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Closes #1670

Two optional request headers on the remote-mesh routing branch, both no-ops when absent. Rebased onto current main; the review rounds since the first push added the header-validation fixes, the self-target / self-exclude routing fixes, the served-by header replacement, and the MoA degradation fix described in the threads below.

  • x-mesh-target: <EndpointId> — dispatch to exactly that peer if it currently advertises the requested model. If it doesn't, fail closed with a 409 naming the mismatch — never silently rerouted to another peer or served locally. Checked after exclusion, so excluding your own target also fails closed.
  • x-mesh-exclude: <EndpointId>[,...] — remove peers from the candidate set before selection.

The routing node echoes the resolved peer as x-mesh-served-by: <EndpointId> on the response, only when x-mesh-target was used, so a client can record which peer answered without parsing provenance. Threaded through RouteAttemptLoggingContext / RelayAttemptContext to every response relay path (raw passthrough — spliced before the body, since that path forwards headers verbatim — JSON adaptation, SSE translation).

Why: with just these, a client can send the same deterministic request (temperature: 0, fixed seed) to two named peers and compare the two responses offline. That's the small half of a "twin" — the full one-request-two-responses flag can come later, if wanted, and would sit on top of this.

Malformed or ambiguous header values are a 400, never ignored. Absent both headers, request and response are byte-for-byte identical to today.

Tests: 19 new (resolve_remote_mesh_route incl. both fail-closed cases and the exclude-the-target contradiction; header parsing; insert_header_before_body incl. a CRLF-injection guard; relay served-by + byte-identical-when-absent), + 11 new in the review-fixes follow-up commit (mesh_headers_force_remote local-first-bypass decision logic incl. self-targeted and self-excluded cases; x-mesh-exclude empty/mid-list/trailing-comma entries now 400; non-UTF-8 raw header bytes now 400 for both headers; relay_error_response served-by echo + byte-identical-when-absent on non-2xx). Full suite 2970 passed. clippy -D warnings and fmt clean. README support-matrix row added in openai-frontend/README.md following the #1397 pattern.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for selecting mesh targets and excluding peers with request headers.
    • Responses to explicitly targeted peers can identify the serving endpoint.
    • Mesh-routed exchanges now emit effective and terminal activity events.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or malformed routing headers now return clear client errors.
    • Unavailable explicit targets and blocked self-routing fail closed instead of falling back.
    • Routing headers are removed before requests are forwarded to peers.
    • Routing rules are enforced consistently across model, pipeline, and model-less requests.
  • Documentation

    • Documented supported mesh routing headers, validation, response reporting, and failure behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change adds mesh routing headers, validates and applies them to peer selection, adds fail-closed target handling, emits remote-mesh plugin events, strips routing headers on peer forwarding, and optionally returns x-mesh-served-by.

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Mesh routing request and response flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mesh routing header extraction and dispatch enforcement
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/request_parse.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/request_parse_tests.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress_tests/tests.rs
Buffered requests return target and exclusion values with UTF-8 validation. Ingress rejects malformed headers before unsupported dispatch kinds and validates target and exclusion IDs.
Remote route selection and ingress handling
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress_tests/tests.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/openai_exchange.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/forwarded_request.rs, crates/openai-frontend/README.md
Ingress filters candidates, enforces explicit targets, handles self-targets and exclusions, emits remote-mesh events, strips routing headers on peer forwarding, and documents 400 and 409 behavior.
Selected-peer metadata propagation
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/transport_route_model.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/common.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/dispatch.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/routing.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/transport.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/external_endpoint.rs
The optional serving endpoint flows through model routing, attempt contexts, and relay dispatch. Ordinary routes pass no value.
Served-peer response headers
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/probe.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/relay.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/json_adaptation.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/stream_translation.rs
Relay paths insert x-mesh-served-by for selected targets across success, error, JSON, and streaming responses. Header replacement handles existing values, malformed boundaries, body offsets, and CR/LF stripping.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant handle_buffered_api_request
  participant parse_mesh_routing_headers
  participant resolve_remote_mesh_route
  participant RemotePeer
  Client->>handle_buffered_api_request: Request with mesh routing headers
  handle_buffered_api_request->>parse_mesh_routing_headers: Validate target and exclusions
  parse_mesh_routing_headers->>resolve_remote_mesh_route: Parsed routing controls
  resolve_remote_mesh_route->>RemotePeer: Dispatch selected remote request
  RemotePeer-->>handle_buffered_api_request: Response
  handle_buffered_api_request-->>Client: Response with optional x-mesh-served-by
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Suggested reviewers: ndizazzo, michaelneale

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9b028

Targeted mesh requests that begin as multi-agent orchestration can be rejected instead of being routed after degradation to a concrete model. Self-targeted requests may also report transient plugin-resolution failures as conflicts. These routing-contract issues should be resolved before merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #1670 by implementing target and exclusion headers, fail-closed 409 handling, malformed-header 400 handling, served-by propagation, peer-forwarding header removal, self-targe…
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crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs (1)

886-886: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Apply x-mesh-target before local-first routing.

When a local candidate exists, this condition bypasses route_missing_local_model, which is the only path that parses and enforces x-mesh-target. The request then uses ordinary routing with served_by_header: None at Line 909. A targeted request can therefore run locally instead of on the requested peer and omit x-mesh-served-by.

Parse and enforce the target before this local-candidate check. A valid target must force its remote peer regardless of local availability.

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs` at line 886,
Update the routing flow around has_available_candidates and
route_missing_local_model to parse and enforce x-mesh-target before checking
local candidate availability. Ensure a valid target always routes to the
requested remote peer, regardless of local candidates, and preserves
x-mesh-served-by metadata.
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/relay.rs (1)

94-99: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate served_by through error relays.

A forced-target request can resolve a peer and receive a non-2xx response. That response currently drops x-mesh-served-by because relay_error_response has no served_by input. This conflicts with the stated contract that x-mesh-target identifies the resolved peer.

  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/relay.rs#L94-L99: Add served_by handling to relay_error_response for both remapped and passthrough responses.
  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/dispatch.rs#L33-L33: Forward served_by from the raw non-2xx path.
  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/json_adaptation.rs#L33-L34: Forward served_by from translated JSON error handling.
  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/json_adaptation.rs#L90-L91: Forward served_by from normalized JSON error handling.
  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/stream_translation.rs#L77-L78: Forward served_by from normalized SSE error handling.
  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/stream_translation.rs#L222-L223: Forward served_by from translated SSE error handling.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/relay.rs` around
lines 94 - 99, Update relay_error_response to accept and apply served_by for
both remapped and passthrough error responses. Forward served_by at the listed
call sites: dispatch.rs:33, json_adaptation.rs:33-34 and 90-91, and
stream_translation.rs:77-78 and 222-223, preserving propagation for every raw,
translated, and normalized non-2xx path.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs`:
- Around line 724-725: Update the x-mesh-exclude parsing logic around the
part.is_empty() check to reject any empty comma-separated entry, including empty
values and consecutive or trailing commas, by returning HTTP 400. Do not
silently continue or build a partial exclusion list when an empty entry is
encountered; preserve existing handling for non-empty entries.

In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/request_parse.rs`:
- Around line 897-898: Update the x-mesh-target and x-mesh-exclude extraction in
the request parser to propagate a parsing error when header values are not valid
UTF-8, rather than silently dropping them via filter_map. Preserve trimming and
existing validation, and add regression tests using raw non-UTF-8 header bytes
that assert an HTTP 400 response.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs`:
- Line 886: Update the routing flow around has_available_candidates and
route_missing_local_model to parse and enforce x-mesh-target before checking
local candidate availability. Ensure a valid target always routes to the
requested remote peer, regardless of local candidates, and preserves
x-mesh-served-by metadata.

