anomalyco / anomalyco/opencode

[FEATURE]: Transcribe images to text when the selected model has no vision support

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Since Sep 10, 2026.

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When the selected model does not support image input and I paste a screenshot, the request fails with:

ERROR: Cannot read "<file>" (this model does not support image input). Inform the user.

I then have to retype the screenshot contents by hand.

Proposal: if the prompt contains an image and the selected model cannot read images, transcribe the image to text with a vision-capable model and inject that text into the request. The selected model stays unchanged, and the image stays visible in the UI. No error is shown to the user.

Fallback order:

  1. experimental.vision_model config override, if set.
  2. A vision-capable model from the same provider as the selected model.

The image must never be sent to a different provider than the selected one. A fully local OCR fallback for providers with no vision model at all is tracked separately in #48333.

Related work: this is narrower than #46794 (which proposes switching the active model) and complements #42758 (images degrade to a placeholder).

Out of scope for the first PR: PDF/audio/video, media inside tool results, and the V2 session runner (V1 is the live path today).

I have a working prototype of the V1 path with tests and can open a PR after a design review.

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