+ modelId: args.modelId,
+ }) === undefined
+ );
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Valid — fixed in 24b7df94bd, together with the admission finding below, because they are the same seam from opposite ends.
Evidence. evals-runner.ts built the case model with buildModelDefinition(test) and no host promotion anywhere; drive-hosted-eval-turn.ts passes that straight to runAssistantTurn. My round-2 change made admission's full check read the host's hostModelId, so a Cursor host + a case pinned to anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 was admitted — and then the dispatch eligibility check saw the case id on an external-account harness and hit my round-2 throw. Admission and execution disagreed, and the casualty was an ordinary Cursor eval suite.
Fix: promote, not refuse. resolveEvalCaseModelDefinition returns the host's sentinel definition when the host runs an external-account harness carrying one, called once in runTestCase so everything downstream agrees — canonical id, the MCPJam-vs-BYOK split, the org-BYOK runtime lookup, the engine's wire payload, and what the iteration reports.
I did not take your other suggestion of passing the host model into the dispatch eligibility check: runAssistantTurn takes exactly one model, and by the time it runs that model is the host's on every surface (chat rails promote, eval now promotes, swarm pins it). A second model input would create a place for the two to disagree, which is the bug this finding is about.
Non-vacuity: promotes the host's sentinel over the case's own model and admits that case AND leaves it dispatchable — the two ends now agree both fail when the promotion is reverted. The second asserts both ends deliberately — asserting only admission is what let this through.
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P1: When a cursor/auto host runs an eval case with an ordinary test.model, this admission accepts the case using the host id, but eval execution still sends the case model downstream. Promote the host model in the eval execution path too, or reject mismatched case models before admitting the run.
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+ // The HOST's id, not the case's: the external-account rule is about
+ // this host carrying the runtime's sentinel, and a case model can no
+ // more answer that than a request body can.
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Valid — fixed with the same change in 24b7df94bd (details on the harness-availability.ts:84 thread).
Of your two options I chose promotion over refusing at admission, and the deciding fact is one this PR established: the model pickers cannot hold cursor/auto, so no eval case can name it — refusing mismatched case models would make every Cursor eval suite unrunnable. Promotion is also just this PR's own rule finally reaching its last surface: the host's model is already authoritative on an external-account harness everywhere else.
A mis-configured host promotes nothing and is still refused at admission on its own id.
…al comes before the resolve
Both P1s hold and are the same seam from its two ends: admission accepted a case
on the HOST's id while execution carried the CASE's model, and the dispatch's
eligibility check then refused a run that had already been admitted. A per-case
model is normal and legitimate in evals — a suite names one per case and is then
pointed at a host — so this hit ordinary Cursor suites, and my round-2 change is
what put it there.
Fixed by making the host's model authoritative in eval execution too, the way it
already is on the chat rails, rather than by refusing the case. Refusing would be
self-consistent and would also make every Cursor eval suite unrunnable: the model
pickers cannot hold `cursor/auto`, so no case can name it. Resolved once in
`runTestCase`, so the canonical id, the MCPJam-vs-BYOK split, the org-BYOK
lookup, the engine's wire payload and what the iteration reports all agree — and
so the dispatch sees the sentinel and runs the harness.
A mis-configured host (external-account harness, ordinary pinned model) still
promotes nothing and is still refused at admission: that is a broken
configuration, not a case-level choice.
P2, the 15 s dependency reappearing on the mis-configured path: both chat rails
now answer the host-sentinel question BEFORE resolving the host's model
definition, so such a host fails immediately instead of first waiting on an
org-model-config lookup for an id no provider can list. Same shared sentence, in
front of the pre-flight rather than instead of it; the promotion below it stays
unconditional because by then the host is known to carry the sentinel.
BOTH TEST FINDINGS ALSO HOLD, and I cited both of these tests as proof last
round:
- the hosted-route "a body-supplied sentinel cannot stand in" test asserted
only `hostModelId`, which is passed unconditionally from
`resolvedExecution.modelId` and is independent of the promotion block — so it
could not have caught the promotion being removed. It proved the
`hostModelId` wiring and nothing more. Rewritten around the early refusal: it
now asserts the route 503s, names the host's id, and never reaches the
pre-flight.