In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/response/relay.rs`:
- Around line 94-99: Update relay_error_response to accept and apply served_by
for both remapped and passthrough error responses. Forward served_by at the
listed call sites: dispatch.rs:33, json_adaptation.rs:33-34 and 90-91, and
stream_translation.rs:77-78 and 222-223, preserving propagation for every raw,
translated, and normalized non-2xx path.

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StevenMih added a commit to StevenMih/mesh-llm that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
Addresses CodeRabbit review on Mesh-LLM#1671:

- MAJOR: `has_available_candidates` short-circuited to local dispatch
  before `route_missing_local_model` -- the only place the routing
  headers were parsed -- so a targeted or excluded request could be
  served locally, silently, with no `x-mesh-served-by`. Headers are now
  parsed and enforced in `route_request` before the local-candidate
  check; a target naming a remote peer or an exclude naming this node
  now forces the remote-mesh path regardless of local availability. A
  target naming this node is unaffected: still allowed to serve locally
  when this node serves the model.
- `x-mesh-exclude` entries that are empty ("", `a,,b`, a trailing comma)
  now reject the request with 400 instead of silently producing a
  partial exclusion list.
- Non-UTF-8 bytes in `x-mesh-target`/`x-mesh-exclude` header values now
  reject the request with 400 instead of being silently dropped by
  `filter_map(...ok())`.
- `x-mesh-served-by` is now threaded into `relay_error_response` (and
  its callers in dispatch.rs, json_adaptation.rs, stream_translation.rs)
  so a non-2xx response from a resolved peer still echoes which peer
  answered.
- One-line docstrings on every function touched above.

11 new tests (2970 total, up from 2959): the local-first-bypass decision
logic incl. self-targeted/self-excluded cases, the three exclude-header
rejection cases, non-UTF-8 raw header bytes for both headers, and the
error-relay served-by echo. Full suite green, clippy -D warnings clean,
fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs`:
- Around line 899-903: Move parse_mesh_routing_headers(request) ahead of the
effective_model branch so malformed x-mesh-target and x-mesh-exclude values
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StevenMih added a commit to StevenMih/mesh-llm that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
Addresses CodeRabbit review on Mesh-LLM#1671:

- MAJOR: `has_available_candidates` short-circuited to local dispatch
  before `route_missing_local_model` -- the only place the routing
  headers were parsed -- so a targeted or excluded request could be
  served locally, silently, with no `x-mesh-served-by`. Headers are now
  parsed and enforced in `route_request` before the local-candidate
  check; a target naming a remote peer or an exclude naming this node
  now forces the remote-mesh path regardless of local availability. A
  target naming this node is unaffected: still allowed to serve locally
  when this node serves the model.
- `x-mesh-exclude` entries that are empty ("", `a,,b`, a trailing comma)
  now reject the request with 400 instead of silently producing a
  partial exclusion list.
- Non-UTF-8 bytes in `x-mesh-target`/`x-mesh-exclude` header values now
  reject the request with 400 instead of being silently dropped by
  `filter_map(...ok())`.
- `x-mesh-served-by` is now threaded into `relay_error_response` (and
  its callers in dispatch.rs, json_adaptation.rs, stream_translation.rs)
  so a non-2xx response from a resolved peer still echoes which peer
  answered.
- One-line docstrings on every function touched above.

Ported onto the demo branch's older module layout: `route_request`
already had a `served_by_hex`/terminal-event-announce path this fix
didn't know about, so the local-routing branch keeps both; the
`request_parse.rs` nonce-handling code (`capsule_nonce_headers_from_raw`,
generic `read_more`) that only exists upstream is untouched here, and
its own call site (`capsule_client_nonce_header`) is adapted to the new
`Result`-returning `header_values_from_raw` by treating non-UTF-8 bytes
as absent, preserving prior behavior for that unrelated header.
`request_parse_tests.rs` does not apply to this branch (tests live
inline in `request_parse.rs`); the new/updated tests were ported inline
instead.

Full `cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime` (2618/2618, one pre-existing
timing flake reproduced clean on rerun), clippy -D warnings clean (2
pre-existing baseline findings confirmed unchanged: `new_ret_no_self` in
openai-frontend/hooks.rs, `collapsible_if` in
mesh-llm-host-runtime/plugin/openai_exchange.rs), fmt clean.

(ported onto demo branch feat/serving-provenance-host-served-terminal;
upstream form is a2590b6)

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>

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I like keeping peer selection explicit, but we should close the remaining routing gaps before merging. Some dispatch paths bypass the headers, and plugin routing can both reject a valid target and serve from an excluded node. I’ve left the details inline, along with a duplicate response-header issue.

Reviewed a2590b6e4a00be019f7cce5664aea3db6f2ec983, including the stacked routing-event commit and follow-up fixes. The earlier fixes cover empty exclusion entries, non-UTF-8 rejection, ordinary local-first routing, and error-response metadata. The model-less bypass remains.

Validation: 406 existing OpenAI tests passed. Three temporary HTTP regression tests reproduced the model-less rejection and both plugin-routing failures. The duplicate response-header finding comes from tracing the forwarding and relay paths. git diff --check passed. I haven’t run the full workspace, Clippy, or live multi-node inference qualification. The build emitted build-script and macOS deployment-target linker warnings.

All five GitHub PR workflow runs for this head concluded action_required, so we still need CI validation. The temporary tests were removed, and no PR source was changed.

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Review by erlich (agent), posted via @i386.

The fail-closed 409 design is right, and the header-parse hardening in a2590b6 (empty exclusion entries, non-UTF-8 rejection, the exclude-your-own-target contradiction) is good work with well-targeted tests. Two blockers and two new findings below.

Blocker: this has never been built or tested by CI

All five workflows on head a2590b6 concluded action_required, and the head SHA has zero check runs:

$ gh api repos/Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm/commits/a2590b6.../check-runs --jq .total_count
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$ gh api "repos/Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm/actions/runs?head_sha=a2590b6..." 
PR · Linux   | completed | action_required
PR · Quality | completed | action_required
PR · macOS   | completed | action_required
PR · Website | completed | action_required
PR · Windows | completed | action_required

1099 lines across the HTTP ingress, request parsing, and every response relay path, with no compile, clippy, or test evidence from CI. Someone with write access needs to approve the workflow runs. The reported local results are useful but they aren't the gate.

Blocker: @ndizazzo's four findings are still open

They were filed against a2590b6, which is still head — so none of them are stale. I agree with all four. In particular the P1 (validation lives inside the model-bearing branch, so MoA, pipeline, and model-less dispatch all run before the headers are ever consulted) reads to me as one structural question — where do these headers get enforced — rather than four independent patches, and I'd rather see it answered once than fixed four times.

New finding 1: routing headers are forwarded verbatim to the peer

Nothing strips x-mesh-target / x-mesh-exclude before proxy::route_model_request. The raw path forwards headers as-is — by design, and as the served-by splice comment acknowledges.

Today the happy path hides it: peer B finds the model locally, never reaches route_missing_local_model, never consults the header. The failure appears when B doesn't have it locally — stale gossip, or the model unloaded between advertisement and arrival. B then re-enters route_missing_local_model still carrying the original header:

  • with x-mesh-target: <B>, resolve_remote_mesh_route searches only other peers, so B returns 409 for a route the router had already validated (this is @ndizazzo's P2, reached by a second route);
  • with x-mesh-target: <C>, B forwards again — and nothing carries a hop count or accumulates exclusions, so there is no bound on re-routing.

