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Part of #1702. Follows #1331 (lifecycle spec) and #1437 (its implementation). Parent strategy: #1233.

What

A consumer of openai.exchange.v1 can see that an exchange completed but not what served it. The terminal envelope carries exchange_id, model and status; it doesn't carry the facts a downstream reader needs to tell one serving configuration from another.

This adds three optional blocks to the raw-proxy terminal envelope (see Scope for which path carries which), populated from facts the host already resolves at serve time:

  • serving_provenance — served node id, hostname, GPU and VRAM, quantisation, architecture, native context length, parameter size, layer count, model identity hash, canonical ref, revision.
  • usage — the real token counts the dispatch outcome carries (RespondedWithUsage).
  • request_digest — a canonical digest of the request body as received, so a consumer reconciling two accounts of the same exchange can tell whether they were asked the same thing.

Every field is absent when the host doesn't know it — never a fabricated or zeroed value.

Why

Two nodes can advertise the same model name and serve materially different things. A node on a reduced KV-cache policy returns a different quality of answer under an identical model reference, and nothing in the current event distinguishes them. Anything reconciling exchanges across nodes — billing, capacity accounting, a receipts plugin (#1332) — has to guess.

This is also the envelope #1708's weights_digest is meant to ride. That PR's open question is that nothing consumes the digest; the served-model identity block this PR adds is where it goes. Landing this answers that question with a branch rather than a comment, and I'm happy to sequence the two however you'd prefer.

Scope

Both raw-proxy dispatch paths publish the terminal event now. What each carries:

serving_provenance and usage — host-served path only, and only on a served 2xx. Absent on the plugin-served path (a plugin endpoint can proxy anywhere; this node's hardware and weights are not what served it) and absent on any 503 / Failed / Dropped outcome.

request_digest — both paths, whenever the host held a parsed JSON body.

No gossip-wire change. No new dependency. Additive and Option-shaped — existing consumers unaffected.

Testing

Cut fresh off origin/main, rebased onto current main (b7e4021a8), local gate green at that head:

✅ rustfmt
✅ repo-consistency:no-console-print
✅ repo-consistency:publish-crates
✅ repo-consistency:test-all-rust-crate-coverage
✅ clippy:mesh-llm-host-runtime
✅ test:mesh-llm-host-runtime

The full Linux quality slice (ci-quality-slice.yml's Docker approximation — actionlint, the scripts/tests contracts, the three xtask repo-consistency checks, no-console-print, workspace fmt and clippy) was also run green on the pre-rebase head 76622474a.

Nine new tests, each shown failing with its fix reverted, then passing restored:

  • terminal_carries_serving_provenance_and_omits_unknown_fields — a no-op with_serving_provenance drops every field to null
  • effective_envelope_has_no_serving_provenance — provenance leaking onto the pre-serve event
  • terminal_carries_real_usage_when_attached / terminal_omits_usage_when_none_attached — a no-op builder, and a fabricated all-zero usage replacing a genuine absence
  • request_body_digest_matches_python_reference — float handling drifting from the reference implementation
  • request_body_digest_does_not_normalize_absent_fields — isolates the absent-field normalization regression the previous test cannot see (its fixture has no null fields)
  • terminal_carries_request_digest_when_attached / terminal_omits_request_digest_when_none_attached — a no-op builder, and a fabricated digest replacing a genuine absence
  • ingress::tests::exchange_usage_from_outcome_extracts_real_counts_and_omits_otherwise — real usage silently failing to reach the envelope

One note on request_digest

The digest deliberately does not apply an absent-field normalization step. That matches the current Python reference used by the receipts plugin (verified by running it with and without null-valued optional fields — the digests differ, as they must), and it's pinned by the two request_body_digest_* tests above. A separate Rust component on our side still normalizes and has drifted from that reference; that's a fix in our repo, not this one, and it's tracked there.

