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docs(roadmap): file CLI provider dispatch bug as #29, mark #28 as partial
#28 error-copy improvements landed on ff1df4c but real users (nicma,
Jengro) hit `error: missing Anthropic credentials` within hours when
using `--model openai/gpt-4` with OPENAI_API_KEY set and all
ANTHROPIC_* env vars unset on main.
Traced root cause in build_runtime_with_plugin_state at line ~6244:
AnthropicRuntimeClient::new() is hardcoded. BuiltRuntime is
statically typed as ConversationRuntime<AnthropicRuntimeClient, ...>.
providers::detect_provider_kind() computes the right routing at the
metadata layer but the runtime client is never dispatched.
Files #29 with the detailed trace + a focused action plan:
DynamicApiClient enum wrapping Anthropic + OpenAiCompat variants,
retype BuiltRuntime, dispatch in build_runtime based on
detect_provider_kind, integration test with mock OpenAI-compat
server.
#28 is marked partial — the error-copy improvements are real and
stayed in, but the routing gap they were meant to cover is the
actual bug and needs #29 to land.
26.**Resumed local-command JSON parity gap** — **done**: direct `claw --output-format json` already had structured renderers for `sandbox`, `mcp`, `skills`, `version`, and `init`, but resumed `claw --output-format json --resume <session> /…` paths still fell back to prose because resumed slash dispatch only emitted JSON for `/status`. Resumed `/sandbox`, `/mcp`, `/skills`, `/version`, and `/init` now reuse the same JSON envelopes as their direct CLI counterparts, with regression coverage in `rust/crates/rusty-claude-cli/tests/resume_slash_commands.rs` and `rust/crates/rusty-claude-cli/tests/output_format_contract.rs`.
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27. **`dev/rust` `cargo test -p rusty-claude-cli` reads host `~/.claude/plugins/installed/` from real `$HOME` and fails parse-time on any half-installed user plugin** — dogfooding on 2026-04-08 (filed from gaebal-gajae's clawhip bullet at message `1491322807026454579` after the provider-matrix branch QA surfaced it) reproduced 11 deterministic failures on clean `dev/rust` HEAD of the form `panicked at crates/rusty-claude-cli/src/main.rs:3953:31: args should parse: "hook path \`/Users/yeongyu/.claude/plugins/installed/sample-hooks-bundled/./hooks/pre.sh\` does not exist; hook path \`...\post.sh\` does not exist"` covering `parses_prompt_subcommand`, `parses_permission_mode_flag`, `defaults_to_repl_when_no_args`, `parses_resume_flag_with_slash_command`, `parses_system_prompt_options`, `parses_bare_prompt_and_json_output_flag`, `rejects_unknown_allowed_tools`, `parses_resume_flag_with_multiple_slash_commands`, `resolves_model_aliases_in_args`, `parses_allowed_tools_flags_with_aliases_and_lists`, `parses_login_and_logout_subcommands`. **Same failures do NOT reproduce on `main`** (re-verified with `cargo test --release -p rusty-claude-cli` against `main` HEAD `79da4b8`, all 156 tests pass). **Root cause is two-layered.** First, on `dev/rust` `parse_args` eagerly walks user-installed plugin manifests under `~/.claude/plugins/installed/` and validates that every declared hook script exists on disk before returning a `CliAction`, so any half-installed plugin in the developer's real `$HOME` (in this case `~/.claude/plugins/installed/sample-hooks-bundled/` whose `.claude-plugin` manifest references `./hooks/pre.sh` and `./hooks/post.sh` but whose `hooks/` subdirectory was deleted) makes argv parsing itself fail. Second, the test harness on `dev/rust` does not redirect `$HOME` or `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` to a fixture for the duration of the test — there is no `env_lock`-style guard equivalent to the one `main` already uses (`grep -n env_lock rust/crates/rusty-claude-cli/src/main.rs` returns 0 hits on `dev/rust` and 30+ hits on `main`). Together those two gaps mean `dev/rust` `cargo test -p rusty-claude-cli` is non-deterministic on every clean clone whose owner happens to have any non-pristine plugin in `~/.claude/`. **Action (two parts).** (a) Backport the `env_lock`-based test isolation pattern from `main` into `dev/rust`'s `rusty-claude-cli` test module so each test runs against a temp `$HOME`/`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` and cannot read host plugin state. (b) Decouple `parse_args` from filesystem hook validation on `dev/rust` (the same decoupling already on `main`, where hook validation happens later in the lifecycle than argv parsing) so even outside tests a partially installed user plugin cannot break basic CLI invocation. **Branch scope.** This is a `dev/rust` catchup against `main`, not a `main` regression. Tracking it here so the dev/rust merge train picks it up before the next dev/rust release rather than rediscovering it in CI.
