-- **Fallback models.** An ordered list of models to try when the request to the selected model fails, whether the provider is overloaded, rate-limited, or down. Sim tries the 2nd choice, then the 3rd, and so on, once each, and `<agent.model>` reports the model that answered. Hosted models need no setup. A model that needs its own key takes it from a workspace environment variable you pick on the row; a model on the same provider as the selected model reuses the block's key. Azure, Bedrock, and Vertex models can only be fallbacks for a selected model of the same family, since they use that model's credentials. The Auto model cannot be a fallback. A fallback runs with the selected model's settings where its provider accepts them: temperature and max output tokens are clamped to the fallback's limits, and when the fallback has a reasoning effort, thinking level, or verbosity setting that the selected model's value does not fit, the row shows that field so you can pick a value for it, otherwise the provider's default applies.
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