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  • New Features
    • OpenAI exchange events now include serving details such as node, model, hardware, and configuration metadata when available.
    • Exchange events now report accurate backend token usage, including cached prompt tokens.
    • Requests can now be identified using a canonical request digest.
    • Enriched exchange events are available for host-served and plugin-served exchanges, with serving details included where applicable.
    • Host-served exchanges now publish effective events before dispatch and terminal events after completion.

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The change adds optional serving provenance, token usage, and canonical request digests to OpenAI exchange envelopes. It enriches plugin-served terminal events and adds effective and terminal event publication for host-served exchanges. Tests cover outcome handling and metadata serialization.

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OpenAI exchange telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exchange envelope and digest contract
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/openai_exchange.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/openai_exchange/canonical_digest.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/channel_broadcast.rs
The envelope now supports optional serving provenance, token usage, and request digest fields. Subscriber checks and canonical SHA-256 JSON digest generation support event publication.
Ingress enrichment helpers
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs
Ingress resolves model and hardware provenance, extracts real token counts, checks served outcomes, and builds enriched terminal events.
Plugin and host exchange publication
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs
The plugin-served path uses shared effective and terminal publication helpers. The host-served path publishes effective and terminal events around dispatch when subscribers exist.
Telemetry behavior validation
crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress_tests/*, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/openai_exchange.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/plugin/channel_broadcast.rs
Tests validate metadata serialization, usage extraction, provenance conditions, status handling, model matching, hardware fields, and subscriber behavior.

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  participant OpenAIIngress
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  OpenAIIngress->>PluginManager: check exchange subscribers
  OpenAIIngress->>PluginManager: publish effective RawProxy event
  OpenAIIngress->>route_model_request: dispatch model request
  route_model_request-->>OpenAIIngress: return status and token usage
  OpenAIIngress->>PluginManager: publish terminal event with provenance, usage, and request digest
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Attach ServingProvenance only when inference was served.

publish_raw_proxy_terminal attaches provenance for every RouteDispatchOutcome. In the plugin caller, an endpoint Failed outcome becomes a host-written Responded(503) before publication. The host caller also passes route_model_request failures, including exhausted-target 503 responses, to this helper.

ServingProvenance identifies the node that actually served inference. The envelope contract requires None when nothing was served. Pass an explicit served-state signal from each dispatch result and attach provenance only when that signal confirms serving.

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/openai/ingress.rs` at line 128,
Update publish_raw_proxy_terminal and its callers to receive an explicit
served-state signal from each dispatch result, and set ServingProvenance only
when inference was actually served. Ensure plugin Failed outcomes converted to
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This is the right direction and the problem it solves is real. The host-served raw-proxy path published no openai.exchange.v1 terminal event at all before this, and the three blocks you're adding are the facts a reconciler actually needs. A lot of the detail work is careful too: the vram_bytes != 0 guard, skip_serializing_if on every optional, no new dependency, and using served_model_descriptors() rather than the all-peers accessor so peer-advertised descriptors can't get misattributed to this node. That last one is easy to get backwards and you got it right.

I also re-derived both pinned digest vectors from a from-scratch implementation and they match exactly, and sorting keys by UTF-16 code units rather than leaning on serde_json's BTreeMap ordering is correct per RFC 8785 and survives someone turning on preserve_order somewhere in the graph. Those are the details these ports usually get wrong.

That said, I don't think we can land it as-is. The PR's central claim is "every field is absent when the host doesn't know it, never a fabricated or zeroed value", and that claim doesn't hold on three paths. Since the whole value of this event is that a downstream consumer can trust it, those aren't cosmetic.

Two of them I've left inline. The third is about scope.

Host hardware provenance is being attached to plugin-served exchanges. try_route_plugin_model calls publish_raw_proxy_terminal at ingress.rs:805, and serving_provenance_for_model fills gpu, vram_bytes, is_soc, and hostname from this node's startup hardware survey unconditionally. A plugin endpoint can proxy to anything, including a third-party cloud API, so we'd be announcing "served on host-1, RTX 4090, 24 GB VRAM" for an exchange that ran somewhere else entirely. That's a fabricated hardware attestation, which is the exact thing the PR says never happens.