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28. **Auth-provider truth: error copy fails real users at the env-var-vs-header layer** — dogfooded live on 2026-04-08 in #claw-code (Sisyphus Labs guild), two separate new users hit adjacent failure modes within minutes of each other that both trace back to the same root: the `MissingApiKey` / 401 error surface does not teach users how the auth inputs map to HTTP semantics, so a user who sets a "reasonable-looking" env var still hits a hard error with no signpost. **Case 1 (varleg, Norway).** Wanted to use OpenRouter via the OpenAI-compat path. Found a comparison table claiming "provider-agnostic (Claude, OpenAI, local models)" and assumed it Just Worked. Set `OPENAI_API_KEY` to an OpenRouter `sk-or-v1-...` key and a model name without an `openai/` prefix; claw's provider detection fell through to Anthropic first because `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` was still in the environment. Unsetting `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` got them `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is not set` instead of a useful hint that the OpenAI path was right there. Fix delivered live as a channel reply: use `main` branch (not `dev/rust`), export `OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` alongside `OPENAI_API_KEY`, and prefix the model name with `openai/` so the prefix router wins over env-var presence. **Case 2 (stanley078852).** Had set `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="sk-ant-..."` and was getting 401 `Invalid bearer token` from Anthropic. Root cause: `sk-ant-` keys are `x-api-key`-header keys, not bearer tokens. `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` path in `anthropic.rs` sends the value as `x-api-key`; `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` path sends it as `Authorization: Bearer` (for OAuth access tokens from `claw login`). Setting an `sk-ant-` key in the wrong env var makes claw send it as `Bearer sk-ant-...` which Anthropic rejects at the edge with 401 before it ever reaches the completions endpoint. The error text propagated all the way to the user (`api returned 401 Unauthorized (authentication_error) ... Invalid bearer token`) with zero signal that the problem was env-var choice, not key validity. Fix delivered live as a channel reply: move the `sk-ant-...` key to `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and unset `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`. **Pattern.** Both cases are failures at the *auth-intent translation* layer: the user chose an env var that made syntactic sense to them (`OPENAI_API_KEY` for OpenAI, `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` for Anthropic auth) but the actual wire-format routing requires a more specific choice. The error messages surface the HTTP-layer symptom (401, missing-key) without bridging back to "which env var should you have used and why." **Action.** Three concrete improvements, scoped for a single `main`-side PR: (a) In `ApiError::MissingCredentials` Display, when the Anthropic path is the one being reported but `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `XAI_API_KEY`, or `DASHSCOPE_API_KEY` are present in the environment, extend the message with "— but I see `$OTHER_KEY` set; if you meant to use that provider, prefix your model name with `openai/`, `grok`, or `qwen/` respectively so prefix routing selects it." (b) In the 401-from-Anthropic error path in `anthropic.rs`, when the failing auth source is `BearerToken` AND the bearer token starts with `sk-ant-`, append "— looks like you put an `sk-ant-*` API key in `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`, which is the Bearer-header path. Move it to `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` instead (that env var maps to `x-api-key`, which is the correct header for `sk-ant-*` keys)." Same treatment for OAuth access tokens landing in `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (symmetric mis-assignment). (c) In `rust/README.md` on `main` and the matrix section on `dev/rust`, add a short "Which env var goes where" paragraph mapping `sk-ant-*` → `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and OAuth access token → `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`, with the one-line explanation of `x-api-key` vs `Authorization: Bearer`. **Verification path.** Both improvements can be tested with unit tests against `ApiError::fmt` output (the prefix-routing hint) and with a targeted integration test that feeds an `sk-ant-*`-shaped token into `BearerToken` and asserts the fmt output surfaces the correction hint (no HTTP call needed). **Source.** Live users in #claw-code at `1491328554598924389` (varleg) and `1491329840706486376` (stanley078852) on 2026-04-08.
