Console-first model setup: /keys + /model become the complete, reliable path

[adigo-pro]

What this does

Makes the interactive console the complete way to configure CodeCouncil's models — /keys + /model alone now always produce a working, intentional setup, for any supported provider key.

Four changes (plan: docs/plans/2026-08-01-console-model-flexibility.md):

1. Per-key model auto-defaults (critic/agent.py, core/config.py): with no model configured, the first configured key picks its provider's default model (KEY_DEFAULT_MODELS, ordered: free NVIDIA first, Anthropic last for decorrelation). Previously only NVIDIA_API_KEY auto-defaulted — an OpenAI/OpenRouter key alone fell through to pi's possibly-unauthenticated default.
2. /model//prober beat stale launch flags (codecouncil/main.py): a knob set via the console now resolves from config.json only — a launch-time --model flag or exported COUNCIL_MODEL no longer silently overrides the slash command on critic restart (per-knob console_set tracking).
3. /model validates + informs (codecouncil/console.py, core/config.py): setting a model warns (never blocks) on a missing provider key, malformed provider/model-id, or single-segment openrouter/nvidia-nim ids that would 404. Bare /model shows the current resolved model, which layer set it (flag/env/config/auto), and copy-pasteable examples for the keys actually configured.
4. /keys chains into model choice: after saving a key, the console reports the model the critic will use, and offers that provider's default when the current model runs on a different key.

Docs: README and CLAUDE.md now lead with /keys (hidden input) instead of the echo ... >> ~/.codecouncil/env pattern, which leaves credentials in shell history.

Testing

• 20 new stdlib-unittest tests (tests/test_codecouncil.py, tests/test_agent.py): map consistency, check_model shapes, resolve_with_source, per-knob override resolution, console flows with mocked input/getpass.
• Full suite: 667 tests OK (Python 3.13). ruff==0.15.22 clean.

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