diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f4e8bbd5c9..178d6a9c7d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bitkyc08/opencodex",
-  "version": "2.24.2",
+  "version": "2.25.0",
   "description": "Universal provider proxy for OpenAI Codex & Claude Code — use any LLM with Codex CLI/App/SDK and Claude Code",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./bin/package-main.mjs",
diff --git a/src/codex/catalog/sync.ts b/src/codex/catalog/sync.ts
index 9ee2886028..0ad82cf168 100644
--- a/src/codex/catalog/sync.ts
+++ b/src/codex/catalog/sync.ts
@@ -1540,6 +1540,10 @@ function writeRetainedCatalogSync({
   });
   clampCatalogModelsToCodexSupport(catalog.models);
 
+  const autoReviewModel = configuredAutoReviewModel();
+  if (autoReviewModel) {
+    catalog.models = catalog.models.map((entry) => ({ ...entry, auto_review_model_override: autoReviewModel }));
+  }
   const added = goEntries.length + accountBoundEntries.length;
   const content = `${JSON.stringify(catalog, null, 2)}\n`;
   // A byte-identical rewrite is not a catalog change, but every mtime-keyed reader
diff --git a/tests/catalog-auto-review-model.test.ts b/tests/catalog-auto-review-model.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..44ed22fbc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/catalog-auto-review-model.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { readRootTomlString } from "../src/codex/paths";
+
+describe("auto_review_model config key (#1225)", () => {
+  test("readRootTomlString resolves the root-level key next to approvals_reviewer", () => {
+    const config = [
+      'approvals_reviewer = "auto_review"',
+      'auto_review_model = "opencode-go/deepseek-v4-flash"',
+      "",
+      "[profiles.test]",
+      'model = "gpt-5.6-luna"',
+    ].join("\n");
+    expect(readRootTomlString(config, "auto_review_model")).toBe("opencode-go/deepseek-v4-flash");
+    // Keys inside tables must not leak into root resolution.
+    expect(readRootTomlString(config, "model")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  test("a config without the key resolves null (override stays untouched)", () => {
+    expect(readRootTomlString('model = "gpt-5.6-luna"\n', "auto_review_model")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});