merge: per-provider discovery circuit breaker and health surfacing

README.md

@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ config accepts them as YAML, which decodes to the same JSON shape.
 | `redis` | `RedisConfig` | — | Distributed limit-counter backend. Omitted means in-process counters only (per-replica, approximate across multiple Traefik instances). |
 | `retry` | `RetryConfig` | `{}` (disabled) | Same-provider retry for transient upstream failures — see [Retry](#retry). Omitted or `enabled: false` means no retry: every request makes exactly one upstream attempt, byte-identical to a gateway built before this field existed. |
 | `cache` | `CacheConfig` | `{}` (disabled) | Opt-in Redis-backed response cache for unified non-streaming chat/embeddings — see [Caching](#caching). Omitted or `enabled: false` means no caching, byte-identical to a gateway built before this field existed. |
+| `breaker` | `BreakerConfig` | `{}` (every default) | Per-provider discovery circuit breaker — see [Provider health (discovery circuit breaker)](#provider-health-discovery-circuit-breaker). Every field is individually zero-means-default; a provider whose discovery never fails is unaffected regardless of what this block contains. |
 | `admin` | `*AdminConfig` | `nil` (disabled) | Read-only admin dashboard — see [Admin](#admin). `nil` or `enabled: false` means the `/admin*` routes are not registered at all. |
 | `modelAliases` | `map[string]string` | `{}` | Operator-defined alias id → target model id — see [Model aliases](#model-aliases). Omitted or empty means no aliases, byte-identical to a gateway built before this field existed. |
 | `modelMeta` | `map[string]*ModelMetaConfig` | `{}` | Per-model context-window and cost overrides, keyed by exact `provider/model` or a bare model id — see [Model metadata](#model-metadata). Omitted or empty means no overrides; every model's metadata still resolves through discovery and the built-in table. |
@@ -308,6 +309,14 @@ own is governed purely by their group's — see
 | `ttl` | `string` (Go duration) | `5m` | How long a cached response stays valid. Invalid duration string is a construction error. |
 | `maxBodyBytes` | `int` | `1048576` (1MiB) | Largest response body still eligible for caching; a larger one is skipped (never stored, never an error). Maximum accepted value is `8388608` (8MiB) — above that is a construction error. |
 
+### `BreakerConfig`
+
+| Field | Type | Default | Semantics |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `failureThreshold` | `int` | `3` | Consecutive failed discovery refreshes that open the breaker — see [Provider health](#provider-health-discovery-circuit-breaker). `0` uses the default. Must be between `1` and `100`, or construction fails. |
+| `openDuration` | `string` (Go duration) | `1m` | Base backoff a newly opened breaker waits before its first half-open probe; doubles on every further failed probe, capped at `maxOpenDuration`. Invalid or non-positive duration string is a construction error. |
+| `maxOpenDuration` | `string` (Go duration) | `6h` | Ceiling on the backoff `openDuration` doubles into. Must be `>= openDuration` and no more than `24h`, or construction fails. Deliberately longer than the default `discoveryInterval` (1h) — see [Provider health](#provider-health-discovery-circuit-breaker) for why a value at or below `discoveryInterval` suppresses nothing. |
+
 ### `AdminConfig`
 
 | Field | Type | Default | Semantics |
@@ -897,6 +906,66 @@ cached bodies for the same request.
   rate-limited) and never fails the request; the upstream call still
   happens and the client still gets a correct answer.
 
+## Provider health (discovery circuit breaker)
+
+A per-provider, in-memory, three-state circuit breaker (`closed` →
+`open` → `half-open`) driven entirely by `discovery` refresh outcomes —
+never by `/v1/chat/completions` or any other request-path traffic. It
+exists so a provider whose discovery endpoint fails on every cycle (an
+expired API key, a typo'd `baseUrl`, an upstream outage) is re-probed
+LESS often the longer it stays broken, instead of at the same fixed
+`discoveryInterval` forever, and so the admin dashboard can show that
+provider as visibly broken instead of indistinguishable from a healthy
+one.
+
+- **States**: `closed` is normal — refreshes run on the provider's own
+  `discoveryInterval`, exactly as if this feature did not exist.
+  `breaker.failureThreshold` (default `3`) CONSECUTIVE failed refreshes
+  open it; any success in between resets the count to zero. `open` skips
+  refresh attempts until a backoff window elapses, starting at
+  `breaker.openDuration` (default `1m`) and doubling on every further
+  failed probe, capped at `breaker.maxOpenDuration` (default `6h`).
+  `half-open` is exactly one probe refresh, deciding whether to close the
+  breaker again (success) or reopen it with a doubled backoff (failure).
+- **The backoff window is an ADDITIONAL gate on top of
+  `discoveryInterval`, never a replacement for it** — whichever of the
+  two is currently longer wins, and the shorter one is masked entirely
+  rather than merely adding a little extra delay. This means
+  `breaker.maxOpenDuration` only ever reduces re-probe frequency once it
+  EXCEEDS `discoveryInterval`; set no higher, it changes nothing
+  observable and the provider is refreshed at the same cadence a
+  deployment without this feature would already see. The shipped
+  defaults are chosen with this in mind: `maxOpenDuration` (6h) is
+  deliberately longer than the default `discoveryInterval` (1h), so a
+  permanently broken provider under stock config backs off 1h, 2h, 4h,
+  6h, 6h, ... — roughly 5 re-probes a day instead of 24. A custom
+  `discoveryInterval` shorter than `maxOpenDuration` keeps this relationship;
+  one set LONGER than `maxOpenDuration` reverts to plain interval-only
+  throttling with no suppression from this feature at all.
+- **Classification**: any refresh outcome with a non-nil error counts as
+  a failure, including a malformed-`baseUrl` request-build failure — this
+  is deliberately NOT the same classification `retry` above uses for
+  deciding whether to retry a request, since a permanently broken
+  provider must still be able to trip the breaker. A client-canceled
+  context (plugin shutdown, an outer context canceled upstream) is
+  NEUTRAL: it counts as neither a failure nor a success, and never resets
+  or closes an open breaker.
+- **A provider that never fails is completely unaffected** — every
+  default is chosen so `closed` never diverges from plain
+  `discoveryInterval` gating.
+- **Scope**: this reflects the DISCOVERY endpoint only. A provider whose
+  model listing 401s while its actual completion endpoint works fine
+  (common behind a proxy that exposes chat but not model listing) is
+  reported unhealthy here despite being entirely usable for real traffic
+  — this signal must never be the sole reason to refuse routing to a
+  provider.
+- **Per-pod, not distributed.** Each replica learns a provider's
+  discovery health independently — a latency optimization, not a
+  correctness guarantee. Three replicas disagreeing briefly after a
+  provider starts failing is expected, not a bug.
+- **Dashboard**: the Providers tab shows a provider's current state and,
+  while open, when it will next be probed — see [Admin](#admin).
+
 ## Unified vs. passthrough
 
 | | Unified (`/v1/...`) | Native passthrough (`/{provider}/...`) |
@@ -1057,8 +1126,12 @@ or in CI.
   per-model minute figures, since nothing displays them; the dashboard's
   per-model badge falls back to a day-window-only detail instead), and
   `modelMeta` (the resolved context window and cost per known model —
-  see [Model metadata](#model-metadata)); each alias entry carries its
-  own `modelMeta` too. `usage`
+  see [Model metadata](#model-metadata)), and `healthState`/`openUntil`
+  (the discovery circuit breaker's current state — `"closed"`, `"open"`,
+  or `"half-open"` — and, while open, when it will next attempt a
+  half-open probe; see [Provider health](#provider-health-discovery-circuit-breaker)).
+  `openUntil` is the zero time when `healthState` is not `"open"`. Each
+  alias entry carries its own `modelMeta` too. `usage`
   returns every user's and every group's
   current-window counter values — `requestsPerMinute`, `requestsPerDay`,
   `tokensInPerDay`/`tokensOutPerDay`, `tokensInPerMonth`/

admin.go

@@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ func sanitizeProviderErr(lastErr, rawBaseURL string) string {
 // sanitizeBaseURL before this view is ever built.
 type adminProviderView struct {
 	LastRefresh time.Time `json:"lastRefresh"`
+	// OpenUntil is when this provider's breaker will next attempt a
+	// half-open probe (feat/provider-health). The zero time.Time when
+	// HealthState is not "open". Grouped with LastRefresh above (both
+	// time.Time) for fieldalignment — see providerState's own doc
+	// comment for the convention this struct follows.
+	OpenUntil time.Time `json:"openUntil"`
 	// ModelMeta is this provider's resolved per-model metadata (feature
 	// v0.23: context window, per-token cost — resolveModelMeta,
 	// modelmeta.go), keyed by upstream model id. One entry per id in
@@ -283,7 +289,16 @@ type adminProviderView struct {
 	Type       string                        `json:"type"`
 	BaseURL    string                        `json:"baseUrl"`
 	LastErr    string                        `json:"lastErr,omitempty"`
-	Name       string                        `json:"name"`
+	// HealthState is this provider's discovery circuit breaker state
+	// (feat/provider-health): "closed" (normal), "open" (backing off
+	// after repeated discovery failures — maybeRefresh skips it until
+	// OpenUntil above), or "half-open" (a probe refresh is in flight,
+	// deciding whether to close the breaker again). A provider with
+	// discovery disabled, or one that has never failed a refresh, always
+	// reads "closed" — it has no health signal that could trip the
+	// breaker.
+	HealthState string `json:"healthState"`
+	Name        string `json:"name"`
 	// Models is the sorted explicit∪discovered model id set
 	// (registry.go's providerSnapshot.models — provider-model-accordion
 	// task, Vue admin panel): the dashboard's expandable provider row.
@@ -494,6 +509,8 @@ func (g *Gateway) buildAdminOverview() adminOverviewResponse {
 			LastRefresh:      s.lastRefresh,
 			LastErr:          sanitizeProviderErr(s.lastErr, s.baseURL),
 			DiscoveryEnabled: s.discoveryEnabled,
+			HealthState:      s.health.String(),
+			OpenUntil:        s.openUntil,
 			AttemptsDay:      pc.attemptsDay,
 			FailuresDay:      pc.failuresDay,
 			AttemptsMinute:   pc.attemptsMinute,

