feat(server): proxy unmatched requests through fallback client

[nachiketb-nvidia]

What

Add an optional top-level fallback_client for raw proxying of unmatched HTTP requests, while preserving routed handling for model-bearing auxiliary APIs:

• POST /v1/messages/count_tokens
• POST /v1/responses/input_tokens
• POST /v1/responses/compact

schema_version = 1
fallback_client = "provider"

[llm_clients.provider]
format = "openai_responses"
base_url = "https://api.example.com/v1"
api_key_env = "PROVIDER_API_KEY"

Why

Model-bearing auxiliary requests use Switchyard route aliases and therefore need the same target resolution, upstream model rewriting, and configured credentials as normal routed requests. Other provider APIs such as files, uploads, containers, vector stores, batches, embeddings, and OAuth should remain a transparent proxy surface rather than being reimplemented individually.

How

• Token counting selects the configured Anthropic-capable route target.
• Responses input-token counting and compaction select the configured OpenAI Responses-capable route target.
• These three endpoints decode the request, resolve its route alias, rewrite the upstream model ID, and call through the configured translating client.
• switchyard-runner resolves fallback_client to its validated base_url only.
• switchyard-server forwards every other unmatched method and path without translation.
• Raw fallback preserves the path, query, body, status, response body, content type, and end-to-end caller headers.
• Raw fallback removes Host and hop-by-hop headers and returns redirects without following them.
• Without fallback_client, unmatched paths return 404.

The raw fallback deliberately does not use model rewriting, retries, TOML credentials, static headers, format, or extra_body. Authentication for those requests comes from the original caller.

Review

• The three model-bearing auxiliary endpoints use configured route targets and credentials.
• All other unmatched APIs remain a minimal Axum/Reqwest proxy.
• The fallback runner state contains only a URL, not a translating client or secret.
• Endpoint coverage is consolidated into two integration tests: one for all routed auxiliary operations and one for raw fallback behavior.

Validation

cargo test -p switchyard-llm-client -p switchyard-runner -p switchyard-server
cargo clippy -p switchyard-llm-client -p switchyard-runner -p switchyard-server --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --all --check
git diff --check

All focused package tests pass. Prior live Codex and direct-upstream parity validation covered SSE streaming, tools, structured output, concurrent sessions, response lifecycle operations, conversations, files, uploads, containers, vector stores, batches, embeddings, status/body preservation, and caller-credential isolation.

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Walkthrough

The change adds OpenAI Responses input-token, compact, and file-upload passthrough endpoints. The LLM client forwards requests and buffered responses. The runner selects a compatible backend target and maps unavailable targets to client errors.

Changes

OpenAI Responses passthrough

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Client passthrough transport crates/libsy-llm-client/src/backend.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/lib.rs	The client resolves Responses endpoints, forwards JSON and multipart requests, applies authentication and metadata, records attempts, redacts credentials on unsuccessful responses, and removes hop-by-hop headers.
Runner target selection and proxy methods crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/runner.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/route.rs, crates/switchyard-runner/src/failure.rs	Configuration selects the first compatible Responses backend. Runner proxies JSON and file requests and returns ResponsesPassthroughUnsupported when no target exists.
Server route and response integration crates/switchyard-server/Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs	The server adds and advertises three passthrough routes, validates request data, forwards bodies, reproduces upstream responses, and maps unavailable targets to HTTP 400.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e1ccf

This PR adds passthrough endpoints for Responses input-token and compaction requests plus file uploads. It is mergeable with owner awareness because context-window failures may be returned as generic upstream responses and multipart uploads may fail when configured content-type headers conflict with the generated boundary.

Poem

A rabbit sends JSON through the moonlit wire

Input tokens hop, while compact paths tire
Files stream softly with headers in flight
The runner picks a target just right
Three new routes glow in the burrow tonight

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 35.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 34 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title describes the proxy behavior and fallback client, which are real parts of the change. However, it inaccurately suggests that unmatched requests are proxied, while the change adds specific Op…

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Docstring coverage is 35.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 34 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title describes the proxy behavior and fallback client, which are real parts of the change. However, it inaccurately suggests that unmatched requests are proxied, while the change adds specific OpenAI Responses and file-upload endpoints.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 181-280: Add focused tests for the passthrough behavior: in
crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs:181-280, mock model replacement, endpoint
selection, raw status/body forwarding, hop-by-hop header removal, and multipart
byte preservation; in crates/libsy-llm-client/src/backend.rs:271-274, cover URL
resolution for bare /v1, /responses, /chat/completions, and trailing slashes; in
crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs:167-208, cover deterministic first-target
selection and no-compatible-target errors; in
crates/switchyard-runner/src/runner.rs:101-137, cover stored-target forwarding
and unsupported-target errors; and in
crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs:479-607, cover both JSON routes, file-upload
forwarding, and the HTTP 400 unavailable-target response.
- Around line 268-279: Update the response handling before constructing
PassthroughResponse so bodies identified by Backend::is_context_overflow are
converted through the typed LlmClientError::ContextWindowExceeded and
SwitchyardError::ContextWindowExceeded path. Preserve raw PassthroughResponse
behavior for all other upstream responses, including existing auth redaction and
header handling.
- Around line 217-222: Update validate_extra_headers to reject the content-type
header (case-insensitively) in extra_headers before send_passthrough applies
them, preserving the multipart Content-Type established by
passthrough_openai_file.

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• crates/switchyard-runner/src/failure.rs
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[grahamking]

@nachiketb-nvidia This is now the proxy-everything PR right? Do you want to update title and description?

[grahamking]

Can you explain this part? Is there more than one CONNECTION header?

[nachiketb-nvidia]

its stripping headers only required by switchyard, and the collect makes that easy. Also removes connection headers it seems, codex says its standard proxy behaviour, not sure