ouroboros pm hardcodes Claude model instead of using configured clarification model

[srausser]

Summary

ouroboros pm ignores the configured clarification model and starts with a hardcoded Claude model string.

Repro

1. Install ouroboros-ai 0.26.3 and run ouroboros setup with Codex runtime.
2. Confirm ~/.ouroboros/config.yaml has llm.backend: codex.
3. Run ouroboros pm.

Actual

The command prints:

Model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514

This happens even when the runtime/backend is configured for Codex and even when the clarification model in config should resolve to a backend-safe default.

Expected

ouroboros pm should source its default from config, ideally via get_clarification_model(), instead of hardcoding an Anthropic model in the CLI option default.

Cause

In ouroboros/cli/commands/pm.py, the callback currently defines:

] = "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514"

That bypasses the config loader entirely.

Local workaround

I patched my local install to import get_clarification_model and use that as the default for the --model option. After that, ouroboros pm starts with Model: default under Codex as expected.

[ouroboros-agent]

Triaged as a fix-ready bug and opened a draft PR: #243

Implemented the change so \ now resolves its default interview model from config via , while preserving explicit \ overrides.

Verification:

• \

ouroboros-agent[bot]

[ouroboros-agent]

Triaged as a fix-ready bug and opened a draft PR: #243

Implemented the change so ouroboros pm now resolves its default interview model from config via get_clarification_model(), while preserving explicit --model overrides.

Verification:

• uv run pytest -q tests/unit/cli/test_pm.py tests/unit/config/test_loader.py -q

Note: a previous bot comment on this issue was malformed due to shell escaping; this comment supersedes it.

ouroboros-agent[bot]

[srausser]

Related to #242, but not a duplicate. #240 is about the CLI hardcoding the PM --model default to a Claude identifier instead of sourcing the configured clarification model. #242 is about the PM path constructing LiteLLMAdapter() directly and therefore ignoring the configured Codex backend entirely.

[ouroboros-agent]

Thanks for the clarification — agreed, this is related to #242 but not a duplicate.

I'm keeping #240 scoped to the CLI default-model bug you described (pm --model hardcoded to a Claude identifier). Draft PR #243 addresses that specific path by resolving the default from config instead of hardcoding it.

#242 can stay focused on the separate backend-construction/runtime path.

ouroboros-agent[bot]