diff --git a/.changeset/fn-7291-sonnet-5-anthropic.md b/.changeset/fn-7291-sonnet-5-anthropic.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ec17d363b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/fn-7291-sonnet-5-anthropic.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"@runfusion/fusion": minor
+---
+
+summary: Add Claude Sonnet 5 across Anthropic model selection and execution paths.
+category: feature
+dev: Adds supplemental direct Anthropic and pi-claude-cli model metadata plus pricing for `claude-sonnet-5`.
diff --git a/packages/core/src/__tests__/model-pricing.test.ts b/packages/core/src/__tests__/model-pricing.test.ts
index 52c96ca9f4..02895052ac 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/__tests__/model-pricing.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/__tests__/model-pricing.test.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,25 @@ describe("model-pricing", () => {
     expect(result.usd).toBeCloseTo(10.0, 2);
   });
 
+  it("prices Claude Sonnet 5 for Anthropic and bare-model fallback", () => {
+    // claude-sonnet-5 introductory pricing: input $2/1M, output $10/1M,
+    // cache read $0.20/1M, 5m cache write $2.50/1M.
+    const usage = {
+      inputTokens: 1_000_000,
+      outputTokens: 200_000,
+      cachedTokens: 500_000,
+      cacheWriteTokens: 400_000,
+    };
+
+    const anthropic = costFor(usage, { provider: "anthropic", model: "claude-sonnet-5" });
+    expect(anthropic.unavailable).toBe(false);
+    expect(anthropic.usd).toBeCloseTo(5.1, 3);
+
+    const bare = costFor(usage, { model: "claude-sonnet-5" });
+    expect(bare.unavailable).toBe(false);
+    expect(bare.usd).toBeCloseTo(5.1, 3);
+  });
+
   it("prices OpenAI Codex GPT-5 models instead of reporting unavailable", () => {
     // gpt-5-codex: input $1.25/1M, output $10/1M.
     // 1,000,000 input + 200,000 output = 1.25 + 2.00 = 3.25
@@ -187,6 +206,15 @@ describe("model-pricing", () => {
       ).toBe(MODEL_PRICING["openai-codex:gpt-5-codex"]);
     });
 
