TradingAgents/tradingagents/llm_clients/TODO.md

LLM Clients - Consistency Improvements

Issues to Fix

1. validate_model() is never called

• Add validation call in get_llm() with warning (not error) for unknown models

2. Inconsistent parameter handling

Client	API Key Param	Special Params
OpenAI	api_key	reasoning_effort
Anthropic	api_key	thinking_config → thinking
Google	google_api_key	thinking_budget

Fix: Standardize with unified api_key that maps to provider-specific keys

3. base_url accepted but ignored

• AnthropicClient: accepts base_url but never uses it
• GoogleClient: accepts base_url but never uses it (correct - Google doesn't support it)

Fix: Remove unused base_url from clients that don't support it

4. Update validators.py with models from CLI

• Sync VALID_MODELS dict with CLI model options after Feature 2 is complete