[Pouyanpi]

Summary

Adds application lifespan ownership of a shared HTTPX client and an optional
custom transport used across provider instances.

Why

Applications need to own connection resources and outbound routing policy.
A shared transport extension supports model routing, gateways, and custom
network behavior while keeping those decisions outside the guarded kernel.

How it works

The application can supply an httpx.AsyncBaseTransport factory. Assembly calls
it once per lifespan and shares the resulting client and transport across
provider instances. The pooled client retains no upstream cookies; explicit
caller Cookie and upstream Set-Cookie headers remain part of the exchange.
Shutdown and failed-startup rollback attempt bounded, shielded HTTP cleanup
without replacing the original failure.

Guarded exchanges reach the transport after input inspection and return through
output inspection. Unrelated provider operations use streaming catch-all
forwarding without the guarded response-body limits. Identity encoding is
requested when inspected output requires it.

ProviderTransport opens the provider exchange. The pass-through router owns
ASGI rendering and attaches response cleanup before body iteration, including
disconnects and downstream send failures.

A model-routing example uses an application-defined destination table, model
aliases, and destination-owned credentials. Client payload fields cannot choose
an arbitrary upstream, and caller credentials do not cross provider origins.

What Changed

• Adds shared client and custom transport lifespan ownership.
• Uses ProviderTransport for buffered, streaming, and pass-through exchanges.
• Prevents upstream cookie persistence in the shared client while preserving explicit cookie headers.
• Separates guarded route composition from application catch-all forwarding.
• Adds streaming pass-through and per-exchange response representation policy.
• Reuses native route rejection rules and closes bodyless responses before returning.
• Preserves retryable bounded response cleanup through transport consolidation, including pass-through disconnects before iteration and downstream send failures.
• Keeps ASGI rendering in the router and bounds HTTP shutdown and startup rollback.
• Documents and tests application-defined model routing and destination credential isolation.

Review Notes

Review resource ownership on startup failure and shutdown, cancellation,
pass-through fidelity, and destination selection. Applications can implement
egress, TLS, recording, or routing policy through the transport; built-in retry
or load-balancing policy is not added. The application uses a statically
supplied checker.

Response cleanup uses the shared bounded, shielded helper. Ordinary close
failures are logged without replacing the primary outcome; cooperative cleanup
can be retried. Read timeouts and application shutdown remain separate policies.

Local focused transport, application, and lifecycle checks: 115 passed; additional
application/cleanup checks: 21 passed. Pre-commit passed.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an experimental transparent proxy application for forwarding provider requests.
  • Added optional custom HTTP transport support, shared across providers and managed throughout the application lifecycle.
  • Added passthrough routing for unguarded provider endpoints, including streaming responses and request/response size limits.
  • Improved provider forwarding with configurable timeouts, path prefixes, header handling, and encoding behavior.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved cleanup and error handling for failed, cancelled, streaming, and bodyless responses.
• Documentation
  • Documented custom transport configuration, request flow, cleanup, and security considerations.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 94.79167% with 10 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...rdrails/server/experimental/routers/passthrough.py	88.88%	6 Missing ⚠️
...rdrails/server/experimental/_provider_transport.py	95.45%	2 Missing ⚠️
nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_application.py	97.14%	1 Missing ⚠️
nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_runtime.py	96.96%	1 Missing ⚠️

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[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The reviewed changes appear safe to merge, with no new actionable issues found.

Summary

Adds an application-owned shared HTTPX client and optional transport factory.

• Applications share one custom HTTP transport across their provider calls.
• Other provider paths stream through a separate pass-through router.
• Streaming responses close shared owners only once.

No new actionable issues were found. Pouyanpi removed the misplaced model-routing example, addressing its three earlier findings. The earlier overlapping-mount finding is also addressed: route validation now rejects mounts that would shadow guarded routes. All supplied previous threads were unnumbered, so none require a numbered finding entry.

