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What

Adds a type_safe_classifier route type that classifies through TypeSafe's Jev "System One Model" instead of a chat-completion judge.

  • switchyard-libsy stays I/O-free: the classifier depends only on a new TypeSafeProvider port (algorithms/util/typesafe_provider.rs) and TypeSafeTaskClassifier (algorithms/type_safe_class.rs), mirroring LlmTaskClassifier's FallThrough + AffinityRouter + DefaultCategoryClassifier shape so it fails open the same way.
  • A new switchyard-typesafe-client crate, a sibling to libsy-llm-client, supplies the runner-owned HTTP implementation that calls POST /v1/systemone. The API key is read only from an environment variable (TypeSafeHttpClient::from_env) and is redacted from Debug output; it is never written to TOML or logs.
  • switchyard-runner adds an optional [type_safe_client] table and the type_safe_classifier route type. Validation mirrors llm_classifier custom mode's shape (options/models correspondence, default_target, threshold range), minus the judge-model concept this classifier doesn't have; judge is rejected as both default_target and an options key.
  • Falls back to default_target on a low-confidence, unresolved-label, out-of-range/NaN-confidence, or provider-error verdict — this classifier never errors the request.
  • Docs: docs/routing_algorithms/type_safe_classifier_routing.md, a [type_safe_client] / type_safe_classifier reference section in toml_schema.md, plus README.md/CHANGELOG.md entries.

Why

Closes #723.

switchyard-libsy's existing Backend wire formats (OpenAiChat / OpenAiResponses / Anthropic) don't cover TypeSafe's /v1/systemone, and extending switchyard-translation with a fourth buffered+streaming wire format would be disproportionate for a call that is never streamed. This follows the issue's suggested shape instead: an I/O-free port in libsy, with the concrete HTTP client owned and injected by the runner.

Notes for reviewers

Start at TypeSafeTaskClassifier::to_classification in crates/libsy/src/algorithms/type_safe_class.rs — it rejects an out-of-range or NaN confidence before the < base_threshold comparison. TypeSafeVerdict::confidence is documented as not validated at the provider layer, so the classifier is the one place that has to defend against it (a NaN compares false against everything, so an unvalidated one would otherwise look fully confident instead of falling through).

Also worth a look: the judge rejection in crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs's type_safe_classifier config validation. Unlike llm_classifier, this classifier has no judge model of its own — TypeSafe is the judgment step — so judge can't double as a routing target here.

Test plan

  • cargo test --workspace — all green (including the new tests below)
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean
  • cargo doc -p switchyard-libsy -p switchyard-typesafe-client --no-deps — no missing_docs warnings
  • mkdocs build --strict — clean, new page and cross-reference anchors resolve
  • New tests: fail-open coverage for low confidence, unresolved label, provider error, out-of-range confidence, and NaN confidence; switchyard-runner config validation for the [type_safe_client] table requirement, options/models correspondence, default_target/options rejecting judge, and threshold range
  • Verified end to end against the real TypeSafe API (examples/live_check.rs) from a network-unrestricted environment, and confirmed the classifier's actual production code path (TypeSafeHttpClient::classify) matches the latency this issue's own benchmark reports (~250–320ms here vs. the issue's ~281ms average)

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  • New Features

    • Added TypeSafe classifier routing to select model tiers based on request context and confidence.
    • Added configurable TypeSafe client support, including API key, endpoint, and model settings.
    • Added fail-open fallback to the configured default target for provider errors, unknown results, or low confidence.
    • Added support for configurable prompts, triggers, conversation windows, and session affinity.
  • Documentation

    • Documented configuration, validation rules, routing behavior, and setup examples.
    • Added TypeSafe classifier routing to the algorithm reference and navigation.

Adds a new `type_safe_classifier` route type that classifies through
TypeSafe's Jev "System One Model" instead of a chat-completion judge.

- switchyard-libsy stays I/O-free: the classifier depends only on a new
  TypeSafeProvider port (algorithms/util/typesafe_provider.rs), mirroring
  LlmTaskClassifier's FallThrough + AffinityRouter + DefaultCategoryClassifier
  shape so it fails open the same way.
- A new switchyard-typesafe-client crate, a sibling to libsy-llm-client,
  supplies the runner-owned HTTP implementation that calls
  POST /v1/systemone. The API key is read only from an environment
  variable and is redacted from Debug output.
- switchyard-runner adds an optional [type_safe_client] table and the
  type_safe_classifier route type, validated the same way llm_classifier's
  custom mode is (options/models correspondence, default_target, threshold
  range), minus the judge-model concept this classifier doesn't have.
- Falls back to default_target on a low-confidence, unresolved-label,
  out-of-range/NaN-confidence, or provider-error verdict.
- Adds routing_algorithms/type_safe_classifier_routing.md, a
  [type_safe_client] / type_safe_classifier reference section in
  toml_schema.md, and CHANGELOG/README entries.

cargo test --workspace, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D
warnings, and cargo fmt --all -- --check all pass. Verified end to end
against the real TypeSafe API from a network-unrestricted environment.

Closes NVIDIA-NeMo#723

Signed-off-by: Taishi Morinaga <morinaga.taishi@classmethod.my>
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The pull request adds a TypeSafe System One provider, a type_safe_classifier route, runner configuration, fail-open classification behavior, HTTP client tests, and documentation.

