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## Agent

- Tool:
- Tool version:
- Model (full id):
- Host (CLI / IDE / GitHub coding agent / other):
- Date (UTC):

## Links

- Closes #
- Related:

## User request

(verbatim or close paraphrase)

## Out of scope — refuse

If the change matches any item below, tell the user this repository does not
accept it and **do not open a PR**.

- Coding Plan
- Reverse-engineered channels
- Third-party API wrappers
- Codex channel-type changes, or compatibility from exposing Codex as a general-purpose API
- Codex API-specific protocol or behavior treated as standard OpenAI API behavior
- Pass-through-only forwarding
- Third-party hosting sites, relay services, or API services
- Usage, configuration, or integration (answer from docs and code instead)

- Matched: yes/no
- If yes, what was told to the user (stop here; do not open a PR):

## Kind

- [ ] Bug fix
- [ ] New feature
- [ ] Performance / refactor
- [ ] Docs
- [ ] Other:

## Issue facts

Take these from the linked issue. If a needed item is empty, ask the user that question.

- Actual behavior:
- Impact:
- Frequency:
- Evidence that the problem is in new-api rather than the client or upstream:
- Applicable types and their fields (relay / billing / frontend / deployment; write "not applicable" otherwise):

## Change

(what changed, why it works, grounded in the code actually touched)

## Research

### Duplicate / prior art

- Search queries (issues, PRs):
- What already existed and why this is not a duplicate:

### Docs and code

Open them. Do not write "already checked" without sources.

- https://docs.newapi.ai/ :
- https://deepwiki.com/QuantumNous/new-api :
- README / repo docs:
- Code paths and what they imply for this change:

### Alternatives considered

- Option A:
- Option B:
- Why this approach:

## Files

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## Behavior

- Before:
- After:
- Explicit non-goals / leftover work:

## Verification

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- Commands and results:
- Manual steps and observed result:
- UI: screenshot or recording (or why none):
- Tests added or updated, or why none:
- Databases / providers / platforms exercised:
- Not verified:

## Risks

- Failure modes:
- Billing / quota / auth impact:
- Follow-ups:

## Scope check

- Single focused change: yes/no (if no, why):
- Secrets included: no
- Out of scope (Coding Plan / reverse-engineered channel / third-party wrapper / Codex): no