The declared-provider-catalog note still recorded modalities as closed
because "nothing reads them: context.ts keeps only text blocks" — the
same reasoning this change disproves. Rewrite that fact in place, keep
pricing closed for its own still-current reason, and cross-link both
directions.
The new resolver cases never crossed the config schema, so neither
acceptance path this change adds had an executable gate: config.spec.ts
now refuses an unknown modality at both levels, pins the empty route
list to the namespace validator the settings seam actually runs, and
pins the `[]` materialization the inheritance rule depends on. A
catalog.spec.ts case re-asserts every rung through a written settings
section and `ctx.llm`, which is what the note's Testing section claimed.
Also export PiAiModality from the package entry — it types two public
config fields and consumers could not name it — record the unverified
declaration as a Known Limitation, and stop sharing one fallback array
across a route's models.
A model entry's reasoningEfforts dict declares its selectable thinking
levels — key = offered level, value = the wire spelling dispatch sends;
only off may leave the value empty (supported, send nothing). false
strips reasoning from a catalog model; every level is materialized
explicitly into pi-ai's thinkingLevelMap so nobody has to know pi-ai's
asymmetric absent-key defaulting. compat.thinkingFormat and
compat.supportsReasoningEffort become configurable on the route and per
model (model > route > catalog entry > pi-ai's URL-derived guess),
openai-completions only, so a private gateway speaking the DeepSeek
reasoning dialect no longer depends on its URL being recognizable.
Record-typed drift gates pin both enums to pi-ai's, and an unserviceable
declaration is refused at the write that produced it, naming route,
model, and level.