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 v3.8.31 — see CHANGELOG.md [3.8.31] for full notes and contributors.
Merged over known non-blocking reds (all correctness gates green): Integration Tests (2/2) is env/flaky (polls a real upstream batch that did not complete in the poll window); SonarQube/SonarCloud is the advisory server-side new-code quality gate. Unit (8 shards), Coverage, Node 22/24/26, Lint, PR Test Policy, Quality Ratchet, Docs-Strict, Quality-Extended and all 4 CodeQL analyses are green.
