refactor: read the OpenRouter model name from env via settings

Author: javiercoronadonarvaez

config/settings.py

@@ -655,6 +655,8 @@
 BOOST_BRANCHES = ["master", "develop"]
 OPENROUTER_URL = "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
 OPENROUTER_API_KEY = env("OPENROUTER_API_KEY")
+SUMMARIZATION_MODEL = env("SUMMARIZATION_MODEL", default="gpt-oss-120b")
+WHATS_NEW_MODEL = env("WHATS_NEW_MODEL", default="gpt-oss-120b")
 
 ALGOLIA = {
     "app_id": env("ALGOLIA_APP_ID", None),

news/tasks.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import structlog
 
 from config.celery import app
-from config.settings import OPENROUTER_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_URL
+from config.settings import OPENROUTER_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_URL, SUMMARIZATION_MODEL
 from news.constants import CONTENT_SUMMARIZATION_THRESHOLD
 from news.helpers import extract_content
 from news.utils import set_video_thumbnail
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def set_summary_for_event_entry(pk: int):
         return
     logger.info(f"handing off {pk=} to summarize_content task")
     summarize_content.apply_async(
-        (entry.content, entry.title, "gpt-oss-120b"),
+        (entry.content, entry.title, SUMMARIZATION_MODEL),
         link=save_entry_summary_value.s(pk),
     )
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def set_summary_for_link_entry(pk: int):
 
     logger.info(f"dispatching summarize task for {pk=} with {content[:40]=}...")
     summarize_content.apply_async(
-        (content, entry.title, "gpt-oss-120b"), link=save_entry_summary_value.s(pk)
+        (content, entry.title, SUMMARIZATION_MODEL), link=save_entry_summary_value.s(pk)
     )
 
 

news/views.py

@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ def generate_description(request):
 
     try:
         summary = summarize_content(
-            content, title, "gpt-oss-120b", DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH
+            content, title, settings.SUMMARIZATION_MODEL, DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH
         )
     except Exception:
         logger.exception("generate_description: summarization failed")

versions/tasks.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 from celery import group, chain
 
 from config.celery import app
-from config.settings import OPENROUTER_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_URL
+from config.settings import OPENROUTER_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_URL, WHATS_NEW_MODEL
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.management import call_command
 from django.utils import timezone
@@ -626,10 +626,10 @@ def skip_tag(name, new=False):
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-WHATS_NEW_MODEL = "gpt-oss-120b"
 # Guardrail to keep the LLM call comfortably under the model's context window
 # (gpt-oss-120b is ~131K tokens; ~100K chars leaves headroom for the system
-# prompt + output). Inputs above this are truncated.
+# prompt + output). Inputs above this are truncated. The model name itself
+# is configured via the WHATS_NEW_MODEL setting (env-driven; see settings.py).
 WHATS_NEW_MAX_INPUT_CHARS = 100_000
 
 WHATS_NEW_SYSTEM_PROMPT = dedent(