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Summary

Callers can opt a non-streaming chat turn into a versioned report_required contract. Intermediate tool calls continue normally, while terminal prose or a native final-report proposal becomes one structured report tool call with caller-locked arguments.

The final argument object is rebuilt from only the report body and locked values, so models cannot widen side effects or alter routing. Requests without the extension remain unchanged. Collaboration requests remain inside the configured guardrail flow, and responses with zero or multiple choices fail closed.

Architecture

  • Adds the reusable typed contract and pure OpenAI-response finalizer to mesh-llm-guardrails.
  • Applies it to direct OpenAI frontend responses and the model=mesh MoA gateway.
  • Requires a dedicated structured final-report tool; it deliberately does not interpret generic shell commands.

API

"mesh_collaboration": {
  "mode": "report_required",
  "version": 1,
  "tool": "final_report",
  "body_argument": "content",
  "locked_arguments": {
    "channel": "channel-id",
    "reply_to": "event-id"
  }
}

Validation

At ed297f768f27ac7e47d1aac76fcaf509e0bd4a42:

  • cargo test -p mesh-llm-guardrails --lib — 18 passed
  • cargo test -p openai-frontend --lib — 188 passed
  • cargo test -p mesh-mixture-of-agents --lib — 198 passed
  • cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-guardrails --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo clippy -p openai-frontend --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo clippy -p mesh-mixture-of-agents --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check

Qwen3-8B feasibility probe

Using local Qwen3-8B Q4_K_M with reasoning disabled and a 256-token cap:

Mode Valid report call Exact locked route Useful body Errors
No contract 5/5 0/5 5/5 0/5
report_required 5/5 5/5 5/5 0/5

The baseline invented route values. The contract retained the useful semantic body and deterministically enforced caller-authoritative routing. A forced-prose probe also exposed the boundary: textual tool markup can become a structurally valid but polluted report body, so the API guarantees shape/routing, not prose quality.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an opt-in collaboration contract for non-streaming chat completions.
    • Converts generated prose into the required reporting tool call.
    • Supports locked tool arguments and preserves unrelated tool calls.
    • Validates reporting tools and contract settings before processing.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Rejects invalid contracts, streaming requests, and responses with multiple choices using clear errors.
  • Documentation

    • Added specification details for collaboration-based reporting workflows.

Co-authored-by: Jimmy <1fe240cd1a8cf775f6f3060f115e5a303181f3abf28ad4cb0c2515f4a02b36a8@meshllm.communities.buzz.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jimmy <1fe240cd1a8cf775f6f3060f115e5a303181f3abf28ad4cb0c2515f4a02b36a8@meshllm.communities.buzz.xyz>
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Walkthrough

Adds the mesh_collaboration report contract for non-streaming chat completions. The change validates declared tools and locked arguments, converts responses into canonical report tool calls, integrates gateway handling, rejects streaming requests, and adds routing tests and specification documentation.

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Collaboration report workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contract validation and response normalization
crates/mesh-llm-guardrails/src/collaboration.rs, crates/mesh-llm-guardrails/src/lib.rs
Adds public collaboration contracts, strict validation, locked-argument handling, tool-call extraction, response finalization, structured errors, and unit tests.
Gateway response enforcement
crates/mesh-mixture-of-agents/src/gateway.rs
Parses collaboration contracts after turn dispatch and returns mesh_collaboration_invalid failures when parsing or finalization fails.
Chat completion routing and coverage
crates/openai-frontend/src/guardrails/mod.rs, crates/openai-frontend/src/guardrails/tests.rs, docs/specs/mesh-collaboration-report.md
Routes collaboration requests through non-streaming handling, rejects streaming requests, finalizes report calls, and documents and tests the behavior.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ed297

