diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md
index 9a840d7d92..186739a3b0 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/README.md
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Connection facts are not frozen at load. `resolveAdapterOptions` is the one expl
 
 The one registration-captured fact is the retry policy: when its resolved value changes, the plugin re-registers the route in place (same adapter instance, one synchronous section), so `ctx.llm.providerRetryPolicy('deepseek-official')` always reports the current policy.
 
+The plugin also declares its route in the configurable-provider directory (`ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()`): provider `deepseek-official`, settings namespace `llm-deepseek`, empty settings path — the whole section is the profile. Configuration surfaces use that entry to offer this adapter alongside dormant pi-ai providers.
+
 ## App attribution
 
 Every request carries the shared attribution header from dsh-llm's `attributionHeaders()` - the mandatory `User-Agent` baseline identifying the harness (see [dsh-llm § App attribution](../llm/README.md#app-attribution-attributionts)). Direct DeepSeek requests and OpenAI-compatible gateway requests get no provider-specific app-attribution headers under this adapter contract; OpenRouter app attribution is deferred to a future explicit OpenRouter adapter or mode. A request whose `GenerateOptions.purpose` is `compaction` (dsh-compact-basic's auxiliary summarization call) additionally carries `x-deepseek-harness-compact: 1`, so the host can separate compaction traffic from conversation requests.
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts
index aa0afaa675..ed2b0a783a 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/index.ts
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
   }
 
   const adapter = new DeepSeekAdapter({ options, resolveApiKey })
+  ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([
+    { provider: 'deepseek-official', displayName: 'DeepSeek', settingsNs: NS, settingsPath: [] },
+  ])
   // Route effects bind to this apply fiber via the stable `ctx` reference,
   // even when a swap runs inside the scoped settings callback below.
   let disposeRoute = ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['deepseek-official'], adapter)
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts
index 92b062a2e0..51cab78e46 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-deepseek/tests/adapter.spec.ts
@@ -555,8 +555,15 @@ describe('plugin registration and config', () => {
       baseURL: server.url,
     })
     expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([{ id: 'deepseek-official', name: 'DeepSeek' }])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toEqual([{
+      provider: 'deepseek-official',
+      displayName: 'DeepSeek',
+      settingsNs: 'llm-deepseek',
+      settingsPath: [],
+    }])
     await fiber.dispose()
     expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toEqual([])
   })
 
   it('registers retryPolicy from the provider config', async () => {
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md
index fb8145d58a..f2d030087c 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Configure credentials and deployment-specific transport settings per provider, k
           X-Deployment: production
 ```
 
-Each dict key must exist in pi-ai's installed catalog; the dict shape makes duplicates unrepresentable, and the pre-release array shape (with per-profile `provider` fields) fails load with migration directions. `providers` may also be empty or omitted entirely: the adapter then mounts **dormant** — zero routes, no extra catalog entries — and registers routes the moment the `llm-pi-ai:` settings section supplies profiles, dropping them again when it empties. Which adapters exist is composition; which providers run can be entirely the user's settings document. Registration with `ctx.llm` is atomic: a collision with any provider route already owned by another adapter fails plugin loading without registering the remaining routes. Model ids are not lifecycle config; an unknown model fails before any provider request with `LlmError('UNKNOWN_MODEL')`.
+Each dict key must exist in pi-ai's installed catalog; the dict shape makes duplicates unrepresentable, and the pre-release array shape (with per-profile `provider` fields) fails load with migration directions. `providers` may also be empty or omitted entirely: the adapter then mounts **dormant** — zero routes, no extra catalog entries — and registers routes the moment the `llm-pi-ai:` settings section supplies profiles, dropping them again when it empties. Dormant or not, the plugin declares every installed catalog provider in the configurable-provider directory (`ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()`, settings path `providers.<provider>`), so configuration surfaces can offer the full catalog before any route exists. Which adapters exist is composition; which providers run can be entirely the user's settings document. Registration with `ctx.llm` is atomic: a collision with any provider route already owned by another adapter fails plugin loading without registering the remaining routes. Model ids are not lifecycle config; an unknown model fails before any provider request with `LlmError('UNKNOWN_MODEL')`.