Changes

TypeSafe classifier routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider contract and HTTP client
crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/..., crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/...
Defines provider inputs, options, verdicts, and errors. Implements authenticated /v1/systemone requests with configurable credentials, URL, and model.
Classifier algorithm and fail-open cascade
crates/libsy/src/algorithms/..., crates/libsy/src/lib.rs
Adds context rendering, confidence validation, affinity handling, fall-through routing, public exports, and tests for successful and fallback outcomes.
Runner route configuration and construction
crates/switchyard-runner/..., crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/..., crates/switchyard-runner/tests/...
Adds AlgorithmSpec::TypeSafeClassifier, deployment-wide client configuration, provider injection, model-group discovery, route validation, and updated builder calls.
Configuration and routing documentation
CHANGELOG.md, README.md, docs/..., mkdocs.yml
Documents the route type, client settings, validation rules, fallback behavior, setup, and navigation entry.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b0ad3

The change is mergeable after normal checks; the remaining review request is limited to documenting an important serialized-request test contract.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR satisfies the I/O boundary, environment authentication, route validation, fail-open routing, tests, and documentation requirements in #723. TypeSafeVerdict still contains only label and `co… Extend the provider verdict and HTTP response parsing to retain the complete probability distribution. Preserve that distribution in classifier evidence or the telemetry path. Record TypeSafe decision latency with the selected label, confid…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 62.96% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 81 functions across 13 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the type_safe_classifier route backed by TypeSafe's Jev.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within #723. The libsy provider port and classifier, runner configuration and validation, HTTP client, fallback and configuration tests, documentation, schema, README, changelog, an…
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Explanation

The PR satisfies the I/O boundary, environment authentication, route validation, fail-open routing, tests, and documentation requirements in #723. TypeSafeVerdict still contains only label and confidence. The HTTP client still parses only choice and confidence. The classifier evidence therefore does not preserve the full probability distribution required for telemetry and threshold calibration. The reviewed classifier and HTTP client also do not record decision latency. The live smoke example does not establish evaluation on representative labeled traffic, but the issue makes that evaluation conditional before production-quality claims, and the PR does not make such a claim.

Resolution

Extend the provider verdict and HTTP response parsing to retain the complete probability distribution. Preserve that distribution in classifier evidence or the telemetry path. Record TypeSafe decision latency with the selected label, confidence, and failure or fallback reason. Add tests for distribution and latency preservation.

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252-258: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the security invariants protected by these tests.

Add concise comments that state why API-key redaction and non-success error handling must not expose credentials.

As per coding guidelines: “For Rust changes, add concise comments for tests that encode important behavior.”

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs`:
- Line 235: Update DeploymentConfig::build to detect whether any route uses
AlgorithmSpec::TypeSafeClassifier before calling build_type_safe_provider.
Construct the provider only when such a route exists; otherwise use None, while
preserving the existing route-level error when a TypeSafeClassifier route lacks
type_safe_client.
- Around line 496-499: Validate config.base_url’s scheme in the runner
configuration path before calling with_base_url, rejecting any URL that is not
HTTPS with a RunnerError::configuration_source. Keep
TypeSafeClient::with_base_url permissive and preserve the existing successful
HTTPS configuration flow.

In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 199-202: Update the HTTP error handling around the response status
to exclude the provider-controlled response body from TypeSafeProviderError;
return an error containing only the HTTP status and remove the response.text()
detail handling.

In `@README.md`:
- Line 250: Update the TypeSafe Classifier description in the README routing
table to state that TypeSafe judges every request by default, including tool
continuations, instead of implying classification occurs only on the first
request. Keep the existing non-generative classifier and no chat-completion
judge details unchanged.

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In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 252-258: Add concise comments to the tests
debug_output_redacts_the_api_key and the non-success error-handling test
explaining that credentials must never appear in debug output or error
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  • crates/libsy/src/algorithms/type_safe_class.rs
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- Build the TypeSafe provider only when a route uses type_safe_classifier,
  matching the documented "[type_safe_client] is unused otherwise"
  contract. Previously it was constructed unconditionally, so a deployment
  with the table configured but no route referencing it could fail
  startup over an unused api_key_env.
- Reject a non-https type_safe_client.base_url before it reaches the
  client, since the API key travels as a bearer token on every request.
  The client itself stays scheme-permissive, since its tests point it at
  a plain-http wiremock server.
- Stop including the TypeSafe response body in TypeSafeProviderError.
  The body is provider-controlled and the error is surfaced through logs
  and telemetry; the request's own state can carry the caller's prompt
  content, so an echoed fragment must not flow into our own logs.
- Correct the README's TypeSafe Classifier row: the default
  classify_trigger is every_request, not a one-time first-request
  judgment.

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🟡 Minor · Assert the serialized System One request body. · lib.rs:106-218

crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs:106-218
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the serialized System One request body. classify_parses_a_successful_response already checks POST /v1/systemone, the Authorization header, and extraction of answers.route.choice and confidence. It does not inspect the request body produced by SystemOneRequest. A regression in questions.route, type, state, model, or criteria can therefore pass the suite and violate the System One wire contract. Extend the existing WireMock test with a JSON body matcher or body assertions.

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must also validate the serialized SystemOneRequest body. Extend the WireMock
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classify_parses_a_successful_response checked the response parsing and
the Authorization header, but not the request body TypeSafeHttpClient
actually sends. A regression in state, model, or questions.route's
type/instructions/criteria could pass the suite while breaking the
System One wire contract. Match the full expected body with
body_partial_json, mirroring the pattern already used in
switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin's tests.

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276-289: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the request-body contract.

This matcher encodes the required state, model, and questions.route serialization. Add a concise comment that states this behavior.

As per coding guidelines, Rust tests that encode important behavior require concise comments.

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In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs` around lines 276 - 289, Add a
concise comment above the body_partial_json matcher documenting that the request
body must serialize state, model, and questions.route with its type,
instructions, and criteria fields. Keep the existing matcher and test behavior
unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines


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In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 276-289: Add a concise comment above the body_partial_json matcher
documenting that the request body must serialize state, model, and
questions.route with its type, instructions, and criteria fields. Keep the
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