Documents and Images were two buttons of the same weight, which reads as two
buttons rather than as a current view and an alternative. The active one now
carries the surface, the weight and a hairline — keyed off aria-selected, so the
visible highlight and what a screen reader announces cannot disagree.
The look_at_image question is written by a model that has not seen the image,
from what the user said, so it can presume something that is not there —
"describe this rash" about a photograph of a drug chart. Answering the
presumption would send it back as fact. The seeing model is now told the
question may assume something absent, and to say so first and describe what is
actually there.
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**The regex is gone.** The route ran a pattern over the user's message and
enqueued an image from the answer text when the model had not called the tool.
It was a compatibility path for models without tool calling and it did more harm
than good: it decided in English only, it could not see the conversation, and
"image summary" fell through it while reading as an obvious image request to the
model itself — which was measured, not assumed. A second and worse
decision-maker sitting behind the first. Whether a message deserves a picture is
now the model's call, made from the tool description, which is the only place it
ever belonged.
**Lending eyes.** The same shape, for a different capability. When someone
attaches a photograph and the chat model cannot accept image input, the
attachment was either refused by the provider or silently dropped — an answer
about a picture nobody had looked at, which is worse than a refusal.
The chat model is now offered look_at_image beside the image tool and decides
when to use it. The attachment goes to clinical_assistant.vision_model, whose
description comes back as a tool result, and the chat model answers in its own
voice with its own sources. Only the seeing is delegated; the clinical reasoning
stays with the model an administrator chose. The seeing model is told to report
and not to diagnose, because it has a picture and no context and an opinion from
it would carry weight it has not earned.
Delegation triggers only on an explicit supports_vision: false from the gateway.
An unknown is left alone — most of a roster reports nothing, and treating
silence as blindness would route good models through a detour. The capability
lookup moved to its own module, is cached for five minutes because it runs on
exactly the requests that are already slowest, and is never inferred from the
model id. liteLLMBaseUrl moved from the admin route to litellm.js, where the
other gateway helpers live.
The new setting is guarded like the slide reviewer: a model the gateway calls
text-only cannot be saved as the one that looks at images.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dv6sqaY6Vq3ChZHMem3cnU
