chore (core): rename model registry to provider registry (#1956)

Co-authored-by: Grace Yun <74513600+iteratetograceness@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: lgrammel

.changeset/tasty-planets-mate.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'ai': patch
+---
+
+chore (core): rename experimental_createModelRegistry to experimental_createProviderRegistry

content/docs/03-ai-sdk-core/40-model-management.mdx content/docs/03-ai-sdk-core/40-provider-management.mdx

@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 ---
-title: Model Management
-description: Learn how to work with multiple providers and models
+title: Provider Management
+description: Learn how to work with multiple providers
 ---
 
-# Model Management
+# Provider Management
 
-<Note>Model management is an experimental feature.</Note>
+<Note>Provider management is an experimental feature.</Note>
 
 When you work with multiple providers and models, it is often desirable to manage them in a central place
 and access the models through simple string ids.
 
-The Vercel AI SDK provides a [`ModelRegistry`](/docs/reference/ai-sdk-core/model-registry) for this purpose.
+The Vercel AI SDK provides a [`ProviderRegistry`](/docs/reference/ai-sdk-core/provider-registry) for this purpose.
 You can register multiple providers. The provider id will become the prefix of the model id:
 `providerId:modelId`.
 
 ### Setup (Example)
 
-You can create a registry with multiple providers and models using `experimental_createModelRegistry`.
+You can create a registry with multiple providers and models using `experimental_createProviderRegistry`.
 
 <Note>
   It is common to keep the registry setup in a separate file and import it where
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ You can create a registry with multiple providers and models using `experimental
 ```ts filename={"registry.ts"}
 import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
 import { createOpenAI } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
-import { experimental_createModelRegistry as createModelRegistry } from 'ai';
+import { experimental_createProviderRegistry as createProviderRegistry } from 'ai';
 
-export const registry = createModelRegistry({
+export const registry = createProviderRegistry({
   // register provider with prefix and default setup:
   anthropic,
 

content/docs/03-ai-sdk-core/index.mdx

@@ -39,5 +39,10 @@ description: Learn about the Vercel AI SDK Core.
       description: 'Learn how to use embeddings with the Vercel AI SDK Core.',
       href: '/docs/ai-sdk-core/embeddings',
     },
+    {
+      title: 'Provider Management',
+      description: 'Learn how to work with multiple providers.',
+      href: '/docs/ai-sdk-core/provider-management',
+    },
   ]}
 />

content/docs/07-reference/ai-sdk-core/40-model-registry.mdx content/docs/07-reference/ai-sdk-core/40-provider-registry.mdx

@@ -1,28 +1,28 @@
 ---
-title: experimental_createModelRegistry
+title: experimental_createProviderRegistry
 description: Registry for managing multiple providers and models (API Reference)
 ---
 
-# `experimental_createModelRegistry()`
+# `experimental_createProviderRegistry()`
 
-<Note>Model management is an experimental feature.</Note>
+<Note>Provider management is an experimental feature.</Note>
 
 When you work with multiple providers and models, it is often desirable to manage them
 in a central place and access the models through simple string ids.
 
-`createModelRegistry` lets you create a registry with multiple providers that you
+`createProviderRegistry` lets you create a registry with multiple providers that you
 can access by their ids.
 
 ### Setup (Example)
 
-You can create a registry with multiple providers and models using `createModelRegistry`.
+You can create a registry with multiple providers and models using `createProviderRegistry`.
 
 ```ts
 import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
 import { createOpenAI } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
-import { experimental_createModelRegistry as createModelRegistry } from 'ai';
+import { experimental_createProviderRegistry as createProviderRegistry } from 'ai';
 
-export const registry = createModelRegistry({
+export const registry = createProviderRegistry({
   // register provider with prefix and default setup:
   anthropic,
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ const { text } = await generateText({
 ## Import
 
 <Snippet
-  text={`import { experimental_createModelRegistry as createModelRegistry } from "ai"`}
+  text={`import { experimental_createProviderRegistry as createProviderRegistry } from "ai"`}
   prompt={false}
 />
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Registers a language model provider with a given id.
 
