feat(core): allow parallel tool calls and stop asking for exactly one tool call per turn

2026-11-09 05:19:39 -10:00 · 2026-10-20 09:40:39 -04:00
63 changed files with 593 additions and 1925 deletions
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ jobs:
          assert not any(name.startswith("strix/interface/tui/cmd/") for name in names)
          PY
      - name: Install into a clean environment and run the CLI
-        env:
-          UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER: 5 days
        run: |
          uv venv --python 3.12 /tmp/strix-smoke
          uv pip install --python /tmp/strix-smoke/bin/python dist/*.whl
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Target-specific workflows built on the same engine:
 - **Open-source CLI (self-hosted):** free, fully local, BYO LLM key, needs Docker. Best for local dev loops, air-gapped/offline, and full control.
  ```bash
  curl -sSL https://strix.ai/install | bash        # install
-  export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"        # any LiteLLM model id, or vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3
+  export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"        # any LiteLLM model id
  export LLM_API_KEY="<key>"
  strix -n -t ./ --scan-mode quick --max-budget 10  # headless scan; always use -n
  ```
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Thank you for your interest in contributing to Strix! This guide will help you g

 3. **Configure your LLM provider**
   ```bash
-   export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"   # or vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3
+   export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"
   export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
   ```

@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ Strix are autonomous AI penetration testing agents that act just like real hacke
 curl -sSL https://strix.ai/install | bash

 # Configure your AI provider
-export STRIX_LLM="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3"   # Vercel AI Gateway
-# export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"       # OpenRouter
+export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"

 # Run your first security assessment
@@ -297,8 +296,7 @@ jobs:
 ### Configuration

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3"   # Vercel AI Gateway
-# export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"       # OpenRouter
+export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"

 # Optional
@@ -354,14 +352,12 @@ Each server's tools are namespaced by `name`, for example `github_list_issues`.

 **Recommended models for best results:**

- [Z.ai GLM-5.3 on Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/glm-5.3) - `vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3` (recommended)
- [Z.ai GLM-5.3 on OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.3) - `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3` (recommended)
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017) - `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017`
- [OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol](https://openai.com/api/) - `openai/gpt-6.1-sol` (needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/) access)
- [Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5](https://claude.com/platform/api) - `anthropic/claude-opus-5-5` (needs [CVP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) access)
- [Google Gemini 4 Argon](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai) - `vertex_ai/gemini-4-argon` (needs [Fairwind](https://deepmind.google/fairwind-program/) access)
+- [Z.ai GLM-5.3 on OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.3) - `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3` (the default pick)
+- [OpenAI GPT-5.4](https://openai.com/api/) - `openai/gpt-5.4`
+- [Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6](https://claude.com/platform/api) - `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6`
+- [Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai) - `vertex_ai/gemini-3-pro-preview`
 - [DeepSeek V4 Pro](https://platform.deepseek.com) - `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`
- [Moonshot Kimi K3.1 Pro](https://platform.kimi.ai) - `moonshot/kimi-k3.1-pro`
+- [Moonshot Kimi K3](https://platform.kimi.ai) - `moonshot/kimi-k3`

 See the [LLM Providers documentation](https://docs.strix.ai/llm-providers/overview) for all supported providers including Vertex AI, Bedrock, Azure, and local models.

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ USER root
 # overwrite a root-owned binary under /usr/local/bin, which otherwise fails with
 # "cannot move binary" and aborts the scan. Pin the initial version for
 # reproducible builds; self-update then pulls fresh detectors at runtime.
-ARG TRUFFLEHOG_VERSION=3.99.2
+ARG TRUFFLEHOG_VERSION=3.95.9
 RUN curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/main/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /home/pentester/.local/bin "v${TRUFFLEHOG_VERSION}" && \
    chown -R pentester:pentester /home/pentester/.local
 RUN set -eux; \
@@ -196,22 +196,6 @@ RUN curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/trivy/main/contrib/

 RUN apt-get install -y wapiti

-# CVE-2026-111497: out-of-bounds write in the brotli decoder, fixed in brotli
-# 1.2.1 / Debian 1.2.0-4.1. kali-rolling still ships 1.2.0-4, and node, curl and
-# python3 in this image all load the shared libbrotlidec, so every HTTP client here
-# would decode a malicious `Content-Encoding: br` response with the vulnerable
-# code. Install the fixed Debian packages until Kali picks them up.
-ARG BROTLI_DEB_VERSION=1.2.0-4.1
-RUN set -eux; \
-    ARCH="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
-    for pkg in libbrotli1 python3-brotli; do \
-        curl -fsSL "https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/brotli/${pkg}_${BROTLI_DEB_VERSION}_${ARCH}.deb" -o "/tmp/${pkg}.deb"; \
-    done; \
-    dpkg -i /tmp/libbrotli1.deb /tmp/python3-brotli.deb; \
-    rm -f /tmp/libbrotli1.deb /tmp/python3-brotli.deb; \
-    test "$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}' libbrotli1)" = "${BROTLI_DEB_VERSION}"; \
-    node -e 'const z=require("zlib");z.brotliDecompressSync(z.brotliCompressSync(Buffer.from("ok")))'
-
 USER pentester

 RUN pipx install semgrep && \
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Configure Strix using environment variables or a config file.
 ## LLM Configuration

 <ParamField path="STRIX_LLM" type="string" required>
-  Model name in LiteLLM format (e.g., `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3`, `openai/gpt-6.1-sol`).
+  Model name in LiteLLM format (e.g., `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3`, `openai/gpt-5.4`).
 </ParamField>

 <ParamField path="LLM_API_KEY" type="string">
@@ -19,29 +19,10 @@ Configure Strix using environment variables or a config file.
  Custom API base URL. Also accepts `OPENAI_API_BASE`, `LITELLM_BASE_URL`, or `OLLAMA_API_BASE`.
 </ParamField>

-<ParamField path="STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK" type="number">
-  Price per 1M input tokens in USD for `STRIX_LLM`. Use it for gateway or self-hosted model ids that LiteLLM can't price.
-</ParamField>
-
-<ParamField path="STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK" type="number">
-  Price per 1M output tokens in USD for `STRIX_LLM`.
-</ParamField>
-
-<ParamField path="STRIX_LLM_CACHED_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK" type="number">
-  Price per 1M cached input tokens in USD for `STRIX_LLM`. If unset, cached tokens use the input price.
-</ParamField>
-
-<Note>
-  Setting any of these prices replaces the provider-reported and LiteLLM cost for `STRIX_LLM` in reports and `--max-budget`. An unset input or output price counts as `0`, so set both. A separate `STRIX_DEDUPE_MODEL` keeps its LiteLLM price.
-</Note>
-
 <ParamField path="STRIX_API_TYPE" type="string">
  Select the OpenAI API path for the model: `responses` or `chat_completions`.
-  By default the model decides: Responses when LiteLLM's model catalog lists
-  `/v1/responses` for it (e.g. `gpt-5`), chat completions otherwise. A custom
-  `LLM_API_BASE` does not change this, so set `STRIX_API_TYPE=chat_completions`
-  when your gateway only serves chat completions. Applies to bare and `openai/`
-  model names. Also accepts `STRIX_FORCE_API`.
+  By default, a custom `LLM_API_BASE` uses chat completions. Set this variable
+  when your gateway requires the other API. Also accepts `STRIX_FORCE_API`.
 </ParamField>

 <ParamField path="LLM_EXTRA_HEADERS" type="string">
@@ -160,10 +141,6 @@ affecting the agents that do the actual testing.
  Telemetry toggle. Set to `0`, `false`, `no`, or `off` to disable telemetry (PostHog, Scarf, OTEL).
 </ParamField>

-<ParamField path="STRIX_RUN_RECORD_TIMINGS" default="false" type="boolean">
-  Record every LLM request's and tool call's timing in `run.json`, under `llm_requests` and `tool_calls`. Adds about 0.5 MB to a typical scan's `run.json`.
-</ParamField>
-
 <ParamField path="TRACELOOP_BASE_URL" type="string">
  OTLP/Traceloop base URL for remote OpenTelemetry export. If unset, Strix keeps traces local only.
 </ParamField>
@@ -186,7 +163,7 @@ When remote vars are set, Strix dual-writes telemetry to both local JSONL and th

 ## Docker Configuration

-<ParamField path="STRIX_IMAGE" default="ghcr.io/usestrix/strix-sandbox:1.3.1" type="string">
+<ParamField path="STRIX_IMAGE" default="ghcr.io/usestrix/strix-sandbox:1.3.0" type="string">
  Docker image to use for the sandbox container.
 </ParamField>

@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
              "llm-providers/overview",
              "llm-providers/openai",
              "llm-providers/anthropic",
-              "llm-providers/vercel-ai-gateway",
              "llm-providers/openrouter",
+              "llm-providers/vercel-ai-gateway",
              "llm-providers/vertex",
              "llm-providers/bedrock",
              "llm-providers/azure",
@@ -73,20 +73,7 @@ Strix uses a graph of specialized agents for comprehensive security testing:

 ## Quick Example

-<CodeGroup>
-```bash Vercel AI Gateway
-# Install
-curl -sSL https://strix.ai/install | bash
-
-# Configure
-export STRIX_LLM="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3"
-export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
-
-# Scan
-strix --target ./your-app
-```
-
-```bash OpenRouter
+```bash
 # Install
 curl -sSL https://strix.ai/install | bash

@@ -97,7 +84,6 @@ export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
 # Scan
 strix --target ./your-app
 ```
-</CodeGroup>

 ## Community

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "Configure Strix with Claude models"
 ## Setup

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5"
+export STRIX_LLM="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6"
 export LLM_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."
 ```

@@ -14,12 +14,8 @@ export LLM_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."

 | Model | Description |
 |-------|-------------|
-| `anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5` | Best balance of intelligence and speed |
-| `anthropic/claude-opus-5-5` | Maximum capability for deep analysis |
-
-<Note>
-Security testing with Claude needs the [Cyber Verification Program](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) (CVP). Without it the safety classifiers block most offensive tasks. Red Team Access covers authorized penetration testing.
-</Note>
+| `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6` | Best balance of intelligence and speed |
+| `anthropic/claude-opus-4-6` | Maximum capability for deep analysis |

 ## Get API Key

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "Configure Strix with OpenAI models via Azure"
 ## Setup

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="azure/your-gpt6-deployment"
+export STRIX_LLM="azure/your-gpt5-deployment"
 export AZURE_API_KEY="your-azure-api-key"
 export AZURE_API_BASE="https://your-resource.openai.azure.com"
 export AZURE_API_VERSION="2025-11-01-preview"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export AZURE_API_VERSION="2025-11-01-preview"
 ## Example

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="azure/gpt-6.1-sol-deployment"
+export STRIX_LLM="azure/gpt-5.4-deployment"
 export AZURE_API_KEY="abc123..."
 export AZURE_API_BASE="https://mycompany.openai.azure.com"
 export AZURE_API_VERSION="2025-11-01-preview"
@@ -33,9 +33,5 @@ export AZURE_API_VERSION="2025-11-01-preview"
 ## Prerequisites

 1. Create an Azure OpenAI resource
-2. Deploy a model such as GPT-6.1 Sol
+2. Deploy a model (e.g., GPT-5.4)
 3. Get the endpoint URL and API key from the Azure portal
-
-<Note>
-Security testing with OpenAI models needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/) access, also on Azure.
-</Note>
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "Configure Strix with models via AWS Bedrock"
 ## Setup

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5"
+export STRIX_LLM="bedrock/anthropic.claude-4-5-sonnet-20251022-v1:0"
 ```

 No API key required—uses AWS credentials from environment.
@@ -36,13 +36,10 @@ Automatically uses instance role credentials.

 | Model | Description |
 |-------|-------------|
-| `bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5` | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
-| `bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5` | Claude Opus 5.5 |
-| `bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-haiku-5-5` | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
-
-<Note>
-Security testing with Claude needs the [Cyber Verification Program](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) (CVP), also on Bedrock.
-</Note>
+| `bedrock/anthropic.claude-4-5-sonnet-20251022-v1:0` | Claude 4.5 Sonnet |
+| `bedrock/anthropic.claude-4-5-opus-20251022-v1:0` | Claude 4.5 Opus |
+| `bedrock/anthropic.claude-4-5-haiku-20251022-v1:0` | Claude 4.5 Haiku |
+| `bedrock/amazon.titan-text-premier-v2:0` | Amazon Titan Premier v2 |

 ## Prerequisites

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ description: "Configure Strix with Novita AI models"
 ## Setup

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="openai/zai-org/glm-5.3"
+export STRIX_LLM="openai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-novita-api-key"
 export LLM_API_BASE="https://api.novita.ai/openai"
 ```
@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@ export LLM_API_BASE="https://api.novita.ai/openai"
 | Model | Configuration |
 |-------|---------------|
 | GLM-5.3 | `openai/zai-org/glm-5.3` |
-| Kimi K3.1 Pro | `openai/moonshotai/kimi-k3.1-pro` |
 | Kimi K3 | `openai/moonshotai/kimi-k3` |
-| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | `openai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017` |
 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | `openai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro` |
-| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | `openai/minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash` |
-| GLM-5.3 Flash | `openai/zai-org/glm-5.3-flash` |
+| Kimi K2.5 | `openai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5` |
+| GLM-5 | `openai/zai-org/glm-5` |
+| MiniMax M2.5 | `openai/minimax/minimax-m2.5` |

 ## Get API Key

@@ -6,23 +6,13 @@ description: "Configure Strix with OpenAI models"
 ## Setup

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="openai/gpt-6.1-sol"
+export STRIX_LLM="openai/gpt-5.4"
 export LLM_API_KEY="sk-..."
 ```

 ## Available Models

-| Model | Description |
-|-------|-------------|
-| `openai/gpt-6.1-sol` | Best balance of capability and cost for agentic security work |
-| `openai/gpt-6-astra` | Flagship, maximum capability |
-| `openai/gpt-6-luna` | Fast and cheap |
-
-See [OpenAI Models Documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models) for the full list.
-
-<Note>
-Security testing with OpenAI models needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/) (Trusted Access for Cyber). Without it the models refuse most offensive tasks. [Request access](https://openai.com/form/enterprise-trusted-access-for-cyber/).
-</Note>
+See [OpenAI Models Documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models) for the full list of available models.

 ## Get API Key

@@ -35,7 +25,7 @@ Security testing with OpenAI models needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak
 For OpenAI-compatible APIs:

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="openai/gpt-6.1-sol"
+export STRIX_LLM="openai/gpt-5.4"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-key"
 export LLM_API_BASE="https://your-proxy.com/v1"
 ```
@@ -18,19 +18,13 @@ Access any model on OpenRouter using the format `openrouter/<provider>/<model>`:

 | Model | Configuration |
 |-------|---------------|
-| GLM-5.3 (recommended) | `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3` |
-| GPT-6.1 Sol | `openrouter/openai/gpt-6.1-sol` |
-| GPT-6 Astra | `openrouter/openai/gpt-6-astra` |
-| Claude Opus 5.5 | `openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5` |
-| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | `openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5` |
-| Gemini 4 Argon | `openrouter/google/gemini-4-argon` |
-| Gemini 3.8 Flash | `openrouter/google/gemini-3.8-flash` |
-| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017` |
+| GLM-5.3 (default) | `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3` |
+| GPT-5.4 | `openrouter/openai/gpt-5.4` |
+| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | `openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6` |
+| Gemini 3 Pro | `openrouter/google/gemini-3-pro-preview` |
 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | `openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro` |
-| Kimi K3.1 Pro | `openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k3.1-pro` |
-| GLM-5.3 Flash | `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash` |
-
-OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models keep their provider safeguards on OpenRouter. Security testing with them needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/), [CVP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) or [Fairwind](https://deepmind.google/fairwind-program/) access.
+| Kimi K3 | `openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k3` |
+| GLM-4.7 | `openrouter/z-ai/glm-4.7` |

