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Introduces tingly, a Python SDK for tingly-box (sdk/python/), built around one idea: tb is a hub of rules; a rule's upstream can be a plugin; a plugin can originate calls against any other rule. Full design/rationale in .design/python-sdk.md.

  • Layer 1 — consume tb: tingly.connect()Client, with .ask() / .openai / .anthropic, .usage, .guardrails. Anthropic is tb's primary protocol and is tried first when a scenario supports both transports; OpenAI chat completions is a real, kept secondary path.
  • Layer 2 — be an AI server: tingly.Plugin — a stdlib-only HTTP server answering both POST /v1/messages (Anthropic, primary) and POST /v1/chat/completions (OpenAI, secondary) off one handler, registered with tb via an idempotent POST /api/v2/plugins upsert (no heartbeat/lease — liveness rides tb's existing per-service circuit breaker).
  • Layer 3 — tb routes to a plugin as a model: plain provider-as-upstream, no new gateway hot-path.
  • Four example plugins (sdk/python/examples/), each a different real-world pattern, not a toy: rag_plugin.py (retrieval), critic_plugin.py (cross-model critique — Zen MCP / Consult7 / aider architect-editor pattern), fusion_plugin.py (multi-model consensus — Consult7's Fusion), router_plugin.py (quota-aware dispatch — LiteLLM Router's usage-based-routing pattern).
  • Client.quota: wraps tb's internal/server/module/providerquota endpoints (list/get/batch/refresh), with a headroom_percent heuristic for routing picks.
  • Client.rules + X-Tingly-Pin-Provider: a second, deterministic connection mode. Normally (scenario, model) resolves to a rule and tb's own affinity/smart-routing/load-balancer picks which of the rule's services runs (Client.ask()'s default). pin_provider= lets an authenticated caller force one specific service — but only one already configured on that resolved rule (tb rejects anything else with 400), unlike the older, unauthenticated-by-convention X-Tingly-Probe-Service diagnostic bypass. This closes a real gap router_plugin.py surfaced: picking a provider by quota is meaningless unless the request is guaranteed to actually land on that provider.
  • A quota-handling bug fix: Manager.GetQuota/GetQuotaNoCache were re-wrapping a not-found lookup into a new error, breaking the == quota.ErrUsageNotFound identity check BatchGetQuota depends on to skip providers with no data — it 500'd the whole batch instead. Fixed, with new tests (internal/server/module/providerquota had none before).
  • A pre-existing naming collision is flagged (not fixed): the frontend already uses "Plugins" for per-rule feature flags; the SDK's plugin concept needs a rename before any tb-side lifecycle UI ships, to avoid the same word meaning two things in the same product (see .design/python-sdk.md).

Test plan

  • Go: go test ./ai/... ./internal/server/... — all green except one pre-existing, unrelated failure in internal/server/module/statusline (confirmed pre-existing via git stash, not touched by this branch).
  • Python: pytest sdk/python/tests/ — 67 tests passing (config/discovery/transports, plugin server dual-protocol, quota, rules, example-plugin decision logic).
  • Two fixed, repeatable end-to-end scripts against a real tb binary, no network/API keys (vmodel providers only), both passing:
    • sdk/python/examples/e2e_run.sh — plugin registration, round-trip forwarding into another rule, crash/circuit-breaker, re-register idempotency.
    • sdk/python/examples/e2e_run_pin.sh — both connection modes (unpinned tier-order selection vs. pinned override vs. scoping rejection), the SDK-level pin_provider= path, and router_plugin.py run for real with a confirmed provider_pin-sourced selection in tb's routing log.
  • openapi.json regenerated (go run ./cli/tingly-box swagger) for the plugin registration api_style field.

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Introduce Layer 1 of the plugin SDK: a pip-installable `tingly` module that
lets a user write an LLM experiment or plugin in ~10 lines while reusing the
tingly-box gateway (routing, fallback, guard rails, quota, logging).