This was a code review; tests were not run.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[Application lifespan] --> B[Shared HTTPX client and optional transport]
  C[Caller request] --> D{Guarded route?}
  D -->|Yes| E[Input check]
  E --> F[ProviderTransport]
  D -->|No| G[Pass-through ownership checks]
  G --> F
  F --> B
  B --> H[Upstream]
  H --> I{Guarded output?}
  I -->|Yes| J[Output check]
  I -->|No| K[Stream response]
  J --> L[Caller]
  K --> L
  L --> M[Close response resources]

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📝 Walkthrough

The PR adds a lifespan-managed HTTP transport for experimental provider proxy applications. It updates provider transport configuration and dispatch, separates guarded routes from passthrough routes, and adds tests and documentation for transport lifecycle, request forwarding, and response cleanup.

Changes: Provider proxy transport and routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Application lifecycle and provider transport nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_application.py, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_runtime.py, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_provider_transport.py, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_provider_routes.py, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/http-transport.md, tests/recorded/server/experimental/openai/test_chat_completions.py, tests/server/experimental/test_application_http_transport.py, tests/server/experimental/test_httpx_response_cleanup.py, tests/server/experimental/test_provider_transport.py	The application creates and closes an optional transport and shared HTTPX client during its lifespan. ProviderTransport accepts UpstreamSettings and a client or resolver, filters headers, and supports buffered and streaming dispatch. Tests cover lifecycle, configuration, dispatch, and cleanup.
Guarded and passthrough route composition nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_provider_routes.py, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_http_kernel.py, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/routers/*, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/http-transport.md, tests/server/experimental/test_http_kernel.py, tests/server/experimental/test_provider_composition.py, tests/server/experimental/test_provider_transport.py, tests/server/experimental/test_provider_transport_cleanup.py	Provider routes register guarded routes before passthrough routers. The catch-all route can be disabled, and reserved-route checks include request path candidates. Passthrough handling validates paths and ownership, streams eligible responses, returns empty bodies for bodyless responses, and closes upstream streams.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ProviderRoutes
  participant GuardedRouter
  participant PassthroughRouter
  participant ProviderTransport
  participant ProviderUpstream
  Client->>ProviderRoutes: send provider request
  alt guarded route
    ProviderRoutes->>GuardedRouter: inspect and dispatch request
    GuardedRouter->>ProviderTransport: dispatch provider request
  else passthrough route
    ProviderRoutes->>PassthroughRouter: validate path and ownership
    PassthroughRouter->>ProviderTransport: forward accepted request
  end
  ProviderTransport->>ProviderUpstream: send request
  ProviderUpstream-->>ProviderTransport: return response
  ProviderTransport-->>Client: return buffered or streaming response

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ac450

Unguarded pass-through endpoints now forward every request body as a chunked stream, including requests that have no body. Upstream providers or gateways that reject chunked GET requests or require a declared upload length may fail those calls. The fix is small and localized, and it should be made before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 5 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Passed checks: 5 passed

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The PR contains major server and transport changes, including new application lifespan ownership, routing, and streaming behavior. The authored description documents testing: 115 focused checks passed, 21 additional application/cleanup checks passed, and pre-commit passed.

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Review comments at @nemoguardrails/server/experimental/routers/passthrough.py:
- Around line 57-65: Preserve request framing in the pass-through handler by
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📒 Files selected for processing: 15

• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_application.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_http_kernel.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_provider_routes.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_provider_transport.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/_runtime.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/http-transport.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/routers/__init__.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/routers/passthrough.py
• tests/recorded/server/experimental/openai/test_chat_completions.py
• tests/server/experimental/test_application_http_transport.py
• tests/server/experimental/test_http_kernel.py
• tests/server/experimental/test_httpx_response_cleanup.py
• tests/server/experimental/test_provider_composition.py
• tests/server/experimental/test_provider_transport.py
• tests/server/experimental/test_provider_transport_cleanup.py

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[m-misiura]

@Pouyanpi; I have no further comments on this PR and keen to LGTM as soon as you are ready :)