[claude] Document and validate AirLLM Apple Silicon requirements (#1284) #1298
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Fixes #1284
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System Requirementssection covering AirLLM (Apple Silicon M1–M4, 16 GB RAM min, ~15 GB disk) and Ollama (any OS, 8 GB RAM) paths with explicit auto-fallback note"airllm"totimmy_model_backendLiteral — the value was documented in README/.env.example but was an invalid pydantic settingcreate_timmy()— logs a warning and falls back to Ollama on non-Apple-Silicon hardware or whenairllmpackage is not installedTIMMY_MODEL_BACKENDcomment with hardware specs and install instructions for each valid valueis_apple_silicon()detection and graceful degradation on Intel/Linux and missing-package scenariosTest plan
tox -e unitpasses (507 tests)