 
 ## Dynamic configuration (settings + credentials)
 
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts
index 6140b2456d..2d22c992ff 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/src/index.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
  */
 
 import type { Context } from 'cordis'
+import { getBuiltinProviders } from '@earendil-works/pi-ai/providers/all'
 import type {} from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import { deepEqualJson, installSettingsSection, settingsNamespace } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-settings'
 import { PiAiAdapter } from './adapter.ts'
@@ -90,6 +91,15 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
   }
 
   const adapter = new PiAiAdapter({ profiles, resolveApiKey })
+  // The full installed catalog is configurable from the moment the plugin
+  // mounts — dormant or not — so configuration surfaces can offer every
+  // pi-ai provider before any route exists.
+  ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders(getBuiltinProviders().map(provider => ({
+    provider,
+    displayName: provider,
+    settingsNs: NS,
+    settingsPath: ['providers', provider],
+  })))
   // Route effects bind to this apply fiber via the stable `ctx` reference,
   // even when a swap runs inside the scoped settings callback below. A bare
   // mount (zero routes) is the dormant posture: nothing registers until a
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/dynamic-config.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/dynamic-config.spec.ts
index 4bf4d6425a..a9873afb42 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/dynamic-config.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm-pi-ai/tests/dynamic-config.spec.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ describe('request-level dynamic profiles', () => {
     const ctx = await boot(dir, {})
 
     expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
+    // Dormant ≠ invisible: every installed catalog provider is configurable
+    // before any route exists, each addressed inside the providers dict.
+    const directory = ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()
+    expect(directory.length).toBeGreaterThan(30)
+    expect(directory).toContainEqual({
+      provider: 'openai',
+      displayName: 'openai',
+      settingsNs: 'llm-pi-ai',
+      settingsPath: ['providers', 'openai'],
+    })
     await ctx.settings.update(NS, {
       providers: { deepseek: { apiKeyEnv: 'PI_DYNAMIC_KEY', baseURL: server.url } },
     })
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/README.md b/packages/llm/llm/README.md
index 770bbcf8c4..12bf3ca990 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/README.md
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/README.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ An adapter registry plus a single streaming call surface, interceptable via a wa
 
 - `ctx.llm.registerAdapter(providers: string[], adapter: LlmAdapter): () => void` Register one adapter instance for the given provider routes. Registration is all-or-nothing, and is disposed with the calling fiber.
 - `ctx.llm.listProviders(): LlmProviderInfo[]` Describe registered provider routes in registration order.
+- `ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders(entries: readonly LlmConfigurableProvider[]): () => void` Declare provider routes an adapter plugin can activate through configuration — registered or dormant — each naming its owning settings namespace and the path to its profile inside that section. All-or-nothing (`INVALID_DIRECTORY`/`DUPLICATE_DIRECTORY`), disposed with the calling fiber.
+- `ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders(): LlmConfigurableProvider[]` List the declared directory in declaration order; configuration surfaces merge it with `listProviders()` to mark each entry live or dormant.
 - `ctx.llm.providerRetryPolicy(provider: string): ResolvedRetryPolicy` Return the provider-owned retry policy captured during registration, with normal defaults resolved.
 - `ctx.llm.listModels(provider: string): Promise<LlmModelInfo[]>` Discover the models one registered provider currently advertises.
 - `ctx.llm.resolveModelInfo(provider: string, model: string, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<LlmResolvedModelInfo>` Resolve validated exact-model identity plus available context and reasoning metadata from the owning adapter, with optional cancellation for asynchronous adapters.