admin_health_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+package traefikllmgateway
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// findAdminProvider returns the entry named name from got.Providers, or
+// fails the test — every admin_health_test.go case looks up exactly one
+// provider by name out of newAdminTestConfig's fixed "zeta"/"alpha" pair.
+func findAdminProvider(t *testing.T, got adminOverviewResponse, name string) *adminProviderView {
+	t.Helper()
+	for i := range got.Providers {
+		if got.Providers[i].Name == name {
+			return &got.Providers[i]
+		}
+	}
+	t.Fatalf("providers missing %q: %+v", name, got.Providers)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// TestAdminOverview_HealthState_DefaultClosed proves GET
+// /admin/api/overview reports "closed" for every provider in a freshly
+// constructed, never-failing Gateway (feat/provider-health) — the
+// dashboard's default view for a healthy deployment is unaffected by this
+// feature existing.
+func TestAdminOverview_HealthState_DefaultClosed(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	cfg := newAdminTestConfig()
+	h, _ := newAdminGatewayHandle(t, cfg)
+
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.ServeHTTP(rec, adminRequest(http.MethodGet, adminOverviewPath, "sk-admin1"))
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 200, body=%s", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	var got adminOverviewResponse
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &got); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("decode: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	for _, name := range []string{"zeta", "alpha"} {
+		p := findAdminProvider(t, got, name)
+		if p.HealthState != "closed" {
+			t.Errorf("provider %q HealthState = %q, want %q", name, p.HealthState, "closed")
+		}
+		if !p.OpenUntil.IsZero() {
+			t.Errorf("provider %q OpenUntil = %v, want zero", name, p.OpenUntil)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestAdminOverview_HealthState_ReflectsOpenBreaker proves GET
+// /admin/api/overview surfaces a tripped breaker (feat/provider-health) —
+// the dashboard's whole reason for carrying these two fields — without
+// affecting a healthy sibling provider's own view.
+func TestAdminOverview_HealthState_ReflectsOpenBreaker(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	cfg := newAdminTestConfig()
+	cfg.Breaker = BreakerConfig{FailureThreshold: 2, OpenDuration: "1m", MaxOpenDuration: "10m"}
+	h, gw := newAdminGatewayHandle(t, cfg)
+
+	boom := errors.New("boom: discovery unreachable")
+	st := gw.registry.states["alpha"]
+	st.finishRefresh(gw.registry.now(), nil, boom)
+	st.finishRefresh(gw.registry.now(), nil, boom) // reaches FailureThreshold: 2, opens the breaker
+
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.ServeHTTP(rec, adminRequest(http.MethodGet, adminOverviewPath, "sk-admin1"))
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 200, body=%s", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	var got adminOverviewResponse
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &got); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("decode: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	alpha := findAdminProvider(t, got, "alpha")
+	if alpha.HealthState != "open" {
+		t.Errorf("alpha HealthState = %q, want %q", alpha.HealthState, "open")
+	}
+	if alpha.OpenUntil.IsZero() {
+		t.Error("alpha OpenUntil = zero, want a non-zero time while the breaker is open")
+	}
+
+	zeta := findAdminProvider(t, got, "zeta")
+	if zeta.HealthState != "closed" {
+		t.Errorf("zeta HealthState = %q, want %q — a sibling provider's breaker must not affect it", zeta.HealthState, "closed")
+	}
+}

llmgateway.go

@@ -18,19 +18,23 @@ import (
 // Config is the plugin's dynamic configuration, populated by Traefik from
 // the middleware's YAML/testData. Every limit or list field follows the
 // convention: zero/empty/omitted means unlimited/all.
+// Field order below is fieldalignment-verified (golangci-lint's govet
+// enable-all, run with -fix against a scratch copy to derive the exact
+// zero-waste sequence, then hand-applied here so every field keeps its
+// original doc comment) — see providerState's own doc comment (registry.go)
+// for the general pointer-first/scalar-last convention this follows.
 type Config struct {
-	Providers  map[string]*ProviderConfig `json:"providers,omitempty"`
-	Groups     map[string]*GroupConfig    `json:"groups,omitempty"`
-	Pricing    map[string]*ModelPricing   `json:"pricing,omitempty"`
-	MCPServers map[string]*TargetConfig   `json:"mcpServers,omitempty"`
-	Agents     map[string]*AgentConfig    `json:"agents,omitempty"`
-	Users      *UsersConfig               `json:"users,omitempty"`
-	Redis      *RedisConfig               `json:"redis,omitempty"`
+	Redis *RedisConfig `json:"redis,omitempty"`
 	// Admin gates the read-only admin dashboard (spec §4, v0.2): nil or
 	// Admin.Enabled false means the /admin* routes are not registered at
 	// all — ServeHTTP falls through to its existing 404/passthroughUnknown
 	// handling for those paths, preserving v0.1 behavior exactly.
-	Admin *AdminConfig `json:"admin,omitempty"`
+	Admin      *AdminConfig             `json:"admin,omitempty"`
+	Pricing    map[string]*ModelPricing `json:"pricing,omitempty"`
+	MCPServers map[string]*TargetConfig `json:"mcpServers,omitempty"`
+	Agents     map[string]*AgentConfig  `json:"agents,omitempty"`
+	Users      *UsersConfig             `json:"users,omitempty"`
+	Groups     map[string]*GroupConfig  `json:"groups,omitempty"`
 	// ModelAliases maps an operator-defined alias id to a target model id
 	// (spec §5, v0.2) — e.g. {"aliased/coding": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5"}.
 	// An exact alias match wins resolution before any other rule
@@ -39,7 +43,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	// exactly: resolve never consults an empty alias map, so no existing
 	// model id's resolution changes. Validated at construction
 	// (validateModelAliases, registry.go).
-	ModelAliases map[string]string `json:"modelAliases,omitempty"`
+	ModelAliases map[string]string          `json:"modelAliases,omitempty"`
+	Providers    map[string]*ProviderConfig `json:"providers,omitempty"`
 	// ModelMeta declares per-model metadata overrides (feature v0.23):
 	// context window size and per-token cost, keyed by an exact
 	// "provider/model" id or a bare model id (applying wherever that bare
@@ -54,6 +59,18 @@ type Config struct {
 	// discovery/builtin/absent, same as before this feature existed.
 	// Validated at construction (validateModelMeta, modelmeta.go).
 	ModelMeta map[string]*ModelMetaConfig `json:"modelMeta,omitempty"`
+	// Breaker configures the discovery circuit breaker (feat/provider-
+	// health): how many consecutive discovery-refresh failures open a
+	// provider's breaker, and how long it then backs off before probing
+	// again. A struct value, not a pointer, for the same reason as Retry/
+	// Cache below — its fields are individually zero-means-default
+	// (validateBreakerConfig, registry.go), not gated by one Enabled
+	// flag, so "omitempty" on this tag would be a no-op that misleadingly
+	// implies otherwise. The zero value (Config{} with no breaker block
+	// at all) resolves to every documented default and behaves exactly
+	// like a deployment with no circuit breaker at all for a provider
+	// that never fails — see validateBreakerConfig's own doc comment.
+	Breaker BreakerConfig `json:"breaker"`
 	// Retry is a struct value, not a pointer, because its own Enabled
 	// field is the on/off signal (unlike Redis/Users, where the block's
 	// mere presence is the signal) — so its tag omits "omitempty":
@@ -63,8 +80,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	Retry RetryConfig `json:"retry"`
 	// Cache is a struct value, not a pointer, for the same reason as Retry
 	// above: its own Enabled field is the on/off signal.
-	Cache              CacheConfig `json:"cache"`
-	PassthroughUnknown bool        `json:"passthroughUnknown,omitempty"`
+	Cache CacheConfig `json:"cache"`
 	// MaxInFlightBodyRequests caps how many unified and media JSON/
 	// multipart requests (routes_unified.go's runUnified via
 	// readAndDecodeUnifiedBody; routes_media.go's decodeMediaJSONRequest/
@@ -85,7 +101,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	// maxExplicitBodyAdmissionCap (llmgateway.go): "wins" means it
 	// overrides the self-tuned value, not that an operator can silently
 	// disable the bound entirely with an unbounded number.
-	MaxInFlightBodyRequests int `json:"maxInFlightBodyRequests,omitempty"`
+	MaxInFlightBodyRequests int  `json:"maxInFlightBodyRequests,omitempty"`
+	PassthroughUnknown      bool `json:"passthroughUnknown,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // ProviderConfig describes one upstream LLM provider.
@@ -278,6 +295,35 @@ type CacheConfig struct {
 	Enabled      bool `json:"enabled,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// BreakerConfig configures the per-provider discovery circuit breaker
+// (feat/provider-health): closed -> open -> half-open, driven entirely by
+// discovery-refresh outcomes (registry.go's providerState.finishRefresh),
+// never by request-path traffic. Every field is individually zero-means-
+// default (validateBreakerConfig, registry.go) — there is no Enabled
+// flag, unlike Retry/Cache above, because the breaker is always live:
+// its defaults are chosen so a provider that never fails never notices
+// it exists, so there is nothing meaningful to "disable". Field order
+// (both strings before the int) is fieldalignment-sensitive, the same
+// convention providerState's own doc comment explains.
+type BreakerConfig struct {
+	// OpenDuration is the base backoff a newly opened breaker waits
+	// before its first half-open probe (a Go duration string, e.g.
+	// "1m"). Doubles on every further failed probe, capped at
+	// MaxOpenDuration. Empty (the default) uses
+	// defaultBreakerOpenDuration (registry.go).
+	OpenDuration string `json:"openDuration,omitempty"`
+	// MaxOpenDuration caps the exponential backoff OpenDuration above
+	// doubles into. Empty (the default) uses
+	// defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration (registry.go). Must be >=
+	// OpenDuration when both are set.
+	MaxOpenDuration string `json:"maxOpenDuration,omitempty"`
+	// FailureThreshold is how many CONSECUTIVE failed discovery refreshes
+	// open the breaker. 0 (the default) uses defaultBreakerFailureThreshold
+	// (registry.go). A value outside 1..maxBreakerFailureThreshold is a
+	// construction error.
+	FailureThreshold int `json:"failureThreshold,omitempty"`
+}
+
 // AdminConfig configures the read-only admin dashboard (spec §4, v0.2).
 // The zero value (Enabled: false) disables it, preserving v0.1 behavior
 // exactly: no /admin* route is registered, so those paths fall through

registry.go

@@ -28,6 +28,54 @@ const warmFillTimeout = 5 * time.Second
 // goroutine's lifetime if an upstream hangs.
 const backgroundRefreshTimeout = 30 * time.Second
 
+// defaultBreakerFailureThreshold is how many CONSECUTIVE failed discovery
+// refreshes open a provider's circuit breaker (feat/provider-health),
+// applied when BreakerConfig.FailureThreshold is left at 0. Chosen so a
+// single transient blip (one bad refresh) never trips it — only a
+// provider that is persistently broken, like xiaomi's ongoing 401s, does.
+const defaultBreakerFailureThreshold = 3
+
+// maxBreakerFailureThreshold bounds BreakerConfig.FailureThreshold — a
+// generous ceiling; there is no legitimate reason to require more
+// consecutive failures than this before backing off at all.
+const maxBreakerFailureThreshold = 100
+
+// defaultBreakerOpenDuration is the base backoff a newly opened breaker
+// waits before its first half-open probe, applied when BreakerConfig.
+// OpenDuration is left empty.
+const defaultBreakerOpenDuration = time.Minute
+
+// defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration caps the exponential backoff the breaker
+// doubles into on every further failed probe, applied when BreakerConfig.
+// MaxOpenDuration is left empty. Deliberately LONGER than
+// defaultDiscoveryInterval (1h) — design ruling, adversarial review round
+// 3: a breaker whose backoff can never exceed the plain interval cannot
+// suppress anything, since tryBeginRefresh's interval gate (see its own
+// doc comment) already applies unconditionally and only the LONGER of the
+// two ever binds. An earlier value here (30m, shorter than the 1h
+// interval) made the breaker cadence-neutral under stock config — exactly
+// as strict an interval-only gate would already produce, with none of the
+// suppression this feature exists to provide. At 6h, a permanently broken
+// provider under every default backs off 1h, 2h, 4h, 6h, 6h, ... — roughly
+// 5 attempts a day instead of 24.
+const defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration = 6 * time.Hour
+
+// maxBreakerOpenDuration bounds BreakerConfig.MaxOpenDuration — the same
+// ceiling-on-a-config-value precedent maxBreakerFailureThreshold already
+// sets above, applied here because openBreakerLocked's backoff doubling
+// has no overflow guard of its own: it relies on breakerOpenMax staying
+// small enough that doubling a value already at or below it can never
+// approach time.Duration's int64-nanosecond range. A pathological operator
+// value with no ceiling (adversarial-review finding, round 2) would let
+// repeated doublings wrap negative after ~28 probes, silently DISABLING
+// backoff (a negative openUntil is always in the past). 24 hours is
+// already an extremely generous cap — far longer than any deployment
+// should ever want a single provider re-probed — and doubling twice from
+// it (worst case before the cap check fires) lands nowhere near int64
+// overflow, so the ceiling alone is the fix; openBreakerLocked itself
+// needs no separate runtime guard.
+const maxBreakerOpenDuration = 24 * time.Hour
+
 // errModelUnknown is returned by modelRegistry.resolve when id does not
 // match any provider's known model set (explicit config plus the last
 // successful discovery fetch) — 404 semantics for the caller.
@@ -39,15 +87,59 @@ var errModelUnknown = errors.New("llmgateway: unknown model")
 // such model" from "that model exists, you cannot use it".
 var errModelDenied = errors.New("llmgateway: model access denied")
 
