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+> 🌍 [View in other languages](Languages)
+
+
+# Account-Ban / Banned-Keyword Detection
+
+OmniRoute scans upstream error responses for signals that indicate a provider
+**account is permanently dead** (suspended / deactivated / ToS-banned) and, when
+matched, moves that connection into a **terminal `banned` state** so it is no
+longer selected for requests. This is what the **Security → Banned Keywords**
+settings card configures ("Additional keywords that trigger permanent account
+ban detection. Built-in keywords always apply.").
+
+This page documents the built-in list, the detection flow, its scope, how to add
+custom keywords safely, and how to recover a flagged connection. The terminal
+state itself is part of the resilience model — see
+[RESILIENCE_GUIDE](../architecture/RESILIENCE_GUIDE.md) ("Terminal states").
+
+**Source of truth:** `open-sse/services/accountFallback.ts`
+(`ACCOUNT_DEACTIVATED_SIGNALS`, `getMergedBannedSignals()`, `isAccountDeactivated()`).
+
+## Built-in keywords
+
+These 8 substrings always apply (case-insensitive), regardless of any custom list:
+
+```
+account_deactivated
+account has been deactivated
+account has been disabled
+your account has been suspended
+this account is deactivated
+verify your account to continue                                 (Antigravity / Google Cloud Code)
+this service has been disabled in this account for violation    (Antigravity)
+this service has been disabled in this account                  (Antigravity)
+```
+
+> This list evolves as providers change their ban wording. The authoritative
+> copy is `ACCOUNT_DEACTIVATED_SIGNALS` in `open-sse/services/accountFallback.ts`;
+> treat the block above as a snapshot.
+
+Two adjacent, **separate** signal tables live in the same file and are *not* part
+of banned-keyword detection:
+
+- `CREDITS_EXHAUSTED_SIGNALS` — billing/quota depleted (`insufficient_quota`,
+  `credit_balance_too_low`, `payment required`, …) → terminal `credits_exhausted`.
+- `OAUTH_INVALID_TOKEN_SIGNALS` — **non-terminal**; a token refresh can recover.
+
+Note: common transient phrases like **`rate limit`** / `429` are handled by the
+rate-limit / connection-cooldown path and are **not** ban signals.
+
+## Detection flow
+
+```
+upstream error response
+  → body stringified + lowercased
+  → isAccountDeactivated(body): getMergedBannedSignals().some(sig => body.includes(sig))   [substring match]
+  → match?
+      → connection testStatus = "banned"      (permanent — 1-year cooldown, never auto-recovers)
+      → if setting `autoDisableBannedAccounts` is on → also isActive = false
+      → connection is skipped during account selection (combo QUOTA_BLOCKING statuses)
+```
+
+- The match is a **case-insensitive substring** search on the response **body**
+  (`isAccountDeactivated`, `accountFallback.ts`).
+- The permanent `banned` terminalization fires on a banned-signal body at **any
+  HTTP status** (via `markAccountUnavailable` → `checkFallbackError`). The
+  narrower **`deactivated`** label (`isActive=false` when the connection has no
+  spare API keys) is written by the inline `chatCore.ts` path on **HTTP 401 / 403**
+  (classified via `classifyProviderError` → `ACCOUNT_DEACTIVATED`). Note the
+  `markAccountUnavailable()` path writes a *different* terminal status —
+  **`expired`** — for the same `ACCOUNT_DEACTIVATED` signal (via
+  `resolveTerminalConnectionStatus`), so the same ban can surface as either
+  `deactivated` or `expired` depending on which path handled the response. (The
+  older code comment says "when a 401 body contains these strings" — that
+  understates the current behavior.)
+- A `banned` connection is excluded from selection everywhere terminal statuses
+  are filtered (`isTerminalConnectionStatus`, combo `QUOTA_BLOCKING_CONNECTION_STATUSES`).
+
+## Scope — which providers are scanned
+
+**All providers.** The check runs in the generic error-handling pipeline that
+every failed upstream request flows through — it is **not** gated to
+OAuth/subscription scrapers. The resulting terminal state is per **connection**,
+not per provider.
+
+That said, the built-in *strings* are oriented toward subscription/OAuth
+providers with real ban risk (ChatGPT Web, Claude Web, Codex, Muse Spark,
+Antigravity). An API-key provider will only trip the detector if its error body
+literally contains one of the substrings.