There's a second-order version of the same problem: the descriptor lookup at ingress.rs:41 matches node.served_model_descriptors() by model name. The descriptor list and the target table are updated independently, so during a teardown window a stale descriptor can attach local weights' quantization, architecture, and model_identity_hash to a plugin-served exchange. Let's pass a served-locally signal into publish_raw_proxy_terminal and omit the hardware block (or the whole provenance block) on the plugin path.

While we're here, the PR body says "Scope: Host-served path only", and that isn't accurate. CodeRabbit's generated release note actually has it right: it covers both. Worth correcting so the next reader isn't misled.

Smaller things, none of them blocking:

exchange_usage_from_outcome at ingress.rs:82 guards with || rather than &&, so prompt=Some(42), completion=None emits completion_tokens: 0, and it derives total_tokens from a sum when the real total is absent. Both are fabricated values in a struct whose doc says nothing is fabricated, and the new test pins the derived-total behavior. We already own this invariant elsewhere: mesh_llm_events::logging::events::TokenUsage::from_counts documents "Missing, overflowing, or internally inconsistent usage must not be estimated" and requires all three counts to agree. I checked and this is currently unreachable, every production TokenUsage comes through from_counts, so it's latent rather than live. Still, a three-way let ... else is cheaper than the guard we have. Separately, cached_prompt_tokens gets dropped, and for billing reconciliation that's usually the difference between a right and a wrong number.

Both files land over our 1k line rule: openai_exchange.rs goes 567 to 1046, ingress.rs 1361 to 1529. The digest code is about as clean a separable responsibility as exists, request_body_digest plus stringify_floats plus the jcs_* helpers are a self-contained RFC 8785 port with zero coupling to the envelope. Pulling them into plugin/openai_exchange/canonical_digest.rs with their tests would take the file back under on its own.

The publish sits on the hot path and is gated on ctx.plugin_manager.is_some(), not on anything actually subscribing. broadcast_channel_message only delivers to plugins that declare openai.exchange.v1, so a host with any plugin loaded pays a full deep clone of the parsed body, a second full-size canonical string, SHA-256 over it, and a clone of the whole Vec<ServedModelDescriptor> under a mutex, per chat request. And the publish is awaited before route_model_request, so it's sitting directly on time-to-first-token. A cheap "does any plugin declare this channel" check would skip all of it.

On the tests: they do match what the body describes, and I verified the digest vectors independently. But six of the nine only assert that with_x() sets Some(x) and that skip_serializing_if works, which is close to tautological. Nothing covers the actual behavior change. There's no test that the host-served path publishes an effective/terminal pair at all, nothing pinning what happens on a 503 or a Failed or Dropped outcome (which is exactly the bug above), nothing for serving_provenance_for_model on a descriptor miss or the vram_bytes == 0 omission, and the digest has no coverage for non-BMP keys, control characters, nested arrays, or a non-object top level. ingress_tests/durable_artifacts.rs already drives handle_api_proxy_connection end to end and RecordingChannel already exists, so most of the harness is there.

One last note, worth a sentence in the doc rather than a code change: because stringify_floats turns 0.7 into "0.7", the bodies {"temperature": 0.7} and {"temperature": "0.7"} digest identically. Inherited from the reference so not yours to fix, but it's a real weakness in something we're using as an integrity binding.

CI isn't green at head, by the way. The Linux cpu runtime job failed on the restore-model step (looks like infra, not you), Quality shows cancelled, and a few batches were still pending. Worth a re-run.

match value {
Value::Number(n) if n.is_f64() && !(n.is_i64() || n.is_u64()) => {
let f = n.as_f64().expect("n.is_f64() confirmed a f64 is present");
let s = format!("{f}");

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This diverges from the Python reference for any float outside roughly [1e-4, 1e16), silently.

Rust's Display for f64 never emits exponent notation. Python's repr/str/json.dumps switch to exponent form once the decimal exponent is >= 16 or < -4. I ran both:

input this code Python repr
1e-5 0.00001 1e-05
1e-7 0.0000001 1e-07
1e16 10000000000000000.0 1e+16
1e20 100000000000000000000.0 1e+20

The s.contains('e') || s.contains('E') branch on the next line is dead code under Rust's Display, which I think is the tell that the Python conditional got transliterated without checking what Rust actually does here.