Same root cause as the duplicate x-mesh-served-by finding, and I'd fix it in the same place: strip both headers before forwarding, or replace them with an explicit hop marker the next node understands.

Flagging as needs verification — I traced the call paths and did not reproduce this on a live mesh.

New finding 2: response_header_end returns a corrupting offset on its own miss path

relay.rs:98-104 returns response.len() when no \r\n\r\n is found:

response
    .windows(4)
    .position(|window| window == b"\r\n\r\n")
    .map_or(response.len(), |pos| pos + 4)

That value goes straight to insert_header_before_body, which splices at header_end - 2 (probe.rs:88). The header_end < 2 || header_end > buf.len() guard passes for len(), so "terminator not found" silently becomes "splice a header line two bytes from the end of the body."

Reachable when an upstream terminates its header block with bare LF — httparse accepts that, the four-byte window scan does not, so probe.header_end and response_header_end disagree. Narrow in practice (peers are mesh-llm nodes), but it's a silent body-corruption path where a no-op is the obviously correct behaviour. Suggest Option<usize> and skipping the insertion on None.

Housekeeping

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StevenMih added a commit to StevenMih/mesh-llm that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2026
Addresses CodeRabbit review on Mesh-LLM#1671:

- MAJOR: `has_available_candidates` short-circuited to local dispatch
  before `route_missing_local_model` -- the only place the routing
  headers were parsed -- so a targeted or excluded request could be
  served locally, silently, with no `x-mesh-served-by`. Headers are now
  parsed and enforced in `route_request` before the local-candidate
  check; a target naming a remote peer or an exclude naming this node
  now forces the remote-mesh path regardless of local availability. A
  target naming this node is unaffected: still allowed to serve locally
  when this node serves the model.
- `x-mesh-exclude` entries that are empty ("", `a,,b`, a trailing comma)
  now reject the request with 400 instead of silently producing a
  partial exclusion list.
- Non-UTF-8 bytes in `x-mesh-target`/`x-mesh-exclude` header values now
  reject the request with 400 instead of being silently dropped by
  `filter_map(...ok())`.
- `x-mesh-served-by` is now threaded into `relay_error_response` (and
  its callers in dispatch.rs, json_adaptation.rs, stream_translation.rs)
  so a non-2xx response from a resolved peer still echoes which peer
  answered.
- One-line docstrings on every function touched above.

11 new tests (2970 total, up from 2959): the local-first-bypass decision
logic incl. self-targeted/self-excluded cases, the three exclude-header
rejection cases, non-UTF-8 raw header bytes for both headers, and the
error-relay served-by echo. Full suite green, clippy -D warnings clean,
fmt clean.

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Addresses ndizazzo's CHANGES_REQUESTED (4 inline, 2026-09-07), erlich's
2 new findings, and CodeRabbit's round-3 finding on Mesh-LLM#1671. One shared
root answered once per the PM ruling, not four independent patches:

- P1 (ndizazzo) + CodeRabbit round-2 "model-less bypass": routing
  headers were parsed only inside route_request's model-bearing branch,
  so MoA (`model: "mesh"`), pipeline, and the model-less fallback all
  dispatched without ever consulting x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude -- a
  malformed header reached whatever status that dispatch kind happens
  to fail with (503) instead of 400, and a valid header was silently
  ignored. New `enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch`, gated by
  `mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind`, runs once in
  handle_buffered_api_request before MoA/pipeline/route_request and
  answers "where are these enforced" for every dispatch kind at once.

- erlich new-1 + CodeRabbit round-3 (peer-forward loop) + ndizazzo P2c
  (duplicate x-mesh-served-by), same root: prepare_peer_forwarded_request
  now strips x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude before forwarding to a peer,
  so a peer can no longer re-enter route_request carrying the router's
  original headers (removing the unbounded re-route loop and the
  peer-side 409) and no longer mints its own served-by header on top of
  the routing node's. insert_header_before_body now REPLACES an
  existing header of the same name instead of appending a duplicate, as
  belt-and-braces.

- P2a (ndizazzo): an explicit x-mesh-target naming this node resolved
  against resolve_remote_mesh_route, which only ever searches OTHER
  peers' advertised hosts, so a self-target to a plugin-served model
  always failed closed with a spurious 409. New route_self_targeted_model
  resolves self-targets against local plugin availability instead.

- P2b (ndizazzo): x-mesh-exclude naming this node blocked local
  HOST-served dispatch (via mesh_headers_force_remote) but not local
  PLUGIN fallback, so an excluded node could still serve a plugin-backed
  model. route_missing_local_model now fails closed with 409 before
  attempting plugin dispatch when this node is excluded.

- erlich new-2: response_header_end returned response.len() when no
  \r\n\r\n terminator was found, which insert_header_before_body's
  bounds check accepted as valid and spliced at len()-2 -- a silent
  body-corruption path on an upstream that ends its header block with a
  bare LF. Now returns Option<usize>; None skips the insert (debug log)
  instead of corrupting the response.

- Docstrings on every touched/new function.

19 new tests: dispatch-kind enforcement (MoA/pipeline/model-less/
ordinary, both malformed and valid-but-unsupported-dispatch shapes),
peer-forward header stripping, self-target-resolves-plugin and
exclude-blocks-plugin-fallback (both via a real TCP round trip against
a registered plugin endpoint), served-by replace-not-duplicate
(case-insensitive), and response_header_end's None path plus the
corruption-skip it enables. Full crate suite green (2989 passed, 0
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706-716: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the resolved plugin endpoint for self-targeted requests.

route_self_targeted_model resolves inference_endpoint_for_model, then try_route_plugin_model resolves the current endpoint snapshot again. An endpoint health update between these calls can change Ok(Some(_)) to Ok(None), causing a 404 after the self-target check succeeded. Pass the resolved InferenceEndpointRoute into the dispatch path so both steps use the same result. The current manager implementation does not produce a reachable resolver Err.

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs` around lines 706
- 716, Update route_self_targeted_model to retain the resolved
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- Line 86: Update the header-removal logic around the line-processing function
containing buf.drain(offset..line_end) to continue scanning after each
case-insensitive x-mesh-served-by match, drain every matching line, and return
the total number of removed bytes. Add a regression test covering repeated
mixed-case headers and verify all matches are removed before the replacement
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs`:
- Around line 706-716: Update route_self_targeted_model to retain the resolved
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Review by erlich (agent), posted via @i386 — reply here and I'll pick it up.

Round 2 against f1c5682. I checked each fix rather than taking the commit message for it. All six findings close. Two new ones and three nits below.

CI, still: this head has zero check runs — all five workflows concluded action_required, same as a2590b6. I can see the local-run numbers in the description (2989 passed, clippy and fmt clean), but I can't attribute those to this SHA. A 1099-line change across the HTTP ingress with no CI evidence at any head shouldn't merge on local runs alone. The branch is also BEHIND main (origin/main = afa36ab).


Verified fixed

  • My feat: Add discover meshes feature to console UI #2 (response_header_end) — properly fixed. Returns Option<usize> (relay.rs:104), None skips the insert. Two regression tests, including the bare-LF corruption case.
  • My macos menu app #1 (routing headers forwarded verbatim) — fixed at the right place. prepare_peer_forwarded_request now omits both headers, and that is the only peer hop (response/routing.rs:240 is the sole caller path from route_remote_attempt). The unbounded re-route and the peer-side 409 both close with it.
  • @ndizazzo P1 — answered structurally, as one gate before every dispatch kind, which is what I wanted rather than four separate patches.
  • P2a / P2b / P2c — self-target resolves against local plugin availability (ingress.rs:697), self-exclusion now blocks plugin fallback with 409, and insert_header_before_body replaces rather than appends.

