fix(providers): hide offline providers' models from model listings - #717
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A provider whose refresh or availability probe fails keeps its inventory carried forward (marked stale) since #480, but the stale models were still advertised in GET /v1/models, the dashboard model list, category counts, and failover candidate selection - and were persisted to the model cache, resurrecting on every restart. Offline providers therefore kept listing models that no longer exist upstream (#705). Stale providers' models are now excluded from all model listings and from the persisted cache, while staying resolvable for provider-qualified direct requests (honest 502/503 instead of "model not found") and recovering automatically via the recheck loop. The dashboard reports such providers as Offline with 0 available models. The total-outage exception (no healthy provider left) is unchanged: inventory stays listed and routable. Fixes #705 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughProvider refresh failures mark inventories stale, classify providers as Offline, hide their models from listings and cache persistence, and retain direct resolution. Dashboard counts, tests, and documentation reflect this behavior. ChangesProvider inventory visibility
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change restores offline-provider model hiding and prevents stale inventory from being re-advertised across restarts; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains at the current head. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProviderRefresh
participant ProviderRegistry
participant CachePersistence
participant ProviderStatusCard
ProviderRefresh->>ProviderRegistry: mark inventoryStale after refresh failure
ProviderRegistry->>ProviderRegistry: hide stale models from listings
ProviderRegistry->>CachePersistence: omit stale inventory during SaveToCache
ProviderRegistry->>ProviderStatusCard: expose stale runtime state
ProviderStatusCard->>ProviderStatusCard: display zero available models
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Confidence Score: 4/5Not safe to merge until stale provider inventories can survive restart for direct routing without being reintroduced into advertised or failover model inventories. The affected lifecycle was executed with a healthy cache, a partial provider outage, cache persistence, restart, and provider-qualified lookup. The route was available before replacing the cache and absent afterward, and the existing cache test confirms the stale inventory is intentionally omitted today. Files Needing Attention:
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When one provider refresh fails, its prior inventory remains available for direct provider-qualified routing in the running process. However, this continue excludes that inventory from the replacement cache. If the gateway then restarts while the provider is still unavailable and no configured model list supplies the model, the restarted registry cannot resolve requests such as beta/beta-model; they return model-not-found rather than reaching the provider and producing the intended upstream availability response. Persist stale inventories with their stale state and restore them as non-advertised and non-failover candidates, rather than removing them entirely.
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Focused Go stale-inventory restart reproduction source
- The executable review-authored test drives healthy cache persistence, a partial outage, save/reload, and provider-qualified routing; takeaway: it isolates the claimed lifecycle.
Provider-qualified routing before saving the partial-outage cache
- The focused Go test restarts after the partial outage without another cache save and reports `route=present`; takeaway: the original cache restores beta routing.
Provider-qualified routing after saving the partial-outage cache
- The focused Go test saves after beta becomes stale, restarts, and reports `route=absent`; takeaway: the disputed save causes the restart-time routing loss.
Existing stale-inventory persistence test output
- The repository's existing stale-cache test passes while asserting beta is omitted from the cache; takeaway: the observed behavior is currently intentional in the test suite.
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- The captured command output prints the exact review-authored reproduction source with line numbers; takeaway: the executed test logic is traceable.
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Verified end-to-end that this scenario does not produce model-not-found: the reproduction drives ModelRegistry directly and bypasses the router's request-time provider refresh.
For a provider-qualified request whose model is missing from the registry, Router.resolveProvider calls refreshProviderModelsForRequest (router.go), which probes the configured provider. While the provider is down this returns the provider-attributed 503 — the same honest degradation the in-process stale inventory provides — and once the provider recovers, the very first request repopulates the inventory and routes normally.
Live check (gateway restarted while the provider is down, cache contains only the healthy provider):
POST /v1/chat/completions {"model":"flaky/flaky-model", ...}
→ HTTP 503 {"error":{"type":"provider_error","message":"failed to refresh provider models"}}
Persisting stale inventories with a stale flag would add cache-format surface for no behavioral gain — and keeping offline providers' models out of the cache is exactly what #705 asks for (phantom models were resurrecting from the cache on every restart).
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You're right. My concern rested on the assumption that a missing-registry model returns model-not-found at request time, but refreshProviderModelsForRequest in router.go short-circuits that path for provider-qualified requests: the router probes the provider directly, so the post-restart behavior is identical — 503 while down, automatic repopulation on recovery. The stale flag in the cache would be pure overhead with no behavioral difference.
The original comment stands withdrawn; the implementation is correct.
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In `@internal/providers/registry_test.go`:
- Around line 1244-1248: Add core.CategoryEmbedding metadata to the models
created by registerTwoProviderRegistry, then strengthen the test around
ListModelsWithProviderByCategory: verify beta is present before the refresh and
verify that after the refresh only alpha remains. Ensure the assertions fail if
stale beta models are still advertised.
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…acuously The shared two-provider fixture's models carried no metadata, so the embedding-category assertion passed regardless of the stale filter. Give the fixture models embedding metadata and assert the model is listed before the outage and hidden after. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@internal/providers/registry_test.go`:
- Around line 1256-1261: Extend the outage assertions in the category-count test
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| afterCategory := categorySelectors(t) | ||
| if afterCategory["beta/beta-model"] { | ||
| t.Error("beta/beta-model still in embedding category after beta went offline, want hidden") | ||
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| if !afterCategory["alpha/alpha-model"] { | ||
| t.Error("alpha/alpha-model missing from embedding category, want healthy provider unaffected") |
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Assert the embedding category count after the outage.
The test checks GetCategoryCounts only for core.CategoryAll at Line 1251. A regression that leaves beta/beta-model in the embedding count would pass. Capture core.CategoryEmbedding and assert that its count is 1 after beta fails.
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In `@internal/providers/registry_test.go` around lines 1256 - 1261, Extend the
outage assertions in the category-count test around GetCategoryCounts to capture
core.CategoryEmbedding after beta goes offline and assert its count is 1. Keep
the existing CategoryAll and categorySelectors checks unchanged.
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Fixes #705
Problem
Since #480, a provider whose model refresh or availability probe fails keeps its inventory carried forward (marked stale). Load balancing respected the stale flag, but model listings did not:
GET /v1/models, the dashboard model list, category counts, and failover candidate selection all kept advertising models of offline providers.SaveToCachealso persisted the carried-forward inventory, so the phantom models resurrected from the model cache on every restart — an offline provider (e.g. a vllm instance down for 24+ hours) kept showing its models indefinitely, with a contradictory "Circuit Open + models available" dashboard card.Change
ListModels,ListPublicModels,ListModelsWithProvider, category listings/counts), restoring the pre-fix(resilience): circuit breaker correctness, stale provider inventory, fast health rechecks #480 user-visible behavior.docs/advanced/resilience.mdxanddocs/providers/overview.mdx.Verified end-to-end against a live gateway with two mock providers: killing one hides its model from
/v1/modelswithin a sweep and cleans the cache; restarting it restores the listing via the recheck loop.Summary by CodeRabbit