The fallback helpers (llm_call_with_fallback, llm_call_async_with_fallback,
stream_llm_with_fallback) build their candidate list as the primary target
followed by the configured fallbacks. Callers prepend the session's live
(url, model) to default_model_fallbacks, so if the user also lists their current
model among the fallbacks — a common misconfiguration — the chain re-attempts
the very route that just failed: a wasted round-trip (and, for the streaming
path, a spurious 'fallback' notice for a switch that didn't actually happen).
Add a small _dedupe_candidates() helper that filters malformed entries and drops
a later repeat of an already-seen (url, model), preserving order (first wins,
keeping its headers). Apply it in all three fallback chains.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the selected model fails before producing output, stream_llm_with_fallback
quietly switches to the next candidate and the reply is shown under the
originally selected model's name, so a misconfigured provider looks like it
works. (Concretely: a Bedrock gateway that 400s every Anthropic/Claude request
appears fine because another model silently answers under the Claude label.)
Emit a `fallback` SSE event ({selected_model, answered_by, reason}) the first
time a non-primary candidate produces output, forward it through the agent loop
and both chat-route paths, stamp the response metrics with the model that
actually answered, and show a notice + relabel the reply in the UI.
Tested: python -m pytest tests/test_llm_core_fallback.py (3 pass);
python -m py_compile src/llm_core.py src/agent_loop.py routes/chat_routes.py;
node --check static/js/chat.js.
