diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/convertToLLMMessageService.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/convertToLLMMessageService.ts
index 27c054ce..c4ffa286 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/convertToLLMMessageService.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/convertToLLMMessageService.ts
@@ -498,19 +498,15 @@ const prepareMessages = (params: {
 	providerName: ProviderName
 }): { messages: LLMChatMessage[], separateSystemMessage: string | undefined } => {
 
-	const specialFormat = params.specialToolFormat // this is just for ts idiocy
-	if (params.providerName === 'gemini') {
-		// treat as anthropic style, then convert to gemini style
+	const specialFormat = params.specialToolFormat // this is just for ts stupidness
+
+	// if need to convert to gemini style of messaes, do that (treat as anthropic style, then convert to gemini style)
+	if (params.providerName === 'gemini' || specialFormat === 'gemini-style') {
 		const res = prepareOpenAIOrAnthropicMessages({ ...params, specialToolFormat: specialFormat === 'gemini-style' ? 'anthropic-style' : undefined })
 		const messages = res.messages as AnthropicLLMChatMessage[]
 		const messages2 = prepareGeminiMessages(messages)
 		return { messages: messages2, separateSystemMessage: res.separateSystemMessage }
 	}
-	else {
-		if (specialFormat === 'gemini-style') {
-			throw new Error(`Tried preparing messages with tool format ${params.specialToolFormat} but the provider was ${params.providerName}, not Gemini.`)
-		}
-	}
 
 	return prepareOpenAIOrAnthropicMessages({ ...params, specialToolFormat: specialFormat })
 }
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/sidebar-tsx/SidebarChat.tsx b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/sidebar-tsx/SidebarChat.tsx
index f015d33f..47ea83c0 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/sidebar-tsx/SidebarChat.tsx
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/browser/react/src/sidebar-tsx/SidebarChat.tsx
@@ -1552,8 +1552,8 @@ export const ToolChildrenWrapper = ({ children, className }: { children: React.R
 		</div>
 	</div>
 }
-export const CodeChildren = ({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) => {
-	return <div className='bg-void-bg-3 p-1 rounded-sm overflow-auto text-sm'>
+export const CodeChildren = ({ children, className }: { children: React.ReactNode, className?: string }) => {
+	return <div className={`${className ?? ''} p-1 rounded-sm overflow-auto text-sm`}>
 		<div className='!select-text cursor-auto'>
 			{children}
 		</div>
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ const InvalidTool = ({ toolName, message }: { toolName: ToolName, message: strin
 	const componentParams: ToolHeaderParams = { title, desc1, isError, icon }
 
 	componentParams.children = <ToolChildrenWrapper>
-		<CodeChildren>
+		<CodeChildren className='bg-void-bg-3'>
 			{message}
 		</CodeChildren>
 	</ToolChildrenWrapper>
@@ -2042,7 +2042,7 @@ const toolNameToComponent: { [T in ToolName]: { resultWrapper: ResultWrapper<T>,
 				componentParams.numResults = result.lines.length;
 				componentParams.children = result.lines.length === 0 ? undefined :
 					<ToolChildrenWrapper>
-						<CodeChildren>
+						<CodeChildren className='bg-void-bg-3'>
 							<pre className='font-mono whitespace-pre'>
 								{toolsService.stringOfResult['search_in_file'](params, result)}
 							</pre>
@@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ const toolNameToComponent: { [T in ToolName]: { resultWrapper: ResultWrapper<T>,
 			else if (toolMessage.type === 'tool_error') {
 				const { result } = toolMessage
 				if (params) { componentParams.onClick = () => { commandService.executeCommand('vscode.open', params.uri, { preview: true }) } }
-				componentParams.children = componentParams.bottomChildren = <BottomChildren title='Error'>
+				componentParams.bottomChildren = <BottomChildren title='Error'>
 					<CodeChildren>
 						{result}
 					</CodeChildren>
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/common/modelCapabilities.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/common/modelCapabilities.ts
index c6589e10..eeeb6bf3 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/common/modelCapabilities.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/void/common/modelCapabilities.ts
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ const openSourceModelOptions_assumingOAICompat = {
 
 
 // keep modelName, but use the fallback's defaults
-const extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback: VoidStaticProviderInfo['modelOptionsFallback'] = (modelName, fallbackKnownValues) => {
+const extensiveModelOptionsFallback: VoidStaticProviderInfo['modelOptionsFallback'] = (modelName, fallbackKnownValues) => {
 
 	const lower = modelName.toLowerCase()
 
@@ -1018,32 +1018,32 @@ export const ollamaRecommendedModels = ['qwen2.5-coder:1.5b', 'llama3.1', 'qwq',
 const vLLMSettings: VoidStaticProviderInfo = {
 	// reasoning: OAICompat + response.choices[0].delta.reasoning_content // https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/features/reasoning_outputs.html#streaming-chat-completions
 	providerReasoningIOSettings: { output: { nameOfFieldInDelta: 'reasoning_content' }, },
-	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' } }),
+	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' } }),
 	modelOptions: {}, // TODO
 }
 
 const lmStudioSettings: VoidStaticProviderInfo = {
 	providerReasoningIOSettings: { output: { needsManualParse: true }, },
-	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' }, contextWindow: 4_096 }),
+	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' }, contextWindow: 4_096 }),
 	modelOptions: {}, // TODO
 }
 
 const ollamaSettings: VoidStaticProviderInfo = {
 	// reasoning: we need to filter out reasoning <think> tags manually
 	providerReasoningIOSettings: { output: { needsManualParse: true }, },
-	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' } }),
+	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' } }),
 	modelOptions: ollamaModelOptions,
 }
 
 const openaiCompatible: VoidStaticProviderInfo = {
 	// reasoning: we have no idea what endpoint they used, so we can't consistently parse out reasoning
-	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback(modelName),
+	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveModelOptionsFallback(modelName),
 	modelOptions: {},
 }
 
 const liteLLMSettings: VoidStaticProviderInfo = { // https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/reasoning_content
 	providerReasoningIOSettings: { output: { nameOfFieldInDelta: 'reasoning_content' } },
-	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' } }),
+	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => extensiveModelOptionsFallback(modelName, { downloadable: { sizeGb: 'not-known' } }),
 	modelOptions: {}, // TODO
 }
 
@@ -1197,11 +1197,11 @@ const openRouterSettings: VoidStaticProviderInfo = {
 	modelOptions: openRouterModelOptions_assumingOpenAICompat,
 	// TODO!!! send a query to openrouter to get the price, etc.
 	modelOptionsFallback: (modelName) => {
-		const res = extensiveOAICompatModelOptionsFallback(modelName)
-		// openRouter does not support gemini-style, use openai-style instead
-		if (res?.specialToolFormat === 'gemini-style') {
-			res.specialToolFormat = 'openai-style'
-		}
+		const res = extensiveModelOptionsFallback(modelName)
+		// // openRouter does not support gemini-style, use openai-style instead
+		// if (res?.specialToolFormat === 'gemini-style') {
+		// 	res.specialToolFormat = 'openai-style'
+		// }
 		return res
 	},
 }