diff --git a/src/lib/review.js b/src/lib/review.js
index 27f2fd8..b8b3d19 100644
--- a/src/lib/review.js
+++ b/src/lib/review.js
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ export async function runReview({ cfg, gitea, adminGitea, db, job, withGlobal, l
           tenantId: cfg.tenantId, timeoutMs: cfg.routerTimeoutMs
         });
         servedModel = out.servedModel;
+        assertServedModelAllowed(cfg.model, servedModel);
         const raw = extractJson(out.content);
         if (!raw) {
           log(`[${fullRepo}@${sha.slice(0, 8)}] unparseable model output (served=${servedModel}): ${JSON.stringify(out.content.slice(0, 400))}`);
@@ -313,6 +314,17 @@ export async function fetchDiff({ gitea, job, log = () => {}, maxBytes = Infinit
   throw allDiffSourcesFailed(tried);
 }
 
+export function assertServedModelAllowed(requestedModel, servedModel) {
+  if (!isLocalModel(requestedModel)) return;
+  if (!servedModel) return;
+  if (servedModel === requestedModel) return;
+  throw new Error(`local model contract violated: requested ${requestedModel}, served ${servedModel}`);
+}
+
+function isLocalModel(model) {
+  return /^ollama(?:-remote)?\//.test(String(model || ''));
+}
+
 function allDiffSourcesFailed(tried) {
   let msg = tried.join(' | ');
   if (msg.length > 1500) msg = msg.slice(0, 1500) + ` …(+${tried.length} sources)`;
diff --git a/test/modelContract.test.js b/test/modelContract.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a8dfad5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/modelContract.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { assertServedModelAllowed } from '../src/lib/review.js';
+
+test('local model reviews accept the exact served local model', () => {
+  assert.doesNotThrow(() =>
+    assertServedModelAllowed('ollama-remote/qwen2.5-coder:7b', 'ollama-remote/qwen2.5-coder:7b'));
+});
+
+test('local model reviews fail on cloud fallback drift', () => {
+  assert.throws(
+    () => assertServedModelAllowed('ollama-remote/qwen2.5-coder:7b', 'google/gemini-2.5-flash'),
+    /local model contract violated/
+  );
+});
+
+test('cloud model reviews allow provider fallback reporting', () => {
+  assert.doesNotThrow(() =>
+    assertServedModelAllowed('anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6', 'google/gemini-2.5-flash'));
+});
+
+test('missing served model metadata does not fail local requests', () => {
+  assert.doesNotThrow(() =>
+    assertServedModelAllowed('ollama-remote/qwen2.5-coder:7b', null));
+});