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Stacks the current NeMo Relay dynamic-plugin implementation from #488 on top of #517's switchyard-runner extraction.

This baseline copy intentionally preserves #488 behavior. Subsequent commits will replace the plugin's duplicated deployment configuration, target-client construction, and route execution with the runner APIs, then remove only behavior that is demonstrably redundant.

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Related

Relates to #488
Relates to #517

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added native NeMo Relay integration for supported buffered and streaming LLM requests.
    • Added configurable deployment routing, request translation, response handling, and failure reporting.
    • Added routing and usage telemetry, including managed-call version requirements and continuation support.
    • Added plugin configuration, installation guidance, and distributable bundle packaging.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented duplicate attribution of serving calls in telemetry.
  • Documentation

    • Added NeMo Relay integration details to the project documentation and changelog.

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This change adds a native NeMo Relay plugin crate. It implements configuration loading, request translation, model-based buffered and streaming routing, routing marks, bundle packaging, tests, and documentation.

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NeMo Relay plugin

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workspace and plugin packaging
Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/Cargo.toml, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/config.schema.json, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/relay-plugin.toml, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/scripts/*, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/tests/*
Adds the workspace crate, dynamic plugin manifest, configuration schema, bundle builder, archive support, and packaging tests.
Configuration and translation
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/config.rs, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/translation.rs
Loads deployment settings, maps supported protocols, preserves unknown fields, rejects lossy translations, and encodes translation errors.
Routing and execution flow
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs
Routes configured models through Switchyard, supports buffered and streaming execution, translates responses, and emits routing and execution marks.
Documentation and release notes
README.md, crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/README.md, docs/index.md, CHANGELOG.md
Documents installation, configuration, supported request formats, routing behavior, failure handling, and the new integration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to dd9e5

The relay plugin can skip target-policy validation in production and return incorrect errors for context-window failures, while repository formatting checks currently fail; merge should be blocked until these issues are corrected.

Poem

A rabbit reviewed the relay route,
Where buffered messages hop and shout.
Streams carry marks through moonlit air,
Bundles bloom with files to share.
NeMo and Switchyard now dance about.

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In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/scripts/package_bundle.py`:
- Around line 90-92: Update the packaging argument validation around
archive_bundle to reject any archive path whose parent is the output directory
or one of its descendants, including the exact output/plugin.zip case, before
creating the archive. Add a focused regression test covering an archive path
inside output and verify the packaging command fails without producing a bundle.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 10-17: Add focused unit tests for protocol_from_call covering each
supported call name and verifying the expected WireFormat, plus an unsupported
name returning None; keep the tests narrowly scoped to this mapping behavior.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 59-115: Add focused unit tests for register_buffered and
register_stream that verify unmanaged requests are forwarded to next.call and
managed requests use the registered interceptor at the configured priority.
Exercise both interceptor registration paths and assert the expected forwarding
and handler behavior without broad refactoring.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 218-230: Apply standard Rust formatting to error_mark in
crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs lines 218-230 and the
emit_marks conditional in crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs lines
122-128; make no behavioral changes.
- Around line 155-162: Update the final-candidate error handling in the
RunnerError::Algorithm path so LlmClientError::ContextWindowExceeded is
classified and returned using the relay response required by
SwitchyardError::ContextWindowExceeded instead of the generic route-execution
failure. Preserve the existing marks and generic handling for other errors, and
add focused regression coverage for both buffered and streaming requests.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/translation.rs`:
- Around line 25-34: Update SwitchyardRuntime::execute to call
validate_target_request for each selected target request before invoking
route.execute, ensuring request_policy runs on production requests and rejects
unsupported Anthropic JSON-schema capabilities. Add a focused regression test
covering the Anthropic policy validation.
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  • CHANGELOG.md
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  • crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/config.rs
  • crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/lib.rs
  • crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs
  • crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/translation.rs
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Integration-contract mismatch at current 0a7f2684: the README example declares [[plugins.dynamic]] with plugin_id = "nvidia.switchyard", but Hermes #77915 activates dynamic plugins through Relay's load_dynamic_plugin_activation_specs(...). In Relay 0.8.0-rc.3 that helper accepts only manifest and config, requires plugins.dynamic[i].manifest, derives the plugin ID/kind from relay-plugin.toml, and rejects plugin_id as an unknown field. Relay's 0.8 plugin-configuration guide documents the same manifest-backed shape.

Could this PR align the example with the embedded-Hermes activation path and add a focused contract test that parses the documented plugins.toml through load_dynamic_plugin_activation_specs before initialize_with_dynamic_plugins? Passing those specs is the explicit activation consent even though the manifest correctly keeps defaults.enabled = false. This is the configuration NemoClaw will eventually need to generate and seal.

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Signed-off-by: Bryan Bednarski <bbednarski@nvidia.com>
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

"""Tests for the native Relay plugin bundle packager."""

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Are these tests run in CI? The Python job only runs pytest tests/, so this directory appears to be skipped.

not sure if it's worth including or not given that there is no regression protection here and this needs to be manually trigged.

let Some(inbound) = protocol_from_call(&name) else {
return next.call(request).await;
};
let decoded = runtime.decode_request(inbound, &request, true)?;

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Could we check model before decoding? It looks like we translate and clone the body even when we’re just going to pass the request through.

Maybe I'm wrong?

emit_events(&plugin_runtime, execution.events);
execution
.result
.map(|stream| Box::pin(stream) as LlmJsonAsyncStream)

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Do we need to box this again? ReturnedEventStream is already the same type as LlmJsonAsyncStream, so I think this can just return execution.result.

metadata.wire_format = Some(inbound);
Ok(Request {
llm_request,
raw_request: Some(request.content.clone()),

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Once we check that Switchyard manages this request, can we pass it by value and move content here? This currently clones the full JSON body, while translation already retains another copy for replay.

if relay_gateway_placeholder {
metadata.session_id = None;
}
metadata.http_headers = Some(headers);

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Could you avoid forwarding arbitrary inbound Relay headers to the upstream provider? forward_metadata_headers sends every non-reserved header from the request metadata, so caller-controlled headers such as x-ee-review-probe cross the Relay-to-provider boundary. Please restrict this to an explicit allowlist or headers configured for that provider.

LlmResponse::Agg(response) => response.into_stream(),
LlmResponse::Stream(chunks) => chunks,
};
let chunks = Box::pin(chunks.map(move |item| {

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Could you emit token-usage metrics after the streaming response reports its final usage? The provider returns prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and total_tokens in the final stream event, but Switchyard currently emits only the request and overhead metrics. This causes switchyard.routing.llm_tokens to omit streaming requests.

let Some(inbound) = protocol_from_call(&name) else {
return next.call(request).await;
};
let decoded = runtime.decode_request(inbound, &request, false)?;

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Could you determine route ownership from the raw model field before decoding the full payload? decode_request(...)? can return a Switchyard translation error for a request whose model is not configured as a Switchyard route, so execution never reaches runtime.manages or next.call. The streaming interceptor has the same ordering.

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