Clear the deferred full-repo lint backlog so the whole tree passes the strict
ruff select (E,W,F,I,B,UP,C4,SIM). Mechanical fixes dominate: import sorting,
pep585/604 annotations, dropped dead imports, and whitespace. The few semantic
changes are behavior-preserving: declare __all__ on the agent_utils and
alpha_vantage re-export hubs; expand 'from x import *' to explicit names; use
immutable tuple defaults instead of mutable list defaults; contextlib.suppress
for try/except/pass; and narrow an over-broad assertRaises.
The OpenAI-compatible family (openai, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, MiniMax,
OpenRouter, Ollama) all speak the same Chat Completions API and differ only by
base_url, key, and two narrow wire-format quirks already isolated in subclasses.
Replace the scattered base-URL dict, key handling, and client-class branches with
one ProviderSpec registry that get_llm and the factory drive off; provider quirks
stay in their subclasses. Add a generic "openai_compatible" provider for any
OpenAI-compatible server (vLLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp, relays) via backend_url +
optional key — adding a provider is now one registry row. Native Anthropic/Google
keep their own clients (genuinely different APIs). Also fixes the env backend URL
being ignored when the provider was chosen interactively (#978).
