revert: cache the models.dev directory on disk (#1817) - #1821
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This reverts commit 141e90c. The startup auto-sync is already throttled to once a day and the directory arrives gzipped (~490 KB), so the disk cache saved little background traffic while adding a ~5 MB file to every vault's plugin folder, which sync tools, git and backups copy. Keep the directory in memory only, as before. #1817 was never part of a release, so no cleanup of models-dev-cache.json is needed. Co-authored-by: Christian Bager Bach Houmann <christian@bagerbach.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe models.dev directory fetch now uses direct requests and an in-memory cache. It no longer reads or writes a disk cache, revalidates with ETags, or falls back to saved data. Validation filters malformed providers and rejects responses when no usable providers remain. ChangesModels.dev directory fetching
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A malformed models.dev model entry can interrupt model discovery despite other usable entries. Filter invalid model values before caching; the remaining merge risk is bounded. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change reduces ongoing on-disk storage, but discovery becomes less resilient to an outage after restart, and previously written cache files may remain. No new access-control or credential exposure was identified. Retained concerns
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Concurrent calls to fetchModelsDevDirectory each start a separate full models.dev download, multiplying the directory request when startup auto-sync overlaps provider-settings or manual sync. Because cachedDirectory is populated only after requestUrl resolves and no in-flight promise is shared, restore an in-flight promise so all callers await the same fetch.
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Concurrent calls to `fetchModelsDevDirectory` each start a separate full `models.dev` download, multiplying the directory request when startup auto-sync overlaps provider-settings or manual sync. Because `cachedDirectory` is populated only after `requestUrl` resolves and no in-flight promise is shared, restore an in-flight promise so all callers await the same fetch.
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When models.dev returns a syntactically valid but incomplete 200 payload—for example, a provider entry without a models map—this cast stores it in the 24-hour memory cache. fetchViaModelsDev() then fails at Object.values(directory[key].models), and every subsequent Sync now attempt in the session reuses the poisoned cache instead of retrying after the service recovers. Keep the structural validation independently of disk persistence and only assign cachedDirectory after the payload passes it.
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Keep the structural isDirectory check from #1817 without restoring the disk cache, so a malformed 200 cannot poison the 24h in-memory directory and break Sync now for the rest of the session. Co-authored-by: Christian Bager Bach Houmann <christian@bagerbach.com>
Rejecting the whole directory when one provider lacks a models map would
break models.dev sync for every provider (there is no saved copy to fall
back to anymore), while master only failed the provider actually read.
Still rejects [], {} and directories without any usable provider.
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Filter the directory to providers with a models map before caching, so a bad entry makes discovery report that models.dev doesn't list the provider instead of throwing a TypeError on directory[key].models. Co-authored-by: Christian Bager Bach Houmann <christian@bagerbach.com>
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🟡 Minor · Filter invalid model values before caching the directory. · modelsDirectory.ts:36-43
src/ai/modelsDirectory.ts:36-43
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFilter invalid model values before caching the directory.
usableDirectoryaccepts any plain-objectmodelsmap.fetchViaModelsDevlater passes every map value tomapModelsDevToQuickAdd. A cached value such as{ bad: null }or{ bad: {} }can therefore throw inisChatCapableDirectoryModelbefore usable models are returned.Suggested fix
- const usable = Object.entries(value).filter( - ([, provider]) => isPlainObject(provider) && isPlainObject(provider.models), - ); + const usable = Object.entries(value) + .filter( + ([, provider]) => + isPlainObject(provider) && isPlainObject(provider.models), + ) + .map(([key, provider]) => { + const models = Object.fromEntries( + Object.entries(provider.models).filter( + ([, model]) => + isPlainObject(model) && typeof model.id === "string", + ), + ); + return [key, { ...provider, models }]; + });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Summary
Reverts #1817, which saved the models.dev directory to
models-dev-cache.jsonin the plugin folder and revalidated it with ETag/If-None-Match.On reflection, the tradeoff was wrong. The startup auto-sync is already throttled to once a day (
ai.lastModelAutoSyncAt, saved indata.json). The directory arrives gzipped, about 490 KB on the wire. So the cache saved a little invisible background traffic per day, and in exchange it put a ~5 MB file in every vault's plugin folder, which sync tools, git and backups copy. The maintainer chose memory-only over moving the cache to IndexedDB, since it's the least code and the least state.Changes
git revertof 141e90c. After this commit alone,src/ai/modelsDirectory.ts,src/main.tsanddocs/…/AIAssistant.mdare byte-identical to before perf(ai): cache the models.dev directory on disk and revalidate with ETag #1817, and the cache test file is removed.modelsmap. Without a saved copy to fall back to, one malformed upstream entry would have broken models.dev sync for all providers, whereasmasterfails only the provider it reads. It now drops malformed providers before caching and rejects the response only when none is usable ([],{},{ openai: {} }). A dropped provider then gets discovery's "models.dev does not list a provider" error instead of aTypeError. A new test covers malformed providers mixed with valid ones.Testing / validation
pnpm run teston the revert commit: 451 files passed, 5861 tests passed. On the final head,src/aitests pass (385) andpnpm run build-with-lintis clean. Mutation check: switching the rule back toeveryfails the new test.request-urlIPC boundary:models-dev-cache.jsonIf-None-Match→ 200, 4,924,692 bytesIf-None-Match→ 200, 4,924,692 bytesA further launch on the final head (with validation) also got the full 200 and synced successfully against the live 223-provider directory (OpenAI 42 and Gemini 30 models afterwards). Launch 3 confirms the premise of the revert: on a normal relaunch within the day, the directory isn't downloaded at all. (The ×2 per launch in 1–2 comes from the e2e runner's post-launch
plugin:reload, as described in #1817.)Checklist
models-dev-cache.jsonand no cleanup is needed.Summary by CodeRabbit
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Revert disk caching of models.dev directory
fetchModelsDevDirectoryremains; see modelsDirectory.tsusableDirectoryvalidator that drops malformed providers from the response and rejects responses with no usable providersMacroscope summarized 35341ac.