+    it("resolves Claude Sonnet 5 by explicit provider and bare model", () => {
+      expect(
+        lookupPricing({ provider: " Anthropic ", model: " Claude-Sonnet-5 " }),
+      ).toBe(MODEL_PRICING["anthropic:claude-sonnet-5"]);
+      expect(lookupPricing({ model: "claude-sonnet-5" })).toBe(
+        MODEL_PRICING["anthropic:claude-sonnet-5"],
+      );
+    });
+
     it("falls back to a bare model id when provider is unset", () => {
       expect(lookupPricing({ model: "gemini-2.5-pro" })).toBe(
         MODEL_PRICING["google:gemini-2.5-pro"],
diff --git a/packages/core/src/anthropic-models.ts b/packages/core/src/anthropic-models.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c46586736d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/src/anthropic-models.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+type AnthropicModelInput = "text" | "image";
+
+export const ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_ID = "anthropic";
+export const CLAUDE_SONNET_5_MODEL_ID = "claude-sonnet-5";
+
+interface AnthropicModelRegistration {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+  reasoning: boolean;
+  input: AnthropicModelInput[];
+  cost: {
+    input: number;
+    output: number;
+    cacheRead: number;
+    cacheWrite: number;
+  };
+  contextWindow: number;
+  maxTokens: number;
+  compat?: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+export interface AnthropicProviderRegistration {
+  name: string;
+  baseUrl: string;
+  apiKey: string;
+  api: "anthropic-messages";
+  models: AnthropicModelRegistration[];
+}
+
+/*
+ * FNXC:ModelCatalog 2026-06-30-12:22:
+ * Claude Sonnet 5 support must not depend on the installed pi-ai catalog version or on the Claude CLI provider. Keep this supplemental Anthropic registration shared by engine sessions and dashboard model routes, and dedupe by model id so upstream catalog catch-up does not create duplicate picker rows.
+ */
+export const SUPPLEMENTAL_ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_REGISTRATION: AnthropicProviderRegistration = {
+  name: "Anthropic",
+  baseUrl: "https://api.anthropic.com/v1",
+  apiKey: "$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
+  api: "anthropic-messages",
+  models: [
+    {
+      id: CLAUDE_SONNET_5_MODEL_ID,
+      name: "Claude Sonnet 5",
+      reasoning: true,
+      input: ["text", "image"],
+      cost: {
+        input: 2,
+        output: 10,
+        cacheRead: 0.2,
+        cacheWrite: 2.5,
+      },
+      contextWindow: 1_000_000,
+      maxTokens: 128_000,
+      compat: {
+        supportsDeveloperRole: false,
+      },
+    },
+  ],
+};
+
+type AnthropicModelLike = Partial<Omit<AnthropicModelRegistration, "name" | "compat">> & {
+  id: string;
+  name?: unknown;
+  provider?: string;
+  compat?: unknown;
+};
+
+interface AnthropicModelRegistryLike {
+  registerProvider(providerName: string, config: AnthropicProviderRegistration): void;
+  getAll?: () => AnthropicModelLike[];
+}
+
+type RegistryWithProviderState = AnthropicModelRegistryLike & {
+  registeredProviders?: Map<string, Partial<AnthropicProviderRegistration>>;
+};
+
+function toAnthropicModelRegistration(model: AnthropicModelLike): AnthropicModelRegistration {
+  const supplemental = SUPPLEMENTAL_ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_REGISTRATION.models.find((entry) => entry.id === model.id);
+  return {
+    id: model.id,
+    name: String(model.name ?? supplemental?.name ?? model.id),
+    reasoning: model.reasoning ?? supplemental?.reasoning ?? false,
+    input: Array.isArray(model.input) ? model.input as AnthropicModelInput[] : supplemental?.input ?? ["text"],
+    cost: model.cost ?? supplemental?.cost ?? { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
+    contextWindow: Number(model.contextWindow ?? supplemental?.contextWindow ?? 0),
+    maxTokens: Number(model.maxTokens ?? supplemental?.maxTokens ?? 0),
+    compat: typeof model.compat === "object" && model.compat !== null
+      ? { ...(model.compat as Record<string, unknown>) }
+      : supplemental?.compat ? { ...supplemental.compat } : undefined,
+  };
+}
+
+function cloneAnthropicProviderRegistration(config: AnthropicProviderRegistration): AnthropicProviderRegistration {
+  return {
+    ...config,
+    models: config.models.map((model) => toAnthropicModelRegistration(model)),
+  };
+}
+
+export function mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels(
+  modelRegistry: AnthropicModelRegistryLike,
+  logWarning: (message: string) => void = () => {},
+): void {
+  try {
+    const registryWithState = modelRegistry as RegistryWithProviderState;
+    const registeredProvider = registryWithState.registeredProviders?.get(ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_ID);
+    const registeredModels = registeredProvider?.models?.map((model) => toAnthropicModelRegistration(model)) ?? [];
+    const currentModels = registeredModels.length > 0
+      ? registeredModels
+      : modelRegistry.getAll?.()
+        .filter((model) => model.provider === ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_ID)
+        .map((model) => toAnthropicModelRegistration(model)) ?? [];
+    const currentModelIds = new Set(currentModels.map((model) => model.id));
+    const missingModels = SUPPLEMENTAL_ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_REGISTRATION.models
+      .filter((model) => !currentModelIds.has(model.id));
+
+    if (missingModels.length === 0) return;
+
+    modelRegistry.registerProvider(ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_ID, {
+      ...cloneAnthropicProviderRegistration(SUPPLEMENTAL_ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_REGISTRATION),
+      ...registeredProvider,
+      models: [...currentModels, ...missingModels.map((model) => toAnthropicModelRegistration(model))],
+    });
+  } catch (error) {
+    const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+    logWarning(`Failed to merge supplemental ${ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_ID} models: ${message}`);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/src/index.ts b/packages/core/src/index.ts
index d69cbeb21f..33750927c5 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/index.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ export type {
   EntryPointBranchAssignment,
 } from "./branch-assignment.js";
 export { customProviderRegistryKey } from "./custom-provider-key.js";
+export {
+  ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_ID,
+  CLAUDE_SONNET_5_MODEL_ID,
+  SUPPLEMENTAL_ANTHROPIC_PROVIDER_REGISTRATION,
+  mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels,
+} from "./anthropic-models.js";
+export type { AnthropicProviderRegistration } from "./anthropic-models.js";
 export { detectImageMimeFromBytes } from "./image-mime.js";
 export type { DetectedImageMime } from "./image-mime.js";
 export { redactSecrets } from "./redact-secrets.js";
diff --git a/packages/core/src/model-pricing.ts b/packages/core/src/model-pricing.ts
index 73421fadff..785363088c 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/model-pricing.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/model-pricing.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  * The date the rates in {@link MODEL_PRICING} were last verified, ISO-8601.
  * Bump this whenever you edit a rate. Surfaced in the UI as "prices as of".
  */
-export const pricingAsOf = "2026-06-21";
+export const pricingAsOf = "2026-06-30";
 