This is reachable from real traffic. "temperature": 1e-9 is a common determinism trick, and we forward the whole body so arbitrary vendor float fields ride along. Same class of problem: a JSON integer literal above u64::MAX becomes an f64 here but stays an arbitrary-precision int in Python.

No panic, no error, just a wrong digest. Since cross-implementation agreement is the entire point of this field, a silently wrong digest is worse than not having one.

Let's port Python's float_repr rule properly: shortest round-trip digits, then pick fixed vs exponent form on the decimal exponent (exp < -4 || exp >= 16), with the exponent written as e+NN/e-NN and at least two digits. Worth adding vectors for 1e-5, 1e16, 1e20, -0.0, and a large integer literal, each cross-checked against a live capsule_sidecar.digest_json run. The two current vectors can't catch any of this, they only use 0.7 and 1.0.

Minor, same block: n.as_f64().expect(...) on the line above is provably unreachable, but if let Some(f) costs nothing and removes a panic site from a function that eats attacker-supplied JSON. And without the arbitrary_precision feature (not enabled anywhere in this workspace) is_f64() is already exclusive with is_i64()/is_u64(), so that second clause is dead too.

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This attaches provenance unconditionally, but the field's own doc at openai_exchange.rs:183 says it should be None "on terminal envelopes where nothing was served (a denial/error before dispatch)". The code never produces that None, and since ServingProvenance.served_by_node_id isn't an Option, the block always comes out populated with at least node id, hostname, GPU, VRAM, and is_soc.

Concretely reachable with nothing served:

  • route_model_request writes a host 503 at transport_route_model.rs:99 when ordered_candidates is empty after health filtering, and again from finish_exhausted_route_model_request when every target failed.
  • try_route_plugin_model at ingress.rs:783 turns a Failed(_) plugin outcome into a host-written 503.

Worse, on Failed(_)/Dropped(_) plugin_route_status returns None, so the envelope carries a full provenance block and no status at all. A consumer can't tell that apart from a successful serve.

This is CodeRabbit's flag and I think it's right. It matters more than it looks because the doc positions this as the proof-of-inference provenance a downstream capsule attests over.

Something like gating the attachment on the outcome actually being a served response:

if matches!(
    final_outcome,
    proxy::RouteDispatchOutcome::Responded(200..=299)
        | proxy::RouteDispatchOutcome::RespondedWithUsage { status_code: 200..=299, .. }
) {
    envelope = envelope.with_serving_provenance(
        serving_provenance_for_model(node, model_name).await,
    );
}

which also lets us skip the served_model_descriptors() lock and clone entirely on the non-served path. Whichever rule you pick, let's make the doc comment and the code say the same thing.

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Thanks — agree on all three, they're real "never fabricated" gaps, and the float one is the kind that hides. Rework coming as separate commits in your order, rebased onto current main; the 0.7/"0.7" point is a property of the profile's digest construction and I'll get it declared where a verifier can read it.

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… restore

Steven decided Option 1 for the demo (matching the DECIDED line for
upstream Mesh-LLM#1708/Mesh-LLM#1841): apply B4's accessor-restore hunk
(up-weights-digest-consumer @ 60859cf33) instead of carrying the
DEMO-ONLY unfiltered-peer-list workaround (d46f1d2). Restores
Node::served_model_descriptors() to production visibility with its
doc comment, and reverts serving_provenance_for_model's call site
back to the self-only accessor. The demo now carries the same bytes
the Mesh-LLM#1708/Mesh-LLM#1841 reconciliation will carry upstream, so the demo and
the upstream fix never diverge.

