{"version":"2.1.248","anchor":"thin-clients-can-ask-the-worker-for-its-model-catalog","canonical_anchor":"thin-clients-can-ask-the-worker-for-its-model-catalog","heading":"Thin clients can ask the worker for its model catalog","tier":"soon","area":"Sessions","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.248\/e\/thin-clients-can-ask-the-worker-for-its-model-catalog","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.248","markdown":"### Thin clients can ask the worker for its model catalog\n\nThin clients can ask a remote worker which models it offers.\n\n**What**\n\nA new control message, `list_models`, lets a client running against a remote worker fetch the list of selectable models rather than computing one locally, because the worker's provider and settings decide what is available. It is gated on the client advertising a `modelCatalog` capability.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Only reachable in remote thin-client sessions; a normal local session picks models the usual way.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Requests the worker's selectable model catalog.`\n\n- Area: Sessions\n- Names: `list_models`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}