 ## Get API Key

@@ -9,33 +9,19 @@ Strix uses [LiteLLM](https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/providers) for model compatibi

 Set your model and API key:

-| Model                 | Provider                  | Configuration                    |
-| --------------------- | ------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
-| GLM-5.3 (recommended) | Vercel AI Gateway         | `vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3`  |
-| GLM-5.3 (recommended) | OpenRouter                | `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3`        |
-| GPT-6.1 Sol           | OpenAI                    | `openai/gpt-6.1-sol`             |
-| Claude Opus 5.5       | Anthropic                 | `anthropic/claude-opus-5-5`      |
-| Claude Sonnet 5.5     | Anthropic                 | `anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5`    |
-| Gemini 4 Argon        | Google Vertex             | `vertex_ai/gemini-4-argon`       |
-| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash   | DeepSeek                  | `deepseek/deepseek-flash`        |
-| DeepSeek V4 Pro       | DeepSeek                  | `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`       |
-| Kimi K3.1 Pro         | Moonshot                  | `moonshot/kimi-k3.1-pro`         |
+| Model                | Provider          | Configuration                    |
+| -------------------- | ----------------- | -------------------------------- |
+| GLM-5.3 (default)    | Z.ai (OpenRouter) | `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3`        |
+| GPT-5.4              | OpenAI            | `openai/gpt-5.4`                 |
+| Claude Sonnet 4.6    | Anthropic         | `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6`    |
+| Gemini 3 Pro         | Google Vertex     | `vertex_ai/gemini-3-pro-preview` |
+| DeepSeek V4 Pro      | DeepSeek          | `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`       |
+| Kimi K3              | Moonshot          | `moonshot/kimi-k3`               |

-<Note>
-Frontier OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models need a cyber access program for security testing: [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/) for OpenAI, the [Cyber Verification Program](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) for Anthropic, and the [Fairwind Program](https://deepmind.google/fairwind-program/) for Gemini.
-</Note>
-
-<CodeGroup>
-```bash Vercel AI Gateway
-export STRIX_LLM="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3"
-export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
-```
-
-```bash OpenRouter
+```bash
 export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
 ```
-</CodeGroup>

 ## Local Models

@@ -61,7 +47,7 @@ See the [Local Models guide](/llm-providers/local) for setup instructions and re
    Access 100+ models through a single API.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Vercel AI Gateway" href="/llm-providers/vercel-ai-gateway">
-    Access 100+ models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
+    Access models from multiple providers through one endpoint.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Google Vertex AI" href="/llm-providers/vertex">
    Gemini 3 models via Google Cloud.
@@ -83,9 +69,9 @@ Use LiteLLM's `provider/model-name` format:

 ```
 openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3
-openai/gpt-6.1-sol
-anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5
-vertex_ai/gemini-4-argon
-bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5
+openai/gpt-5.4
+anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
+vertex_ai/gemini-3-pro-preview
+bedrock/anthropic.claude-4-5-sonnet-20251022-v1:0
 ollama/llama4
 ```
@@ -1,47 +1,32 @@
 ---
 title: "Vercel AI Gateway"
-description: "Configure Strix with models through Vercel AI Gateway"
+description: "Configure Strix with models via Vercel AI Gateway"
 ---

-[Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway) provides access to 100+ models from multiple providers through one OpenAI-compatible API.
+[Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway) provides an OpenAI-compatible API for models from multiple providers.

 ## Setup

 Create an [AI Gateway API key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok), then configure Strix:

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3"
+export STRIX_LLM="openai/anthropic/claude-opus-5"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-ai-gateway-api-key"
+export LLM_API_BASE="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
 ```

-The `vercel_ai_gateway/` prefix selects the Gateway. The remaining value is the [AI Gateway model ID](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers).
+The first `openai/` segment tells Strix to use its OpenAI-compatible client. The remaining value is the [AI Gateway model ID](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers).

 ## Available Models

-Access any model on the Gateway using the format `vercel_ai_gateway/<provider>/<model>`:
-
-| Model | Configuration |
-|-------|---------------|
-| GLM-5.3 (recommended) | `vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3` |
-| GPT-6.1 Sol | `vercel_ai_gateway/openai/gpt-6.1-sol` |
-| GPT-6 Astra | `vercel_ai_gateway/openai/gpt-6-astra` |
-| Claude Opus 5.5 | `vercel_ai_gateway/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5` |
-| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | `vercel_ai_gateway/anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5` |
-| Gemini 4 Argon | `vercel_ai_gateway/google/gemini-4-argon` |
-| Gemini 3.8 Flash | `vercel_ai_gateway/google/gemini-3.8-flash` |
-| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | `vercel_ai_gateway/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017` |
-| DeepSeek V4 Pro | `vercel_ai_gateway/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro` |
-| Kimi K3.1 Pro | `vercel_ai_gateway/moonshotai/kimi-k3.1-pro` |
-| GLM-5.3 Flash | `vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3-flash` |
-
-OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models keep their provider safeguards on the Gateway. Security testing with them needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/), [CVP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) or [Fairwind](https://deepmind.google/fairwind-program/) access.
-
-The full list is at the [AI Gateway models page](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models) or the models endpoint:
+Use any language model returned by the AI Gateway models endpoint:

 ```text
 https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models
 ```

+Prefix its model ID with `openai/` when setting `STRIX_LLM`. For example, the Gateway model ID `anthropic/claude-opus-5` becomes `openai/anthropic/claude-opus-5` in Strix.
+
 ## Get API Key

 1. Open the [AI Gateway API key settings](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok)
@@ -50,6 +35,5 @@ https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models

 ## Benefits

- **Single API** — Access models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Z.ai, and more
- **Bring your own keys** — Route through your own provider accounts when you want
- **Cost tracking** — Monitor Gateway usage and cost in Vercel
+- Access models from multiple providers through one endpoint
+- Track Gateway usage and cost in Vercel
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: "Configure Strix with Gemini models via Google Cloud"
 ## Setup

 ```bash
-export STRIX_LLM="vertex_ai/gemini-4-argon"
+export STRIX_LLM="vertex_ai/gemini-3-pro-preview"
 ```

 No API key required—uses Google Cloud Application Default Credentials.
@@ -29,12 +29,8 @@ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/service-account.json"

 | Model | Description |
 |-------|-------------|
-| `vertex_ai/gemini-4-argon` | Best overall performance for security testing |
-| `vertex_ai/gemini-3.8-flash` | Faster and cheaper |
-
-<Note>
-Security testing with Gemini needs the [Fairwind Program](https://deepmind.google/fairwind-program/). Without it the cyber guardrails block most offensive tasks.
-</Note>
+| `vertex_ai/gemini-3-pro-preview` | Best overall performance for security testing |
+| `vertex_ai/gemini-3-flash-preview` | Faster and cheaper |

 ## Project Configuration

@@ -25,22 +25,15 @@ description: "Install Strix and run your first security scan"

 ## Configuration

-Set your LLM provider. We recommend GLM-5.3 through [Vercel AI Gateway](/llm-providers/vercel-ai-gateway) or [OpenRouter](/llm-providers/openrouter):
+Set your LLM provider:

-<CodeGroup>
-```bash Vercel AI Gateway
-export STRIX_LLM="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3"
-export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
-```
-
-```bash OpenRouter
+```bash
 export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"
 export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
 ```
-</CodeGroup>

 <Tip>
-For best results, use `zai/glm-5.3`, `deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017`, `anthropic/claude-opus-5-5` (needs [CVP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-cyber-verification-program) access), or `openai/gpt-6.1-sol` (needs [Daybreak](https://openai.com/daybreak/) access).
+For best results, use `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3` (the default pick), `openai/gpt-5.4`, `anthropic/claude-opus-4-6`, or `openai/gpt-5.2`.
 </Tip>

 ## Run Your First Scan
@@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ dev = [
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 asyncio_mode = "auto"

-[tool.uv]
-# Supply-chain cooldown: resolve only distributions that have been on the index for
-# at least 5 days, so a poisoned release (litellm 1.107.0, 2026-10-21) is never
-# picked up by `uv lock` / `uv add` before it can be caught and yanked.
-exclude-newer = "5 days"
-
 [build-system]
 requires = ["hatchling"]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -euo pipefail

 APP=strix
 REPO="usestrix/strix"
-STRIX_IMAGE="ghcr.io/usestrix/strix-sandbox:1.3.1"
+STRIX_IMAGE="ghcr.io/usestrix/strix-sandbox:1.3.0"

 MUTED='\033[0;2m'
 RED='\033[0;31m'
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
          fi
 ```

-Then tell the user to add two repository secrets: `STRIX_LLM` (model id, for example `openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3`) and `LLM_API_KEY` (the provider key). Do not create these values yourself.
+Then tell the user to add two repository secrets: `STRIX_LLM` (model id, for example `openai/gpt-5.4`) and `LLM_API_KEY` (the provider key). Do not create these values yourself.

