git:20260925.01c05e3 to git:20261015.d287887

13 added, 13 removed. Audit B to B.

---

name: provider

- description: Configure Claude, Ollama, or MiniMax for the next local Claude Code terminal or VS Code session, verify real API requests, list models, or update provider control.

+ description: Configure Claude, Ollama, MiniMax, or Needle/Kev Automatic routing through the configured gateway for the next local Claude Code terminal or VS Code session.

disable-model-invocation: true

allowed-tools: Bash

---

Validate arguments against this exact grammar before running anything:

- No argument means `status`.

- - One argument: `claude`, `ollama`, `minimax`, `status`, `models`, `doctor`, or `update`.

- - Two arguments: `models ollama`, `models minimax`, `doctor ollama`, or `doctor minimax` only.

+ - One argument: `claude`, `ollama`, `minimax`, `needle`, `kev`, `jev`, `fleet`, `status`, `models`, `doctor`, or `update`.

+ - Two arguments: `models ollama`, `models minimax`, `models needle`, `doctor ollama`, `doctor minimax`, or `doctor needle` only.

+ - `kev`, `jev` and `fleet` are aliases of the Needle IDE provider-router slot (same live resolve).

- Reject everything else, especially internal credential actions. Do not interpolate arbitrary text into a shell.

Execute the installed launcher with only the validated literal arguments:

```bash

"$HOME/.local/bin/backs-provider" status

```

Replace `status` above only with a validated action and optional literal provider.

The launcher supplies the saved BACKS project and Python interpreter used by the IDE credential helper.

- - `minimax` resolves `MINIMAX_API_KEY` through the existing BACKS environment, tests real streaming tool use and a tool-result round trip, then switches the whole lineup. The shipped profile selects MiniMax-M3 for main, Opus/Sonnet/Haiku aliases, and subagents. Checks use MiniMax inference quota; a failed check must not be called success.

+ - `needle` / `kev` / `jev` / `fleet` query the configured native or portable gateway via `GET /api/system/needle_engineer_rungs` (or in-process `resolve_engineer_rungs`). Writes the IDE profile to the BACKS Anthropic-format gateway (`ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` points at BACKS) with discovery ON. Selects `backs/claude-auto`; concrete provider/model decisions remain in the configured runtime. Installation never changes the current provider. The `jev` command is a compatibility alias, not a claim that Kev is Jev.

+ - `minimax` resolves `MINIMAX_API_KEY` through the existing BACKS environment, tests real streaming tool use and a tool-result round trip, then switches the whole lineup. Checks use MiniMax inference quota; a failed check must not be called success.

- `ollama` checks its installed credential helper and makes minimal real Messages API requests to selected models before saving the complete profile. These checks use Ollama inference quota.

- `claude` restores the original provider configuration across either alternate provider, not an authentication guarantee. Never change the OAuth credential store.

- `status` reports saved configuration and saved preflight results, not the running model's transport.

- - `models` and `doctor` use the saved alternate provider, or Ollama when none is active. An explicit `minimax` or `ollama` argument selects which one to inspect.

- - MiniMax's model list comes from its documented compatibility list, not account entitlement discovery. `models` does not test inference or guarantee request-time fallback.

- - `doctor` tests the installed helper and real Messages API without changing settings. MiniMax additionally tests streaming and tool-result handling.

+ - `models` and `doctor` use the saved alternate provider, or Ollama when none is active. An explicit `minimax`, `ollama`, or `needle` argument selects which one to inspect.

+ - MiniMax's model list comes from its documented compatibility list, not account entitlement discovery. Needle `models` lists the configured gateway discovery rows; native gateways use `resolve_engineer_rungs`.

+ - `doctor` tests without changing settings. Needle doctor checks gateway discovery only, not inference.

- `update` refreshes provider code, profiles, helpers, and this skill through the existing validated updater. It does not replace the primary BACKS runtime.

- Start a new local Claude Code process after switching. In VS Code, run Developer: Reload Window, then open a NEW LOCAL Claude Code chat. An existing session is not hot-switched. Updating Claude Code itself or the general skills plugin alone does not update the separate provider-control installation.

- The shared Claude Code settings and project overlay cover the CLI and Claude Code VS Code extension, not Copilot, Codex chat, or a cloud/Remote Control subscription session. An unauthenticated chat cannot run this skill; use the terminal launcher instead.

+ Start a new local Claude Code process after switching. In VS Code, run Developer: Reload Window, then open a NEW LOCAL Claude Code chat. An existing session is not hot-switched.

- Inherited shell or VS Code Anthropic environment variables may override saved settings. Follow the launcher's warning; never claim a saved profile changed the running process. Never run the MiniMax setup wizard over this managed configuration.

+ Never run `__key` or `__minimax_key`, print credentials, read a key file aloud, or copy `.env` values.

- Never run `__key` or `__minimax_key`, print credentials, read a key file aloud, or copy `.env` values. Never change managed organization policy. Preserve unrelated hooks, MCP settings, and user preferences.

+ For an ordinary project without a BACKS backend, see `docs/PROVIDERS.md`. The explicit terminal command `backs-provider serve --config FILE` runs the portable Claude Messages consumer; it does not activate a provider or start a permanent service. Do not interpolate arbitrary `/provider` arguments into this command.