The `/model` picker warms `provider_models_cache.json` in parallel before
its serial build loop, and Nous was collected into that prefetch because
the credential scan treats any auth.json providers entry as credentials
regardless of auth type.
Nothing reads the result. The picker's nous branch builds from the curated
list rather than `cached_provider_model_ids`, and Nous cannot reach the
api_key-only unified pathway that would call it. Because the prefetch
forces a refresh it also skips the cache read, so the entry is written and
never read — a live authenticated /v1/models round trip per picker open
for nothing.
Exclude it. Also add the plan this and the preceding commits implement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mariano Nicolini
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