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Closes #548.

Problem

Agent blocks could only run against OpenAI. createOpenAI was the only provider constructor, 'auto' resolved to gpt-5, providerOptions was unconditionally openai, and the engine hard-failed without OPENAI_API_KEY. OPENAI_BASE_URL reached OpenAI-compatible endpoints but silently downgraded to Chat Completions, and could not reach Anthropic's native API at all.

Change

New packages/runtime-core/src/agent-provider.ts parses an optional provider:model prefix on deepnote_agent_model and builds the language model plus its provider-specific options.

Provider id Package Default model Covers
openai @ai-sdk/openai (existing) gpt-5 unchanged behaviour
anthropic @ai-sdk/anthropic claude-opus-5 Claude
openai-compatible @ai-sdk/openai-compatible none — errors rather than guess OpenRouter, Ollama, LiteLLM, vLLM, Together, Groq

Backwards compatibility:

  • A bare model name (gpt-5.6-sol) or auto still means openai, so existing .deepnote files are untouched.
  • Only a known provider id counts as a prefix, so slash-separated aggregator ids (anthropic/claude-opus-5) survive intact and a colon inside a model name is not mistaken for a prefix.
  • openai + OPENAI_BASE_URL keeps its exact current behaviour, including the Chat Completions fallback and the dropped reasoning summaries.
  • openai-compatible falls back to the OPENAI_* variables, so an existing "point OPENAI_BASE_URL at Ollama" setup works after switching to the explicit provider id.
  • AgentBlockContext.openAiToken becomes apiKey, with the old field kept as a deprecated alias — see the note on vscode-deepnote below.

Per-provider providerOptions replaces the hardcoded openai block. Anthropic gets thinking: { type: 'adaptive', display: 'summarized' } so reasoning still reaches onAgentEvent; the Anthropic default omits it and the UI would show a silent pause instead.

Dependency pinning

@ai-sdk/anthropic and @ai-sdk/openai-compatible are pinned to 3.0.127 and 2.0.81, the newest releases still on @ai-sdk/provider@3.x. Their latest tags are on @ai-sdk/provider@4 (LanguageModelV4), which ai@6.0.253 rejects at the type level. Renovate will want to bump both — they can only move once ai itself moves.

Decision on the issue's open question

openai-compatible gets its own DEEPNOTE_AGENT_* variables, with the OPENAI_* ones as fallbacks. Overloading OPENAI_BASE_URL reads badly once openai is one of three providers, and the fallback keeps the migration free.

Draft, because

  • vscode-deepnote needs a companion PR before this is useful to editor users. Its model picker is a hardcoded OpenAI list (src/notebooks/deepnote/agentCellStatusBarProvider.ts:28) and its key prompt is OpenAI-only (src/notebooks/deepnote/deepnoteSecretStore.ts:18). The deprecated openAiToken alias means this PR does not break its build, but a Claude model is unreachable from the editor until that lands.
  • Anthropic prompt caching is not enabled yet. It is the main reason to prefer the native provider over an OpenAI-compatible shim — buildSystemPrompt re-sends the whole notebook context on every step of the tool loop — but placing cache breakpoints is its own change. This PR makes it possible; it does not do it.
  • Deepnote Cloud reads the same field as an opaque model name, so prefixed values sync without breaking. Worth confirming with the coordinator owners whether the prefix should mean the same thing there before this is advertised.

Documentation

Per the check added in #526:

  • packages/runtime-core/README.md — new provider table
  • packages/cli/README.md — provider prefix and the full environment variable table
  • skills/deepnote/references/blocks-agent.md, skills/deepnote/references/cli-run.md — same, agent-facing
  • packages/blocks/src/deepnote-file/deepnote-file-schema.ts — doc comment on the field
  • docs/ needs no change: it has no agent-block or deepnote run --prompt page today (the CLI overview is still No overview page for the Deepnote CLI in the docs #533 / docs: add a Deepnote CLI overview page #534)

Tests

packages/runtime-core/src/agent-provider.test.ts — 21 cases covering prefix parsing (bare names, unknown prefixes, slash ids, empty model, leading colon), per-provider model precedence, cross-provider env isolation, and the two openai-compatible misconfiguration errors.

Full CI is green.

Note on the first CI run

The initial push failed every job with ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_MISSING_DEPENDENCY: no entry for 'undici@6.28.0'. The branch was cut before #546/#547 raised the undici override to 6.28.1, so the merge kept main's undici@6.28.1 package entry next to the undici: 6.28.0 snapshot reference that came in with @ai-sdk/provider-utils. Fixed in c98cca3 by merging main and regenerating the lockfile; the install is now verified against a clean clone with --frozen-lockfile.