@@ -23,6 +25,8 @@ An adapter registry plus a single streaming call surface, interceptable via a wa
 
 Provider and model metadata is a discovery surface, not a routing whitelist. `registerAdapter()` still owns provider exclusivity and captures the adapter's retry policy for each route, while an adapter may accept model ids absent from `listModels()`; consumers must not reject a request because its model is unlisted. Returned selector metadata is detached and invalid or duplicate adapter entries fail with `INVALID_ADAPTER` or `INVALID_CATALOG`.
 
+Every topology commit point — adapter routes registering or disposing, directory entries appearing or withdrawing — emits the payload-free `llm/adapters-updated` event after the mutation, so consumers re-read `listProviders()`/`listModels()`/`listConfigurableProviders()` instead of polling. Observer failures are contained (logged, non-vetoing); only `INVARIANT`-coded failures rethrow after the fan-out.
+
 Exact-model metadata is a separate correctness query, not a catalog decoration or global LLM setting. `resolveModelInfo()` asks the adapter that owns the exact provider/model route once; an adapter can describe an unlisted dynamic model, and absent `context` or `reasoning` fields mean only that those capabilities are unavailable. Invalid identity, context, or reasoning metadata fails with `INVALID_MODEL_INFO`, `INVALID_MODEL_CONTEXT`, or `INVALID_MODEL_REASONING`.
 
 Reasoning identifiers are opaque adapter-owned strings rather than a core enum. An adapter publishes its ordered selectable list, including an `off` id when that model's capability API exposes one. `resolveCallConfig()` accepts only an exact advertised identifier, materializes `defaultEffort` when present, and otherwise preserves the provider default. Asynchronous model resolvers receive the caller's signal and must settle promptly after cancellation. `prepareCall()` additionally retains the exact adapter registration through header logging and terminal dispatch, so HMR cannot combine one adapter's capability result with another adapter's request; reusing its one-shot handle or changing its call-config fields fails with `INVALID_PREPARED_CALL`. An unsupported explicit or configured effort fails with `UNSUPPORTED_REASONING_EFFORT` before provider I/O.
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts
index c8f5a8b0fc..a7c0fefccb 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/index.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import { Context, Service } from 'cordis'
 import type {
   GenerateOptions,
+  LlmConfigurableProvider,
   LlmFailure,
   LlmModelInfo,
   LlmResolvedModelInfo,
@@ -56,6 +57,17 @@ declare module 'cordis' {
      * @mode waterfall
      */
     'llm/stream'(this: LlmService, options: GenerateOptions, next: () => AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk>
+
+    /**
+     * The provider topology changed: an adapter registered or unregistered
+     * routes, or the configurable-provider directory gained or lost entries.
+     * This is a payload-free registry notification fired at each commit point
+     * (including registration disposal); consumers re-read `listProviders()`,
+     * `listModels()`, or `listConfigurableProviders()` for the new state.
+     * Observer failures are contained and cannot veto the registry mutation.
+     * @mode emit
+     */
+    'llm/adapters-updated'(): void
   }
 }
 
@@ -190,11 +202,33 @@ export abstract class LlmAdapter {
  */
 export class LlmService extends Service {
   private adapters = new Map<string, AdapterRegistration>()
+  private directory = new Map<string, LlmConfigurableProvider>()
 
   constructor(ctx: Context) {
     super(ctx, 'llm')
   }
 
+  /** Notify topology observers without letting one broken listener veto the commit. */
+  private emitAdaptersUpdated(): void {
+    // Cordis emit uses Array.map: one synchronous throw starves later
+    // listeners. Registry notifications are non-vetoing, so contain each
+    // callback independently; INVARIANT-coded failures still surface.
