{"version":"2.1.273","anchor":"model-picker-list-building-drops-a-flag-sourced-model-merg","canonical_anchor":"model-picker-list-building-drops-a-flag-sourced-model-merg","heading":"Model-picker list building drops a 'flag'-sourced model-merge branch","tier":"internal","area":"Models","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.273\/e\/model-picker-list-building-drops-a-flag-sourced-model-merg","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.273","markdown":"### Model-picker list building drops a 'flag'-sourced model-merge branch\n\nModel picker no longer merges in extra models just because the catalog source was 'flag'\n\n**What**\n\nThe code that builds the list of models shown in the model picker used to pull in extra models whenever the active model catalog's source was specifically `flag`. That branch has been removed. Now the fallback, built-in model list is only added when there is no resolved catalog at all, regardless of what source the catalog came from.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis narrows when Claude Code falls back to its built-in model list, tying it only to a missing catalog rather than to how the catalog was sourced.\n\n- Area: Models\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}