+// breakerState is one provider's discovery circuit breaker state
+// (feat/provider-health): closed (normal — refreshes run on the
+// configured interval, exactly like before this feature existed), open
+// (discovery refreshes are skipped until openUntil, backing off
+// exponentially on repeated failure), or halfOpen (exactly one probe
+// refresh is in flight, deciding whether to close the breaker again).
+// The zero value is closed, so a providerState built without ever
+// touching health fields (every existing construction path, and every
+// provider that never fails) behaves exactly as it did before this type
+// existed.
+type breakerState int32
+
+const (
+	breakerClosed breakerState = iota
+	breakerOpen
+	breakerHalfOpen
+)
+
+// String renders bs for logs and the admin dashboard (feat/
+// provider-health) — lower-case, hyphenated for the two-word state, to
+// read naturally as a status word in either place.
+func (bs breakerState) String() string {
+	switch bs {
+	case breakerOpen:
+		return "open"
+	case breakerHalfOpen:
+		return "half-open"
+	default:
+		return "closed"
+	}
+}
+
 // providerState tracks one provider's known model ids and discovery
 // bookkeeping. explicit is set once at construction from
 // ProviderConfig.Models and never mutated afterward; discovered is
 // stale-while-error — a failed refresh leaves the previous discovered set
 // in place rather than clearing it. mu guards every mutable field below it.
+//
+// Field order below is fieldalignment-sensitive (golangci-lint's govet
+// enable-all): every pointer-containing field (time.Time — its loc
+// *Location field carries a pointer — plus every map/string) is grouped
+// first, every pointer-free field (durations, sync.Mutex, the breaker's
+// own int/int32 counters, and the two trailing bools) last. Keep new
+// fields in the matching group rather than appending at the very end.
 type providerState struct {
 	lastRefresh time.Time
-	explicit    map[string]bool
-	discovered  map[string]bool
+	// openUntil is when an open breaker (feat/provider-health) next
+	// allows a half-open probe — see recordHealthLocked/tryBeginRefresh.
+	// Grouped with lastRefresh above (both time.Time) rather than beside
+	// the rest of the breaker fields further down, which are pointer-free.
+	openUntil  time.Time
+	explicit   map[string]bool
+	discovered map[string]bool
 	// discoveredContext holds discovery-captured per-model context
 	// lengths (feature v0.23, ProviderConfig.MetadataPath — currently
 	// only openai-type adapters ever populate this, via
@@ -66,11 +158,31 @@ type providerState struct {
 	// outcome, not the stale-while-error discovered set: a provider can
 	// show a non-empty lastErr while modelCount still reflects its last
 	// successful discovery.
-	lastErr          string
-	interval         time.Duration
-	mu               sync.Mutex
-	discoveryEnabled bool
-	inFlight         bool
+	lastErr  string
+	interval time.Duration
+	mu       sync.Mutex
+	// --- feat/provider-health: discovery circuit breaker, guarded by mu
+	// like every other mutable field above. consecutiveFailures counts
+	// unbroken failures while closed, toward breakerThreshold. backoff is
+	// the duration that produced openUntil above (doubled on the next
+	// failed probe, capped at breakerOpenMax). breakerThreshold/
+	// breakerOpenBase/breakerOpenMax are resolved once, at construction
+	// (newModelRegistry, from Config.Breaker via validateBreakerConfig),
+	// and never change afterward — copied onto every providerState
+	// rather than shared from one place, the same "baked in at
+	// construction" convention interval above already uses, so
+	// recordHealthLocked/tryBeginRefresh never need a second parameter or
+	// a pointer back to the registry. health is the breaker's current
+	// state, declared last among these since breakerState is a 4-byte
+	// int32, smaller than its 8-byte neighbors above.
+	consecutiveFailures int
+	backoff             time.Duration
+	breakerThreshold    int
+	breakerOpenBase     time.Duration
+	breakerOpenMax      time.Duration
+	health              breakerState
+	discoveryEnabled    bool
+	inFlight            bool
 }
 
 // hasModel reports whether id is in this provider's explicit or discovered
@@ -132,16 +244,53 @@ func (st *providerState) setDiscoveredContext(m map[string]int) {
 	st.discoveredContext = m
 }
 
-// tryBeginRefresh reports whether now is far enough past lastRefresh (or
-// this is the first refresh) to start a new one, and if so marks the
-// provider inFlight so a concurrent caller cannot start a second one. The
-// caller must pair a true result with a later finishRefresh call.
+// tryBeginRefresh reports whether now permits starting a new refresh, and
+// if so marks the provider inFlight so a concurrent caller cannot start a
+// second one. The caller must pair a true result with a later finishRefresh
+// call.
+//
+// The interval gate (now far enough past lastRefresh, or this is the first
+// refresh) applies UNCONDITIONALLY, closed or open alike — fix for the
+// adversarial-review blocker (round 2): an EARLIER version of this method
+// let an open breaker's own backoff window (openUntil) REPLACE the
+// interval gate rather than add to it. Since that round's default
+// maxOpenDuration was shorter than the default interval, a permanently
+// broken provider got probed roughly TWICE as often as before this
+// feature existed — the exact opposite of "back off". Backoff can only
+// ever make retries LESS frequent than the plain interval, never more: a
+// closed breaker is gated by interval alone (exactly as before this
+// feature existed — a provider that never fails never touches the
+// breaker branch below at all); an open breaker is additionally gated by
+// openUntil, so whichever of the two — interval or backoff — is currently
+// longer wins. Reaching both starts exactly one half-open probe (state
+// moves to halfOpen here, before the caller's fetch even runs) rather
+// than resuming normal per-interval refreshing outright —
+// recordHealthLocked decides whether that probe closes the breaker or
+// reopens it with a longer backoff.
+//
+// PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCE, design ruling (round 3): whichever of interval
+// and maxOpenDuration is larger is the one that actually governs a
+// persistently broken provider's re-probe cadence — the smaller of the
+// two is masked entirely, never merely "adds a little more delay". A
+// deployment whose maxOpenDuration does not exceed its discoveryInterval
+// gets NO suppression benefit from this feature at all; see
+// defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration's own doc comment for why the shipped
+// defaults are chosen to avoid exactly that trap.
 func (st *providerState) tryBeginRefresh(now time.Time) bool {
 	st.mu.Lock()
 	defer st.mu.Unlock()
-	if st.inFlight || now.Sub(st.lastRefresh) < st.interval {
+	if st.inFlight {
 		return false
 	}
+	if now.Sub(st.lastRefresh) < st.interval {
+		return false
+	}
+	if st.health == breakerOpen {
+		if now.Before(st.openUntil) {
+			return false
+		}
+		st.health = breakerHalfOpen
+	}
 	st.inFlight = true
 	return true
 }
@@ -152,7 +301,10 @@ func (st *providerState) tryBeginRefresh(now time.Time) bool {
 // what throttles a failing provider to one attempt per interval instead of
 // retrying on every call. On success (err == nil) ids replaces the
 // discovered set; on failure the previous discovered set is kept
-// (stale-while-error).
+// (stale-while-error). Either way, recordHealthLocked (feat/provider-health)
+// updates the discovery circuit breaker from this same outcome — a healthy
+// provider's breaker never leaves closed, so this adds no new behavior for
+// the common case, only for a provider that is actually failing.
 func (st *providerState) finishRefresh(now time.Time, ids []string, err error) {
 	st.mu.Lock()
 	defer st.mu.Unlock()
@@ -160,14 +312,159 @@ func (st *providerState) finishRefresh(now time.Time, ids []string, err error) {
 	st.lastRefresh = now
 	if err != nil {
 		st.lastErr = err.Error()
+	} else {
+		st.lastErr = ""
+		discovered := make(map[string]bool, len(ids))
+		for _, id := range ids {
+			discovered[id] = true
+		}
+		st.discovered = discovered
+	}
+	st.recordHealthLocked(now, err)
+}
+
+// recordHealthLocked updates st's discovery circuit breaker (feat/
+// provider-health) from one finished refresh attempt's outcome. Caller must
+// already hold st.mu.
+//
+// context.Canceled is NEUTRAL — checked first, before any classification —
+// per adversarial-review ruling (round 2): a canceled discovery fetch
+// reflects the CALLER walking away (plugin shutdown, an outer context
+// canceled upstream), not the provider's fault. It must not count as a
+// FAILURE (would wrongly trip an otherwise-healthy provider's breaker on a
+// well-timed shutdown) and — the sharper bug an earlier version of this
+// method had — must not count as a SUCCESS either: treating it as success
+// would CLOSE an already-open breaker and wipe its backoff/counters purely
+// because a half-open probe got interrupted before it could complete,
+// reporting a still-broken provider as healthy again. Every OTHER field
+// this method could touch is left exactly as it was; only lastRefresh/
+// lastErr (finishRefresh, above, unconditionally) and inFlight change.
+//
+// A canceled probe while halfOpen is the one exception (round 3, MEDIUM
+// finding): health reverts to OPEN with its backoff/openUntil left
+// completely untouched, rather than staying at halfOpen. discoveryHealthy
+// reports true for halfOpen (by design — a provider actively being
+// re-probed must stay routable), so leaving a canceled probe's state at
+// halfOpen indefinitely would report a still-broken provider healthy
+// until the next attempt happens to land, which the plain interval gate
+// alone does not bound tightly. Reverting to open costs nothing extra —
+// tryBeginRefresh's own interval gate already runs before this is ever
+// reached, so the NEXT attempt is admitted at the identical instant
+// either way; only what discoveryHealthy reports in the meantime differs.
+//
+// context.DeadlineExceeded is NOT given the same neutral treatment as
+// Canceled — deliberately: it counts as a plain failure, below, matching
+// recordProviderAttempt's own SHOULD-1 ruling (limits.go) that a deadline
+// the GATEWAY set and the upstream never answered inside is a genuine
+// provider-health signal, not a caller-walked-away one. Three consecutive
+// backgroundRefreshTimeout (30s) overruns trip the breaker exactly like
+// three plain errors would.
+//
+// failed classifies every OTHER error explicitly for provider health,
+// deliberately NOT reusing isTransient's retry-shaped semantics (retry.go)
+// wholesale — an earlier version of this function did, and adversarial
+// review found the gap: isTransient returns false for errRequestBuildFailed
+// (retrying a malformed request build within the SAME attempt would never
+// help, correct for RETRY purposes), so a provider whose baseURL is
+// malformed — nothing validates it at construction — built errRequestBuildFailed
+// on every single discovery cycle forever, and the old code routed that
+// straight to closeBreakerLocked, wiping state every time: the breaker
+// could never open despite continuous, permanent failure. For HEALTH
+// purposes there is no such nuance to preserve: any non-nil, non-canceled
+// error means this discovery attempt did not succeed, full stop.
+//
+// While closed, breakerThreshold consecutive failures open the breaker at
+// its base backoff (breakerOpenBase); any success resets the counter to
+// zero. breakerThreshold <= 0 (unreachable through newModelRegistry, which
+// always resolves it to >= 1 via validateBreakerConfig, but reachable from
+// a providerState assembled directly — every test in this file does that)
+// disables the breaker entirely rather than tripping on the very first
+// failure with a zero backoff: this is what makes providerState's own
+// documented "zero value behaves exactly as before" claim (its own doc
+// comment, above) actually true, not just aspirational.
+//
+// While halfOpen (the only other state finishRefresh can observe —
+// tryBeginRefresh never starts a refresh from open without first moving to
+// halfOpen), a successful probe closes the breaker outright; a failed one
+// reopens it with a DOUBLED backoff, capped at breakerOpenMax. This ONLY
+// suppresses re-probing when the resulting backoff exceeds discoveryInterval
+// — design ruling, round 3: tryBeginRefresh's interval gate (its own doc
+// comment) applies regardless of breaker state, so a maxOpenDuration
+// shorter than discoveryInterval is masked entirely and this escalation
+// changes nothing observable. defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration is deliberately
+// set longer than defaultDiscoveryInterval so this DOES suppress re-probing
+// under stock config — see that constant's own doc comment for the
+// resulting cadence.
+func (st *providerState) recordHealthLocked(now time.Time, err error) {
+	if errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
+		if st.health == breakerHalfOpen {
+			st.health = breakerOpen
+		}
 		return
 	}
-	st.lastErr = ""
-	discovered := make(map[string]bool, len(ids))
-	for _, id := range ids {
-		discovered[id] = true
+	failed := err != nil
+	if st.health == breakerHalfOpen {
+		if failed {
+			st.openBreakerLocked(now, true)
+		} else {
+			st.closeBreakerLocked()
+		}
+		return
 	}
-	st.discovered = discovered
+	if !failed {
+		st.closeBreakerLocked()
+		return
+	}
+	if st.breakerThreshold <= 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	st.consecutiveFailures++
+	if st.consecutiveFailures >= st.breakerThreshold {
+		st.openBreakerLocked(now, false)
+	}
+}
+
+// closeBreakerLocked resets st to a healthy, closed breaker — reachable
+// from a successful attempt while closed (nothing to do in practice, since
+// consecutiveFailures is already 0, but harmless to reset) or a successful
+// half-open probe (the "a provider that recovers must never stay dead"
+// requirement). Caller must already hold st.mu.
+func (st *providerState) closeBreakerLocked() {
+	st.health = breakerClosed
+	st.consecutiveFailures = 0
+	st.backoff = 0
+	st.openUntil = time.Time{}
+}
+
+// openBreakerLocked opens st's breaker as of now, computing the backoff
+// window a subsequent tryBeginRefresh must wait out before its next
+// half-open probe. escalate true (a failed half-open probe re-opening)
+// doubles the PREVIOUS backoff; escalate false (the closed->open trip)
+// starts fresh at breakerOpenBase — either way capped at breakerOpenMax so
+// a persistently broken provider's backoff grows but never exceeds it.
+// Caller must already hold st.mu.
+func (st *providerState) openBreakerLocked(now time.Time, escalate bool) {
+	if escalate && st.backoff > 0 {
+		st.backoff *= 2
+	} else {
+		st.backoff = st.breakerOpenBase
+	}
+	if st.backoff > st.breakerOpenMax {
+		st.backoff = st.breakerOpenMax
+	}
+	st.health = breakerOpen
+	st.openUntil = now.Add(st.backoff)
+}
+
+// discoveryHealthy reports whether st's DISCOVERY circuit breaker is
+// currently closed or half-open (not open) — see modelRegistry.
+// discoveryHealthy's doc comment for the full contract this backs, in
+// particular the scope limitation its name is deliberately chosen to
+// signal: this reflects the discovery endpoint only.
+func (st *providerState) discoveryHealthy() bool {
+	st.mu.Lock()
+	defer st.mu.Unlock()
+	return st.health != breakerOpen
 }
 