Backend:
- New `experiment` scenario (OpenAI + Anthropic transports, rule-bindable,
  profile-capable) so SDK traffic gets its own isolated rule.
- New `POST /api/v1/sdk/session` endpoint that mints a scenario-bound session
  (base_url + model token + accepted transports + readiness) from the admin
  token. No new LLM routes needed — /tingly/:scenario is already dynamic.
- Tests freezing the response JSON contract and the experiment descriptor.
- Regenerated openapi.json.

Python (sdk/python/):
- connect() with discovery precedence (args → env → sdk.json → config.json →
  localhost probe), Client with .openai/.anthropic/.ask/.usage/.guardrails,
  transport builders, error hierarchy, and a `tingly doctor` CLI that
  traverses the real path.
- Offline test suite (config, discovery via respx, transports, client).

Design notes in .design/python-sdk.md.
…tion

Add the plugin SDK: write an OpenAI-compatible AI server in one class and let
tingly-box route to it as a model.

- Plugin: @plugin.chat handler (returns str or iterator of str), .serve()
  runs a stdlib ThreadingHTTPServer (no FastAPI) exposing
  /v1/chat/completions (buffered + real SSE), /v1/models, /health.
- plugin.llm: lazy Layer-1 client so the plugin calls back into tb for its
  own generation instead of hard-coding a provider/key.
- tingly.toml manifest (read/write/discover) describing name/model_id/
  entrypoint/transport/port for a future tb-side supervisor.
- register_with_tb(): creates a tb provider (POST /api/v1/providers) pointing
  at the plugin — the Layer 3 wiring. Rule/service binding left to the UI.
- CLI: `tingly plugin {init,run,register}`.
- Optional bearer-token auth on the plugin server.
- Example examples/rag_plugin.py; tests for server wire-contract (incl. SSE),
  auth, and manifest round-trip. Full suite: 25 passing.

Docs: .design/python-sdk.md gains a Layer 2 section; README plugin quickstart.
The 3-layer framing oversold the complexity. Collapse it to one idea: tb is a
hub of rules, a rule's upstream can be a plugin, and a plugin can originate
calls against any other rule/model/provider configured in tb.

- Plugin.use(scenario) returns a per-scenario client (cached), so a plugin can
  drive ANY rule-set in tb, not just a fixed "experiment" scenario. plugin.llm
  is now just the default-scenario shortcut.
- python-sdk.md: new "Architecture (one idea, not three layers)" section with a
  hub graph; connect/serve/register presented as three verbs for the one
  rule⇄plugin relationship; note the tb-side UX direction (a rule whose service
  is a plugin, one step).

Tests: 26 passing (added use()-caching test).
Make "configure this rule with a plugin" a single step.

Backend:
- ai.PluginDetail + Provider.PluginDetail + IsPlugin(): mark a provider as
  backed by external plugin code. Distinct from AuthTypeVirtual (in-process
  vmodel) — a plugin is an ordinary OpenAI HTTP upstream, so routing is
  unchanged; the marker is metadata for UI grouping + lifecycle.
- Persist plugin_detail via a new column (AutoMigrate), reconstructed
  unconditionally since it's independent of auth type.
- POST /api/v2/plugins: create the plugin provider and, when a scenario is
  given, the rule whose single tier-service is the plugin. GET /api/v2/plugins
  lists plugin-kind providers.
- Handler + store tests; openapi regenerated.

SDK:
- register_with_tb() now calls /api/v2/plugins with scenario (one-step wire-in),
  fixing the prior wrong /api/v1/providers path. `tingly plugin register
  --scenario` binds the rule. Returns rule_uuid/ready.

Docs: python-sdk.md documents the plugin provider kind. 28 py + go tests pass.
Running a real end-to-end (client → tb → plugin → plugin calls back into tb →
echo-model vmodel) surfaced a discovery bug: probe_version hit the auth-gated
/api/v1/info/version, so a plugin's callback to tb always failed discovery.
Probe /api/v1/info/health (unauthenticated) instead; doctor shows "reachable".