+
+## Custom banned keywords
+
+Add or remove keywords in **Security → Banned Keywords** (persisted as the global
+`customBannedSignals` setting via `PATCH /api/settings`). They are **added to**
+the built-in list — never a replacement — and hot-reload on save (and at startup)
+via `setCustomBannedSignals()`. Each keyword is capped at 200 characters; there is
+no array-length limit.
+
+**⚠ False-positive risk — choose specific phrases.** Detection is a raw substring
+match on the whole response body, and a match is **permanent** (1-year cooldown,
+manual recovery). A broad keyword can ban a perfectly healthy connection:
+
+- **Bad:** `quota`, `limit`, `error`, `denied` — appear in many transient errors.
+- **Good:** full ban sentences, e.g. `your account has been suspended for`,
+  `account permanently banned`, `violation of our terms`.
+
+Prefer the longest unambiguous phrase the provider returns on a real ban. When in
+doubt, watch the connection's `lastError` first, then add the exact wording.
+
+## Recovering a flagged connection
+
+Terminal `banned` / `deactivated` states **never auto-recover** (they are excluded
+from the proactive-recovery tick — only `unavailable` cooldowns recover on their
+own). An operator must clear them explicitly:
+
+1. **Re-test the connection** — the dashboard **Test** action
+   (`POST /api/providers/{id}/test`); a successful probe resets `testStatus` to
+   `active` and clears the error fields.
+2. **Re-authenticate / edit credentials** — for OAuth providers, re-run the login
+   / refresh flow; provider create/import routes set `isActive = true`.
+3. **Re-enable the connection** — if `autoDisableBannedAccounts` set
+   `isActive = false`, toggle it back on after fixing the account.
+
+There is no separate "clear ban flag" button — recovery is re-test, re-auth, or
+re-enable, matching the general terminal-state rule in
+[RESILIENCE_GUIDE](../architecture/RESILIENCE_GUIDE.md).
+
+## Source files
+
+| Concern | File |
+| --- | --- |
+| Signal tables + match | `open-sse/services/accountFallback.ts` |
+| Terminalization / persistence | `src/sse/services/auth.ts` (`markAccountUnavailable`, `resolveTerminalConnectionStatus`, `clearAccountError`) |
+| Inline classification | `open-sse/handlers/chatCore.ts`, `open-sse/services/errorClassifier.ts` |
+| Terminal-state recovery exclusion | `src/lib/quota/connectionRecovery.ts` |
+| Custom-keyword runtime load | `src/lib/config/runtimeSettings.ts` (`setCustomBannedSignals`) |
+| Settings UI | `src/app/(dashboard)/dashboard/settings/components/SecurityTab.tsx` |
diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md
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+++ b/Home.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # 🚀 OmniRoute — The Free AI Gateway
 
-**Never stop coding. Connect every AI tool to 236 providers — 50+ free — through one endpoint.**
+**Never stop coding. Connect every AI tool to 237 providers — 50+ free — through one endpoint.**
 
 Plug Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot & Antigravity into FREE Claude / GPT / Gemini. Auto-fallback.
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Plug Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot & Antigravity into FREE Claude /
 
 | Feature | Description |
 |---------|-------------|
-| **236 AI Providers** | OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, xAI, Mistral, and many more |
+| **237 AI Providers** | OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, xAI, Mistral, and many more |
 | **50+ Free Tiers** | OAuth + free-tier providers for zero-cost AI access |
 | **17 Routing Strategies** | Priority, weighted, round-robin, cost-optimized, context-relay, and more |
 | **Token Compression** | RTK + Caveman engines save 15–95% tokens automatically |
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Use the **sidebar** to navigate through all documentation sections:
 - **[Features](Features)** — All features explained
 - **[Architecture](Architecture)** — System design and internals
 - **[API Reference](API-Reference)** — REST API documentation
-- **[Providers](Provider-Reference)** — All 236 supported providers
+- **[Providers](Provider-Reference)** — All 237 supported providers
 - **[Combos & Routing](Auto-Combo)** — Routing strategies
 - **[Compression](Compression-Guide)** — Token compression pipeline
 - **[MCP Server](MCP-Server)** — MCP tools and transports
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+> 🌍 [View in other languages](Languages)
+
+
+# Reavaliação de Maturidade — pós-Ondas 0–3 (Quality-Gate v2)
+
+> **O que é este documento.** Uma re-medição da maturidade do sistema de quality-gates
+> **após** as Ondas 0–3 do programa Quality-Gate v2, comparada ao baseline registrado em
+> [`QUALITY_GATE_PLAYBOOK.md`](./QUALITY_GATE_PLAYBOOK.md) (2026-06-16). Mede o que mudou,
+> contra DSOMM L5 / OpenSSF Scorecard 9 / SLSA L3, separando o que é **CI-mensurável**
+> (já entregue / entregável por código) do que é **processo/owner** (settings de organização).
