fix: unbreak the standalone binary and resolve custom endpoint base URLs

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What

Seven atomic commits fixing a hard crash in the released standalone binary plus the custom-endpoint URL handling.

The crash

readchar resolves its own version with importlib.metadata.version(__package__) at import time. PyInstaller ships no dist-info unless asked, so the interactive model picker died with PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for readchar and took the whole notewise config edit session with it. aiolimiter has the identical pattern and would have killed every pipeline run.

• fix(release): --copy-metadata readchar and --copy-metadata aiolimiter
• fix(ui): degrade to Prompt.ask when readchar cannot be imported, instead of aborting the wizard

Custom endpoint base URLs

Handled internally, no prompt: discovery uses the URL exactly as typed and retries once with /v1 when the endpoint rejects it, then saves whichever answered. A bare origin gains /v1; a path naming a version (v1, v1beta, v2) is left alone; a pasted /chat/completions or /models is trimmed; a total failure names every URL tried and its status. A resolved path is never rewritten on the next config read.

UX

• fix(ui): any non-empty API key is accepted. The old ">10 characters" rule silently blocked short local keys and never said why it rejected one.
• fix(cli): notewise logs no longer lists its own empty session log as an existing log.

Verification

• pytest -n 10 --cov-fail-under=90: 1180 passed, 15 skipped
• ruff format --check, ruff check, ty check: clean
• Real PyInstaller build of notewise: readchar-4.2.2.dist-info and aiolimiter-1.3.0.dist-info both present in _internal, binary launches; a control build without the flags reproduces the original traceback
• Fail-first: the new readchar tests reproduce the exact PackageNotFoundError against the unguarded import

Summary by Sourcery

Make standalone releases resilient and improve custom endpoint discovery, persistence, and setup behavior.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent standalone binaries from crashing when bundled dependencies lack package metadata, while allowing the setup wizard to fall back to line-based prompts.
• Resolve custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint base URLs through discovery, preserve the working URL, and provide detailed errors when all candidates fail.
• Accept non-empty API keys regardless of length and omit empty session logs from notewise logs.

Enhancements:

• Preserve custom endpoint paths and version segments across configuration reads and runtime overrides.
• Persist the endpoint URL selected during discovery and reuse saved endpoint bases consistently.

Build:

• Include readchar and aiolimiter package metadata in standalone PyInstaller builds and update the project to version 1.7.1 with the refreshed LiteLLM dependency.

CI:

• Update CI workflow dependencies for uv, Codecov, and Docker Buildx/build actions.

Documentation:

• Document custom endpoint URL resolution behavior and update user-facing version references to 1.7.1.

Tests:

• Expand endpoint resolution, fallback behavior, URL persistence, API-key validation, and missing-readchar coverage.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Custom endpoint setup now cleans pasted URLs, preserves supported version paths, and tries the entered address before retrying with /v1. It saves the address that works and reports both attempts if neither succeeds.
  • API keys can be any nonblank length. If secure key entry is unavailable, setup falls back to standard text input.
• Bug Fixes
  • Empty log files are no longer listed or tailed; if all logs are empty, the usual no-logs message is shown.

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Reviewer's Guide

The PR fixes standalone-binary startup crashes by bundling required package metadata and adding UI fallbacks, while redesigning custom endpoint handling to discover and persist the exact working base URL with a single /v1 fallback; it also relaxes API-key validation and hides empty session logs.

Sequence diagram for custom endpoint URL resolution

sequenceDiagram
    participant User
    participant CLI as CLI_or_Setup_Wizard
    participant Resolver as custom_endpoint
    participant Endpoint
    participant Config as Config_Store

    User->>CLI: Enter base URL and API key
    CLI->>Resolver: discover_and_verify_model(value, api_key, model)
    Resolver->>Resolver: clean_openai_base_url(value)
    Resolver->>Endpoint: GET candidate /models
    alt Typed URL answers
        Endpoint-->>Resolver: Model list
    else Typed URL rejected
        Resolver->>Endpoint: GET versioned URL /v1/models
        Endpoint-->>Resolver: Model list
    end
    Resolver->>Endpoint: verify_openai_compatible_model(resolved_base_url, api_key, model)
    Endpoint-->>Resolver: Verification result
    Resolver-->>CLI: resolved_base_url, pricing
    CLI->>Config: Save resolved base URL and pricing

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Flow diagram for standalone binary dependency metadata

flowchart LR
    Build["PyInstaller build"] --> Metadata["copy-metadata readchar and aiolimiter"]
    Metadata --> Bundle["Standalone bundle includes dist-info"]
    Bundle --> Launch["Binary launches"]
    Launch --> Picker["Interactive model picker"]
    Launch --> Pipeline["Pipeline execution"]

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Make the standalone PyInstaller binary retain runtime package metadata and make interactive setup resilient when raw-key input is unavailable.	Copy readchar and aiolimiter metadata into release builds to prevent import-time PackageNotFoundError. Cache a guarded readchar import and fall back to Rich line prompts when it fails. Accept any non-blank API key and improve the validation message.	.github/workflows/release.yml src/notewise/ui/setup_wizard.py tests/unit/ui/test_setup_wizard.py
Resolve custom endpoint base URLs through discovery while preserving the URL form that successfully responds.	Separate URL validation/cleanup from version-appending normalization and add comparison logic for implicit versus explicit /v1. Try a supplied path first, retry once with a versioned path, and return the winning URL with detailed failure reasons. Use the resolved URL for model discovery, verification, pricing, saved profiles, CLI overrides, and cached pricing comparisons. Document and test handling of origins, version paths, request-path suffixes, fallback attempts, and total failures.	src/notewise/_constants.py src/notewise/llm/custom_endpoint.py src/notewise/cli/app.py src/notewise/ui/setup_wizard.py src/notewise/llm/provider.py docs/config/configuration.mdx tests/unit/llm/test_custom_endpoint.py tests/unit/cli/test_custom_endpoint_options.py tests/unit/ui/test_setup_wizard.py
Avoid presenting empty session logs as available logs.	Filter zero-byte log files before rendering the logs listing.	src/notewise/cli/_admin.py

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• tests/unit/cli/test_updater.py
• tests/unit/ui/test_setup_wizard.py
• website/src/lib/version.ts

Walkthrough

Custom endpoint handling now cleans and resolves URLs, retries discovery with a versioned path, and carries the successful URL through CLI and setup flows. The change also updates release packaging, setup input fallback, empty-log filtering, and an ignore rule.

