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name: models-and-providers description: "Owns provider/model selection, profile tuning, registry lookups, and credential guidance for Upsonic's model layer." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: MIT

models-and-providers

Use this route for provider/model strings, provider inference, model profiles, model settings, registry lookups, and credential troubleshooting.

Include

• infer_model, infer_provider, provider classes, and provider/model normalization.
• ModelProfile, ModelProfileSpec, default profile behavior, and structured-output capability hints.
• Credential and environment-variable guidance for model providers.
• Registry and selection workflows that need to know which model names are available.

Exclude

• Core task execution and streaming semantics → agent-runtime
• Tools and MCP wiring → tools-and-mcp
• Session persistence and memory → chat-memory-storage
• Retrievers, loaders, OCR, and vector databases → knowledge-rag

Start here

• references/provider-reference.md
• references/model-selection.md
• references/troubleshooting.md
• scripts/list_model_registry.py