 // snapshot returns st's read-only view for the admin dashboard (spec §4,
@@ -191,10 +488,35 @@ func (st *providerState) finishRefresh(now time.Time, ids []string, err error) {
 // previous discovered set rather than clearing it. This method applies
 // no special handling for that case; it is simply the same set every
 // other snapshot consumer (modelCount, listFor) already reads.
-func (st *providerState) snapshot() (models []string, lastRefresh time.Time, lastErr string) {
+// health and openUntil (feat/provider-health) join the same locked pass for
+// the identical reason the doc comment above already gives for models/
+// lastRefresh/lastErr: a concurrent finishRefresh must never be able to
+// hand the admin dashboard a breaker state that disagrees with the
+// lastErr/models it is shown alongside.
+//
+// openUntil is NOT returned raw (round 3 MEDIUM finding): since
+// tryBeginRefresh's interval gate applies unconditionally (its own doc
+// comment), the REAL next probe time is max(st.openUntil,
+// lastRefresh+interval), which can differ sharply from st.openUntil alone
+// — under stock defaults, a fresh trip sets st.openUntil to +1m while the
+// first admitted probe is actually at +1h, a 59-minute skew an operator
+// watching the dashboard would otherwise see as a broken countdown
+// (formatUntil renders "in 60s", nothing happens, then the timestamp goes
+// stale and the countdown vanishes for the remaining 59 minutes). This
+// correction only ever applies while OPEN — st.openUntil is always the
+// zero time while closed (closeBreakerLocked) or a past instant while
+// half-open (a probe only ever starts once now has already reached it),
+// neither of which this dashboard-facing value should be adjusted for.
+func (st *providerState) snapshot() (models []string, lastRefresh time.Time, lastErr string, health breakerState, openUntil time.Time) {
 	st.mu.Lock()
 	defer st.mu.Unlock()
-	return st.knownIDsLocked(), st.lastRefresh, st.lastErr
+	effectiveOpenUntil := st.openUntil
+	if st.health == breakerOpen {
+		if floor := st.lastRefresh.Add(st.interval); floor.After(effectiveOpenUntil) {
+			effectiveOpenUntil = floor
+		}
+	}
+	return st.knownIDsLocked(), st.lastRefresh, st.lastErr, st.health, effectiveOpenUntil
 }
 
 // modelRegistry aggregates every configured provider's explicit and
@@ -285,6 +607,71 @@ type modelsCacheEntry struct {
 	gen  int64
 }
 
+// breakerConfig is Config.Breaker (feat/provider-health), validated and
+// defaulted once by validateBreakerConfig — the resolved values
+// newModelRegistry copies onto every provider's providerState at
+// construction (providerState's own doc comment explains why copied,
+// not shared).
+type breakerConfig struct {
+	failureThreshold int
+	openBase         time.Duration
+	openMax          time.Duration
+}
+
+// validateBreakerConfig validates bc and returns the resolved breakerConfig
+// (feat/provider-health) — mirrors newRetryPolicy (retry.go) and
+// validateCacheConfig (cache.go)'s own zero-means-default, validated-and-
+// resolved shape. bc's zero value (BreakerConfig{}, an operator who
+// configures no breaker block at all) resolves to every default constant
+// above unchanged: a provider that never fails never has a reason to
+// consult any of these three numbers, so their defaults exist only to
+// bound how a FAILING provider backs off, never to alter a healthy one.
+func validateBreakerConfig(bc BreakerConfig) (breakerConfig, error) {
+	threshold := bc.FailureThreshold
+	if threshold == 0 {
+		threshold = defaultBreakerFailureThreshold
+	}
+	if threshold < 1 || threshold > maxBreakerFailureThreshold {
+		return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.failureThreshold must be between 1 and %d, got %d", maxBreakerFailureThreshold, threshold)
+	}
+
+	openBase := defaultBreakerOpenDuration
+	if bc.OpenDuration != "" {
+		d, err := time.ParseDuration(bc.OpenDuration)
+		if err != nil {
+			return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.openDuration %q is invalid: %w", bc.OpenDuration, err)
+		}
+		if d <= 0 {
+			return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.openDuration must be positive, got %q", bc.OpenDuration)
+		}
+		openBase = d
+	}
+
+	openMax := defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration
+	if bc.MaxOpenDuration != "" {
+		d, err := time.ParseDuration(bc.MaxOpenDuration)
+		if err != nil {
+			return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.maxOpenDuration %q is invalid: %w", bc.MaxOpenDuration, err)
+		}
+		if d <= 0 {
+			return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.maxOpenDuration must be positive, got %q", bc.MaxOpenDuration)
+		}
+		// Ceiling (adversarial-review finding, round 2): see
+		// maxBreakerOpenDuration's own doc comment for why an unbounded
+		// value here is an overflow risk, not merely an odd config choice.
+		if d > maxBreakerOpenDuration {
+			return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.maxOpenDuration must be at most %s, got %q", maxBreakerOpenDuration, bc.MaxOpenDuration)
+		}
+		openMax = d
+	}
+
+	if openMax < openBase {
+		return breakerConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: breaker.maxOpenDuration (%s) must be >= breaker.openDuration (%s)", openMax, openBase)
+	}
+
+	return breakerConfig{failureThreshold: threshold, openBase: openBase, openMax: openMax}, nil
+}
+
 // newModelRegistry builds a modelRegistry from adapters and cfg's matching
 // ProviderConfig entries. It does not perform discovery itself — the
 // caller (newGateway) runs the synchronous first fill separately via
@@ -292,6 +679,11 @@ type modelsCacheEntry struct {
 // provider's ProviderConfig.DiscoveryInterval that fails time.ParseDuration
 // is a constructor error; an empty one defaults to defaultDiscoveryInterval.
 func newModelRegistry(adapters map[string]providerAdapter, cfg *Config, log func(string, ...any)) (*modelRegistry, error) {
+	breaker, err := validateBreakerConfig(cfg.Breaker)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	m := &modelRegistry{
 		adapters:      adapters,
 		states:        make(map[string]*providerState, len(adapters)),
@@ -320,9 +712,14 @@ func newModelRegistry(adapters map[string]providerAdapter, cfg *Config, log func
 
 		interval := defaultDiscoveryInterval
 		if pc.DiscoveryInterval != "" {
-			d, err := time.ParseDuration(pc.DiscoveryInterval)
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: provider %q: invalid discoveryInterval %q: %w", name, pc.DiscoveryInterval, err)
+			// parseErr, not err: newModelRegistry's own outer err (from
+			// validateBreakerConfig above) is already in scope here, and
+			// govet's shadow check (golangci-lint's govet enable-all)
+			// flags a nested ":=" reusing that identifier even though it
+			// is scoped to this if-block only.
+			d, parseErr := time.ParseDuration(pc.DiscoveryInterval)
+			if parseErr != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("llmgateway: provider %q: invalid discoveryInterval %q: %w", name, pc.DiscoveryInterval, parseErr)
 			}
 			interval = d
 		}
@@ -338,6 +735,9 @@ func newModelRegistry(adapters map[string]providerAdapter, cfg *Config, log func
 			discovered:       make(map[string]bool),
 			discoveryEnabled: pc.Discovery,
 			interval:         interval,
+			breakerThreshold: breaker.failureThreshold,
+			breakerOpenBase:  breaker.openBase,
+			breakerOpenMax:   breaker.openMax,
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -433,6 +833,44 @@ func (m *modelRegistry) now() time.Time {
 	return m.nowFn()
 }
 