+    let invariantFailure: unknown
+    for (const listener of this.ctx.events.dispatch('emit', ['llm/adapters-updated']) as Array<() => unknown>) {
+      try {
+        listener()
+      } catch (error) {
+        if ((error as { code?: unknown } | null)?.code === 'INVARIANT') {
+          invariantFailure ??= error
+          continue
+        }
+        this.ctx.logger.warn('llm: an llm/adapters-updated listener failed')
+        this.ctx.logger.warn(error)
+      }
+    }
+    if (invariantFailure !== undefined) throw invariantFailure as Error
+  }
+
   /**
    * Register an adapter for the given provider routes. Throws `LlmError` with code
    * `DUPLICATE_ADAPTER` if any provider already has an adapter (all-or-nothing).
@@ -227,8 +261,10 @@ export class LlmService extends Service {
         })
       }
       for (const registration of registrations) this.adapters.set(registration.provider.id, registration)
+      this.emitAdaptersUpdated()
       yield () => {
         for (const provider of providers) this.adapters.delete(provider)
+        this.emitAdaptersUpdated()
       }
     }.bind(this), 'llm.registerAdapter()')
     // ctx.effect's disposer returns Promise<void>; our disposer API is
@@ -244,6 +280,50 @@ export class LlmService extends Service {
     return [...this.adapters.values()].map(({ provider }) => ({ ...provider }))
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Declare provider routes an adapter plugin can activate through
+   * configuration. Registration is all-or-nothing: an empty list, invalid
+   * entry, or a provider already declared by any registration throws
+   * `LlmError` without registering the rest. Disposed with the fiber.
+   * @param entries - every configurable provider this plugin owns.
+   * @returns the disposer that withdraws all of them.
+   */
+  registerConfigurableProviders(entries: readonly LlmConfigurableProvider[]): () => void {
+    const dispose = this.ctx.effect(function* (this: LlmService) {
+      if (entries.length === 0) {
+        throw new LlmError('a configurable-provider registration must declare at least one provider', 'INVALID_DIRECTORY')
+      }
+      const detached: LlmConfigurableProvider[] = []
+      for (const entry of entries) {
+        if (entry.provider.length === 0 || entry.displayName.length === 0 || entry.settingsNs.length === 0) {
+          throw new LlmError('configurable providers need a non-empty provider, displayName, and settingsNs', 'INVALID_DIRECTORY')
+        }
+        if (entry.settingsPath.some(segment => segment.length === 0)) {
+          throw new LlmError(`configurable provider "${entry.provider}" has an empty settingsPath segment`, 'INVALID_DIRECTORY')
+        }
+        if (this.directory.has(entry.provider) || detached.some(seen => seen.provider === entry.provider)) {
+          throw new LlmError(`configurable provider "${entry.provider}" is already declared`, 'DUPLICATE_DIRECTORY')
+        }
+        detached.push({ ...entry, settingsPath: [...entry.settingsPath] })
+      }
+      for (const entry of detached) this.directory.set(entry.provider, entry)
+      this.emitAdaptersUpdated()
+      yield () => {
+        for (const entry of detached) this.directory.delete(entry.provider)
+        this.emitAdaptersUpdated()
+      }
+    }.bind(this), 'llm.registerConfigurableProviders()')
+    return () => void dispose()
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * List every declared configurable provider, registered or dormant.
+   * @returns detached directory entries in declaration order.
+   */
+  listConfigurableProviders(): LlmConfigurableProvider[] {
+    return [...this.directory.values()].map(entry => ({ ...entry, settingsPath: [...entry.settingsPath] }))
+  }
+
   /**
    * Resolve the retry policy captured when one provider route was registered.
    * @param provider - registered provider route to inspect.
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/invariant.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/invariant.ts
index 76d55509cb..a755d87126 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/invariant.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/invariant.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,21 @@ async function* validateStream(
 /** Install validation around every provider stream. */
 const install: InvariantInstaller = (ctx, fail) => {
   ctx.on('llm/stream', (_options, next) => validateStream(next(), fail), { global: true, prepend: true })
+  ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', () => {
+    // A disposer-time emit can outlive the service-store entry during whole-
+    // context teardown; only a live service promises a readable registry.
