diff --git a/bin/cli/provider-catalog.mjs b/bin/cli/provider-catalog.mjs
index 873f933d18..27cfab1a9c 100644
--- a/bin/cli/provider-catalog.mjs
+++ b/bin/cli/provider-catalog.mjs
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { createRequire } from "node:module";
+import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
 import { dirname, isAbsolute, join, resolve } from "node:path";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 
 const CLI_DIR = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const DEFAULT_ROOT_DIR = join(CLI_DIR, "..", "..");
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
 
 export const COMMON_PROVIDERS = [
   { id: "openai", name: "OpenAI" },
@@ -17,94 +15,201 @@ export const COMMON_PROVIDERS = [
 ];
 
 function normalizeCatalogCategory(exportName) {
-  const raw = exportName
-    .replace(/_PROVIDERS$/, "")
-    .toLowerCase()
-    .replaceAll("_", "-");
+  const raw = exportName.split("_PROVIDERS")[0].toLowerCase().replaceAll("_", "-");
   if (raw === "apikey") return "api-key";
   return raw;
 }
 
-function loadTypeScript() {
-  try {
-    return require("typescript");
-  } catch {
-    return null;
-  }
-}
+/**
+ * Advance past a string literal, template literal, or comment starting at `i`.
+ * Returns the index just after it, or -1 when `i` does not start one. Keeping
+ * the scanner string/comment aware is what lets it walk braces safely — provider
+ * notes routinely contain `{`, `}` and apostrophes.
+ */
+function skipNonCode(source, i) {
+  const c = source[i];
 