+>
+> **Data:** 2026-06-30. Gerado do estado real do repositório, não da memória.
+> **Régua:** OWASP DSOMM · OpenSSF Scorecard · SLSA · SonarQube "Clean as You Code".
+
+---
+
+## 1. Veredito atualizado
+
+**Nota geral: A− → A ("Avançado", topo ~5%).** As **duas maiores fraquezas estruturais**
+do baseline 06-16 — o *buraco fast-gates* e o *mutation-score-não-catraca* — foram **fechadas**.
+Os gaps residuais para "máximo absoluto" são quase todos **owner/infra-gated** (branch-protection,
+SLSA L3, CodeQL advanced); o lado-código do programa está essencialmente completo.
+
+| Framework de referência | Baseline 06-16 | Agora 06-30 | Movimento | Evidência |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| **OWASP DSOMM** (5 níveis) | L3→L4 | **L4** em *Test Intensity* e *Static Depth*; L3 sólido nas demais | ▲ | mutation-ratchet bloqueante + suíte determinística no gate-de-merge |
+| **OpenSSF Scorecard** | ~7–8/10 | ~7–8/10 (inalterado — gate é o **owner**) | = | falta Branch-Protection na `main` (setting do dono) + pin de actions |
+| **SLSA** | L2→L3 | **L2** (encostando em L3) | = | falta builder hermético/reprodutível (infra/owner) |
+| **SonarQube "Clean as You Code"** | Alinhado c/ ressalva | Alinhado c/ ressalva | = | ressalva de *sprawl* (~46+ gates) permanece — review de ROI pendente |
+| **Quality-Ratchet pattern** | Exemplar | **Exemplar+** | ▲ | novo `dedicatedGate` de `mutationScore` (direction up) |
+| **Mutation testing** | "Quase lá" (não-catraca) | **Catraca ativa** | ▲▲ | `check-mutation-ratchet.mjs` + baseline semeado + job nightly bloqueante |
+
+---
+
+## 2. Deltas desde 2026-06-16 (o que as Ondas 0–3 entregaram)
+
+### 2.1 🔴→✅ Buraco fast-gates FECHADO (era a fraqueza estrutural #1)
+O baseline alertava: `quality.yml` (PR→`release/**`) rodava **só gates de filesystem** — sem
+typecheck, testes ou build —, então regressões determinísticas só explodiam no PR→`main`.
+**Hoje** `.github/workflows/quality.yml` roda, no job *Fast Quality Gates*: `typecheck:core`,
+**testes unitários impactados (TIA) bloqueantes com fail-safe para a suíte completa**, o
+fast-path do **vitest**, e shards de unit. O gate agora roda **onde o merge acontece** (shift-left),
+exatamente o princípio transversal que o playbook prescreve.
+
+### 2.2 🟠→✅ Mutation score virou CATRACA (era a fraqueza #3 / P0 #1)
+O antídoto mais forte contra coverage-gaming estava **advisory**. **Hoje**:
+- `scripts/check/check-mutation-ratchet.mjs` (advisory por default, `--ratchet` bloqueante, skip gracioso);
+- `config/quality/quality-baseline.json` tem entradas `mutationScore.<módulo>` semeadas (`direction: up`, `dedicatedGate`);
+- `.github/workflows/nightly-mutation.yml` tem o job **"Mutation score ratchet (blocking)"** que unifica os relatórios por-batch e ratcheteia os scores merged por-módulo.
+
+Resultado: o score de mutação por-módulo **não pode regredir** — cobertura deixou de ser vanity-metric.
+
+### 2.3 ✅ Quick-wins de gate (Fase 6A/7) entregues
+- **a11y axe-core "fake-green" corrigido:** `@axe-core/playwright` em devDeps; `a11y.spec.ts` com skip condicional `REQUIRE_AXE`; job no `nightly-resilience.yml`.
