diff --git a/apps/daemon/src/runtimes/defs/claude.ts b/apps/daemon/src/runtimes/defs/claude.ts
index d5fc28d5478..b48f259bf60 100644
--- a/apps/daemon/src/runtimes/defs/claude.ts
+++ b/apps/daemon/src/runtimes/defs/claude.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ const CLAUDE_FALLBACK_MODELS = [
   { id: 'sonnet', label: 'Sonnet (alias)' },
   { id: 'opus', label: 'Opus (alias)' },
   { id: 'haiku', label: 'Haiku (alias)' },
+  // Current generation. Kept in sync with the model support matrix
+  // clampClaudeReasoning (shared.ts) already encodes -- if a model shows up
+  // there, it should be selectable here too.
+  { id: 'claude-fable-5', label: 'claude-fable-5' },
+  { id: 'claude-opus-4-8', label: 'claude-opus-4-8' },
+  { id: 'claude-sonnet-5', label: 'claude-sonnet-5' },
+  { id: 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001', label: 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001' },
+  { id: 'claude-opus-4-7', label: 'claude-opus-4-7' },
+  { id: 'claude-sonnet-4-6', label: 'claude-sonnet-4-6' },
+  { id: 'claude-opus-4-6', label: 'claude-opus-4-6' },
+  // Prior generation, kept for anyone still pinned to it.
   { id: 'claude-opus-4-5', label: 'claude-opus-4-5' },
   { id: 'claude-sonnet-4-5', label: 'claude-sonnet-4-5' },
   { id: 'claude-haiku-4-5', label: 'claude-haiku-4-5' },
diff --git a/apps/daemon/tests/runtimes/agent-args.test.ts b/apps/daemon/tests/runtimes/agent-args.test.ts
index 7ea22fe079b..15bf0958b35 100644
--- a/apps/daemon/tests/runtimes/agent-args.test.ts
+++ b/apps/daemon/tests/runtimes/agent-args.test.ts
@@ -1007,6 +1007,17 @@ test('claude helpArgs probes the -p subcommand where --add-dir lives (issue #430
   );
 });
 
+test('claude fallback models include the current generation, not just 4.5', () => {
+  const ids = claude.fallbackModels.map((m) => m.id);
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-fable-5'), 'Fable 5 must be selectable');
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-opus-4-8'));
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-sonnet-5'));
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-haiku-4-5-20251001'));
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-opus-4-7'));
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-sonnet-4-6'));
+  assert.ok(ids.includes('claude-opus-4-6'));
+});
+
 // server.ts:4615 branches on `def.promptInputFormat` to decide how to write
 // the composed prompt to a stdin-fed child: 'stream-json' writes one JSONL
 // `user` message and keeps stdin open, anything else writes the raw prompt