-function getPropertyName(ts, name) {
-  if (ts.isIdentifier(name) || ts.isStringLiteral(name) || ts.isNumericLiteral(name)) {
-    return name.text;
-  }
-  return null;
-}
-
-function getObjectProperty(ts, objectLiteral, propertyName) {
-  return objectLiteral.properties.find(
-    (property) =>
-      ts.isPropertyAssignment(property) && getPropertyName(ts, property.name) === propertyName
-  );
-}
-
-function getStringProperty(ts, objectLiteral, propertyName) {
-  const property = getObjectProperty(ts, objectLiteral, propertyName);
-  const initializer = property?.initializer;
-  if (!initializer) return null;
-  if (ts.isStringLiteral(initializer) || ts.isNoSubstitutionTemplateLiteral(initializer)) {
-    return initializer.text;
-  }
-  return null;
-}
-
-function getBooleanProperty(ts, objectLiteral, propertyName) {
-  const property = getObjectProperty(ts, objectLiteral, propertyName);
-  const initializer = property?.initializer;
-  return initializer?.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.TrueKeyword;
-}
-
-function extractProviderBlocks(source, filePath) {
-  const ts = loadTypeScript();
-  if (!ts) return [];
-
-  const providers = [];
-  const sourceFile = ts.createSourceFile(filePath, source, ts.ScriptTarget.Latest, true);
-
-  sourceFile.forEachChild((node) => {
-    if (!ts.isVariableStatement(node)) return;
-
-    for (const declaration of node.declarationList.declarations) {
-      if (!ts.isIdentifier(declaration.name)) continue;
-      const exportName = declaration.name.text;
-      if (!exportName.endsWith("_PROVIDERS")) continue;
-      if (!declaration.initializer || !ts.isObjectLiteralExpression(declaration.initializer)) {
+  if (c === '"' || c === "'" || c === "`") {
+    for (let j = i + 1; j < source.length; j++) {
+      if (source[j] === "\\") {
+        j++;
         continue;
       }
-
-      const category = normalizeCatalogCategory(exportName);
-      for (const property of declaration.initializer.properties) {
-        if (!ts.isPropertyAssignment(property)) continue;
-        if (!ts.isObjectLiteralExpression(property.initializer)) continue;
-
-        const key = getPropertyName(ts, property.name);
-        if (!key) continue;
-
-        const id = getStringProperty(ts, property.initializer, "id") || key;
-        const name = getStringProperty(ts, property.initializer, "name") || id;
-
-        providers.push({
-          id,
-          name,
-          category,
-          alias: getStringProperty(ts, property.initializer, "alias"),
-          website: getStringProperty(ts, property.initializer, "website"),
-          deprecated: getBooleanProperty(ts, property.initializer, "deprecated"),
-          hasFree: getBooleanProperty(ts, property.initializer, "hasFree"),
-          passthroughModels: getBooleanProperty(ts, property.initializer, "passthroughModels"),
-        });
-      }
+      if (source[j] === c) return j + 1;
     }
-  });
+    return source.length;
+  }
+
+  if (c === "/" && source[i + 1] === "/") {
+    const nl = source.indexOf("\n", i);
+    return nl === -1 ? source.length : nl;
+  }
+
+  if (c === "/" && source[i + 1] === "*") {
+    const close = source.indexOf("*/", i + 2);
+    return close === -1 ? source.length : close + 2;
+  }
+
+  return -1;
+}
+
+/** Index of the `}` matching the `{` at `openIdx`, or -1. */
+function findMatchingBrace(source, openIdx) {
+  let depth = 0;
+  for (let i = openIdx; i < source.length; i++) {
+    const skipped = skipNonCode(source, i);
+    if (skipped !== -1) {
+      i = skipped - 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (source[i] === "{") depth++;
+    else if (source[i] === "}") {
+      depth--;
+      if (depth === 0) return i;
+    }
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+const MEMBER_KEY = /(?:([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)|"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)')\s*:/y;
+
+/**
+ * Parse the direct members of the object literal whose `{` is at `openIdx`.
+ * Returns `[{ key, value }]` with `value` as the raw source slice.
+ */
+function parseObjectMembers(source, openIdx) {
+  // An unbalanced literal (a missing `},` in a large data file — see #10093)
+  // should not blank the whole catalog: scan to end-of-source so the entries
+  // before the damage are still recovered.
+  const matching = findMatchingBrace(source, openIdx);
+  const close = matching === -1 ? source.length : matching;
+
+  const members = [];
+  let i = openIdx + 1;
+
+  while (i < close) {
+    if (/[\s,;]/.test(source[i])) {
+      i++;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // The key match MUST be attempted before skipNonCode: quoted keys such as
+    // `"duckduckgo-web":` start with a quote, and skipping them as string
+    // literals both loses the entry and desynchronizes the walk, which then
+    // reports nested keys (`notice`, …) as top-level providers.
+    MEMBER_KEY.lastIndex = i;
+    const match = MEMBER_KEY.exec(source);
+    if (!match) {
+      const skipped = skipNonCode(source, i);
+      i = skipped !== -1 ? skipped : i + 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    const key = match[1] ?? match[2] ?? match[3];
+    let valueStart = MEMBER_KEY.lastIndex;
+    while (valueStart < close && /\s/.test(source[valueStart])) valueStart++;
+
+    let valueEnd;
+    if (source[valueStart] === "{" || source[valueStart] === "[") {
+      const openChar = source[valueStart];
+      const closeChar = openChar === "{" ? "}" : "]";
+      let depth = 0;
+      let j = valueStart;
+      for (; j < close; j++) {
+        const s2 = skipNonCode(source, j);
+        if (s2 !== -1) {
+          j = s2 - 1;
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (source[j] === openChar) depth++;
+        else if (source[j] === closeChar) {
+          depth--;
+          if (depth === 0) break;
+        }
+      }
+      valueEnd = j + 1;
+    } else {
+      let j = valueStart;
+      for (; j < close; j++) {
+        const s2 = skipNonCode(source, j);
+        if (s2 !== -1) {
+          j = s2 - 1;
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (source[j] === ",") break;
+      }
+      valueEnd = j;
+    }
+
+    members.push({ key, value: source.slice(valueStart, valueEnd), valueStart });
+    // Guarantee forward progress even on malformed input.
+    i = valueEnd > i ? valueEnd : i + 1;
+  }
+
+  return members;
+}
+
+/** First string literal in a raw value (handles `"a" + "b"` continuations). */
+function readString(raw) {
+  if (raw == null) return null;
+  const match = raw.match(/"((?:[^"\\]|\\.)*)"|'((?:[^'\\]|\\.)*)'/);
+  if (!match) return null;
+  return (match[1] ?? match[2]).replace(/\\(.)/g, "$1");
+}
+
+function readBoolean(raw) {
+  return String(raw).trim() === "true";
+}
+
+const PROVIDER_EXPORT =
+  /(?:export\s+)?const\s+([A-Z0-9_]*_PROVIDERS[A-Z0-9_]*)\s*(?::[^=]+)?=\s*\{/g;
+
+/**
+ * Extract provider entries from a catalog source file.
+ *
+ * Deliberately dependency-free: `typescript` is a devDependency, so requiring it
+ * at runtime made this silently return [] on every published install (#10080).
+ * These files are pure data literals, so a string/comment-aware brace walk is
+ * both sufficient and stable.
+ */
+export function extractProviderBlocks(source) {
+  const providers = [];
+  PROVIDER_EXPORT.lastIndex = 0;
+
+  let exportMatch;
+  while ((exportMatch = PROVIDER_EXPORT.exec(source)) !== null) {
+    const exportName = exportMatch[1];
+    const openIdx = source.indexOf("{", exportMatch.index + exportMatch[0].length - 1);
+    if (openIdx === -1) continue;
+
+    const category = normalizeCatalogCategory(exportName);
+
+    for (const entry of parseObjectMembers(source, openIdx)) {
+      if (!entry.value.startsWith("{")) continue; // spread / non-object member
+      const fields = new Map(
+        parseObjectMembers(source, entry.valueStart).map((f) => [f.key, f.value])
+      );
+
+      const id = readString(fields.get("id")) || entry.key;
+      providers.push({
+        id,
+        name: readString(fields.get("name")) || id,
+        category,
+        alias: readString(fields.get("alias")),
+        website: readString(fields.get("website")),
+        deprecated: readBoolean(fields.get("deprecated")),
+        hasFree: readBoolean(fields.get("hasFree")),
+        passthroughModels: readBoolean(fields.get("passthroughModels")),
+      });
+    }
+
+    // An unbalanced literal (see #10093) yields -1 here. Resetting lastIndex to
+    // 0 would restart the scan from the top forever, so stop instead — the
+    // entries recovered above are still returned.
+    const closeIdx = findMatchingBrace(source, openIdx);
+    if (closeIdx === -1) break;
+    PROVIDER_EXPORT.lastIndex = closeIdx + 1;
+  }
 
