POST /api/admin/configure now writes a default ai: block into the
instance.yaml overlay when the request leaves it untouched and either
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or LLM_API_KEY is set in the environment. The block
references the env var via ${VAR} syntax — secrets never land in YAML.
connectors.llm.factory grows create_extractor_from_env_or_config which
falls back to ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / LLM_API_KEY when ai_config is empty
and raises a clear ValueError when neither is available. Both
services/corporate_memory and services/verification_detector switch to
the new helper, replacing the old 'silently skip when ai: missing'
path that was the silent-failure root cause.
Tests:
- tests/test_setup_ai_block.py — overlay seeding contract.
- tests/test_llm_provider_env_fallback.py — fallback + fail-fast.