 /**
  * Pricing entries older than this (relative to a caller-supplied `now`) are
@@ -104,6 +104,17 @@ export interface CostResult {
 export const MODEL_PRICING: Readonly<Record<string, ModelPricing>> = {
   // ── Anthropic Claude ────────────────────────────────────────────────
   // input / output / cacheRead(0.1×) / cacheWrite(1.25×, 5-min TTL)
+  /*
+   * FNXC:ModelCatalog 2026-06-30-12:10:
+   * Anthropic's docs publish Claude Sonnet 5 as the dateless pinned API ID `claude-sonnet-5`. Keep it in Fusion's hand-maintained support data before upstream pi-ai catalogs necessarily refresh so direct Anthropic runtime and cost surfaces can resolve it consistently.
+   */
+  "anthropic:claude-sonnet-5": {
+    inputPer1M: 2,
+    outputPer1M: 10,
+    cacheReadPer1M: 0.2,
+    cacheWritePer1M: 2.5,
+    source: "platform.claude.com/docs/en/pricing#claude-sonnet-5-introductory-pricing",
+  },
   "anthropic:claude-opus-4-8": {
     inputPer1M: 5,
     outputPer1M: 25,
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/src/__tests__/routes-auth.test.ts b/packages/dashboard/src/__tests__/routes-auth.test.ts
index de5256b380..c82b24fc5f 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/src/__tests__/routes-auth.test.ts
+++ b/packages/dashboard/src/__tests__/routes-auth.test.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import express from "express";
 import http from "node:http";
 import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
 import { existsSync, mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import * as fsPromises from "node:fs/promises";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
@@ -328,6 +329,20 @@ function createMockModelRegistry(overrides: Partial<ModelRegistryLike> = {}): Mo
   };
 }
 
+function createMutableModelRegistry(initialModels: Array<Record<string, any>>): ModelRegistryLike & { models: Array<Record<string, any>> } {
+  const registry = {
+    models: [...initialModels],
+    refresh: vi.fn(),
+    getAll: vi.fn(() => registry.models as any),
+    getAvailable: vi.fn(() => registry.models as any),
+    registerProvider: vi.fn((providerName: string, config: { models?: Array<Record<string, any>> }) => {
+      registry.models = registry.models.filter((model) => model.provider !== providerName);
+      registry.models.push(...(config.models ?? []).map((model) => ({ ...model, provider: providerName })));
+    }),
+  };
+  return registry;
+}
+
 describe("GET /models", () => {
   let store: TaskStore;
 