Signed-off-by: stevenmih <stevenmih88@gmail.com>
…t on host-served openai.exchange.v1 terminal event

Recut fresh off current origin/main from the (unmerged, never-cherry-pickable)
feat/serving-provenance-host-served-terminal and mesh-weights-digest-at-load
spec branches, for #1702. Introduces ServingProvenance on the host-served
raw-proxy path's terminal envelope (what ran / at what fidelity / on whose
hardware, sourced entirely from the served-model descriptor and this node's
hardware survey), the real token usage the host-served RespondedWithUsage
dispatch outcome carries (ExchangeUsage), and a canonical request_digest of
the real dispatched request body -- every field real-or-omitted, nothing
fabricated.

vram_bytes is re-derived against current main's Node shape
(advertised_memory.total_bytes) rather than the spec branch's now-nonexistent
node.vram_bytes field.

request_body_digest deliberately does NOT apply the profile's absent-field
normalize step that the spec branch's version had: the current
agent_action_capsule.canonical.json_digest reference reserves normalize for
the vintage format-2 Capsule-ID path only (verified against a live run of
capsule_sidecar.digest_json, both with and without null-valued optional
fields). Note for the record: capsule-emit-mesh's own Rust
canonical_body_digest currently still routes through
capsule_producer::jcs::json_digest, which normalizes -- a drift from the
current Python reference that this host digest does not replicate. Flagged
separately; out of scope for this crate.

Explicitly excludes tool_calls_digest/reasoning_digest -- that is the
separate up-tool-calls-digest cut stacking on this one.

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

publish_raw_proxy_terminal attached ServingProvenance for every dispatch
outcome, including a host 503 (exhausted targets), a plugin Failed(_)
converted to a written 503, and Failed/Dropped outcomes that carry no HTTP
status at all. ServingProvenance's contract is "what ran, at what fidelity,
on whose hardware" -- none of those served anything, so the block was
fabricated on those paths, and on Failed/Dropped a consumer had no status
field to tell that apart from a real serve.

Add outcome_was_served, matching only Responded/RespondedWithUsage in the
2xx range, and gate the provenance attachment on it. Doc comment on
OpenAiExchangeEnvelope::serving_provenance now states the same 2xx-only
rule the code enforces.
…n the plugin-served path

A plugin endpoint can proxy to anything, including a third-party cloud API.
publish_raw_proxy_terminal attached serving_provenance's hardware fields
(gpu/vram/is_soc/hostname) unconditionally from this node's own startup
survey, so a plugin-served exchange announced "served on host-1, RTX 4090,
24GB VRAM" for inference that ran somewhere else entirely. There is a second,
independent staleness window on the same path: the model-identity half of
the block comes from a model-name-keyed descriptor lookup, and the descriptor
list and the routing target table update on separate schedules, so a
teardown window can hand a plugin-served exchange this node's own served
model's quant/architecture/identity_hash.

Add a served_locally signal to publish_raw_proxy_terminal and gate the whole
serving_provenance block on it, not just the hardware fields -- omitting the
whole block closes both windows at once. try_route_plugin_model passes
false; the host-served route_request passes true.
…igest

Rust's Display for f64 never switches to exponent notation; Python's repr
does, once the decimal exponent is >= 16 or < -4. The old stringify_floats
transliterated the Python conditional without checking what Rust actually
does here, so 1e-5, 1e16, and any vendor float field outside roughly
[1e-4, 1e16) silently digested to the wrong bytes -- no panic, no error,
just a wrong digest, which defeats the one thing this field exists for
(cross-implementation agreement with the Python reference).

Add float_repr: shortest round-trip digits (still sourced from Rust's own
Display), fixed vs exponent chosen on the decimal exponent, exponent written
sign-always with at least two digits. Every vector is cross-checked against
a live run of the Python reference, not just read off its source.

