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These pieces will be shared by integrations, particularly the NeMo-Relay
plugin.

Implements: #514

Claude said it not me:

The extraction is faithful and unusually clean. It really is mostly moved code.

Assisted-by: Codex:5.6 Sol high
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 5 medium
Signed-off-by: Graham King grahamk@nvidia.com

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable routing with no-op, random, passthrough, LLM classifier, stage-router, and advisor strategies.
    • Added deployment configuration for models, targets, authentication, retries, headers, URLs, prompts, and token counting.
    • Added route execution, model capability metadata, fallback decisions, streamed responses, and caller authentication handling.
    • Added a reusable runner for loading configurations and inspecting available models and routing outcomes.
  • Improvements

    • Server configuration and request handling now use the shared runner for consistent behavior.
    • Added validation and clearer errors for invalid routing and deployment settings.
  • Documentation

    • Updated algorithm integration guidance for the new configuration approach.

These pieces will be shared by integrations, particularly the NeMo-Relay
plugin.

Implements: #514

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Signed-off-by: Graham King <grahamk@nvidia.com>
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The PR adds the switchyard-runner crate, centralizes algorithm and deployment configuration, provides shared route execution, and migrates the server to runner-managed routes and metadata. It also updates Python authentication mapping and server integration guidance.

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Shared runner extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Algorithm contracts and construction
Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-runner/Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-runner/src/{lib,algorithm}.rs
The runner defines public algorithm specifications, classifier configuration, target resolution, validation, and construction for supported algorithms.
Deployment configuration loading
crates/switchyard-runner/Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs
The runner parses and validates version-1 TOML deployments, clients, targets, routes, authentication, retries, headers, URLs, and token-counting settings.
Route runtime and validation
crates/switchyard-runner/src/{route,runner}.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/tests/route.rs
The runner executes routes, handles routing decisions and token counting, validates caller formats, exposes model metadata, and tests execution and streaming behavior.
Server integration and compatibility
crates/switchyard-py/src/server_bindings.rs, crates/switchyard-server/{Cargo.toml,CONFIGURATION.md}, crates/switchyard-server/src/{config,lib}.rs
The server delegates configuration and route operations to the runner, maps runner errors, stores runner state, and updates decision, model, authentication, and token-counting paths.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d49f4

The extraction moves routing and configuration into a shared crate, but the current implementation can skip eligible fallback models and fail requests when the first candidate encounters a routing-time error. It also leaves model metadata ordering inconsistent for programmatically constructed runners, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

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I’m a rabbit with routes in a neat little run,

Algorithms now share what they’ve begun.
TOML hops softly, clients line up bright,
The server finds runners and gets things right.
Carrots for tests—streaming takes flight!

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Actionable comments posted: 6

🧹 Nitpick comments (6)
crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs (1)

321-328: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Derive the fallback priority from the hint list.

unwrap_or(3) hard-codes the length of the hint array. If a hint is added or removed, the fallback rank silently overlaps a real rank.

♻️ Suggested change
 fn count_tokens_priority(target_name: &str, model_id: &ModelId) -> usize {
     let target_name = target_name.to_ascii_lowercase();
     let model_id = model_id.to_ascii_lowercase();
-    ["opus", "sonnet", "haiku"]
-        .iter()
-        .position(|hint| target_name.contains(hint) || model_id.contains(hint))
-        .unwrap_or(3)
+    const HINTS: [&str; 3] = ["opus", "sonnet", "haiku"];
+    HINTS
+        .iter()
+        .position(|hint| target_name.contains(hint) || model_id.contains(hint))
+        .unwrap_or(HINTS.len())
 }
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In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs` around lines 321 - 328, Update
count_tokens_priority to derive the fallback priority from the hint collection’s
length instead of hard-coding 3, ensuring the fallback remains after all
configured hints when the list changes.
crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs (1)

305-330: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider one helper for classifier mode inference.

Both sites derive the effective mode from mode and escalation.is_some(). If the inference rule changes, the two sites can drift, and routing_target_names would then report targets for a different mode than classifier_mode builds.

♻️ Suggested helper
impl LlmClassifierRouteConfig {
    /// Returns the effective mode: explicit `mode`, otherwise inferred from `escalation`.
    fn effective_mode(&self) -> ClassifierMode {
        self.mode.unwrap_or(if self.escalation.is_some() {
            ClassifierMode::Escalation
        } else {
            ClassifierMode::Capability
        })
    }
}

Also applies to: 411-415

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In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs` around lines 305 - 330, Centralize
effective classifier-mode inference in an
LlmClassifierRouteConfig::effective_mode helper using the explicit mode or
escalation presence fallback, then update both classifier_mode and
routing_target_names to call it so mode selection cannot diverge.
crates/switchyard-runner/Cargo.toml (1)

24-24: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move toml = "1.1" to [workspace.dependencies] and use toml.workspace = true here. This centralizes dependency versions. The workspace rust-version is 1.96.1, which satisfies toml 1.1's MSRV of 1.85.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/Cargo.toml` at line 24, Move the toml dependency
version declaration from the crate’s dependencies into the
workspace.dependencies section, then update this crate to reference it with
toml.workspace = true. Preserve the existing toml 1.1 version centrally at the
workspace level.
crates/switchyard-runner/tests/route.rs (1)

124-145: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a one-line comment that states the invariant under test.