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…f hardcoding OpenAI

Agent blocks could only run against OpenAI: `createOpenAI` was the only
provider constructor, `'auto'` resolved to `gpt-5`, `providerOptions` was
unconditionally `openai`, and the engine hard-failed without
`OPENAI_API_KEY`. `OPENAI_BASE_URL` reached OpenAI-compatible endpoints but
silently downgraded to Chat Completions, and could not reach Anthropic's
native API at all.

Add `agent-provider.ts`, which parses an optional `provider:model` prefix on
`deepnote_agent_model` and builds the model plus its provider-specific
options. Three providers: `openai` (unchanged default), `anthropic`, and
`openai-compatible` for OpenRouter, Ollama, LiteLLM, vLLM, Together and Groq.

A bare model name or `'auto'` still means `openai`, so existing `.deepnote`
files are unaffected, and only a known provider id counts as a prefix, which
leaves slash-separated aggregator ids intact.

`AgentBlockContext.openAiToken` becomes `apiKey`; the old field is kept as a
deprecated alias so `vscode-deepnote` keeps building against this package.

Refs #548

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Agent blocks support openai, anthropic, and openai-compatible providers. A provider:model prefix selects a provider; bare model names and auto select OpenAI. Runtime resolves provider-specific credentials, models, endpoints, and options, then passes the selected key to the agent handler. Documentation describes provider configuration and environment-variable fallbacks.

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Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ExecutionEngine
  participant executeAgentBlock
  participant resolveAgentModel
  participant ProviderSDK
  ExecutionEngine->>ExecutionEngine: Parse provider and look up its API-key variable
  ExecutionEngine->>executeAgentBlock: Pass selected key as apiKey
  executeAgentBlock->>resolveAgentModel: Resolve model and provider options
  resolveAgentModel->>ProviderSDK: Construct provider model
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OpenAI-compatible users relying on the documented OPENAI_API_KEY fallback cannot run their agent. Correct the credential lookup before merging.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning PR #549 implements the three providers, provider:model parsing, per-provider options, API-key aliases, environment fallbacks, documentation, dependencies, and resolver tests for #548. Two coding req… Move provider API-key lookup into resolveAgentModel and pass the resolved key through the agent context. Add Anthropic prompt-caching configuration and automated coverage for both behaviors.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 6 files. (3 skipped: 3… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed files support #548. They implement provider resolution, update runtime dependencies and exports, add resolver tests, update the three required documentation files, and retain the deprecate…
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PR #549 implements the three providers, provider:model parsing, per-provider options, API-key aliases, environment fallbacks, documentation, dependencies, and resolver tests for #548. Two coding requirements remain unmet. resolveAgentModel requires an apiKey, while execution-engine.ts still reads the provider environment variable. The Anthropic configuration enables adaptive thinking but does not add prompt caching.

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const { providerId } = parseAgentModel(block.metadata.deepnote_agent_model)
const apiKeyEnvVar = apiKeyEnvVarFor(providerId)
const apiKey = process.env[apiKeyEnvVar]

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

The openai-compatible key fallback to OPENAI_API_KEY does not work.

Execution reads only DEEPNOTE_AGENT_API_KEY for openai-compatible. The docs promise a fallback to OPENAI_API_KEY. Setups that set only OPENAI_API_KEY fail before the agent runs.

  • packages/runtime-core/src/execution-engine.ts#L341-L343: replace process.env[apiKeyEnvVar] with readAgentApiKey(providerId).
  • packages/runtime-core/src/agent-provider.ts#L120-L139: export readAgentApiKey(providerId, env = process.env) that returns readEnv(env, providerId, 'apiKeyVar').
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Update the API-key lookup in the execution flow to call the exported
readAgentApiKey(providerId) helper instead of reading process.env directly, and
add that helper in agent-provider.ts to resolve the key through readEnv(env,
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jamesbhobbs and others added 2 commits October 1, 2026 15:08
The branch was cut before #546/#547 raised the `undici` override to 6.28.1.
The merge kept main's `undici@6.28.1` package entry alongside the
`undici: 6.28.0` snapshot reference introduced with `@ai-sdk/provider-utils`,
so `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` failed with
ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_MISSING_DEPENDENCY and took every CI job with it.

Also document the agent providers in the runtime-core README, per the
documentation check added in #526.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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