diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts
index 1e2bfd46c..31c8aaf35 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts
@@ -1492,6 +1492,7 @@ export async function createAgentSession(options: CreateAgentSessionOptions = {}
 			getSessionSpawns: () => options.spawns ?? "*",
 			getModelString: () => (hasExplicitModel && model ? formatModelString(model) : undefined),
 			getActiveModelString,
+			getActiveModel: () => agent?.state.model ?? model,
 			getPlanModeState: () => session?.getPlanModeState(),
 			getPlanReferencePath: () => session?.getPlanReferencePath() ?? "local://PLAN.md",
 			getGoalModeState: () => session?.getGoalModeState(),
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/index.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/index.ts
index 938139835..dc1d0dfca 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/index.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { InMemorySnapshotStore } from "@oh-my-pi/hashline";
 import type { AgentTelemetryConfig, AgentTool } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-agent-core";
-import type { FetchImpl, ToolChoice } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai";
+import type { FetchImpl, Model, ToolChoice } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai";
 import { logger } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-utils";
 import type { AsyncJobManager } from "../async/job-manager";
 import type { Rule } from "../capability/rule";
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ export interface ToolSession {
 	getModelString?: () => string | undefined;
 	/** Get the current session model string, regardless of how it was chosen */
 	getActiveModelString?: () => string | undefined;
+	/** Get the current session model object (provider/api capabilities), regardless of how it was chosen. */
+	getActiveModel?: () => Model | undefined;
 	/** Auth storage for passing to subagents (avoids re-discovery) */
 	authStorage?: import("../session/auth-storage").AuthStorage;
 	/** Model registry for passing to subagents (avoids re-discovery) */
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/utils/image-loading.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/utils/image-loading.ts
index c643b626f..d2b33b509 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/utils/image-loading.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/utils/image-loading.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import * as fs from "node:fs/promises";
-import type { ImageContent } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai";
+import type { ImageContent, Model } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai";
 import { formatBytes, readImageMetadata, SUPPORTED_IMAGE_MIME_TYPES } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-utils";
 import { resolveReadPath } from "../tools/path-utils";
 import { formatDimensionNote, type ImageResizeOptions, resizeImage } from "./image-resize";
@@ -7,6 +7,26 @@ import { formatDimensionNote, type ImageResizeOptions, resizeImage } from "./ima
 export const MAX_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES = 20 * 1024 * 1024;
 export const SUPPORTED_INPUT_IMAGE_MIME_TYPES = SUPPORTED_IMAGE_MIME_TYPES;
 
+/**
+ * Ollama and its local-backend family decode image input through llama.cpp /
+ * `stb_image`, which is compiled without WebP support, so a WebP upload fails
+ * with an opaque HTTP 400. Detect those models so the resize pipeline encodes
+ * to PNG/JPEG instead — the automatic equivalent of `OMP_NO_WEBP=1`.
+ */
+export function modelLacksWebpSupport(model: Pick<Model, "provider" | "api"> | undefined): boolean {
+	if (!model) return false;
+	return model.provider === "ollama" || model.provider === "ollama-cloud" || model.api === "ollama-chat";
+}
+
+/**
+ * `true` when `model` cannot decode WebP, otherwise `undefined` so the
+ * `OMP_NO_WEBP` env fallback in {@link resizeImage} still applies. Feed straight
+ * into {@link ImageResizeOptions.excludeWebP}.
+ */
+export function webpExclusionForModel(model: Pick<Model, "provider" | "api"> | undefined): true | undefined {
+	return modelLacksWebpSupport(model) ? true : undefined;
+}
+
 export interface LoadImageInputOptions {
 	path: string;
 	cwd: string;
@@ -14,6 +34,8 @@ export interface LoadImageInputOptions {
 	maxBytes?: number;
 	resolvedPath?: string;
 	detectedMimeType?: string;
+	/** Force non-WebP output (e.g. for Ollama). Leave unset to honor `OMP_NO_WEBP`. */
+	excludeWebP?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface LoadedImageInput {
@@ -51,6 +73,8 @@ export async function ensureSupportedImageInput(image: ImageContent): Promise<Im
 }
 
 export interface NormalizeModelContextImagesOptions {
+	/** Model the images are bound for; used to derive encoder constraints (WebP exclusion for Ollama). */
+	model?: Model;
 	resize?: ImageResizeOptions;
 }
 
@@ -66,10 +90,13 @@ export async function normalizeModelContextImages(
 	options?: NormalizeModelContextImagesOptions,
 ): Promise<ImageContent[] | undefined> {
 	if (!images || images.length === 0) return undefined;
+	const resize: ImageResizeOptions | undefined = modelLacksWebpSupport(options?.model)
+		? { ...options?.resize, excludeWebP: true }
+		: options?.resize;
 	const normalized: ImageContent[] = [];
 	for (const image of images) {
 		try {
-			const resized = await resizeImage(image, options?.resize);
+			const resized = await resizeImage(image, resize);
 			normalized.push({ type: "image", data: resized.data, mimeType: resized.mimeType });
 		} catch {
 			// Preserve existing caller behavior for decode/resize failures: keep the
@@ -104,9 +131,13 @@ export async function loadImageInput(options: LoadImageInputOptions): Promise<Lo
 	let outputBytes = inputBuffer.byteLength;
 	let dimensionNote: string | undefined;
 
-	if (options.autoResize) {
+	const shouldReencodeWebP = options.excludeWebP === true && mimeType === "image/webp";
+	if (options.autoResize || shouldReencodeWebP) {
 		try {
-			const resized = await resizeImage({ type: "image", data: outputData, mimeType });
+			const resized = await resizeImage(
+				{ type: "image", data: outputData, mimeType },
+				{ excludeWebP: options.excludeWebP },
+			);
 			outputData = resized.data;
 			outputMimeType = resized.mimeType;
 			outputBytes = resized.buffer.byteLength;