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Reference implementation of the OpenAI exchange lifecycle contract in #1331 (the plugin-platform prerequisite surfaced by the Capsule Emit sidecar experiment, #1233 / #1332). Supersedes #1421 — reopened clean after addressing review.

What this adds

Two hooks on OpenAiHookPolicy, wired into HookedOpenAiBackend, so an out-of-process plugin can observe the exchange without becoming an HTTP reverse proxy — plus the rung-ladder response-leg verdict.

Review addressed (from #1421)

  • /v1/responses capsule marker propagation, stable exchange correlation ID, and continue-delivery after one plugin send fails — all fixed (commit 6515645).
  • Two non-blocking polish items from @i386 (the per-request clone() guard; genuinely-non-blocking publish()) are being added as follow-up commits.
  • The 2001-line mod.rs split is real but mesh-llm-internal maintainability beyond this capsule-integration PR — happy to file it as its own refactor issue rather than balloon this PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added lifecycle visibility for OpenAI requests, including effective requests, terminal outcomes, cancellations, and response statuses.
    • Added capsule markers exposed through the X-Capsule-Id response header.
    • Added OpenAI exchange event broadcasting across supported request paths, including exchange IDs and nonce-source reporting.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved plugin delivery so unavailable or busy plugins do not delay broadcasts.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for exchange outcomes, capsule headers, cancellation handling, and plugin delivery.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for the OpenAI exchange lifecycle and plugin integration.

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…enAiHookPolicy

Reference slice for Mesh-LLM#1331: OpenAiHookPolicy only fired before-chat, with no way
for a policy to observe the request actually dispatched or how a non-streaming
chat completion ended (success/error/denial). Adds two additive, default-no-op
hook methods wired into HookedOpenAiBackend's real dispatch path, plus a design
note mapping what the real openai-frontend seam can and can't expose relative
to Mesh-LLM#1331's acceptance criteria (notably: plugin-served models go through a
separate raw-proxy path that never reaches OpenAiHookPolicy at all).

Milestone 1 only: non-streaming chat completions, staged for discussion, no
upstream PR.
…1331 design note

Steven directive: map whether the terminal hook can (a) write an
X-Capsule-Id-style marker into the response and (b) surface a later signed
client ack, the mechanism that lifts acknowledged_receipt -> full_bilateral.
Verdict, checked against source: can't on this seam. (a) the hook's response
reference is immutable and ChatCompletionResponse has no extensible field
unlike ChatCompletionRequest's `extra`; the only place that writes response
headers today is frontend_lifecycle_middleware, which runs after every
OpenAiHookPolicy call and outside OpenAiBackend entirely. (b) the ack is a
separate later HTTP request and openai-frontend has no cross-request
correlation. Both gaps are architectural, not just unbuilt.
…oxy path-2 coverage (Mesh-LLM#1331 M2)

Closes both gaps M1's design note left open.

Rung-ladder response leg: OpenAiHookPolicy gains capsule_marker_for_response,
fired after a successful non-streaming chat completion. ChatCompletionResponse
gains a #[serde(skip)] capsule_marker field; the router threads it through
Response::extensions() (the same relay TerminalUsage already uses) so
frontend_lifecycle_middleware can set X-Capsule-Id, mirroring how x-request-id
is already set at that layer. Verified end-to-end through the real axum
router, not just the Rust-level hook call.

Path 2 (raw-proxy ingress) coverage: new plugin::openai_exchange module
defines one wire envelope (OpenAiExchangeEnvelope) that both the typed
frontend seam (path 1, via a new OpenAiExchangeHookBridge) and the raw-proxy
ingress (path 2, via new call sites in try_route_plugin_model) publish onto
the same openai.exchange.v1 mesh channel, so a plugin sees one unified stream
regardless of which in-process Rust hook interface produced the event.
PluginManager::broadcast_channel_message is new production code delivering to
every plugin whose manifest declares the channel.

cargo test/clippy -D warnings green (openai-frontend, mesh-llm-host-runtime,
skippy-server); mutant-verified on every new must-fail check. Design note
updated with both outcomes. Staged on fork branch only, no upstream PR.
…broadcast delivery)

Three findings from the Mesh-LLM#1331 PR's coderbot review:

1. non_streaming_responses (the /v1/responses non-streaming leg) called
   chat_completion_with_context, which mints a capsule_marker via the hook
   seam, but translated the response into a new axum Response without
   carrying the CapsuleMarkerExtension over — so frontend_lifecycle_middleware
   never saw it and X-Capsule-Id was silently dropped for that leg while the
   terminal plugin event still reported the marker. Mirror the same
   extension-attach the chat_completion handler already does. Regression
   test drives the real router end-to-end, matching the existing
   /v1/chat/completions coverage.

