diff --git a/src/cli/tui.ts b/src/cli/tui.ts
index de513af..d764072 100644
--- a/src/cli/tui.ts
+++ b/src/cli/tui.ts
@@ -43,77 +43,21 @@ export function registerTuiCommand(program: Command): void {
 
       // Dynamic imports to keep CLI startup fast
       const { SessionStore, SessionManager } = await import('../session/index.js');
-      const { AnthropicClient, OpenAIClient, OllamaClient, LlamaCppClient, GitHubModelsClient, GeminiClient, BedrockClient, ModelRouter } = await import('../models/index.js');
       const { MinimalTui, startFullscreenTui } = await import('../frontends/tui/index.js');
       const { NativeAgent } = await import('../backends/index.js');
       const { ToolRegistry, ToolExecutor, allBuiltinTools, createWebSearchTools, createProcessTools, ProcessManager } = await import('../tools/index.js');
       const { HookEngine } = await import('../hooks/index.js');
+      const { createModelRouter } = await import('../daemon/index.js');
 
       const dataDir = resolve(homedir(), '.local/share/flynn');
       mkdirSync(dataDir, { recursive: true });
 
       const sessionStore = new SessionStore(resolve(dataDir, 'sessions.db'));
       const sessionManager = new SessionManager(sessionStore);
-      const models = config.models;
 
-      // Provider-agnostic client factory for TUI
-      function createClient(cfg: typeof models.default) {
-        switch (cfg.provider) {
-          case 'anthropic':
-            return new AnthropicClient({ model: cfg.model, apiKey: cfg.api_key, authToken: cfg.auth_token });
-          case 'openai':
-            return new OpenAIClient({ model: cfg.model, apiKey: cfg.api_key });
-          case 'gemini':
-            return new GeminiClient({ model: cfg.model, apiKey: cfg.api_key });
-          case 'ollama':
-            return new OllamaClient({ model: cfg.model, host: cfg.endpoint, numGpu: cfg.num_gpu });
-          case 'llamacpp':
-            return new LlamaCppClient({ endpoint: cfg.endpoint ?? 'http://localhost:8080', model: cfg.model, authToken: cfg.auth_token });
-          case 'openrouter':
-            return new OpenAIClient({ model: cfg.model, apiKey: cfg.api_key ?? process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY, baseURL: cfg.endpoint ?? 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1' });
-          case 'bedrock':
-            return new BedrockClient({ model: cfg.model, region: cfg.endpoint, accessKeyId: cfg.api_key, secretAccessKey: cfg.auth_token });
-          case 'github':
-            return new GitHubModelsClient({
-              model: cfg.model,
-              apiKey: cfg.api_key,
-              endpoint: cfg.endpoint,
-              onLoginRequired: async () => {
-                const { loginGitHub } = await import('../auth/index.js');
-                console.log('\nGitHub authentication required. Starting login flow...');
-                return loginGitHub((userCode, verificationUri) => {
-                  console.log(`\nVisit: ${verificationUri}`);
-                  console.log(`Enter code: ${userCode}\n`);
-                  console.log('Waiting for authorization...');
-                });
-              },
-            });
-          default:
-            throw new Error(`Unknown provider: ${cfg.provider}`);
-        }
-      }
-
-      const defaultClient = createClient(models.default);
-      const fastClient = models.fast ? createClient(models.fast) : undefined;
-      const complexClient = models.complex ? createClient(models.complex) : undefined;
-      const localClient = models.local ? createClient(models.local) : undefined;
-
-      const fallbackChain = [];
-      for (const providerName of models.fallback_chain) {
-        if (providerName === 'openai') {
-          fallbackChain.push(new OpenAIClient({ model: 'gpt-4o' }));
-        } else if (providerName === 'local' && localClient) {
-          fallbackChain.push(localClient);
-        }
-      }
-
-      const modelRouter = new ModelRouter({
-        default: defaultClient,
-        fast: fastClient,
-        complex: complexClient,
-        local: localClient,
-        fallbackChain,
-      });
+      // Reuse the daemon's model router factory — includes auto-fallback,
+      // local_providers, retry config, and per-tier fallback logic.
+      const modelRouter = createModelRouter(config);
 
       const systemPrompt = loadSystemPrompt();
 
diff --git a/src/daemon/index.ts b/src/daemon/index.ts
index 6fed3a1..276147c 100644
--- a/src/daemon/index.ts
+++ b/src/daemon/index.ts
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ export function createAutoFallbackClient(tierConfig: { provider: string; model:
   });
 }
 
-function createModelRouter(config: Config): ModelRouter {
+export function createModelRouter(config: Config): ModelRouter {
   const models = config.models;
 
   const defaultClient = createClientFromConfig(models.default);