Status

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Task
Add a health check to this project that calls GET /v1/status (no key needed), reads is_alive, service_status, service_message, updated_at and model_statuses, and is consulted before retrying failed requests: when the service isn't operational, back off instead of retrying.

Read this first
Meta's docs page "Status" as Markdown: https://dev.meta.ai/docs/api-reference/status.md
It's the source of truth for request and response shapes. The same page for people: https://dev.meta.ai/docs/api-reference/status

Setup
- Base URL: https://api.meta.ai/v1
- Auth: send Authorization: Bearer $MODEL_API_KEY, reading MODEL_API_KEY from the environment. Never hard-code, print or commit the key.
- Model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (Contributor mode: Meta may use what you send to train future models; drop -contributor for Standard mode)
- Python: the OpenAI SDK (pip install openai) with base_url="https://api.meta.ai/v1" and api_key=os.environ["MODEL_API_KEY"] works, or plain requests.

Facts to get right
- GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status is unauthenticated: the Authorization header is optional here.
- A live reply looks like { "is_alive": true, "service_status": "operational", "service_message": "", "updated_at": "", "model_statuses": [] }. The reference names it StatusResponse without listing fields, so read each one defensively.
- The error-handling page sends persistent 500s and 503s here before more retries.

Starter code (Python)
import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.meta.ai/v1/status", timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
status = response.json()
healthy = status.get("is_alive") is True and status.get("service_status") == "operational"
print("operational" if healthy else f"degraded: {status.get('service_status')} {status.get('service_message')}")

Done when
- The check prints operational while the API is up.
- It runs with MODEL_API_KEY unset.
- The key comes from MODEL_API_KEY and never appears in code, logs or commits.
- API errors (4xx, 429) surface their message instead of failing silently.