Live verification (2026-08-21): big-pickle and mimo-v2.5-free return 429
FreeUsageLimitError for ANY User-Agent except the opencode CLI's own
'opencode/latest' — same IP, no cooldown effect, while the other six free
models serve our honest HermesAgent UA freely. Hermes sends deliberate
attribution headers and does not impersonate other clients, so these two
models are broken for our users by policy on OpenCode's side; delist them
rather than ship dead picker entries.
- opencode-free catalog: 8 -> 6 models (both curated lists)
- plugin default_aux_model: big-pickle -> laguna-s-2.1-free (fastest
non-gated free model)
- keyless predicate keeps big-pickle (it IS free-tier; correct routing if
a user enters it manually — they get the relay's own 429, not our 401)
E2E: picker shows 6, laguna aux default completes a keyless agent turn.
Widens the salvaged #91323 fix (@vinsew): the effort vocabulary moves to
agent.reasoning_effort (OX_ALPHA_EFFORTS/OVERRIDES, the declared-policy
home every other model vocabulary lives in), and the translation is
shared between the opencode-zen profile and the keyless opencode-free
profile — Ox Alpha is reachable through both, and the free profile
previously dropped effort entirely.
Live-verified: medium clamps to low (raw medium 400s: 'This model always
engages in thinking... use low, high, or max'), xhigh rounds to max, and
full agent turns with effort=medium complete on BOTH providers.
Reworks the salvaged OpenCode Free provider to match the tier's real
auth contract (verified live 2026-08-21): the Zen relay serves free
models ANONYMOUSLY and 401s any unrecognized bearer, so the provider now
declares no credentials at all and routes every model through the shared
keyless machinery from the Ox Alpha fix (empty Authorization default
header overriding the SDK bearer).
On top of the salvaged base:
- auth.py: no api_key_env_vars; drop the keyed-auth special case
- runtime_provider.py: restore the plain fail-closed path (opencode-free
never reaches it — the keyless runtime resolves first)
- models.py: opencode-free joins the opencode family (prefix stripping,
Zen endpoint routing incl. muse->responses); keyless predicate extended
with unsuffixed free slugs (big-pickle); free runtime pins EVERY
opencode-free model keyless; curated catalog replaces the models.dev
cost==0 filter (it lags reality: deepseek-v4-flash-free stayed 'free'
there after its promo ended and the relay began 401ing it — delisted)
- agent_runtime_helpers.py: replace the httpx transport-sharing auth-strip
wrapper with the shared header policy (no proxy-mount loss)
- model_setup_flows.py: skip the API-key prompt for opencode-free
- plugin profile: keyless headers, no env vars
- .env.example + providers.md: keyless docs (no OPENCODE_FREE_API_KEY)
- tests rewritten to the keyless contract, incl. catalog-membership
invariant (every curated model must satisfy the keyless predicate)
E2E: full AIAgent turns with zero keys complete on x-preview-f-free via
provider opencode-free and alias 'free', incl. a real terminal tool
round-trip; muse routes to /v1/responses; picker lists 8 keyless models.
Adds an OpenCode Free provider plugin. Free model discovery uses models.dev
(cost.input == 0 AND status != "deprecated"), matching opencode CLI's exact
filter logic.
The free tier requires a real account API key and throttles third-party
clients by User-Agent:
- With OPENCODE_FREE_API_KEY configured, the key is sent as a Bearer token
and requests identify as "opencode/latest".
- Without a key, the keyless fallback strips the SDK's always-injected empty
Authorization header and still sends the opencode User-Agent.
- The credential resolver no longer blanks OPENCODE_FREE_API_KEY
unconditionally (the stale keyless-tier assumption), and credential-pool
exhaustion no longer surfaces the misleading "Set OPENCODE_FREE_API_KEY"
message.
Co-authored-by: Jean-François <jfm@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Rudraksh Chahal <131520192+rudrakshchahal@users.noreply.github.com>