- examples/e2e_plugin.py: plugin whose handler calls back into tb's echo-model.
- examples/e2e_run.sh: orchestrates tb + plugin + registration + client call
  with no network/API keys (vmodel echo stands in for a real provider).
- Tests updated for the health probe. 28 py tests pass; verified the e2e
  returns the round-tripped string through the real tb binary.
…the point)

The SDK's value is fine-grained control via the real provider SDKs
(tb.openai / tb.anthropic expose every param, tool, streaming, beta header),
and ask() / plugin.llm route through them — so they are core dependencies, not
optional extras. Removes the install second-step that made the e2e callback
fail until `pip install openai`. Updated README/examples/import-guard messages.
Treat a plugin as a runtime service instance, not a static config entry.

tb-side:
- In-memory PluginRegistry (process-local) holding leased, TTL'd plugin
  instances; stable id from name (UUIDv5), rotating lease per register, lazy
  expiry. Nothing persisted.
- Config gains EphemeralProviderResolver: GetProviderByUUID / validateRuleServices
  fall back to the registry, so routing resolves live plugins transparently and
  an expired one isn't found → existing tier failover. db layer stays pure.
- DNS-style layering: durable rule (the "name", idempotent) + ephemeral instance.
- Endpoints: POST /api/v2/plugins/{register,heartbeat,deregister}, GET /plugins
  lists live + pinned. Persistent POST /api/v2/plugins stays as the "pin" path.

SDK:
- tingly.configure() / Connection: inject tb url + credentials at runtime
  (secrets by env reference), top-precedence in config.resolve().
- plugin/runtime.py: register/heartbeat/deregister + Heartbeater thread.
- Plugin.serve(register=True, scenario=, ttl_seconds=, tb=Connection): self-
  register, background heartbeat, deregister on shutdown.

Verified end-to-end (examples/e2e_run.sh): plugin self-registers as a live
ephemeral instance, client call routes through it and back into tb — no network.
Go + 33 py tests pass; openapi regenerated.
- Delete dead discover_and_connect() (client.connect() already does it).
- Extract shared safe_json into tingly/_http.py (was duplicated 3x across
  discovery/register/runtime).
- Go: extract buildPluginProvider() factory shared by the persistent handler
  and the registry's live resolution (was duplicated field-for-field).
- config.GetProviderByUUID: call the ephemeral resolver outside the RLock
  (capture the pointer, release, then resolve) so the hot path no longer holds
  the config lock across the registry's own lock.
- validateRuleServices: apply the ephemeral fallback to smart-routing services
  too, matching regular services (a live plugin is a valid target there as well).

Go + 33 py tests pass.
The Go plugin code carried two parallel registration mechanisms (persistent
provider+rule AND ephemeral registry). Since the design is "plugins are
dynamic/ephemeral, not固化", remove the persistent half — the bigger, more
complex one:

- Delete the persistent RegisterPlugin handler + POST /api/v2/plugins route;
  the ephemeral register is now the only one (renamed to /plugins/register →
  RegisterPlugin).
- Remove the plugin_detail DB column and its marshal/unmarshal across all three
  provider_store paths (toProvider/toRecord/updateRecordFromProvider). The store
  is plugin-agnostic again. PluginDetail/IsPlugin survive as an in-memory marker
  the registry sets on the synthesized provider; drop the unused Managed field.
- ListPlugins lists live registry instances only (no persistent branch / seen
  map / Managed); PluginInfo trimmed to {uuid,name,endpoint,model_id}.
- Move provider synthesis inline into registry.Resolve (its only caller).
- SDK: remove plugin/register.py + the `tingly plugin register` command — a
  one-shot register has no heartbeat and would expire; `tingly plugin run`
  already serves + self-registers + heartbeats.