 Notes:
 - In CI/headless runs Strix automatically scopes to the PR's changed files (`--scope-mode auto`). If diff resolution fails, keep `fetch-depth: 0` or set `--diff-base` to the PR's actual base branch — use `origin/${{ github.base_ref }}` in GitHub Actions rather than a hard-coded `origin/main`, since repos use different default branches.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ If unsure and the user has (or will create) an app.strix.ai account, prefer **Cl
   ```
 3. **LLM configured** — two environment variables:
   ```bash
-   export STRIX_LLM="openrouter/z-ai/glm-5.3"      # any LiteLLM model id (openai/..., anthropic/..., openrouter/...)
+   export STRIX_LLM="openai/gpt-5.4"      # any LiteLLM model id (openai/..., anthropic/..., openrouter/...)
   export LLM_API_KEY="<provider api key>"
   ```
   Ask the user for these if unset. Never hardcode or commit keys.
@@ -619,17 +619,6 @@ def _finish_tool_use_behavior(
    return ToolsToFinalOutputResult(is_final_output=False, final_output=None)


-_COVERAGE_TOOLS: tuple[Tool, ...] = (record_coverage, update_coverage, list_coverage)
-_FINISH_SCAN_COVERAGE_STEP = re.compile(
-    r"\n5\. \*\*Coverage reconciliation\.\*\*.*?(?=\n\n)", re.DOTALL
-)
-
-
-def _without_coverage_step(tool: FunctionTool) -> FunctionTool:
-    description = _FINISH_SCAN_COVERAGE_STEP.sub("", tool.description)
-    return dataclasses.replace(tool, description=description)
-
-
 _BASE_TOOLS: tuple[Tool, ...] = (
    think,
    load_skill,
@@ -728,7 +717,6 @@ def build_strix_agent(
    is_whitebox: bool = False,
    is_diff_scoped: bool = False,
    interactive: bool = False,
-    parallel_tool_calls: bool = False,
    chat_completions_tools: bool = False,
    strict_tool_schemas: bool = True,
    system_prompt_context: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
@@ -736,8 +724,6 @@ def build_strix_agent(
    instructions_override: str | None = None,
    supports_images: bool = True,
    finish_tool: Tool = finish_scan,
-    report_tool: Tool = create_vulnerability_report,
-    coverage_tools: bool = True,
 ) -> SandboxAgent[Any]:
    """Build a SandboxAgent for either root or child use.

@@ -751,10 +737,6 @@ def build_strix_agent(
        instructions_override: Use this verbatim as the system prompt instead
            of rendering the built-in scan prompt.
        finish_tool: The tool that ends the run, given to the root agent.
-        report_tool: The tool every agent files findings with, in place of
-            ``create_vulnerability_report``.
-        coverage_tools: Give the agent the coverage ledger tools and the
-            prompt rules for them.
    """
    if instructions_override is not None:
        instructions = instructions_override
@@ -766,26 +748,18 @@ def build_strix_agent(
            is_root=is_root,
            is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
            interactive=interactive,
-            parallel_tool_calls=parallel_tool_calls,
            system_prompt_context=system_prompt_context,
            supports_images=supports_images,
-            report_tool=report_tool.name,
-            coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
        )

    agent_tools = [*_EXTRA_TOOLS, *(extra_tools or [])]
    if interactive:
        # Yielding to the user is only meaningful when one is attached.
        agent_tools.append(wait_for_user)
-    base_tools = [report_tool if t is create_vulnerability_report else t for t in _BASE_TOOLS]
-    if not coverage_tools:
-        base_tools = [t for t in base_tools if t not in _COVERAGE_TOOLS]
-        if finish_tool is finish_scan:
-            finish_tool = _without_coverage_step(finish_scan)
    if is_root:
-        tools: list[Tool] = [*base_tools, *agent_tools, finish_tool]
+        tools: list[Tool] = [*_BASE_TOOLS, *agent_tools, finish_tool]
    else:
-        tools = [*base_tools, *agent_tools, agent_finish]
+        tools = [*_BASE_TOOLS, *agent_tools, agent_finish]
    _ensure_unique_tool_names(tools)
    tools = [
        _with_bounded_result(_with_strictness(_with_coerced_arguments(tool), strict_tool_schemas))
@@ -834,13 +808,10 @@ def make_child_factory(
    is_whitebox: bool = False,
    is_diff_scoped: bool = False,
    interactive: bool = False,
-    parallel_tool_calls: bool = False,
    chat_completions_tools: bool = False,
    strict_tool_schemas: bool = True,
    system_prompt_context: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
    supports_images: bool = True,
-    report_tool: Tool = create_vulnerability_report,
-    coverage_tools: bool = True,
 ) -> Any:
    """Return the runner-owned builder used by ``spawn_child_agent``.

@@ -858,13 +829,10 @@ def make_child_factory(
            is_whitebox=is_whitebox,
            is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
            interactive=interactive,
-            parallel_tool_calls=parallel_tool_calls,
            chat_completions_tools=chat_completions_tools,
            strict_tool_schemas=strict_tool_schemas,
            system_prompt_context=system_prompt_context,
            supports_images=supports_images,
-            report_tool=report_tool,
-            coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
        )

    return _factory
@@ -83,12 +83,9 @@ def render_system_prompt(
    is_root: bool = False,
    is_diff_scoped: bool = False,
    interactive: bool = False,
-    parallel_tool_calls: bool = False,
    system_prompt_context: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
    include_scope: bool = True,
    supports_images: bool = True,
-    report_tool: str = "create_vulnerability_report",
-    coverage_tools: bool = True,
 ) -> str:
    """Render the system prompt. Returns empty string on template failure.

@@ -123,9 +120,7 @@ def render_system_prompt(
            is_root=is_root,
            is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
        )
-        skill_content = load_skills(
-            skills_to_load, supports_images=supports_images, coverage_tools=coverage_tools
-        )
+        skill_content = load_skills(skills_to_load, supports_images=supports_images)
        env.globals["get_skill"] = lambda name: skill_content.get(name, "")

        # Skills every agent of this kind loads come first, so siblings share them
@@ -135,12 +130,9 @@ def render_system_prompt(
            requested_skill_names=[name for name in skill_content if name not in shared],
            available_skills=get_available_skills(),
            interactive=interactive,
-            parallel_tool_calls=parallel_tool_calls,
            is_root=is_root,
            system_prompt_context=system_prompt_context or {},
            include_scope=include_scope,
-            report_tool=report_tool,
-            coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
            **skill_content,
        )
    except Exception:
@@ -44,11 +44,7 @@ INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR:
 - If you end a turn on plain text and the nudge arrives, your words already reached the user. Do not repeat them: call wait_for_user.
 - You can narrate while you work — plain text is shown to the user as you go. Narrating is free; wait_for_user is specifically the act of WAITING for the user, so do not call it just to give a status update.
 - Respond naturally when the user asks questions or gives instructions.
-{%- if parallel_tool_calls %}
 - While actively working on a task, every turn should carry a tool call (independent calls can go in the same turn) — use think to plan, the appropriate tool to act, and wait_for_user only when you genuinely need the user.
-{%- else %}
- While actively working on a task, every turn should carry exactly one tool call — use think to plan, the appropriate tool to act, and wait_for_user only when you genuinely need the user.
-{%- endif %}
 - Never loop through think or other tools just to prepare, polish, confirm, or announce an answer. Once you know the answer, write it and call wait_for_user.
 {% else %}
 AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR:
@@ -59,9 +55,6 @@ AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR:
 - There is no user attached to this run, so there is nobody to ask and nothing to yield to. If there is nothing left to execute: do NOT send filler/repetitive text — either call wait_for_agents (only if you are genuinely expecting another agent to message you) or finish your work (subagents: agent_finish; root: finish_scan)
 - While the agent loop is running, almost every output MUST be a tool call. Do NOT send plain text messages; act via tools. If waiting on another agent, use wait_for_agents; when done, use agent_finish (subagents) or finish_scan (root)
 - A text-only turn does nothing: it neither ends the run nor yields — it just wastes a turn and forces a retry. The lifecycle tools (``finish_scan`` for root, ``agent_finish`` for subagents) are the ONLY way to terminate, and the report flows through them. If you find yourself wanting to say "Done!" or "Scan complete" without a tool call, call the lifecycle tool instead.
-{%- if parallel_tool_calls %}
- Read-only calls can go together in one turn: when several file reads or searches don't depend on each other's output, issue them as separate tool calls in the same turn rather than one per turn. Anything else — writing files, running commands that change state, sending requests, creating or messaging agents, reporting, or finishing — goes alone in its own turn.
-{%- endif %}
 {% endif %}
 </communication_rules>

@@ -126,7 +119,7 @@ WHITE-BOX TESTING (code provided):
 - Local execution, unit/integration testing, patch verification, and HTTP requests against locally started in-scope services are normal authorized white-box validation
 - If dynamically running the code proves impossible after exhaustive attempts, pivot to comprehensive static analysis.
 - Try to infer how to run the code based on its structure and content.
- Derive the code fix as PART OF reporting, not as a separate later pass: {{ report_tool }} already requires the concrete patch inline (`code_locations` with verbatim `fix_before`/`fix_after` and `fix_pr_body`), so the reporting agent that analyzes the root cause is the one that produces the fix. Do NOT spawn a downstream agent afterwards to re-derive/re-apply the same patch.
+- Derive the code fix as PART OF reporting, not as a separate later pass: create_vulnerability_report already requires the concrete patch inline (`code_locations` with verbatim `fix_before`/`fix_after` and `fix_pr_body`), so the reporting agent that analyzes the root cause is the one that produces the fix. Do NOT spawn a downstream agent afterwards to re-derive/re-apply the same patch.
 - If you also apply and verify the patch in the repo (edit the file, re-test that the vulnerability is gone), do it in the same agent/turn while the analysis is fresh — right before or as part of filing the report — never as a second re-analysis pass.

 COMBINED MODE (code + deployed target present):
@@ -209,14 +202,12 @@ VALIDATION REQUIREMENTS:
 - Keep going until you find something that matters
 - CLOSURE DISCIPLINE: every candidate you open ends in exactly one explicit state — `confirmed` (working PoC, or a complete source→control→sink→impact trace that is reachable), `ruled_out` (you can name the SPECIFIC control, at a location, that runs on every attacker-reachable path before the sink), or `open_proof_gap` (plausible, unconfirmed, and you could NOT name such a control). "I moved on" is not a closure state. Silently dropping an uncertain candidate is mislabelling an `open_proof_gap` as `ruled_out` and is how real bugs get missed.
 - Missing information is NOT proof of safety: no caller found, can't tell if deployed/exposed, couldn't stand up the service, build failed — each is an `open_proof_gap`, never a reason to mark a candidate clean. Difficulty is a reason to defer, not to suppress.
-{% if coverage_tools -%}
- COVERAGE: record every surface you assess with `record_coverage` (surface + risk area + outcome + evidence), including the ones that came back clean — a report that only lists findings cannot say what was reviewed and cleared. Use the `needs_follow_up` outcome for anything left in an `open_proof_gap` state, and carry the same items up in `agent_finish(open_items=[...])`. The ledger is shared and mutable: when you resolve a surface another agent left open — or find that a closed one is not — move that entry with `update_coverage` instead of recording a second one for the same surface. Before `finish_scan`, the root agent calls `list_coverage(outcome="needs_follow_up")` and follows up every row it returns: it assigns the outstanding work to a subagent that moves the existing entry with `update_coverage` to its real outcome, and a row stays `needs_follow_up` only when it is genuinely blocked, with the blocker stated in its evidence.
-{% endif -%}
+- COVERAGE: record every surface you assess with `record_coverage` (surface + risk area + outcome + evidence), including the ones that came back clean — a report that only lists findings cannot say what was reviewed and cleared. Use the `needs_follow_up` outcome for anything left in an `open_proof_gap` state, and carry the same items up in `agent_finish(open_items=[...])`. The ledger is shared and mutable: when you resolve a surface another agent left open — or find that a closed one is not — move that entry with `update_coverage` instead of recording a second one for the same surface. The root agent reconciles all of it via `list_coverage` before `finish_scan`.
 - THREAT MODEL: before you start testing, call `get_threat_model` on the target you were pointed at — it is the scan's shared answer to who the attacker is, where the trust boundaries sit, and what counts as critical here. It is scoped to this scan and nothing carries over from an earlier run, so `found: false` means no agent on this run has derived one yet. Read it instead of re-deriving trust boundaries yourself; where your testing disproves it — a boundary it calls trusted turns out to be attacker-reachable, a role it did not know about, a host or endpoint it never listed — record that with `amend_threat_model` so the agents after you inherit the correction. Amending is not optional politeness: a model nobody corrects turns the first agent's guesses into everyone's assumptions.
 - Before filing any report, run the counterevidence pass: argue the strongest case AGAINST the finding, record what you found in the `counterevidence` field, set `confidence` honestly (a static-only trace you couldn't execute is at best `medium`), and state what evidence would change the severity. See the counterevidence and severity-calibration knowledge above.
- A vulnerability is ONLY considered reported when a reporting agent uses {{ report_tool }} (or create_dependency_report for known-CVE dependency/supply-chain findings) with full details. Mentions in agent_finish, finish_scan, or generic messages are NOT sufficient
- Reporting and fixing are ONE step, not two: when source is available, the reporting agent derives the concrete fix and files it INLINE via {{ report_tool }} (`code_locations` with `fix_before`/`fix_after` + `fix_pr_body`) — the report is not complete without it. Do NOT report first and then spawn a separate downstream agent to re-derive and re-apply the same patch; that just re-does the analysis and wastes tokens. (Do not silently patch a finding WITHOUT filing a report — the report, with its embedded fix, is the deliverable.)
- DEDUPLICATION: The {{ report_tool }} tool uses LLM-based deduplication. If it rejects your report as a duplicate, DO NOT attempt to re-submit the same vulnerability. Accept the rejection and move on to testing other areas. The vulnerability has already been reported by another agent. If your evidence proves more than the finding it matched (a working exploit where that one had only a static trace, a chain that raises the impact), revise that finding with update_vulnerability_report using the duplicate_of id — never re-file it.
+- A vulnerability is ONLY considered reported when a reporting agent uses create_vulnerability_report (or create_dependency_report for known-CVE dependency/supply-chain findings) with full details. Mentions in agent_finish, finish_scan, or generic messages are NOT sufficient
+- Reporting and fixing are ONE step, not two: when source is available, the reporting agent derives the concrete fix and files it INLINE via create_vulnerability_report (`code_locations` with `fix_before`/`fix_after` + `fix_pr_body`) — the report is not complete without it. Do NOT report first and then spawn a separate downstream agent to re-derive and re-apply the same patch; that just re-does the analysis and wastes tokens. (Do not silently patch a finding WITHOUT filing a report — the report, with its embedded fix, is the deliverable.)
+- DEDUPLICATION: The create_vulnerability_report tool uses LLM-based deduplication. If it rejects your report as a duplicate, DO NOT attempt to re-submit the same vulnerability. Accept the rejection and move on to testing other areas. The vulnerability has already been reported by another agent. If your evidence proves more than the finding it matched (a working exploit where that one had only a static trace, a chain that raises the impact), revise that finding with update_vulnerability_report using the duplicate_of id — never re-file it.