New: MoA degradation is rejected as if it were MoA

enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch (ingress.rs:1240) rejects model: "mesh" plus any valid routing header with 400. But try_handle_moa_intercept can return MoaInterceptResult::Degraded, which falls through to route_request with a real model (ingress.rs:1514) — and that path honors the headers fine.

So on a fleet small enough to degrade, a request that would have worked now gets a 400, and the message names a dispatch ("multi-agent orchestration") that never happened.

This is the cost of mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind (ingress.rs:1209) re-deriving the dispatch decision one step early instead of observing it. The MoA arm is the one that cannot be predicted from the request alone — it depends on fleet size at dispatch time.

New: 400 contradicts this PR's own status vocabulary

A well-formed x-mesh-target on a MoA or model-less request isn't malformed — the server just won't honor it. This PR already established 409 as "valid constraint I can't satisfy" (target doesn't serve the model, node self-excluded). Same rejection class, two different codes, and 400 tells a client to go fix its syntax when there is nothing wrong with it.

I'd use 409 for the valid-but-unsupported case and keep 400 for parse failures, which is what the parse arm directly above it already does.

Nits

  • relay.rs:199checked_add_signed(delta).expect(...) puts a panic in the response relay path. The bound does hold (removed ≤ header_end ≤ body_end), so it can't fire, but saturating_add_signed is equally correct without the panic.
  • remove_existing_header (probe.rs:70) returns after the first match. An upstream that already sent the header twice still ends up with two.
  • The commit bundles an unrelated reorder: maybe_handle_control_request now runs after rewrite_public_model_alias and two node lookups (ingress.rs:1450-1452), where it used to reject first. Benign — the control handler only reads path and method — but it inverts what admit_buffered_api_request's own docstring claims, and it isn't mentioned in the commit message.

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Round-3 head: 9b02896db — all three nits and (b) taken; (a) addressed with the minimal honest version and a question for you below.

400 → 409 for valid-but-unsupported dispatch (b): enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch now returns 409 for mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind returning Some(kind). The 400 arm is kept for parse_mesh_routing_headers failures (those are malformed). Also added send_409_observed in response/send.rs and plumbed it through.

.expect() panic in relay path: checked_add_signed(delta).expect(...) replaced with saturating_add_signed(delta) in relay.rs. The bound holds (removed ≤ header_end ≤ body_end) but there's no reason to panic where a no-op is correct.

remove_existing_header first-match-only bug: now loops with a total_removed accumulator, draining every matching line rather than returning after the first. insert_header_before_body already uses the return value as total bytes removed, so header_end - removed is still correct with the new semantics.

Unrelated reorder dropped: maybe_handle_control_request is back in handle_buffered_api_request before admit_buffered_api_request, matching the structure before this PR. admit_buffered_api_request is back to wrapping only check_activity_admission.

MoA degradation / 400 naming a dispatch that never happened (a): kept refusing, switched to 409, and rewrote the message to name only what this node observed, not what may or may not have dispatched:

x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude are not honored when the requested model is "mesh" (multi-agent orchestration); if the fleet degraded to a specific model, retry with that model name and the routing header

This is truthful: we're not claiming MoA ran, only that we can't honor the header for a request naming the "mesh" virtual model. The retry hint covers the degraded-fleet case without widening behavior.


Open question for you: when MoA degrades (MoaInterceptResult::Degraded), the effective dispatch is an ordinary model route — route_request would honor x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude against real candidates. Should a well-formed routing header on a model: "mesh" request be honored on the degraded path instead of being rejected here? That changes what x-mesh-target means (is it "target the named peer for this model, whatever model ends up dispatched" or "target the named peer only if you route directly, not through orchestration?"). I don't want to widen behavior unilaterally. Staying with the reject-and-hint approach until you weigh in.


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StevenMih added a commit to StevenMih/mesh-llm that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
Addresses CodeRabbit review on Mesh-LLM#1671:

- MAJOR: `has_available_candidates` short-circuited to local dispatch
  before `route_missing_local_model` -- the only place the routing
  headers were parsed -- so a targeted or excluded request could be
  served locally, silently, with no `x-mesh-served-by`. Headers are now
  parsed and enforced in `route_request` before the local-candidate
  check; a target naming a remote peer or an exclude naming this node
  now forces the remote-mesh path regardless of local availability. A
  target naming this node is unaffected: still allowed to serve locally
  when this node serves the model.
- `x-mesh-exclude` entries that are empty ("", `a,,b`, a trailing comma)
  now reject the request with 400 instead of silently producing a
  partial exclusion list.
- Non-UTF-8 bytes in `x-mesh-target`/`x-mesh-exclude` header values now
  reject the request with 400 instead of being silently dropped by
  `filter_map(...ok())`.
- `x-mesh-served-by` is now threaded into `relay_error_response` (and
  its callers in dispatch.rs, json_adaptation.rs, stream_translation.rs)
  so a non-2xx response from a resolved peer still echoes which peer
  answered.
- One-line docstrings on every function touched above.

11 new tests (2970 total, up from 2959): the local-first-bypass decision
logic incl. self-targeted/self-excluded cases, the three exclude-header
rejection cases, non-UTF-8 raw header bytes for both headers, and the
error-relay served-by echo. Full suite green, clippy -D warnings clean,
fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
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Addresses ndizazzo's CHANGES_REQUESTED (4 inline, 2026-09-07), erlich's
2 new findings, and CodeRabbit's round-3 finding on Mesh-LLM#1671. One shared
root answered once per the PM ruling, not four independent patches:

- P1 (ndizazzo) + CodeRabbit round-2 "model-less bypass": routing
  headers were parsed only inside route_request's model-bearing branch,
  so MoA (`model: "mesh"`), pipeline, and the model-less fallback all
  dispatched without ever consulting x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude -- a
  malformed header reached whatever status that dispatch kind happens
  to fail with (503) instead of 400, and a valid header was silently
  ignored. New `enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch`, gated by
  `mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind`, runs once in
  handle_buffered_api_request before MoA/pipeline/route_request and
  answers "where are these enforced" for every dispatch kind at once.

- erlich new-1 + CodeRabbit round-3 (peer-forward loop) + ndizazzo P2c
  (duplicate x-mesh-served-by), same root: prepare_peer_forwarded_request
  now strips x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude before forwarding to a peer,
  so a peer can no longer re-enter route_request carrying the router's
  original headers (removing the unbounded re-route loop and the
  peer-side 409) and no longer mints its own served-by header on top of
  the routing node's. insert_header_before_body now REPLACES an
  existing header of the same name instead of appending a duplicate, as
  belt-and-braces.

- P2a (ndizazzo): an explicit x-mesh-target naming this node resolved
  against resolve_remote_mesh_route, which only ever searches OTHER
  peers' advertised hosts, so a self-target to a plugin-served model
  always failed closed with a spurious 409. New route_self_targeted_model
  resolves self-targets against local plugin availability instead.

- P2b (ndizazzo): x-mesh-exclude naming this node blocked local
  HOST-served dispatch (via mesh_headers_force_remote) but not local
  PLUGIN fallback, so an excluded node could still serve a plugin-backed
  model. route_missing_local_model now fails closed with 409 before
  attempting plugin dispatch when this node is excluded.

- erlich new-2: response_header_end returned response.len() when no
  \r\n\r\n terminator was found, which insert_header_before_body's
  bounds check accepted as valid and spliced at len()-2 -- a silent
  body-corruption path on an upstream that ends its header block with a
  bare LF. Now returns Option<usize>; None skips the insert (debug log)
  instead of corrupting the response.

- Docstrings on every touched/new function.