@@ -383,6 +398,58 @@ describe("GET /models", () => {
     expect(res.body.models).toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  it("adds Claude Sonnet 5 for configured direct Anthropic users without relying on Claude CLI", async () => {
+    const modelRegistry = createMutableModelRegistry([
+      { id: "claude-sonnet-4-5", name: "Claude Sonnet 4.5", provider: "anthropic", reasoning: true, contextWindow: 200000 },
+      { id: "gpt-4o", name: "GPT-4o", provider: "openai", reasoning: false, contextWindow: 128000 },
+    ]);
+
+    const res = await GET(buildApp(modelRegistry), "/api/models");
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.models).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([
+      expect.objectContaining({ provider: "anthropic", id: "claude-sonnet-5", name: "Claude Sonnet 5", reasoning: true, contextWindow: 1_000_000 }),
+    ]));
+    expect(modelRegistry.registerProvider).toHaveBeenCalledWith("anthropic", expect.objectContaining({
+      models: expect.arrayContaining([expect.objectContaining({ id: "claude-sonnet-5" })]),
+    }));
+  });
+
+  it("does not expose Claude Sonnet 5 when direct Anthropic is not configured", async () => {
+    const readFileSpy = vi.spyOn(fsPromises, "readFile").mockImplementation(async (path: any) => {
+      const value = String(path);
+      if (value.endsWith("auth.json")) return "{}" as never;
+      if (value.endsWith("models.json")) return '{"providers":{}}' as never;
+      return "{}" as never;
+    });
+    try {
+      const modelRegistry = createMutableModelRegistry([
+        { id: "claude-sonnet-4-5", name: "Claude Sonnet 4.5", provider: "anthropic", reasoning: true, contextWindow: 200000 },
+      ]);
+
+      const res = await GET(buildApp(modelRegistry), "/api/models");
+
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(res.body.models).toEqual([]);
+      expect(modelRegistry.models.some((model) => model.id === "claude-sonnet-5")).toBe(true);
+    } finally {
+      readFileSpy.mockRestore();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("does not duplicate Claude Sonnet 5 when upstream registry already includes it", async () => {
+    const modelRegistry = createMutableModelRegistry([
+      { id: "claude-sonnet-5", name: "Claude Sonnet 5 Upstream", provider: "anthropic", reasoning: true, contextWindow: 1_000_000, maxTokens: 128_000 },
+    ]);
+
+    const res = await GET(buildApp(modelRegistry), "/api/models");
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const sonnetFiveRows = res.body.models.filter((model: { provider: string; id: string }) => model.provider === "anthropic" && model.id === "claude-sonnet-5");
+    expect(sonnetFiveRows).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(modelRegistry.registerProvider).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   // Regression guard: FN-2370's auto-resolved squash inverted this filter,
   // emptying every model picker in the UI. The filter is small but the
   // failure mode is silent and project-wide — keep these tests close to the
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/src/routes.ts b/packages/dashboard/src/routes.ts
index 0142f89c42..f01da4f940 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/src/routes.ts
+++ b/packages/dashboard/src/routes.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import * as nodeFs from "node:fs";
 import os from "node:os";
 import v8 from "node:v8";
 