 - HTTP EVIDENCE: a finding you validated through the proxy is not fully filed until `http_exchange_ids` carries the proxy request ids of the exchanges that prove it — the request that triggers the vulnerability plus the baseline/control request it differs from (an unauthenticated success next to the authenticated one, the payload response next to the benign one). Copy the ids exactly as `list_requests`/`view_request` show them, never invent or guess one, and never omit the field to bypass validation. Leave it out only when there is no captured HTTP exchange at all (static-only code findings, dependency CVEs). If you filed before the proving exchanges existed, attach them afterwards with update_vulnerability_report. Without the ids, the finding ships as prose nobody can replay.
 - REVISING A FINDING: use update_vulnerability_report (report id + the fields you want to replace + update_reason) when you learn something a finding already on file does not carry — you built the PoC after filing it, a chain raised its impact, further testing weakened it, or its counterevidence/remediation/code locations were wrong. Editing a finding needs no duplicate verdict, and it is always better than filing a second report for the same issue. Read the finding first with get_report, and pass only the fields that change.
 - WITHDRAWING A FINDING: when re-testing proves a finding you filed is not a vulnerability at all — the exploit only worked because of your own test setup (a mixed-up session, a self-inflicted state change, a misread response), the behaviour is intended, or the control is in fact enforced — delete it with delete_vulnerability_report (report id + delete_reason). Never leave a disproved finding on file as a zero-CVSS, "retracted", or "false positive" report, and never rewrite its text into a note saying it was wrong: a report that exists is read as a finding. Delete is for a finding that does not exist; a finding that is real but weaker than filed is revised, not deleted.
@@ -229,16 +220,14 @@ Every one of these tools writes to state the rest of the scan reads. Reaching fo
 - TODOS — `create_todo` / `list_todos` / `update_todo` / `mark_todo_done` / `mark_todo_pending` / `delete_todo`: your own working checklist for a multi-step task. Create todos when your task has several distinct steps so nothing is dropped across a long run; mark them done as you finish. This is private working memory — use `notes` for anything another agent needs.
 - NOTES — `create_note` / `list_notes` / `get_note` / `update_note` / `delete_note`: the scan's shared scratchpad, visible to every agent. Write a note for a durable cross-agent fact that is not a finding and not coverage — a working credential set, a discovered endpoint inventory, an enumerated tenant list, a rate-limit quirk the next agent needs. `update_note` to keep a living inventory current; `delete_note` only for something now wrong or superseded. Check `list_notes`/`get_note` before recon work so you build on what is already mapped instead of redoing it.
 - THREAT MODEL — `get_threat_model` / `amend_threat_model` / `save_threat_model`: covered above. `save_threat_model` REPLACES the whole document and clears amendments, so it is for establishing the baseline or folding amendments in (normally root) — to correct part of an existing model, `amend_threat_model` instead.
-{% if coverage_tools -%}
 - COVERAGE — `record_coverage` / `update_coverage` / `list_coverage`: covered above. One row per surface+risk; correct an existing row with `update_coverage`, never a second `record_coverage`.
-{% endif -%}
 - RESEARCH — `web_search`: pull fresh, target-specific external knowledge — latest bypasses, WAF evasions, DB-/framework-specific syntax, CVE and advisory detail — before falling back to memorized payloads, and refresh payload corpora mid-spray.
 - SPAWN WORK — `create_agent`: delegate a focused subtask to a specialist child (see the multi-agent rules below for when to spawn and how to scope it). Give it the target to model against and what is already known.
 - TRACK CHILDREN — `view_agent_graph`: your live map of every agent and its status. Call it before spawning (to confirm no existing agent already covers the scope) and before finishing (to confirm no child is still running).
 - STEER CHILDREN — `send_message_to_agent`: send a running child new information, a course correction, or a request to wrap up, without killing it. Use it to answer a child's question or narrow its scope mid-run.
 - BLOCK ON CHILDREN — `wait_for_agents`: block until named children report back when your next move genuinely depends on their results. If you can keep making progress in parallel, keep working instead of waiting.
 - CANCEL CHILDREN — `stop_agent`: gracefully cancel a child whose work is redundant, misdirected, or no longer needed. Prefer `send_message_to_agent` to redirect a child that is merely off-track; reserve `stop_agent` for work that should not continue at all.
- FINISH — subagents call `agent_finish` (with `open_items=[...]` for anything left unresolved); the root agent calls `finish_scan` exactly once, only after every child is wrapped up and coverage is reconciled. `agent_finish`/`finish_scan` are handoffs, not reporting channels — a vulnerability is reported only via `{{ report_tool }}`/`create_dependency_report`.
+- FINISH — subagents call `agent_finish` (with `open_items=[...]` for anything left unresolved); the root agent calls `finish_scan` exactly once, only after every child is wrapped up and coverage is reconciled. `agent_finish`/`finish_scan` are handoffs, not reporting channels — a vulnerability is reported only via `create_vulnerability_report`/`create_dependency_report`.
 </execution_guidelines>

 <vulnerability_focus>
@@ -391,7 +380,7 @@ CRITICAL RULES:
 - **REALISTIC OUTCOMES** - Some tests find nothing, some validations fail
 - **ONE AGENT = ONE TASK** - Don't let agents do multiple unrelated jobs
 - **SPAWN REACTIVELY** - Create new agents based on what you discover
- **ONLY REPORTING AGENTS** can use {{ report_tool }} tool
+- **ONLY REPORTING AGENTS** can use create_vulnerability_report tool
 - **AGENT SPECIALIZATION MANDATORY** - Each agent must be highly specialized; prefer 1–3 skills, up to 5 for complex contexts
 - **NO GENERIC AGENTS** - Avoid creating broad, multi-purpose agents that dilute focus

@@ -705,15 +705,11 @@ def configure_sdk_model_defaults(settings: Settings) -> None:
    """Apply Strix config to SDK-native defaults."""
    llm = settings.llm
    set_tracing_disabled(True)
-    from strix.report.state import record_llm_request
-
    request_log.install()
-    if settings.telemetry.run_record_timings:
-        request_log.register_sink(record_llm_request)
    if codex.subscription_model(llm.model):
        return
    _configure_litellm_compatibility()
-    _configure_attribution(llm.model)
+    _configure_openrouter_attribution(llm.model)
    if llm.api_key:
        set_default_openai_key(llm.api_key, use_for_tracing=False)
        _configure_litellm_default("api_key", llm.api_key)
@@ -884,13 +880,9 @@ def _openrouter_error_type(error: object) -> object:
    return None


-APP_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS = {
+OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS = {
    "HTTP-Referer": "https://strix.ai",
    "X-Title": "Strix",
-}
-
-OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS = {
-    **APP_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS,
    "X-OpenRouter-Categories": "cli-agent",
 }

@@ -899,25 +891,20 @@ def is_openrouter_model(model_name: str | None) -> bool:
    return bool(model_name) and "openrouter/" in (model_name or "").strip().lower()


-def is_vercel_ai_gateway_model(model_name: str | None) -> bool:
-    return (model_name or "").strip().lower().startswith("vercel_ai_gateway/")
-
-
-def attribution_headers(model_name: str | None) -> dict[str, str]:
-    if is_openrouter_model(model_name):
-        return OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS
-    if is_vercel_ai_gateway_model(model_name):
-        return APP_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS
-    return {}
-
-
-def _configure_attribution(model_name: str | None) -> None:
+def _configure_openrouter_attribution(model_name: str | None) -> None:
    import litellm

    current: object = litellm.headers
    existing: dict[str, str] = current if isinstance(current, dict) else {}
-    remaining = {k: v for k, v in existing.items() if k not in OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS}
-    litellm.headers = {**remaining, **attribution_headers(model_name)} or None  # type: ignore[assignment]
+    if not is_openrouter_model(model_name):
+        if any(key in existing for key in OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS):
+            remaining = {
+                k: v for k, v in existing.items() if k not in OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS
+            }
+            litellm.headers = remaining or None  # type: ignore[assignment]
+        return
+
+    litellm.headers = {**existing, **OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS}  # type: ignore[assignment]


 def _configure_extra_headers(llm: LlmSettings) -> None:
@@ -61,23 +61,10 @@ class LlmSettings(BaseSettings):
        repr=False,
    )
    reasoning_effort: ReasoningEffort = Field(default="high", alias="STRIX_REASONING_EFFORT")
-    input_cost_per_mtok: float | None = Field(
-        default=None, ge=0, allow_inf_nan=False, alias="STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK"
-    )
-    output_cost_per_mtok: float | None = Field(
-        default=None, ge=0, allow_inf_nan=False, alias="STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK"
-    )
-    cached_input_cost_per_mtok: float | None = Field(
-        default=None, ge=0, allow_inf_nan=False, alias="STRIX_LLM_CACHED_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK"
-    )
    force_required_tool_choice: bool = Field(
        default=False,
        alias="STRIX_FORCE_REQUIRED_TOOL_CHOICE",
    )
-    parallel_tool_calls: bool = Field(
-        default=False,
-        alias="STRIX_PARALLEL_TOOL_CALLS",
-    )
    prompt_cache: bool = Field(
        default=True,
        alias="STRIX_PROMPT_CACHE",
@@ -164,7 +151,7 @@ class RuntimeSettings(BaseSettings):
    model_config = _BASE_CONFIG

    image: str = Field(
-        default="ghcr.io/usestrix/strix-sandbox:1.3.1",
+        default="ghcr.io/usestrix/strix-sandbox:1.3.0",
        alias="STRIX_IMAGE",
    )
    backend: str = Field(default="docker", alias="STRIX_RUNTIME_BACKEND")
@@ -176,7 +163,6 @@ class TelemetrySettings(BaseSettings):
    model_config = _BASE_CONFIG

    enabled: bool = Field(default=True, alias="STRIX_TELEMETRY")
-    run_record_timings: bool = Field(default=False, alias="STRIX_RUN_RECORD_TIMINGS")


 WebSearchProvider = Literal["auto", "perplexity", "exa"]
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ from openai import (

 from strix.config import codex
 from strix.core.hooks import (
-    SUBAGENT_TURN_LIMITS_KEY,
-    TURN_LIMIT_KEY,
    BudgetExceededError,
    BudgetPausedError,
    SubagentBudgetReservedError,
@@ -41,7 +39,6 @@ from strix.core.sessions import (
 )
 from strix.llm import request_log
 from strix.llm.compaction import is_context_overflow, maybe_compact
-from strix.skills import skill_turn_limit


 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -430,7 +427,6 @@ async def spawn_child_agent(
        name=name,
        parent_id=parent_id,
        task=task,
-        skills=skills,
        initial_input=child_initial_input(
            name=name,
            child_id=child_id,
@@ -514,7 +510,6 @@ async def respawn_subagents(
                name=name,
                parent_id=parent_id,
                task=str(md.get("task", "")),
-                skills=child_skills,
                initial_input=[],
                start_parked=start_parked,
                event_sink=event_sink,
@@ -1166,7 +1161,6 @@ async def _start_child_runner(
    name: str,
    parent_id: str | None,
    task: str,
-    skills: list[str],
    initial_input: Any,
    start_parked: bool = False,
    event_sink: StreamEventSink | None = None,
@@ -1180,9 +1174,6 @@ async def _start_child_runner(
    child_ctx["agent_id"] = child_id
    child_ctx["parent_id"] = parent_id
    child_ctx["task"] = task
-    child_ctx[TURN_LIMIT_KEY] = skill_turn_limit(
-        skills, parent_ctx.get(SUBAGENT_TURN_LIMITS_KEY) or {}
-    )

    async def _child_loop() -> None:
        # A budget stop is a clean scan-wide shutdown, not a child failure: the
@@ -4,32 +4,24 @@ from __future__ import annotations

 import logging
 import math
-import time
-from datetime import UTC, datetime
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any

 from agents.lifecycle import RunHooks

 from strix.core.agents import BudgetPolicy, coordinator_from_context
-from strix.report.state import get_global_report_state, record_tool_call
+from strix.report.state import get_global_report_state


 if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from agents import RunContextWrapper
    from agents.agent import Agent
    from agents.items import ModelResponse, TResponseInputItem
-    from agents.tool import Tool


 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


 LLM_TURN_KEY = "llm_turn"
-# ``run_strix_scan(subagent_turn_limits=...)``, and the limit it gives one sub-agent.
-SUBAGENT_TURN_LIMITS_KEY = "subagent_turn_limits"
-TURN_LIMIT_KEY = "turn_limit"
-_TURN_LIMIT_WARN_BEFORE = 10
-_TURN_LIMIT_REPEAT = 5

 # ``BudgetPolicy`` decides what happens when the accumulated LLM cost reaches
 # ``max_budget_usd``.
@@ -43,8 +35,6 @@ _TURN_LIMIT_REPEAT = 5
 # same call when the operator raises the limit or resumes.
 __all__ = [
    "LLM_TURN_KEY",
-    "SUBAGENT_TURN_LIMITS_KEY",
-    "TURN_LIMIT_KEY",
    "BudgetExceededError",
    "BudgetPausedError",
    "BudgetPolicy",
@@ -173,7 +163,6 @@ class ReportUsageHooks(RunHooks[dict[str, Any]]):
        max_turns: int | None = None,
        interactive: bool = False,
        budget_policy: BudgetPolicy = "stop",
-        record_tool_timings: bool = False,
    ) -> None:
        _validate_budget(max_budget_usd)
        if max_turns is not None and max_turns <= 0:
@@ -186,8 +175,6 @@ class ReportUsageHooks(RunHooks[dict[str, Any]]):
        self._max_turns = max_turns
        self._interactive = interactive
        self._budget_policy: BudgetPolicy = budget_policy
-        self._record_tool_timings = record_tool_timings
-        self._tool_starts: dict[str, tuple[datetime, float]] = {}

    @property
    def max_budget_usd(self) -> float | None:
@@ -220,7 +207,6 @@ class ReportUsageHooks(RunHooks[dict[str, Any]]):
        context.context[LLM_TURN_KEY] = int(context.context.get(LLM_TURN_KEY, 0)) + 1
        try:
            self._maybe_warn_turns(context, input_items)
-            self._maybe_warn_soft_turn_limit(context, input_items)
            self._maybe_warn_budget(context, input_items)
        except Exception:
            logger.exception("budget/turn warning injection failed")
@@ -284,40 +270,6 @@ class ReportUsageHooks(RunHooks[dict[str, Any]]):
        )
        input_items.append({"role": "user", "content": content})

-    def _maybe_warn_soft_turn_limit(
-        self,
-        context: RunContextWrapper[dict[str, Any]],
-        input_items: list[TResponseInputItem],
-    ) -> None:
-        """A soft limit, never a stop: warn 10 turns before it, then every few turns past it."""
-        limit = context.context.get(TURN_LIMIT_KEY)
-        requests = getattr(getattr(context, "usage", None), "requests", None)
-        if not isinstance(limit, int) or not isinstance(requests, int):
-            return
-        turns_used = requests + 1
-        if turns_used == limit - _TURN_LIMIT_WARN_BEFORE:
-            content = (
-                f"[NOTICE] You have used {turns_used} of your {limit}-turn limit. Start "
-                "wrapping up: take only the steps you still need to answer your task, then "
-                "call agent_finish. You may go past the limit only while you are still "
-                "making real progress."
-            )
-        elif turns_used >= limit and (turns_used - limit) % _TURN_LIMIT_REPEAT == 0:
-            content = (
-                f"[NOTICE] You have used {turns_used} turns, past your {limit}-turn limit. "
-                "Call agent_finish now with what you have, listing anything unresolved in "
-                "open_items, unless your next steps are clearly making progress on your task."
-            )
-        else:
-            return
-        logger.info(
-            "Turn-limit notice for agent %s: turn %d, limit %d",
-            context.context.get("agent_id"),
-            turns_used,
-            limit,
-        )
-        input_items.append({"role": "user", "content": content})
-
    def _maybe_warn_budget(
        self,
        context: RunContextWrapper[dict[str, Any]],
@@ -363,37 +315,6 @@ class ReportUsageHooks(RunHooks[dict[str, Any]]):
            )
        input_items.append({"role": "user", "content": content})

-    async def on_tool_start(
-        self,
-        context: RunContextWrapper[dict[str, Any]],
-        agent: Agent[dict[str, Any]],  # noqa: ARG002
-        tool: Tool,  # noqa: ARG002
-    ) -> None:
-        call_id = getattr(context, "tool_call_id", None)
-        if self._record_tool_timings and isinstance(call_id, str):
-            self._tool_starts[call_id] = (datetime.now(UTC), time.monotonic())
-
-    async def on_tool_end(
-        self,
-        context: RunContextWrapper[dict[str, Any]],
-        agent: Agent[dict[str, Any]],  # noqa: ARG002
-        tool: Tool,
-        result: object,  # noqa: ARG002
-    ) -> None:
-        call_id = getattr(context, "tool_call_id", None)
-        start = self._tool_starts.pop(call_id, None) if isinstance(call_id, str) else None
-        if start is None:
-            return
-        started_at, started = start
-        ctx = context.context if isinstance(context.context, dict) else {}
-        agent_id = ctx.get("agent_id")
-        record_tool_call(
-            started_at=started_at,
-            agent_id=agent_id if isinstance(agent_id, str) else None,
-            tool=tool.name,
-            duration_ms=round((time.monotonic() - started) * 1000),
-        )
-
    async def on_llm_end(
        self,
        context: RunContextWrapper[dict[str, Any]],
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ from openai.types.shared import Reasoning

 from strix.config.models import (
    DEFAULT_MODEL_RETRY,
-    attribution_headers,
+    OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS,
    bedrock_route_supports_prompt_caching,
    is_bedrock_route,
    is_claude_model,
    is_known_openai_bare_model,
+    is_openrouter_model,
    model_supports_reasoning,
    request_timeout_extra_args,
    routes_through_litellm,
@@ -246,7 +247,6 @@ def make_model_settings(
    *,
    model_name: str,
    force_required_tool_choice: bool = False,
-    parallel_tool_calls: bool = False,
    request_timeout: float | None = None,
    prompt_cache: bool = True,
    extra_headers: dict[str, str] | None = None,
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ def make_model_settings(
 ) -> ModelSettings:
    headers = _request_headers(model_name, extra_headers)
    model_settings = ModelSettings(
-        parallel_tool_calls=parallel_tool_calls if has_tools else None,
+        parallel_tool_calls=True if has_tools else None,
        retry=DEFAULT_MODEL_RETRY,
        include_usage=True,
        extra_args=request_timeout_extra_args(request_timeout),
@@ -286,7 +286,9 @@ def make_model_settings(
 def _request_headers(
    model_name: str, extra_headers: dict[str, str] | None
 ) -> dict[str, str] | None:
-    headers: dict[str, str] = dict(attribution_headers(model_name))
+    headers: dict[str, str] = {}
+    if is_openrouter_model(model_name):
+        headers.update(OPENROUTER_ATTRIBUTION_HEADERS)
    if extra_headers:
        headers.update(extra_headers)
    return headers or None
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import io
 import json
 import logging
 import uuid
-from collections.abc import Awaitable, Callable, Mapping
+from collections.abc import Awaitable, Callable
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any

@@ -36,12 +36,7 @@ from strix.core.execution import (
 from strix.core.execution import (
    spawn_child_agent as start_child_agent,
 )
-from strix.core.hooks import (
-    SUBAGENT_TURN_LIMITS_KEY,
-    BudgetExceededError,
-    ReportUsageHooks,
-    recomputed_budget_flags,
-)
+from strix.core.hooks import BudgetExceededError, ReportUsageHooks, recomputed_budget_flags
 from strix.core.inputs import (
    build_root_task,
    build_scan_targets,
@@ -59,7 +54,6 @@ from strix.tools.output_store import (
    WORKSPACE_SPILL_DIR,
    configure_spill_writer,
 )
-from strix.tools.reporting.tool import create_vulnerability_report


 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -176,17 +170,11 @@ def _compose_root_instructions_override(
    is_whitebox: bool,
    is_diff_scoped: bool,
    interactive: bool,
-    parallel_tool_calls: bool,
    system_prompt_context: dict[str, Any],
    supports_images: bool,
-    report_tool: str,
-    coverage_tools: bool,
-    replace_scan_prompt: bool = False,
 ) -> str | None:
    if root_instructions_override is None:
        return None
-    if replace_scan_prompt:
-        return f"{root_instructions_override}\n\n{render_scope_prompt(system_prompt_context)}"

    base_instructions = render_system_prompt(
        skills=skills,
@@ -195,12 +183,9 @@ def _compose_root_instructions_override(
        is_root=True,
        is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
        interactive=interactive,
-        parallel_tool_calls=parallel_tool_calls,
        system_prompt_context=system_prompt_context,
        include_scope=False,
        supports_images=supports_images,
-        report_tool=report_tool,
-        coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
    )
    return (
        f"{base_instructions}\n\n"
@@ -228,22 +213,16 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
    cleanup_on_exit: bool = True,
    event_sink: StreamEventSink | None = None,
    root_instructions_override: str | None = None,
-    replace_root_scan_prompt: bool = False,
    extra_system_prompt_context: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
    status_sink: StatusSink | None = None,
    mcp_connection_requests: list[McpConnectionRequest] | None = None,
    mcp_status_sink: McpStatusSink | None = None,
    root_finish_tool: Tool = finish_scan,
-    report_tool: Tool = create_vulnerability_report,
-    coverage_tools: bool = True,
-    subagent_turn_limits: Mapping[str, int] | None = None,
 ) -> RunResultBase | None:
    """Run or resume one Strix scan against a sandbox.

    ``root_instructions_override`` adds root scan instructions to the rendered
    root prompt without replacing the system-verified scope block.
-    ``replace_root_scan_prompt=True`` makes it the root's whole prompt, followed
-    by the scope, instead of adding it to the rendered scan prompt.
    ``extra_files`` entries (``{"workspace_path", "content"}``) are placed into
    the sandbox workspace at session bring-up; see
    :func:`strix.runtime.session_manager.create_or_reuse`.
@@ -262,13 +241,6 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
    way the engine does the connecting, so the caller passes inert configs plus
    metadata and never live sessions.
    ``root_finish_tool`` is the tool the root agent ends the run with.
-    ``report_tool`` is the tool every agent files findings with, in place of
-    ``create_vulnerability_report``.
-    ``coverage_tools=False`` drops the coverage ledger tools and their prompt
-    rules from every agent.
-    ``subagent_turn_limits`` maps a skill name to a soft turn limit for sub-agents
-    spawned with that skill (the largest applies). Agents are warned 10 turns
-    before it and reminded past it, but never stopped.
    """

    def report(phase: str) -> None:
@@ -426,7 +398,6 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
            settings.llm.reasoning_effort,
            model_name=resolved_model,
            force_required_tool_choice=settings.llm.force_required_tool_choice,
-            parallel_tool_calls=settings.llm.parallel_tool_calls,
            request_timeout=settings.llm.timeout,
            prompt_cache=settings.llm.prompt_cache,
            extra_headers=settings.llm.extra_headers,
@@ -448,7 +419,6 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
            max_turns=max_turns,
            interactive=interactive,
            budget_policy=budget_policy,
-            record_tool_timings=settings.telemetry.run_record_timings,
        )
        coordinator.set_budget_limit_setter(hooks.set_max_budget_usd)
        if interactive and budget_policy != "pause":
@@ -522,12 +492,8 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
            is_whitebox=is_whitebox,
            is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
            interactive=interactive,
-            parallel_tool_calls=settings.llm.parallel_tool_calls,
            system_prompt_context=root_context,
            supports_images=supports_images,
-            report_tool=report_tool.name,
-            coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
-            replace_scan_prompt=replace_root_scan_prompt,
        )

        root_agent = build_strix_agent(
@@ -538,15 +504,12 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
            is_whitebox=is_whitebox,
            is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
            interactive=interactive,
-            parallel_tool_calls=settings.llm.parallel_tool_calls,
            chat_completions_tools=chat_completions_tools,
            strict_tool_schemas=strict_tool_schemas,
            system_prompt_context=root_context,
            instructions_override=root_instructions,
            supports_images=supports_images,
            finish_tool=root_finish_tool,
-            report_tool=report_tool,
-            coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
        )

        if not is_resume:
@@ -563,13 +526,10 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
            is_whitebox=is_whitebox,
            is_diff_scoped=is_diff_scoped,
            interactive=interactive,
-            parallel_tool_calls=settings.llm.parallel_tool_calls,
            chat_completions_tools=chat_completions_tools,
            strict_tool_schemas=strict_tool_schemas,
            system_prompt_context=scope_context,
            supports_images=supports_images,
-            report_tool=report_tool,
-            coverage_tools=coverage_tools,
        )

        async def spawn_child_agent(**kwargs: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
@@ -598,8 +558,6 @@ async def run_strix_scan(
            "scan_targets": build_scan_targets(scan_config),
            "max_context_images": settings.runtime.max_context_images,
            "supports_images": supports_images,
-            "coverage_tools": coverage_tools,
-            SUBAGENT_TURN_LIMITS_KEY: dict(subagent_turn_limits or {}),
        }

        root_session = open_agent_session(root_id, agents_db)
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Supply-chain cooldown: only install versions published at least 5 days ago (npm >= 11.10).
-min-release-age=5
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
        "@vitejs/plugin-react": "^5.0.0",
        "tailwindcss": "^4.1.0",
        "typescript": "^5.6.0",
-        "vite": "^6.4.4"
+        "vite": "^6.0.0"
      }
    },
    "node_modules/@babel/code-frame": {
@@ -1401,72 +1401,6 @@
        "node": ">=14.0.0"
      }
    },
-    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-wasm32-wasi/node_modules/@emnapi/core": {
-      "version": "1.11.1",
-      "dev": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "MIT",
-      "optional": true,
-      "dependencies": {
-        "@emnapi/wasi-threads": "1.2.2",
-        "tslib": "^2.4.0"
-      }
-    },
-    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-wasm32-wasi/node_modules/@emnapi/runtime": {
-      "version": "1.11.1",
-      "dev": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "MIT",
-      "optional": true,
-      "dependencies": {
-        "tslib": "^2.4.0"
-      }
-    },
-    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-wasm32-wasi/node_modules/@emnapi/wasi-threads": {
-      "version": "1.2.2",
-      "dev": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "MIT",
-      "optional": true,
-      "dependencies": {
-        "tslib": "^2.4.0"
-      }
-    },
-    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-wasm32-wasi/node_modules/@napi-rs/wasm-runtime": {
-      "version": "1.1.4",
-      "dev": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "MIT",
-      "optional": true,
-      "dependencies": {
-        "@tybys/wasm-util": "^0.10.1"
-      },
-      "funding": {
-        "type": "github",
-        "url": "https://github.com/sponsors/Brooooooklyn"
-      },
-      "peerDependencies": {
-        "@emnapi/core": "^1.7.1",
-        "@emnapi/runtime": "^1.7.1"
-      }
-    },
-    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-wasm32-wasi/node_modules/@tybys/wasm-util": {
-      "version": "0.10.2",
-      "dev": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "MIT",
-      "optional": true,
-      "dependencies": {
-        "tslib": "^2.4.0"
-      }
-    },
-    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-wasm32-wasi/node_modules/tslib": {
-      "version": "2.8.1",
-      "dev": true,
-      "inBundle": true,
-      "license": "0BSD",
-      "optional": true
-    },
    "node_modules/@tailwindcss/oxide-win32-arm64-msvc": {
      "version": "4.3.3",
      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@tailwindcss/oxide-win32-arm64-msvc/-/oxide-win32-arm64-msvc-4.3.3.tgz",
@@ -4162,9 +4096,9 @@
      }
    },
    "node_modules/vite": {
-      "version": "6.4.4",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/vite/-/vite-6.4.4.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-xGjU/SyjeNyb0E4KxXBvYz/1C+3JXuujvf2hXNOtnlcE+58o5ajd9N2/n2VhkiJvpCP2qQasnUpx5PXNeI+p1Q==",
+      "version": "6.4.3",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/vite/-/vite-6.4.3.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-NTKlcQjlAK7MlQoyb6LgaqHc8sso/pVyUJYWMws3jg21uTJw/LddqIFPcPqP6PzpgbIcZyKI85sFE4HBrQDA8A==",
      "dev": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "dependencies": {
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@
    "@vitejs/plugin-react": "^5.0.0",
    "tailwindcss": "^4.1.0",
    "typescript": "^5.6.0",
-    "vite": "^6.4.4"
+    "vite": "^6.0.0"
  }
 }
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ from strix.telemetry import posthog, scarf
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from agents.usage import Usage

-    from strix.llm.request_log import LlmRequestEvent
-

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@@ -1021,47 +1019,6 @@ class StreamedOpenRouterCosts:
 streamed_openrouter_costs = StreamedOpenRouterCosts()


-def record_llm_request(event: "LlmRequestEvent") -> None:
-    """Request-log sink: each provider attempt's timing, kept in run.json's ``llm_requests``."""
-    report_state = get_global_report_state()
-    if report_state is None:
-        return
-    details = event.details or {}
-    report_state.run_record.setdefault("llm_requests", []).append(
-        {
-            "started_at": event.started_at.isoformat(),
-            "agent_id": event.agent_id,
-            "model": event.model,
-            "provider": details.get("upstream_provider") or event.provider,
-            "outcome": event.outcome,
-            "status": event.status_code,
-            "duration_ms": event.duration_ms,
-            "ttft_ms": event.time_to_first_token_ms,
-            "input_tokens": event.input_tokens,
-            "cached_tokens": event.cached_input_tokens,
-            "output_tokens": event.output_tokens,
-            "retry_attempt": event.retry_attempt,
-        }
-    )
-
-
-def record_tool_call(
-    *, started_at: datetime, agent_id: str | None, tool: str, duration_ms: int
-) -> None:
-    """Each tool call's timing, kept in run.json's ``tool_calls``."""
-    report_state = get_global_report_state()
-    if report_state is None:
-        return
-    report_state.run_record.setdefault("tool_calls", []).append(
-        {
-            "started_at": started_at.isoformat(),
-            "agent_id": agent_id,
-            "tool": tool,
-            "duration_ms": duration_ms,
-        }
-    )
-
-
 def record_openrouter_provider(provider: Any, usage: Any) -> None:
    """Tally which upstream provider served a stream, from its final usage chunk.

@@ -8,38 +8,11 @@ from typing import Any
 from agents.usage import Usage, deserialize_usage, serialize_usage
 from pydantic import BaseModel, TypeAdapter, ValidationError

-from strix.config.loader import load_settings
 from strix.report.pricing import resolve_litellm_model


 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

-Prices = tuple[float | None, float | None, float | None]
-
-
-def _configured_prices() -> tuple[str | None, Prices | None]:
-    llm = load_settings().llm
-    prices = (llm.input_cost_per_mtok, llm.output_cost_per_mtok, llm.cached_input_cost_per_mtok)
-    if all(price is None for price in prices):
-        return None, None
-    return (llm.model or "").strip() or None, prices
-
-
-def _configured_usage_cost(usage: Usage, prices: Prices) -> float:
-    input_rate, output_rate, cached_rate = prices
-    input_tokens = max(0, _int_or_zero(getattr(usage, "input_tokens", 0)))
-    cached_details = getattr(usage, "input_tokens_details", None)
-    cached_tokens = max(0, _int_or_zero(getattr(cached_details, "cached_tokens", 0)))
-    cached_tokens = min(cached_tokens, input_tokens)
-    output_tokens = max(0, _int_or_zero(getattr(usage, "output_tokens", 0)))
-    billable_input = input_tokens - cached_tokens
-    cost = (
-        billable_input * (input_rate or 0)
-        + cached_tokens * (cached_rate if cached_rate is not None else input_rate or 0)
-        + output_tokens * (output_rate or 0)
-    ) / 1_000_000
-    return _round_cost(cost)
-

 class ProviderUsage(BaseModel):
    """Running totals for one upstream provider OpenRouter routed calls to."""
@@ -64,7 +37,6 @@ class LLMUsageLedger:
        self._total_usage = Usage()
        self._agent_usage: dict[str, Usage] = {}
        self._agent_metadata: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {}
-        self._agent_estimated_cost: dict[str, float] = {}
        self._observed_cost = 0.0
        self._estimated_cost = 0.0
        self._has_observed_cost = False
@@ -101,9 +73,6 @@ class LLMUsageLedger:
            estimated = _estimate_litellm_cost(usage, model)
            if estimated:
                self._estimated_cost += estimated
-                self._agent_estimated_cost[normalized_agent_id] = (
-                    self._agent_estimated_cost.get(normalized_agent_id, 0.0) + estimated
-                )

        return True

@@ -145,23 +114,11 @@ class LLMUsageLedger:
    def total_cost(self) -> float:
        if self.zero_cost:
            return 0.0
-        model, prices = _configured_prices()
-        if prices is not None:
-            return _round_cost(