+// discoveryHealthy reports whether name's DISCOVERY circuit breaker is
+// currently closed or half-open (feat/provider-health's queryable health
+// signal). false only while the breaker is OPEN: an unconfigured provider
+// name, one with discovery disabled (it has no health signal to trip the
+// breaker with, so it stays closed forever), and one whose breaker is
+// closed OR half-open all report true — a half-open provider is actively
+// being re-probed by the next discovery cycle and must stay routable, per
+// this feature's own "a provider that recovers must never stay dead"
+// requirement; only an OPEN breaker, still backing off, reports false.
+//
+// SCOPE, per adversarial-review ruling (round 2) — read this before wiring
+// it into any routing decision: this reflects the DISCOVERY endpoint
+// (/v1/models-equivalent) ONLY. It is driven exclusively by
+// finishRefresh's own outcomes and knows nothing about
+// /v1/chat/completions or any other request-path traffic. A provider
+// whose discovery listing 401s or 404s while its actual completion
+// endpoint serves requests perfectly fine — common behind a proxy that
+// exposes chat but not model listing — reports false here despite being
+// entirely usable for real traffic. feat/failover MUST NOT treat a false
+// result here as a sole reason to refuse routing; request-path health is
+// a SEPARATE signal, fed by limiter.recordProviderAttempt (limits.go),
+// deliberately kept apart so discovery outages and request-path outages
+// are never conflated under one name.
+//
+// This is a single mutex-guarded read of state finishRefresh/
+// tryBeginRefresh already maintain — no round trip, no store lookup — per
+// this feature's own design: per-pod, in-memory, a latency optimization
+// rather than a correctness guarantee. Three pods learning independently
+// (each with its own view of a provider's health) is accepted and
+// intended, not a bug.
+func (m *modelRegistry) discoveryHealthy(name string) bool {
+	st, ok := m.states[name]
+	if !ok {
+		return true
+	}
+	return st.discoveryHealthy()
+}
+
 // finishRefresh records the outcome of a refresh attempt (st.finishRefresh)
 // and invalidates modelsJSON's cache by bumping modelsGen — the ONLY two
 // places that ever mutate st.discovered or st.discoveredContext both
@@ -1104,14 +1542,28 @@ func (m *modelRegistry) resolveMetaForAlias(alias, targetProvider, targetModel s
 // model id names no credential, and this same set is already public
 // through /v1/models (listFor) to any authenticated caller the group
 // allows.
+// Field order below is fieldalignment-sensitive, the same convention
+// providerState's own doc comment explains: pointer-containing fields
+// (time.Time, string, []string) grouped first, pointer-free fields
+// (modelCount, health, discoveryEnabled) last.
 type providerSnapshot struct {
 	lastRefresh time.Time
-	name        string
-	typeName    string
-	baseURL     string
-	lastErr     string
-	models      []string
-	modelCount  int
+	// openUntil mirrors providerState's own field of the same name
+	// (feat/provider-health) — see providerState.snapshot's doc comment
+	// for why it is read in the same locked pass as the rest of this
+	// struct's fields.
+	openUntil  time.Time
+	name       string
+	typeName   string
+	baseURL    string
+	lastErr    string
+	models     []string
+	modelCount int
+	// health mirrors providerState's own field of the same name (feat/
+	// provider-health): the admin dashboard's breaker-state column. Every
+	// provider reads closed until a discovery failure actually trips its
+	// breaker — a healthy deployment's snapshot is unaffected.
+	health breakerState
 	// discoveryEnabled mirrors providerState.discoveryEnabled (Feature B,
 	// v0.22 last-refresh label honesty): read directly rather than through
 	// providerState.snapshot(), because it is set once at construction
@@ -1164,13 +1616,14 @@ func (m *modelRegistry) snapshot() []providerSnapshot {
 	out := make([]providerSnapshot, 0, len(m.providerNames))
 	for _, name := range m.providerNames {
 		adapter := m.adapters[name]
-		// Three-value multi-assign straight from the call, no intermediate
+		// Five-value multi-assign straight from the call, no intermediate
 		// named variables reused across a loop iteration boundary — Yaegi
 		// has had multi-assign edge cases around reused/shadowed loop
 		// variables in other parts of this codebase's history; this shape
 		// (fresh locals every iteration, assigned once, read once) avoids
-		// that class of trap entirely.
-		models, lastRefresh, lastErr := m.states[name].snapshot()
+		// that class of trap entirely. health/openUntil (feat/provider-
+		// health) widen the same tuple rather than a second locked call.
+		models, lastRefresh, lastErr, health, openUntil := m.states[name].snapshot()
 		out = append(out, providerSnapshot{
 			name:             adapter.name(),
 			typeName:         adapter.typeName(),
@@ -1180,6 +1633,8 @@ func (m *modelRegistry) snapshot() []providerSnapshot {
 			lastRefresh:      lastRefresh,
 			lastErr:          lastErr,
 			discoveryEnabled: m.states[name].discoveryEnabled,
+			health:           health,
+			openUntil:        openUntil,
 		})
 	}
 	return out

