diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79003c4..8819a36 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Supported providers: any provider listed by `opencode providers list` (e.g. `ant
 
 If `opencodeProvider` and `opencodeModel` are set, they take precedence over the manual `memoryProvider` settings below.
 
-**Follow the session model:** set `"opencodeModel": "inherit"` to capture each prompt with the exact provider/model opencode used to answer it (recorded per message via the `chat.params` hook). This is useful if you switch models often or use several local backends; captures then always use the model that produced the conversation, and pinned ids can’t become stale. `opencodeProvider` is still required as the normal config gate, and is used if a prompt has no recorded model.
+**Follow the session model:** set `"opencodeModel": "inherit"` to use a concrete OpenCode model at call time instead of a pinned id. For **auto-capture**, each prompt is recorded via the `chat.params` hook and the capture request reuses that prompt's provider/model. For **profile learning** and other structured-output paths (which are not tied to a single user message), `inherit` falls back to the most recent model in OpenCode's `model.json` recent list (preferring the configured `opencodeProvider`). Sending the literal model id `inherit` is never valid and previously caused `ProviderModelNotFoundError: Model not found: <provider>/inherit` on those paths. `opencodeProvider` is still required as the normal config gate.
 
 **Fallback:** Manual API configuration (if not using opencodeProvider):
 
diff --git a/src/services/ai/opencode-provider.ts b/src/services/ai/opencode-provider.ts
index b6efd2b..2d53976 100644
--- a/src/services/ai/opencode-provider.ts
+++ b/src/services/ai/opencode-provider.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
  * older SDK builds that do not expose the v2 session methods.
  */
 
+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { homedir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
 import type { z } from "zod";
 import type { OpencodeClient } from "@opencode-ai/sdk/v2/client";
 import {
@@ -75,6 +78,57 @@ export interface StructuredOutputOptions<T> {
   retryCount?: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Resolve `opencodeModel: "inherit"` to a concrete provider/model.
+ *
+ * Prefer an explicit prompt-recorded model (auto-capture path). Otherwise fall
+ * back to OpenCode's recent model list so profile-learning / conflict / dedup
+ * paths don't send the literal model id "inherit" (ProviderModelNotFoundError).
+ */
+export function resolveOpencodeModelRef(opts: {
+  providerID: string;
+  modelID: string;
+  prompt?: { providerId?: string | null; modelId?: string | null };
+}): { providerID: string; modelID: string } {
+  if (opts.modelID !== "inherit") {
+    return { providerID: opts.providerID, modelID: opts.modelID };
+  }
+
+  if (opts.prompt?.providerId && opts.prompt?.modelId) {
+    return { providerID: opts.prompt.providerId, modelID: opts.prompt.modelId };
+  }
+
+  const recent = readRecentOpencodeModel(opts.providerID);
+  if (recent) return recent;
+
+  throw new Error(
+    "opencode-mem: opencodeModel is 'inherit' but no session model was recorded and no recent OpenCode model is available"
+  );
+}
+
+function readRecentOpencodeModel(
+  preferredProvider?: string
+): { providerID: string; modelID: string } | undefined {
+  try {
+    // OpenCode state path mirrors `opencode debug paths` → state.
+    const stateDir = process.env.XDG_STATE_HOME || join(homedir(), ".local", "state");
+    const modelPath = join(stateDir, "opencode", "model.json");
+    if (!existsSync(modelPath)) return undefined;
+    const raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(modelPath, "utf8")) as {
+      recent?: Array<{ providerID?: string; modelID?: string }>;
+    };
+    const recent = Array.isArray(raw.recent) ? raw.recent : [];
+    const match =
+      (preferredProvider
+        ? recent.find((r) => r.providerID === preferredProvider && r.modelID)
+        : undefined) ?? recent.find((r) => r.providerID && r.modelID);
+    if (!match?.providerID || !match.modelID) return undefined;
+    return { providerID: match.providerID, modelID: match.modelID };
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Generate one structured-output completion via opencode's HTTP API.
  * Throws on: session.create failure, prompt failure, AssistantMessage.error
@@ -82,8 +136,12 @@ export interface StructuredOutputOptions<T> {
  * or final Zod validation failure.
  */
 export async function generateStructuredOutput<T>(opts: StructuredOutputOptions<T>): Promise<T> {
-  const { client, providerID, modelID, systemPrompt, userPrompt, schema, directory, retryCount } =
-    opts;
+  const resolved = resolveOpencodeModelRef({
+    providerID: opts.providerID,
+    modelID: opts.modelID,
+  });
+  const { client, systemPrompt, userPrompt, schema, directory, retryCount } = opts;
+  const { providerID, modelID } = resolved;
 
