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PR #739 establishes the right runner-owned TypeSafe client, secret handling, and fail-open architecture. This alternative keeps that foundation and changes the routing contract so users list the actual targets Jev should compare. It also preserves the evidence needed to evaluate and calibrate the policy.

What changes

  • Replace route-level options and category models with two or more configured target candidates.
  • Add reusable targets.<name>.routing_description values with route-level candidate_descriptions overrides.
  • Send up to three deterministic candidate orders in one TypeSafe request and average their probability distributions.
  • Return and record the full averaged probability map and TypeSafe decision latency.
  • Validate candidate uniqueness, the fallback target, reserved labels, descriptions, response labels, confidence, and probability distributions.
  • Preserve PR feat(routing): add type_safe_classifier backed by TypeSafe's Jev #739's environment-only credential handling and fail-open behavior.

How this differs from #739

Area PR #739 This PR
Selection contract Choice labels map through abstract model groups Choice labels are configured target names
Candidate order One alphabetically serialized order Up to three fixed orders, averaged
Returned evidence Choice and confidence Choice, recomputed confidence, full probabilities, and latency
Model context Route option text Reusable target descriptions with route overrides
Fallback Configured category Configured candidate target

The commit history retains and credits PR #739's original implementation commits.

What the benchmarks taught us

We ran one 20-task Harbor/Terminal-Bench Lite comparison on Daytona. Estimated model API spend across the four arms was $86.24:

Arm Solved Estimated API cost
All Opus 4.7 17/20 $40.49
All Kimi K2.7 Code 14/20 $4.79
Existing Gemini classifier 8/20 $7.96
Prototype Jev Choice + Noul router 14/20 $33.00

The prototype Jev policy routed 13 tasks to Opus and 7 to Kimi. It saved 18% against all-Opus, but lost three completions and tied all-Kimi at almost seven times its cost. Routing can recover individual tasks—the Jev arm uniquely solved one task missed by all fixed arms—but this policy was not calibrated well enough to improve aggregate value.

We then reused those paid fixed-arm outcomes and made TypeSafe-only calls, with no more completion-model spend:

  • A feat(routing): add type_safe_classifier backed by TypeSafe's Jev #739-style generic direct selector at a 0.6 confidence threshold sent 16/20 tasks to Opus and projected 16/20 completions. Its strong-only AUC was 0.328, so it retained most of the strong arm's cost without matching its score.
  • Across three repeats on 80 additional task openings, that generic selector chose the capable tier 203/240 times and was route-unanimous on 79/80 tasks. It was stable but strongly biased toward the expensive tier.
  • In a separate 20-task option-order probe, the median maximum probability movement was 9.5 percentage points and the top choice flipped on 2/20 tasks.
  • A 900-request TypeSafe-only stability study completed without errors. It confirmed that full distributions, fixed order averaging, explicit target descriptions, and a pinned Jev model are needed for serious evaluation.

These are descriptive, in-sample results from one serving run per task. This PR improves the contract and observability; it does not claim that the resulting policy is calibrated or production-optimal. Operators should choose a conservative default_target, validate thresholds on held-out outcomes, and pin [type_safe_client].model for reproducible evaluation.

Validation

  • cargo test --workspace
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • git diff --check

Closes #723

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added TypeSafe classifier routing for selecting among configured targets using confidence thresholds and routing evidence.
    • Added fail-open fallback to a default target for low-confidence, invalid, or unavailable classification results.
    • Added configurable triggers, candidate descriptions, recent-turn windows, and session affinity behavior.
    • Added an HTTP client with API-key authentication, model and endpoint configuration, and resilient response handling.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration reference, routing guidance, setup instructions, and client usage documentation.

cm-morrissey and others added 4 commits September 17, 2026 15:29
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>
- 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.

Signed-off-by: Taishi Morinaga <morinaga.taishi@classmethod.my>
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.

Signed-off-by: Taishi Morinaga <morinaga.taishi@classmethod.my>
Signed-off-by: Lars <xeonpowder@gmail.com>
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The pull request adds TypeSafe classifier routing. It introduces a provider contract and HTTP client, integrates classification and fallback behavior into libsy and the runner, validates route configuration, and documents deployment and operation.

