AI Provider

An AI Provider records one remote LLM endpoint. It does not store a URL, a header, a TLS setting, or a credential. A related Nautobot External Integration owns all of those. This app performs no inference. It only catalogs what is available.

Each AI Provider owns zero or more AI Models.

The model class is AIProvider, not Provider. Nautobot core already defines circuits.Provider, and one unqualified name for two things confuses both a reader and an import.

Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
name	string	yes	Unique name for the provider.
description	string	no	Free-text description.
external_integration	foreign key to extras.ExternalIntegration	yes	Supplies the remote URL, headers, TLS settings, timeout, and credentials. Protected: Nautobot refuses to delete an External Integration a Provider still uses.
openai_compatible	boolean	yes	The endpoint serves the OpenAI API shape, including GET /v1/models. Default True. The Discover AI Models job runs only against providers where this is true.
num_predict	integer	no	Default maximum number of tokens to generate. -1 means unlimited. An AI Model may override it.
temperature	decimal	no	Default sampling temperature, between 0 and 2. An AI Model may override it.

Credentials

Attach a Secrets Group to the External Integration. Store the API key as a secret of access type HTTP(S) and secret type token. The app reads it at the point of use. It never stores the value.