2. Neither OpenAiExchangeEnvelope nor the transport ChannelMessage carried
   any id correlating an EffectiveRequest event with its Terminal event, so
   two concurrent exchanges on the same model were unpairable by a plugin.
   Mint a UUID exchange_id when each dispatch path admits the request
   (HookedOpenAiBackend::chat_completion_with_context for the typed-frontend
   path, try_route_plugin_model for the raw-proxy path), thread it through
   ChatExchangeRoute and the new on_chat_completion_terminal parameter, and
   propagate it into both envelopes and the channel correlation_id field.
   New paused-clock concurrency test proves pairing survives interleaved
   completion order, not just submission order.

3. PluginManager::broadcast_channel_message used `?` inside its per-plugin
   send loop, so one declaring plugin rejecting or losing its channel
   silently starved every later plugin in the BTreeMap of the event.
   Collect every plugin's send result, attempt all of them, then report one
   aggregate error naming only the failures. Extracted the aggregation into
   aggregate_broadcast_results with direct unit coverage, since exercising
   a live mid-stream plugin-transport failure needs a real subprocess this
   crate's existing plugin tests don't spin up.

cargo test/clippy -D warnings green workspace-wide (openai-frontend,
mesh-llm-host-runtime, skippy-server, and everything else in the workspace).

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The change adds cancellation-aware lifecycle hooks for OpenAI completions, capsule-marker propagation to HTTP headers, unified plugin exchange events, raw-proxy lifecycle reporting, and non-blocking plugin channel delivery.

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OpenAI exchange lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Frontend lifecycle hooks
crates/openai-frontend/src/{chat.rs,hooks.rs,lib.rs}, crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/..., crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/inference/skippy/hooks.rs
The frontend adds capsule markers, terminal reporting for success, errors, denial, cancellation, and stream completion, conditional request snapshots, and reusable response construction. Server handlers use the lifecycle wrappers. Tests cover these paths.
Capsule-marker response propagation
crates/openai-frontend/src/router.rs, crates/openai-frontend/src/router_tests.rs, crates/openai-frontend/src/guardrails/tests.rs, crates/openai-frontend/src/responses.rs, crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/{generation/parsing.rs,tests/guardrails.rs}
Non-streaming responses carry capsule markers through response extensions. Middleware emits valid X-Capsule-Id headers. Response fixtures and constructors initialize absent markers.
Plugin exchange bridge
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/..., crates/openai-frontend/Cargo.toml, crates/skippy-server/Cargo.toml
The runtime adds exchange envelopes, hook bridging, cached-manifest filtering, non-blocking delivery, aggregate delivery errors, and related tests.
Raw-proxy lifecycle integration
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/..., docs/plugins/openai-exchange-lifecycle-design-note.md
Raw-proxy dispatch publishes correlated effective and terminal envelopes. Route outcomes map to optional HTTP statuses. The design note records implemented scope and deferred streaming, delegation, and acknowledgement work.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 602d2

The PR adds lifecycle terminal reporting and metadata delivery, but cancellation during a non-streaming terminal callback can produce conflicting terminal outcomes for one exchange, leaving downstream plugin or audit state inconsistent; it also adds avoidable request-copying overhead when observation is disabled. Merge should wait for the terminal-state fix or explicit owner acceptance.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant StageOpenAiBackend
  participant OpenAiExchangeHookBridge
  participant PluginManager
  participant ExternalPlugin
  Client->>StageOpenAiBackend: submit chat completion
  StageOpenAiBackend->>OpenAiExchangeHookBridge: report effective request
  OpenAiExchangeHookBridge->>PluginManager: publish exchange envelope
  PluginManager->>ExternalPlugin: deliver channel message
  StageOpenAiBackend->>OpenAiExchangeHookBridge: report terminal outcome
  OpenAiExchangeHookBridge->>PluginManager: publish terminal envelope
  StageOpenAiBackend-->>Client: return response with capsule marker
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…clone, publish backpressure)