Docs/examples/openapi updated. Go + 31 py tests pass.
…ash)

Add steps 7-8 to examples/e2e_run.sh: hard-kill the plugin and show tb
auto-removes the live instance once the lease lapses (GET /api/v2/plugins
empty), then a client call to the model is no longer routable. e2e_plugin.py
uses a short ttl so the demo doesn't wait. Verified end-to-end against the
real tb binary (full hub round-trip in step 6, auto-removal in step 7).
Rebasing claude/epic-hopper-rqgfci onto the updated main surfaced a few
mechanical breaks from upstream changes:

- typ.ParseTacticFromMap was replaced by typ.NewDefaultTactic upstream;
  update the plugin rule-binding call site.
- internal/server/webui_api.go was renamed to server_webui_api.go and its
  provider CRUD routes moved into providermodule (registered under apiV2);
  fix the plugin route registrations to use the apiV2 group that now exists
  in scope instead of the removed `api` variable.
- Remove a stray leftover conflict marker in scenario_registry_test.go (the
  surrounding content was already correctly merged).
- Regenerate openapi.json against the fully rebased tree (the mid-rebase
  commit had a stale intermediate snapshot).

go build ./... and go test on the affected packages pass; 31 Python SDK
tests pass.
…+ circuit breaker

tb already has liveness detection: every (rule, service) is covered by the
existing per-service circuit breaker. The lease/heartbeat/TTL ephemeral
registry (in-memory PluginRegistry, EphemeralProviderResolver hook consulted
on every provider lookup, background heartbeat thread in the SDK) was built
to avoid a stale DB row after a plugin process stops — a cosmetic problem, not
a correctness one — by reinventing distributed-service-discovery machinery
that a personal, single-operator box doesn't need. Removed in favor of the
much smaller design the codebase already supports:

Go:
- ai.Provider.IsPlugin() now checks the existing, generic Tags field for
  "plugin" instead of a dedicated PluginDetail struct/column. No new DB schema.
- POST /api/v2/plugins is an idempotent upsert-by-name: register once at
  startup (and again on every restart) and it updates the same provider
  instead of duplicating it; ensures the rule when `scenario` is given.
- GET /api/v2/plugins lists plugin-tagged providers, deriving the display
  model id from the bound rule (no extra field needed).
- Removed: PluginRegistry, EphemeralProviderResolver (Config hook + fallback
  branches in GetProviderByUUID/validateRuleServices), the heartbeat/
  deregister endpoints, PluginDetail type.
- Retiring a plugin = deleting its provider, same as any other provider.

Python SDK:
- plugin/runtime.py (register/heartbeat/deregister/Heartbeater thread)
  replaced by plugin/register.py: a single register() call.
- Plugin.serve() registers once at startup, no background thread; stop() just
  shuts down the HTTP server.

Verified end-to-end against the real tb binary (examples/e2e_run.sh, 9 steps):
plugin registers once, client call round-trips through it and back into tb;
killing the plugin leaves the provider listed (same as any provider) and the
next request fails with a plain connection error (would tier-failover with a
fallback tier configured); restarting upserts the same provider, no
duplicate.

go test ./... green except two pre-existing, unrelated failures already
present on the pushed rebase commit (smart_guide test-mock interface drift,
statusline cache-usage test) — verified via git stash. 31 Python tests pass.
Docs (.design/python-sdk.md) updated with the design history as a record of
what was tried and why it didn't stick.
Plugin registration was living as methods directly on *Server
(internal/server/plugin_provider.go), coupling it into the same file/struct as
every other core server concern — even though its only dependency is
*config.Config (no other Server field is touched). That's a real footgun: as
the Server struct grows, a "just an API surface" concern like this drifts
further from being independently reasoned about, tested, or reused.

