Follow-up on the review: the widened parseThinkingSuffix recognized :auto unconditionally, so parseModelString and extractExplicitThinkingSelector would silently strip a literal provider/model:auto id before the isLiteralModelId guard the :max path already uses.
- Add allowAutoAlias option and require callers to opt in, mirroring allowMaxAlias.
- MAX_THINKING_SUFFIX_OPTIONS enables both aliases; parseModelPatternWithContext still tries exact match first, so a real :auto id wins there too.
- sdk.ts (session restore x2), agent-session.ts (retry fallback selector, context-promotion/compaction targets), and model-registry.ts (normalizeSuppressedSelector) now pass allowAutoAlias: true alongside allowMaxAlias.
- Regressions: literal example/runtime:auto wins over the sentinel in parseModelPattern, parseModelString (with and without isLiteralModelId), resolveModelFromString, and extractExplicitThinkingSelector; auto is still extracted when the id isn't literal.
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