The assertion on polls encodes an important contract: Route::execute must hand back the stream without consuming it, so the server can proxy it. State that in a comment. The coding guidelines ask for comments on tests that encode important behavior.

♻️ Proposed comment
+// Streamed answers must be proxied, not aggregated: `execute` returns the stream
+// handle without polling it.
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn route_returns_stream_without_polling_it() {
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In `@crates/switchyard-runner/tests/route.rs` around lines 124 - 145, Add a
concise one-line comment before the poll-count assertion in
route_returns_stream_without_polling_it stating that Route::execute returns the
stream without consuming or polling it.

Source: Coding guidelines

crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs (1)

568-576: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Return the resolved route model from resolve_route instead of re-deriving it.

resolve_route already validated a non-empty model and resolved the route from it, so unwrap_or_default() cannot trigger today. The handler still recomputes the lookup key from request.llm_request.model. If that field is ever normalized or rewritten during decoding, describe_decision returns None and the endpoint answers 500 instead of a decision.

Return the resolved ModelId alongside the route and use it here.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs` around lines 568 - 576, Update
resolve_route to return the validated resolved ModelId together with the route,
then use that returned ModelId when calling describe_decision instead of
recomputing it from request.llm_request.model. Propagate the expanded return
value through the caller while preserving existing route-decision error
handling.
crates/switchyard-py/src/server_bindings.rs (1)

45-51: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Simplify the identity match over Option.

Both match arms build the same tuple. state.caller_auth_kind(model) already returns Option<&'static str>, so the match adds no behavior. The retained-key behavior is correct: caller_auth_kind at Line 100 still reports unknown models because every model stays in the map.

♻️ Proposed simplification
         let caller_auth_by_model = state
             .models()
-            .map(|model| match state.caller_auth_kind(model) {
-                Some(kind) => (model.to_string(), Some(kind)),
-                None => (model.to_string(), None),
-            })
+            .map(|model| (model.to_string(), state.caller_auth_kind(model)))
             .collect::<HashMap<_, _>>();
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In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/server_bindings.rs` around lines 45 - 51, Simplify
the caller_auth_by_model construction by mapping each model directly to
(model.to_string(), state.caller_auth_kind(model)) and collecting it into the
existing HashMap, preserving entries for models whose authentication kind is
None.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs`:
- Around line 58-70: Add concise Rust /// documentation to the public items
ClassifierPolicyConfig, ClassifierMode and its variants,
LlmClassifierRouteConfig and its public fields, SubagentRouteConfig, and the
routing_target_names method; replace its existing // comment with a /// doc
comment while preserving the implementation.
- Around line 504-515: Update the custom-mode validation error constructed in
the ClassifierMode::Custom branch to mention response_format_type alongside
capability and escalation fields, so failures caused by a non-JsonSchema
response format identify that field.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 467-475: Update the comment immediately above validate_value to
describe its actual validation of non-empty values without surrounding
whitespace, removing the unrelated nested-policy resolution description.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/route.rs`:
- Around line 220-230: Update serve_decision_dependency to try CallModel::models
candidates in order, falling back to the next candidate only for eligible
routing-time failures while preserving the ordered-candidate contract and
response behavior. Add the required private-helper comment and coverage proving
a first-candidate failure is followed by successful routing through the second
candidate.

In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1201-1202: Sort the collected entries themselves before deriving
route metadata, rather than sorting only the copied model ID list. Update the
logic around entries, first_id, last_id, default_model, model_pool, data,
models, and priority so every field is derived from the same sorted entries
order, preserving the documented sorted route order.
- Around line 91-95: Update the RunnerError-to-ServerError conversion in the
From<RunnerError> implementation to walk and include the complete error source
chain when constructing the message, preserving underlying configuration causes
such as TOML parse details.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/server_bindings.rs`:
- Around line 45-51: Simplify the caller_auth_by_model construction by mapping
each model directly to (model.to_string(), state.caller_auth_kind(model)) and
collecting it into the existing HashMap, preserving entries for models whose
authentication kind is None.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/Cargo.toml`:
- Line 24: Move the toml dependency version declaration from the crate’s
dependencies into the workspace.dependencies section, then update this crate to
reference it with toml.workspace = true. Preserve the existing toml 1.1 version
centrally at the workspace level.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs`:
- Around line 305-330: Centralize effective classifier-mode inference in an
LlmClassifierRouteConfig::effective_mode helper using the explicit mode or
escalation presence fallback, then update both classifier_mode and
routing_target_names to call it so mode selection cannot diverge.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 321-328: Update count_tokens_priority to derive the fallback
priority from the hint collection’s length instead of hard-coding 3, ensuring
the fallback remains after all configured hints when the list changes.

In `@crates/switchyard-runner/tests/route.rs`:
- Around line 124-145: Add a concise one-line comment before the poll-count
assertion in route_returns_stream_without_polling_it stating that Route::execute
returns the stream without consuming or polling it.

In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 568-576: Update resolve_route to return the validated resolved
ModelId together with the route, then use that returned ModelId when calling
describe_decision instead of recomputing it from request.llm_request.model.
Propagate the expanded return value through the caller while preserving existing
route-decision error handling.
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