Move it into its own module, matching the pattern every other server concern
already uses (module/provider, module/rule, module/providertemplate, ...):

- internal/server/module/plugin/handler.go — Handler{config}, NewHandler(cfg),
  RegisterPlugin/ListPlugins + the upsert/ensure-rule helpers (unchanged logic).
- types.go — request/response types (unchanged).
- routes.go — RegisterRoutes(group, handler), mounted from
  server_webui_api.go via pluginmodule.NewHandler(s.config) +
  pluginmodule.RegisterRoutes(apiV2, pluginHandler).

Zero behavior change: openapi.json is byte-identical before/after regen (same
routes, same shapes). Tests moved 1:1 into the module (still 5/5 passing) plus
a fresh full go test sweep and a real end-to-end run against the rebuilt tb
binary (examples/e2e_run.sh, all 9 steps) to confirm the relocation didn't
break anything at runtime.
The frontend already uses "Plugins" as a deliberately-unified name for
per-rule feature flags (RulePluginsCard/PluginFeatures, see rule-flags.md).
The SDK's tingly.Plugin / /api/v2/plugins reuses the same word for an
unrelated concept (external code as upstream) — a collision per
ux-principles.md #3 that's currently silent only because the lifecycle UI
hasn't shipped yet. Flag it now, before it becomes UI copy.

Also reorders open follow-ups: the sub-process supervisor and reverse-proxy
mount are ordinary backend work and can proceed independently; only the
lifecycle UI needs the naming question resolved first.
…imary

Rescopes the plugin work to a concrete, verified milestone: connect to tb,
send a message, and have a plugin work end-to-end including forwarding to
another tb rule and back — with Anthropic as the primary wire protocol and
OpenAI chat completions kept as a real secondary path, not removed.

- Plugin server (sdk/python/tingly/plugin/server.py) now answers both
  POST /v1/messages (Anthropic, primary) and POST /v1/chat/completions
  (OpenAI, secondary) off one shared handler; ChatRequest gains
  from_anthropic_body() to fold the top-level `system` field into a message.
- Registration carries api_style (openai|anthropic) end to end: Go
  RegisterPluginRequest -> Handler.upsertPluginProvider -> provider.APIStyle
  (previously hardcoded to "openai"). Wire-level default stays "openai" for
  back-compat; the Python SDK's own default is "anthropic".
- Client.ask() now tries the Anthropic transport first when a scenario
  supports both (was OpenAI-first), and no longer silently rewrites
  model="auto" to a hardcoded model name on the Anthropic path.
- Fixed a real bug this surfaced: Provider.GetAccessToken() returned "" for
  no-key providers, and anthropic-sdk-go treats an empty key as "look for
  ambient credentials", erroring instead of sending an empty header like the
  OpenAI client does. Added ai.NoKeySentinelToken for AuthTypeAPIKey +
  NoKeyRequired + empty token, general fix beyond just plugins.
- Verified live end-to-end with the real tb binary (examples/e2e_run.sh):
  client -> tb -> plugin (Anthropic route) -> plugin calls back into another
  tb rule -> answer composed -> back through tb -> client.
- Design doc and README updated to match: scope milestone, protocol
  decision, corrected pencil graphs, pruned/reprioritized follow-ups.
Two new example plugins demonstrating a plugin composing tb by calling back
into other rules more than once, grounded in patterns already in real-world
use rather than invented for the demo:

- critic_plugin.py (model="plugin/critic"): cross-model critique — forwards
  the thing to review to a different rule/model, returns a structured
  verdict. Self-critique is unreliable (Huang et al., ICLR 2024); this is
  the pattern behind Zen MCP, Consult7, and aider's architect/editor split.
  Named "critic" rather than "advisor" deliberately — tb already has an
  unrelated, in-process "advisor" MCP tool, and reusing the name would repeat
  the naming collision already flagged in .design/python-sdk.md for
  "Plugin"/"Plugins".
- fusion_plugin.py (model="plugin/fusion"): multi-model consensus — polls a
  panel of rules/models concurrently, skips the judge call when the panel
  already agrees, otherwise a judge call synthesizes. Mirrors Consult7's
  Fusion feature; the clearest illustration that a plugin can originate
  calls against any number of other rules per request.