-import type { TaskStore, ScheduleType, ActivityEventType, ModelPreset, RoutineTriggerType, McpServerDefinition } from "@fusion/core";
+import type { AnthropicProviderRegistration, TaskStore, ScheduleType, ActivityEventType, ModelPreset, RoutineTriggerType, McpServerDefinition } from "@fusion/core";
 import {
   type Task,
   type PiExtensionEntry,
@@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ export interface ModelRegistryLike {
   refresh(): void;
   /** Get models that have auth configured. */
   getAvailable(): Array<{ id: string; name: string; provider: string; reasoning: boolean; contextWindow: number }>;
+  /** Optional pi ModelRegistry surface used for supplemental model registration. */
+  getAll?: () => Array<{ id: string; name?: string; provider: string; reasoning?: boolean; input?: string[]; cost?: { input: number; output: number; cacheRead: number; cacheWrite: number }; contextWindow?: number; maxTokens?: number; compat?: unknown }>;
+  /** Optional pi ModelRegistry surface used for supplemental model registration. */
+  registerProvider?: (providerName: string, config: AnthropicProviderRegistration) => void;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-model-routes.ts b/packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-model-routes.ts
index e332c1c4e9..8fd6c19275 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-model-routes.ts
+++ b/packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-model-routes.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { access, readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { homedir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
-import { customProviderRegistryKey, resolvePlanningSettingsModel } from "@fusion/core";
+import { customProviderRegistryKey, mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels, resolvePlanningSettingsModel } from "@fusion/core";
 import type { CustomProvider } from "@fusion/core";
 import { ApiError } from "../api-error.js";
 import type { ApiRouteRegistrar } from "./types.js";
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ export const registerModelRoutes: ApiRouteRegistrar = (ctx) => {
 
