From 94277f8aa08c0c837a10922fb6fe94d83b788a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Balders <cbalders@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:28:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?litellm:=20drop=20local=5Fqwen2.5-72b=20alias?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20=E2=80=94=20model=20retired=20from=20Anvil=202026-09-14?=
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 vars/main.yml | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vars/main.yml b/vars/main.yml
index 0ce47be..96a030a 100644
--- a/vars/main.yml
+++ b/vars/main.yml
@@ -83,10 +83,8 @@ anvil_ollama_base: "http://192.168.1.150:11434"
 # 70B+8B can't both stay resident in the ~62 GB budget (expect model swaps).
 litellm_models:
   # ---- local_* → Anvil/Ollama, local GPU, no cost ----
-  - name: local_qwen2.5-72b
-    backend: ollama_chat/qwen2.5:72b
-    api_base: "{{ anvil_ollama_base }}"
-    api_key: ollama-no-auth
+  # local_qwen2.5-72b removed 2026-09-14: the model is retired from Anvil (RAG
+  # chat is local_qwen2.5-14b now). A dangling alias would 404 at Ollama.
   - name: local_llama-3.3-70b
     backend: ollama_chat/llama3.3:70b
     api_base: "{{ anvil_ollama_base }}"