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Summary

A target alias such as executor can point to a GPT provider model through a shared gateway. The request uses the provider model, but default Responses reasoning policy used the alias and removed encrypted reasoning.

Resolve Auto from the final outbound model after omit_body_fields and extra_body are applied. If the outbound model is omitted, fall back to the configured provider model for policy selection without adding the field back. Keep policy configuration lookup keyed by the target alias.

policy = config[target_alias].responses_reasoning
model = outbound_body.model or configured_provider_model
policy.normalize(outbound_body, model)

Extend the existing public-client history test with alias/provider mappings in both directions, explicit policy overrides, and outgoing model identity. Its eight cases run across three store settings and both preserved and overridden inputs (48 combinations). A separate six-case regression covers outbound model replacement in both directions, model omission, and explicit policies.

NVBug 7064203.

Evidence

• Before: the alias/provider history regression fails on the original implementation. The model-replacement regression also fails when Auto follows a configured GPT model after the outbound model is replaced by a non-GPT model.
  After: complete cargo test --locked -p switchyard-llm-client passes 122 tests (100 unit, 1 fallback-credit, 21 observability), zero failures or ignored tests.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check passes.
• cargo clippy --locked -p switchyard-llm-client --all-targets -- -D warnings passes.
• Controlled HTTP peers exercise the public client boundary. No new provider or agent-harness execution; no claim of cross-model ciphertext compatibility or release acceptance.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Blast Radius: client

Auto follows the effective serving model. Explicit overrides and requests without provider-model or body-model replacement retain their existing behavior. An omitted outbound model stays omitted.

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Walkthrough

Reasoning normalization now uses the resolved provider model for policy selection. The test covers provider-model overrides, multiple reasoning policies, storage settings, and the model in the outbound request body.

Changes

Reasoning normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider-model policy selection and validation crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs	send_encoded passes the resolved provider model to reasoning normalization. The test covers model overrides, reasoning policies, storage settings, and the outbound model value.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: Low · up to aa3e6

Requests that replace the model through extra_body can lose replay reasoning. This is a bounded configuration risk to address or accept before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to aa3e6

The change narrowly adjusts how existing reasoning history is forwarded to an already configured destination. No new destination-selection or credential authority was identified. Unusual configuration combinations and incomplete security coverage limit confidence.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The direct exposure change is the representation of caller-supplied reasoning history sent through configured Responses backends using automatic policy. The inspected change does not grant access to additional destinations, credentials, tenants, or data stores.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Reasoning classification is a compatibility heuristic, not proof of ciphertext issuer or stored-ID ownership. Existing filtering rejects recognized Anthropic thinking envelopes under encrypted preservation and removes opaque encrypted content under plaintext preservation. This PR changes the classification input, not those checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The changed transformation completes synchronously on a request-owned body before network execution. Responses retries reuse that body without reapplying policy or switching identity. The inspected change therefore introduces no shared reasoning-state transition requiring rollback or recovery; remote request execution may still have the existing retry semantics.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title "fix(llm-client): resolve reasoning policy from provider model" matches the main change. The raw summary says send_encoded now normalizes Responses reasoning using the resolved provider mode…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title "fix(llm-client): resolve reasoning policy from provider model" matches the main change. The raw summary says send_encoded now normalizes Responses reasoning using the resolved provider model instead of the caller-facing model, and the PR objectives state the default reasoning-policy lookup now uses the provider model sent upstream. The title is specific, concise, and follows a conventional commit style. It names the crate, the fix type, and the core behavior change.

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Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 1 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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_{A rabbit checks the model in flight,
And tests each policy, clear and bright.
Encrypted, plain, or dropped away,
The provider’s name now guides the way.
Then hops to rest at close of day.}

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs:
- Around line 378-384: Update the responses_reasoning policy normalization after
the body merge to resolve Auto using the model in the merged outbound body,
including a model supplied by extra_body. Preserve explicit policies and keep
omit_body_fields behavior unchanged, without reintroducing an omitted model.

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[ryan-lempka]

Superseded by #1275, which fixes reasoning preservation and clarifies target names versus provider model IDs.