- the assistant-turn "still runs the sentinel" test called
`harnessModelEligibleForRuntime` directly and never invoked
`runAssistantTurn`, so it duplicated a harness-availability unit test instead
of covering the dispatch. Rewritten to stub `runHarnessTurn` and assert a
`cursor/auto` turn reaches it while the emulated engine is never dialed —
which is also what makes the refusal test meaningful, since a rule that
refused every Cursor turn would satisfy "no silent emulation" too.
Five suites stubbed `harness-availability` wholesale, so the routes' new import
resolved to `undefined(...)` — a 500 that reads as a routing bug. They now spread
`actual`, with the note this repo already learned once.
Non-vacuity, each by reverting the production line: the eval promotion (2 tests),
the route early refusal (2), the sentinel reaching the harness (1), and the
round-2 dispatch throw re-proven against its rewritten assertions (1, failing by
the turn RESOLVING).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Two bugs that made a Cursor CLI session misrepresent itself — one of which prevented Cursor hosts from reaching the harness at all on the desktop rail.
The
cursor-clitemplate seedsmodelId: "cursor/auto", a deliberate NEUTRAL SENTINEL: the Cursor CLI has no provider routing, the adapter passes no model, and Cursor Auto picks. Backend #1224 additionally registeredcursoras aModelProviderNameso the sentinel would not classify asollama. That registration had a consequence nobody traced.Root causes
1 —
cursor/autodemanded a BYOK provider key.deriveOrgProviderKey(server/utils/org-model-config.ts:274-287) returns{ok: true, key: provider}for anything non-custom, socursor/autoyieldedkey: "cursor". Three call sites then hit the org config:resolveSyntheticModelSource→ not local-eligible →source: "byok"→resolve-turn-runtime.tsbuilt/stream/orgwithproviderKey: "cursor"→ Convexprovider_not_configured: cursor is not enabled for this project/workspace organization. (This is what we hit live on the v1 sessions path.)web-chat-turn.ts:1082for non-harness turns.routes/mcp/chat-v2.ts:1732— worse: the gate wasisMcpJamProvidedModel && modelDefinition.id, so every Cursor host on the local desktop rail fell into org-BYOK and never reached the harness at all.2 — the session recorded no model. Two independent holes, both specific to the external-account harness:
routes/web/chat-v2.ts:737gated the host-model override onisScenarioSession, so a Playground host-bound turn never adopted the host'scursor/auto. The client cannot supply it either — the picker reseed only adopts a host model that resolves inavailableModels, and the sentinel never does — so the body's leftover pick was recorded verbatim.routes/web/chat-v2.ts:282guarded!modelDefinition(the object), never.id, andmodelarrives via an unvalidated body cast. The harness rail is the only live path with no downstream id check (it skipsderiveOrgProviderKeyand both harness model gates, which are exempt forexternal-account), so an id-less body ran a full turn and""/undefinedreached ingestion, whereJSON.stringifydrops the key — hencemodelId: undefinedon the persisted row.Changes
shared/model-provider.ts—RUNTIME_CHOSEN_MODEL_SENTINELS(null-prototype id → label) plusisRuntimeChosenModelSentinel/runtimeChosenModelSentinelName. One shared predicate beside the classification rules, usable by server and client, instead of scattered=== "cursor/auto"checks.org-model-config.ts—deriveOrgProviderKeyrefuses the sentinel at the single chokepoint covering all three call sites;resolveSyntheticModelSourcereturnsexternal-accountbefore any key derivation;buildSyntheticModelDefinitionlabels it "Cursor Auto" without rewriting the id.resolve-turn-runtime.ts— newexternal-accountarm → hosted/streamcarrying only the harness,modelSource: "external-account", noproviderKey; throws clearly when no harness is selected.routes/v1/chat-session-turn.ts— refuses the sentinel beforeclaimTurnLease, which is what creates thechatSessionsrow; refusing after it is what leaves a modelless orphan.routes/mcp/chat-v2.ts— external-account exemption on the MCPJam-free branch (mirrors web-chat-turn) + host-model authority.routes/web/chat-v2.ts— host model is authoritative for an external-account harness on every surface, not just scenarios; ingress validatesmodel.id, not justmodel.client/src/hooks/use-chat-session.ts— renders the sentinel as "Cursor Auto" with an honest lock reason instead of the raw id under a sign-in wall.Tests