     try {
       options.modelRegistry.refresh();
+      if (options.modelRegistry.registerProvider) {
+        mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels(options.modelRegistry as Parameters<typeof mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels>[0], (message) => runtimeLogger.child("models").warn(message));
+      }
       let models = options.modelRegistry.getAvailable().map((m) => ({
         provider: m.provider,
         id: m.id,
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/__tests__/pi-create-fn-agent.test.ts b/packages/engine/src/__tests__/pi-create-fn-agent.test.ts
index bbd170caeb..b19db2d048 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/__tests__/pi-create-fn-agent.test.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/__tests__/pi-create-fn-agent.test.ts
@@ -1108,6 +1108,7 @@ describe("createFnAgent", () => {
     readFileSyncMock.mockReturnValue("{}");
     realpathSyncNativeMock.mockImplementation((path: PathLike) => String(path));
     readCustomProvidersMock.mockReturnValue([]);
+    getAllMock.mockReturnValue([]);
     findMock.mockImplementation((provider: string, modelId: string) => ({ provider, id: modelId }));
     // #1675: re-establish default auth + session-id mock returns after clearAllMocks.
     getApiKeyAndHeadersMock.mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, apiKey: undefined, headers: undefined });
@@ -1624,6 +1625,72 @@ describe("createFnAgent", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("resolves direct Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 when the mocked registry initially lacks it", async () => {
+    getAllMock.mockReturnValueOnce([]);
+    findMock.mockImplementation((provider: string, modelId: string) => {
+      if (provider === "anthropic" && modelId === "claude-sonnet-5") {
+        const anthropicRegistration = registerProviderMock.mock.calls.find(([name]) => name === "anthropic")?.[1] as { models?: Array<{ id: string; name: string }> } | undefined;
+        const registeredModel = anthropicRegistration?.models?.find((model) => model.id === modelId);
+        return registeredModel ? { ...registeredModel, provider } : undefined;
+      }
+      return { provider, id: modelId };
+    });
+
+    const { createFnAgent } = await import("../pi.js");
+    const result = await createFnAgent({
+      cwd: "/tmp",
+      systemPrompt: "test",
+      tools: "readonly",
+      defaultProvider: "anthropic",
+      defaultModelId: "claude-sonnet-5",
+    });
+
+    expect(registerProviderMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith("anthropic", expect.objectContaining({
+      api: "anthropic-messages",
+      models: expect.arrayContaining([expect.objectContaining({
+        id: "claude-sonnet-5",
+        name: "Claude Sonnet 5",
+        contextWindow: 1_000_000,
+        maxTokens: 128_000,
+      })]),
+    }));
+    expect(createAgentSessionMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({
+      model: expect.objectContaining({ provider: "anthropic", id: "claude-sonnet-5" }),
+    }));
+    expect((result.session as { model?: unknown }).model).toEqual(expect.objectContaining({
+      provider: "anthropic",
+      id: "claude-sonnet-5",
+    }));
+  });
+
+  it("does not duplicate Claude Sonnet 5 when the Anthropic registry already has it", async () => {
+    getAllMock.mockReturnValue([
+      {
+        provider: "anthropic",
+        id: "claude-sonnet-5",
+        name: "Claude Sonnet 5 Upstream",
+        reasoning: true,
+        input: ["text", "image"],
+        cost: { input: 2, output: 10, cacheRead: 0.2, cacheWrite: 2.5 },
+        contextWindow: 1_000_000,
+        maxTokens: 128_000,
+      },
+    ]);
+    findMock.mockImplementation((provider: string, modelId: string) => ({ provider, id: modelId }));
+
+    const { createFnAgent } = await import("../pi.js");
+    await createFnAgent({
+      cwd: "/tmp",
+      systemPrompt: "test",
+      tools: "readonly",
+      defaultProvider: "anthropic",
+      defaultModelId: "claude-sonnet-5",
+    });
+
+    const anthropicRegistrations = registerProviderMock.mock.calls.filter(([name]) => name === "anthropic");
+    expect(anthropicRegistrations).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
   it("backfills the resolved model onto sessions that do not mirror it", async () => {
     const session = {
       prompt: vi.fn(),
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/cli-agent/adapters/__tests__/pi.test.ts b/packages/engine/src/cli-agent/adapters/__tests__/pi.test.ts
index 16e43e4502..6fa7b7551c 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/cli-agent/adapters/__tests__/pi.test.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/cli-agent/adapters/__tests__/pi.test.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ describe("piAdapter — buildLaunch", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it("forwards direct Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 without Claude CLI routing", () => {
+    const spec = piAdapter.buildLaunch({
+      settings: { provider: "anthropic", model: "claude-sonnet-5", sessionDir: "/tmp/sess/pi" },
+      posture: null,
+    });
+    expect(spec.command).toBe("pi");
+    expect(spec.args).toEqual([
+      "--provider",
+      "anthropic",
+      "--model",
+      "claude-sonnet-5",
+      "--session-dir",
+      "/tmp/sess/pi",
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("widens tool access ONLY when posture.autoApprove is true", () => {
     const off = piAdapter.buildLaunch({ settings: {}, posture: { autoApprove: false } });
     expect(off.args).not.toContain("--tools");
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/pi.ts b/packages/engine/src/pi.ts
index 8661462594..e951d47337 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/pi.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/pi.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import {
   reconcileClaudeCliPaths,
   reconcileDroidCliPaths,
   mergeBuiltInZaiProviderModels,
+  mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels,
   registerBuiltInZaiProvider,
   resolvePiExtensionProjectRoot,
 } from "@fusion/core";
@@ -2039,6 +2040,7 @@ export async function createFnAgent(options: AgentOptions): Promise<AgentResult>
     }
   }
   modelRegistry.refresh();
+  mergeSupplementalAnthropicModels(modelRegistry, (message) => extensionsLog.warn(message));
 
   // Build the pi built-in tool set. We deliberately do NOT use the bundled
   // `createCodingTools` / `createReadOnlyTools` presets — they're missing
diff --git a/packages/pi-claude-cli/index.ts b/packages/pi-claude-cli/index.ts
index e446af3572..99e719f585 100644
--- a/packages/pi-claude-cli/index.ts
+++ b/packages/pi-claude-cli/index.ts
@@ -190,6 +190,19 @@ export default function (pi: ExtensionAPI) {
     // catalog catches up.
     // https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview
     const extraModels: typeof catalogModels = [
+      /*
+       * FNXC:ModelCatalog 2026-06-30-12:31:
+       * The vendored Claude CLI provider has its own model list because it exposes `pi-claude-cli` independently from direct `anthropic`. Add Claude Sonnet 5 here as supplemental metadata so Claude CLI users can select it before the upstream pi-ai catalog catches up, while the dedupe below prevents duplicate rows after it does.
+       */
+      {
+        id: "claude-sonnet-5",
+        name: "Claude Sonnet 5",
+        reasoning: true,
+        input: ["text", "image"],
+        cost: { input: 2, output: 10, cacheRead: 0.2, cacheWrite: 2.5 },
+        contextWindow: 1_000_000,
+        maxTokens: 128_000,
+      },
       {
         id: "claude-opus-4-7",
         name: "Claude Opus 4.7",
diff --git a/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/process-manager.test.ts b/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/process-manager.test.ts
index 6ddd8bf916..101e1af846 100644
--- a/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/process-manager.test.ts
+++ b/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/process-manager.test.ts
@@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ describe("buildClaudeSpawnArgs", () => {
   });
 
