Automations lost their model's tool bindings (including MCP servers), default features such as web search, default filters and terminal on the first run after a restart. The model then answered that it had no tools. Later runs and a manual Regenerate worked. Automations on the base models cache were not affected.
The run read the model from app.state.MODELS before anything had loaded it. After a restart or a connection settings save, that cache stays empty until a browser loads the model list or a chat completion runs. The completion runs only after the automation has already built its request.
execute_automation now loads the models when the cache is empty, using the same guard chat_completion uses, before either the chat or the channel target reads it. This also fixes channel automations showing the raw model ID in place of the model name on a cold cache.
Verified end to end on a restarted instance with a mock upstream: before, both chat and channel runs reached the pipeline without tool_ids or features. After, both carry the model's tools and web search, and the upstream receives the tool.
Fixes#27694
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