Agent Teams: model (inherit) resolution fails during shutdown, potential token drain
Description
When using Agent Teams with explicitly set model: "sonnet" on all teammates, the shutdown phase produces this error on every teammate:
There's an issue with the selected model (inherit). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.
The error appears when teammates try to acknowledge the shutdown request from the team-lead. The work itself completes successfully.
Reproduction
- Enable
CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS - Create a team and spawn teammates with explicit
model: "sonnet"(notinherit) - Let all work complete
- Team-lead sends shutdown request: "All work is complete. Please shut down."
- Each teammate shows the
(inherit)model error when trying to accept the shutdown
Concern: Token consumption during failed shutdown
The team-lead polls teammates to confirm shutdown. If the teammate can't respond due to the model resolution failure, the orchestrator may continue polling — consuming tokens after all useful work is done.
Question: Does the shutdown handshake retry on failure? If so, are tokens consumed during those retries?
Environment
- Claude Code (latest) on Windows 11
- Teammates spawned with explicit
model: "sonnet" - The
(inherit)value appears to come from the platform's internal shutdown message handler, not from the spawn configuration
Screenshot
<img width="1049" height="256" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bdaad723-4e2b-4b2d-aea8-b27f46178f81" />
Expected behavior
Teammates should resolve their model correctly during the shutdown acknowledgment, or the shutdown handshake should not require a model call at all.
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