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Introduce documentation for using the experimental Guardrails proxy, from installation and startup through Python customization and deployment. The guides use the existing nemoguardrails[server] distribution and python -m nemoguardrails.server.experimental launcher.

• Provide an OpenAI quickstart with Shell and Python examples for Chat Completions and Responses.
• Cover configuration, Python integration, multiple instances, custom HTTP transport, provider extensions, deployment, and architecture.
• Explain guard contracts, supported content boundaries, reasoning controls, streaming release and error behavior, and lifecycle ownership.
• Consolidate overlapping source documentation while retaining detailed contract and provider references; include a trusted model-routing transport example.

Replaces #2502 with the same commits on an upstream branch so PR previews can run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added an experimental Guardrails Proxy guide covering setup, configuration, supported providers and streaming, deployment, troubleshooting, and advanced customization.
  • Expanded guidance on choosing the proxy, its supported inspection boundaries, and how it fits into the Guardrails ecosystem.
  • Updated provider contract references and streamlined older proxy documentation.
• Examples
  • Added a model-routing transport example for routing requests to configured upstreams, including model aliases and credentials.

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Summary

Adds experimental proxy documentation covering setup, configuration, Python customization, deployment, and architecture.

• Developers can follow a published guide from proxy setup through deployment.
• A custom transport can route guarded requests to configured model destinations.

Diagram

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flowchart LR
    Client["Client"] --> Proxy["Experimental proxy"]
    Proxy --> Input["Configured input checks"]
    Input --> Transport["HTTP transport"]
    Transport --> Upstream["Model provider"]
    Upstream --> Output["Configured output checks"]
    Output --> Client

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds documentation for the experimental Guardrails Proxy, including setup, provider coverage, configuration, streaming, deployment, and customization guides. It also adds a model-routing HTTPX transport example and tests for routing, request handling, and integration with proxy checks.

Changes: Guardrails Proxy Documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Proxy overview and setup docs/index.yml, docs/run-rails/index.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/index.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/quickstart.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/configuration.mdx, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/examples/basic/proxy.yaml, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/application.md	Adds proxy navigation and overview, a quickstart, configuration guidance, and an OpenAI API example manifest. Removes the previous application guide.
Provider coverage and inspection lifecycle docs/run-rails/using-proxy/providers-and-streaming.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/guard-contracts.mdx, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/contracts/openai/README.md, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/providers/openai/chat_completions/README.md, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/extend-provider-bindings.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/architecture/*	Documents provider payload and streaming boundaries, guard contracts, binding customization, and buffered and streaming inspection behavior.
Python integration and Rails selection docs/run-rails/using-proxy/python-integration.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/configuration-resolution.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/architecture/framework-internals.mdx, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/configuration-resolution.md	Documents Python application setup, Rails configuration selection, resolver behavior, startup initialization, and resource ownership. Removes the previous configuration-resolution guide.
Provider instances and deployment operations docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/multiple-provider-instances.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/deployment.mdx, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/troubleshooting.mdx	Covers multiple provider mounts, deployment patterns, operational constraints, and troubleshooting.
Model-routing transport and verification nemoguardrails/server/experimental/examples/model_routing_transport.py, tests/server/experimental/test_model_routing_transport.py, docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/http-transport.mdx, nemoguardrails/server/experimental/http-transport.md	Adds a model-routing transport example and tests for route selection, request forwarding, credentials, limits, streaming, and cleanup. Adds transport customization guidance and removes the earlier transport guide.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProxyApplication
  participant ModelRoutingTransport
  participant HTTPXTransport
  participant Destination
  ProxyApplication->>ModelRoutingTransport: Send outbound provider request
  ModelRoutingTransport->>HTTPXTransport: Forward request to selected route
  HTTPXTransport->>Destination: Send routed HTTP request
  Destination-->>HTTPXTransport: Return HTTP response
  HTTPXTransport-->>ModelRoutingTransport: Return upstream response
  ModelRoutingTransport-->>ProxyApplication: Return provider response

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Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails#2468: Adds the proxy manifest loader and CLI commands that the new guides describe.
• NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails#2467: Adds the proxy configuration, Rails selection, and application factory APIs covered by the integration guides.
• NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails#2463: Adds conformance coverage for the provider bindings and streaming behavior documented here.

Suggested labels: temp: guardrails-proxy

Suggested reviewers: tanushriya910, m-misiura

Merge Risk: Low · up to 565ef

Clarify which examples and proxy capabilities are experimental, and preserve upload framing for upstreams that require a known length. These are bounded issues rather than a broad deployment blocker.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 2

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/run-rails/index.mdx:
- Around line 80-84: Mark the Guardrails proxy as experimental throughout the
overview page so its maturity is clear alongside the production-ready tools.
Update the proxy overview text, table row, and card text to include the
experimental label, and revise “needs input/output checks” to say the proxy
checks inputs and outputs.

Review comments at
@docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/extend-provider-bindings.mdx:
- Around line 198-204: Update the usage guidance near CUSTOM_ENDPOINT to clarify
that the customized app guards only Chat Completions. Link specifically to the
Chat Completions quickstart requests and state that Responses requests are not
guarded by this app; retain the existing gateway model ID, authorization header,
and endpoint-field guidance.

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@nemoguardrails/server/experimental/examples/model_routing_transport.py:
- Around line 189-190: Update _upstream_headers to preserve Content-Length for
pass-through request streams and remove it only when the body is buffered and
rebuilt, allowing httpx to recalculate the length for buffered JSON.

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• docs/index.yml
• docs/run-rails/index.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/configuration-resolution.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/extend-provider-bindings.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/http-transport.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/advanced/multiple-provider-instances.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/architecture/framework-internals.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/architecture/index.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/architecture/request-lifecycle.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/configuration.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/deployment.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/guard-contracts.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/index.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/providers-and-streaming.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/python-integration.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/quickstart.mdx
• docs/run-rails/using-proxy/troubleshooting.mdx
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/application.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/configuration-resolution.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/contracts/openai/README.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/examples/basic/proxy.yaml
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/examples/model_routing_transport.py
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/http-transport.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/providers/openai/chat_completions/README.md
• tests/server/experimental/test_model_routing_transport.py

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• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/configuration-resolution.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/application.md
• nemoguardrails/server/experimental/http-transport.md

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