+    const llm = ctx.get('llm')
+    if (llm === undefined) return
+    for (const provider of llm.listProviders()) {
+      try {
+        llm.providerRetryPolicy(provider.id)
+      } catch {
+        // Reaching here IS the violation: the notification promised a readable
+        // registry, and only that broken promise can make the lookup throw.
+        fail(`llm/adapters-updated fired while provider "${provider.id}" has no readable registration`)
+      }
+    }
+  }, { global: true })
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts b/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts
index 4e6e0eabe2..7f56e12b29 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/src/types.ts
@@ -119,6 +119,26 @@ export interface LlmProviderInfo {
   name: string
 }
 
+/**
+ * One provider route an adapter plugin can activate through configuration,
+ * whether or not the route is currently registered. Configuration surfaces
+ * merge this directory with `listProviders()` to offer every configurable
+ * provider alongside its live/dormant state.
+ */
+export interface LlmConfigurableProvider {
+  /** Provider route key this entry activates when configured. */
+  provider: string
+  /** Human-readable provider name for configuration surfaces. */
+  displayName: string
+  /** User-settings namespace whose section configures this provider. */
+  settingsNs: string
+  /**
+   * Path from that namespace's section root to this provider's profile
+   * object; empty when the whole section is the profile.
+   */
+  settingsPath: readonly string[]
+}
+
 /** One adapter-discovered model; catalog membership is advisory, not request validation. */
 export interface LlmModelInfo {
   /** Provider route that owns this model entry. */
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/tests/invariant.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm/tests/invariant.spec.ts
index 9eb868df1c..8aebb556c2 100644
--- a/packages/llm/llm/tests/invariant.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/tests/invariant.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { Context } from 'cordis'
-import { CallId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import LlmService, { CallId, LlmAdapter } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import type { GenerateOptions, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
 import * as LlmInvariant from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm/invariant'
 import InvariantService from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-invariants'
@@ -84,3 +84,40 @@ describe('LLM stream invariants', () => {
     })()).rejects.toThrow('provider failed')
   })
 })
+
+describe('adapters-updated invariants', () => {
+  class NoopAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
+
+    async * stream(_options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
+      throw new Error('not exercised')
+    }
+  }
+
+  it('accepts a coherent registry at every topology notification', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+    const dispose = ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['coherent'], new NoopAdapter())
+    ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([
+      { provider: 'dormant', displayName: 'Dormant', settingsNs: 'ns', settingsPath: [] },
+    ])
+    dispose()
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('skips the check when the service store has no llm entry', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    expect(() => { ctx.emit('llm/adapters-updated') }).not.toThrow()
+  })
+
+  it('reports a notification whose registry cannot be re-read', async () => {
+    class BrokenLlm extends LlmService {
+      override providerRetryPolicy(_provider: string): never {
+        throw new Error('registration vanished')
+      }
+    }
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    await ctx.plugin(BrokenLlm)
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['ghost'], new NoopAdapter()))
+      .toThrow(/no readable registration/)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/llm/llm/tests/topology.spec.ts b/packages/llm/llm/tests/topology.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f33cd69399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/llm/llm/tests/topology.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { Context } from 'cordis'
+import LlmService, { LlmAdapter, LlmError } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+import type { GenerateOptions, LlmConfigurableProvider, StreamChunk } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-llm'
+
+class NoopAdapter extends LlmAdapter {
+
+  async * stream(_options: GenerateOptions): AsyncIterable<StreamChunk> {
+    throw new Error('not exercised')
+  }
+}
+
+async function setup(): Promise<Context> {
+  const ctx = new Context()
+  await ctx.plugin(LlmService)
+  return ctx
+}
+
+function entry(overrides: Partial<LlmConfigurableProvider> = {}): LlmConfigurableProvider {
+  return {
+    provider: 'openai',
+    displayName: 'OpenAI',
+    settingsNs: 'llm-pi-ai',
+    settingsPath: ['providers', 'openai'],
+    ...overrides,
+  }
+}
+
+describe('llm/adapters-updated', () => {
+  it('fires at both adapter registration commit points with the registry already readable', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const observed: string[][] = []
