[BOT ISSUE] Perplexity: add missing perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b Agent API model

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Gap description

Perplexity's Agent API serves perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b (NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B) but this model ID is missing from the catalog. The underlying model exists in the catalog as accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b (line 5806, fireworks provider), but the Perplexity-specific Agent API ID is absent.

Missing Model

Model ID	Underlying Catalog Entry	Perplexity Pricing (input/output/cached $/1M)
perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b	accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b (line 5806, fireworks)	$0.0115 / $0.17 / $0.00115

Suggested Catalog Entry

"perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b": {
  "format": "openai",
  "flavor": "chat",
  "input_cost_per_mil_tokens": 0.0115,
  "output_cost_per_mil_tokens": 0.17,
  "input_cache_read_cost_per_mil_tokens": 0.00115,
  "displayName": "Perplexity: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B",
  "max_input_tokens": 262144,
  "available_providers": ["perplexity"]
}

Verification Checklist

Check	Status	Detail
Cross-source	✅	Model confirmed on Perplexity Agent API models page (listed under NVIDIA group) AND Perplexity pricing page (pricing $0.0115/$0.17/$0.00115)
Already in catalog	✅	grep for perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning in model_list.json returns no matches
ID format	✅	Follows perplexity/ prefix convention used by Agent API models; consistent with perplexity/kimi-k3, perplexity/glm-5.2 pattern
Not deprecated	✅	Active on both Agent API models and pricing pages
Not embedding/vision-only	✅	Chat model (text input → text output); underlying Fireworks entry has "flavor": "chat"
Duplicate check	✅	No open or closed issues cover perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

Verification Notes

Field	Source	Notes
Model ID perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b	Agent API models	Listed under NVIDIA group
Pricing $0.0115/$0.17/$0.00115	Perplexity pricing	Input / output / cached input per 1M tokens
max_input_tokens: 262144	Derived from accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b catalog entry (line 5806)	Not published by Perplexity — derived from Fireworks entry for same underlying model
format: "openai"	Catalog convention	Existing Perplexity Agent API models use openai format

Fields NOT verified from Perplexity sources: max_input_tokens, max_output_tokens — not published on Perplexity docs. max_input_tokens derived from Fireworks catalog entry for same model.

Relationship to existing entries

Entry	Providers	Status
accounts/fireworks/models/nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b	fireworks	Already in catalog (line 5806)
perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b	perplexity	Missing — this issue

Local Files Inspected

• packages/proxy/schema/model_list.json — confirmed perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b absent; verified underlying model entry at line 5806

{
  "kind": "missing_model",
  "provider": "perplexity",
  "models": ["perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b"],
  "status": "active",
  "model_specs": {
    "perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b": {
      "format": "openai",
      "flavor": "chat",
      "input_cost_per_mil_tokens": 0.0115,
      "output_cost_per_mil_tokens": 0.17,
      "input_cache_read_cost_per_mil_tokens": 0.00115,
      "displayName": "Perplexity: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B",
      "max_input_tokens": 262144,
      "available_providers": ["perplexity"]
    }
  },
  "source_urls": [
    "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/agent-api/models",
    "https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing"
  ]
}

Summary: Add perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b as a new catalog entry for the Perplexity Agent API's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model.

[github-actions]

Closing this bot issue because perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b is on the permanent sync-exclusion list (MANUAL_SYNC_EXCLUDED_MODELS / deprecated_model_ids.json in sync_models.ts) or a Perplexity Gateway (router) model the proxy cannot route, and must not be auto-added to the catalog.