@@ -66,6 +66,31 @@ describe('enabledAccountModels', () => {
     expect(enabledAccountModels([sub], {}, 'claude-code')).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it("narrows a picked model to the protocols it is known to answer, for the agent's actual binding", () => {
+    const gateway = account('acc_gw', {
+      service: 'linkcode-gateway',
+      credential: { type: 'auth-token', token: 'lc-test' },
+      models: [
+        { id: 'openai/gpt-5.6', protocols: ['openai-chat', 'openai-responses'] },
+        { id: 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-5', protocols: ['openai-chat'] },
+        // Probed before `protocols` existed, or never probed — absence must still offer it.
+        { id: 'openai/gpt-4.1' },
+      ],
+    });
+    // codex binds this account on openai-responses: only the model tagged for it survives, plus
+    // the one with no protocol data at all.
+    expect(enabledAccountModels([gateway], {}, 'codex').map(({ model }) => model.id)).toEqual([
+      'openai/gpt-5.6',
+      'openai/gpt-4.1',
+    ]);
+    // opencode/pi accept any wire this account offers, so nothing here is narrowed.
+    expect(enabledAccountModels([gateway], {}, 'opencode').map(({ model }) => model.id)).toEqual([
+      'openai/gpt-5.6',
+      'anthropic/claude-sonnet-5',
+      'openai/gpt-4.1',
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it('reports an account with no picked model as offering nothing, not as unavailable', () => {
     expect(enabledAccountModels([account('acc_empty')], {}, 'opencode')).toEqual([]);
     expect(accountEnabledFor({}, 'opencode', 'acc_empty')).toBe(true);
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ describe('resolveBinding: variant chosen per agent', () => {
     ).toEqual({ tier: 'unavailable', reason: 'protocol-unsupported' });
   });
 
-  it('preserves LinkCode Gateway as an OpenAI Chat endpoint', () => {
+  it('serves LinkCode Gateway over both OpenAI wires', () => {
     const gateway = account({
       service: 'linkcode-gateway',
       credential: { type: 'auth-token', token: 'lc-gateway-key' },
@@ -209,8 +209,9 @@ describe('resolveBinding: variant chosen per agent', () => {
       });
     }
     expect(resolveBinding(gateway, 'codex')).toEqual({
-      tier: 'unavailable',
-      reason: 'protocol-unsupported',
+      tier: 'native',
+      protocol: 'openai-responses',
+      baseUrl: 'https://gateway.linkcode.ai/v1',
     });
   });
 
 
@@ -21,15 +21,23 @@ export interface ServiceVariant {
   /** Ids for this endpoint in an agent's own provider catalog. Present means the agent already
    * carries the wire adapter and model metadata, so it needs only the key injected. */
   knownProvider?: Partial<Record<AgentKind, string>>;
+  /** Overrides the service-level list for this variant only. Needed when one secret reaches
+   * a gateway whose ids differ by protocol — LinkCode Gateway's `openai-responses` variant
+   * lists only the models that speak Responses, a strict subset of the plain `/v1/models`
+   * every other variant (and the service-level fallback below) serves. Absent means this
+   * variant's list is the service-level one. */
+  models?: ServiceModelList;
   /** `endpointParams` key → the env name that agent's own provider entry reads it under. Present
    * means the agent templates a per-model URL, so injecting one base URL would flatten routes that
    * differ per model — declare this instead of a base URL for such a provider. */
   endpointEnv?: Partial<Record<AgentKind, Record<string, string>>>;
 }
 
 /**
- * Where to read the ids this service serves. Service-level, not per variant: one secret reaches one
- * model list, and the ids are the same whichever protocol shape an agent ends up using.
+ * Where to read the ids this service serves, by default. One secret can still reach several
+ * different lists — see `ServiceVariant.models` — but every service in this catalog except
+ * LinkCode Gateway serves the same ids regardless of which protocol shape an agent ends up
+ * using, so a per-variant override is the exception, not the rule this field describes.
  *
  * The URL is spelled out rather than derived from a variant's `baseUrl` + protocol, because
  * derivation is wrong for any service whose variants sit on different paths — DeepSeek's
@@ -163,6 +171,15 @@ export const SERVICE_CATALOG: ServiceDescriptor[] = [
     credentialType: 'auth-token',
     variants: {
       'openai-chat': { baseUrl: 'https://gateway.linkcode.ai/v1' },
+      // Lists only the models the gateway actually serves on this wire — a strict subset of
+      // the service-level list below, since not every provider behind it speaks Responses.
+      'openai-responses': {
+        baseUrl: 'https://gateway.linkcode.ai/v1',
+        models: {
+          url: 'https://gateway.linkcode.ai/v1/models?protocol=openai-responses',
+          wire: 'openai',
+        },
+      },
     },
     models: { url: 'https://gateway.linkcode.ai/v1/models', wire: 'openai' },
   },
@@ -253,7 +270,24 @@ export function endpointServiceById(id: string | undefined): EndpointService | u
   return service?.kind === 'endpoint' ? service : undefined;
 }
 