   const jsonSchema =
     (
diff --git a/tests/opencode-provider.test.ts b/tests/opencode-provider.test.ts
index babc713..6a3f6b0 100644
--- a/tests/opencode-provider.test.ts
+++ b/tests/opencode-provider.test.ts
@@ -774,3 +774,137 @@ describe("generateStructuredOutput regression tests (issue #110)", () => {
     expect(typeof mod.createV2Client).toBe("function");
   });
 });
+
+describe("resolveOpencodeModelRef / inherit", () => {
+  const originalStateHome = process.env.XDG_STATE_HOME;
+  let tempRoot: string | undefined;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    const { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync } = await import("node:fs");
+    const { tmpdir } = await import("node:os");
+    const { join } = await import("node:path");
+    tempRoot = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "opencode-mem-inherit-"));
+    process.env.XDG_STATE_HOME = tempRoot;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    if (originalStateHome === undefined) {
+      delete process.env.XDG_STATE_HOME;
+    } else {
+      process.env.XDG_STATE_HOME = originalStateHome;
+    }
+    if (tempRoot) {
+      const { rmSync } = await import("node:fs");
+      rmSync(tempRoot, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      tempRoot = undefined;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("passes concrete model ids through unchanged", async () => {
+    const { resolveOpencodeModelRef } = await import("../src/services/ai/opencode-provider.js");
+    expect(resolveOpencodeModelRef({ providerID: "local", modelID: "h100/qwen:latest" })).toEqual({
+      providerID: "local",
+      modelID: "h100/qwen:latest",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("prefers the recorded prompt model when modelID is inherit", async () => {
+    const { resolveOpencodeModelRef } = await import("../src/services/ai/opencode-provider.js");
+    expect(
+      resolveOpencodeModelRef({
+        providerID: "local",
+        modelID: "inherit",
+        prompt: { providerId: "anthropic", modelId: "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001" },
+      })
+    ).toEqual({
+      providerID: "anthropic",
+      modelID: "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to OpenCode recent model.json when inherit has no prompt model", async () => {
+    const { mkdirSync, writeFileSync } = await import("node:fs");
+    const { join } = await import("node:path");
+    const stateDir = join(tempRoot!, "opencode");
+    mkdirSync(stateDir, { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(
+      join(stateDir, "model.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        recent: [
+          { providerID: "openai", modelID: "gpt-4o-mini" },
+          { providerID: "local", modelID: "h100/qwen:latest" },
+        ],
+      })
+    );
+
+    const { resolveOpencodeModelRef } = await import("../src/services/ai/opencode-provider.js");
+    expect(resolveOpencodeModelRef({ providerID: "local", modelID: "inherit" })).toEqual({
+      providerID: "local",
+      modelID: "h100/qwen:latest",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("throws a clear error when inherit has no prompt model and no recent list", async () => {
+    const { resolveOpencodeModelRef } = await import("../src/services/ai/opencode-provider.js");
+    expect(() => resolveOpencodeModelRef({ providerID: "local", modelID: "inherit" })).toThrow(
+      /no session model was recorded and no recent OpenCode model is available/
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("expands inherit before POST /session/{id}/message so OpenCode never sees modelID=inherit", async () => {
+    const { mkdirSync, writeFileSync } = await import("node:fs");
+    const { join } = await import("node:path");
+    const stateDir = join(tempRoot!, "opencode");
+    mkdirSync(stateDir, { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(
+      join(stateDir, "model.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        recent: [{ providerID: "local", modelID: "h100/qwen:latest" }],
+      })
+    );
+
+    const mock = installFetchMock((call) => {
+      if (
+        call.method === "POST" &&
+        call.url.includes("/session") &&
+        !call.url.includes("/message")
+      ) {
+        return { body: { id: "ses_inherit" } };
+      }
+      if (call.method === "POST" && call.url.includes("/session/ses_inherit/message")) {
+        return {
+          body: {
+            info: {
+              structured: { topic: "ok", count: 1 },
+            },
+          },
+        };
+      }
+      if (call.method === "DELETE") {
+        return { body: true };
+      }
+      throw new Error(`unexpected fetch: ${call.method} ${call.url}`);
+    });
+
+    try {
+      const client = createV2Client("http://127.0.0.1:9999");
+      const result = await generateStructuredOutput({
+        client,
+        providerID: "local",
+        modelID: "inherit",
+        systemPrompt: "s",
+        userPrompt: "u",
+        schema,
+      });
+      expect(result).toEqual({ topic: "ok", count: 1 });
+
+      const promptCall = mock.calls.find((c) => c.method === "POST" && c.url.includes("/message"));
+      expect(promptCall?.body).toMatchObject({
+        model: { providerID: "local", modelID: "h100/qwen:latest" },
+      });
+      expect(JSON.stringify(promptCall?.body)).not.toContain('"inherit"');
+    } finally {
+      mock.restore();
+    }
+  });
+});