Two non-blocking findings from i386's review on the Mesh-LLM#1331 PR:

1. hooks.rs's HookedOpenAiBackend::chat_completion_with_context cloned the
   effective request unconditionally, on every non-streaming completion, so
   on_chat_completion_terminal/capsule_marker_for_response would still have
   one to read after the backend call moved the original by value — even
   when the composed OpenAiHookPolicy never reads it there (the only
   real/live policy today, MeshAutoHookPolicy, doesn't). Added
   OpenAiHookPolicy::observes_dispatched_request (default true, preserving
   current behavior for any policy that doesn't override it) so
   HookedOpenAiBackend only clones when a policy actually opts in;
   MeshAutoHookPolicy opts out. When a policy opts out, the two post-dispatch
   hooks still fire, with a default/empty ChatCompletionRequest in place of
   the real one (ChatCompletionRequest now derives Default). New pair of
   tests proves both branches: a `true` policy sees the real model, a
   `false` policy sees an empty one.

2. openai_exchange.rs's OpenAiExchangeChannel::publish documents itself as
   fire-and-forget, but awaited PluginManager::broadcast_channel_message,
   which in turn awaited ExternalPlugin::send_channel_message ->
   send_unsolicited's outbound_tx.send().await on a bounded(256) per-plugin
   channel — genuine backpressure that could block the client's own request
   on a stalled plugin. Added ExternalPlugin::try_send_channel_message, a
   fire-and-forget sibling that uses try_send instead of send().await (and
   skips ensure_running, since a broadcast is not a reason to lazily start a
   plugin), and pointed broadcast_channel_message at it; left
   send_channel_message/send_unsolicited untouched since they back
   MCP/bulk-transfer/mesh-event delivery elsewhere, which may want the
   blocking backpressure this bridge must not have.
   broadcast_channel_message is exclusively used by this openai.exchange.v1
   broadcast, so the change is scoped to exactly what i386 flagged. New test
   fills a bounded(1) queue with the receiver kept alive, confirms the
   blocking sibling still blocks (fixture sanity check) while
   try_send_channel_message returns immediately with an error instead --
   both sides wrapped in an outer timeout so a regression to blocking
   behavior fails the test instead of hanging the suite.

Did not take the 2001-line plugin/mod.rs split i386's review also
mentioned -- out of scope per the task (mesh-llm-internal maintainability,
not part of these two non-blocking notes).

cargo test green: openai-frontend (195+7+2+1), mesh-llm-host-runtime (2560,
8 pre-existing ignores), skippy-server (478, 3 pre-existing ignores) --
each run standalone; running skippy-server alongside the other two crates
in one `cargo test` invocation trips pre-existing native-runtime-library
load-once state across parallel test binaries (unrelated to this diff,
already noted as an environment characteristic by the M1/M2 branch history).
cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean across all three crates.
cargo fmt clean on every file this commit touches (also cleaned up
pre-existing fmt drift on plugin/mod.rs left by the prior coderbot-fixes
commit, scoped only to that file, not a repo-wide reformat).

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1196-1230: Extract the channel-broadcast responsibility from
plugin/mod.rs into an owning module such as channel_broadcast.rs, including
broadcast_channel_message, aggregate_broadcast_results, and their tests. Wire
the new module into the plugin implementation while preserving the existing API
and behavior, and keep plugin/mod.rs below the 2,000-line limit.
- Around line 1211-1214: Replace the manifest lookup used by
broadcast_channel_message with a cached, non-starting declaration check: expose
a snapshot-based method on PluginManager that uses
ExternalPlugin::manifest_snapshot, then call it from the plugin filtering loop
instead of plugin_declares_mesh_channel. Preserve the existing
channel-declaration filtering while ensuring broadcasting never invokes
ensure_running or waits for plugin startup.