-                sum(self._configured_agent_cost(aid, model, prices) for aid in self._agent_usage)
-            )
        return _round_cost(self._observed_cost if self._has_observed_cost else self._estimated_cost)

-    def _configured_agent_cost(self, agent_id: str, model: str | None, prices: Prices) -> float:
-        if self._agent_metadata.get(agent_id, {}).get("model") == model:
-            return _configured_usage_cost(self._agent_usage[agent_id], prices)
-        return self._agent_estimated_cost.get(agent_id, 0.0)
-
    def to_record(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
        record = serialize_usage(self._total_usage)
-        model, prices = _configured_prices()
-        total_cost = self.total_cost
-        record["cost"] = total_cost
+        record["cost"] = self.total_cost
        record["providers"] = {name: tally.model_dump() for name, tally in self._providers.items()}
        record["agents"] = []

@@ -171,11 +128,7 @@ class LLMUsageLedger:
            usage = self._agent_usage[agent_id]
            metadata = self._agent_metadata.get(agent_id, {})
            agent_cost = (
-                self._configured_agent_cost(agent_id, model, prices)
-                if prices is not None and not self.zero_cost
-                else total_cost * (agent_tokens[agent_id] / total_tokens)
-                if total_tokens
-                else 0.0
+                self.total_cost * (agent_tokens[agent_id] / total_tokens) if total_tokens else 0.0
            )

            agent_record = serialize_usage(usage)
@@ -195,7 +148,6 @@ class LLMUsageLedger:
        self._total_usage = Usage()
        self._agent_usage.clear()
        self._agent_metadata.clear()
-        self._agent_estimated_cost.clear()
        self._observed_cost = 0.0
        self._estimated_cost = 0.0
        self._has_observed_cost = False
@@ -231,7 +183,6 @@ class LLMUsageLedger:
                logger.exception("Failed to hydrate llm_usage for agent %s", agent_id)
                self._agent_usage[agent_id] = Usage()

-            self._agent_estimated_cost[agent_id] = _float_or_zero(raw_agent.get("cost"))
            metadata: dict[str, str] = {}
            agent_name = raw_agent.get("agent_name")
            model = raw_agent.get("model")
@@ -66,33 +66,6 @@ def _apply_sandbox_network(create_kwargs: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
        create_kwargs.pop("ports", None)


-_SANDBOX_DEVICES_ENV = "STRIX_DOCKER_SANDBOX_DEVICES"
-
-
-def _sandbox_devices() -> list[str]:
-    raw = os.environ.get(_SANDBOX_DEVICES_ENV, "")
-    return [item.strip() for item in raw.split(",") if item.strip()]
-
-
-def _apply_sandbox_devices(create_kwargs: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
-    """Pass the host devices listed in ``STRIX_DOCKER_SANDBOX_DEVICES`` through.
-
-    Comma-separated device paths, each mapped to the same path in the container
-    with ``rwm`` access. A tunnel brought up inside the sandbox (OpenVPN,
-    Tailscale) needs ``/dev/net/tun``: Docker's default device cgroup denies it
-    even with ``NET_ADMIN``. Unset means no extra devices.
-    """
-    devices = _sandbox_devices()
-    if not devices:
-        return
-    existing = [str(item) for item in (create_kwargs.get("devices") or [])]
-    for path in devices:
-        spec = f"{path}:{path}:rwm"
-        if spec not in existing and path not in existing:
-            existing.append(spec)
-    create_kwargs["devices"] = existing
-
-
 def _apply_resource_limits(create_kwargs: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
    """Apply optional cgroup resource caps from the environment. Unset/blank
    values leave docker's default (unbounded), so this is opt-in per host."""
@@ -260,7 +233,6 @@ class StrixDockerSandboxClient(DockerSandboxClient):
        extra_hosts["host.docker.internal"] = "host-gateway"

        _apply_sandbox_network(create_kwargs)
-        _apply_sandbox_devices(create_kwargs)
        _apply_resource_limits(create_kwargs)
        _apply_log_limits(create_kwargs)
        _apply_run_labels(create_kwargs)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 import re
 from collections import Counter
-from collections.abc import Iterator, Mapping
+from collections.abc import Iterator
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TypeGuard

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ _SKILL_TEMPLATES = Environment(
    undefined=StrictUndefined,
    trim_blocks=True,
    lstrip_blocks=True,
-    keep_trailing_newline=True,
 )

 _INTERNAL_SKILL_CATEGORIES: frozenset[str] = frozenset({"scan_modes", "coordination", "analysis"})
@@ -271,22 +270,7 @@ def _candidate_skill_files(skill_name: str) -> list[Path]:
    return _bare_skill_files(skill_name)


-def skill_turn_limit(skill_names: list[str], turn_limits: Mapping[str, int]) -> int | None:
-    """Largest of ``turn_limits`` (keyed by skill name) among these skills, if any."""
-    files = {path for name in skill_names for path in _candidate_skill_files(name)}
-    return max(
-        (
-            limit
-            for name, limit in turn_limits.items()
-            if files.intersection(_candidate_skill_files(name))
-        ),
-        default=None,
-    )
-
-
-def load_skills(
-    skill_names: list[str], *, supports_images: bool = True, coverage_tools: bool = True
-) -> dict[str, str]:
+def load_skills(skill_names: list[str], *, supports_images: bool = True) -> dict[str, str]:
    """Load skill markdown bodies (frontmatter stripped) by name.

    Skill files live at ``strix/skills/<category>/<name>.md`` (or any
@@ -319,7 +303,7 @@ def load_skills(
        metadata, skill_body = _parse_skill_content(content, file_path)
        if metadata.get("template") == "jinja":
            skill_body = _SKILL_TEMPLATES.from_string(skill_body).render(
-                supports_images=supports_images, coverage_tools=coverage_tools
+                supports_images=supports_images
            )
        skill_content[var_name] = skill_body
        logger.debug("Loaded skill: %s -> %s", skill_name, var_name)
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: counterevidence
 description: Closure discipline for security findings — what counts as proof of safety, what does not, and how to record an unresolved candidate instead of silently dropping it
-template: jinja
 ---

 # Counterevidence and Closure Discipline
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ state, and "I moved on" is not one of them.

 **1. `confirmed`** — you have a working PoC or, in white-box, a complete
 source → control → sink → impact trace plus evidence the path is
-reachable. File it as a vulnerability report.
+reachable. File it with `create_vulnerability_report`.

 **2. `ruled_out`** — you can name the **specific control** that makes the
 code safe, at a specific location, and you have checked that the control
@@ -33,12 +32,8 @@ that sentence, you are not in `ruled_out`.

 **3. `open_proof_gap`** — the candidate is plausible, you could not
 confirm it, and you also could not name a control that rules it out. This
-{% if coverage_tools %}
 is a legitimate, expected outcome. Record it with
 `record_coverage(outcome="needs_follow_up")`, carry it up in
-{% else %}
-is a legitimate, expected outcome. Carry it up in
-{% endif %}
 `agent_finish(open_items=[...])`, and reflect it in `counterevidence` /
 `confidence_rationale` if you file a related report. Do **not** convert
 it to `ruled_out` to tidy up your worklist.
@@ -102,7 +97,6 @@ What ships and what is reachable is what matters.
 reduces severity — it does not make the finding unreal. Downgrade it;
 do not delete it.

-{% if coverage_tools %}
 ## Recording Closure

 Closure is only useful if it is written down. Every surface you assess
@@ -131,7 +125,6 @@ named control does not cover the path you just found goes back to
 previous state is kept as history, so correcting the record costs
 nothing and leaving it wrong costs a finding.

-{% endif %}
 ## What DOES Rule Out a Candidate

 - You executed the attack and it demonstrably failed, and you understand
@@ -151,7 +144,8 @@ endpoint is broken/unreachable for unrelated reasons".

 ## Before You File a Report

-Run this pass on every finding before filing it:
+Run this pass on every finding before calling
+`create_vulnerability_report`:

 1. **Argue the other side.** Spend real effort building the strongest
   case that this is *not* exploitable, or not as severe as you think.
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: source_aware_discovery
 description: Enumeration discipline for reading code — which locations to keep as separate candidates, which safe siblings prove nothing, and the per-family sweeps that are routinely missed
-template: jinja
 ---

 # Source-Aware Discovery
@@ -207,10 +206,6 @@ Not worth it: "this could use more validation" with no path, style and
 maintainability complaints, and cosmetic variants of a candidate you
 already opened.

-{% if coverage_tools %}
 Keep reading until no distinct plausible candidate remains — then record
 what you swept with `record_coverage`, including the families that came
 back clean.
-{% else %}
-Keep reading until no distinct plausible candidate remains.
-{% endif %}
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: root-agent
 description: Orchestration layer that coordinates specialized subagents for security assessments
-template: jinja
 ---

 # Root Agent
@@ -36,12 +35,10 @@ Every scan needs one shared answer to "who is the attacker here, and what are th

 Either way you write it with the least information anyone on this scan will ever have, so expect it to be wrong somewhere. Subagents correct it with `amend_threat_model`, which appends an attributed addendum instead of overwriting — expect many of these on a black-box run, as authenticating, pivoting between roles, and reaching internal surfaces is exactly what turns inference into fact. Read the amendments back before you write the final report: an agent telling you a boundary you called trusted is attacker-reachable is a finding about your model, not a note. Only call `save_threat_model` again to fold accumulated amendments into the body; it replaces the document and clears them.

-{% if coverage_tools %}
 ## Reconcile Coverage Before Finishing

 Coverage entries are shared and mutable. Before `finish_scan`, list the `needs_follow_up` rows: each one is either work you still owe or a row somebody already resolved without updating. Assign the former to a subagent and have it call `update_coverage` on the existing entry rather than recording a second one — a stale open item sitting next to its own resolution is worse than either alone.

-{% endif %}
 ## Agent Architecture

 Structure agents by function:
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: diff
 description: Methodology for diff-scoped review of a pull request, commit, or branch — what counts as in scope, how far to follow a change, and what not to report
-template: jinja
 ---

 # Diff-Scoped Review
@@ -70,14 +69,9 @@ When it is not, the closure rules apply unchanged: a complete
 source → control → sink → impact trace through the changed code is
 reportable at reduced confidence, with the missing runtime proof named in
 `confidence_rationale`. A candidate you can neither confirm nor rule out
-{% if coverage_tools %}
 with a named control is an `open_proof_gap` — record it as
 `needs_follow_up` coverage rather than dropping it because the
 environment was inconvenient.
-{% else %}
-with a named control is an `open_proof_gap` — carry it up as an open
-item rather than dropping it because the environment was inconvenient.
-{% endif %}

 ## Reporting

@@ -86,9 +80,7 @@ plainly which part of the diff introduced or exposed it. A reviewer
 reading your report next to the diff should be able to see the connection
 without re-deriving your analysis.

-{% if coverage_tools %}
 Record coverage per changed component, not per changed file — a
 formatting-only file and a rewritten auth module are not equal rows.
-{% endif %}
 State which changed areas you reviewed and cleared, so the author knows
 what a clean result actually covered.
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: xss
-description: XSS and HTML injection testing covering reflected, stored, DOM-based, and normalization-dependent vectors
+description: XSS testing covering reflected, stored, and DOM-based vectors with CSP bypass techniques
 ---

 # XSS
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Cross-site scripting persists because context, parser, and framework edges are c

 **Types**
 - Reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS across web/mobile/desktop shells
- Scriptless HTML injection and second-order render paths

 **Contexts**
 - HTML, attribute, URL, JS, CSS, SVG/MathML, Markdown, PDF
@@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ Cross-site scripting persists because context, parser, and framework edges are c

 **Defenses to Bypass**
 - CSP/Trusted Types, DOMPurify, framework auto-escaping
- Decode, normalization, sanitization, and encoding order

 ## Injection Points

@@ -59,24 +57,6 @@ Cross-site scripting persists because context, parser, and framework edges are c

 Distinguish HTML-string input from live DOM objects sanitized with `IN_PLACE`. Resolve the deployed DOMPurify build and check relevant upstream advisories; a controlled observable `nodeName` is one live-node bypass mechanism. Trace same-origin foreign nodes or `adoptNode()` into this mode before selecting the bypass ([example advisory](https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/security/advisories/GHSA-x4vx-rjvf-j5p4)).

-### Scriptless HTML Injection
-
-Do not require JavaScript execution before you report HTML injection. Prove that the browser creates attacker-controlled markup and a concrete security effect.
-
-Test base or form target changes, external requests, deceptive content, DOM clobbering through `id` or `name`, and dangling markup. Report XSS only when you prove a script-capable execution path. Do not dismiss HTML injection only because CSP blocks scripts.
-
-### Unicode Normalization
-
-Test normalization only when the target performs it. NFKC can fold fullwidth delimiters such as `＜` and `＞` into HTML syntax.
-
-Map validation, normalization, sanitization, encoding, and parsing in order. Start with the harmless canary `＜h1 id="strix-nfkc"＞marker＜/h1＞`.
-
-Report a bypass only when normalization creates dangerous syntax that reaches an unprotected sink. Load `semantic_confusion` when components interpret the value differently.
-
-### Second-Order Rendering
-
-Follow stored values into previews, administrative pages, email, exports, and hydration. Record which stage transforms and parses the value.
-
 ### DOM XSS

 **Sources**
@@ -186,7 +166,7 @@ Keep a compact set tuned per context:
 ## Testing Methodology

 1. **Identify sources** - URL/query/hash/referrer, postMessage, storage, WebSocket, server JSON
-2. **Trace transformations and sinks** - Record decoding, normalization, sanitization, reparsing, and the final sink
+2. **Trace to sinks** - Map data flow from source to sink
 3. **Classify context** - HTML node, attribute, URL, script block, event handler, JS eval-like, CSS, SVG
 4. **Assess defenses** - Output encoding, sanitizer, CSP, Trusted Types, DOMPurify config
 5. **Craft payloads** - Minimal payloads per context with encoding/whitespace/casing variants
@@ -195,11 +175,9 @@ Keep a compact set tuned per context:
 ## Validation

 1. Provide minimal payload and context (sink type) with before/after DOM or network evidence
-2. Record the original and transformed value when decoding or normalization affects the result
-3. Demonstrate cross-browser execution where relevant or explain parser-specific behavior
-4. Show bypass of stated defenses (sanitizer settings, CSP/Trusted Types) with proof
-5. Separate HTML injection from XSS and state the proven capability
-6. Quantify impact beyond alert: data accessed, action performed, persistence achieved
+2. Demonstrate cross-browser execution where relevant or explain parser-specific behavior
+3. Show bypass of stated defenses (sanitizer settings, CSP/Trusted Types) with proof
+4. Quantify impact beyond alert: data accessed, action performed, persistence achieved

 ## False Positives

@@ -207,8 +185,6 @@ Keep a compact set tuned per context:
 - CSP with nonces/hashes and no inline/event handlers
 - Trusted Types enforced on sinks; DOMPurify in strict mode with URI allowlists
 - Scriptable contexts disabled (no HTML pass-through, safe URL schemes enforced)
- The target does not perform the claimed normalization or decode
- A normalized value is safely encoded before the final sink

 ## Impact

@@ -231,4 +207,4 @@ Keep a compact set tuned per context:

 ## Summary

-Context, transformation order, and sink decide whether input becomes text, markup, or executable code. Prove HTML injection separately from XSS, and validate every render path. Encode for the exact context and verify at runtime with CSP/Trusted Types. Small payloads with strong evidence beat payload catalogs.
+Context + sink decide execution. Encode for the exact context, verify at runtime with CSP/Trusted Types, and validate every alternative render path. Small payloads with strong evidence beat payload catalogs.
@@ -535,8 +535,9 @@ async def create_agent(
            success looks like, any constraints. Name the target the
            child should call ``get_threat_model`` on, and any shared
            state it should build on rather than rediscover — what
-            recon already mapped, which surfaces are already covered.
-            A child that is not told what is already known repeats it.