-/** Where to read this service's model ids, or undefined when it serves no list. */
+/** Where to read this service's model ids, or undefined when it serves no list. This is the
+ * service-level default — the one list shown by "does this service serve a list at all" checks,
+ * and correct for every service in this catalog except LinkCode Gateway. Use
+ * `modelListSourceForProtocol` when the caller actually has a protocol in hand and the two might
+ * differ. */
 export function modelListSource(id: string | undefined): ServiceModelList | undefined {
   return endpointServiceById(id)?.models;
 }
+
+/** Where to read the ids this service serves *for one protocol* — a variant's own override if it
+ * has one, the service-level default otherwise. */
+export function modelListSourceForProtocol(
+  id: string | undefined,
+  protocol: AccountProtocol,
+): ServiceModelList | undefined {
+  const service = endpointServiceById(id);
+  const variant = service?.variants[protocol];
+  // A protocol the service does not serve at all must not fall through to the service-level
+  // list — that list is scoped to the variants that actually exist, not to every protocol name.
+  return variant && (variant.models ?? service.models);
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-import type { Account, AccountModel, Accounts, AgentKind, ProvidersConfig } from '@linkcode/schema';
+import type {
+  Account,
+  AccountModel,
+  AccountProtocol,
+  Accounts,
+  AgentKind,
+  ProvidersConfig,
+} from '@linkcode/schema';
+import type { ResolvedBinding } from './resolve';
 import { resolveBinding } from './resolve';
 
 /** One model an agent may run on, paired with the account that serves it — the pair is the unit,
@@ -20,9 +28,45 @@ export function accountEnabledFor(
   return enabled === undefined || enabled.includes(accountId);
 }
 
+/** The protocol this agent would actually bind the account on, or undefined when the binding
+ * carries none — an oauth login, a pre-catalog bare key, or (after the caller's own tier check)
+ * an unavailable account. */
+function boundProtocol(binding: ResolvedBinding): AccountProtocol | undefined {
+  return binding.tier === 'unavailable' ? undefined : binding.protocol;
+}
+
+/** Whether a picked model may be offered for a binding resolved to `protocol`. Unknown on either
+ * side means offer: a model probed before `protocols` existed (or never probed — a pre-catalog
+ * bare key, a hand-typed custom account) carries no set, and a binding with no protocol of its
+ * own (same two cases) has nothing to check against. Only an explicit set on both sides can
+ * narrow the result. */
+function modelReachable(model: AccountModel, protocol: AccountProtocol | undefined): boolean {
+  return (
+    model.protocols === undefined || protocol === undefined || model.protocols.includes(protocol)
+  );
+}
+
+function resolvedAccounts(
+  accounts: Accounts,
+  providers: ProvidersConfig | undefined,
+  kind: AgentKind,
+): Array<{ account: Account; binding: ResolvedBinding }> {
+  return accounts.reduce<Array<{ account: Account; binding: ResolvedBinding }>>(
+    (resolved, account) => {
+      const binding = resolveBinding(account, kind);
+      if (binding.tier !== 'unavailable' && accountEnabledFor(providers, kind, account.id)) {
+        resolved.push({ account, binding });
+      }
+      return resolved;
+    },
+    [],
+  );
+}
+
 /**
  * Every model this agent may run on, in the order its pickers offer them: each enabled account in
- * pool order, contributing its picked set in its own order. Availability still gates it — an enabled
+ * pool order, contributing its picked set in its own order, narrowed to the models reachable on the
+ * protocol this agent actually binds that account with. Availability still gates it — an enabled
  * account that cannot back this agent contributes nothing.
  *
  * **The first entry is the agent's default.** There is no stored default account or default model:
@@ -35,9 +79,13 @@ export function enabledAccountModels(
   providers: ProvidersConfig | undefined,
   kind: AgentKind,
 ): EnabledAccountModel[] {
-  return enabledAccounts(accounts, providers, kind).flatMap((account) =>
-    (account.models ?? []).map((model) => ({ account, model })),
-  );
+  return resolvedAccounts(accounts, providers, kind).flatMap(({ account, binding }) => {
+    const protocol = boundProtocol(binding);
+    return (account.models ?? []).reduce<EnabledAccountModel[]>((models, model) => {
+      if (modelReachable(model, protocol)) models.push({ account, model });
+      return models;
+    }, []);
+  });
 }
 