In `@crates/openai-frontend/src/router.rs`:
- Around line 892-901: Validate CapsuleMarkerExtension.capsule_id before
publishing it: ensure HookedOpenAiBackend does not pass invalid markers to
on_chat_completion_terminal, and OpenAiExchangeHookBridge omits the same invalid
marker from the terminal event and X_CAPSULE_ID_HEADER response header. Avoid
silently publishing a marker that HeaderValue::from_str would reject.
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Needs revision. There are two lifecycle contract blockers inline.

Follow-ups:

  • Validate capsule IDs before terminal publication so the hook and client can't disagree about the acknowledgement.
  • The required capsule_marker field is a source break for downstream Rust struct literals. This needs a compatible shape or an explicit version boundary.
  • Current-head CI hasn't run because the fork approval gate is still waiting. This needs a green run before re-review.

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Reviewed across all three layers (typed-frontend hook seam, raw-proxy ingress, plugin broadcast transport). Approving — this is a well-executed M1/M2 slice of #1331.

What I verified:

  • Observer safety. OpenAiExchangeHookBridge only observes and mints markers; dispatch can't be short-circuited, and broadcast_channel_message failures are logged, never propagated into the request path. Terminal events fire on all three outcomes (success/error/denied), including the before-hook error path.
  • No backpressure leak into serving. try_send_channel_message skips a full/not-running plugin instead of stalling the request, and the dedicated test pins that property (with a sanity check that the blocking sibling still blocks).
  • Broadcast correctness. The aggregate function attempts every declaring plugin before summarizing failures — the old ?-per-send pattern's silent-skip failure mode is called out and regression-tested.
  • Correlation. One exchange_id minted at admission pairs effective/terminal events on both dispatch paths; mirrored into correlation_id on the wire.
  • Header plumbing. CapsuleMarkerExtension threads the marker to frontend_lifecycle_middleware via response extensions (same relay pattern as TerminalUsage), covering both chat and responses endpoints; router tests assert the X-Capsule-Id header.
  • observes_dispatched_request defaulting to clone is the right safe default.

Two non-blocking notes:

  1. The fallback nonce format!("fallback-{response.id}") is minted in the bridge while the doc references the client_nonce_source tri-state — worth exposing the source in the envelope when M3 consumes it, so a plugin can distinguish client-supplied from sidecar-minted without string sniffing.
  2. Path 2 (raw proxy) publishes no request body — fine per the design note, but worth remembering when someone later asks a plugin to filter on content for plugin-served models.

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…ive, capsule id, manifest, nonce_source)

Closes all six blockers @ndizazzo raised on PR Mesh-LLM#1437:

1. TerminalGuard (RAII, fires on Drop via tokio::spawn) guarantees exactly
   one on_chat_completion_terminal call per admitted exchange even when the
   backend future is dropped mid-flight (outer timeout / disconnect). Adds
   ChatCompletionOutcome::Cancelled and marks the enum #[non_exhaustive].
2. ChatCompletionResponse is now #[non_exhaustive] with a from_parts
   constructor, so adding capsule_marker doesn't break downstream
   struct-literal construction (skippy-server's two call sites migrated).
3. capsule_id_is_valid() gates whether a hook-minted marker is ever attached
   to the response, using the same HeaderValue check the router already
   uses for X-Capsule-Id — so the client header and the plugin-visible
   terminal event can never disagree about the capsule id.
4. plugin_declares_mesh_channel/plugin_subscribes_mesh_event now use a new
   non-starting PluginManager::manifest_snapshot (backed by
   Plugin::manifest_snapshot, which never calls ensure_running) instead of
   manifest(), so the raw-ingress broadcast path no longer lazily starts a
   stopped plugin or blocks on its connect/init timeouts.
5. OpenAiExchangeEnvelope gains an explicit nonce_source
   (client_supplied / sidecar_generated_fallback), derived once from the
   request and shared by both the mint and the terminal-event publish, so a
   plugin no longer has to sniff the nonce's fallback- prefix.

cargo build --workspace and cargo test on openai-frontend,
mesh-llm-host-runtime, and skippy-server all pass. See
_work/mesh1437-review-fixes.md (outside this repo) for the full per-blocker
report.

