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vh 7bdac80878 feat(embed-rerank): TEI is the fleet embed/rerank engine; esh-ml1 sole backend; retire fv-ml1 seats
Prime, 2026-09-25: TEI serves embedding + reranking for esh-ml1 and the fleet
from now on; fv-ml1 retires both once esh-ml1 is up.

- stacks/embed-rerank: vLLM -> TEI 1.9.4 (89- Ada build), same ports
  8001/8013, fail-closed truncation (--auto-truncate false; embed
  --max-batch-tokens 32768).
- litellm: qwen3-embedding -> esh-ml1 only (hosted_vllm/, unchanged address);
  reranker -> huggingface/ provider at :8013 (hosted_vllm/ 422s on TEI's
  `texts` body). DB alias reranker-a3-bge-v2-m3 patched to the same target.
- Verified via the gateway against the retiring fv-ml1 seats: embed cosine
  median 0.999927 (n=203); rerank top-1/top-3 29/30.
- stacks/vllm: vllm-embed and vllm-rerank-a3 removed (containers retired on
  fv-ml1, GPU 1 freed ~6.1 GB); reward + coder unchanged.
- Bake-off record moved to docs/pfi/embed-rerank-tei-vs-vllm-bakeoff.md;
  CLAUDE.md gains the TEI convention.
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# LiteLLM gateway — the fleet's OpenAI-compatible front door
**Base URL:** `http://10.250.50.70:4000/v1` (ana-docker) · **Logs UI:** `:4000/ui`
Fronts the ana-ml2 / fv-ml1 / irv-ml1 vLLM seats plus paid vendor passthroughs.
## ⚠ Never hardcode the model roster — query it
```sh
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" http://10.250.50.70:4000/v1/models \
| python3 -c "import sys,json;[print(m['id']) for m in json.load(sys.stdin)['data']]"
```
The roster drifts constantly (40 entries as of 2026-09-18; a doc that names them goes
stale within weeks). Any list written down here would be a second copy that rots.
## Keys
The gateway **401s without a virtual API key**. Three tiers:
| key | where | reach |
|---|---|---|
| shared all-agents (`all-agents-local`) | `secret get litellm/all-agents-shared-key`, also inline in `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` § Global tools | **every** model, paid passthroughs included |
| infra-ops admin | `~/.config/litellm/infra-ops-key` (0600) | admin operations |
| project-scoped | request from infra-ops via althing | isolated, auditable spend |
⚠ **The shared key is NOT free-local-only.** It reaches paid GLM/z.ai and Kimi
passthroughs, and **a paid call on it spends real vendor credits shared across every
session and project holding it.** There is no isolation. For anything where "shows up
on someone else's tab" matters, get a project-scoped key.
## Stable aliases worth knowing
`summarizer` / `summarizer-large` / `classifier` — the always-available local seat for
summarization, naming/labeling, classification and triage. Essentially free compute;
reach for it before spending premium API tokens on work a small local model handles.
Embeddings and reranking (`qwen3-embedding`, `reranker`) are local and free too —
served by TEI on esh-ml1 since 2026-09-25 (`qwen3-reranker` was retired 2026-08-20). Anything named `*-frontier`, `glm-*` or `kimi-*` is **PAID**.
## Traps
- **LiteLLM mutates shared deployment config in-place.** Per-request sampler params
bleed into the SHARED `litellm_params` for that deployment. Fix: give each variant a
distinct served-model-name rather than reusing one with different params.
- **Retiring a model orphans scoped keys.** A stale allowlist produces a silent
per-endpoint 403. Audit `/key/list` + `/key/info` on every repoint.
- **The `:4000/ui` playground cannot test vLLM backends** — it sends `tools: []`, which
vLLM rejects with a 400. Use a chat frontend (Open WebUI, Gateway Chat) instead.
- **"Random model calls" in the logs are usually AUTH FAILURES** — empty `api_key` or a
missing `Bearer ` prefix, showing as zero-spend 401s.
- **Kimi models 400 on any `temperature` other than 1** — omit the field entirely
rather than sending 0. They answer in `content` with chain-of-thought in
`reasoning_content`.