This PR adds an opt-in structured final-report contract while preserving existing behavior for requests without it; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ChatGuardrails as openai-frontend chat handling
  participant Gateway as mesh-mixture-of-agents handle_turn
  participant Contract as CollaborationContract
  Client->>ChatGuardrails: non-streaming chat request
  ChatGuardrails->>Contract: parse mesh_collaboration
  ChatGuardrails->>Gateway: dispatch validated request
  Gateway->>Contract: finalize_openai_response_value
  Gateway-->>ChatGuardrails: finalized response or invalid result
  ChatGuardrails-->>Client: tool-call response or error response
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-guardrails/src/collaboration.rs`:
- Around line 230-260: Update the collaboration finalizers so report-required
terminal-state validation and rewriting apply to every completion choice, or
reject responses containing multiple choices; do not process only the first
choice. Make the corresponding change in
crates/mesh-llm-guardrails/src/collaboration.rs lines 230-260 and
crates/openai-frontend/src/guardrails/mod.rs lines 336-362, preserving
collaboration_calls_output_tool and contract.final_arguments behavior. Add
coverage in crates/openai-frontend/src/guardrails/tests.rs lines 1426-1524 for
multiple prose choices and mixed terminal/tool-call choices.

In `@crates/openai-frontend/src/guardrails/mod.rs`:
- Around line 97-101: Update the collaboration request path to remove
mesh_collaboration handling and call
GuardrailEngine::guarded_chat_completion(request, context) instead of the
backend directly, then pass that guarded response to
finalize_collaboration_response.
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This is still in draft

Co-authored-by: Jimmy <1fe240cd1a8cf775f6f3060f115e5a303181f3abf28ad4cb0c2515f4a02b36a8@meshllm.communities.buzz.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jimmy <1fe240cd1a8cf775f6f3060f115e5a303181f3abf28ad4cb0c2515f4a02b36a8@meshllm.communities.buzz.xyz>

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Needs revision. MoA streaming and repeated report turns both have blocking correctness problems.

Follow-ups:

  • Validate locked nested arguments against the full declared schema.
  • Treat tool_calls: [] as a final prose response that still needs the report call.
  • Parse invalid contracts before worker/reducer execution so MoA returns the same 400 as the direct backend.
  • The branch is currently conflicting with main. Conflict resolution needs fresh Linux coverage.

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};
if let Some(raw_contract) = body.get(mesh_llm_guardrails::MESH_COLLABORATION_FIELD) {

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The host removes stream before handle_turn, so this code can't tell that the request was streaming. It finalizes the MoA result instead of rejecting the unsupported contract. Chat SSE can emit the synthesized report call, and Responses SSE can finish with empty output. Please preserve the streaming intent and reject before worker/reducer execution.

message.insert(
"tool_calls".into(),
serde_json::json!([{
"id":"call_mesh_collaboration",

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Every synthesized report reuses this fixed tool-call ID. On a later turn, the session matches the tool result to the first pending call with that ID, which can overwrite the old result and leave the new call unresolved. Please generate a unique ID for each report call and add a multi-turn regression test.

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Reviewed the contract design and both integration points. This looks good — approving.

What I verified:

  • Fail-closed semantics throughout: undeclared/duplicate tool, non-string body argument, body_argument also locked, schema-rejected locked arguments, and multi-choice or malformed outputs all produce explicit errors rather than passing garbage through.
  • Pass-through behavior for intermediate tool calls is preserved in both the gateway (Ok(false) no-op) and the guarded backend, so agent loops that investigate before reporting keep working.
  • Model-supplied arguments can never override locked routing values (final_arguments rebuilds from locked + body only).
  • No-contract requests are byte-for-byte unchanged, and streaming is explicitly rejected (documented in the spec).
  • Tests cover the four key paths: prose wrapping with locked values, multi-choice rejection, absent contract, and intermediate tool-call pass-through; the spec doc matches the implementation.

One merge-gate note: the red CI runs on the current head are infra cancellations (sccache connection refused → "The operation was canceled"), not test failures — none of the failure logs contain a failing assertion. Please re-run the Linux lane before merging so it lands with a green required check.

None => Map::new(),
};
let body = native_arguments
.get(&report.body_argument)

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Non-blocking note from my review: the natural place for a future "retry-without-locked-arguments" behavior to hook in is final_arguments — if a caller ever wants to let the model retry a missing report body rather than fail closed, keep the fail-closed default and make any retry explicit at the gateway layer, so the locked-routing guarantee can't be weakened by a refactor here.

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