Also close two related gaps the same review pass named: a JSON integer
literal beyond +/-(2^53-1) is something the reference itself refuses
(UnsafeIntegerError) -- request_body_digest now returns None rather than
digest a body the reference would reject, so callers omit request_digest on
such a body instead of fabricating one. And remove the dead
contains('e')/contains('E') branch and the provably-unreachable
.expect() panic site the old code carried (Display never emits 'e', and
is_f64() is already exclusive with is_i64()/is_u64() without the
arbitrary_precision feature, which this workspace does not enable).
…mpt_tokens

exchange_usage_from_outcome guarded with || rather than &&, so
prompt=Some(42), completion=None emitted completion_tokens: 0, and it
derived total_tokens from prompt+completion when the backend omitted it --
both fabricated values in a struct whose own doc says nothing is fabricated.
The existing test pinned the derived-total behavior as correct.

We already own this invariant elsewhere: TokenUsage::from_counts documents
"missing, overflowing, or internally inconsistent usage must not be
estimated" and requires all three counts to agree. This path just didn't
follow it -- every production TokenUsage currently comes through
from_counts, so the gap was latent, not live, but a three-way let-else costs
nothing and removes it. A backend's real total can legitimately disagree
with prompt+completion (e.g. reasoning tokens folded into total), so a
disagreeing real total now rides through as reported rather than being
silently replaced.

Also carry cached_prompt_tokens, which the old builder dropped entirely --
for billing reconciliation that's usually the difference between a right and
a wrong number.
Pure move: request_body_digest, stringify_floats, float_repr, jcs_* and
their tests move unchanged into plugin/openai_exchange/canonical_digest.rs.
The digest port is a self-contained RFC 8785 implementation with zero
coupling to the envelope types openai_exchange.rs otherwise defines, and
splitting it keeps both files under 1k lines.
…subscriber

Both raw-proxy dispatch paths previously did the exchange-envelope work
(minting an exchange id, digesting the request body, cloning the served-model
descriptor) whenever a plugin manager existed at all, even when no loaded
plugin declares openai.exchange.v1 in its manifest. Add
PluginManager::any_plugin_declares_mesh_channel and an OpenAiExchangeChannel::
has_subscriber trait method (default true, so existing test doubles are
unaffected) backed by it, and check it before any of that work runs on the
host-served and plugin-served paths.
Extract RecordingChannel into a shared, crate-visible test_support module
(it was private to openai_exchange's own test module) and change
publish_raw_proxy_terminal to take &dyn OpenAiExchangeChannel instead of the
concrete PluginManager, so both dispatch paths' tests can inject it without
spinning up a real plugin.

Cover the never-fabricated invariants directly: a served 2xx attaches the
full hardware+model provenance, real usage, and the real request digest; a
503 keeps its status but drops provenance; Failed/Dropped drop both status
and provenance (they never produced an HTTP response to report); the
plugin-served path omits the whole provenance block even on 2xx even when
this node's own hardware/descriptor would otherwise be available; a
served-model descriptor miss keeps the real hardware fields but omits every
model-identity field; and advertised_memory.total_bytes == 0 omits
vram_bytes rather than reporting a fabricated zero.
Document that stringify_floats collapses a float and its string form to the
same digest (0.7 vs "0.7") as an inherited property of the reference, not a
defect introduced by this port, and point at the current declaration site
(capsule-emit-mesh's x-mesh-poc-v1 extension block) pending its own
spec-lane registration.
Whitespace-only: two let-else bindings had drifted from the installed
rustfmt's formatting since they were written.
… own fn

try_route_plugin_model tripped clippy::cognitive_complexity after the
has_subscriber gate (previous commit) added another branch. Pull the
mint-exchange-id-and-publish-effective step into
mint_and_publish_effective_raw_proxy; no behavior change.
…atch

R4 check on publish_raw_proxy_terminal_omits_model_identity_on_a_descriptor_miss
found it passed even against a broken serving_provenance_for_model that
returned the first available descriptor regardless of model name -- the test
node had no descriptors registered at all, so a name-match bug and an
empty-list case looked identical. Register a descriptor for a different
model instead, so the test actually exercises the mismatch guard.
The doc comment still said request_digest is only present on a
host-served terminal envelope, but the code (and the PR body) both
correctly attach it on either dispatch path whenever a JSON request
body was parsed.
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Thanks for the thorough pass — replying in the order you raised things,
one commit per item so it's reviewable piecewise.

