diff --git a/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.spec.ts b/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.spec.ts
index 518447a..b843336 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.spec.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
 import { parentGroupLabel } from './node-utility';
 import {
   buildOrderedSchemaDisplay,
+  buildTemplatedRichContentParts,
   buildSchemaEditableFieldDefinitions,
   buildSchemaFieldViewModel,
   buildSchemaRetrieverContext,
@@ -668,3 +669,55 @@ describe('optional groups', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('buildTemplatedRichContentParts', () => {
+  /** Splitting a value on its ${{...}} placeholders so the editor can mark them. */
+  const splitParts = (content: string) =>
+    content.split(/(\$\{\{[^}]*\}\})/).filter((part) => part.length > 0)
+      .map((part) => ({ text: part, isDynamicInput: part.startsWith('${{') }));
+
+  function schemaWith(field: Record<string, unknown>) {
+    return { type: 'object', properties: { subject: field } };
+  }
+
+  it('splits a one-line field that says it takes placeholders', () => {
+    // It used to require x-ui-widget: textarea as well, so a field drawn as anything else could
+    // not declare that its value is interpolated - which is what LLMDescriptor.model needs.
+    const schema = schemaWith({ type: 'string', 'x-ui-accept-variable-as-placeholder': true });
+
+    const parts = buildTemplatedRichContentParts(
+      { subject: 'model is ${{global.modelName}}' }, 'subject', schema, splitParts);
+
+    expect(parts).toEqual([
+      { text: 'model is ', isDynamicInput: false },
+      { text: '${{global.modelName}}', isDynamicInput: true }
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('still splits a textarea, which is every field that declared it until now', () => {
+    const schema = schemaWith({
+      type: 'string',
+      'x-ui-widget': 'textarea',
+      'x-ui-accept-variable-as-placeholder': true
+    });
+
+    const parts = buildTemplatedRichContentParts(
+      { subject: 'Summarise ${{text}}' }, 'subject', schema, splitParts);
+
+    expect(parts.some((part) => part.isDynamicInput)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a field that never claimed to take placeholders as one flat part', () => {
+    const schema = schemaWith({ type: 'string' });
+
+    const parts = buildTemplatedRichContentParts(
+      { subject: 'literally ${{not a placeholder}}' }, 'subject', schema, splitParts);
+
+    expect(parts).toEqual([{ text: 'literally ${{not a placeholder}}', isDynamicInput: false }]);
+  });
+
+  it('has nothing to split when the value is empty', () => {
+    const schema = schemaWith({ type: 'string', 'x-ui-accept-variable-as-placeholder': true });
+
+    expect(buildTemplatedRichContentParts({ subject: '   ' }, 'subject', schema, splitParts)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.ts b/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.ts
index 471042b..2385794 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/nodes/schema-driven-fields.ts
@@ -707,7 +707,11 @@ export function buildTemplatedRichContentParts(
   if (!content) return [];
 
   const ui = getSchemaPathUiMeta(root, path);
-  if (ui.widget === 'textarea' && ui.acceptVariableAsPlaceholder) {
+  // The flag alone decides: whether a value is interpolated is a property of the value, not of the
+  // control used to type it. Requiring a textarea too meant a one-line field could not say it
+  // takes ${{...}} - and every field that says so today is a textarea anyway, so nothing that
+  // already worked changes.
+  if (ui.acceptVariableAsPlaceholder) {
     return splitParts(content);
   }