feat: Support default variant configuration per agent

[CasualDeveloper]

Summary

Allow users to configure a default variant for each agent, so models with thinking/reasoning variants automatically use the configured level without requiring --variant flag or ctrl+t cycling.

Motivation

Currently, users can only select variants via:

• --variant high CLI flag
• ctrl+t keybind to cycle variants in TUI

This means:

1. Users must manually select variants every time
2. Subagents cannot use variants at all (Task tool doesn't pass variant)
3. Users cannot set different thinking levels for different agents (e.g., oracle with high thinking, explore with low)

Related: NoeFabris/opencode-antigravity-auth#125

Proposed Solution

Add a variant field to the agent configuration:

{
  "agent": {
    "build": {
      "model": "google/antigravity-claude-sonnet-4-5-thinking",
      "variant": "high"
    },
    "explore": {
      "model": "google/antigravity-gemini-3-flash",
      "variant": "low"
    }
  }
}

Variant Priority Order

1. Explicit user selection (--variant flag or ctrl+t)
2. Agent's configured default variant
3. None (model's base behavior)

Subagent Behavior

Subagents use their own configured agent.variant rather than inheriting the parent's --variant override. This respects explicit per-agent configuration.

Implementation

• Add variant field to Config.Agent schema
• Add variant to Agent.Info type
• Parse variant from config in agent state initialization
• Use agent.variant as fallback in prompt.ts
• Pass agent.variant to subagent sessions in task.ts
• Use fallback logic in llm.ts variant resolution

Testing

• Configure agent with variant: "high"
• Verify model uses high variant without --variant flag
• Verify --variant low overrides agent config
• Verify subagents use their own variant config

[github-actions]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• [FEATURE]: Support for Model Variants in (sub)agents #6645: [FEATURE]: Support for Model Variants in (sub)agents - discusses specifying model variants per agent
• Subtask commands do not inherit model #6928: Subtask commands do not inherit model - related to agent-specific model configuration
• [FEATURE]: give task/subagent an optional config to choose what model it runs on #6558: [FEATURE]: give task/subagent an optional config to choose what model it runs on - discusses agent-level model configuration
• [FEATURE]: Dynamic model selection for subagents via Task tool #6651: [FEATURE]: Dynamic model selection for subagents via Task tool - comprehensive proposal for agent-specific model tier configuration

Feel free to ignore if these don't address your specific variant configuration use case.

[rekram1-node]

/oc add this feature, make sure u update necessary files in agent/agent.ts and config/config.ts, there may be others too

[opencode-agent]

Created PR #7140

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