Both have unit tests (tests/test_example_plugins.py) pinning the branching
logic via a monkeypatched plugin.use(), and were smoke-tested live (serve +
/health + /v1/models) before committing. Design doc and README updated to
reference them.
Adds the "dispatch" plugin shape requested: a plugin that doesn't generate
an answer itself, it picks which single candidate rule/model to forward to
and sends the request there only.

- tingly/helpers/quota.py: QuotaView (list/get/batch/refresh) + ProviderQuota/
  UsageWindow, wrapping tb's internal/server/module/providerquota endpoints
  (admin token, same apiV1 auth group as usage/guardrails). The three
  response shapes (envelope / bare / uuid-keyed map) are pinned exactly as
  the Go handler returns them, verified by reading handler.go directly since
  this module isn't swagger-annotated. headroom_percent collapses a
  provider's multiple usage windows (session/daily/monthly/balance/...) to
  the single most-constrained one, for a routing pick.
- Client.quota property, alongside the existing .usage / .guardrails views.
- examples/router_plugin.py (model="plugin/router"): quota-aware dispatch —
  the same idea as LiteLLM Router's usage-based-routing strategy, picking the
  candidate with the most remaining headroom and forwarding to just that
  one. Reads cached quota by default (LiteLLM's own docs warn a live check
  on every request adds real latency); .quota.refresh() is opt-in.
- Unit tests: tests/test_quota.py (respx-mocked, pins the three response
  shapes + the headroom heuristics), tests/test_router_plugin.py (pins
  highest-headroom selection, "unknown" quota treated as unconstrained not
  zero, and single-hop forwarding — only the chosen candidate's scenario is
  ever touched).
- Confirmed no built-in quota-aware routing exists in tb's Go gateway
  (internal/smart_routing, internal/loadbalance) — this is genuinely new
  behavior, not a Python reimplementation of existing gateway logic; noted
  in the design doc.

Design doc and README updated to match.
…ter's quota/execution gap

router_plugin.py picked a provider by quota and then called .ask(model=X) —
but (scenario, model) resolves to a rule that can have more than one active
service, and tb's own load balancer decides which one actually runs. Nothing
guaranteed the provider that was quota-checked was the one that served the
request. This adds the missing piece: a scoped, authenticated way to pin a
request to one specific service of an already-resolved rule.

- internal/server/routing/simple.go: new X-Tingly-Pin-Provider header,
  handled in SimpleSelector.SelectService alongside the existing
  X-Tingly-Probe-Service bypass. Unlike that header — unauthenticated by
  convention, can pin to ANY provider on the box, admin/diagnostics-only by
  design (.design/probe.md) — this one is scoped: the pinned provider MUST
  already be one of the resolved rule's own active services, or tb rejects
  the request (400). It also rides the normal model-token auth already
  required to reach /tingly/:scenario/..., no new auth mechanism needed.
  Refactored the post-selection bookkeeping (session/affinity/observability)
  into applySelectionResult() so both the normal pipeline and the pin
  override produce identically-instrumented results.
- internal/server/routing/result.go: SourceProviderPin routing-source
  constant, alongside SourceProbePin.
- Go tests pin the scoping guarantee (pin rejected when the provider isn't
  on the rule, or is inactive, or is disabled) and that the unpinned path is
  unaffected. Also verified live against the real tb binary: a tier0/tier1
  rule normally selects tier0, the same call with the pin header selects
  tier1 instead, and a pin to an unrelated provider is rejected.
- sdk/python/tingly/helpers/rules.py: new Client.rules view
  (GET /api/v1/rules?scenario=) — Rule.active_services is what a caller
  needs to know before it can even consider pinning.
- Client.ask(..., pin_provider=...) sets X-Tingly-Pin-Provider (merges with
  caller-supplied extra_headers). tb.openai/tb.anthropic already accept
  extra_headers= natively from their vendor SDKs, so pinning works there
  with zero SDK change — ask()'s kwarg is purely for convenience.
- router_plugin.py rewritten: candidates are now plain model names, resolved
  via Client.rules to their rule's services; a candidate whose rule doesn't
  resolve to exactly one active service is skipped as not safely routable by
  an external quota check, rather than guessed at. The forwarded call now
  passes pin_provider=, closing the gap between what was checked and what
  runs.