199 passing across the touched files (5389 in the wider server+shared sweep, 2097 client). Non-vacuity verified per file by stashing only the production change:
web/chat-v2.ts→ 3 of 4 new route tests fail (expected 'anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5' to be 'cursor/auto'×2;expected 200 to be 400for the id-less body — the unfixed code returns 200 and persists the blank).org-model-config.ts+resolve-turn-runtime.ts→ 5 fail, incl.expected 'byok' to be 'external-account'— the exact route toprovider_not_configured.shared/model-provider.ts→ 5 fail; revertchat-session-turn.ts→ the sentinel refusal fails.A deliberately passing-both-ways case ("leaves a NON-harness host's model to the body, as before") keeps the exemption scoped.
Found, not fixed (reported, not silently carried)
claimTurnLeasecreates thechatSessionsrow before the model resolves, so any turn dying between claim and ingest leaves a modelless row. Thecursor/autocase is closed by refusing earlier; the general shape remains.""is indistinguishable from absent in the trace projection (routes/v1/chat-sessions.ts:402).getDefaultModelreturnsavailableModels[0]against a declaredModelDefinitionreturn type (documented as INSPECTOR-CLIENT-222).String(model.id)laundering turns an undefined id into the string"undefined"at three client sites.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Note
Medium Risk
Touches model routing, spend attribution (
modelSource), harness preflight, and eval dispatch across web, MCP, v1, and swarm paths—high behavioral surface area but heavily tested and fail-closed for misconfiguration.Overview
Fixes Cursor CLI hosts misrouting on
cursor/autoand recording the wrong (or empty) model in sessions.Provider and runtime handling. Introduces shared runtime-chosen sentinel helpers (
cursor/auto→ display Cursor Auto, id unchanged).deriveOrgProviderKeyrefuses the sentinel instead of yielding acursorBYOK key; classification usesexternal-accountwithout org lookup.resolveTurnRuntimerejects those turns on surfaces that cannot pass harness credentials (e.g. v1 API). The public sessions API rejects the sentinel before the turn lease creates a row.Chat rails (web + desktop MCP). External-account harness turns follow the MCPJam-free/harness path (not org-BYOK), persist
modelSource: 'external-account', mint guest bearer for anonymous desktop Cursor turns, and treat the host model as authoritative over the browser picker. Ingress requires a non-emptymodel.id; misconfigured hosts (ordinary id on Cursor harness) fail early viaexternalAccountHostModelRefusalReasonusinghostModelId.Harness gates and dispatch. External-account harnesses must pin the sentinel;
runAssistantTurnthrows instead of silently emulating. Eval execution promotes the host sentinel over per-case models so admission and dispatch agree.UI. Playground shows Cursor Auto locked with copy that the host runtime picks the model on the user's account, not a sign-in wall.
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Summary by cubic
Treats
cursor/autoas a sentinel rather than a provider model, so Cursor CLI turns no longer fail withprovider_not_configuredand sessions record the host's sentinel instead of a model that never ran.Bug Fixes
cursor/autofrom provider-key derivation and the org-model-config lookup, classifies it asexternal-account, and labels it "Cursor Auto" on the server and client.external-accountso they don't consume MCPJam spend; anonymous local turns now get a guest bearer instead of 503-ing.external-accountturns on surfaces that can't deliver the customer's credential:resolveTurnRuntimebefore the turn is marked spent, and the public sessions API before the turn lease creates the session row.model.idbefore anything runs or persists.Written for commit 24b7df9. Summary will update on new commits.