fix(router): exclude hard-cooldowned providers + DeepSeek V4 + Codex plan-tier

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Target release

v2.5.0 — three layered router/provider fixes plus the DeepSeek V3 → V4 catalog migration that was already in flight.

Why this PR exists

Operator incident on 2026-04-26: an OpenCode/Codenomad chat session got stuck in compaction with Error: "{\"detail\":\"The 'gpt-5-codex' model is not supported when using Codex with a ChatGPT account.\"}". Diagnosing it surfaced three independent layered failures, all of which would have hit other operators eventually:

1. The Codex effective-model mapping unconditionally translated gpt-5.4 → gpt-5-codex, which chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses accepts only for ChatGPT Pro accounts. Plus subscribers (the majority of operators) got a hard 400 on every Codex request.
2. The router's _select_policy_provider and _validate_health only checked provider_health.healthy. That flag flips back to True after a single successful health probe, so a structurally broken provider sitting at the top of prefer_providers got re-selected on every user request — the cooldown windows the adaptive RoutePressure tracker was setting were observability-only, never read at routing time. In the live incident openai-codex was re-selected 5+ times in a row across user requests despite all of them 400ing.
3. Once Codex was fully out of the way, the next provider (DeepSeek V4) introduced a new mandatory reasoning_content round-trip on assistant messages whenever thinking mode is active. OpenCode/Codenomad/generic openai-compat clients don't track that field, so every multi-turn request 400'd with "The reasoning_content in the thinking mode must be passed back to the API."

What changed

faigate/providers.py

• _codex_effective_model is now plan-tier-aware. New _detect_codex_chatgpt_plan_tier() parses chatgpt_plan_type from the cached ~/.codex/auth.json id_token JWT once per process lifetime. gpt-5.4 maps to gpt-5-codex for Pro, gpt-5-codex-mini for Plus, and raw pass-through for unknown so the upstream rejects explicitly rather than us guessing wrong.
• DeepSeek V4 thinking-mode safeguard in the openai-compat send-path. When any prior assistant message lacks reasoning_content, the request body sets thinking: {"type": "disabled"} (V4 expects an Anthropic-style ThinkingOptions struct — enable_thinking: false is silently ignored upstream, which I confirmed via direct probe). Single-turn reasoning still flows through unchanged. Provider/request extra_body overrides win because they merge in after the auto-set.

faigate/router.py

• New _provider_in_hard_cooldown(name, ctx) helper consulted in:
  • _provider_matches_policy — excludes cooldown'd providers from the policy candidate set so prefer_providers ordering can no longer mask them.
  • _validate_health — adds a third reason ("primary in cooldown") that triggers the existing fallback-chain logic, and filters the fallback chain itself so we don't just route to a different broken provider.
• Soft-degrade windows (transport-error, timeout) intentionally stay routable and continue to be handled via the additive adaptation_penalty in ranking.
• Direct/explicit-model routing (model: "openai-codex" etc.) is unaffected by design — explicit caller intent overrides the adaptive demotion.

config.yaml

• deepseek-chat → deepseek-v4-flash (workhorse, 1M ctx, $0.028/$0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens) and deepseek-reasoner → deepseek-v4-pro (premium reasoning, 1M ctx, $0.145/$1.74/$3.48). Lane canonical models become deepseek/v4-flash and deepseek/v4-pro. All inbound references in prefer_providers, model_shortcuts, static_rules, and degrade chains have been swept.
• opencode and coding profiles get a deny_providers list for the full openai-codex* family as defence-in-depth against future ChatGPT-side gating changes. Explicit invocation still works.

Tests (+24, 0 regressions)

• New tests/test_router_cooldown.py — 5 tests covering policy exclusion, recovery after window expiry, and primary→fallback transition.
• New tests/test_provider_safeguards.py — 14 tests covering plan-tier mapping (Pro/Plus/unknown), JWT parsing edge cases, and the DeepSeek thinking safeguard (single-turn, multi-turn with/without reasoning_content, non-deepseek lanes, extra_body override).
• tests/test_providers.py — autouse fixture pinning the plan cache to pro so legacy gpt-5-codex assertions stay valid; plan-tier detection itself moved into the new dedicated suite.
• tests/test_routing.py — fixture provider names swept V3 → V4.

Full pytest tests/ --ignore=tests/test_wizard.py -k "not benchmark" shows 446 passed, 16 failed, 6 deselected. All 16 failures pre-exist on main (11× ruamel.yaml missing in py3.14 env, 3× bundled assets/metadata/catalog.v1.json already V4-aware vs. older test fixtures). Tracked separately — see follow-up issues linked below.

Live verification

A Codenomad session that was producing HTTP 400 reasoning_content errors now routes via Route: deepseek-v4-flash [static/subagent] → HTTP 200 with no manual intervention.

Test plan

• Unit: pytest tests/test_router_cooldown.py tests/test_provider_safeguards.py tests/test_routing.py tests/test_providers.py tests/test_adaptation.py — 64 passed.
• Full suite (excluding test_wizard.py separately tracked): 446 passed, 16 pre-existing failures unchanged.
• Live integration: Codenomad multi-turn session with Phase-1 v2.4.0 user config + Phase-2 router patch loaded → HTTP 200.
• DeepSeek API probe to confirm thinking: {type: disabled} is the param V4 actually accepts (boolean form silently ignored).
• Reviewer to spot-check the JWT parsing in _detect_codex_chatgpt_plan_tier() — base64 padding handling, defensive try/except returning "unknown" on any error.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

Filed as separate issues:

• Health-driven catalog refresh smartness — make the metadata loop emit deprecation/replacement edges, drift-detect via release-note polling, surface in Gate Bar.
• Restore tests/test_wizard.py (V3→V4 fixture sweep, ~79 references).
• Fix the 16 pre-existing test failures on main (ruamel.yaml dependency for py3.14 + bundled catalog vs. fixture drift).

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