TypeSafe classifier routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider contract and HTTP client
crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/..., crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/..., Cargo.toml
Defines the provider types and implements authenticated TypeSafe HTTP classification with response validation, probability aggregation, latency reporting, and configuration errors.
libsy classifier and fallback behavior
crates/libsy/src/algorithms/..., crates/libsy/src/lib.rs
Adds TypeSafeTaskClassifier, message rendering, confidence checks, affinity handling, evidence, fail-open fallback, public exports, and tests.
Runner configuration and route construction
crates/switchyard-runner/..., crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/...
Adds type_safe_classifier, deployment-wide client settings, candidate validation, lazy provider construction, target descriptions, and updated builder calls.
Workspace and routing documentation
README.md, CHANGELOG.md, docs/..., mkdocs.yml
Registers the route and documents configuration, candidate selection, thresholds, fallback behavior, and operational setup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b8f7f

Direct library integrations can expose credentials, panic during route construction, or calculate misleading confidence from duplicate labels. These should be fixed before merge, although runner-managed configurations already prevent the most serious triggers.

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317-317: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the option-order invariant.

Add a concise comment that states that this helper returns at most three deterministic, non-duplicate orders. This behavior is non-obvious and affects routing-bias mitigation.

As per coding guidelines, Rust changes require comments for “private helpers with non-obvious behavior.”

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In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs` at line 317, Add a concise Rust
comment immediately above the private helper option_orders stating that it
returns at most three deterministic, non-duplicate option orders, preserving the
invariant’s relevance to routing-bias mitigation.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs`:
- Around line 1555-1568: Update the TypeSafeClassifier option construction in
AlgorithmSpec::build to resolve each candidate through
resolve_target_model_id(route_name, name, targets) and propagate its
AlgorithmConfigError. Collect the mapped results into an AlgorithmResult<Vec<_>>
before constructing TypeSafeClassifierConfig, preserving the existing
description fallback and removing the panicking targets.get(...).expect(...)
path.

In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/examples/live_check.rs`:
- Line 18: Update the module documentation in the live_check example to state
that errors report only the HTTP status, removing the claim that TypeSafe
response details are printed.

In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/README.md`:
- Around line 49-51: Update the README statement near
TypeSafeHttpClient::from_env to scope the environment-variable guarantee to
switchyard-runner, and note that direct library users may provide an API key
through TypeSafeHttpClient::new. Preserve the existing statement about Debug
redaction.

In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 181-185: Update TypeSafeHttpClient::classify to reject duplicate
option labels before serialization: collect option.label values into a BTreeSet
and compare its size with options.len(), returning a TypeSafeProviderError when
they differ. Preserve the existing empty-options validation and normal flow for
unique labels.
- Line 299: Replace the production expect call after reduce in classify with
typed error propagation: convert the None case using TypeSafeProviderError and
the ? operator, while preserving the existing classification behavior for
non-empty options.
- Around line 100-106: Update TypeSafeHttpClient::with_base_url to reject
non-HTTPS URLs, while preserving the existing InvalidBaseUrl error reporting.
Add a test-only construction path that permits HTTP URLs for mock servers, and
update relevant tests to use it; ensure normal public client creation cannot
bypass the HTTPS requirement.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs`:
- Line 317: Add a concise Rust comment immediately above the private helper
option_orders stating that it returns at most three deterministic, non-duplicate
option orders, preserving the invariant’s relevance to routing-bias mitigation.

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  • CHANGELOG.md
  • Cargo.toml
  • README.md
  • crates/libsy/src/algorithms.rs
  • crates/libsy/src/algorithms/llm_class.rs
  • crates/libsy/src/algorithms/type_safe_class.rs
  • crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util.rs
  • crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/typesafe_provider.rs
  • crates/libsy/src/lib.rs
  • crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs
  • crates/switchyard-runner/Cargo.toml
  • crates/switchyard-runner/src/algorithm.rs
  • crates/switchyard-runner/src/config.rs
  • crates/switchyard-runner/tests/route.rs
  • crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/Cargo.toml
  • crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/README.md
  • crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/examples/live_check.rs
  • crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/error.rs
  • crates/switchyard-typesafe-client/src/lib.rs
  • docs/reference/toml_schema.md
  • docs/routing_algorithms/overview.md
  • docs/routing_algorithms/type_safe_classifier_routing.md
  • mkdocs.yml

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