19 new tests: dispatch-kind enforcement (MoA/pipeline/model-less/
ordinary, both malformed and valid-but-unsupported-dispatch shapes),
peer-forward header stripping, self-target-resolves-plugin and
exclude-blocks-plugin-fallback (both via a real TCP round trip against
a registered plugin endpoint), served-by replace-not-duplicate
(case-insensitive), and response_header_end's None path plus the
corruption-skip it enables. Full crate suite green (2989 passed, 0
failed), clippy -D warnings clean, fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
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Round-4 rebase + fix pushed — head is now 5d1be7b93.

Rebased onto origin/main (6e19bc065). Force-push-with-lease completed.

What changed (on top of round 3):

1. Transient plugin-resolution-as-409 → 503 (fix)

In route_self_targeted_model, the previous code used .ok().flatten().is_some() on the result of inference_endpoint_for_model. A transient Err from that call was silently swallowed by .ok(), making the whole condition false, and execution fell through to the 409 "x-mesh-target '...' does not serve model '...'" path. A transient resolution failure is not a "valid-but-unsupported" conflict — it's an internal/transient error. Changed to an explicit match:

  • Err(error) → warns + returns 503 with "plugin endpoint for model '...' unavailable (resolution error)"
  • Ok(Some(_)) → routes via plugin (guarded by !excluded.contains(&self_id))
  • Ok(None) → falls through to the existing 409 close (correct: the peer genuinely doesn't serve the model)

2. Docstring coverage (75.89% → ≥80%)

Added /// docstrings to 10 functions touched by this PR's diff that were missing documentation:
terminal_outcome_for_dispatch, model_access_succeeded, response_outcome, resolve_remote_mesh_route, parse_endpoint_id_hex, try_route_plugin_model, prepare_cache_routing_body, prepare_auto_route_decision, send_media_unsupported, callable_models_with_local_served.

3. MoA behavior question

Not changing behavior — no dispatch change for the model: "mesh" path. CodeRabbit's most recent review reached the same conclusion (no actionable comment on the MoA dispatch behavior). Flagging under "## Needs decision" if you want to honor the header on the degraded path instead.


CI status — fork workflow approval pending

Local results, re-run against head 5d1be7b93:

cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime

3023 passed, 0 failed, 11 ignored (finished in 52.03s)

cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -- -D warnings

clean

cargo fmt --check -p mesh-llm-host-runtime

clean

Not run upstream (workflow approval pending).

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Pushed 04fb852 to address pre-review findings:

P2 — README narrowed (crates/openai-frontend/README.md): The x-mesh-served-by claim "only when x-mesh-target was used" was too broad. The route_self_targeted_model → try_route_plugin_model path calls route_http_endpoint_request which hardcodes served_by: None in RouteAttemptLoggingContext, so a plugin-served self-target does NOT echo the header. README now reads: "when x-mesh-target resolves to a remote peer or a locally-served (non-plugin) model; plugin-served self-targets do not yet echo this header."

P3 remote_mesh_test_ctx unused: Not applicable — has 6 active call sites in the test file.

P3 trim on 409/400 body: Not applicable — header values are already trimmed in the parse functions before format interpolation.

Local: cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -p openai-frontend → all passed; cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -p openai-frontend -- -D warnings → clean.

ndizazzo pushed a commit to StevenMih/mesh-llm that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
Addresses CodeRabbit review on Mesh-LLM#1671:

- MAJOR: `has_available_candidates` short-circuited to local dispatch
  before `route_missing_local_model` -- the only place the routing
  headers were parsed -- so a targeted or excluded request could be
  served locally, silently, with no `x-mesh-served-by`. Headers are now
  parsed and enforced in `route_request` before the local-candidate
  check; a target naming a remote peer or an exclude naming this node
  now forces the remote-mesh path regardless of local availability. A
  target naming this node is unaffected: still allowed to serve locally
  when this node serves the model.
- `x-mesh-exclude` entries that are empty ("", `a,,b`, a trailing comma)
  now reject the request with 400 instead of silently producing a
  partial exclusion list.
- Non-UTF-8 bytes in `x-mesh-target`/`x-mesh-exclude` header values now
  reject the request with 400 instead of being silently dropped by
  `filter_map(...ok())`.
- `x-mesh-served-by` is now threaded into `relay_error_response` (and
  its callers in dispatch.rs, json_adaptation.rs, stream_translation.rs)
  so a non-2xx response from a resolved peer still echoes which peer
  answered.
- One-line docstrings on every function touched above.

11 new tests (2970 total, up from 2959): the local-first-bypass decision
logic incl. self-targeted/self-excluded cases, the three exclude-header
rejection cases, non-UTF-8 raw header bytes for both headers, and the
error-relay served-by echo. Full suite green, clippy -D warnings clean,
fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
ndizazzo pushed a commit to StevenMih/mesh-llm that referenced this pull request Sep 10, 2026
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Addresses ndizazzo's CHANGES_REQUESTED (4 inline, 2026-09-07), erlich's
2 new findings, and CodeRabbit's round-3 finding on Mesh-LLM#1671. One shared
root answered once per the PM ruling, not four independent patches:

- P1 (ndizazzo) + CodeRabbit round-2 "model-less bypass": routing
  headers were parsed only inside route_request's model-bearing branch,
  so MoA (`model: "mesh"`), pipeline, and the model-less fallback all
  dispatched without ever consulting x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude -- a
  malformed header reached whatever status that dispatch kind happens
  to fail with (503) instead of 400, and a valid header was silently
  ignored. New `enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch`, gated by
  `mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind`, runs once in
  handle_buffered_api_request before MoA/pipeline/route_request and
  answers "where are these enforced" for every dispatch kind at once.

- erlich new-1 + CodeRabbit round-3 (peer-forward loop) + ndizazzo P2c
  (duplicate x-mesh-served-by), same root: prepare_peer_forwarded_request
  now strips x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude before forwarding to a peer,
  so a peer can no longer re-enter route_request carrying the router's
  original headers (removing the unbounded re-route loop and the
  peer-side 409) and no longer mints its own served-by header on top of
  the routing node's. insert_header_before_body now REPLACES an
  existing header of the same name instead of appending a duplicate, as
  belt-and-braces.

- P2a (ndizazzo): an explicit x-mesh-target naming this node resolved
  against resolve_remote_mesh_route, which only ever searches OTHER
  peers' advertised hosts, so a self-target to a plugin-served model
  always failed closed with a spurious 409. New route_self_targeted_model
  resolves self-targets against local plugin availability instead.

- P2b (ndizazzo): x-mesh-exclude naming this node blocked local
  HOST-served dispatch (via mesh_headers_force_remote) but not local
  PLUGIN fallback, so an excluded node could still serve a plugin-backed
  model. route_missing_local_model now fails closed with 409 before
  attempting plugin dispatch when this node is excluded.

- erlich new-2: response_header_end returned response.len() when no
  \r\n\r\n terminator was found, which insert_header_before_body's
  bounds check accepted as valid and spliced at len()-2 -- a silent
  body-corruption path on an upstream that ends its header block with a
  bare LF. Now returns Option<usize>; None skips the insert (debug log)
  instead of corrupting the response.

- Docstrings on every touched/new function.

19 new tests: dispatch-kind enforcement (MoA/pipeline/model-less/
ordinary, both malformed and valid-but-unsupported-dispatch shapes),
peer-forward header stripping, self-target-resolves-plugin and
exclude-blocks-plugin-fallback (both via a real TCP round trip against
a registered plugin endpoint), served-by replace-not-duplicate
(case-insensitive), and response_header_end's None path plus the
corruption-skip it enables. Full crate suite green (2989 passed, 0
failed), clippy -D warnings clean, fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
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@ndizazzo — your four are all addressed, and I should be clear that three of them landed in pushes after your review at a2590b6, so you haven't seen them. Rather than ask you to re-derive that from the diff, each thread below says where the fix is and which test pins it. One new item from this round (the model: "mesh" case) is also fixed and is described in its own thread.

