Every LLM env reader now goes through ai::config::llm_config():
build_ollama / build_llamacpp / build_openrouter take config sections
(OPENROUTER_API_KEY is still read from env), and the backend switch,
embedding dim + prefixes, Ollama / llama.cpp / TTS timeouts, TTS voice and
ref length, agentic caps, chat turn timeout and the unified-search model
read their sections. LocalLlm::from_env -> from_config; the
test_daily_summary and populate_knowledge bins take Ollama defaults from
the config. env_max_iterations / env_default_num_ctx are renamed to
max_chat_iterations / default_num_ctx.
The picker still uses picker.include (= LLAMA_SWAP_ALLOWED_MODELS) until
discovery lands. Legacy env vars keep working through the config's
override layer; checked against the deployed .env, which resolves to the
same values. The LLM_BACKEND parsing tests move to ai::config.
llm.example.toml now leaves the embed prefixes empty: copying the
nomic prefixes onto a corpus embedded without them breaks search.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds ai::config: one serde struct for every LLM setting (backend, llama.cpp,
Ollama, OpenRouter, embedding, TTS, agentic caps), resolved as defaults ->
llm.toml (LLM_CONFIG_PATH, default ./llm.toml) -> the old env vars. Env
overrides are kept for one release and listed in a single startup
deprecation warning; LLAMA_SWAP_ALLOWED_MODELS maps to picker.include so
current deploys keep their picker. Unknown keys, zero timeouts and
backend=llamacpp without a URL fail startup. OPENROUTER_API_KEY stays
env-only.
llm.example.toml documents the schema and is parsed by a test. main loads
the config right after tracing init; readers switch over next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cameron CordesandClaude Opus 5.5