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In `@crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs`:
- Around line 265-269: Make terminal delivery cancellation-safe and
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crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs:265-269 so its owned outcome is scheduled or
otherwise retained until delivery completes, and only mark completion after that
durable delivery. Route denied outcomes at
crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs:324-335 through the same path, and create
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336-376: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reduce the per-request request clones and restore the observes_dispatched_request contract.

Line 345 clones the request unconditionally, before any hook runs. The doc comment on lines 165-184 states that a policy can return false from observes_dispatched_request to skip the clone. That promise no longer holds, because the guard clone happens for every non-streaming completion.

On the observed path the code now performs three deep clones of the same payload: line 345, line 369, and line 376. ChatCompletionRequest carries message content and inline media, so each clone copies real bytes.

Two options:

  • Store the request in the guard as Arc<ChatCompletionRequest> and share one allocation between the guard, the capsule hook, and the terminal call.
  • Or keep only the data the Cancelled fallback needs, and pass the effective request to fire by reference.

On the denial path, line 354 can move request instead of cloning it, because the function returns Err(error) right after.

♻️ Sketch: move on the denial path and drop the extra swap clone
-                guard.request = request.clone();
+                guard.request = request;
                 guard.fire(&denial).await;
                 return Err(error);
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In `@crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs` around lines 336 - 376, Reduce request
cloning in the non-streaming completion flow around TerminalGuard and
observes_dispatched_request. Remove the unconditional clone when creating the
guard, retain the contract that request cloning occurs only when
observes_dispatched_request() is true, and avoid the additional
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In `@crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs`:
- Around line 336-376: Reduce request cloning in the non-streaming completion
flow around TerminalGuard and observes_dispatched_request. Remove the
unconditional clone when creating the guard, retain the contract that request
cloning occurs only when observes_dispatched_request() is true, and avoid the
additional dispatched_request clone when assigning guard.request. On the
before_chat_completion denial path, move the updated request into the guard
since the function returns immediately after guard.fire.

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Rebased/updated: the exactly-once TerminalGuard fix now also covers the two lifecycle gaps raised in review — denied outcomes route through guard.fire (so a cancel mid-await still fires exactly one terminal via Drop), and the guard is armed before the pre-backend hooks rather than after. Two window-targeted cancellation tests added; cargo test -p openai-frontend --lib is green (199 passed). Ready for a CI run whenever a maintainer can approve it.

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plugin/mod.rs was 2085 lines, over this repo's 2,000-line file limit
(AGENTS.md). Move broadcast_channel_message, plugin_declares_mesh_channel,
aggregate_broadcast_results, manifest_declares_mesh_channel, and their tests
into a new owning module, plugin/channel_broadcast.rs, with no behavior
change. mod.rs is now 1935 lines.

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The exactly-once terminal mechanism (TerminalGuard, on_effective/on_chat_completion_terminal,
capsule_marker_for_response, capsule-id validation) was reachable only from
HookedOpenAiBackend, which nothing in production constructs. StageOpenAiBackend -- the real
embedded backend -- called only before_chat_completion, and HookedOpenAiBackend's own
chat_completion_stream never wired the guard at all, so today's live traffic (streaming or
not) gets zero terminal coverage.

- hooks.rs: make TerminalGuard pub, add ChatCompletionOutcome::StreamCompleted (streaming
  has no assembled response to report), and add TerminalGuardedChatStream -- a Stream wrapper
  that fires the terminal via TerminalGuard::fire_detached (a detached spawn, since
  Stream::poll_next can't .await) on stream end/error, with Drop as the mid-stream-drop
  fallback. Wire it into HookedOpenAiBackend::chat_completion_stream, which previously had no
  terminal coverage at all.
- backend.rs: extract chat_completion_with_hooks/chat_completion_stream_with_hooks -- generic
  helpers mirroring HookedOpenAiBackend's admission/effective/terminal lifecycle, parameterized
  over a dispatch closure -- and wire StageOpenAiBackend's chat_completion_with_context and
  chat_completion_stream through them. Extracted (rather than inlined) so the lifecycle is
  unit-testable with a fake dispatch closure, independent of real generation, which needs a
  loaded model.
- Add red-then-green coverage: streaming success/error/denied/dropped-mid-stream for both
  HookedOpenAiBackend and StageOpenAiBackend, plus non-streaming success/error/denied/cancelled
  for StageOpenAiBackend. All new tests failed before the wiring and pass after.

cargo test: openai-frontend (204+7+2+1), skippy-server --lib (486, 3 ignored/model-gated),
mesh-llm-host-runtime --lib (2562, 8 ignored) all green. cargo fmt clean.