The README support-matrix row is in the same push, deliberately, so there's one head to look at.

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Review by erlich (agent), posted via @i386 — reply here and I'll pick it up.

Round 2 against f1c5682. I checked each fix rather than taking the commit message for it. All six findings close. Two new ones and three nits below.

CI, still: this head has zero check runs — all five workflows concluded action_required, same as a2590b6. I can see the local-run numbers in the description (2989 passed, clippy and fmt clean), but I can't attribute those to this SHA. A 1099-line change across the HTTP ingress with no CI evidence at any head shouldn't merge on local runs alone. The branch is also BEHIND main (origin/main = afa36ab).

Verified fixed

  • My feat: Add discover meshes feature to console UI #2 (response_header_end) — properly fixed. Returns Option<usize> (relay.rs:104), None skips the insert. Two regression tests, including the bare-LF corruption case.
  • My macos menu app #1 (routing headers forwarded verbatim) — fixed at the right place. prepare_peer_forwarded_request now omits both headers, and that is the only peer hop (response/routing.rs:240 is the sole caller path from route_remote_attempt). The unbounded re-route and the peer-side 409 both close with it.
  • @ndizazzo P1 — answered structurally, as one gate before every dispatch kind, which is what I wanted rather than four separate patches.
  • P2a / P2b / P2c — self-target resolves against local plugin availability (ingress.rs:697), self-exclusion now blocks plugin fallback with 409, and insert_header_before_body replaces rather than appends.

New: MoA degradation is rejected as if it were MoA

enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch (ingress.rs:1240) rejects model: "mesh" plus any valid routing header with 400. But try_handle_moa_intercept can return MoaInterceptResult::Degraded, which falls through to route_request with a real model (ingress.rs:1514) — and that path honors the headers fine.

So on a fleet small enough to degrade, a request that would have worked now gets a 400, and the message names a dispatch ("multi-agent orchestration") that never happened.

This is the cost of mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind (ingress.rs:1209) re-deriving the dispatch decision one step early instead of observing it. The MoA arm is the one that cannot be predicted from the request alone — it depends on fleet size at dispatch time.

New: 400 contradicts this PR's own status vocabulary

A well-formed x-mesh-target on a MoA or model-less request isn't malformed — the server just won't honor it. This PR already established 409 as "valid constraint I can't satisfy" (target doesn't serve the model, node self-excluded). Same rejection class, two different codes, and 400 tells a client to go fix its syntax when there is nothing wrong with it.

I'd use 409 for the valid-but-unsupported case and keep 400 for parse failures, which is what the parse arm directly above it already does.

Nits

  • relay.rs:199checked_add_signed(delta).expect(...) puts a panic in the response relay path. The bound does hold (removed ≤ header_end ≤ body_end), so it can't fire, but saturating_add_signed is equally correct without the panic.
  • remove_existing_header (probe.rs:70) returns after the first match. An upstream that already sent the header twice still ends up with two.
  • The commit bundles an unrelated reorder: maybe_handle_control_request now runs after rewrite_public_model_alias and two node lookups (ingress.rs:1450-1452), where it used to reject first. Benign — the control handler only reads path and method — but it inverts what admit_buffered_api_request's own docstring claims, and it isn't mentioned in the commit message.

Good catch, and fixed. The pre-MoA check was returning 409 before try_handle_moa_intercept ran, so a model: "mesh" request that MoA was about to degrade to a concrete model never got the chance to have its headers honoured against that model.

Malformed-header validation (400) still runs unconditionally ahead of MoA. The unsupported-dispatch 409 moved into try_handle_moa itself and now fires only at the point a committee is actually about to be convened — a committee fans a turn across every admitted worker, which is genuinely incompatible with naming or excluding one peer. MoaDispatchResult::Passthrough, the degrade case, continues untouched, so ordinary routing re-parses and honours the headers against the rewritten model. Two tests cover both sides: reject-once-convened, and degrade-and-continue.

… node

Mesh-LLM#1437 lands lifecycle-hook terminal events for exchanges a node serves --
either the typed frontend seam or the raw-proxy plugin-served path
(try_route_plugin_model). There's one path it never covers: when a node's
/v1 frontend routes a request to a peer on the mesh instead of serving it
locally (route_missing_local_model's remote-mesh branch), the routing node
publishes nothing at all on openai.exchange.v1.

Verified live on a 3-node mesh (2026-09-04): node A routes a chat completion
to node B; B publishes its own Terminal envelope and acts on it correctly;
A -- the node the client actually talked to -- has a byte-for-byte
unchanged plugin event log across the whole exchange.

Mirrors try_route_plugin_model's own effective/terminal publish pattern
1:1, with a new OpenAiExchangeDispatchPath::RemoteMesh variant so a
downstream plugin can tell "I routed this" from "I served this" rather
than conflating them. Same shape, same fields (exchange_id, model, status);
capsule_id stays absent on this path, same as the plugin-served terminal
event -- no marker exists here yet (a peer's X-Capsule-Id response header
is not read back in this change).

Review-round addendum (i386, via erlich): nonce/nonce_source now carry on
BOTH the effective and terminal envelope, not just the terminal one -- the
client-contributed capsule nonce, already stabilized and forwarded to the
peer byte-for-byte at ingress, read back off the buffered request rather
than minted here (a fallback minted on this node would not match whatever
the peer independently resolves, breaking "same nonce both sides"). Two
new OpenAiExchangeEnvelope constructors, effective_remote_mesh and
terminal_remote_mesh, carry this without disturbing the existing
effective()/terminal() signatures every other dispatch path already calls.
Deliberately does NOT port the capsule_id/PeerAsserted half of a related
fork addendum (7368f25) -- reading a peer's X-Capsule-Id response header
back is a separate, unauthenticated-header-provenance concern that belongs
in its own reviewable change.

Adds two unit tests covering both dispatch paths' effective/terminal
publish pairs at the envelope level (neither route_missing_local_model's
remote-mesh branch nor try_route_plugin_model itself is economical to
invoke directly in a unit test -- both need a live TCP stream and a real
mesh::Node/PluginManager).

Scope: one additional publish call site on the routed path, one new enum
variant, two new envelope constructors. No change to the envelope shape,
no change to served-node behaviour. Additive widening of the dispatch_path
value set on openai.exchange.v1 -- strict out-of-tree consumers must
accept remote_mesh (our own plugin needed exactly this: capsule-emit-mesh
Mesh-LLM#101).

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
…headers

Two optional request headers on the remote-mesh routing branch only, both
no-ops when absent:

- `x-mesh-target: <EndpointId>` forces dispatch to exactly that peer if it
  currently advertises the requested model. If it doesn't (or no longer
  does), the request fails closed with a 409 naming the mismatch -- it is
  never silently rerouted to another peer or served locally.
- `x-mesh-exclude: <EndpointId>[,...]` removes one or more peers from the
  candidate set before selection.

The routing node echoes the resolved peer back as `x-mesh-served-by:
<EndpointId>` on the response, but only when `x-mesh-target` was used, so a
client can seal which peer answered without parsing provenance. With just
these, a client can send the same deterministic request twice with distinct
`x-mesh-target` values and run an offline twin comparison across two sealed
responses from two named peers.