registry_health_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,709 @@
+package traefikllmgateway
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// --- validateBreakerConfig: defaults and validation table ---
+
+func TestValidateBreakerConfig_Table(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name        string
+		bc          BreakerConfig
+		wantThresh  int
+		wantOpen    time.Duration
+		wantMaxOpen time.Duration
+		wantErr     bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:        "zero value uses every default",
+			bc:          BreakerConfig{},
+			wantThresh:  defaultBreakerFailureThreshold,
+			wantOpen:    defaultBreakerOpenDuration,
+			wantMaxOpen: defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "explicit valid overrides used verbatim",
+			bc:          BreakerConfig{FailureThreshold: 5, OpenDuration: "10s", MaxOpenDuration: "2m"},
+			wantThresh:  5,
+			wantOpen:    10 * time.Second,
+			wantMaxOpen: 2 * time.Minute,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "threshold at the max boundary is accepted",
+			bc:         BreakerConfig{FailureThreshold: maxBreakerFailureThreshold},
+			wantThresh: maxBreakerFailureThreshold,
+			wantOpen:   defaultBreakerOpenDuration, wantMaxOpen: defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "threshold above max is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{FailureThreshold: maxBreakerFailureThreshold + 1},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "negative threshold is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{FailureThreshold: -1},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "unparseable openDuration is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{OpenDuration: "not-a-duration"},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "zero-valued openDuration string is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{OpenDuration: "0s"},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "negative openDuration is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{OpenDuration: "-1s"},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "unparseable maxOpenDuration is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{MaxOpenDuration: "not-a-duration"},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "maxOpenDuration below openDuration is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{OpenDuration: "5m", MaxOpenDuration: "1m"},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "maxOpenDuration equal to openDuration is accepted",
+			bc:          BreakerConfig{OpenDuration: "5m", MaxOpenDuration: "5m"},
+			wantThresh:  defaultBreakerFailureThreshold,
+			wantOpen:    5 * time.Minute,
+			wantMaxOpen: 5 * time.Minute,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "maxOpenDuration at the ceiling is accepted",
+			bc:          BreakerConfig{MaxOpenDuration: "24h"},
+			wantThresh:  defaultBreakerFailureThreshold,
+			wantOpen:    defaultBreakerOpenDuration,
+			wantMaxOpen: 24 * time.Hour,
+		},
+		{
+			name:    "maxOpenDuration above the ceiling is an error",
+			bc:      BreakerConfig{MaxOpenDuration: "25h"},
+			wantErr: true,
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, err := validateBreakerConfig(tt.bc)
+			if (err != nil) != tt.wantErr {
+				t.Fatalf("validateBreakerConfig(%+v): err = %v, wantErr %v", tt.bc, err, tt.wantErr)
+			}
+			if tt.wantErr {
+				return
+			}
+			if got.failureThreshold != tt.wantThresh {
+				t.Errorf("failureThreshold = %d, want %d", got.failureThreshold, tt.wantThresh)
+			}
+			if got.openBase != tt.wantOpen {
+				t.Errorf("openBase = %v, want %v", got.openBase, tt.wantOpen)
+			}
+			if got.openMax != tt.wantMaxOpen {
+				t.Errorf("openMax = %v, want %v", got.openMax, tt.wantMaxOpen)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// newHealthTestState builds a providerState with the breaker fields set
+// directly (no newModelRegistry round trip needed — the state machine
+// under test is pure providerState methods), and every other field at a
+// harmless zero/empty value. interval is set deliberately SHORT relative
+// to openBase in the tests below so a passing assertion can only be
+// explained by the breaker's own backoff window, never by the ordinary
+// per-interval throttle it lives alongside.
+func newHealthTestState(interval time.Duration, threshold int, openBase, openMax time.Duration) *providerState {
+	return &providerState{
+		explicit:         make(map[string]bool),
+		discovered:       make(map[string]bool),
+		interval:         interval,
+		breakerThreshold: threshold,
+		breakerOpenBase:  openBase,
+		breakerOpenMax:   openMax,
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: opens after the configured threshold ---
+
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_OpensAfterThreshold(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Hour, 3, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	now := time.Now()
+	boom := errors.New("boom")
+
+	for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+		st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+		if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+			t.Fatalf("after %d failure(s) (threshold 3): discoveryHealthy() = false, want true — must not open early", i+1)
+		}
+	}
+
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom) // 3rd consecutive failure reaches the threshold
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("after reaching the failure threshold: discoveryHealthy() = true, want false (breaker must be open)")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ASuccessResetsTheFailureCounter proves the
+// counter is CONSECUTIVE, not cumulative: two failures, a success, then two
+// more failures must not open a threshold-3 breaker, because the success
+// in between reset the count back to zero.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ASuccessResetsTheFailureCounter(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Hour, 3, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	now := time.Now()
+	boom := errors.New("boom")
+
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+	st.finishRefresh(now, []string{"m1"}, nil) // success: resets the streak
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+
+	if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Error("discoveryHealthy() = false, want true — the intervening success must have reset the consecutive-failure streak")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ErrRequestBuildFailed_CountsAsFailure is the
+// adversarial-review IMPORTANT-2 regression: an earlier version of
+// recordHealthLocked reused isTransient's RETRY-shaped classification
+// wholesale (retry.go) — which deliberately excludes errRequestBuildFailed,
+// since retrying a malformed request build within the same attempt would
+// never help. That is correct for retrying, but wrong for HEALTH: a
+// provider whose baseURL is malformed (nothing validates it at
+// construction) produces this exact error on every discovery cycle,
+// forever. The old code routed that straight to a "success" outcome,
+// resetting the breaker every time — it could never open despite
+// continuous, permanent failure. It must now count as a plain failure.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ErrRequestBuildFailed_CountsAsFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Hour, 3, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
+		st.finishRefresh(now, nil, errRequestBuildFailed)
+	}
+
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() = true after 3 consecutive errRequestBuildFailed outcomes, want false — a persistent request-build failure is a provider fault the breaker must open on")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextDeadlineExceeded_CountsAsFailure proves
+// context.DeadlineExceeded is a plain failure, NOT given Canceled's
+// neutral treatment — deliberate, matching recordProviderAttempt's own
+// SHOULD-1 ruling (limits.go): a deadline the GATEWAY set and the upstream
+// never answered inside is a genuine provider-health signal, unlike a
+// caller-canceled context. Three consecutive backgroundRefreshTimeout
+// (30s) overruns against a merely slow provider trip the breaker exactly
+// like three plain errors would.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextDeadlineExceeded_CountsAsFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Hour, 3, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
+		st.finishRefresh(now, nil, context.DeadlineExceeded)
+	}
+
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() = true after 3 consecutive context.DeadlineExceeded outcomes, want false — a deadline the gateway set and the upstream never answered inside is a provider fault, not a neutral cancellation")
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: the zero value never trips (adversarial-review finding,
+// round 2 — providerState's own doc comment claims "zero value behaves
+// exactly as before this feature existed"; without this guard that claim
+// was false: a zero-value breaker opened on the FIRST failure with a
+// ZERO backoff, after which the interval throttle was gone too) ---
+
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ZeroThreshold_NeverOpens(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	// A providerState assembled directly (bypassing newModelRegistry,
+	// which always resolves breakerThreshold to >= 1 via
+	// validateBreakerConfig — every test in this file up to here does
+	// exactly that, through newHealthTestState) leaves every breaker
+	// field at its Go zero value: this is that case, deliberately.
+	st := &providerState{
+		explicit:   make(map[string]bool),
+		discovered: make(map[string]bool),
+		interval:   time.Millisecond,
+	}
+	now := time.Now()
+	boom := errors.New("boom")
+
+	for i := 0; i < 50; i++ {
+		if !st.tryBeginRefresh(now) {
+			t.Fatalf("iteration %d: tryBeginRefresh = false, want true — a zero-value breaker must behave like plain interval-only gating, never blocked by its own (disabled) backoff", i)
+		}
+		st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+		if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+			t.Fatalf("iteration %d: discoveryHealthy() = false, want true — a zero-value breaker must never open at all", i)
+		}
+		now = now.Add(time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: discovery backoff must actually suppress re-probing under
+// DEFAULT config, strictly, not merely stay no-worse-than plain interval
+// throttling (BLOCKING adversarial-review findings, rounds 2 and 3) ---
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_DefaultCadence_StrictlyFewerThanPreFeatureBaseline
+// simulates 24 hours of a permanently-failing provider under every DEFAULT
+// setting (the shipped configuration, the xiaomi case this feature exists
+// for) and counts actual ADMITTED refresh attempts.
+//
+// Round 2's earlier version of tryBeginRefresh let an open breaker's own
+// backoff window (openUntil) REPLACE the plain interval gate instead of
+// adding to it. Since that round's defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration (30m) was
+// shorter than defaultDiscoveryInterval (1h), that measured 50 admitted
+// attempts here — MORE than the 24 a plain, breaker-less interval gate
+// would ever produce for the same 24h window: the exact inverse of this
+// feature's purpose. The round-2 fix (interval gate applies
+// unconditionally) closed that regression, but left the feature CADENCE-
+// NEUTRAL: with defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration still shorter than
+// defaultDiscoveryInterval, the interval alone remained the sole binding
+// constraint and this test measured EXACTLY 24 — no worse than baseline,
+// but no better either, doing nothing a plain interval gate would not
+// already do.
+//
+// Round 3's design ruling raised defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration to 6h
+// (longer than the 1h interval) specifically so the breaker's backoff can
+// eventually become the binding constraint instead of the interval — see
+// that constant's own doc comment for the resulting cadence (roughly 5
+// attempts a day). This test now asserts the STRONGER, actually-intended
+// property: strictly fewer admits than the pre-feature baseline. Reverting
+// EITHER the round-2 interval-gate fix OR the round-3 default bump makes
+// this fail — the first by exceeding the baseline, the second by merely
+// equaling it.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_DefaultCadence_StrictlyFewerThanPreFeatureBaseline(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(defaultDiscoveryInterval, defaultBreakerFailureThreshold, defaultBreakerOpenDuration, defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration)
+	base := time.Now()
+	boom := errors.New("boom: persistent 401")
+
+	var admits int
+	for minute := 0; minute < 24*60; minute++ {
+		now := base.Add(time.Duration(minute) * time.Minute)
+		if st.tryBeginRefresh(now) {
+			admits++
+			st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// The pre-feature baseline: a plain interval-only gate (no breaker at
+	// all) admits exactly one attempt per defaultDiscoveryInterval (1h)
+	// over a 24h window for a provider that never succeeds.
+	const preFeatureBaseline = 24
+	if admits >= preFeatureBaseline {
+		t.Errorf("admitted %d discovery attempts over 24h with default config and a permanently failing provider, want STRICTLY FEWER than %d (the pre-feature, interval-only baseline) — the breaker must actually suppress re-probing under stock config, not merely match plain interval throttling", admits, preFeatureBaseline)
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: the admin-facing openUntil accounts for the interval floor
+// (MEDIUM adversarial-review finding, round 3) ---
+
+// TestProviderState_Snapshot_OpenUntil_ReflectsIntervalFloor proves
+// snapshot()'s emitted openUntil is the REAL next probe time —
+// max(raw openUntil, lastRefresh+interval) — not the raw backoff-only
+// value. Since tryBeginRefresh's interval gate applies unconditionally,
+// a fresh trip's raw openUntil (lastRefresh + breakerOpenBase) can be far
+// EARLIER than the actual next admitted attempt whenever breakerOpenBase
+// is shorter than interval — measured on pure defaults, a 59-minute skew
+// (raw +1m versus the real +1h). An operator watching the dashboard would
+// otherwise see "open (in 60s)", nothing happen, and then the countdown
+// silently vanish once formatUntil (webui) reads the now-past raw value.
+func TestProviderState_Snapshot_OpenUntil_ReflectsIntervalFloor(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	// interval (1h) far longer than the backoff base (1m) — the exact
+	// shape of the shipped defaults on a fresh trip.
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Hour, 1, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	base := time.Now()
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(base)
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // opens: raw openUntil = base+1m
+
+	_, lastRefresh, _, health, openUntil := st.snapshot()
+	if health != breakerOpen {
+		t.Fatalf("health = %v, want breakerOpen", health)
+	}
+	want := lastRefresh.Add(time.Hour)
+	if !openUntil.Equal(want) {
+		t.Errorf("snapshot openUntil = %v, want %v (lastRefresh + interval, not the raw +1m backoff — tryBeginRefresh will not actually admit a probe before then)", openUntil, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Snapshot_OpenUntil_UnchangedWhenBackoffExceedsInterval
+// is the complementary case: once backoff is the LONGER of the two (the
+// steady state this feature is designed to reach — see
+// defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration's own doc comment), snapshot's openUntil
+// is exactly the raw value, with no floor adjustment needed.
+func TestProviderState_Snapshot_OpenUntil_UnchangedWhenBackoffExceedsInterval(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	// interval (1m) far shorter than the backoff base (1h) — backoff is
+	// already the binding constraint from the very first trip.
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Minute, 1, time.Hour, 10*time.Hour)
+	base := time.Now()
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(base)
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // opens: raw openUntil = base+1h
+
+	_, _, _, health, openUntil := st.snapshot()
+	if health != breakerOpen {
+		t.Fatalf("health = %v, want breakerOpen", health)
+	}
+	want := base.Add(time.Hour)
+	if !openUntil.Equal(want) {
+		t.Errorf("snapshot openUntil = %v, want %v (the raw backoff value, unchanged — it already exceeds the interval floor)", openUntil, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: stays open for the backoff window, superseding interval ---
+
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_StaysOpenForBackoffWindow(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	// interval is deliberately much shorter than openBase: a bare pass
+	// through tryBeginRefresh would allow a retry after 5s. Only the
+	// breaker's own backoff should be blocking it past that point.
+	st := newHealthTestState(5*time.Second, 1, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	base := time.Now()
+
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(base); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("first tryBeginRefresh on a fresh provider = false, want true")
+	}
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // trips the breaker (threshold 1)
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() = true after the trip, want false")
+	}
+
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(base.Add(6 * time.Second)); ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh past the plain interval (5s) but well inside the 1m backoff = true, want false — backoff must supersede interval")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(base.Add(59 * time.Second)); ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh just before the backoff window elapses = true, want false")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(base.Add(61 * time.Second)); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("tryBeginRefresh once the backoff window has elapsed = false, want true (half-open probe should start)")
+	}
+	if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Error("discoveryHealthy() during the half-open probe = false, want true — a provider being re-probed must stay routable")
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: half-open probe success closes it again ---
+
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_HalfOpenProbe_SuccessCloses(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(5*time.Second, 1, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	base := time.Now()
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(base)
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // open
+
+	probeAt := base.Add(61 * time.Second)
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("tryBeginRefresh after the backoff window = false, want true")
+	}
+	st.finishRefresh(probeAt, []string{"m1"}, nil) // probe succeeds
+
+	if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Error("discoveryHealthy() after a successful half-open probe = false, want true — a recovered provider must not stay dead")
+	}
+	if !st.hasModel("m1") {
+		t.Error("hasModel(m1) = false after a successful probe, want true — discovery still updates the model set normally")
+	}
+
+	// Closed again means ORDINARY interval gating resumed, not a fresh
+	// backoff window: immediately after the probe, another attempt must
+	// still wait out the plain 5s interval, and no longer than that.
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt); ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh at the same instant as the closing probe = true, want false (interval not yet elapsed)")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt.Add(6 * time.Second)); !ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh past the plain interval after closing = false, want true")
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: half-open probe failure reopens it, with escalating backoff ---
+
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_HalfOpenProbe_FailureReopens_Escalates(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(5*time.Second, 1, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	base := time.Now()
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(base)
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // opens, backoff = 1m
+
+	probeAt := base.Add(61 * time.Second)
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("tryBeginRefresh after the first backoff window = false, want true")
+	}
+	st.finishRefresh(probeAt, nil, errors.New("still broken")) // probe fails: reopen, backoff doubles to 2m
+
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() after a failed probe = true, want false")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt.Add(61 * time.Second)); ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh after only the ORIGINAL (1m) backoff = true, want false — a failed probe must double it to 2m")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt.Add(121 * time.Second)); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("tryBeginRefresh after the doubled (2m) backoff = false, want true")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_BackoffCapsAtOpenMax proves repeated failed
+// probes double the backoff only up to breakerOpenMax, never past it.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_BackoffCapsAtOpenMax(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Second, 1, time.Minute, 3*time.Minute) // base 1m, cap 3m: 1m -> 2m -> capped at 3m (not 4m)
+	base := time.Now()
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(base)
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // open, backoff 1m
+
+	at := base.Add(61 * time.Second)
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(at)
+	st.finishRefresh(at, nil, errors.New("boom")) // reopen, backoff doubles to 2m
+
+	at = at.Add(121 * time.Second)
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(at)
+	st.finishRefresh(at, nil, errors.New("boom")) // reopen, doubling to 4m would exceed the 3m cap
+
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(at.Add(2*time.Minute + 59*time.Second)); ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh just before the capped 3m backoff = true, want false")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(at.Add(3*time.Minute + 1*time.Second)); !ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh just past the capped 3m backoff = false, want true — backoff must not exceed breakerOpenMax")
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: context.Canceled is NEUTRAL, neither failure nor success
+// (IMPORTANT adversarial-review finding, round 2) ---
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextCanceled_IsNeutral_NotSuccess replaces
+// a vacuous predecessor that only asserted discoveryHealthy()==true after
+// ONE Canceled outcome on a threshold-1 breaker — true identically whether
+// Canceled is ignored (correct) or treated as a success (the bug). This
+// sequence distinguishes the two: fail, fail, Canceled, fail on a
+// threshold-3 breaker opens it only if Canceled did NOT reset the
+// consecutive-failure streak.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextCanceled_IsNeutral_NotSuccess(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Second, 3, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	now := time.Now()
+	boom := errors.New("boom")
+
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)             // failure 1
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)             // failure 2
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, context.Canceled) // neutral: must NOT reset the streak
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)             // failure 3: reaches the threshold only if Canceled was neutral
+
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() = true after fail,fail,Canceled,fail on a threshold-3 breaker, want false — Canceled must not reset the consecutive-failure streak (that would treat cancellation as a success)")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextCanceled_IsNeutral_NotFailure is the
+// other direction of the bidirectional check (round 3 finding): its
+// _NotSuccess sibling above proves Canceled does not reset the streak,
+// but says nothing about whether Canceled ITSELF is wrongly counted as a
+// failure — a mutant that classified Canceled as a failure would still
+// pass that test unchanged, since either way the threshold is reached by
+// the trailing plain failure. A LONE Canceled call on a threshold-1
+// breaker settles it directly: if Canceled counted as a failure, one call
+// would be enough to trip a threshold of 1.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextCanceled_IsNeutral_NotFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Hour, 1, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	st.finishRefresh(now, nil, context.Canceled)
+
+	if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() = false after a single context.Canceled outcome on a threshold-1 breaker, want true — Canceled must not be counted as a failure")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextCanceled_DuringHalfOpen_PreservesBackoff
+// is the sharper half of the same finding: an earlier version treated a
+// Canceled half-open probe as a SUCCESS, which CLOSED an already-open
+// breaker and wiped its backoff — reporting a still-401ing provider
+// healthy purely because a probe was interrupted at shutdown. This proves
+// two things: discoveryHealthy reports the provider unhealthy immediately
+// (round 3 finding: a canceled probe reverts to OPEN rather than being
+// left stuck at halfOpen, which would report healthy), and the backoff
+// survives — the NEXT real failure must escalate from the ORIGINAL
+// backoff, not restart fresh at the base.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ContextCanceled_DuringHalfOpen_PreservesBackoff(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Second, 1, time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
+	base := time.Now()
+	st.tryBeginRefresh(base)
+	st.finishRefresh(base, nil, errors.New("boom")) // opens, backoff = 1m, openUntil = base+1m
+
+	probeAt := base.Add(61 * time.Second)
+	if !st.tryBeginRefresh(probeAt) {
+		t.Fatal("tryBeginRefresh after the backoff window = false, want true")
+	}
+	st.finishRefresh(probeAt, nil, context.Canceled) // probe interrupted at shutdown: must be neutral
+
+	if st.discoveryHealthy() {
+		t.Fatal("discoveryHealthy() = true immediately after a canceled half-open probe, want false — a still-broken provider must not read healthy just because its re-probe was interrupted")
+	}
+
+	// The next real attempt must see the ORIGINAL backoff still in
+	// force, not a wiped/reset one: if Canceled had (incorrectly) closed
+	// the breaker, this next failure would re-open it FRESH at the 1m
+	// base instead of escalating to 2m.
+	retryAt := probeAt.Add(2 * time.Second)
+	if !st.tryBeginRefresh(retryAt) {
+		t.Fatal("tryBeginRefresh right after a canceled probe = false, want true (interval elapsed, not blocked by the cancel)")
+	}
+	st.finishRefresh(retryAt, nil, errors.New("still broken"))
+
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(retryAt.Add(119 * time.Second)); ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh before the escalated 2m backoff = true, want false — a canceled probe must not have reset the backoff to its 1m base")
+	}
+	if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(retryAt.Add(121 * time.Second)); !ok {
+		t.Error("tryBeginRefresh after the escalated 2m backoff = false, want true")
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: a provider that never fails is unaffected (default-
+// preserving: today's interval-only gating, unchanged) ---
+
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_HealthyProviderNeverAffected(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	const interval = time.Hour
+	st := newHealthTestState(interval, defaultBreakerFailureThreshold, defaultBreakerOpenDuration, defaultBreakerMaxOpenDuration)
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(now); !ok {
+			t.Fatalf("cycle %d: tryBeginRefresh = false, want true (interval already elapsed)", i)
+		}
+		st.finishRefresh(now, []string{"m1"}, nil)
+		if !st.discoveryHealthy() {
+			t.Fatalf("cycle %d: discoveryHealthy() = false, want true — a never-failing provider must never trip its breaker", i)
+		}
+		// Behavioral proxy for "the breaker never opened" (assert
+		// behavior, not the internal openUntil field, per the brief):
+		// an opened breaker would admit again as soon as its own
+		// (likely shorter) backoff elapsed. Checking one instant BEFORE
+		// the plain interval elapses proves nothing shorter is gating
+		// this provider.
+		if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(now.Add(interval - time.Nanosecond)); ok {
+			t.Fatalf("cycle %d: tryBeginRefresh one nanosecond before the interval elapses = true, want false", i)
+		}
+		if ok := st.tryBeginRefresh(now); ok {
+			t.Fatalf("cycle %d: tryBeginRefresh immediately after a fresh refresh = true, want false (interval not elapsed)", i)
+		}
+		now = now.Add(2 * interval) // past the interval for the next cycle
+	}
+}
+
+// --- breaker: concurrent access is race-free (IMPORTANT adversarial-
+// review finding, round 2 — no prior test in this file ever exercised the
+// mutex-guarded breaker fields from more than one goroutine, so -race had
+// nothing to catch a locking bug with; the locking was correct, but
+// unproven) ---
+
+// TestProviderState_Breaker_ConcurrentRefreshes_RaceFree is primarily a
+// -race and panic net (round 2), but round 3 found it carried ZERO
+// assertions and so survived every one of the seven fix-reversion
+// mutations tried against this file — useful for what it catches, but not
+// a behavioral test of its own. It now asserts two invariants on every
+// iteration, under the SAME lock discoveryHealthy/tryBeginRefresh already
+// take, so the read is race-free too: backoff never exceeds breakerOpenMax
+// (the overflow-ceiling property, round 2 finding 7, checked here under
+// real concurrent mutation rather than only sequentially), and health is
+// always one of the three declared states — breakerState is a bare int32
+// under the hood, so nothing enforces that at compile time.
+func TestProviderState_Breaker_ConcurrentRefreshes_RaceFree(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	st := newHealthTestState(time.Millisecond, 3, 2*time.Millisecond, 20*time.Millisecond)
+	base := time.Now()
+
+	const workers = 8
+	const iterations = 500
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	for w := 0; w < workers; w++ {
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func(worker int) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			for i := 0; i < iterations; i++ {
+				now := base.Add(time.Duration(worker*iterations+i) * time.Microsecond)
+				if st.tryBeginRefresh(now) {
+					var err error
+					if (worker+i)%2 == 0 {
+						err = errors.New("boom")
+					}
+					st.finishRefresh(now, []string{"m1"}, err)
+				}
+				_ = st.discoveryHealthy()
+
+				st.mu.Lock()
+				gotBackoff, gotMax, gotHealth := st.backoff, st.breakerOpenMax, st.health
+				st.mu.Unlock()
+				if gotBackoff > gotMax {
+					t.Errorf("worker %d iteration %d: backoff = %v, want <= breakerOpenMax %v", worker, i, gotBackoff, gotMax)
+				}
+				switch gotHealth {
+				case breakerClosed, breakerOpen, breakerHalfOpen:
+				default:
+					t.Errorf("worker %d iteration %d: health = %v, want one of closed/open/half-open", worker, i, gotHealth)
+				}
+			}
+		}(w)
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
+// --- modelRegistry.discoveryHealthy: the exported predicate feat/failover
+// consumes ---
+
+func TestModelRegistry_DiscoveryHealthy(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	adapters := map[string]providerAdapter{
+		"flaky":   newFakeAdapter("flaky"),
+		"healthy": newFakeAdapter("healthy"),
+	}
+	cfg := &Config{
+		Providers: map[string]*ProviderConfig{
+			"flaky":   {Models: []string{"m1"}},
+			"healthy": {Models: []string{"m2"}},
+		},
+		Breaker: BreakerConfig{FailureThreshold: 2, OpenDuration: "1m", MaxOpenDuration: "10m"},
+	}
+	reg, err := newModelRegistry(adapters, cfg, func(string, ...any) {})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("newModelRegistry: %v", err)
+	}
+	now := time.Now()
+	reg.nowFn = func() time.Time { return now }
+
+	if !reg.discoveryHealthy("flaky") || !reg.discoveryHealthy("healthy") {
+		t.Fatal("a freshly constructed registry's providers must both be discovery-healthy")
+	}
+	if !reg.discoveryHealthy("does-not-exist") {
+		t.Error(`discoveryHealthy("does-not-exist") = false, want true — an unconfigured name is not a reason to block routing`)
+	}
+
+	boom := errors.New("boom")
+	reg.states["flaky"].finishRefresh(now, nil, boom)
+	reg.states["flaky"].finishRefresh(now, nil, boom) // reaches FailureThreshold: 2
+
+	if reg.discoveryHealthy("flaky") {
+		t.Error(`discoveryHealthy("flaky") = true after tripping its breaker, want false`)
+	}
+	if !reg.discoveryHealthy("healthy") {
+		t.Error(`discoveryHealthy("healthy") = false, want true — a sibling provider's breaker must not affect it`)
+	}
+}

