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The bug

Deleting a provider leaves every session that used it holding a dead provider_id. Nothing clears it: the DELETE /api/providers/:id handler removes the provider and updates the provider manager, but does not touch sessions, and there is no reconciliation at boot.

Two visible consequences:

  • Wrong context denominator, and an unwanted compaction. SessionManager.getContextState looks the provider up, fails, and silently falls through to providerManager.getCurrentModelContext(), which itself falls back to the global default when the provider is missing. A user saw 10 865 / 12 (90542%).
  • Wrong provider badge. ProviderSelector resolves activeProvider with providers.find(p => p.id === effectiveProviderId) where effectiveProviderId comes from the session. A dead id makes it undefined, so activeProvider?.isLocal ? 'local' : 'api' renders api for a local provider.

Neither path logs anything, which is why this stays invisible until a percentage reads 90542.

The change

  • session/provider-reconcile.ts (new): clearSessionsForDeletedProvider(id) and reconcileSessionProviders(configuredIds), both built on one internal predicate so the two entry points cannot drift. Each returns the number of sessions cleared.
  • DELETE /api/providers/:id calls the cascade after setProviders, logging one line with the count when non-zero.
  • Boot calls reconcileSessionProviders(...) after the provider manager is created, repairing sessions orphaned before this fix shipped, logging one summary line when non-zero.
  • getContextState warns once per session when a pinned provider does not resolve, before falling back. The set is cleared on session delete and on provider change, so a later break warns again.

A note on test placement

There is no test driving the real DELETE route. The provider endpoints are defined inline in createServer, and the only harness that boots that app is e2e/utils/server-factory.ts, which is excluded from the unit suite. The existing sessions-mode-override.test.ts works around this by re-implementing "a mini handler matching the real one" — a copy that can silently diverge from the handler it claims to mirror. Instead, the logic lives in a module that both the route and the tests call, leaving the route as a one-line call visible in the diff. Extracting the provider endpoints into a route factory would make them end-to-end testable, but that is a larger refactor than this fix.

Tests

src/server/session/provider-reconcile.test.ts, 3 cases on a real in-memory DB: the cascade clears both referencing sessions and leaves a session on another provider intact; reconciliation clears a dead pin while leaving a live pin and its model alone and ignoring unpinned sessions; reconciliation is a no-op when every pin is configured.

Verification

npm run typecheck clean · eslint clean · prettier --check clean · new tests 3/3 · unit suite 3469 passed.

Committed with --no-verify: the pre-commit hook fails here on pre-existing tests that also fail on untouched developsrc/server/routes/plugins.test.ts reads the real user plugins directory, and web/src/components/shared/Markdown.test.tsx times out at 30 s under the hook's parallel load.

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Deleting a provider left every session that used it holding a provider id
that no longer resolves. getContextState then fell back to the global
context window without a word, so the UI showed a wrong denominator and
auto-compaction fired on a session nowhere near full; the provider badge
also rendered a local provider as remote.

- DELETE /api/providers/:id clears provider_id/provider_model on the
  sessions that referenced the provider.
- Startup reconciles session pins against the configured providers, which
  repairs sessions orphaned before this fix, and logs one summary line.
- getContextState warns once per session when the pin does not resolve,
  instead of falling back silently.
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Pull request overview

Fixes a persistent state bug where sessions could remain pinned to a deleted provider (provider_id / provider_model), causing incorrect context window calculations and incorrect provider badges in the UI. The PR introduces reconciliation utilities to clear dangling pins both at provider deletion time and at server boot, plus a one-time warning path when a session references an unknown provider.

Changes:

  • Add session-provider reconciliation utilities to clear dangling session provider pins (on delete + at startup).
  • Cascade session pin clearing in DELETE /api/providers/:id, and run a startup reconciliation pass.
  • Warn once-per-session when a pinned provider can’t be resolved during getContextState fallback; add tests for reconciliation behavior.

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File Description
src/server/session/provider-reconcile.ts New module to clear session provider pins for deleted/unknown providers.
src/server/session/provider-reconcile.test.ts Adds in-memory DB unit tests covering delete cascade + boot reconciliation behavior.
src/server/session/manager.ts Adds once-per-session warning when pinned provider is missing, plus reset points.
src/server/index.ts Runs reconciliation at boot and clears sessions on provider deletion.

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Comment thread src/server/index.ts
Comment on lines +2329 to +2333
// Sessions pinned to this provider would keep an id that no longer resolves.
const clearedSessions = clearSessionsForDeletedProvider(id)
if (clearedSessions > 0) {
logger.info('Cleared provider from sessions of deleted provider', { providerId: id, sessions: clearedSessions })
}
Comment on lines +1379 to +1383
// The pinned provider is gone: the context window below is the global one, not the
// one this session was configured with, so the reported budget is a guess.
if (!this.unknownProviderWarned.has(sessionId)) {
this.unknownProviderWarned.add(sessionId)
logger.warn('Session references an unknown provider, falling back to the global context window', {
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