Thanks for the effort here. The OpenAI-Compatible provider itself (src/config.ts, embedding.ts, store.ts, builder.ts, server/api/semantic.ts, dashboard/panels/semantic.ts plus the new tests) reads well — the provider abstraction, index identity check, abort wiring through the builder, and API-key redaction are all in the right shape.

I can't merge it as-is though. The diff carries three unrelated regressions that look like a stale rebase — your fork's base predates #380, and the merge brought those files back to the older version:

1. src/cli/commands/chat.tsx:512 — drops incrementalRendering: true and alternateScreen: opts.altScreen !== false. Both lines are load-bearing for feat(ui): row-precision virtual scroll on Ink 7 + React 19 #380 (row-precision virtual scroll on Ink 7); without them, scrollback reflow ghosting comes back.

2. src/cli/ui/layout/CardStream.tsx — replaces Ink 7's useBoxMetrics with useEffect + measureElement + useState, and the effect has no dependency array. That re-runs setState on every render, which triggers another render — at best a measurement loop, at worst infinite. This is the pre-feat(ui): row-precision virtual scroll on Ink 7 + React 19 #380 implementation.

3. src/cli/ui/ticker.tsx — swaps useAnimation for a raw setInterval. useAnimation shares one Ink-managed interval and is paused globally by TickerProvider's disabled flag (PLAIN_UI mode and modal overlays rely on that for byte-stable output). A naked setInterval per caller breaks that invariant.

CI passing doesn't catch these — they're TUI rendering behavior, not anything the unit tests exercise.

Could you reset just those three files to current main and force-push?

git fetch upstream main
git checkout upstream/main -- src/cli/commands/chat.tsx src/cli/ui/layout/CardStream.tsx src/cli/ui/ticker.tsx
git commit --amend --no-edit
git push --force-with-lease

The rest of the PR stays untouched. Once those three files are back to main, I'll do another pass and merge.

now？

The three files are byte-identical to main now — that part is sorted, thanks for the fast turnaround.

One last thing before merge: a few i18n PRs landed on main after you last synced (#447 / #448 / the dashboard i18n batch), so the PR is currently CONFLICTING. The conflicts are in three files you also modified:

• dashboard/src/i18n/en.ts
• dashboard/src/i18n/zh-CN.ts
• src/cli/ui/slash/handlers/semantic.ts

Merge main in once more and resolve those (should be small on both sides — mostly adjacent string additions), then I'll do the final review and merge.

git fetch upstream main
git merge upstream/main
# resolve the three conflicts
git push

The three files are byte-identical to main now — that part is sorted, thanks for the fast turnaround.

One last thing before merge: a few i18n PRs landed on main after you last synced (#447 / #448 / the dashboard i18n batch), so the PR is currently CONFLICTING. The conflicts are in three files you also modified:

• dashboard/src/i18n/en.ts
• dashboard/src/i18n/zh-CN.ts
• src/cli/ui/slash/handlers/semantic.ts

Merge main in once more and resolve those (should be small on both sides — mostly adjacent string additions), then I'll do the final review and merge.

git fetch upstream main
git merge upstream/main
# resolve the three conflicts
git push

now ？

Took the liberty of doing the merge myself since maintainerCanModify is on — your last push had the right diff but wasn't a true merge commit (single parent), so GitHub kept flagging it CONFLICTING.

What's now on your main:

• Real merge commit (a614307) with two parents — your tip 90c2f13 + current upstream main f9a1d09
• One conflict resolved: src/cli/ui/slash/handlers/semantic.ts — kept the import type { EmbeddingProvider } from "@/config.js" line your PR added (it's used by IndexSummary and readIndexMeta further down)
• Two dashboard i18n files auto-merged (adjacent string additions on both sides)

Ran npm run verify locally — all 2320 tests pass. Once CI finishes I'll squash-merge.

Thanks for sticking with this through the rebase churn.