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Summary

  • After API credentials/endpoint or post-processing/context model settings are saved, send a bounded synthetic completion probe using a fixed Reply OK system/user message. Probe requests use the effective model, temperature, reasoning, and token options; they never include transcripts, screenshots, selected text, or custom prompts.
  • Keep temperature in normal calls unless that exact scoped capability is known unsupported. On the existing structured temperature rejection, retry once without only temperature and cache the result for subsequent calls. Existing temperature values remain unchanged for providers/models that support them.

Capability cache

  • Persist only a SHA-256 identity digest, supported/unsupported state, and observation timestamp. The digest scopes by normalized request endpoint, account-affecting auth headers, model, requested temperature, and non-content request options (including reasoning/token options); message/prompt content is excluded.
  • Entries expire after seven days; storage is bounded to 128 observations with oldest-entry eviction. Missing, expired, malformed, or future-dated entries are treated as unknown. Probe and runtime paths share the same cache and revision coordination so stale observations cannot replace newer runtime evidence.
  • Synthetic probe requests may incur provider API costs. They contain no user content; raw credentials and request content are not persisted.

Verification

  • SDKROOT=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX26.5.sdk make test validate — passed (deterministic transport, cache, synthetic-probe/options, and supersession coverage included).
  • Full app swiftc -typecheck with -Wwarning ImplicitStrongCapture -warnings-as-errors — passed. The existing ImplicitStrongCapture diagnostics remain warnings.
  • Canonical make typecheck — does not pass on this environment because of the existing ImplicitStrongCapture diagnostic in Sources/AppState.swift (nested closure capture); no unrelated source was changed to bypass it.
  • git diff --check — passed.
  • No live provider calls or manual app verification were performed.

No UI or release changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • The app now checks whether configured models support the temperature setting and remembers the result, reducing unnecessary compatibility checks over time.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Requests that receive a specific “temperature unsupported” error are retried once without the temperature setting. Other request details are preserved, and unrelated errors are returned unchanged.
    • Cached compatibility results help requests omit temperature when a model is known not to support it.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for retry conditions, compatibility caching, probe behavior, and cases where retries are not performed.

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The transport caches temperature capability and retries qualifying HTTP 400 responses without the temperature field. AppState schedules probes when API or model settings change. Post-processing request options now use a shared builder.

Changes

Temperature Capability Detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Non-content request options
Sources/ModelConfiguration.swift, Sources/PostProcessingService.swift, Sources/TemperatureCapabilityProbe.swift, Tests/TemperatureCapabilityCacheTests.swift
A shared builder applies configured values and eligible defaults to post-processing requests and probe payloads. Tests check probe options and payload content.
Capability cache and transport retry
Sources/TemperatureCapabilityCache.swift, Sources/LLMAPITransport.swift, Tests/LLMAPITransportTests.swift
The cache stores request-specific capability observations. The transport omits cached-unsupported temperature values and retries qualifying HTTP 400 responses without that field. Tests cover retry conditions, cache updates, and unrelated errors.
Probe scheduling and validation
Sources/AppState.swift, Sources/TemperatureCapabilityProbe.swift, Tests/TemperatureCapabilityCacheTests.swift, Tests/TestMain.swift, Makefile
AppState schedules probes when API or model settings change. The coordinator processes the current request list and stops superseded tasks. Tests cover cache persistence, expiration, and cancellation; the test target compiles and runs the added tests.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AppState
  participant TemperatureCapabilityProbeCoordinator
  participant TemperatureCapabilityProbe
  participant LLMAPITransport
  participant TemperatureCapabilityCache
  AppState->>TemperatureCapabilityProbeCoordinator: Schedule requests after settings change
  TemperatureCapabilityProbeCoordinator->>TemperatureCapabilityProbe: Process requests sequentially
  TemperatureCapabilityProbe->>TemperatureCapabilityCache: Check cached capability
  TemperatureCapabilityProbe->>LLMAPITransport: Send probe if capability is unknown
  LLMAPITransport->>TemperatureCapabilityCache: Observe and record capability
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3cbec

Commit validated endpoint and credential settings together before probing; reopening setup can otherwise send an existing key to a newly entered host. Mixed-parameter errors also still cause incorrect retries and cached temperature removal. Resolve these concerns before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3cbec

Changing the provider address can start a background request using the previously saved credential before a replacement credential is validated. This requires a local configuration action, but could disclose that credential to an unintended destination.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Provider changes can expose an existing credential through a newly introduced automatic probe before the replacement credential is accepted. Setup assigns the new address first; that assignment schedules requests using the saved key, even when a different draft key is being validated. Reopened setup can retain a nonblank saved key. Validation failure does not undo an already-started request. The premature address commit predates this PR, but its immediate authenticated probe exposure is new.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported disclosure path concerns one user's saved provider credential and a locally configured destination. A destination operator receiving that credential could attempt its provider-authorized privileges. No remote setting-change entrypoint or broader cross-user exposure was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — With an existing saved key, reopening setup and submitting a new destination with a replacement draft key can schedule an old-key probe before validation finishes. A failed validation leaves the old key unchanged and does not retract any request already delivered. This is a conditional source-supported exposure path, not evidence of an actual disclosure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Settings use draft credential fields and explicit validation actions, rather than sending every typed edit. Probe creation rejects blank keys and failed URL construction. These controls do not bind a changed destination to an accepted credential pair: setup assigns the destination before credential validation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Cancellation controls continuation, not an already-completed network disclosure. A superseded operation can reach cache publication before the coordinator checks its generation; request identity and revision checks contain that publication to its captured identity. This does not establish a separate cross-credential cache concern.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Publishing the provider address and credential as one accepted configuration, and scheduling probes only from that configuration, would prevent intermediate field assignments from authorizing network requests. Cancellation should remain a resource-control mechanism rather than the credential-boundary safeguard.
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Verification update: using SDKROOT=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX26.5.sdk, make test validate passed, including the complete deterministic test suite (FreeFlowTests passed) and plist/script/YAML validation. Focused LLMAPITransportTests also compiled with -warnings-as-errors and passed; git diff --check passed.