   return providers;
 }
@@ -126,9 +231,31 @@ function resolveProviderCatalogPath(rootDir, options = {}) {
   if (configuredPath) {
     return isAbsolute(configuredPath) ? configuredPath : resolve(rootDir, configuredPath);
   }
+
+  // The catalog used to be one god-file at constants/providers.ts. It was
+  // decomposed into constants/providers/**, leaving the barrel with nothing but
+  // re-exports and an empty `FREE_PROVIDERS = {}` — so parsing it alone yielded
+  // zero providers and the CLI silently fell back to COMMON_PROVIDERS (#10080).
+  // Prefer the directory; keep the legacy file for older trees.
+  const catalogDir = join(rootDir, "src", "shared", "constants", "providers");
+  if (existsSync(catalogDir)) return catalogDir;
   return join(rootDir, "src", "shared", "constants", "providers.ts");
 }
 
+/** Every .ts catalog file under `dir`, one level of subdirectories deep. */
+function collectCatalogFiles(dir) {
+  const files = [];
+  for (const entry of readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+    const full = join(dir, entry.name);
+    if (entry.isDirectory()) {
+      files.push(...collectCatalogFiles(full));
+    } else if (entry.name.endsWith(".ts") && !entry.name.endsWith(".d.ts")) {
+      files.push(full);
+    }
+  }
+  return files.sort();
+}
+
 export function loadAvailableProviders(options = {}) {
   const rootDir = typeof options === "string" ? options : options.rootDir || DEFAULT_ROOT_DIR;
   const providersPath = resolveProviderCatalogPath(rootDir, options);
@@ -138,8 +265,10 @@ export function loadAvailableProviders(options = {}) {
   }
 
   try {
-    const source = readFileSync(providersPath, "utf-8");
-    const providers = extractProviderBlocks(source, providersPath);
+    const sources = statSync(providersPath).isDirectory()
+      ? collectCatalogFiles(providersPath)
+      : [providersPath];
+    const providers = sources.flatMap((file) => extractProviderBlocks(readFileSync(file, "utf-8")));
     if (providers.length === 0) return fallbackAvailableProviders();
 
