feat: preferModelAliasIds — publish model aliases as the row id in /v1/models

[rrmlima]

Summary

Publish safe effective model aliases as row IDs in the raw OpenAI-compatible GET /v1/models list when preferModelAliasIds: true; the default remains off. Promoted rows retain the previous qualified ID in native_id and preserve alias_of. Native IDs continue to route.

Keep the qualified ID when a short alias is ambiguous, shadows another route, or would produce a synthetic Fast selector that ingress cannot parse. Codex (client_version) and Anthropic-specific discovery retain their existing identities; this option does not rewrite those catalogs or add duplicate Codex entries.

Maintainer follow-up fixes the alias collision and wrong-provider routing cases, preserves built-in alias Fast discovery, registers the test in both layout maps, and documents the option. Independent follow-up also preserves Cursor Fast remaps, validates the optional boolean in the config schema, and teaches doctor to recognize retained native_id values. Two review rounds using anthropic2/claude-opus-5-5 at high effort pass the final implementation. The original feature is by @rrmlima (source head c64e051d20647699317394ec1e376f4c2aa59b80). The contributor commit is retained.

Verification

All local commands used fresh OPENCODEX_HOME=$(mktemp -d) CODEX_HOME=$(mktemp -d); server tests used OS-assigned ports.

• bun test tests/server/prefer-model-alias-ids.test.ts tests/providers/provider-model-aliases.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts tests/codex-integration/fast-row.test.ts tests/codex-integration/fast-row-listing.test.ts tests/providers/fast-row-ingress.test.ts tests/providers/cursor/cursor-fast-listing.test.ts tests/codex-integration/doctor.test.ts — 204 pass, 0 fail.
• bun test tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/structure-ssot.test.ts — 60 pass, 0 fail.
• bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan — passed.
• cd docs-site && bun install --frozen-lockfile && ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 bun run build — passed, 577 pages.
• New collision and wrong-provider cases failed on the original PR, passed with the fix, and passed against clean origin/dev. The built-in alias Fast regression likewise failed before the fix and passed on clean origin/dev.
• Identity comparisons for Codex and Anthropic catalogs ignore native-list ordering: a warm-up-dependent ordering difference reproduced on clean origin/dev.

The full suite and test:changed were not run: other worktrees are testing concurrently, and the focused server/routing/Fast/layout/structure coverage exercises this change. Broader Linux/macOS/Windows validation is delegated to exact-head manual CI; queued CI is not passing evidence. No GUI files are changed relative to dev.

• Full Linux/macOS/Windows manual CI: run on ci/pr-7173, exact head d29f613214e7f7d39ba6e0b1a50c7c7943520b39 — queued at dispatch; this is not passing CI evidence.

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• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added the optional preferModelAliasIds setting. When enabled, eligible aliases appear as model IDs in /v1/models, with the original provider/model ID available as native_id. Both IDs remain routable.
• Bug Fixes
  • Model discovery now recognizes original IDs exposed through native_id.
• Documentation
  • Documented the setting and clarified that models with ambiguous or ineligible aliases retain their existing IDs.

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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds the optional preferModelAliasIds setting. When enabled, /v1/models uses eligible aliases as model IDs and includes the original public ID in native_id. The doctor exposure check also recognizes non-empty native_id values.

Changes: Model alias IDs

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and return alias-based model IDs src/types/config.ts, src/config/schema/config-schema.ts, src/server/index/model-alias-id.ts, src/server/index/serve-options.ts, tests/server/prefer-model-alias-ids.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/configuration/routing.md, structure/config.md, structure/catalog.md, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json	Adds the optional setting and promotes an alias only when preview routing resolves it to the row’s provider and model and the Fast-row guard passes. Promoted rows include the original public ID in native_id. Tests cover alias routing, ambiguous and shadowed aliases, Fast siblings, and unchanged discovery identities. Documentation describes the setting and its default.
Include native IDs in doctor exposure checks src/cli/doctor.ts, tests/server/prefer-model-alias-ids.test.ts	The doctor exposure check includes non-empty native_id values. Invalid or oversized values make the fetch result unusable. A test checks exposure for a catalog row with an alias ID and native ID.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ModelsEndpoint as GET /v1/models
  participant AliasPromoter as modelAliasIdPromoter
  participant AliasSelector as preferredModelAliasId
  participant RoutePreview as Route preview
  ModelsEndpoint->>AliasPromoter: Create alias promoter
  AliasPromoter->>AliasSelector: Check each routed row
  AliasSelector->>RoutePreview: Preview alias route
  RoutePreview-->>AliasSelector: Return route identity
  AliasSelector-->>ModelsEndpoint: Return alias or undefined
  ModelsEndpoint->>ModelsEndpoint: Set id and native_id when promoted

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