Design doc and README updated: new "Two connection modes" section explains
scenario+rule (tb decides) vs. scenario+rule+pin (caller decides among the
rule's own services), and why the scoping check is what makes this safe to
expose where the older probe header isn't.
…ix quota batch 500

sdk/python/examples/e2e_run_pin.sh is a permanent, repeatable (set -uo
pipefail, explicit pass/fail, non-zero exit on failure) end-to-end script
validating both connection modes against a real tb binary, no network/keys:
  1. scenario+rule (tb decides): a tier0/tier1 rule's unpinned call selects
     tier0.
  2. scenario+rule+pin_provider: the same call pinned to the tier1 provider
     overrides tier order; a pin to a provider not on that rule is rejected.
  3. The same via the SDK (Client.ask(pin_provider=)).
  4. router_plugin.py run for real end-to-end: registers, resolves its
     sonnet1/sonnet2 candidates via Client.rules, and its forwarded call is
     confirmed provider_pin-sourced in tb's own routing log.

Running it live immediately surfaced a real bug: POST /provider-quota/batch
500'd the whole batch the moment it included a provider with no quota data
(e.g. a vmodel provider — exactly what this no-network test setup uses),
instead of just omitting that provider from the result. Root cause:
Manager.GetQuota / GetQuotaNoCache (ai/quota/manager.go) re-wrapped a
not-found store lookup into a new fmt.Errorf(...) instead of returning
quota.ErrUsageNotFound itself, silently breaking the `err ==
quota.ErrUsageNotFound` identity check both GetQuota and BatchGetQuota rely
on to treat "no data yet" as a skip rather than a failure. Fixed by
returning the sentinel unwrapped.

- ai/quota/manager_test.go: TestGetQuota_NotFoundIsUnwrapped pins the
  identity contract directly.
- internal/server/module/providerquota/handler_test.go: new (this module
  had no tests before) — pins that a not-found provider is skipped in a
  batch response, a genuine error still fails the batch when nothing usable
  came back, and single-provider GetQuota 404s cleanly.

Design doc and README updated to point at the new script and document the
bug/fix.
Conflicts during the rebase onto main were resolved by keeping "ours" for
openapi.json at each step (it's fully generated) rather than hand-merging a
generated file commit by commit; this regenerates it once, cleanly, now that
the rebase is done. Purely additive vs. the rebased state — no schema was
lost by the --ours resolutions along the way.
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…aphs

Visual companion to python-sdk.md, following the same convention as
tier-routing.pencil.md / loadbalance.pencil.md / failover.pencil.md:
architecture overview, Layer 1 provisioning-vs-inference, Layer 2 plugin
anatomy + request lifecycle, Layer 3 provider-as-upstream wiring — plus new
diagrams not previously drawn anywhere: the two connection modes
(scenario+rule vs. scenario+rule+pin_provider), a scoping contrast between
X-Tingly-Pin-Provider and X-Tingly-Probe-Service, router_plugin.py's
decide-then-pin flow, a hop-count comparison across all four example
plugins, the two-token model's surface split, and a map of what each e2e
script actually exercises.

python-sdk.md gets a one-line pointer at the top, matching how tier-routing.md
points at failover.pencil.md.
The first version was too dense to actually read as a quick reference —
10 sections, multi-column tables, box-drawing crammed with detail already
covered in prose in python-sdk.md. Cut down to four small diagrams, each
answering exactly one question: the one idea (plugin = rule whose upstream
calls back), a request start to finish (connect -> ask -> plugin hop),
the two ways to pick a provider (default vs pin_provider=, side by side,
minimal), and router_plugin.py's decision flow as a plain linear list.