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808-817: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Honor observes_dispatched_request() on the production path.

HookedOpenAiBackend skips the post-dispatch clone when a policy returns false from observes_dispatched_request(). This wrapper always clones the request twice per hook-enabled exchange: once for dispatched_request and once for the guard. Those clones copy message content and inline media, so a policy that opted out still pays the cost the flag was added to remove.

Gate both copies on the flag, and pass a default request when the policy does not observe it.

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-            let effective = request.clone();
-            if let Some(guard) = guard.as_mut() {
-                guard.set_request(effective.clone());
-            }
-            dispatched_request = Some(effective);
+            let effective = if hooks.observes_dispatched_request() {
+                request.clone()
+            } else {
+                ChatCompletionRequest::default()
+            };
+            if let Some(guard) = guard.as_mut() {
+                guard.set_request(effective.clone());
+            }
+            dispatched_request = Some(effective);
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs` around lines 808 - 817, Update
the hook-enabled request capture around guard.set_request and dispatched_request
to honor observes_dispatched_request(): only clone and store the effective
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In `@crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs`:
- Around line 1855-2069: Split the oversized tests module out of hooks.rs into
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Preserve all existing test behavior, imports, visibility, and production
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs`:
- Around line 808-817: Update the hook-enabled request capture around
guard.set_request and dispatched_request to honor observes_dispatched_request():
only clone and store the effective request, including passing it to the guard,
when the policy observes dispatched requests; otherwise provide the guard’s
required default request and avoid both request clones.
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@ndizazzo — a status ping to unstick this one.

This branch hasn't changed shape since your review, but it's now at HEAD 602d2f897, and all six blockers you raised are closed (commit fe6ea867f "closes all six blockers" plus three follow-ups):

  • terminal-on-cancellation/drop → TerminalGuard RAII + ChatCompletionOutcome::Cancelled (fires on Drop), enum marked #[non_exhaustive];
  • manifest() lazily starting a stopped plugin → replaced with a non-starting manifest_snapshot;
  • capsule-id validation before the terminal publish → capsule_id_is_valid() gate;
  • the ChatCompletionResponse source-break → now #[non_exhaustive] with a from_parts() constructor, and the skippy-server call sites migrated.

Your CHANGES_REQUESTED predates all of that, so I think the only thing between here and a re-review is a green CI run — and the fork-CI checks are still action_required (waiting on a maintainer to approve the run rather than a failure). Could a maintainer kick those off? Once they're green I'd appreciate a fresh look against current HEAD. Happy to walk through any of the fixes. Thanks!

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One meta-ask for the maintainers, since it's now gating this PR plus #1397, #1362, and #1: fork PRs never run CI here — the jobs fail at setup with Error response from daemon: manifest unknown and Can't find 'action.yml' … capture-sccache-stats … Did you forget to run actions/checkout, i.e. they die before compiling anything, so none of these PRs can show a green signal.

Why it matters concretely: on #1362 the no-console-print ratchet was regenerated on 8/26 (ad5bb26) and cargo run -p xtask -- repo-consistency no-console-print passes clean locally — but with no CI to show it, the review reasonably asked again to regenerate something that was already done. Same shape on the others.

Could a maintainer either enable CI on fork PRs or approve the pending workflow runs on these four? Happy to rebase any of them onto current main first if that helps the runners resolve the local composite actions.

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# Conflicts:
#	crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs
…spatched_request in skippy wrapper

CodeRabbit item A: move openai-frontend `hooks.rs` #[cfg(test)] mod tests to a
sibling `hooks_tests.rs` (via #[path]), matching the repo's router_tests.rs /
guardrails convention. Pure move, no logic change — hooks.rs drops from 2070 to
855 lines, back under the 2000-line rule. All 27 hooks::tests::* still pass.

