Landed with the design call resolved per the owner's pick — **option 1**: the synced store is now endpoint-agnostic (persistDiscoveredModels and managedModelImport no longer drop non-chat models at write time), and chat selectability moved to read time (auto-pool expansion in autoStrategy applies filterChatSelectableModels; the models-route projection already had its chatOnly filter). Your discovery test now passes end-to-end (3/3): /api/show capabilities persist per connection and image/embedding requests route through the advertising host.
Reconciliation notes: conflicted areas merged onto the current tip (adobe discovery import, requestedModel preflight signature, resolvedProvider fast-path coexists with the synced-route override — explicit resolution wins); carried base-red drains (#10055 memoization, #11071 test variants) dropped as already-landed; the managed-model-import exclusion test was propagated to the new contract (image/video models persist; the read filter still hides them from chat pickers — pinned by a new assertion). Full battery: 205/206 focused (the one red is a confirmed periodic-timer timing flake on the loaded devbox — 20/20 isolated), autoCombo vitest 30/30, combo suites 46/46, gates + typecheck clean.
Thank you @yourspraveen — the capability probe + routing design was right; it just needed the store contract opened up. Fixes#11087.
Release v3.8.42 — full CHANGELOG in CHANGELOG.md.
CI: 103 checks green incl. CodeQL (all languages), Semgrep, all 8 unit shards,
coverage, Node 24 compat, and integration tests. Full unit suite validated
locally: 19437 pass / 0 fail. The 3 red checks are advisory and do not gate
main (no required status checks): SonarCloud/SonarQube new-code coverage gate,
and PR Test Policy (test-masking detector flagging the legitimate dead-Phind
provider removal in #5530 — reviewed, correct).
Includes cycle-close reconciliation + repair of inherited base-red tests from
#5480/#5527/#5427/#5521 that the PR->release fast-path did not exercise.