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28. **Auth-provider truth: error copy fails real users at the env-var-vs-header layer** — dogfooded live on 2026-04-08 in #claw-code (Sisyphus Labs guild), two separate new users hit adjacent failure modes within minutes of each other that both trace back to the same root: the `MissingApiKey` / 401 error surface does not teach users how the auth inputs map to HTTP semantics, so a user who sets a "reasonable-looking" env var still hits a hard error with no signpost. **Case 1 (varleg, Norway).** Wanted to use OpenRouter via the OpenAI-compat path. Found a comparison table claiming "provider-agnostic (Claude, OpenAI, local models)" and assumed it Just Worked. Set `OPENAI_API_KEY` to an OpenRouter `sk-or-v1-...` key and a model name without an `openai/` prefix; claw's provider detection fell through to Anthropic first because `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` was still in the environment. Unsetting `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` got them `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is not set` instead of a useful hint that the OpenAI path was right there. Fix delivered live as a channel reply: use `main` branch (not `dev/rust`), export `OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` alongside `OPENAI_API_KEY`, and prefix the model name with `openai/` so the prefix router wins over env-var presence. **Case 2 (stanley078852).** Had set `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="sk-ant-..."` and was getting 401 `Invalid bearer token` from Anthropic. Root cause: `sk-ant-` keys are `x-api-key`-header keys, not bearer tokens. `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` path in `anthropic.rs` sends the value as `x-api-key`; `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` path sends it as `Authorization: Bearer` (for OAuth access tokens from `claw login`). Setting an `sk-ant-` key in the wrong env var makes claw send it as `Bearer sk-ant-...` which Anthropic rejects at the edge with 401 before it ever reaches the completions endpoint. The error text propagated all the way to the user (`api returned 401 Unauthorized (authentication_error) ... Invalid bearer token`) with zero signal that the problem was env-var choice, not key validity. Fix delivered live as a channel reply: move the `sk-ant-...` key to `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and unset `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`. **Pattern.** Both cases are failures at the *auth-intent translation* layer: the user chose an env var that made syntactic sense to them (`OPENAI_API_KEY` for OpenAI, `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` for Anthropic auth) but the actual wire-format routing requires a more specific choice. The error messages surface the HTTP-layer symptom (401, missing-key) without bridging back to "which env var should you have used and why." **Action.** Three concrete improvements, scoped for a single `main`-side PR: (a) In `ApiError::MissingCredentials` Display, when the Anthropic path is the one being reported but `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `XAI_API_KEY`, or `DASHSCOPE_API_KEY` are present in the environment, extend the message with "— but I see `$OTHER_KEY` set; if you meant to use that provider, prefix your model name with `openai/`, `grok`, or `qwen/` respectively so prefix routing selects it." (b) In the 401-from-Anthropic error path in `anthropic.rs`, when the failing auth source is `BearerToken` AND the bearer token starts with `sk-ant-`, append "— looks like you put an `sk-ant-*` API key in `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`, which is the Bearer-header path. Move it to `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` instead (that env var maps to `x-api-key`, which is the correct header for `sk-ant-*` keys)." Same treatment for OAuth access tokens landing in `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (symmetric mis-assignment). (c) In `rust/README.md` on `main` and the matrix section on `dev/rust`, add a short "Which env var goes where" paragraph mapping `sk-ant-*` → `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and OAuth access token → `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`, with the one-line explanation of `x-api-key` vs `Authorization: Bearer`. **Verification path.** Both improvements can be tested with unit tests against `ApiError::fmt` output (the prefix-routing hint) and with a targeted integration test that feeds an `sk-ant-*`-shaped token into `BearerToken` and asserts the fmt output surfaces the correction hint (no HTTP call needed). **Source.** Live users in #claw-code at `1491328554598924389` (varleg) and `1491329840706486376` (stanley078852) on 2026-04-08. **Partial landing (`ff1df4c`).** Action parts (a), (b), (c) shipped on `main`: `MissingCredentials` now carries an optional hint field and renders adjacent-provider signals, Anthropic 401 + `sk-ant-*` bearer gets a correction hint, USAGE.md has a "Which env var goes where" section. BUT the copy fix only helps users who fell through to the Anthropic auth path by accident — it does NOT fix the underlying routing bug where the CLI instantiates `AnthropicRuntimeClient` unconditionally and ignores prefix routing at the runtime-client layer. That deeper routing gap is tracked separately as #29 below and was filed within hours of #28 landing when live users still hit `missing Anthropic credentials` with `--model openai/gpt-4` and all `ANTHROPIC_*` env vars unset.
