feat(server): expose restricted LLM router

[ilexpoon]

What

Exposes build_llm_router(ServerState) for Rust hosts that need only Switchyard’s three primary inference endpoints:

• /v1/chat/completions
• /v1/messages
• /v1/responses

The standalone build_switchyard_router behavior is unchanged. The restricted router excludes health, metrics, discovery, auxiliary, and catch-all proxy routes.

Why

The concrete caller is a private Rust LLM gateway under active development. It embeds Switchyard’s inference serving while owning authentication, model visibility, operational routes, and fallback policy on separately protected surfaces.

This is a generic embedding boundary and contains no host-specific policy.

Status and review order

This PR is standalone and ready for review. It replaces only the restricted-router portion of #580, which is now closed. It is independent of draft PRs #578 and #579.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings
• cargo test --workspace --locked
• RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc -p switchyard-server --no-deps --locked

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Walkthrough

The server adds build_llm_router for the three primary LLM inference endpoints. Shared helpers reduce duplication with the full router. Integration tests verify registered and unregistered endpoints.

Changes

LLM router

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Router construction and shared finalization crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs	Adds build_llm_router and shared helpers for primary routes, middleware, state, body limits, and fallback handling.
Endpoint coverage validation crates/switchyard-server/tests/server.rs	Tests the three primary inference endpoints and confirms that management, auxiliary, discovery, health, metrics, decision, and fallback endpoints remain unregistered.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to aac05

This PR adds a public router exposing three inference endpoints while leaving the standalone server unchanged. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness that embedding applications must provide appropriate authentication, authorization, and ingress controls.

Poem

A rabbit checks the routes at night
Three LLM paths are wired just right
The full path keeps its fallback near
Shared helpers make the shape clear
Tests guard each endpoint bright

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[afourniernv]

@ilexpoon

Could you clean up this set of PRs before we keep reviewing? I’m having trouble telling what is still active and what has been replaced.

My current understanding is:

• feat(server): expose restricted LLM router #586 pulls the LLM-only router out of feat(server): add composable ingress hooks #580.
• feat(server): add composable ingress hooks #580 and feat(protocol): add typed request context #578 are paused pending the decision in [feature] Decide where trusted request context should live #583.
• feat(llm-client): configure HTTP client builders #579 is separate.

Please close anything that has been fully superseded, then add a short note to each remaining PR explaining its dependencies and the intended review and merge order.

For #586, I think the use case is a Rust host that wants to mount Switchyard’s Chat, Responses, and Messages endpoints without also exposing the standalone server’s health, metrics, discovery, auxiliary, and catch-all proxy routes. If that is right, could you state that more clearly in the description and explain what current integration needs it? If I have the relationship wrong, please correct me.

[ilexpoon]

Thanks — that is exactly the use case. We are moving the hot path of our internal Python AI proxy into a Rust gateway built on Switchyard. Auth, deployment policy, usage, billing, and operations stay internal; this PR only exposes the three generic inference routes for embedding. I closed #580, kept #578 draft pending #583, and narrowed #579 to builder injection.

[afourniernv]

@ilexpoon Could you explain whether libsy or switchyard-runner could support this integration today? If not, what part of the use case is missing from those surfaces? I’d like to understand the gap before we add another public server entry point.

[ilexpoon]

Yes, switchyard-runner can support the routing and execution part today. We use Runner::route and Route::execute for that.
The missing surface is the HTTP adapter already implemented in switchyard-server: decoding the three wire formats, model resolution, protocol-specific errors, response/SSE encoding, request limits, and request telemetry. Those handlers are private, so a host using only the runner has to reproduce that behavior and keep it in sync.
So #586 is not required to make the integration work, it was intended to reuse Switchyard’s serving behavior while the host owns auth and operational routes. If switchyard-runner is the preferred boundary, I can keep this adapter internal and close #586, or reshape it around a more general serving abstraction.

[afourniernv]

This looks good to me, and the use case makes sense. I want to check with the team on whether this is a public integration surface we want to support. I’ll get back to you shortly with a merge or close decision.

[afourniernv]

@ilexpoon The requested test comment is in the current branch, but the CodeRabbit thread is still marked unresolved and is blocking the merge. Could you resolve that thread when you get a chance?

[afourniernv]

Thanks for the contribution!