diff --git a/agent/codex_runtime.py b/agent/codex_runtime.py
index 8c7cd95c4f..c83eb060ee 100644
--- a/agent/codex_runtime.py
+++ b/agent/codex_runtime.py
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ def run_codex_app_server_turn(agent, *, user_message: str, original_user_message
     _ensure_codex_session(agent, messages)
     try:
         _start_codex_thread(agent)
-        turn = agent._codex_session.run_turn(user_input=user_message)
+        turn = agent._codex_session.run_turn(user_input=user_message, model=_codex_wire_model(agent))
     except Exception as exc:
         logger.exception("codex app-server turn failed")
         _close_codex_session(agent)
diff --git a/agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py b/agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py
index 86287403d9..04b056f550 100644
--- a/agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py
+++ b/agent/transports/codex_app_server_session.py
@@ -444,11 +444,14 @@ class CodexAppServerSession:
         return projection, aborted
 
     def run_turn(
-        self, user_input: Any, *, turn_timeout: float = 600.0,
+        self, user_input: Any, *, model: Optional[str] = None, turn_timeout: float = 600.0,
         notification_poll_timeout: float = 0.25, post_tool_quiet_timeout: float = 90.0,
     ) -> TurnResult:
         """Send a user message and block until turn/completed, bridging approvals and projecting items.
 
+        model: sent on ``turn/start`` (codex applies it to this and later turns), so an in-place ``/model``
+        switch reaches a thread that was started with another model.
+
         post_tool_quiet_timeout: if codex emits a tool completion and then goes quiet for this many seconds
         without emitting another item or `turn/completed`, log a warning (once per tool result) and keep
         waiting. Wire silence is not evidence of a wedged process: after a large tool output codex can
@@ -463,11 +466,10 @@ class CodexAppServerSession:
                 result.interrupted = True
             else:
                 input_items, result.submitted_user_text = _build_turn_input(user_input)
-                ts = self._request_for(
-                    result, "turn/start",
-                    {"threadId": self._thread_id, "input": input_items},
-                    "turn/start",
-                )
+                params: dict[str, Any] = {"threadId": self._thread_id, "input": input_items}
+                if model:
+                    params["model"] = model
+                ts = self._request_for(result, "turn/start", params, "turn/start")
                 if ts is not None:
                     self._run_started_turn(result, ts, turn_timeout, notification_poll_timeout, post_tool_quiet_timeout)
         self._interrupt_event.clear()
diff --git a/tests/agent/test_codex_runtime_prompt_handoff.py b/tests/agent/test_codex_runtime_prompt_handoff.py
index 2e67658b65..49120c5cea 100644
--- a/tests/agent/test_codex_runtime_prompt_handoff.py
+++ b/tests/agent/test_codex_runtime_prompt_handoff.py
@@ -73,3 +73,31 @@ def test_runtime_retires_thread_when_prompt_composition_changes(monkeypatch):
     starts = [p["developerInstructions"] for (m, p) in client.requests if m == "thread/start"]
     assert starts == ["SOUL: you are Hermes\n\nAlways start with ZZZ", "SOUL: you are Hermes\n\nPersonality: pirate"]
     assert client.closed == 1  # the stale thread's client was closed, not leaked
+
+
+def test_each_turn_sends_the_agent_s_current_wire_model(monkeypatch):
+    """CLI/TUI ``/model`` mutates the live agent; every turn/start carries the model selected now (the
+    ``-900k`` alias as its base slug), not the one the thread was started with."""
+    turns = []
+
+    class _Session:
+        def __init__(self, **_kw):
+            pass
+
+        def ensure_started(self):
+            return "t1"
+
+        def run_turn(self, **kw):
+            turns.append(kw["model"])
+            raise RuntimeError("stop after turn/start")
+
+        def close(self):
+            pass
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sess_mod, "CodexAppServerSession", _Session)
+    agent = _agent(model="gpt-5.6-sol-900k", _interrupt_requested=False, _interrupt_message=None)
+    for model in ("gpt-5.6-sol-900k", "gpt-5.5"):
+        agent.model = model
+        codex_runtime.run_codex_app_server_turn(agent, user_message="hi", original_user_message="hi",
+                                                messages=[], effective_task_id="t")
+    assert turns == ["gpt-5.6-sol", "gpt-5.5"]
diff --git a/tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py b/tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py
index c47a456f82..b003aff750 100644
--- a/tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py
+++ b/tests/agent/transports/test_codex_app_server_session.py
@@ -311,6 +311,18 @@ class TestRunTurn:
         assert result.submitted_user_text == params["input"][0]["text"]
         assert result.submitted_user_text != rich_input
 
+    def test_turn_start_carries_the_turn_model_only_when_given(self):
+        """An in-place ``/model`` switch keeps the session; the model rides on turn/start, which codex
+        applies to this and later turns of the existing thread."""
+        sent = []
+        for model in ("gpt-5.5", None):
+            client = FakeClient()
+            client.queue_notification("turn/completed", threadId="t",
+                                      turn={"id": "turn-fake-001", "status": "completed", "error": None})
+            make_session(client).run_turn("hi", model=model, turn_timeout=2.0)
+            sent.append(next(p for (m, p) in client.requests if m == "turn/start").get("model"))
+        assert sent == ["gpt-5.5", None]
+
     def test_foreign_completion_in_server_request_drain_is_ignored(self):
         """Approval draining must not project a child result into the parent."""
         client = FakeClient()