`utils.api` shadowed `ansible.module_utils.api` for anything that reached the
top-level `utils` package first, which the ai-agent-employees merge made
reachable. The module caches provider declarations, so it belongs beside the
other caches rather than at the root.
The three importers and the two documentation references move with it; nothing
else names the old path.
Verified: `from utils.cache.api import declared_api, provider_enabled,
resolve_api` resolves.
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API is a plain mapping, so an inventory that configures three providers replaces the whole declaration from group_vars/all/18_api.yml instead of merging into it. inventories/development/default.yml declares openai, anthropic and openrouter, so github, google and jira did not exist in CI at all and lookup('api', 'github.client_id') raised.
A raising lookup inside a value the applications renderer is templating does not fail the render: _templar_render_best_effort returns the string untouched and, for a value carrying a non-env lookup(, refuses the fallback as well. The raw template text reached plugin_value.enabled | bool, which coerced it to False and emitted the deprecation warning that fails the deploy gate. Run 34893363518, job 104153194109 lost web-app-nextcloud to exactly that, for three integrations at once. The configvalue entries would have stored template text as the client id.
utils/api.py merges the scope's override over the declaration, so an override narrows values and never the provider set, and holds the enable rule: every credential a provider declares must carry a value. The api lookup reads through it; the new api_enabled lookup gates on it and returns a real boolean instead of a string a filter has to coerce.
The same class sat in group_vars/all/16_ai.yml and roles/svc-ai-litellm/meta/secrets.yml as bare API.<provider>.<key> dereferences; both now go through the lookups.
Two lints keep it shut. test_addon_enabled_renders_to_bool renders the whole applications map against a scope with API blanked, the most hostile override an inventory may legally write, and requires every addon gate to come out a boolean. test_api_accessed_via_lookup forbids a bare API dereference in Jinja under roles/, group_vars/ and inventories/.
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