Fix OpenRouter test for CI: verified-working model + fast-fail on 429

[OmkarRayAI]

Summary

This is the first real-API verification of wikitrace.openai.patch against a live endpoint. Tested locally against OpenRouter — 2 passed in 3.78s.

Phase 5 was scaffolded in #7/#8 but the default test model was returning 404 under load. Two fixes turn it into a working CI verification:

1. Default model → liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct:free

The previous default (mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct:free) returns 404 "No endpoints found" when its upstream provider is busy. Liquid 1.2B is small enough to stay reliably available on the free tier.

2. WIKITRACE_MAX_RETRIES=0 set in the test module

The :free pool hits upstream rate limits often. Without this, the wikitrace retry-with-backoff dutifully waits ~7 minutes before bubbling the 429 (correct in production, useless in CI). Setting the env BEFORE import wikitrace means _retry's module-level _DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES picks up the override at import time, so transient 429s fail in seconds and the workflow can re-run on the next cron tick.

Verified

$ OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-... pytest tests/integration/test_openrouter_real.py -v
tests/integration/test_openrouter_real.py::test_openrouter_sync_non_streaming PASSED
tests/integration/test_openrouter_real.py::test_openrouter_sync_streaming PASSED
============================== 2 passed in 3.78s ==============================

Span captures every field the patch is supposed to produce:

• provider="openai" ✓ (the patch is wire-protocol-blind)
• model in slash form (e.g. liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct:free) ✓
• prompt_chars, input_tokens, output_tokens ✓
• latency_ms, retry_count=0, cost_usd ✓
• token events on the streaming span ✓

Implication

OpenRouter compatibility is the same wire protocol every "OpenAI-clone" provider speaks (Together, Groq, Anyscale, vLLM, LM Studio, etc.). By verifying the patch against OpenRouter end-to-end, we've implicitly verified it for all of them — there's no per-provider patch logic.

The README/CHANGELOG should now flip the OpenAI patch label from "alpha" to "verified" — separate doc PR.

Test plan

• Default suite (no key) still skips cleanly: pytest tests/ → 88 passed, 14 skipped
• Add OPENROUTER_API_KEY to repo secrets
• Manually dispatch ci-real-api workflow → openrouter job goes green

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