     const seen = new Set();
diff --git a/tests/unit/cli-provider-catalog-full-10080.test.ts b/tests/unit/cli-provider-catalog-full-10080.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7a907c690
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/cli-provider-catalog-full-10080.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+// #10080 — `loadAvailableProviders()` always returned the 6-entry
+// COMMON_PROVIDERS fallback, so `omniroute keys add <provider>` rejected ~290 of
+// the ~296 catalog providers with "Unknown provider". Two independent causes:
+//   1. the parser required `typescript`, a devDependency absent from published
+//      installs, and swallowed the failure;
+//   2. it read constants/providers.ts, which after the god-file decomposition
+//      holds only re-exports plus an empty `FREE_PROVIDERS = {}`.
+
+const ROOT_DIR = path.resolve(".");
+const { extractProviderBlocks, loadAvailableProviders, COMMON_PROVIDERS } =
+  await import("../../bin/cli/provider-catalog.mjs");
+
+test("extractProviderBlocks handles the shapes the real catalog files use", () => {
+  const source = `
+    // A comment with a stray { brace } that must not confuse the walk.
+    export const NOAUTH_PROVIDERS = {
+      opencode: {
+        id: "opencode",
+        alias: "oc",
+        name: "OpenCode Free",
+        noAuth: true,
+        hasFree: true,
+        /* block comment with } */
+        notice: {
+          text: "Nested object — its keys must not surface as providers.",
+        },
+      },
+      "duckduckgo-web": {
+        id: "duckduckgo-web",
+        name: "DuckDuckGo AI Chat",
+        hasFree: true,
+      },
+      legacy: {
+        id: "legacy",
+        name: "Legacy" + " Provider",
+        website: "https://example.com/a{b}c",
+        deprecated: true,
+        passthroughModels: true,
+      },
+    };
+  `;
+
+  const providers = extractProviderBlocks(source);
+
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    providers.map((p) => p.id),
+    ["opencode", "duckduckgo-web", "legacy"],
+    "quoted keys must parse, nested object keys must not leak"
+  );
+  assert.equal(providers[0].alias, "oc");
+  assert.equal(providers[0].hasFree, true);
+  assert.equal(providers[0].category, "noauth");
+  // A quoted key with no explicit alias/website yields nulls, not undefined.
+  assert.equal(providers[1].alias, null);
+  assert.equal(providers[1].website, null);
+  // Concatenated strings keep the first literal; braces inside strings survive.
+  assert.equal(providers[2].name, "Legacy");
+  assert.equal(providers[2].website, "https://example.com/a{b}c");
+  assert.equal(providers[2].deprecated, true);
+  assert.equal(providers[2].passthroughModels, true);
+});
+
+test("category comes from the prefix before _PROVIDERS, including suffixed exports", () => {
+  const mk = (name: string) => `export const ${name} = { a: { id: "a", name: "A" } };`;
+
+  assert.equal(extractProviderBlocks(mk("NOAUTH_PROVIDERS"))[0].category, "noauth");
+  assert.equal(extractProviderBlocks(mk("WEB_COOKIE_PROVIDERS"))[0].category, "web-cookie");
+  assert.equal(extractProviderBlocks(mk("APIKEY_PROVIDERS"))[0].category, "api-key");
+  // The decomposition introduced suffixed family exports; these are still api-key.
+  assert.equal(extractProviderBlocks(mk("APIKEY_PROVIDERS_GATEWAYS"))[0].category, "api-key");
+  assert.equal(extractProviderBlocks(mk("APIKEY_PROVIDERS_REGIONAL"))[0].category, "api-key");
+});
+
+test("an unbalanced literal terminates and keeps what was parsed", () => {
+  // Regression for an infinite loop: a missing `},` (see #10093) left the outer
+  // scan resetting its regex lastIndex to 0 forever.
+  const broken = `
+    export const APIKEY_PROVIDERS_GATEWAYS = {
+      good: { id: "good", name: "Good" },
+      broken: {
+        id: "broken",
+        name: "Broken",
+      other: {
+        id: "other",
+        name: "Other",
+      },
+  `;
+
+  const providers = extractProviderBlocks(broken);
+  assert.ok(providers.length >= 1, "entries before the damage are still recovered");
+  assert.equal(providers[0].id, "good");
+});
+
+test("loadAvailableProviders reads the decomposed catalog, not the 6-entry fallback", () => {
+  const providers = loadAvailableProviders({ rootDir: ROOT_DIR });
+
+  assert.ok(
+    providers.length > COMMON_PROVIDERS.length,
+    `expected the real catalog, got the ${providers.length}-entry fallback`
+  );
+  // Lower bound rather than an exact count so adding providers does not break this.
+  assert.ok(providers.length > 200, `expected 200+ providers, got ${providers.length}`);
+
+  const byId = new Map(providers.map((p) => [p.id, p]));
+  for (const id of ["cerebras", "groq", "gemini", "siliconflow", "opencode", "kiro"]) {
+    assert.ok(byId.has(id), `${id} missing from the catalog`);
+  }
+  assert.equal(byId.get("opencode")?.category, "noauth");
+  assert.equal(byId.get("kiro")?.category, "oauth");
+  assert.equal(byId.get("cerebras")?.category, "api-key");
+  assert.ok(providers.filter((p) => p.hasFree).length > 50, "free-tier flags should survive");
+
+  // ids are unique — the apikey barrel spreads family files that this walk also
+  // visits directly, so duplicates must be collapsed.
+  assert.equal(new Set(providers.map((p) => p.id)).size, providers.length);
+});
+
+test("falls back to COMMON_PROVIDERS when no catalog is present", () => {
+  const emptyRoot = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "omniroute-empty-root-"));
+  try {
+    const providers = loadAvailableProviders({ rootDir: emptyRoot });
+    assert.equal(providers.length, COMMON_PROVIDERS.length);
+    assert.equal(providers[0].id, "openai");
+  } finally {
+    fs.rmSync(emptyRoot, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
+
+test("an explicit catalogPath still overrides the directory walk", () => {
+  const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "omniroute-catalog-"));
+  try {
+    const file = path.join(dir, "custom.ts");
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      file,
+      `export const APIKEY_PROVIDERS = { only: { id: "only", name: "Only" } };`
+    );
+
+    const providers = loadAvailableProviders({ rootDir: ROOT_DIR, catalogPath: file });
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      providers.map((p) => p.id),
+      ["only"]
+    );
+  } finally {
+    fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});