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', () => {
+      observed.push(ctx.llm.listProviders().map(provider => provider.id))
+    })
+    const dispose = ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['a', 'b'], new NoopAdapter())
+    expect(observed).toEqual([['a', 'b']])
+    dispose()
+    expect(observed).toEqual([['a', 'b'], []])
+  })
+
+  it('contains a throwing listener without vetoing registration or starving later listeners', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const warn = vi.spyOn(ctx.logger, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => undefined)
+    const later = vi.fn()
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', () => {
+      throw new Error('broken observer')
+    })
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', later)
+    ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['a'], new NoopAdapter())
+    expect(ctx.llm.listProviders().map(provider => provider.id)).toEqual(['a'])
+    expect(later).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith('llm: an llm/adapters-updated listener failed')
+  })
+
+  it('rethrows the first INVARIANT-coded listener failure after notifying the rest', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const later = vi.fn()
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', () => {
+      throw Object.assign(new Error('registry incoherent'), { code: 'INVARIANT' })
+    })
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', later)
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerAdapter(['a'], new NoopAdapter())).toThrow('registry incoherent')
+    expect(later).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('configurable-provider directory', () => {
+  it('registers entries, lists detached copies in order, and fires the topology event', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const events = vi.fn()
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', events)
+    ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([
+      entry({ provider: 'deepseek-official', displayName: 'DeepSeek', settingsNs: 'llm-deepseek', settingsPath: [] }),
+      entry(),
+    ])
+    expect(events).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    const listed = ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()
+    expect(listed).toEqual([
+      { provider: 'deepseek-official', displayName: 'DeepSeek', settingsNs: 'llm-deepseek', settingsPath: [] },
+      { provider: 'openai', displayName: 'OpenAI', settingsNs: 'llm-pi-ai', settingsPath: ['providers', 'openai'] },
+    ])
+    listed[0]!.displayName = 'mutated'
+    ;(listed[1]!.settingsPath as string[]).push('mutated')
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()[0]!.displayName).toBe('DeepSeek')
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()[1]!.settingsPath).toEqual(['providers', 'openai'])
+  })
+
+  it('detaches stored entries from caller-owned objects', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const source = entry()
+    ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([source])
+    source.displayName = 'mutated'
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()[0]!.displayName).toBe('OpenAI')
+  })
+
+  it('withdraws every entry when the registration disposes', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const dispose = ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([entry()])
+    const events = vi.fn()
+    ctx.on('llm/adapters-updated', events)
+    dispose()
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toEqual([])
+    expect(events).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  it('withdraws entries when the contributing fiber disposes', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    const fiber = await ctx.plugin({
+      inject: ['llm'],
+      apply: (child: Context) => {
+        child.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([entry()])
+      },
+    })
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toHaveLength(1)
+    await fiber.dispose()
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('rejects an empty registration', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([])).toThrow(LlmError)
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([])).toThrow(/at least one provider/)
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    [entry({ provider: '' }), /non-empty provider/],
+    [entry({ displayName: '' }), /non-empty provider/],
+    [entry({ settingsNs: '' }), /non-empty provider/],
+    [entry({ settingsPath: ['providers', ''] }), /empty settingsPath segment/],
+  ])('rejects invalid entries all-or-nothing', async (invalid, message) => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([entry({ provider: 'valid-first' }), invalid])).toThrow(message)
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('rejects duplicates within one registration and across registrations', async () => {
+    const ctx = await setup()
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([entry(), entry()])).toThrow(/already declared/)
+    ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([entry()])
+    expect(() => ctx.llm.registerConfigurableProviders([entry({ displayName: 'Other' }), entry({ provider: 'unseen' })]))
+      .toThrow(/already declared/)
+    expect(ctx.llm.listConfigurableProviders()).toHaveLength(1)
+  })
+})