+            recon already mapped, which surfaces are already covered,
+            which coverage entry it is picking up. A child that is not
+            told what is already known repeats it.
        inherit_context: Default ``True``. The child receives the
            parent's input history as background; only set ``False``
            when starting a clean-slate task.
@@ -636,8 +637,9 @@ async def agent_finish(
    doing: what did you test, what did you find/confirm/rule out,
    what's still open.

-    **Close out honestly.** Before calling this, anything you could
-    neither confirm nor rule out belongs in ``open_items`` — an
+    **Close out honestly.** Before calling this, every surface you
+    assessed should have a ``record_coverage`` entry, and anything you
+    could neither confirm nor rule out belongs in ``open_items`` — an
    unresolved candidate handed up to the parent is useful, a silently
    dropped one is a missed vulnerability. Reporting nothing and
    listing no open items asserts the area is clean; only say that if
@@ -29,11 +29,7 @@ async def load_skill(ctx: RunContextWrapper, skills: list[str]) -> str:
    if err:
        return f"load_skill: {err}"
    context = ctx.context if isinstance(ctx.context, dict) else {}
-    contents = load_skills(
-        requested,
-        supports_images=context.get("supports_images", True),
-        coverage_tools=context.get("coverage_tools", True),
-    )
+    contents = load_skills(requested, supports_images=context.get("supports_images", True))
    if not contents:
        return "load_skill: no content loaded for requested skills."
    sections = [f"## Skill: {name}\n\n{body}" for name, body in contents.items()]
@@ -69,15 +69,6 @@ async def _call[T](client: Client, fn: Callable[[Client], Awaitable[T]]) -> T:
        return await fn(client)


-_REQUEST_EXISTS_QUERY = "query RequestExists($id: ID!) { request(id: $id) { id } }"
-_REQUEST_EXISTS_ATTEMPTS = 2
-
-
-async def _request_exists(client: Client, request_id: str) -> bool:
-    data = await client.graphql.query(_REQUEST_EXISTS_QUERY, {"id": request_id})
-    return bool(data) and data.get("request") is not None
-
-
 async def existing_request_ids(
    ctx: RunContextWrapper,
    request_ids: list[str],
@@ -90,24 +81,16 @@ async def existing_request_ids(
    if client is None:
        raise RuntimeError("Caido client is not available")

-    # Request IDs are not an HTTPQL field, so each one is resolved by id. Only
-    # the id is selected: pulling the raw request and response bodies just to
-    # learn whether a row exists is what made this time out on busy projects.
+    # Request IDs are not an HTTPQL field. Resolve each ID through the same
+    # project-bound lookup as view_request rather than constructing a filter.
    existing: set[str] = set()
    for request_id in request_ids:
-        for attempt in range(1, _REQUEST_EXISTS_ATTEMPTS + 1):
-            try:
-                exists = await _call(
-                    client,
-                    functools.partial(_request_exists, request_id=request_id),
-                )
-            except Exception:
-                if attempt == _REQUEST_EXISTS_ATTEMPTS:
-                    raise
-                continue
-            if exists:
-                existing.add(request_id)
-            break
+        result = await _call(
+            client,
+            functools.partial(caido_api.get_request_with_client, request_id=request_id),
+        )
+        if result is not None:
+            existing.add(str(result.request.id))
    return existing


@@ -222,9 +222,9 @@ def _normalize_http_exchange_ids(raw: Any) -> tuple[list[str] | None, list[str]]
    return normalized, errors


-_HTTP_EXCHANGE_UNVERIFIED_WARNING = (
-    "http_exchange_ids were stored without verification because the proxy project did "
-    "not respond in time. Ids that do not exist in the project will not render as evidence."
+_HTTP_EXCHANGE_DROPPED_WARNING = (
+    "http_exchange_ids were not stored: the proxy project could not be reached to verify "
+    "them. Attach them with update_vulnerability_report when the proxy responds again."
 )


@@ -235,9 +235,9 @@ async def _verify_http_exchange_ids(
    """Verify proxy exchange IDs against the current Caido project.

    IDs the project does not know are rejected. When the proxy itself cannot be
-    queried the IDs are kept and a warning is returned instead: a slow or
-    unreachable proxy must never strip evidence from a finding, and consumers
-    resolve each id against the recorded traffic before rendering it.
+    queried the IDs are dropped and a warning is returned instead, so a proxy
+    outage never blocks a finding and unverified IDs are never recorded as
+    evidence.
    """
    request_ids, errors = _normalize_http_exchange_ids(raw)
    if request_ids is None or errors or not request_ids:
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ async def _verify_http_exchange_ids(
            "Could not verify HTTP exchange IDs against the current Caido project",
            exc_info=True,
        )
-        return request_ids, [], _HTTP_EXCHANGE_UNVERIFIED_WARNING
+        return None, [], _HTTP_EXCHANGE_DROPPED_WARNING

    missing_ids = [request_id for request_id in request_ids if request_id not in existing_ids]
    if missing_ids:
@@ -93,51 +93,6 @@ def test_per_call_extra_tools_reject_duplicate_registered_names() -> None:
        factory.build_strix_agent(is_root=True, extra_tools=[_tool("same_name")])


-def test_report_tool_replaces_create_vulnerability_report() -> None:
-    for is_root in (True, False):
-        agent = factory.build_strix_agent(is_root=is_root, report_tool=_tool("file_pr_finding"))
-        names = [t.name for t in agent.tools]
-        assert "file_pr_finding" in names
-        assert "create_vulnerability_report" not in names
-        assert isinstance(agent.instructions, str)
-        assert "file_pr_finding" in agent.instructions
-        assert "create_vulnerability_report" not in agent.instructions
-
-
-def _descriptions(tools: list[Any]) -> list[str]:
-    return [t.description for t in tools if isinstance(t, FunctionTool)]
-
-
-def test_coverage_tools_can_be_turned_off() -> None:
-    coverage = {"record_coverage", "update_coverage", "list_coverage"}
-    for is_root in (True, False):
-        on = factory.build_strix_agent(is_root=is_root, is_whitebox=True)
-        off = factory.build_strix_agent(is_root=is_root, is_whitebox=True, coverage_tools=False)
-        assert coverage <= {t.name for t in on.tools}
-        assert not coverage & {t.name for t in off.tools}
-        assert isinstance(on.instructions, str)
-        assert isinstance(off.instructions, str)
-        assert "- COVERAGE" in on.instructions
-        assert "## Recording Closure" in on.instructions
-        assert not any(name in off.instructions for name in coverage)
-        on_descriptions = "\n".join(_descriptions(on.tools))
-        off_descriptions = "\n".join(_descriptions(off.tools))
-        if is_root:
-            assert "Coverage reconciliation" in on_descriptions
-            assert "Coverage reconciliation" not in off_descriptions
-        assert not any(name in off_descriptions for name in coverage)
-
-    diff_on = factory.build_strix_agent(is_root=True, is_diff_scoped=True)
-    diff_off = factory.build_strix_agent(is_root=True, is_diff_scoped=True, coverage_tools=False)
-    assert isinstance(diff_on.instructions, str)
-    assert isinstance(diff_off.instructions, str)
-    assert "Record coverage per changed component" in diff_on.instructions
-    assert "`needs_follow_up` coverage" in diff_on.instructions
-    assert "Record coverage per changed component" not in diff_off.instructions
-    assert "`needs_follow_up` coverage" not in diff_off.instructions
-    assert not any(name in diff_off.instructions for name in coverage)
-
-
 def test_instructions_override_is_used_verbatim() -> None:
    custom = "You are a scan agent. Follow the provided scope."

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ from __future__ import annotations

 import json
 import uuid
-from datetime import UTC, datetime, timedelta
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, call, patch
@@ -19,13 +18,11 @@ from strix.config.models import (
    _configure_litellm_compatibility,
    _install_openrouter_stream_cost_capture,
 )
-from strix.core.hooks import ReportUsageHooks
 from strix.llm import request_log
 from strix.report.state import (
    ReportState,
    litellm_cost_callback,
    openrouter_stream_cost,
-    record_llm_request,
    set_global_report_state,
    streamed_openrouter_costs,
 )
@@ -458,73 +455,3 @@ def test_openrouter_records_upstream_of_pre_stream_error() -> None:
        request_log._http_reply.reset(token)
    assert reply.upstream_provider == "InferenceNet"
    assert reply.upstream_error_type is None
-
-
-def test_request_timings_land_in_run_record() -> None:
-    started = datetime(2026, 10, 19, 12, 0, tzinfo=UTC)
-    event = request_log.LlmRequestEvent(
-        call_id="call-1",
-        route="litellm",
-        provider="openrouter",
-        model="openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash",
-        api_host="openrouter.ai",
-        streaming=True,
-        outcome="success",
-        status_code=200,
-        provider_request_id=None,
-        response_id="gen-1",
-        error_type=None,
-        error_message=None,
-        started_at=started,
-        finished_at=started + timedelta(milliseconds=4200),
-        duration_ms=4200,
-        input_tokens=90_000,
-        output_tokens=600,
-        cached_input_tokens=85_000,
-        agent_id="agent-1",
-        time_to_first_token_ms=900,
-        details={"upstream_provider": "Together"},
-    )
-    state = ReportState.__new__(ReportState)
-    state.run_record = {}
-    try:
-        set_global_report_state(state)
-        record_llm_request(event)
-    finally:
-        set_global_report_state(None)
-
-    assert state.run_record["llm_requests"] == [
-        {
-            "started_at": "2026-10-19T12:00:00+00:00",
-            "agent_id": "agent-1",
-            "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash",
-            "provider": "Together",
-            "outcome": "success",
-            "status": 200,
-            "duration_ms": 4200,
-            "ttft_ms": 900,
-            "input_tokens": 90_000,
-            "cached_tokens": 85_000,
-            "output_tokens": 600,
-            "retry_attempt": 0,
-        }
-    ]
-
-
-async def test_tool_call_timings_land_in_run_record() -> None:
-    hooks = ReportUsageHooks(model="m", record_tool_timings=True)
-    context = SimpleNamespace(tool_call_id="call-1", context={"agent_id": "agent-1"})
-    tool = SimpleNamespace(name="terminal_execute")
-    state = ReportState.__new__(ReportState)
-    state.run_record = {}
-    try:
-        set_global_report_state(state)
-        await hooks.on_tool_start(context, MagicMock(), tool)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
-        await hooks.on_tool_end(context, MagicMock(), tool, "ok")  # type: ignore[arg-type]
-    finally:
-        set_global_report_state(None)
-
-    [entry] = state.run_record["tool_calls"]
-    assert entry["agent_id"] == "agent-1"
-    assert entry["tool"] == "terminal_execute"
-    assert entry["duration_ms"] >= 0
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-"""The root agent must follow up open coverage rows before finishing."""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import pytest
-
-from strix.agents.prompt import render_system_prompt
-
-
-_FOLLOW_UP = 'calls `list_coverage(outcome="needs_follow_up")` and follows up every row it returns'
-_KEEP_GENUINE_GAPS = "stays `needs_follow_up` only when it is genuinely blocked"
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("scan_mode", ["quick", "standard", "deep"])
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("is_whitebox", [False, True])
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("is_root", [False, True])
-def test_prompt_follows_up_open_coverage(scan_mode: str, is_whitebox: bool, is_root: bool) -> None:
-    prompt = render_system_prompt(scan_mode=scan_mode, is_whitebox=is_whitebox, is_root=is_root)
-
-    assert prompt
-    assert _FOLLOW_UP in prompt
-    assert _KEEP_GENUINE_GAPS in prompt
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-"""``STRIX_DOCKER_SANDBOX_DEVICES`` passes host devices through to the sandbox container."""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
-
-from strix.runtime import docker_client
-
-
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    import pytest
-
-
-def test_unset_adds_no_devices(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.delenv(docker_client._SANDBOX_DEVICES_ENV, raising=False)
-    kwargs: dict[str, object] = {}
-    docker_client._apply_sandbox_devices(kwargs)
-    assert kwargs == {}
-
-
-def test_devices_are_mapped_to_the_same_path_rwm(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv(docker_client._SANDBOX_DEVICES_ENV, " /dev/net/tun, /dev/kvm ,,")
-    kwargs: dict[str, object] = {}
-    docker_client._apply_sandbox_devices(kwargs)
-    assert kwargs["devices"] == ["/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun:rwm", "/dev/kvm:/dev/kvm:rwm"]
-
-
-def test_existing_devices_are_kept_and_not_duplicated(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv(docker_client._SANDBOX_DEVICES_ENV, "/dev/fuse,/dev/net/tun")
-    kwargs: dict[str, object] = {"devices": ["/dev/fuse"]}
-    docker_client._apply_sandbox_devices(kwargs)
-    assert kwargs["devices"] == ["/dev/fuse", "/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun:rwm"]
@@ -2,14 +2,11 @@

 from __future__ import annotations

-from types import SimpleNamespace
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
+from typing import Any
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch

 import pytest
-from agents.usage import Usage

-from strix.config import loader
 from strix.core.agents import AgentCoordinator
 from strix.core.hooks import (
    BudgetExceededError,
@@ -18,11 +15,6 @@ from strix.core.hooks import (
    SubagentBudgetReservedError,
    recomputed_budget_flags,
 )
-from strix.report.usage import LLMUsageLedger
-
-
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from pathlib import Path


 def _make_hooks(max_budget: float | None) -> ReportUsageHooks:
@@ -93,38 +85,6 @@ async def test_over_budget_raises() -> None:
        await hooks.on_llm_end(_make_context(), MagicMock(), MagicMock())


-@pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_manual_rates_make_unpriced_model_trip_budget(
-    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path
-) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM", "test-model")
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "10")
-    monkeypatch.delenv("STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", raising=False)
-    monkeypatch.delenv("STRIX_LLM_CACHED_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", raising=False)
-    monkeypatch.setattr(loader, "_override", tmp_path / "missing.json")
-    monkeypatch.setattr(loader, "_cached", None)
-    usage = Usage()
-    usage.requests = 1
-    usage.input_tokens = 1000
-    usage.total_tokens = 1000
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    class ReportState:
-        def record_sdk_usage(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-            ledger.record(**kwargs)
-
-        def get_total_llm_cost(self) -> float:
-            return ledger.total_cost
-
-    hooks = _make_hooks(0.005)
-    response: Any = SimpleNamespace(usage=usage)
-    with (
-        patch("strix.core.hooks.get_global_report_state", return_value=ReportState()),
-        pytest.raises(BudgetExceededError),
-    ):
-        await hooks.on_llm_end(_make_context(), MagicMock(), response)
-
-
@pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_budget_check_uses_live_cost_accessor() -> None:
    # The check must read the live ledger, not the persisted run-record snapshot,
@@ -547,30 +507,3 @@ def test_recomputed_budget_flags(
    expected: tuple[bool, bool],
 ) -> None:
    assert recomputed_budget_flags(cost, max_budget, interactive=interactive) == expected
-
-
-@pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_turn_limit_warns_ten_before_and_repeats_past_it() -> None:
-    hooks = ReportUsageHooks(model="test-model")
-    noticed = []
-    for requests in range(40):
-        ctx = _make_warn_context(requests=requests, parent_id="root-1")
-        ctx.context["turn_limit"] = 25
-        items: list[Any] = []
-        await hooks.on_llm_start(ctx, MagicMock(), None, items)
-        if items:
-            noticed.append((requests + 1, items[0]["content"]))
-
-    assert [turn for turn, _ in noticed] == [15, 25, 30, 35, 40]
-    assert "15 of your 25-turn limit" in noticed[0][1]
-    assert "past your 25-turn limit" in noticed[1][1]
-
-
-@pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_no_turn_limit_no_notice() -> None:
-    hooks = ReportUsageHooks(model="test-model")
-    items: list[Any] = []
-    await hooks.on_llm_start(
-        _make_warn_context(requests=14, parent_id="root-1"), MagicMock(), None, items
-    )
-    assert items == []
@@ -310,14 +310,8 @@ def test_make_model_settings_forces_required_for_anyllm_routed_openai_model() ->
    assert settings.tool_choice == "required"


-def test_make_model_settings_disables_parallel_tool_calls_by_default() -> None:
-    assert make_model_settings("none", model_name="gpt-4o").parallel_tool_calls is False
-
-
-def test_make_model_settings_enables_parallel_tool_calls_when_requested() -> None:
-    settings = make_model_settings("none", model_name="gpt-4o", parallel_tool_calls=True)
-
-    assert settings.parallel_tool_calls is True
+def test_make_model_settings_enables_parallel_tool_calls_by_default() -> None:
+    assert make_model_settings("none", model_name="gpt-4o").parallel_tool_calls is True


 def test_make_model_settings_omits_parallel_tool_calls_without_tools() -> None:
@@ -474,11 +468,6 @@ def test_openrouter_attribution_rides_on_the_request_headers() -> None:
    }


-def test_vercel_ai_gateway_attribution_rides_on_the_request_headers() -> None:
-    headers = make_model_settings(None, model_name="vercel_ai_gateway/zai/glm-5.3").extra_headers
-    assert headers == {"HTTP-Referer": "https://strix.ai", "X-Title": "Strix"}
-
-
 def test_openrouter_attribution_absent_for_other_providers() -> None:
    assert make_model_settings(None, model_name="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5").extra_headers is None

@@ -1,50 +1,14 @@
 from __future__ import annotations

-import json
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 from unittest.mock import patch

 import litellm
-import pytest
 from agents.usage import Usage
-from pydantic import ValidationError

-from strix.config import loader
-from strix.config.settings import LlmSettings
 from strix.report.pricing import resolve_litellm_model
 from strix.report.usage import LLMUsageLedger


-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from pathlib import Path
-
-
-PRICE_ENV = (
-    "STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK",
-    "STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK",
-    "STRIX_LLM_CACHED_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK",
-)
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-def _isolated_settings(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
-    for name in PRICE_ENV:
-        monkeypatch.delenv(name, raising=False)
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM", "gateway/unpriced-model")
-    monkeypatch.setattr(loader, "_override", tmp_path / "missing.json")
-    monkeypatch.setattr(loader, "_cached", None)
-
-
-def _usage(input_tokens: int, output_tokens: int = 0, cached_tokens: int = 0) -> Usage:
-    usage = Usage()
-    usage.requests = 1
-    usage.input_tokens = input_tokens
-    usage.output_tokens = output_tokens
-    usage.total_tokens = input_tokens + output_tokens
-    usage.input_tokens_details.cached_tokens = cached_tokens
-    return usage
-
-
 def test_resolves_common_bare_model_names() -> None:
    resolve_litellm_model.cache_clear()
    assert resolve_litellm_model("deepseek-v4-flash") == "deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash"
@@ -96,112 +60,6 @@ def test_ledger_prefers_observed_cost_over_estimate() -> None:
    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.17


-def test_unpriced_model_without_manual_rates_costs_zero() -> None:
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    ledger.record(agent_id="a", usage=_usage(1000, 200), model="gateway/unpriced-model")
-
-    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.0
-
-
-def test_manual_rates_price_usage_and_override_observed_cost(
-    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
-) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "2")
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "8")
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    ledger.record(agent_id="a", usage=_usage(1000, 200), model="gateway/unpriced-model")
-    ledger.record_observed_cost(0.17)
-
-    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.0036
-    assert ledger.to_record()["agents"][0]["cost"] == 0.0036
-
-
-def test_manual_rates_from_config_file(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    path = tmp_path / "config.json"
-    path.write_text(
-        json.dumps(
-            {
-                "env": {
-                    "STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK": "2",
-                    "STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK": "8",
-                }
-            }
-        ),
-        encoding="utf-8",
-    )
-    monkeypatch.setattr(loader, "_override", path)
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    ledger.record(agent_id="a", usage=_usage(1000, 200), model="gateway/unpriced-model")
-
-    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.0036
-
-
-def test_manual_rates_only_price_the_configured_model(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "2")
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "8")
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    ledger.record(agent_id="a", usage=_usage(1000, 200), model="gateway/unpriced-model")
-    with patch("litellm.completion_cost", return_value=0.42):
-        ledger.record(agent_id="dedupe", usage=_usage(500, 50), model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash")
-    record = ledger.to_record()
-
-    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.4236
-    assert {agent["agent_id"]: agent["cost"] for agent in record["agents"]} == {
-        "a": 0.0036,
-        "dedupe": 0.42,
-    }
-
-
-def test_cached_tokens_fall_back_to_input_rate(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "5")
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "7")
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    ledger.record(
-        agent_id="a", usage=_usage(10, 1, cached_tokens=2), model="gateway/unpriced-model"
-    )
-
-    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.000057
-
-
-def test_hydrated_usage_uses_configured_rates_not_persisted_cost(
-    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
-) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "2")
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_OUTPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "8")
-    original = LLMUsageLedger()
-    original.record(agent_id="a", usage=_usage(1000, 200), model="gateway/unpriced-model")
-    persisted = original.to_record()
-    persisted["cost"] = 42.0
-    persisted["agents"][0]["cost"] = 42.0
-    hydrated = LLMUsageLedger()
-
-    hydrated.hydrate(persisted)
-
-    assert hydrated.total_cost == 0.0036
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("value", ["invalid", "-1", "nan", "inf"])
-def test_invalid_manual_rate_is_rejected(value: str, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", value)
-    with pytest.raises(ValidationError):
-        LlmSettings()
-
-
-def test_zero_cost_overrides_manual_rates(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setenv("STRIX_LLM_INPUT_COST_PER_MTOK", "10")
-    ledger = LLMUsageLedger()
-    ledger.zero_cost = True
-
-    ledger.record(agent_id="a", usage=_usage(1000), model="gateway/unpriced-model")
-
-    assert ledger.total_cost == 0.0
-
-
 def test_hydrated_estimate_continues_accumulating_new_estimates() -> None:
    usage = Usage()
    usage.requests = 1
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ call at a time against the shared client.
 from __future__ import annotations

 import asyncio
+from types import SimpleNamespace
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, cast

 import pytest
@@ -26,7 +27,6 @@ class _FakeClient:
    def __init__(self, name: str) -> None:
        self.name = name
        self.closed = False
-        self.graphql: Any = None

    async def aclose(self) -> None:
        self.closed = True
@@ -231,23 +231,20 @@ async def test_ctx_client_degrades_when_bootstrap_failed() -> None:
    assert await tools._ctx_client(cast("Any", _Ctx({"caido_client": handle}))) is None


-class _FakeGraphQL:
-    def __init__(self, answers: dict[str, list[Any]]) -> None:
-        self.answers = answers
-        self.queries: list[tuple[str, dict[str, Any]]] = []
-
-    async def query(self, document: str, variables: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
-        self.queries.append((document, dict(variables)))
-        answer = self.answers[variables["id"]].pop(0)
-        if isinstance(answer, Exception):
-            raise answer
-        return {"request": answer}
-
-
-async def test_existing_request_ids_select_only_the_id() -> None:
+async def test_existing_request_ids_queries_current_project(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+) -> None:
    client = _FakeClient("host")
-    graphql = _FakeGraphQL({"1042": [{"id": "1042"}], "1088": [None]})
-    client.graphql = graphql
+    looked_up: list[str] = []
+
+    async def get_request_with_client(passed_client: Any, request_id: str) -> Any:
+        assert passed_client is client
+        looked_up.append(request_id)
+        if request_id == "1042":
+            return SimpleNamespace(request=SimpleNamespace(id="1042"))
+        return None
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(caido_api, "get_request_with_client", get_request_with_client)

    existing = await tools.existing_request_ids(
        cast("Any", _Ctx({"caido_client": client})),
@@ -255,34 +252,7 @@ async def test_existing_request_ids_select_only_the_id() -> None:
    )

    assert existing == {"1042"}
-    assert [variables["id"] for _, variables in graphql.queries] == ["1042", "1088"]
-    for document, _ in graphql.queries:
-        assert "raw" not in document
-        assert "{ id }" in document
-
-
-async def test_existing_request_ids_retry_once_before_giving_up() -> None:
-    client = _FakeClient("host")
-    graphql = _FakeGraphQL(
-        {
-            "1042": [TimeoutError("deadline exceeded"), {"id": "1042"}],
-            "1088": [TimeoutError("deadline exceeded"), TimeoutError("deadline exceeded")],
-        }
-    )
-    client.graphql = graphql
-
-    with pytest.raises(TimeoutError):
-        await tools.existing_request_ids(
-            cast("Any", _Ctx({"caido_client": client})),
-            ["1042", "1088"],
-        )
-
-    assert [variables["id"] for _, variables in graphql.queries] == [
-        "1042",
-        "1042",
-        "1088",
-        "1088",
-    ]
+    assert looked_up == ["1042", "1088"]


 def test_err_logs_caido_errors_as_warnings(caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture) -> None:
@@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@ async def test_http_exchange_ids_must_exist_in_current_proxy_project(
    assert warning is None


-async def test_http_exchange_ids_are_kept_when_proxy_cannot_be_queried(
+async def test_http_exchange_ids_are_dropped_when_proxy_cannot_be_queried(
    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
 ) -> None:
    async def existing_request_ids(
@@ -1656,10 +1656,11 @@ async def test_http_exchange_ids_are_kept_when_proxy_cannot_be_queried(
        ["1042", "1042", "1088"],
    )

-    assert request_ids == ["1042", "1088"]
+    assert request_ids is None
    assert errors == []
    assert warning is not None
-    assert "without verification" in warning
+    assert "not stored" in warning
+    assert "update_vulnerability_report" in warning


 async def test_create_reports_persistence_failure_as_tool_error(
@@ -1678,7 +1679,7 @@ async def test_create_reports_persistence_failure_as_tool_error(
    assert report_state.vulnerability_reports == []


-async def test_evidence_only_update_keeps_ids_when_proxy_cannot_be_queried(
+async def test_evidence_only_update_reports_proxy_outage_as_retryable(
    report_state: ReportState,
    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
 ) -> None:
@@ -1711,11 +1712,11 @@ async def test_evidence_only_update_keeps_ids_when_proxy_cannot_be_queried(
    )
    result = json.loads(raw)

-    assert result["success"] is True
-    assert "without verification" in result["warning"]
+    assert result["success"] is False
+    assert "No fields to update" not in result["error"]
+    assert "update_vulnerability_report" in result["error"]
    assert result["report_id"] == "vuln-0009"
-    assert report_state.vulnerability_reports[0]["http_exchange_ids"] == ["204"]
-    assert report_state.vulnerability_reports[0] != original
+    assert report_state.vulnerability_reports[0] == original


 def test_update_reports_persistence_failure_as_tool_error(report_state: ReportState) -> None:
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ def _wire_runner(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Any) -> None:
            model="openai/gpt-4o",
            reasoning_effort="high",
            force_required_tool_choice=False,
-            parallel_tool_calls=False,
            timeout=300,
            prompt_cache=True,
            extra_headers=None,
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ def _settings() -> Any:
            model="openai/gpt-4o",
            reasoning_effort="high",
            force_required_tool_choice=False,
-            parallel_tool_calls=False,
            timeout=300,
            prompt_cache=True,
            extra_headers=None,
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ async def test_persistent_rate_limit_stops_gracefully(
            model="openai/gpt-4o",
            reasoning_effort="high",
            force_required_tool_choice=False,
-            parallel_tool_calls=False,
            timeout=300,
            prompt_cache=True,
            extra_headers=None,
@@ -61,14 +61,12 @@ def _patch_engine_scaffold(
            model="openai/gpt-4o",
            reasoning_effort="high",
            force_required_tool_choice=False,
-            parallel_tool_calls=False,
            timeout=300,
            prompt_cache=True,
            extra_headers=None,
            extra_body=None,
        ),
        runtime=types.SimpleNamespace(max_context_images=3),
-        telemetry=types.SimpleNamespace(run_record_timings=False),
    )
    monkeypatch.setattr(runner, "load_settings", lambda: settings)
    monkeypatch.setattr(runner, "configure_sdk_model_defaults", lambda _settings: None)
@@ -162,36 +160,6 @@ async def test_root_prompt_options_flow_into_root_agent(
    }


-@pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_replace_root_scan_prompt_drops_the_scan_prompt(
-    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
-    tmp_path: Any,
-) -> None:
-    scope_context = {
-        "scope_source": "user_scan_config",
-        "authorized_targets": [
-            {"type": "web_application", "value": "https://example.com", "workspace_path": ""},
-        ],
-    }
-    captured = _patch_engine_scaffold(monkeypatch, tmp_path, scope_context)
-
-    await runner.run_strix_scan(
-        scan_config={"targets": [], "scan_mode": "deep"},
-        scan_id="scan-replace",
-        image="img",
-        coordinator=AgentCoordinator(),
-        root_instructions_override="CUSTOM SCAN PROMPT",
-        replace_root_scan_prompt=True,
-    )
-
-    instructions_override = captured["kwargs"]["instructions_override"]
-    assert instructions_override.startswith("CUSTOM SCAN PROMPT")
-    assert instructions_override.count("SCOPE:") == 1
-    assert "https://example.com" in instructions_override
-    assert "<root_scan_instructions_override>" not in instructions_override
-    assert "application security validation agent" not in instructions_override
-
-
@pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_extra_system_prompt_context_cannot_override_scope_context(
    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
@@ -317,19 +285,6 @@ async def test_unknown_tool_calls_are_returned_to_the_model(
    assert captured["run_config"].tool_not_found_behavior == "return_error_to_model"


-@pytest.mark.parametrize("interactive", [False, True])
-def test_parallel_tool_calls_prompt_is_opt_in(interactive: bool) -> None:
-    default = render_system_prompt(include_scope=False, interactive=interactive)
-    parallel = render_system_prompt(
-        include_scope=False, interactive=interactive, parallel_tool_calls=True
-    )
-
-    assert "Read-only calls can go together" not in default
-    assert ("Read-only calls can go together" in parallel) is not interactive
-    assert ("exactly one tool call" in default) is interactive
-    assert "exactly one tool call" not in parallel
-
-
 def test_scope_is_rendered_once_at_the_end_of_the_prompt() -> None:
    prompt = render_system_prompt(
        system_prompt_context={
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ def _settings() -> Any:
            model="openai/gpt-4o",
            reasoning_effort="high",
            force_required_tool_choice=False,
-            parallel_tool_calls=False,
            timeout=300,
            prompt_cache=True,
            extra_headers=None,
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ from strix.skills import (
    register_skill_dir,
    registered_skill_dirs,
    skill_search_dirs,
-    skill_turn_limit,
    validate_requested_skills,
 )
 from strix.utils.resource_paths import get_strix_resource_path
@@ -283,16 +282,3 @@ def test_new_skill_files_load() -> None:
    for name in names:
        key = name.split("/")[-1]
        assert loaded.get(key), f"{name} failed to load"
-
-
-def test_skill_turn_limit_matches_bare_and_qualified_names(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
-    _write_skill(tmp_path, "pr_review", "investigator", "---\nname: investigator\n---\nx")
-    _write_skill(tmp_path, "pr_review", "validator", "---\nname: validator\n---\nx")
-    register_skill_dir(tmp_path)
-    limits = {"pr_review/investigator": 25, "pr_review/validator": 40}
-
-    assert skill_turn_limit(["investigator"], limits) == 25
-    assert skill_turn_limit(["pr_review/validator", "idor"], limits) == 40
-    assert skill_turn_limit(["investigator", "validator"], limits) == 40
-    assert skill_turn_limit(["idor"], limits) is None
-    assert skill_turn_limit(["investigator"], {}) is None