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29. **CLI provider dispatch is hardcoded to Anthropic, ignoring prefix routing** — dogfooded live on 2026-04-08 within hours of ROADMAP #28 landing. Users in #claw-code (nicma at `1491342350960562277`, Jengro at `1491345009021030533`) followed the exact "use main, set OPENAI_API_KEY and OPENAI_BASE_URL, unset ANTHROPIC_*, prefix the model with `openai/`" checklist from the #28 error-copy improvements AND STILL hit `error: missing Anthropic credentials; export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY before calling the Anthropic API`. **Reproduction on `main` HEAD `ff1df4c`:** `unset ANTHROPIC_API_KEY ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN; export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...; export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1; claw --model openai/gpt-4 prompt 'test'` → reproduces the error deterministically. **Root cause (traced).** `rust/crates/rusty-claude-cli/src/main.rs` at `build_runtime_with_plugin_state` (line ~6221) unconditionally builds `AnthropicRuntimeClient::new(session_id, model, ...)` without consulting `providers::detect_provider_kind(&model)`. `BuiltRuntime` at line ~2855 is statically typed as `ConversationRuntime<AnthropicRuntimeClient, CliToolExecutor>`, so even if the dispatch logic existed there would be nowhere to slot an alternative client. `providers/mod.rs::metadata_for_model` correctly identifies `openai/gpt-4` as `ProviderKind::OpenAi` at the metadata layer — the routing decision is *computed* correctly, it's just *never used* to pick a runtime client. The result is that the CLI is structurally single-provider (Anthropic only) even though the `api` crate's `openai_compat.rs`, `XAI_ENV_VARS`, `DASHSCOPE_ENV_VARS`, and `send_message_streaming` all exist and are exercised by unit tests inside the `api` crate. The provider matrix in `rust/README.md` is misleading because it describes the api-crate capabilities, not the CLI's actual dispatch behaviour. **Why #28 didn't catch this.** ROADMAP #28 focused on the `MissingCredentials` error *message* (adding hints when adjacent provider env vars are set, or when a bearer token starts with `sk-ant-*`). None of its tests exercised the `build_runtime` code path — they were all unit tests against `ApiError::fmt` output. The routing bug survives #28 because the `Display` improvements fire AFTER the hardcoded Anthropic client has already been constructed and failed. You need the CLI to dispatch to a different client in the first place for the new hints to even surface at the right moment. **Action (single focused commit).** (1) New `OpenAiCompatRuntimeClient` struct in `rust/crates/rusty-claude-cli/src/main.rs` mirroring `AnthropicRuntimeClient` but delegating to `openai_compat::send_message_streaming`. One client type handles OpenAI, xAI, DashScope, and any OpenAI-compat endpoint — they differ only in base URL and auth env var, both of which come from the `ProviderMetadata` returned by `metadata_for_model`. (2) New enum `DynamicApiClient { Anthropic(AnthropicRuntimeClient), OpenAiCompat(OpenAiCompatRuntimeClient) }` that implements `runtime::ApiClient` by matching on the variant and delegating. (3) Retype `BuiltRuntime` from `ConversationRuntime<AnthropicRuntimeClient, CliToolExecutor>` to `ConversationRuntime<DynamicApiClient, CliToolExecutor>`, update the Deref/DerefMut/new spots. (4) In `build_runtime_with_plugin_state`, call `detect_provider_kind(&model)` and construct either variant of `DynamicApiClient`. Prefix routing wins over env-var presence (that's the whole point). (5) Integration test using a mock OpenAI-compat server (reuse `mock_parity_harness` pattern from `crates/api/tests/`) that feeds `claw --model openai/gpt-4 prompt 'test'` with `OPENAI_BASE_URL` pointed at the mock and no `ANTHROPIC_*` env vars, asserts the request reaches the mock, and asserts the response round-trips as an `AssistantEvent`. (6) Unit test that `build_runtime_with_plugin_state` with `model="openai/gpt-4"` returns a `BuiltRuntime` whose inner client is the `DynamicApiClient::OpenAiCompat` variant. **Verification.** `cargo test --workspace`, `cargo fmt --all`, `cargo clippy --workspace`. **Source.** Live users nicma (`1491342350960562277`) and Jengro (`1491345009021030533`) in #claw-code on 2026-04-08, within hours of #28 landing.
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41.**Phantom completions root cause: global session store has no per-worktree isolation** —
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