diff --git a/litellm-rust/ADDING_A_PROVIDER.md b/litellm-rust/ADDING_A_PROVIDER.md
index 4a85af61905..f9a725c833a 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/ADDING_A_PROVIDER.md
+++ b/litellm-rust/ADDING_A_PROVIDER.md
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@
 - The provider config owns three pure steps: map LiteLLM params, transform the LiteLLM request into the provider request, and transform the provider response back into the LiteLLM response.
 - If the provider has a reverse or normalization step, keep it pure and explicit next to the transforms; do not hide reverse mapping inside the HTTP transport.
 - Route host functions in `crates/providers/src/<route>.rs` must be async: resolve auth/base URL, call the transforms, send with async transport, then call the response transform. Use Tokio/async all the way through Rust route I/O; only the PyO3 sync compatibility wrapper should `block_on` the async route, and it must release the GIL while waiting.
+- Do not add per-provider HTTP clients casually. Today Rust cannot call Python's `BaseLLMHTTPHandler`; if a route needs end-to-end Rust I/O, keep the async transport route-scoped, opt-in from Python, and do not broaden it to more providers until there is a shared Rust HTTP abstraction.
 - Register modules in `lib.rs` / `mod.rs`, add parity tests for params/request/response behavior, then run `cargo fmt && cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings && cargo test --workspace --locked`.
diff --git a/litellm-rust/crates/providers/src/ocr.rs b/litellm-rust/crates/providers/src/ocr.rs
index 17d5dc1ac83..03d7ce508c8 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/crates/providers/src/ocr.rs
+++ b/litellm-rust/crates/providers/src/ocr.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ const OCR_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 600;
 const ERROR_BODY_MAX_CHARS: usize = 256;
 
 /// Process-wide async HTTP client (connection pool + TLS reused across calls).
+///
+/// The Python fallback path uses LiteLLM's standard `BaseLLMHTTPHandler`. This
+/// Rust path is opt-in and owns end-to-end OCR I/O, so it cannot call the
+/// Python handler directly; keep this route-scoped until litellm-rust has a
+/// shared HTTP abstraction.
 fn http_client() -> &'static reqwest::Client {
     static CLIENT: OnceLock<reqwest::Client> = OnceLock::new();
     CLIENT.get_or_init(|| {