refactor(relay): migrate dynamic plugin to `switchyard-runner` by bbednarski9 · Pull Request #528 · NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard

bbednarski9 · 2026-08-23T21:15:59Z

What

Stacks the current NeMo Relay dynamic-plugin implementation from #488 on top of #517's switchyard-runner extraction.

This baseline copy intentionally preserves #488 behavior. Subsequent commits will replace the plugin's duplicated deployment configuration, target-client construction, and route execution with the runner APIs, then remove only behavior that is demonstrably redundant.

Stack

Base: feat: Extract from switchyard-server into switchyard-runner #517 (gk-switchyard-runner)
Source baseline: feat(relay): add Switchyard-owned HTTP dynamic plugin #488 (feature/nemo-relay-plugin-owned-http-client)
feat(relay): add Switchyard-owned HTTP dynamic plugin #488 remains open and unchanged for comparison.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added native NeMo Relay integration for supported buffered and streaming LLM requests.
- Added configurable deployment routing, request translation, response handling, and failure reporting.
- Added routing and usage telemetry, including managed-call version requirements and continuation support.
- Added plugin configuration, installation guidance, and distributable bundle packaging.
Bug Fixes
- Prevented duplicate attribution of serving calls in telemetry.
Documentation
- Added NeMo Relay integration details to the project documentation and changelog.

github-actions · 2026-08-23T21:17:09Z

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This change adds a native NeMo Relay plugin crate. It implements configuration loading, request translation, model-based buffered and streaming routing, routing marks, bundle packaging, tests, and documentation.

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NeMo Relay plugin

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace and plugin packaging `Cargo.toml`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/Cargo.toml`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/config.schema.json`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/relay-plugin.toml`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/scripts/`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/tests/`	Adds the workspace crate, dynamic plugin manifest, configuration schema, bundle builder, archive support, and packaging tests.
Configuration and translation `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/config.rs`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/translation.rs`	Loads deployment settings, maps supported protocols, preserves unknown fields, rejects lossy translations, and encodes translation errors.
Routing and execution flow `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs`	Routes configured models through Switchyard, supports buffered and streaming execution, translates responses, and emits routing and execution marks.
Documentation and release notes `README.md`, `crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/README.md`, `docs/index.md`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Documents installation, configuration, supported request formats, routing behavior, failure handling, and the new integration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to dd9e5

The relay plugin can skip target-policy validation in production and return incorrect errors for context-window failures, while repository formatting checks currently fail; merge should be blocked until these issues are corrected.

Poem

A rabbit reviewed the relay route,
Where buffered messages hop and shout.
Streams carry marks through moonlit air,
Bundles bloom with files to share.
NeMo and Switchyard now dance about.

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In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/scripts/package_bundle.py`:
- Around line 90-92: Update the packaging argument validation around
archive_bundle to reject any archive path whose parent is the output directory
or one of its descendants, including the exact output/plugin.zip case, before
creating the archive. Add a focused regression test covering an archive path
inside output and verify the packaging command fails without producing a bundle.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 10-17: Add focused unit tests for protocol_from_call covering each
supported call name and verifying the expected WireFormat, plus an unsupported
name returning None; keep the tests narrowly scoped to this mapping behavior.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 59-115: Add focused unit tests for register_buffered and
register_stream that verify unmanaged requests are forwarded to next.call and
managed requests use the registered interceptor at the configured priority.
Exercise both interceptor registration paths and assert the expected forwarding
and handler behavior without broad refactoring.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 218-230: Apply standard Rust formatting to error_mark in
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs lines 218-230 and the
emit_marks conditional in crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs lines
122-128; make no behavioral changes.
- Around line 155-162: Update the final-candidate error handling in the
RunnerError::Algorithm path so LlmClientError::ContextWindowExceeded is
classified and returned using the relay response required by
SwitchyardError::ContextWindowExceeded instead of the generic route-execution
failure. Preserve the existing marks and generic handling for other errors, and
add focused regression coverage for both buffered and streaming requests.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/translation.rs`:
- Around line 25-34: Update SwitchyardRuntime::execute to call
validate_target_request for each selected target request before invoking
route.execute, ensuring request_policy runs on production requests and rejects
unsupported Anthropic JSON-schema capabilities. Add a focused regression test
covering the Anthropic policy validation.

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crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/config.schema.json
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crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/scripts/package_bundle.py
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/config.rs
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/translation.rs
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/tests/test_package_bundle.py
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cjagwani · 2026-08-25T10:55:20Z

Integration-contract mismatch at current 0a7f2684: the README example declares [[plugins.dynamic]] with plugin_id = "nvidia.switchyard", but Hermes #77915 activates dynamic plugins through Relay's load_dynamic_plugin_activation_specs(...). In Relay 0.8.0-rc.3 that helper accepts only manifest and config, requires plugins.dynamic[i].manifest, derives the plugin ID/kind from relay-plugin.toml, and rejects plugin_id as an unknown field. Relay's 0.8 plugin-configuration guide documents the same manifest-backed shape.

Could this PR align the example with the embedded-Hermes activation path and add a focused contract test that parses the documented plugins.toml through load_dynamic_plugin_activation_specs before initialize_with_dynamic_plugins? Passing those specs is the explicit activation consent even though the manifest correctly keeps defaults.enabled = false. This is the configuration NemoClaw will eventually need to generate and seal.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>

grahamking · 2026-08-31T19:05:12Z

Codex said this:

In-band stream failures lose telemetry and structured error handling. Provider error frames are represented as successful stream items containing StreamError or DecodeError.

The code detects them at runtime.rs:381, but emits failure events only for outer Err items at runtime.rs:409. The encoder’s structured upstream-error value is then flattened into a string at runtime.rs:421.

I added a temporary diagnostic regression test: the client stream failed, but zero failure events were emitted instead of the expected mark and counter. Add coverage for normalized StreamError and DecodeError, preserve the structured Relay error contract, and emit safe failure telemetry exactly once.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>

bbednarski9 mentioned this pull request Aug 23, 2026

feat: Extract from switchyard-server into switchyard-runner #517

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[Epic] Integrate Switchyard routing into NemoClaw-managed Hermes through native NeMo Relay NVIDIA/NemoClaw#7937

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feat(relay): add Switchyard-owned HTTP dynamic plugin #270

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Pin and package the released Hermes–Relay–Switchyard compatibility set NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8885

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refactor(relay): use shared configured runner

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feat(relay): add schemas to routing marks #604

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