 ### Returns
 
-The `experimental_createModelRegistry` function returns a `experimental_ModelRegistry` instance. It has the following methods:
+The `experimental_createProviderRegistry` function returns a `experimental_ProviderRegistry` instance. It has the following methods:
 
 <PropertiesTable
   content={[

content/docs/07-reference/ai-sdk-core/index.mdx

@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ It also contains the following helper functions:
       href: '/docs/reference/ai-sdk-core/tool',
     },
     {
-      title: 'createModelRegistry()',
+      title: 'createProviderRegistry()',
       description:
         'Creates a registry for using models from multiple providers.',
-      href: '/docs/reference/ai-sdk-core/model-registry',
+      href: '/docs/reference/ai-sdk-core/provider-registry',
     },
     {
       title: 'cosineSimilarity()',

examples/ai-core/src/registry/setup-registry.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
 import { createOpenAI } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
-import { experimental_createModelRegistry as createModelRegistry } from 'ai';
+import { experimental_createProviderRegistry as createProviderRegistry } from 'ai';
 import dotenv from 'dotenv';
 
 dotenv.config();
 
-export const registry = createModelRegistry({
+export const registry = createProviderRegistry({
   // register provider with prefix and default setup:
   anthropic,
 

packages/core/core/registry/index.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export * from './model-registry';
+export * from './invalid-model-id-error';
 export * from './no-such-model-error';
 export * from './no-such-provider-error';
-export * from './invalid-model-id-error';
+export * from './provider-registry';

packages/core/core/registry/model-registry.test.ts packages/core/core/registry/provider-registry.test.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import { MockLanguageModelV1 } from '../test/mock-language-model-v1';
 import { InvalidModelIdError } from './invalid-model-id-error';
-import { experimental_createModelRegistry } from './model-registry';
 import { NoSuchModelError } from './no-such-model-error';
 import { NoSuchProviderError } from './no-such-provider-error';
+import { experimental_createProviderRegistry } from './provider-registry';
 
 it('should return language model from provider', () => {
   const model = new MockLanguageModelV1();
 
-  const modelRegistry = experimental_createModelRegistry({
+  const modelRegistry = experimental_createProviderRegistry({
     provider: id => {
       expect(id).toEqual('model');
       return model;
@@ -18,27 +18,27 @@ it('should return language model from provider', () => {
 });
 
 it('should throw NoSuchProviderError if provider does not exist', () => {
-  const modelRegistry = experimental_createModelRegistry({});
+  const registry = experimental_createProviderRegistry({});
 
-  expect(() => modelRegistry.languageModel('provider:model')).toThrowError(
+  expect(() => registry.languageModel('provider:model')).toThrowError(
     NoSuchProviderError,
   );
 });
 
 it('should throw NoSuchModelError if provider does not return a model', () => {
-  const modelRegistry = experimental_createModelRegistry({
+  const registry = experimental_createProviderRegistry({
     provider: () => null as any,
   });
 
-  expect(() => modelRegistry.languageModel('provider:model')).toThrowError(
+  expect(() => registry.languageModel('provider:model')).toThrowError(
     NoSuchModelError,
   );
 });
 
 it("should throw InvalidModelIdError if model id doesn't contain a colon", () => {
-  const modelRegistry = experimental_createModelRegistry({});
+  const registry = experimental_createProviderRegistry({});
 
-  expect(() => modelRegistry.languageModel('model')).toThrowError(
+  expect(() => registry.languageModel('model')).toThrowError(
     InvalidModelIdError,
   );
 });

packages/core/core/registry/model-registry.ts packages/core/core/registry/provider-registry.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { NoSuchProviderError } from './no-such-provider-error';
 /**
 Registry for managing models. It enables getting a model with a string id.
  */
-export type experimental_ModelRegistry = {
+export type experimental_ProviderRegistry = {
   /**
 Returns the language model with the given id in the format `providerId:modelId`.
 The model id is then passed to the provider function to get the model.
@@ -22,12 +22,17 @@ The model id is then passed to the provider function to get the model.
 };
 
 /**
- * Creates a model registry for the given providers.
+ * @deprecated Use `experimental_ProviderRegistry` instead.
  */
-export function experimental_createModelRegistry(
+export type experimental_ModelRegistry = experimental_ProviderRegistry;
+
+/**
+ * Creates a registry for the given providers.
+ */
+export function experimental_createProviderRegistry(
   providers: Record<string, (id: string) => LanguageModel>,
-): experimental_ModelRegistry {
-  const registry = new DefaultModelRegistry();
+): experimental_ProviderRegistry {
+  const registry = new DefaultProviderRegistry();
 
   for (const [id, provider] of Object.entries(providers)) {
     registry.registerLanguageModelProvider({ id, provider });
@@ -36,7 +41,7 @@ export function experimental_createModelRegistry(
   return registry;
 }
 
-class DefaultModelRegistry implements experimental_ModelRegistry {
+class DefaultProviderRegistry implements experimental_ProviderRegistry {
   // Mapping of provider id to provider
   private providers: Record<string, (id: string) => LanguageModel> = {};
 
@@ -91,3 +96,9 @@ The model id is then passed to the provider function to get the model.
     return model;
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * @deprecated Use `experimental_createProviderRegistry` instead.
+ */
+export const experimental_createModelRegistry =
+  experimental_createProviderRegistry;