The served-by header threads through `RouteAttemptLoggingContext` /
`RelayAttemptContext` to every response relay path (raw passthrough, JSON
adaptation, SSE translation) and is spliced into the raw upstream response
bytes for the passthrough case, since that path forwards headers verbatim
with no other rebuild step.

Absent both headers, request and response are byte-for-byte identical to
today's behavior.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
Addresses CodeRabbit review on Mesh-LLM#1671:

- MAJOR: `has_available_candidates` short-circuited to local dispatch
  before `route_missing_local_model` -- the only place the routing
  headers were parsed -- so a targeted or excluded request could be
  served locally, silently, with no `x-mesh-served-by`. Headers are now
  parsed and enforced in `route_request` before the local-candidate
  check; a target naming a remote peer or an exclude naming this node
  now forces the remote-mesh path regardless of local availability. A
  target naming this node is unaffected: still allowed to serve locally
  when this node serves the model.
- `x-mesh-exclude` entries that are empty ("", `a,,b`, a trailing comma)
  now reject the request with 400 instead of silently producing a
  partial exclusion list.
- Non-UTF-8 bytes in `x-mesh-target`/`x-mesh-exclude` header values now
  reject the request with 400 instead of being silently dropped by
  `filter_map(...ok())`.
- `x-mesh-served-by` is now threaded into `relay_error_response` (and
  its callers in dispatch.rs, json_adaptation.rs, stream_translation.rs)
  so a non-2xx response from a resolved peer still echoes which peer
  answered.
- One-line docstrings on every function touched above.

11 new tests (2970 total, up from 2959): the local-first-bypass decision
logic incl. self-targeted/self-excluded cases, the three exclude-header
rejection cases, non-UTF-8 raw header bytes for both headers, and the
error-relay served-by echo. Full suite green, clippy -D warnings clean,
fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
…clude

Addresses ndizazzo's CHANGES_REQUESTED (4 inline, 2026-09-07), erlich's
2 new findings, and CodeRabbit's round-3 finding on Mesh-LLM#1671. One shared
root answered once per the PM ruling, not four independent patches:

- P1 (ndizazzo) + CodeRabbit round-2 "model-less bypass": routing
  headers were parsed only inside route_request's model-bearing branch,
  so MoA (`model: "mesh"`), pipeline, and the model-less fallback all
  dispatched without ever consulting x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude -- a
  malformed header reached whatever status that dispatch kind happens
  to fail with (503) instead of 400, and a valid header was silently
  ignored. New `enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch`, gated by
  `mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind`, runs once in
  handle_buffered_api_request before MoA/pipeline/route_request and
  answers "where are these enforced" for every dispatch kind at once.

- erlich new-1 + CodeRabbit round-3 (peer-forward loop) + ndizazzo P2c
  (duplicate x-mesh-served-by), same root: prepare_peer_forwarded_request
  now strips x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude before forwarding to a peer,
  so a peer can no longer re-enter route_request carrying the router's
  original headers (removing the unbounded re-route loop and the
  peer-side 409) and no longer mints its own served-by header on top of
  the routing node's. insert_header_before_body now REPLACES an
  existing header of the same name instead of appending a duplicate, as
  belt-and-braces.

- P2a (ndizazzo): an explicit x-mesh-target naming this node resolved
  against resolve_remote_mesh_route, which only ever searches OTHER
  peers' advertised hosts, so a self-target to a plugin-served model
  always failed closed with a spurious 409. New route_self_targeted_model
  resolves self-targets against local plugin availability instead.

- P2b (ndizazzo): x-mesh-exclude naming this node blocked local
  HOST-served dispatch (via mesh_headers_force_remote) but not local
  PLUGIN fallback, so an excluded node could still serve a plugin-backed
  model. route_missing_local_model now fails closed with 409 before
  attempting plugin dispatch when this node is excluded.

- erlich new-2: response_header_end returned response.len() when no
  \r\n\r\n terminator was found, which insert_header_before_body's
  bounds check accepted as valid and spliced at len()-2 -- a silent
  body-corruption path on an upstream that ends its header block with a
  bare LF. Now returns Option<usize>; None skips the insert (debug log)
  instead of corrupting the response.

- Docstrings on every touched/new function.

19 new tests: dispatch-kind enforcement (MoA/pipeline/model-less/
ordinary, both malformed and valid-but-unsupported-dispatch shapes),
peer-forward header stripping, self-target-resolves-plugin and
exclude-blocks-plugin-fallback (both via a real TCP round trip against
a registered plugin endpoint), served-by replace-not-duplicate
(case-insensitive), and response_header_end's None path plus the
corruption-skip it enables. Full crate suite green (2989 passed, 0
failed), clippy -D warnings clean, fmt clean.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
- 400 → 409 for valid-but-unsupported dispatch kind (x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude present but dispatch can't honor them)
- saturating_add_signed instead of .expect() in relay served-by splice path
- remove_existing_header removes all occurrences, not just the first
- revert control-request handler reorder (moved back to handle_buffered_api_request)
- honest 409 message for mesh virtual model: names what was observed without claiming MoA dispatched

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
…oute_self_targeted_model

When `inference_endpoint_for_model` returns `Err` for a transient failure,
the previous `.ok().flatten().is_some()` chain silently converted the error
to `None`, causing the caller to fall through to the 409 "x-mesh-target does
not serve model" path. A transient resolution failure is not the same as "the
peer does not serve the model" — it is an internal/transient error. Fix by
switching to an explicit `match` on the `Result`: `Err` returns 503 (Service
Unavailable) with a descriptive message, `Ok(Some(_))` routes via plugin
(guarded by `!excluded.contains(&self_id)`), and `Ok(None)` falls through to
the existing 409 close.

Also adds docstrings to 10 undocumented functions touched by this PR diff to
clear the 80% docstring coverage gate (was at 75.89%, needed ≥ 113/141):
`terminal_outcome_for_dispatch`, `model_access_succeeded`, `response_outcome`,
`resolve_remote_mesh_route`, `parse_endpoint_id_hex`, `try_route_plugin_model`,
`prepare_cache_routing_body`, `prepare_auto_route_decision`,
`send_media_unsupported`, `callable_models_with_local_served`.

Signed-off-by: Steven Mihaylov <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
… path does not echo it

The route_self_targeted_model→try_route_plugin_model path routes via
route_http_endpoint_request which hardcodes served_by: None. Narrow the
README from an unconditional 'only when x-mesh-target was used' to the
truthful 'remote or locally-served model; plugin-served self-targets do
not yet echo this header'.

Signed-off-by: Steven Mihaylov <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
…esh-exclude

enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch rejected any model: "mesh"
request carrying x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude with 409 before
try_handle_moa_intercept ever ran. try_handle_moa can degrade model: "mesh"
to a single concrete model when no committee can be admitted
(MoaDispatchResult::Passthrough) -- that degraded request is an ordinary
single-model route and route_request can honor the headers against it, but
the eager rejection blocked it from ever reaching that point.

Keep malformed-header validation (400) unconditionally ahead of MoA in
enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch. Move the unsupported-dispatch
rejection (409) for the MoA case into try_handle_moa itself, at the point it
actually decides to convene a committee (right before run_moa_turn) rather
than before knowing whether one will form. Thread mesh_routing_requested
through both call sites (the host ingress path and the passive mesh-request
path in transport.rs) via a new MoaRoutingContext so try_handle_moa stays
under clippy's argument-count lint.

Regression tests in moa_gateway::mesh_routing_tests exercise try_handle_moa
directly: a real committee (fabricated via fleet_sim_tests::node_with_fleet,
no live sockets) still rejects with 409, but zero admitted workers degrades
to a concrete model and continues as Passthrough with the routing headers
intact for route_request to honor downstream.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
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Force-pushed updated head b78c0f0c7: reconciled the review-fix lineage and hand-resolved a real merge conflict against main — two independently-added MoaRoutingContext structs that git had silently merged into non-compiling duplicate code, now merged into one struct with call sites fixed and the routing regression tests passing.

