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Add support for OpenRouter as a language model provider (#29496)
This pull request adds full integration with OpenRouter, allowing users
to access a wide variety of language models through a single API key.

**Implementation Details:**

* **Provider Registration:** Registers OpenRouter as a new language
model provider within the application's model registry. This includes UI
for API key authentication, token counting, streaming completions, and
tool-call handling.
* **Dedicated Crate:** Adds a new `open_router` crate to manage
interactions with the OpenRouter HTTP API, including model discovery and
streaming helpers.
* **UI & Configuration:** Extends workspace manifests, the settings
schema, icons, and default configurations to surface the OpenRouter
provider and its settings within the UI.
* **Readability:** Reformats JSON arrays within the settings files for
improved readability.

**Design Decisions & Discussion Points:**

* **Code Reuse:** I leveraged much of the existing logic from the
`openai` provider integration due to the significant similarities
between the OpenAI and OpenRouter API specifications.
* **Default Model:** I set the default model to `openrouter/auto`. This
model automatically routes user prompts to the most suitable underlying
model on OpenRouter, providing a convenient starting point.
* **Model Population Strategy:**
* <strike>I've implemented dynamic population of available models by
querying the OpenRouter API upon initialization.
* Currently, this involves three separate API calls: one for all models,
one for tool-use models, and one for models good at programming.
* The data from the tool-use API call sets a `tool_use` flag for
relevant models.
* The data from the programming models API call is used to sort the
list, prioritizing coding-focused models in the dropdown.</strike>
* <strike>**Feedback Welcome:** I acknowledge this multi-call approach
is API-intensive. I am open to feedback and alternative implementation
suggestions if the team believes this can be optimized.</strike>
    * **Update: Now this has been simplified to one api call.**
* **UI/UX Considerations:**
* <strike>Authentication Method: Currently, I've implemented the
standard API key input in settings, similar to other providers like
OpenAI/Anthropic. However, OpenRouter also supports OAuth 2.0 with PKCE.
This could offer a potentially smoother, more integrated setup
experience for users (e.g., clicking a button to authorize instead of
copy-pasting a key). Should we prioritize implementing OAuth PKCE now,
or perhaps add it as an alternative option later?</strike>(PKCE is not
straight forward and complicated so skipping this for now. So that we
can add the support and work on this later.)
* <strike>To visually distinguish models better suited for programming,
I've considered adding a marker (e.g., `</>` or `🧠`) next to their
names. Thoughts on this proposal?</strike>. (This will require a changes
and discussion across model provider. This doesn't fall under the scope
of current PR).
* OpenRouter offers 300+ models. The current implementation loads all of
them. **Feedback Needed:** Should we refine this list or implement more
sophisticated filtering/categorization for better usability?

**Motivation:**

This integration directly addresses one of the most highly upvoted
feature requests/discussions within the Zed community. Adding OpenRouter
support significantly expands the range of AI models accessible to
users.

I welcome feedback from the Zed team on this implementation and the
design choices made. I am eager to refine this feature and make it
available to users.

ISSUES: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/16576

Release Notes:

- Added support for OpenRouter as a language model provider.

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Signed-off-by: Umesh Yadav <umesh4257@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Marshall Bowers <git@maxdeviant.com>
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