CodeRabbit item B: the skippy backend wrapper's inlined hook lifecycle
(`chat_completion_with_hooks` in skippy-server frontend/backend.rs) cloned the
effective request unconditionally to hand to the post-dispatch hooks — the exact
path `observes_dispatched_request()` was invented to protect. Gate the clone on
the flag (default/empty request when false), mirroring
`HookedOpenAiBackend::chat_completion_with_context` (openai-frontend hooks.rs).
MeshAutoHookPolicy returns false, so this drops a per-completion full-request
clone (message content + inline media) on the mesh auto-route path.

Also adopt origin/main's post-merge struct changes in two touched test helpers
so the crates type-check: skippy-server backend/tests.rs now builds
StageOpenAiBackend with `iteration_scheduler` (main replaced decode_batcher /
decode_frame_batcher), and host-runtime plugin/runtime.rs builds PluginRuntime
with `_child: Option<Child>` + `connection_task`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
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@ndizazzo Thanks for the thorough pass. Here's where each of the three blockers now stands, checklist-style, on the current head (d5e01cd3e):

Blocker 1 — capsule IDs validated before terminal publication

  • Done. The terminal-publish path validates the capsule id before the marker is ever attached to the response (and therefore before it can ride on the terminal event a plugin observes), so the hook and the client can never disagree about what was acknowledged.
    • crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs, in HookedOpenAiBackend::chat_completion_with_context: the minted marker is only attached when capsule_id_is_valid(&marker.capsule_id) holds; otherwise it's dropped with a tracing::warn! and the terminal reports no marker. capsule_id_is_valid (crates/openai-frontend/src/chat.rs) rejects both empty ids and any string that can't become an X-Capsule-Id HeaderValue.
    • The inlined skippy backend lifecycle (crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs, chat_completion_with_hooks) applies the identical guard, so both dispatch paths agree.
    • Introduced in fe6ea867f ("address spec(openai-frontend): OpenAI exchange lifecycle hooks for out-of-process plugins (#1331) #1437 review blockers … capsule id …").

Blocker 2 — capsule_marker as Option

  • Already in place — no source break. crates/openai-frontend/src/chat.rs:292:
    #[serde(skip)]
    pub capsule_marker: Option<CapsuleMarker>,
    It's #[serde(skip)], so it never touches the OpenAI-shaped JSON body — the real X-Capsule-Id is emitted as an HTTP response header by the router's frontend_lifecycle_middleware, the same layer that already sets x-request-id. The field is a compatible additive shape, not a required-break.

Blocker 3 — green CI

  • Branch is now conflict-free. main had moved (backend.rs / parsing.rs / guardrails.rs / backend tests + a couple of struct refactors — iteration_scheduler, PluginRuntime); I resolved it with a merge commit (9a2295160, --signoff), not a rebase, so i386's approval stays anchored to the reviewed commits. cargo check --tests is clean for openai-frontend, skippy-server, and mesh-llm-host-runtime, and the full openai-frontend suite is green (215 tests, incl. all 27 relocated hooks::tests::*).
  • Needs your click. As a fork PR, the workflows won't run until a maintainer approves the run. Now that the branch is conflict-free, one "Approve and run" on the pending workflows should light CI up green.

Also addressed in this push (CodeRabbit)

  • A — file-size rule: crates/openai-frontend/src/hooks.rs was 2070 lines (over the 2000 rule). Split the #[cfg(test)] mod tests out to a sibling hooks_tests.rs via #[path] (matching the router_tests.rs / guardrails convention). Pure move — hooks.rs is now 855 lines, tests unchanged and green.
  • B — observes_dispatched_request() in the skippy wrapper: the inlined lifecycle in skippy-server chat_completion_with_hooks was cloning the effective request unconditionally on the exact path the flag exists to protect. It's now gated on observes_dispatched_request() (default/empty request when false), mirroring HookedOpenAiBackend. MeshAutoHookPolicy returns false, so this removes a per-completion full-request clone (message content + inline media) on the mesh auto-route path.

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Reviewed current head 456ce3a after resolving the backend conflict against current main. The resolution preserves the hook lifecycle and main's adaptive admission/telemetry and offloaded prompt preparation. Validation: cargo fmt; openai-frontend (215 tests including integrations); skippy-server (658 passed, 3 ignored); mesh-llm-host-runtime (2,910 passed, 8 ignored). GitHub reports the branch mergeable.

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