Devin BUG: /api/admin/configure seeds an ai: block to the writable
overlay at DATA_DIR/state/instance.yaml, but the three LLM consumers
imported from config.loader.load_instance_config — which reads the
static config dir only. Even if they had read the overlay, the loader
ran yaml.safe_load directly without passing through _resolve_env_refs,
so '${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}' would have stayed a literal placeholder. The
pipeline appeared to work because the factory falls back to the env
var directly, but the overlay path itself was dead code.
Two fixes, both required:
1. Switched the three LLM consumers to app.instance_config.load_instance_config:
- services/corporate_memory/collector.py:collect_all
- services/verification_detector/__main__.py:main
- app/api/admin.py:run_verification_detector
2. app/instance_config.py runs the loaded overlay through
config.loader._resolve_env_refs *before* the deep-merge, so
'${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}' resolves at config-load time.
New regression suite tests/test_instance_config_overlay.py pins:
- env-ref resolution against the overlay (resolved when env set,
empty when env missing — never the literal placeholder)
- deep-merge still preserves static-only sections
- the three consumers reach app.instance_config (inspected via
inspect.getsource so a future refactor that reverts the import
fails the test)
- end-to-end: a seeded overlay + ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env reaches the
factory with a resolved api_key
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.