   it("builds args including model and optional session/mcp flags", () => {
-    const args = buildClaudeSpawnArgs("claude-sonnet-4-6", undefined, {
+    const args = buildClaudeSpawnArgs("claude-sonnet-5", undefined, {
       resumeSessionId: "sess-1",
       effort: "high",
       mcpConfigPath: "/tmp/mcp.json",
     });
 
     expect(args).toContain("--model");
-    expect(args).toContain("claude-sonnet-4-6");
+    expect(args[args.indexOf("--model") + 1]).toBe("claude-sonnet-5");
     expect(args).toContain("--resume");
     expect(args).toContain("sess-1");
     expect(args).toContain("--effort");
diff --git a/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/provider.test.ts b/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/provider.test.ts
index 535629a25e..8916ccffbb 100644
--- a/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/provider.test.ts
+++ b/packages/pi-claude-cli/src/__tests__/provider.test.ts
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ describe("provider registration (default export)", () => {
     const modelIds = new Set(config.models.map((m: { id: string }) => m.id));
 
     for (const id of [
+      "claude-sonnet-5",
       "claude-opus-4-7",
       "claude-sonnet-4-6",
       "claude-sonnet-4-5",
@@ -134,6 +135,15 @@ describe("provider registration (default export)", () => {
     ]) {
       expect(modelIds.has(id)).toBe(true);
     }
+
+    expect(config.models.find((m: { id: string }) => m.id === "claude-sonnet-5")).toMatchObject({
+      name: "Claude Sonnet 5",
+      reasoning: true,
+      input: ["text", "image"],
+      cost: { input: 2, output: 10, cacheRead: 0.2, cacheWrite: 2.5 },
+      contextWindow: 1_000_000,
+      maxTokens: 128_000,
+    });
   });
 
   it("deduplicates extra models when catalog already includes them", async () => {
@@ -143,6 +153,17 @@ describe("provider registration (default export)", () => {
 
     getModelsMock.mockReturnValueOnce([
       ...mockModels,
+      {
+        id: "claude-sonnet-5",
+        name: "Claude Sonnet 5 Upstream",
+        api: "anthropic",
+        provider: "anthropic",
+        reasoning: true,
+        input: ["text", "image"],
+        cost: { input: 2, output: 10, cacheRead: 0.2, cacheWrite: 2.5 },
+        contextWindow: 1_000_000,
+        maxTokens: 128_000,
+      } as any,
       {
         id: "claude-sonnet-4-6",
         name: "Claude Sonnet 4.6",
@@ -160,10 +181,12 @@ describe("provider registration (default export)", () => {
     mod.default(mockPi);
 
     const config = registerProvider.mock.calls[0][1];
-    const matches = config.models.filter(
-      (m: { id: string }) => m.id === "claude-sonnet-4-6",
-    );
-    expect(matches).toHaveLength(1);
+    for (const id of ["claude-sonnet-5", "claude-sonnet-4-6"]) {
+      const matches = config.models.filter(
+        (m: { id: string }) => m.id === id,
+      );
+      expect(matches).toHaveLength(1);
+    }
   });
 });