2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/desktop/modules/assistant/AssistantModule.qml b/desktop/modules/assistant/AssistantModule.qml
index a85b2b3..b53a33f 100644
--- a/desktop/modules/assistant/AssistantModule.qml
+++ b/desktop/modules/assistant/AssistantModule.qml
@@ -198,6 +198,19 @@ Module {
             else { poll.left = 300; poll.start(); }
         });
     }
+    // Called when the assistant canvas opens: the preferred model, if one is
+    // set, still listed, and neither loaded nor loading, is loaded. One model
+    // and one client at a time is how this desktop runs, so opening the
+    // assistant is the moment to bring its model back.
+    function ensurePreferred() {
+        const id = Prefs.assistantModel;
+        if (id === "" || am.loading !== "") return;
+        am.listModels(() => {
+            const m = am.models.find(x => x.id === id);
+            if (m && m.status !== "loaded" && m.status !== "loading") am.loadModel(id);
+        });
+    }
+
     property Timer poll: Timer {
         property int left: 0
         interval: 1000
diff --git a/desktop/modules/assistant/README.md b/desktop/modules/assistant/README.md
index 07cc7ad..93b8507 100644
--- a/desktop/modules/assistant/README.md
+++ b/desktop/modules/assistant/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ deliberate swap: it saves that model as the preferred one (in `Prefs`)
 and asks the router to load it now, polling `/v1/models` until it reports
 `loaded`. Prefer marks the already-loaded model as preferred.
 
+Opening the assistant canvas (SUPER+Home) loads the preferred model when
+another one is resident, and the canvas header reads "loading <model>…"
+until it is in. This desktop runs one model and one client at a time, so
+opening the assistant is when its model should come back; the daemon still
+never asks for a model itself. With no preferred model set, nothing is
+swapped.
+
 The daemon reads all of this only at startup, so after a change the page
 says so and offers Restart, which runs `assistant.sh restart`; a daemon that
 does not come back shows the script's status, whose log tail says why.