diff --git a/vendor/litellm-pgvector/main.py b/vendor/litellm-pgvector/main.py
index 159bcd9..b1b52c1 100644
--- a/vendor/litellm-pgvector/main.py
+++ b/vendor/litellm-pgvector/main.py
@@ -85,14 +85,22 @@ async def create_vector_store(
     try:
         # Use raw SQL to insert the vector store with configurable table/field names
         vector_store_table = settings.table_names["vector_stores"]
-        
+
+        # ponytail: honor a caller-supplied id (request.id) instead of
+        # always minting one — litellm's vector_store_registry addresses
+        # this store by a fixed id (see litellm-config.yaml), which never
+        # matched anything when this always generated a random UUID.
+        import uuid as _uuid
+        vector_store_id = request.id or str(_uuid.uuid4())
+
         result = await db.query_raw(
             f"""
             INSERT INTO {vector_store_table} (id, name, file_counts, status, usage_bytes, expires_after, metadata, created_at)
-            VALUES (gen_random_uuid(), $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, NOW())
-            RETURNING id, name, file_counts, status, usage_bytes, expires_after, expires_at, last_active_at, metadata, 
+            VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, NOW())
+            RETURNING id, name, file_counts, status, usage_bytes, expires_after, expires_at, last_active_at, metadata,
                      EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM created_at)::bigint as created_at_timestamp
             """,
+            vector_store_id,
             request.name,
             {"in_progress": 0, "completed": 0, "failed": 0, "cancelled": 0, "total": 0},
             "completed",
diff --git a/vendor/litellm-pgvector/models.py b/vendor/litellm-pgvector/models.py
index 70f4bff..ccd8667 100644
--- a/vendor/litellm-pgvector/models.py
+++ b/vendor/litellm-pgvector/models.py
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ from datetime import datetime
 
 class VectorStoreCreateRequest(BaseModel):
     name: str
+    # ponytail: not part of upstream litellm-pgvector — added locally so
+    # callers (litellm's vector_store_registry, scripts/ingest-memory.sh)
+    # can pin a human-readable id instead of getting a random UUID back.
+    # litellm-config.yaml's vector_store_registry addresses stores by a
+    # fixed vector_store_id, which only works if creation can honor it.
+    id: Optional[str] = None
     file_ids: Optional[List[str]] = None
     expires_after: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
     chunking_strategy: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None