Changes

Custom Endpoint Resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Endpoint URL rules src/notewise/_constants.py, src/notewise/llm/custom_endpoint.py, tests/unit/llm/test_custom_endpoint.py, tests/unit/cli/test_custom_endpoint_options.py	URL helpers clean paths, recognize version segments, compare equivalent URLs, and define how version paths are added. Tests cover path cleanup and versioning.
Model discovery and verification src/notewise/llm/custom_endpoint.py, tests/unit/llm/test_custom_endpoint.py	Discovery tries candidate URLs and returns the successful URL with model IDs. Verification and pricing use the resolved URL. Tests cover retry and failure reporting.
CLI and setup endpoint flows docs/config/configuration.mdx, src/notewise/cli/app.py, src/notewise/llm/provider.py, src/notewise/ui/setup_wizard.py, tests/unit/ui/test_setup_wizard.py	CLI and setup flows clean endpoint URLs, compare URL equivalence, and save the resolved URL with pricing. The documentation and tests reflect the updated flows.

Setup Input and Release Packaging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Raw-key input fallback src/notewise/ui/setup_wizard.py, tests/unit/ui/test_setup_wizard.py	Setup caches the readchar import and falls back to Prompt.ask when the import fails. API-key input accepts any nonblank value. Tests cover the fallback and warning behavior.
Bundled package metadata .github/workflows/release.yml	The Windows release build copies aiolimiter and readchar metadata into the PyInstaller bundle.

Empty Log Filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Log file selection src/notewise/cli/_admin.py	render_logs excludes zero-byte log files before sorting and listing them.

Repository Ignore Rule

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Beads ignore pattern .gitignore	Adds an ignore rule for paths matching .beads.*.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0fa8e

A matching custom-endpoint override can require the user to supply the API key again. Omitting the override is a workaround, so this is a bounded issue rather than a merge blocker.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0fa8e

Endpoint resolution is more flexible, but selecting an existing endpoint in setup can save a model without saving the URL that was just verified. Later requests may therefore use a different URL from the one that worked during setup. No introduced credential-exposure issue was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · architecture · observed: When setup selects an existing custom endpoint and discovery succeeds only at the fallback URL, setup verifies that URL but discards it. It saves the selected default model without updating the endpoint profile, so subsequent use can target the old, unsuccessful API base.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new discovery fallback extends authenticated requests to another path on the configured endpoint, not to another authority. Its direct exposure is the key supplied for that custom endpoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Discovery validates the URL and sends bearer authentication through a no-redirect request handler. Verification passes the resolved URL and key to LiteLLM; the inspected caller does not establish that dependency's redirect policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — On failed discovery or verification, setup returns before saving the selected model. On successful fallback for an existing profile, that containment does not ensure the saved URL matches the verified URL.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish and test the authenticated verification transport's redirect policy independently of discovery's redirect control.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies both primary changes: fixing the standalone binary and resolving custom endpoint base URLs.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description provides a detailed summary of the changes, rationale, verification results, tests, and user-facing behavior. It does not include the template checklist or a related issue entry, but t…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 96.55% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 58 functions across 9 files. (3 skipped: 3 …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="src/notewise/ui/setup_wizard.py" line_range="1283-1289" />
<code_context>
         )
     elif selected_profile is not None:
-        model_id = _discover_and_verify_custom_endpoint(
+        resolved = _discover_and_verify_custom_endpoint(
             selected_profile,
             console=active_console,
         )
-        if model_id is None:
+        if resolved is None:
             return current_config
+        _resolved_base_url, model_id = resolved
         model = f"{selected_profile.name}/{model_id}"
     else:
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**issue (broader_impact):** When the setup wizard reuses a saved custom endpoint and discovery succeeds only on the fallback `/v1` URL, the resolved URL is discarded: `_resolved_base_url` is ignored and `custom_config` is never updated for the selected profile. The wizard therefore saves the old base URL, so the next config read and subsequent use repeat the failed typed candidate instead of retaining the URL that answered.

**Triggers:** When an existing saved endpoint answers only at its fallback versioned URL.

**Suggested fix:** Replace the selected profile in `custom_profiles` with one using `_resolved_base_url` and serialize that updated profile into `custom_config` before calling `save_config`.
</issue_to_address>

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Needs a human reviewer. 1 finding to address first, and the endpoint resolver changes where bearer API keys are sent and persists whichever URL responds, so an incorrect path interpretation or fallback could expose credentials to an unintended compatible service; any request already sent cannot be undone by reverting. The standalone packaging, log filtering, and input validation changes are otherwise normally reversible.

Blocking findings: src/notewise/ui/setup_wizard.py:1289

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✅ Project coverage is 89.98%. Comparing base (f8dca33) to head (1246185).

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src/notewise/llm/custom_endpoint.py	92.42%	5 Missing ⚠️

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