vava-nessa/free-coding-models v0.3.56

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Added

• Major free-model catalog refresh — Rebuilt the active catalog to 180 models across 16 vetted free or free-limited providers.
• GitHub Models provider — Added GitHub Models with 15 API models and GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN / GITHUB_MODELS_TOKEN support.
• Mistral La Plateforme provider — Added a general Mistral provider for Experiment-plan usage, separate from the existing Codestral shortcut provider for backward compatibility.
• OpenRouter live free-model coverage — Added current free models such as tencent/hy3-preview:free, Poolside Laguna, Ling 2.6, Nemotron 3, OpenRouter Free, Owl Alpha, Gemma 4, and LFM free models.
• Smart Router Daemon — Added a local OpenAI-compatible daemon with model failover, health tracking, daemon status, dashboard integration, and router set persistence.
• --sync-set router discovery — Added automatic model discovery and live probing for configured providers so router sets can be rebuilt from working models.
• Router Dashboard — Added a local web dashboard for router health, latency heatmaps, failover activity, and quota visibility.
• Kilo CLI integration — Added Kilo as a launch target and endpoint install target.
• Discord commit log webhook — Added DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL support for compact push notifications.
• Graphify integration — Added codebase graph analysis artifacts and tracking support for architecture inspection.

Changed

• Free-provider policy tightened — Removed paid-only, trial-credit-only, shutdown, extremely tiny-credit, unclear, and tool-specific providers from the active catalog.
• Providers removed from active core — iFlow, Together AI, Perplexity API, DeepInfra, Replicate, Fireworks, Hyperbolic, Hugging Face, SiliconFlow, Chutes AI, and Rovo are now documented outside the core free-provider list when useful.
• Provider catalogs refreshed — Updated NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, Google AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Cloudflare Workers AI, OVHcloud AI Endpoints, ZAI, SambaNova, Scaleway, Qwen DashScope, and OpenCode Zen model IDs.
• SambaNova catalog corrected — Reduced the provider to the current public model set and restored DeepSeek-V3.2 after verifying it is present in the live /v1/models endpoint.
• Google/Gemini IDs corrected — Replaced stale Gemma-style IDs with current Gemini API model IDs for Google AI Studio and Gemini CLI.
• ZAI catalog reduced — Kept only free Flash models in the active provider list.
• Scaleway EOL cleanup — Removed EOL entries from the active Scaleway list and kept only useful current text models.
• Codestral key handling normalized — MISTRAL_API_KEY is now the primary environment variable; CODESTRAL_API_KEY remains accepted as an alias.
• OpenRouter free detection improved — Live OpenRouter discovery now treats zero-priced public models as free even when their ID does not end in :free.
• Provider filters now derive from the catalog — Command Palette provider filters are generated from sources, so new providers do not need a hardcoded UI update.
• Router model set expanded — Default router candidate selection now supports up to 8 models and uses refreshed high-ranking defaults.
• External tool configs generalized — OpenCode and Kilo can now auto-configure newly added OpenAI-compatible providers through shared provider metadata.

Fixed

• Router upstream hardening — Fixed unsupported request parameter stripping, retryable failover behavior, content-type canonicalization, and long-stream timeout handling.
• Router auth/quota semantics — Router now returns 401/429 when all candidates fail because of auth or quota instead of masking those cases as 503.
• OpenRouter sync-set filtering — Router discovery no longer drops openrouter/free and openrouter/owl-alpha just because their IDs do not end with :free.
• Provider key probes — Updated probe model priorities for NVIDIA, SambaNova, GitHub Models, and Mistral to avoid stale or slow first-choice checks.
• OpenCode Desktop launcher — Fixed launcher setup for newly added OpenAI-compatible providers such as GitHub Models and Mistral.
• pnpm lock conflict — Regenerated the lockfile from package.json to resolve the merge conflict state.

Docs

• README provider table updated — Updated badges, provider count, model count, free-tier descriptions, environment variables, audit cleanup notes, and caveats.
• Provider inclusion policy documented — Added explicit notes explaining why Vercel AI Gateway, Cohere, Ollama Cloud, trial-credit providers, and tiny-credit providers are not treated as core free providers.
• Other Free AI Resources reorganized — Moved curated external resources to the bottom of the README and separated permanent free tiers from trial-credit providers.
• Router PRD and sync-set docs — Added and updated router design notes and --sync-set documentation.
• Contributors updated — Added new contributor acknowledgements.

Dependencies

• react bumped to 19.2.5.
• vite bumped to 8.0.10.
• vite-plus bumped to 0.1.20.
• pnpm/action-setup bumped to 6.