MoritzLaurer/deberta-v3-base-zeroshot-v2 (the local_encoder default)
started returning 401 on an unauthenticated GET of its own model page
-- gated or moved sometime after this project picked it, discovered
live 2026-09-06 when it took production down entirely (crash-loop,
exit code 1). The startup check (ensure_available) did its job --
refused to boot rather than fail opaquely on the first request -- but
the service still couldn't come up until the default was fixed.
Switched to facebook/bart-large-mnli: HuggingFace's own reference
model for the zero-shot-classification pipeline, confirmed publicly
accessible live. Larger than the old default (~407M vs ~184M params)
but that's the honest tradeoff for "still works."
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VRQXz5SYZYVWscxS1QqF6U