registry_modelmeta_test.go

@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ func TestModelRegistry_RefreshProvider_MetadataPanicDoesNotFailDiscovery(t *test
 	if !reg.states["lmstudio"].hasModel("m2") {
 		t.Error("a panic in metadata capture must not discard the successful discovery result")
 	}
-	_, _, lastErr := reg.states["lmstudio"].snapshot()
+	_, _, lastErr, _, _ := reg.states["lmstudio"].snapshot()
 	if lastErr != "" {
 		t.Errorf("lastErr = %q, want empty — discovery itself succeeded; only metadata capture panicked", lastErr)
 	}

tools/yaegi-check/main.go

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/traefik/yaegi/interp"
@@ -293,7 +294,36 @@ func run() error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("read builtin context tokens for %q from pricing_data_gen.go: %w", builtinLookupModelID, err)
 	}
 
-	attemptAccountingOverride := `{"providers":{"openai":{"type":"openai","baseUrl":"` + upstream.URL + `","apiKey":"sk-up","models":["` + testDataWantModel + `","` + builtinLookupModelID + `"]},"` +
+	// --- breaker probe (feat/provider-health): a provider whose
+	// /v1/models 401s, exactly the xiaomi production case, driven under
+	// the REAL interpreter. brkHealthy flips the upstream from always-401
+	// to serving real data once the probe wants to observe recovery;
+	// brkModelsHits counts every /v1/models hit so exerciseBreaker can
+	// prove the open window actually suppresses discovery traffic (a
+	// count staying flat), not merely that healthState reads "open".
+	brkModelsHits := new(int64)
+	brkHealthy := new(int64)
+	brkUpstream := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(r.URL.Path, "/v1/models") {
+			atomic.AddInt64(brkModelsHits, 1)
+			if atomic.LoadInt64(brkHealthy) == 0 {
+				w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+				w.WriteHeader(http.StatusUnauthorized)
+				_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"error":{"message":"invalid api key","type":"invalid_request_error"}}`))
+				return
+			}
+			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"object":"list","data":[{"id":"brk-model"}]}`))
+			return
+		}
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"id":"c3","object":"chat.completion","model":"brk-model","choices":[],"usage":{}}`))
+	}))
+	defer brkUpstream.Close()
+
+	attemptAccountingOverride := `{"breaker":{"failureThreshold":2,"openDuration":"3s","maxOpenDuration":"6s"},` +
+		`"providers":{"openai":{"type":"openai","baseUrl":"` + upstream.URL + `","apiKey":"sk-up","models":["` + testDataWantModel + `","` + builtinLookupModelID + `"]},` +
+		`"brk":{"type":"openai","baseUrl":"` + brkUpstream.URL + `","apiKey":"sk-up","discovery":true,"discoveryInterval":"1ms"},"` +
 		slowProviderName + `":{"type":"openai","baseUrl":"` + slowUpstream.URL + `","apiKey":"sk-up","models":["` + slowProviderModel + `"]}},` +
 		// modelMeta (feature v0.23): a config-override entry for
 		// testDataWantModel, so exerciseHandler's GET /v1/models
@@ -345,7 +375,20 @@ func run() error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s.New's returned value does not implement http.Handler", pkgName)
 	}
 
-	return exerciseHandler(handler, builtinLookupContextTokens)
+	if err := exerciseHandler(handler, builtinLookupContextTokens); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	// exerciseBreaker (feat/provider-health, adversarial-review round 2):
+	// runs after exerciseHandler, against the SAME interpreted handler —
+	// proves the discovery circuit breaker's open/half-open/closed state
+	// machine, its new interpreted breakerState (a named int32 with a
+	// String() method), and recordHealthLocked's classification call all
+	// run correctly under Yaegi, not merely compiled. limits.go's own
+	// matchesSentinel doc comment (Trap-4/reverse-direction history) is
+	// exactly why this class of divergence needs its own interpreted
+	// probe: a compiled `go test` pass here would prove nothing about the
+	// interpreter.
+	return exerciseBreaker(handler, brkModelsHits, brkHealthy)
 }
 
 // builtinLookupModelID is a real, stable entry in the generated
@@ -447,6 +490,111 @@ func readBuiltinContextTokens(repoRoot, modelID string) (int, error) {
 	return n, nil
 }
 