 /** The accounts this agent may resolve to, in pool order. An account with no picked model is still
@@ -48,9 +96,5 @@ export function enabledAccounts(
   providers: ProvidersConfig | undefined,
   kind: AgentKind,
 ): Account[] {
-  return accounts.filter(
-    (account) =>
-      resolveBinding(account, kind).tier !== 'unavailable' &&
-      accountEnabledFor(providers, kind, account.id),
-  );
+  return resolvedAccounts(accounts, providers, kind).map(({ account }) => account);
 }
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ export {
   endpointServiceById,
   LINKCODE_GATEWAY_SERVICE_ID,
   modelListSource,
+  modelListSourceForProtocol,
   SERVICE_CATALOG,
   serviceById,
 } from './catalog';
 
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ export type AccountEndpoint = z.infer<typeof AccountEndpointSchema>;
 export const AccountModelSchema = z.object({
   id: z.string().min(1),
   label: z.string().optional(),
+  /** Which protocols this model is known to answer, from probing every variant of the account's
+   * service. Absent means unknown, not "answers nothing" — a pre-catalog bare key, a custom
+   * account, or an account probed before this field existed all have no data here, and absence
+   * must keep offering the model everywhere it always did. Only an explicit set narrows it. */
+  protocols: z.array(AccountProtocolSchema).optional(),
 });
 export type AccountModel = z.infer<typeof AccountModelSchema>;
 
 
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { WIRE_PAYLOAD_KINDS, WirePayloadSchema } from './payload';
  */
 
 /** Stamped on every frame this build sends; bump on any wire schema change. */
-export const WIRE_PROTOCOL_VERSION = 78 as const;
+export const WIRE_PROTOCOL_VERSION = 79 as const;
 
 /** The oldest `v` this build still accepts. Bump only for a breaking change — a variant or field
  * removed, renamed, or given a new meaning; additive changes leave it alone. */
 
@@ -6,6 +6,32 @@ function envelope(payload: unknown) {
 }
 
 describe('config wire schema — custom MCP servers', () => {
+  it('round-trips model protocol availability on config.get.result', () => {
+    const parsed = parseWireMessage(
+      envelope({
+        kind: 'config.get.result',
+        replyTo: 'request-1',
+        providers: {},
+        accounts: [
+          {
+            id: 'account-1',
+            label: 'Gateway',
+            credential: { type: 'api-key', key: 'sk-test' },
+            models: [
+              {
+                id: 'gpt-5',
+                protocols: ['openai-chat', 'openai-responses'],
+              },
+            ],
+            createdAt: 1,
+          },
+        ],
+        customMcpServers: [],
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(parsed.ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   it('round-trips a masked read projection on config.get.result', () => {
     const parsed = parseWireMessage(
       envelope({
 
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import type { Server } from 'node:http';
 import { Agent, createServer } from 'node:http';
 import type { AddressInfo } from 'node:net';
+import type { EndpointService, ServiceModelList } from '@linkcode/providers';
 import type { WirePayload } from '@linkcode/schema';
 import { nullthrow } from 'foxts/guard';
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
-import { probeEndpointModels, requestPublicModelList } from '../agent/model-probe';
+import { probeServiceModels, requestPublicModelList } from '../agent/model-probe';
 import { InMemoryProviderConfigStore } from '../agent/provider-config';
 import { createSessionHarness } from './fixtures/session-harness';
 
@@ -37,13 +38,29 @@ function baseUrl(server: Server): string {
 
 let relay: Server | undefined;
 