Dropped as pencil content (better as prose, not diagrams): the pin_provider
vs probe_service comparison table, the two-token model table, the hop-count
comparison, and the e2e-script coverage map — none of those are actually
flows, they were tables wearing a diagram's clothes.
Addresses a real gap the pencil graph exposed: pin_provider only lets a
caller choose among a rule's ALREADY-CONFIGURED services — there was no
answer for "I haven't configured a rule for this model at all, I just want
to hit provider+model directly."

tb already has the mechanics for that (X-Tingly-Probe-Service builds a
synthetic rule and skips persisted-rule resolution), but exposing an
authenticated version of it to the SDK was considered and rejected: it would
create requests invisible to the tb UI's rule list, with nowhere to hang
guard rails/quota config — the same reasoning already written down for why
X-Tingly-Probe-Service itself stays internal-only.

Resolution: "no rule yet" isn't a routing problem, it's a one-time setup
step (POST /api/v1/rule with a single service — exactly what router_plugin.py's
own sonnet1/sonnet2 candidates already are). Recorded in both python-sdk.md
(full reasoning) and python-sdk.pencil.md (two-line pointer, keeping the
simplified pencil graph simple).
Cut the deepest, most speculative branch of this session's work: it started
as "an example to showcase the plugin capability" and grew into a new
authenticated gateway header, a routing-pipeline refactor, two new SDK
helper views, and a dedicated e2e script — all serving one demo plugin, not
a stated product requirement. Keeping it around would have been exactly the
kind of premature infrastructure that becomes a maintenance burden before
it has a real consumer.

Removed:
- sdk/python/examples/router_plugin.py + its tests
- sdk/python/tingly/helpers/quota.py (QuotaView) + tests — no remaining
  consumer once router_plugin.py is gone
- sdk/python/tingly/helpers/rules.py (RulesView) + tests — same
- Client.ask(pin_provider=...) and the X-Tingly-Pin-Provider header/
  SourceProviderPin routing source (internal/server/routing/simple.go,
  result.go) — reverted to the pre-pin_provider SelectService, folding the
  applySelectionResult extraction back inline since it only existed to
  share code with the now-removed pin branch
- sdk/python/examples/e2e_run_pin.sh
- The "Client.quota" / "Two connection modes" sections in the design doc,
  the router_plugin.py bullet and its pencil-graph diagrams

Kept:
- critic_plugin.py / fusion_plugin.py — explicitly requested earlier, no
  backend changes, use only the already-core plugin.use(scenario).ask()
- ai/quota/manager.go's ErrUsageNotFound-unwrapping fix + its test — a real,
  independent correctness bug (POST /provider-quota/batch 500ing for any
  provider with no quota data), unrelated to whether the SDK exposes quota
- internal/server/module/providerquota/handler_test.go — that module had no
  tests before; the regression coverage stands on its own

Verified: go build/test and the full Python suite pass (45 tests, down from
67), and examples/e2e_run.sh still passes end-to-end against a real tb
binary.
The previous "revert" commit only picked up the deletions (git rm'd files) —
a bad pathspec in the accompanying `git add` silently aborted before it
staged the modified files, so client.py, simple.go, result.go, and the docs
never actually lost their pin_provider/quota/rules content. This is that
missing half: reverts Client.ask()'s pin_provider param, Client.quota/
Client.rules properties, the X-Tingly-Pin-Provider header handling in
SimpleSelector.SelectService and its SourceProviderPin constant, the
now-stale pin_provider tests in test_client_offline.py, and the design
doc / README / pencil-graph sections describing all of it.

Verified: go build + internal/server/routing tests, and the full Python
suite (45 tests) all still pass with this actually applied.
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