Ran the Linux quality slice locally in Docker before pushing — rust_fmt, rust_clippy (--workspace --all-targets -D warnings), and quality_contracts all green on rustc/clippy 1.97.1.

…by removal loop

Two regression tests closing PR Mesh-LLM#1671 CHANGES_REQUESTED items, verified against
head b78c0f0 by test run + mutant revert, not by reading the diff:

- enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch_rejects_malformed_header_without_model:
  drives a real TCP request with a malformed x-mesh-target and no model through
  enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch end to end, asserting 400 on the
  wire (ndizazzo P1 / CodeRabbit "move parse_mesh_routing_headers ahead of the
  effective_model branch").

- insert_header_before_body_removes_every_duplicate_not_just_the_first: two
  pre-existing x-mesh-served-by occurrences (mixed case) must collapse to one.
  The existing insert_header_before_body_replaces_an_existing_value_instead_of_duplicating
  test only ever has one pre-existing header, so it cannot distinguish "stops
  after the first match" from "removes every match" -- confirmed by
  reintroducing the stop-after-first bug and observing it pass unchanged while
  this new test fails (CodeRabbit probe.rs:86).

Both mutants (order-revert on ingress.rs, break-on-first-match on probe.rs)
were applied, observed to flip the new test to failure, then reverted with a
clean diff before this commit.

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Thanks again for the detailed review, @ndizazzo. I've pushed 52919b841 (current head) — that's the reviewed b78c0f0c7 plus two new tests that pin the two cases you and CodeRabbit flagged. I verified each item below by running the named test at this head, not by reading the diff.

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P1 — model-less bypass (parsing moved above only the effective_model branch left MoA/pipeline bypasses open). Fixed (15f72a26b): enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch parses headers unconditionally, before any dispatch-kind check (ingress.rs:1339-1372), so a malformed header returns 400 regardless of effective_model; the MoA/pipeline bypasses are closed the same way via mesh_routing_unsupported_dispatch_kind. New end-to-end test in 52919b841: enforce_mesh_routing_headers_before_dispatch_rejects_malformed_header_without_model drives a real TcpStream request with a malformed x-mesh-target and no model, and asserts a 400 on the wire. Reverting the ordering fix makes it fail with exactly the symptom CodeRabbit predicted; restoring it passes clean.

P2a — self-target rejected even when a local plugin serves it. Fixed (15f72a26b): a target naming this node now routes through route_self_targeted_model (which checks local host- and plugin-served availability) instead of the peers-only resolve_remote_mesh_route; 409 only if neither serves it. Covered by route_self_targeted_model_attempts_a_registered_plugin_instead_of_failing_closed (re-run — passes).

P2b — excluded node still served from its own plugin. Fixed (15f72a26b): route_missing_local_model now checks excluded.contains(&ctx.node.id()) and returns 409 before the local-plugin-dispatch branch. Covered by route_missing_local_model_excluding_self_blocks_local_plugin_fallback (passes).

P2c — duplicate x-mesh-served-by, plus CodeRabbit's follow-on at probe.rs:86. Fixed (15f72a26b): insert_header_before_body now calls remove_existing_header (case-insensitive, loops to remove every match) before splicing in the new value.

Correction to my earlier inline reply on P2c

I want to flag this directly rather than bury it: in my earlier inline reply I cited insert_header_before_body_replaces_an_existing_value_instead_of_duplicating as the proof. That test only ever sets up one pre-existing header, so it can't actually distinguish "stops after the first match" from "removes all matches" — it passes unchanged even with the CodeRabbit bug reintroduced. The multi-duplicate case is now properly pinned by a new test in 52919b841: insert_header_before_body_removes_every_duplicate_not_just_the_first, which sets up two pre-existing occurrences in mixed case (x-mesh-served-by / X-Mesh-Served-By) and asserts exactly one survives and that it's the fresh value. Reintroducing the "stop after the first removal" bug (a stray break) fails this new test with exactly the duplicate you described, while all four pre-existing probe.rs tests — including the one I'd cited — still pass, confirming they don't cover this case.

Two CodeRabbit findings closed in the same pass

  • ingress.rs:580 — peer-forward loop (a forwarded request could re-enter the peer's own client-side routing). Fixed (15f72a26b): prepare_peer_forwarded_request strips x-mesh-target/x-mesh-exclude before the request goes to the peer over QUIC (forwarded_request.rs, OMITTED_ON_PEER_FORWARD). Covered by peer_forwarding_strips_mesh_routing_headers (passes).
  • ingress.rs:1260-1270model="mesh" + routing headers 409'd before MoA could degrade. Fixed (b78c0f0c7): the malformed-header 400 still runs unconditionally ahead of MoA, but the unsupported-dispatch 409 moved into try_handle_moa right before it would convene a committee, so a degrade-to-Passthrough now continues with the headers intact. Covered by try_handle_moa_rejects_routing_headers_once_a_committee_is_convened and try_handle_moa_degrades_and_continues_when_no_committee_can_form (both pass).

CI

You'd noted that all five workflow runs on this PR conclude action_required without a maintainer approval — still the case at 52919b841 (only the CodeRabbit check reports; no Actions runs). Once you're able to approve the pending run (or point me at who can), that closes the one gap we can't close from the fork side. In the meantime ci-local.sh (docker/linux) runs green locally on this head: quality_contracts (6 checks) pass, rust_fmt pass, rust_clippy (workspace, -D warnings) pass; full cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --lib = 3089 passed, 0 failed, 11 ignored.

Branch-history note: your review anchor a2590b6e4 (and the earlier d2b50b7f / f1c5682b / 9b02896d) aren't reachable from 52919b841 by ancestry — the branch was rebased/reconciled — but they're patch-identical to b50b48fcb / 15f72a26b / a078a3835 in the current chain (git patch-id), so nothing was lost, just renumbered.

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@ndizazzo — following up on the changes-requested from the 7th. @i386 went through all four items thread-by-thread on Friday and marked each verified at 52919b8: the model-less bypass (now enforced before MoA/pipeline dispatch, with an end-to-end test), the self-target and self-exclusion plugin paths, and the duplicate x-mesh-served-by (a new test covers the multi-header case — my earlier reply cited one that didn't, which he caught). All ten threads are resolved and CI is green on this head. Whenever you have a moment to re-review — happy to point at anything that still looks open.

Same ask on #1668, where the rebase dismissed your earlier approval and nothing in the diff changed beyond the clippy fix your run caught.

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looks good - feedback addressed, I like it. have thought about it too.

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Reviewed the complete current-main-synchronized head 77a4f8618b5ac5318d6b71682c4f385f003a3a30. Target/exclude parsing fails closed on malformed or contradictory input, routing directives are stripped before forwarding, self-target/self-exclude behavior is explicit, and the served-by header is added only on the targeted response paths while preserving untouched responses when absent. The MoA degradation path remains available before directive rejection.

The full mesh-llm-host-runtime package suite and just ci-validate pass, and there are no unresolved review threads.

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i386 dismissed stale reviews from michaelneale and themself via dc3de36 September 15, 2026 08:20

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Reviewed exact head dc3de36 after synchronization with current main. I fixed the CI Clippy failure in the request-header parser and verified the full mesh-llm-host-runtime all-target Clippy gate with -D warnings, formatting, and diff checks. The feature behavior and earlier full host-runtime suite remain sound.

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feature: add a way for a /v1 client to name or exclude the peer that serves a routed request

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