make check remains blocked at type-check: Swift 6.4 promotes an existing ImplicitStrongCapture diagnostic at Sources/AppState.swift:2250 to an error with the repository's -warnings-as-errors. The app itself built successfully with that SDK for arm64 / macOS 13.0 and passed codesign --verify --deep --strict; it is ad-hoc signed, not Developer ID signed or notarized. No app launch or live provider test was performed. An unofficial fork prerelease is available at https://github.com/alankyshum/freeflow/releases/tag/temperature-fix-20260929.

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- Around line 62-63: Update the temperature fallback condition that checks
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Comment on lines +62 to +63
((param.isEmpty || param == "null") && message.contains("temperature") &&
(message.contains("unsupported") || message.contains("not support") || message.contains("does not support")))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match the temperature error, not separate words in the message.

If param is null and the message says "temperature is supported; top_p is unsupported", this condition removes temperature even though the error identifies top_p. The client then sends an unnecessary second request and returns its response instead of the original error. Restrict the fallback to observed message forms that explicitly identify temperature as unsupported. Add a mixed-parameter no-retry case beside the null-parameter test.

Based on learnings: match observed error strings or defined tokens, and fail closed on unrecognized variants.

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Review comment at @Sources/LLMAPITransport.swift around lines 62 - 63:
Update the temperature fallback condition that checks `param` and `message` so
it matches only observed error forms that explicitly identify `temperature` as
unsupported, rather than combining separate mentions of temperature and
unsupported terms. Preserve the original error for unrecognized or
mixed-parameter messages, and add a mixed-parameter no-retry case beside the
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Compatibility scope clarification: the shared retry applies to screenshot/text context and all three postprocessing modes while retaining original model temperatures (including context 0.2 and postprocessing 0.0/0.2); it retries once without temperature only after an explicit structured HTTP 400 rejection. No source changes required.

@alankyshum alankyshum changed the title Retry postprocessing when temperature is unsupported Probe and cache temperature support per saved model config Sep 30, 2026
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- Around line 297-305: Update the API configuration flow in AppState and
SetupView.validateAndContinue() so changing the base URL does not schedule a
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resolved base URL together, suppressing the apiKey and apiBaseURL observers’
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scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()
}
}

@Published var apiBaseURL: String {
didSet {
persistAPIBaseURL(apiBaseURL)
rebuildContextService()
scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()

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sed -n '970,1070p' Sources/SettingsView.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- SetupView focused ranges ---'
sed -n '1,45p' Sources/SetupView.swift
sed -n '380,455p' Sources/SetupView.swift
sed -n '1115,1170p' Sources/SetupView.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- transport and probe references ---'
rg -n 'struct LLMAPITransport|enum LLMAPITransport|class LLMAPITransport|data\\(for:|URLSession|waitForCurrentProbe|temperatureProbeCoordinator' Sources
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for f in $(rg -l 'LLMAPITransport' Sources); do
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Commit the setup URL and API key as one probe update.

SetupView.validateAndContinue() sets appState.apiBaseURL before API-key validation. The new observer can then start a probe with the existing API key and the newly entered host. Cancellation may occur after that request starts, so it does not prevent the old bearer credential from reaching the new host.

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diff --git a/Sources/AppState.swift b/Sources/AppState.swift
@@
+    private var suppressTemperatureCapabilityProbes = false
+
     @Published var apiKey: String {
         didSet {
             persistAPIKey(apiKey)
             rebuildContextService()
-            scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()
+            if !suppressTemperatureCapabilityProbes {
+                scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()
+            }
         }
     }
@@
         didSet {
             persistAPIBaseURL(apiBaseURL)
             rebuildContextService()
-            scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()
+            if !suppressTemperatureCapabilityProbes {
+                scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()
+            }
         }
     }
+
+    func updateAPIConfiguration(apiKey: String, baseURL: String) {
+        suppressTemperatureCapabilityProbes = true
+        self.apiKey = apiKey
+        self.apiBaseURL = baseURL
+        suppressTemperatureCapabilityProbes = false
+        scheduleTemperatureCapabilityProbes()
+    }
diff --git a/Sources/SetupView.swift b/Sources/SetupView.swift
@@
-        appState.apiBaseURL = resolvedBaseURL
         isValidatingKey = true
@@
                 isValidatingKey = false
                 if valid {
-                    appState.apiKey = key
+                    appState.updateAPIConfiguration(apiKey: key, baseURL: resolvedBaseURL)
                     withAnimation {
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Review comment at @Sources/AppState.swift around lines 297 - 305:
Update the API configuration flow in AppState and
SetupView.validateAndContinue() so changing the base URL does not schedule a
capability probe with the previous API key. Apply the validated API key and
resolved base URL together, suppressing the apiKey and apiBaseURL observers’
probe scheduling during the update, then schedule one probe after both values
are set.

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