-/** Sends the catalog's own path at the local relay, so the relay records which path the service
- * descriptor resolved to while the real HTTP round-trip stays under test. */
-const localModelProbe: typeof probeEndpointModels = (source, secret) => {
-  const resolved = new URL(source.url);
+/** Rewrites every model-list URL a service carries — service-level and per-variant — to the
+ * local relay, so the relay records which path each one resolved to while the real HTTP
+ * round-trip stays under test. */
+function localize(list: ServiceModelList | undefined): ServiceModelList | undefined {
+  if (!list) return undefined;
+  const resolved = new URL(list.url);
   const local = `${baseUrl(nullthrow(relay, 'relay not started'))}${resolved.pathname}${resolved.search}`;
+  return { ...list, url: local };
+}
+
+const localModelProbe: typeof probeServiceModels = (service, secret) => {
+  const localized: EndpointService = {
+    ...service,
+    models: localize(service.models),
+    variants: Object.fromEntries(
+      Object.entries(service.variants).map(([protocol, variant]) => [
+        protocol,
+        variant && { ...variant, models: localize(variant.models) },
+      ]),
+    ),
+  };
   // An unguarded agent: the relay is on loopback, which the probe policy exists to refuse.
-  return probeEndpointModels({ ...source, url: local }, secret, (url, headers) =>
+  return probeServiceModels(localized, secret, (url, headers) =>
     requestPublicModelList(url, headers, undefined, new Agent()),
   );
 };
@@ -89,10 +106,15 @@ describe('config.probe-models', () => {
       credential: { type: 'inline', secret: { type: 'api-key', key: 'sk-test' } },
     });
 
+    // deepseek's three variants share one list (no per-variant override), so both ids are
+    // tagged with all three protocols from the single request `seen` below confirms.
     await expect(replyFor(h.sent, 'probe-1')).resolves.toEqual({
       kind: 'config.probe-models.result',
       replyTo: 'probe-1',
-      models: [{ id: 'gpt-5' }, { id: 'gpt-5-mini' }],
+      models: [
+        { id: 'gpt-5', protocols: ['anthropic', 'openai-chat', 'openai-responses'] },
+        { id: 'gpt-5-mini', protocols: ['anthropic', 'openai-chat', 'openai-responses'] },
+      ],
     });
     // The service's own path, not one derived from a variant's baseUrl.
     expect(seen).toEqual(['/models']);
@@ -166,11 +188,56 @@ describe('config.probe-models', () => {
     await expect(replyFor(h.sent, 'probe-4')).resolves.toEqual({
       kind: 'config.probe-models.result',
       replyTo: 'probe-4',
-      models: [{ id: 'deepseek-v4-pro' }],
+      models: [
+        { id: 'deepseek-v4-pro', protocols: ['anthropic', 'openai-chat', 'openai-responses'] },
+      ],
     });
     expect(seen).toEqual(['/models']);
   });
 
+  it('probes every distinct list a service carries and merges the results', async () => {
+    const seen: string[] = [];
+    relay = await startRelay((url) => {
+      seen.push(url);
+      if (url === '/v1/models?protocol=openai-responses') {
+        return { status: 200, body: JSON.stringify({ data: [{ id: 'openai/gpt-5.6' }] }) };
+      }
+      if (url === '/v1/models') {
+        return {
+          status: 200,
+          body: JSON.stringify({
+            data: [{ id: 'openai/gpt-5.6' }, { id: 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-5' }],
+          }),
+        };
+      }
+      return { status: 404, body: '{}' };
+    });
+    const h = createHarness();
+    await h.engine.start();
+
+    await h.inject({
+      kind: 'config.probe-models',
+      clientReqId: 'probe-7',
+      service: 'linkcode-gateway',
+      credential: { type: 'inline', secret: { type: 'auth-token', token: 'lc-test' } },
+    });
+
+    const reply = await replyFor(h.sent, 'probe-7');
+    if (reply.kind !== 'config.probe-models.result') throw new Error('no result for probe-7');
+    expect(reply.models).toEqual(
+      expect.arrayContaining([
+        {
+          id: 'openai/gpt-5.6',
+          // Returned by both lists: tagged with every protocol whose list named it.
+          protocols: ['openai-chat', 'openai-responses'],
+        },
+        { id: 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-5', protocols: ['openai-chat'] },
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(reply.models).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(seen.sort()).toEqual(['/v1/models', '/v1/models?protocol=openai-responses']);
+  });
+
   it('refuses to send an account secret to a service it does not belong to', async () => {
     const reached: string[] = [];
     relay = await startRelay((url) => {