Prevent runtime fallback from cycling through provider aliases that resolve to the same underlying Claude family model. This keeps retry handling moving toward a genuinely distinct fallback model instead of appearing to fallback while staying on the same effective model.
Constraint: Live retry/fallback bug is in /Users/ravi/Code/personal/oh-my-opencode, while oh-my-openagent contribution work remains isolated to /Users/ravi/Code/forks/oh-my-openagent
Rejected: Change fallback chain precedence (category vs agent) first | lower-confidence root cause than equivalent-model retry
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep alias-equivalence logic limited to model families that are intentionally interchangeable for runtime failover, and expand with targeted tests before broadening provider-family collapsing
Tested: bun run typecheck
Tested: bun test src/hooks/runtime-fallback/index.test.ts src/hooks/runtime-fallback/error-classifier.test.ts src/plugin/event.model-fallback.test.ts
Not-tested: Full live end-to-end session repro against external provider outages
Ravi Tharuma
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