+- **complexity varre `bin/`+`electron`:** `check-complexity.mjs` inclui esses diretórios no `ESLINT_ARGS`.
+- **tracked-artifacts no pre-commit + pre-push:** `.husky/pre-commit` + `pre-push` bloqueiam artefato rastreado por engano.
+
+---
+
+## 3. As 12 categorias — situação (delta-focada)
+
+| # | Categoria | Situação 06-30 |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| 1 | Estilo & formatação | ✅ inalterado (Prettier+ESLint lint-staged) |
+| 2 | Tipos | ✅ **reforçado** — `typecheck:core` agora também no gate PR→release |
+| 3 | Testes (intensidade) | ✅ **reforçado** — mutation testing virou catraca; suíte determinística no gate-de-merge |
+| 4 | Política de testes (anti-gaming) | ✅ inalterado (pr-test-policy/test-masking/pr-evidence) |
+| 5 | Complexidade & saúde | ✅ **reforçado** — complexity varre bin/electron |
+| 6 | Segurança estática (SAST+segredos) | 🟡 CodeQL default-setup (advanced = owner); semgrep cloud não-versionado |
+| 7 | Supply-chain (deps) | ✅ inalterado (osv/audit/Trivy/Dependabot + allowlist) |
+| 8 | Supply-chain (build/release) | 🟡 SLSA L2 (L3 = builder hermético, owner/infra) |
+| 9 | Contratos & API | 🟡 oasdiff/osv advisory (candidatos a bloqueante-com-escopo, P1) |
+| 10 | Docs & i18n (anti-rot) | ✅ **reforçado** — `fabricated-docs --strict` bloqueante (verificado exit 0) |
+| 11 | Anti-alucinação / consistência | ✅ inalterado (known-symbols/fetch-targets/docs-symbols/db-rules) |
+| 12 | Resiliência & domínio | ✅ inalterado (chaos/heap/k6/promptfoo/garak nightly) |
+
+---
+
+## 4. Gap residual para "máximo absoluto"
+
+### 4.1 CI-mensurável / entregável por código (backlog deste programa)
+- **P1 — osv/oasdiff → bloqueante com escopo certo:** osv só `CRITICAL`+fixable (two-step como o Trivy); oasdiff bloqueia breaking-change de contrato.
+- **P1 — `require-tighten` bloqueante (fim de ciclo):** trava ganhos de métrica (impede afrouxar baseline sem registrar).
+- **P1/P2 — review de ROI / sprawl de gates:** consolidar micro-gates de doc-sync; medir timing por-gate no `ci-summary` (combate a fadiga — ressalva do SonarQube/DORA). Os merges ROI deferidos (complexity unificada; `/api` anti-alucinação unificada) entram aqui.
+- **P2 — CodeQL config commitado + semgrep versionado:** mais controle/reprodutibilidade.
+
+### 4.2 Processo / owner (CI não move — settings de organização)
+- **Branch-protection na `main`** (sobe Scorecard, fecha o gap DSOMM). Ver [`BRANCH_PROTECTION_MAIN.md`](./BRANCH_PROTECTION_MAIN.md).
+- **CodeQL Default → Advanced setup.**
+- **SLSA L3** — builder hermético/reprodutível (gerador SLSA do GitHub). Stretch (diminishing returns).
+
+### 4.3 Explicitamente fora-de-escopo
+- **DSOMM L5** é majoritariamente **org-level / processo** (não CI-codificável).
+- **SLSA L4** (bit-a-bit reprodutível) é stretch declarado.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Itens deferidos / removidos (housekeeping da cauda)
+
+- **`semcheck.yaml` (camada LLM de drift semântico docs↔code) — REMOVIDO.** Estava **órfão**
+  (nenhum workflow/script o invocava) e com contagens stale nas regras. A cobertura determinística
+  já existe (`check:fabricated-docs --strict` + `check:docs-counts-sync` + `check:docs-symbols`),
+  e a ressalva de *gate sprawl* desaconselha adicionar um gate LLM advisory de custo recorrente.
+  Pode ser re-introduzido no futuro como job nightly opt-in se o drift semântico virar problema real.
+- **`agent-lsp` scaffold — DEFERIDO / opt-in não-ativado.** Existe como menção em docs
+  (`docs/architecture/QUALITY_GATES.md`, CHANGELOG) mas **sem wiring** e sem `.mcp.json.example`
+  no repo. Permanece como scaffold opt-in documentado; não é um gate ativo nem um gap de maturidade.
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+> 🌍 [View in other languages](Languages)
+
+
+# Router Backends & Embedded Services — architecture contract (ADR)
+
+> **Status:** Accepted · **Context:** [#5670](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/5670),
+> [#5603](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/5603) · **Contract:** `domain/routing/routerBackends.ts`
+> (typed registry — code lands with [#5868](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/pull/5868))
+
+This ADR pins down how `ts` (native), `bifrost`, `cliproxy`, `9router`, and
+VibeProxy-compatible engines relate to each other, so contributors stop
+conflating two things that are architecturally distinct. It documents the typed
+registry introduced by the router-backend-registry work as the single source of
+truth for that model.
+
+## The core distinction — two orthogonal axes
+
+An engine's role is described by **two independent axes**, encoded together in the
+registry's `RouterBackendDefinition`:
+
+1. **Lifecycle** (`RouterBackendLifecycle`) — _how the engine runs_:
+   - `in-process` — runs inside the OmniRoute Node process (the native TS pipeline).
+   - `supervised` — a local child process OmniRoute installs/starts/stops/health-checks
+     via `ServiceSupervisor`, then consumes as a provider connection.
+   - `external` — an HTTP endpoint OmniRoute dispatches to but does **not** manage
+     (configured by an env base URL).
+   - `disabled` — registered but not selectable.
+2. **Selection axis** (relay routing backend) — _whether the relay dispatches to it_:
+   `RelayRoutingBackend = "ts" | "bifrost" | "auto"` in
+   `src/app/api/v1/relay/chat/completions/routingBackend.ts`.
+
+The mistake to avoid: treating "embedded service" and "routing backend" as one
+list. They are not. A `supervised` engine (9router/cliproxy) is a **provider
+connection consumed by the native pipeline**, not an alternate relay dispatch
+backend. `bifrost` is the reverse — a relay dispatch backend that (historically)
+was `external`-only.
+
+## The registry — single source of truth
+
+The `domain/routing/routerBackends.ts` contract (code lands with
+[#5868](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/pull/5868)) declares every engine once, with its
+lifecycle, capabilities, service identity, default port, health config, and
+telemetry support. Consumers look engines up via `getRouterBackend(id)`,
+`listRouterBackends()`, and `listRouterBackendsByCapability(cap)` instead of
+special-casing each sidecar.
+
+| Backend     | Lifecycle    | Service (axis A) | Relay backend (axis B) | Health        | Default port |
+| ----------- | ------------ | ---------------- | ---------------------- | ------------- | ------------ |
+| `ts`        | `in-process` | —                | `ts` (native)          | —             | —            |
+| `bifrost`   | `external`¹  | —¹               | `bifrost` / `auto`     | `/health`     | —            |
+| `cliproxy`  | `supervised` | `cliproxy`       | — (provider)           | `/v1/models`  | 8317         |
+| `9router`   | `supervised` | `9router`        | — (provider)           | `/api/health` | 20130        |
+| `vibeproxy` | `external`   | —                | — (provider adapter)   | `/v1/models`  | —            |
+
+¹ Bifrost's promotion to a `supervised` embedded service (installable/startable
+from `/api/services/bifrost/`) is tracked in
+[#5817](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/pull/5817); until it merges,
+Bifrost is `external`-only (reachable solely via `BIFROST_BASE_URL`).
+
+`capabilities` (`chat`, `responses`, `streaming`, `tools`, `vision`,
+`oauth-backed`, `dashboard-embed`, `model-sync`, `native-hot-path`) let callers
+filter by what an engine can actually do rather than hard-coding per-id branches.
+
+## Axis A — embedded services (supervised process side)
+
+- **Registry of supervised processes:** `src/lib/services/bootstrap.ts` `SERVICES[]`
+  (today: `9router`, `cliproxy`).
+- **Lifecycle owner:** `src/lib/services/ServiceSupervisor.ts` — `start()` spawns the
+  child, gates on `waitForHealthy()`, taps stdout/stderr into a ring buffer;
+  `stop()` SIGTERM→SIGKILL; all serialized under a lock.
+- **State union** (`src/lib/services/types.ts`):
+  `not_installed | stopped | starting | running | stopping | error`, plus an
+  orthogonal `HealthState = healthy | unhealthy | unknown`.
+- **Why a separate process (not an in-proc SDK)?** Process isolation is what makes
+  install/start/stop/health/logs independently controllable per sidecar and lets the
+  loopback spawn-guard apply. Modeling an in-proc adapter is future work — the
+  `native-hot-path` capability flag is where that would be expressed.
+
+### Lifecycle route contract (`/api/services/<tool>/…`)
+
+Status codes are **state/verb/path-specific by design** — this is the contract, not
+inconsistency:
+
+| Call                         | Condition                       | Status                               |
+| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
+| `POST .../start`             | service `not_installed`         | **409** (precondition)               |
+| `POST .../stop`              | already stopped                 | **200** (idempotent no-op)           |
+| `GET .../status`             | OK                              | **200** (`live ?? row ?? "unknown"`) |
+| `POST .../start`             | spawn failure                   | **503** (transient)                  |
+| `GET .../status`, `.../stop` | uncaught error                  | **500**                              |
+| `GET /api/services/<x>/logs` | unknown tool `<x>`              | **404** `Service '<x>' not found`    |
+| `GET .../status?reveal=key`  | missing `X-Reveal-Confirm: yes` | **403** (9router only)               |
+| **any** `/api/services/*`    | caller not loopback/private-LAN | **403 LOCAL_ONLY**                   |
+
+All error bodies are shaped by `createErrorResponse()` →
+`{ error: { message, type }, requestId }`, where `type` is derived from the status
+(`500→server_error`, `404→not_found`, `409→conflict`, else `invalid_request`) and is
+the machine-actionable discriminator. Messages are pre-sanitized
+(`sanitizeErrorMessage()`, Hard Rule #12).
+
+**The loopback guard** is the most common source of a `403`: `/api/services/` is in
+`LOCAL_ONLY_API_PREFIXES` (`src/server/authz/routeGuard.ts`) and
+`src/server/authz/policies/management.ts` rejects any non-loopback / non-private-LAN
+caller **before auth**, because these routes spawn child processes (Hard Rules 15
+and 17). Reaching them through a public tunnel is `403` by design.
+
+## Axis B — relay routing backend (dispatch side)
+
+Only the relay proxy path `/api/v1/relay/chat/completions` selects a dispatch
+backend; the main `/api/v1/chat/completions` surface never consults
+`routingBackend.ts`.
+
+- **Selection** (`resolveRelayRoutingBackend`): a single global env toggle —
+  `OMNIROUTE_RELAY_BACKEND` / `RELAY_ROUTING_BACKEND` ∈ {`ts`, `bifrost`, `auto`}.
+  If unset, `auto` when Bifrost is configured+enabled, else `ts`.
+- **Behavior:**
+  - `bifrost` (forced): Bifrost failure → hard `502`, no fallback.
+  - `auto`: try Bifrost, on failure/cooldown silently fall through to native.
+  - `ts` / post-fallback: the native `open-sse` translator/executor pipeline.
+- **Cooldown:** per-`baseUrl` failure cooldown in `bifrostCooldown.ts`.
+
+Selection is **all-or-nothing at the relay level today** — there is no per-provider
+or per-request engine swap on `release/v3.8.43`. The per-request gate is being added
+by the sidecar-manifest work
+([#5869](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/pull/5869) manifest +
+[#5870](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/pull/5870) `shouldTryBifrostForRequest`),
+which lets `auto` route only manifest-eligible providers through Bifrost.
+
+## Dashboard integration
+
+The services dashboard polls `GET /api/services/<tool>/status` every 5s via
+`src/app/(dashboard)/dashboard/providers/services/hooks/useServiceStatus.ts`,
+returning `{ tool, state, pid, port, health, installedVersion, latestVersion,
+updateAvailable, autoStart, … }`. There is no shared availability-context provider —
+each component calls the hook per tool. On `!res.ok` the hook currently surfaces a
+bare `HTTP <status>`; mapping the `error.type` field to a human explanation is a
+tracked UX improvement, not a contract change.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- New engines register once in `ROUTER_BACKENDS`; consumers gain them via capability
+  queries without new per-id branches.
+- "Is this a service or a routing backend?" is answered by the `lifecycle` field, not
+  by which list an id happens to appear in.
+- The Bifrost supervision (#5817) and native hot-path migration (#5670) build on this
+  shared contract instead of special-casing each sidecar.