docs(known-issues): remove the X-Switchyard-Version entry

[ardada2468]

What

Removes item 5 from the 0.2.0 list in docs/known_issues.md:

5. The native server does not send the documented X-Switchyard-Version header upstream.

One line, no code changes.

Why

The header is not a defect and is not planned. Per maintainer direction on #550,
Switchyard is a library, and the integration that embeds it (Relay, LiteLLM, Ramp) is
what should identify itself upstream if it wants to. A deliberate non-behavior does not
belong in Known Issues.

Closes #550. Supersedes #551, which restored the header in switchyard-llm-client and
was closed in favor of documenting the stance.

An earlier revision of this PR also rewrote the "Telemetry header" section of
docs/getting_started.md. That has been reverted at maintainer request: we do not need
to list what we do not do.

How tested

• uv run ruff check . clean
• uv run mypy switchyard clean
• uv run pytest tests/ green (115 passed)
• Manual smoke: uv run --group docs mkdocs build --strict exits 0

Checklist

• One class per file; filename = snake_case of the primary class. n/a, docs only.
• New public symbols exported from switchyard/__init__.py.__all__. n/a.
• Unit tests added. n/a, no behavior change.
• README / --help updated. n/a.
• Commits signed off per the DCO.

Notes for reviewers

The branch carries the reverted getting_started.md commits in its history; the net diff
against main is the single deleted line above. Squash-merging collapses them.

One leftover to flag, not changed here since it is outside what was asked for.
docs/getting_started.md still reads:

The 0.2.0 native server does not currently send this header upstream (see
Known Issues), so no opt-out is required at the moment.

With item 5 gone that cross-reference points at a page which no longer mentions the
header, and the surrounding text still describes the header as documented for release
attribution. Say the word and I will delete that section in a follow-up, which also
looks like the "do not list what we do not do" cleanup.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The documentation replaces the X-Switchyard-Version header description with a statement that Switchyard sends no telemetry or attribution headers. It also directs integrations to add their own attribution headers when needed.

Changes

Telemetry documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update telemetry guidance docs/getting_started.md	The guide states that Switchyard sends no telemetry, attribution headers, or request and response content. It removes the planned X-Switchyard-Version header description and directs integrations to add their own headers.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 48dbc

The PR improves the description of outbound telemetry, but the current wording may overstate the absence of telemetry by omitting configurable OTLP export and local metadata/token-count logging. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up documentation clarification.

Poem

A rabbit reads the guide at dawn
The phantom header now is gone
No telemetry hops away
Integrations mark their own display
Clear words help the burrow play

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The documentation updates resolve #550 by documenting the intentional absence of the X-Switchyard-Version header, telemetry reporting, and opt-out behavior. This follows the stated maintainer directio…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to related documentation in docs/getting_started.md and docs/known_issues.md. No unrelated code or scope changes are present.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the removal of the X-Switchyard-Version known-issues entry. This change is part of the documentation update and is accurately represented by the title.

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Explanation

The documentation updates resolve #550 by documenting the intentional absence of the X-Switchyard-Version header, telemetry reporting, and opt-out behavior. This follows the stated maintainer direction that Switchyard should not identify callers upstream.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/getting_started.md`:
- Around line 170-172: Update the “no telemetry” documentation around
initialize_observability to explain that OTLP traces and metrics may be exported
when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_*_ENDPOINT variables are configured. Scope the claim
specifically to outbound LLM calls, and clarify that local routing records and
request logs may contain metadata and token counts but never request or response
bodies.

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[ardada2468]

Pushed d078792 to correct the telemetry wording.

The earlier draft said "Switchyard sends no telemetry," which does not hold up. metrics.rs builds a Prometheus registry unconditionally, lib.rs always serves /metrics, OTLP traces and metrics export whenever OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set, and a switchyard.build_info gauge carries the crate version. All operator-local, none of it reaches NVIDIA.

The section now says Switchyard does not phone home, and describes the OpenTelemetry surface and OTEL_SDK_DISABLED directly. Also verified that an upstream request carries only accept, authorization, content-length, content-type, and host, with no User-Agent, and that spans record parameters, model ids, and usage rather than prompt or completion content.

[ardada2468]

Pushed 5cff023. An independent pass over the telemetry claim found that the previous revision was still wrong on one point, so flagging it rather than leaving it buried in a diff.

The line "spans carry request parameters, model ids, and token usage, never prompt or completion content" was false. Two paths put model text into logs and spans:

• LlmClientError::UpstreamHttp Display interpolates the raw upstream body (crates/protocol/src/client.rs:79-85), and it is logged and recorded as a span field unredacted at crates/libsy/src/observability.rs:134-140 and :219-227. The repo already documents this hazard at crates/libsy/src/algorithms/util/llm_judge.rs:277-279: the Display "interpolates the raw upstream body, which can quote the conversation back." The judge path was hardened with safe_error_summary; these two sites were not.
• The advisor gate logs reply_head, the first 160 characters of the advisor reply (crates/libsy/src/algorithms/advisor_gate.rs:509-510), through tracing::info! at advisor_gate/telemetry.rs:113-118. Default filter is info,opentelemetry=warn, so it emits by default when an advisor route is configured.

Neither changes the vendor claim, since both land on operator infrastructure, but the absolute wording did not survive checking. The section now names both paths. Also added the running version to the metrics list, since metrics.rs:64-68 records a switchyard.build_info gauge carrying CARGO_PKG_VERSION.

Unrelated to this PR, noting it here because it sits next to the subject: switchyard_rust/_native.py:14-22 sets os.environ["SWITCHYARD_VERSION"] from package metadata, and nothing in the tree reads it. It is a leftover of the removed header. Happy to open a separate PR removing it if you want.

[grahamking]

Thanks for this.

• The known_issues.md cleanup is great, that's ready to go.
• Drop the getting_started.md changes. We don't need to list what we don't do.

[ardada2468]

Removed my changes to getting_started.md but should we just delete that entire section in getting_started.md?

[grahamking]

Removed my changes to getting_started.md but should we just delete that entire section in getting_started.md?

We're working on a README / documentation cleanup internally, which should include that.