+// readHealth returns provider name's healthState string from the admin
+// overview, decoded generically like readProviderAttemptCounters does
+// (feat/provider-health).
+func readHealth(handler http.Handler, name string) (string, error) {
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/admin/api/overview", nil)
+	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+attemptAccountingAdminAPIKey)
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	handler.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("GET /admin/api/overview: status = %d, body=%s", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+	var body map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	providers, _ := body["providers"].([]any)
+	for _, raw := range providers {
+		p, ok := raw.(map[string]any)
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		if p["name"] == name {
+			s, _ := p["healthState"].(string)
+			return s, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("provider %q not in overview: %s", name, rec.Body.String())
+}
+
+// drive fires n authenticated GET /v1/models requests, each of which runs
+// maybeRefresh at ServeHTTP entry, with a small gap so the 1ms discovery
+// interval always permits a fresh attempt when the breaker is closed
+// (feat/provider-health).
+func drive(handler http.Handler, n int) {
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/v1/models", nil)
+		req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+testDataUserAPIKey)
+		handler.ServeHTTP(httptest.NewRecorder(), req)
+		time.Sleep(20 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+// exerciseBreaker drives the "brk" provider (attemptAccountingOverride,
+// run()) through the discovery circuit breaker's full state cycle —
+// closed -> open -> half-open -> closed again — against the REAL
+// interpreter, proving under Yaegi what registry_health_test.go already
+// proves compiled: tryBeginRefresh/finishRefresh/recordHealthLocked, the
+// interpreted breakerState named-int32 type and its String() method, and
+// the classification call recordHealthLocked makes all behave correctly
+// interpreted, not merely compiled (feat/provider-health, adversarial-
+// review round 2 — limits.go's matchesSentinel doc comment is exactly why
+// this class of divergence needs its own interpreted probe).
+func exerciseBreaker(handler http.Handler, hits, healthy *int64) error {
+	// Phase 1: hammer with the upstream 401ing. The breaker must open.
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)
+	state := ""
+	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		drive(handler, 5)
+		s, err := readHealth(handler, "brk")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		state = s
+		if s == "open" {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if state != "open" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("BREAKER-1: healthState = %q after sustained 401s, want %q (upstream /v1/models hits=%d)", state, "open", atomic.LoadInt64(hits))
+	}
+	openedAtHits := atomic.LoadInt64(hits)
+	fmt.Printf("yaegi-check: breaker opened after %d upstream /v1/models hits\n", openedAtHits)
+
+	// Phase 2: while open, further traffic must NOT reach the upstream.
+	// openDuration is 3s; hammer for ~1s and require zero new hits.
+	drive(handler, 30)
+	duringOpen := atomic.LoadInt64(hits) - openedAtHits
+	if duringOpen != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("BREAKER-2: %d upstream /v1/models hits during the open window, want 0 — backoff did not suppress discovery", duringOpen)
+	}
+	fmt.Println("yaegi-check: breaker open window suppressed all discovery hits")
+
+	// Phase 3: provider recovers. After the backoff window elapses the
+	// half-open probe must run and CLOSE the breaker again.
+	atomic.StoreInt64(healthy, 1)
+	recovered := false
+	recoverDeadline := time.Now().Add(20 * time.Second)
+	for time.Now().Before(recoverDeadline) {
+		drive(handler, 5)
+		s, err := readHealth(handler, "brk")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if s == "closed" {
+			recovered = true
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if !recovered {
+		return fmt.Errorf("BREAKER-3: breaker never returned to closed after the provider recovered (hits=%d)", atomic.LoadInt64(hits))
+	}
+	fmt.Println("yaegi-check: recovered provider closed the breaker again")
+	return nil
+}
+
 // exerciseHandler runs two real requests against the interpreted
 // handler, drawn from the plugin's own .traefik.yml testData: an
 // authenticated GET /v1/models, which must return the configured

webui/src/components/ProvidersView.vue

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import {
   CardTitle,
 } from '@/components/ui/card'
 import { useSearchQuery } from '@/composables/useSearchQuery'
-import { formatAgo, formatContextWindow, refreshDetailLabel, refreshLabel, routableModelId } from '@/lib/format'
+import { formatAgo, formatContextWindow, formatUntil, refreshDetailLabel, refreshLabel, routableModelId } from '@/lib/format'
 import { isModelDegraded } from '@/lib/provider-rate'
 import { type ExpandState, clearExpandOverrides, computeExpandedItems, toggleItemExpand } from '@/lib/search-expand'
 import { useDashboardStore } from '@/stores/dashboard'
@@ -169,6 +169,36 @@ function modelMetaFor(p: AdminProviderView, model: string): AdminModelMetaView {
   return p.modelMeta?.[model] ?? ZERO_MODEL_META
 }
 
+// --- discovery circuit breaker (feat/provider-health) ---
+//
+// Badge shown ONLY for 'open'/'half-open' — mirroring modelIsDegraded's
+// own "no badge when healthy" convention above: a 'closed' provider (the
+// common case) renders no breaker badge at all, exactly like a
+// non-degraded model gets no ProviderRateBadge.
+
+/** healthBadgeVariant maps healthState to the shadcn-vue Badge variant: destructive (backing off) for 'open', secondary (in progress) for 'half-open', undefined (no badge) for 'closed'. */
+function healthBadgeVariant(state: AdminProviderView['healthState']): 'destructive' | 'secondary' | undefined {
+  switch (state) {
+    case 'open':
+      return 'destructive'
+    case 'half-open':
+      return 'secondary'
+    default:
+      return undefined
+  }
+}
+
+/** healthBadgeLabel renders the breaker badge's text: "open (in Ns)" while backing off (formatUntil omits the parenthetical once openUntil has passed or is unset), or "half-open" while probing. */
+function healthBadgeLabel(p: AdminProviderView): string {
+  const until = formatUntil(p.openUntil)
+  return until ? `${p.healthState} (${until})` : p.healthState
+}
+
+/** healthDetailClass matches the accordion-content detail row's text color to healthBadgeVariant's own trigger-row Badge color, rather than hardcoding text-destructive for every non-closed state: destructive (red) for 'open', muted (grey, the same neutral tone secondary conveys on the Badge) for 'half-open'. */
+function healthDetailClass(state: AdminProviderView['healthState']): string {
+  return state === 'open' ? 'text-destructive' : 'text-muted-foreground'
+}
+
 // --- model aliases (sortable DataTable, operator directive) ---
 //
 // The alias id gets the ModelChip copy treatment (an alias name IS the
@@ -295,6 +325,21 @@ const aliasEmptyMessage = computed(() =>
                   :attempts-minute="p.attemptsMinute"
                   :failures-minute="p.failuresMinute"
                 />
+                <!--
+                  Discovery circuit breaker (feat/provider-health): no
+                  badge at all while 'closed' (the healthy, common case),
+                  mirroring modelIsDegraded's own convention for the
+                  per-model rate badge above.
+                -->
+                <Badge
+                  v-if="p.healthState !== 'closed'"
+                  as="span"
+                  :variant="healthBadgeVariant(p.healthState)"
+                  class="font-normal"
+                  :title="p.healthState === 'open' ? 'discovery is backing off after repeated failures' : 'a discovery probe is deciding whether to recover'"
+                >
+                  {{ healthBadgeLabel(p) }}
+                </Badge>
                 <FontAwesomeIcon
                   v-if="p.lastErr"
                   :icon="faTriangleExclamation"
@@ -314,6 +359,10 @@ const aliasEmptyMessage = computed(() =>
                   <dt class="text-xs text-muted-foreground">Last refresh</dt>
                   <dd>{{ refreshDetailLabel(p.discoveryEnabled, p.lastRefresh) }}</dd>
                 </div>
+                <div v-if="p.healthState !== 'closed'">
+                  <dt class="text-xs text-muted-foreground">Discovery health</dt>
+                  <dd :class="healthDetailClass(p.healthState)">{{ healthBadgeLabel(p) }}</dd>
+                </div>
                 <div v-if="p.lastErr">
                   <dt class="text-xs text-muted-foreground">Last error</dt>
                   <dd class="text-destructive">{{ p.lastErr }}</dd>

webui/src/lib/format.spec.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 
-import { formatCompactCount, formatContextWindow, formatModelCostHover, refreshDetailLabel, refreshLabel } from './format'
+import { formatCompactCount, formatContextWindow, formatModelCostHover, formatUntil, refreshDetailLabel, refreshLabel } from './format'
 
 const ZERO_TIME = '0001-01-01T00:00:00Z'
 
@@ -98,6 +98,30 @@ describe('formatModelCostHover', () => {
   })
 })
 
+// Discovery circuit breaker (feat/provider-health, round 3): openUntil's
+// future-time counterpart to formatAgo's past-time "(Ns ago)". Only
+// caller today is ProvidersView.vue's healthBadgeLabel, rendering the
+// breaker's live "open (in Ns)" countdown.
+describe('formatUntil', () => {
+  it('renders "" for the unset zero-time sentinel', () => {
+    expect(formatUntil(ZERO_TIME)).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('renders "" for undefined', () => {
+    expect(formatUntil(undefined)).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('renders "in Ns" for a future timestamp', () => {
+    const inFortyTwoSeconds = new Date(Date.now() + 42_000).toISOString()
+    expect(formatUntil(inFortyTwoSeconds)).toMatch(/^in \d+s$/)
+  })
+
+  it('renders "" for a timestamp already in the past — a stale poll must not show a negative countdown', () => {
+    const oneMinuteAgo = new Date(Date.now() - 60_000).toISOString()
+    expect(formatUntil(oneMinuteAgo)).toBe('')
+  })
+})
+
 // Usage-count compact display (v0.23 addendum): SI-style, 3 significant
 // figures, floor-not-round (the same honesty rule formatRatePercent
 // already applies to the success-rate badge — a count must never appear

webui/src/lib/format.ts

@@ -156,6 +156,24 @@ export function formatAgo(iso: string | undefined): string {
   return ` (${secs}s ago)`
 }
 
+/**
+ * formatUntil renders a FUTURE ISO timestamp as "in Ns" — the discovery
+ * circuit breaker's openUntil (feat/provider-health, admin.go's
+ * adminProviderView.OpenUntil) is the only caller — or "" for the unset
+ * zero-time sentinel, an unparseable value, or a time already in the
+ * past (a stale poll reading an openUntil the breaker has since moved
+ * past; the next 5s refresh corrects it, so this just omits the detail
+ * rather than showing a negative/nonsensical countdown).
+ */
+export function formatUntil(iso: string | undefined): string {
+  if (!iso || iso === ZERO_TIME) return ''
+  const then = new Date(iso).getTime()
+  if (Number.isNaN(then)) return ''
+  const secs = Math.round((then - Date.now()) / 1000)
+  if (secs <= 0) return ''
+  return `in ${secs}s`
+}
+
 /** formatTimestamp renders an ISO timestamp for display, or "never" for the unset zero-time sentinel. */
 export function formatTimestamp(iso: string | undefined): string {
   if (!iso || iso === ZERO_TIME) return 'never'

webui/src/types/api.ts

@@ -64,6 +64,25 @@ export interface AdminProviderView {
    * zero lastRefresh.
    */
   discoveryEnabled: boolean
+  /**
+   * healthState is the provider's DISCOVERY circuit breaker state
+   * (admin.go: adminProviderView.HealthState — feat/provider-health):
+   * 'closed' (normal), 'open' (backing off after repeated discovery
+   * failures — openUntil below is when it next probes), or 'half-open'
+   * (a probe is in flight, deciding whether to close again). Reflects
+   * the discovery endpoint ONLY, not request-path health — a provider
+   * whose model listing 401s while its actual completion endpoint works
+   * fine still reads 'open' here. A provider with discovery disabled, or
+   * one that has never failed a refresh, always reads 'closed'.
+   */
+  healthState: 'closed' | 'open' | 'half-open'
+  /**
+   * openUntil is when this provider's breaker will next attempt a
+   * half-open probe (admin.go: adminProviderView.OpenUntil). The unset
+   * zero-time sentinel (formatAgo/formatTimestamp's ZERO_TIME) when
+   * healthState is not 'open'.
+   */
+  openUntil: string
   /**
    * attemptsDay/failuresDay/attemptsMinute/failuresMinute are this
    * provider's current-window upstream-attempt counters (admin.go: