Maintainer edit: replace Quick Start key/base detection with an explicit provider-first flow. Users choose the provider that issued the API key, paste the key, and only custom OpenAI-compatible setups ask for a base URL.
Maintainer edit: restart the Quick Start flow around an API-key-first path without recommending OpenRouter or DeepSeek. Detect unique key prefixes locally, fall back to a user-provided base URL, and only fetch models from that approved URL.
Maintainer edit: restart the Quick Start default around a mainland-friendly provider instead of making OpenRouter the first-run dependency. Update wizard copy, default preset, focused tests, and beginner docs to use DeepSeek with the current deepseek-v4-flash model.
Maintainer edit: continue the wizard simplification pass by making Quick Start save after the API key path, hiding save/summary actions until they are needed, removing failed-key side effects, and aligning beginner docs with the local WebUI path.
Maintainer edit: collapse the first-run wizard to an API-key-only Quick Start and move lower-frequency provider, model, channel, gateway, and tool settings behind Advanced Settings.
Maintainer edit: reduce the default onboarding path to a recommended local WebUI setup that only asks for an OpenRouter key, while keeping the detailed provider/channel flow available for advanced setup.
Extract the [M] Model Presets interactive CRUD screen from PR #3696
and adapt it to the current main branch schema (fallback_models
instead of fallback_presets). Adds preset cache, field handlers for
model_preset/provider/fallback_models, and 9 new tests.
Fixes two related input-handling bugs in the onboard wizard:
1. _input_text treated "" as None, preventing users from clearing
optional string fields or entering empty strings intentionally.
2. _input_model_with_autocomplete used `if value else None`, which
discarded falsy values such as empty strings or 0.
To support clearing optional string fields, add _is_str_or_none() and
normalize empty strings to None inside _configure_pydantic_model only
when the field annotation is `str | None`. Required str fields keep
"" as a valid value.
Also included:
- Remember last selected item in provider/channel/model menus for
better UX when configuring multiple items.
- Rename _SIMPLE_TYPES and _MENU_DISPATCH to lowercase to follow
Python naming conventions (they are local variables, not constants).
- Remove unused imports in test file.
Extracted from PR #3358.
Literal["standard", "persistent"] fields are now rendered as select
dropdowns instead of free-text input. This makes provider_retry_mode
and any future Literal fields self-documenting in the wizard.
- Add [H] Channel Common menu to configure send_progress, send_tool_hints,
send_max_retries, and transcription_provider
- Add [I] API Server menu to configure host, port, timeout
- Add real-time Pydantic field constraint validation (ge/gt/le/lt/min_length/max_length)
with constraint hints shown in field display (e.g. "Send Max Retries (0-10)")
- Add _pause() to View Configuration Summary to prevent immediate screen clear
- Fix _format_value dict branch to handle BaseModel instances without crashing