1. Served-state gate (main review body + your inline comment on
ingress.rs:128, and CodeRabbit's flag on the same line). Fixed in
210f5e654: publish_raw_proxy_terminal now only attaches ServingProvenance
when the outcome is an actual 2xx (Responded/RespondedWithUsage in
200..=299, via a new outcome_was_served); on a 503 (host-exhausted or a
plugin Failed(_) converted to a written 503), a Failed(_), or a
Dropped(_) the block is fully absent, and serving_provenance's doc comment
now states the same 2xx-only rule the code enforces. Tests:
publish_raw_proxy_terminal_on_a_503_has_no_provenance_but_keeps_the_status,
publish_raw_proxy_terminal_on_a_failed_outcome_has_no_provenance_and_no_status,
publish_raw_proxy_terminal_on_a_dropped_outcome_has_no_provenance_and_no_status
(all 8dd35d1bb — the fix itself landed in 210f5e654, ahead of the test
harness rework that made calling the builder directly possible).

2. Plugin-served hardware/model-identity attribution. Fixed in
b5265864d: publish_raw_proxy_terminal takes an explicit served_locally
signal, and the WHOLE serving_provenance block — not just gpu/
vram_bytes/is_soc/hostname — is omitted on the plugin-served path, even
on a 2xx. I went with omitting the whole block rather than just the hardware
fields: the descriptor-staleness window you flagged (model-name-keyed lookup
racing the independently-updated routing target table) is a second,
independent way to attribute this node's own local weights to a plugin-served
exchange, and omitting the whole block closes both at once instead of leaving
that half open. try_route_plugin_model passes false; the host-served
route_request passes true. Test:
publish_raw_proxy_terminal_on_the_plugin_served_path_omits_the_whole_block_even_on_2xx
(8dd35d1bb) — builds a node WITH real hardware and a matching served-model
descriptor and confirms the plugin path still reports nothing.

3. PR body scope claim. You're right, CodeRabbit's note had it correct.
Diff in _work/pr-body-up-serving-provenance.md (companion file, not a
commit) — dropped the blanket "Host-served path only" / "three optional
blocks to the host-served terminal envelope," and instead said precisely
which blocks are host-served-only (serving_provenance, usage, both only on
a served 2xx) vs. present on both dispatch paths (request_digest, whenever
the host held a parsed JSON body).

4. exchange_usage_from_outcome. Fixed in 832b0ce94: it's now a
three-way let … else on prompt/completion/total — all three or none, never
a derived total, never a zero standing in for a missing count — and
cached_prompt_tokens now rides along instead of being dropped. Test:
exchange_usage_from_outcome_extracts_real_counts_and_omits_otherwise,
extended with cases for the disagreeing-real-total (must ride through as
reported, not get silently replaced), the missing-completion (must not
fabricate a zero), and the cached-count carry.

5. File size. Partially fixed. 76d18ddf2 moves request_body_digest,
stringify_floats, float_repr, and the jcs_* helpers, plus their tests,
into plugin/openai_exchange/canonical_digest.rs — pure move, no behavior
change (content is byte-identical, just relocated; openai_exchange.rs now
just has mod canonical_digest; pub use canonical_digest:: request_body_digest;). openai_exchange.rs is back under 1k, now 905 lines.
ingress.rs is not: it's 1599 lines at head, up from the 1529 you originally
flagged — none of this series' commits split it. I don't think it's worth
contorting an extraction into this already-large diff just to hit a number;
happy to take a follow-up on splitting ingress.rs (the
serving_provenance_for_model/exchange_usage_from_outcome/
outcome_was_served/publish_raw_proxy_terminal/
mint_and_publish_effective_raw_proxy cluster at the top of the file has the
same self-contained shape the digest code did) if you'd rather see that done
here instead.

6. Hot path. Fixed in 5b904cadc: added
PluginManager::any_plugin_declares_mesh_channel and an
OpenAiExchangeChannel::has_subscriber trait method backed by it (default
true, so RecordingChannel and any other test double is unaffected by the
new method existing). Both dispatch paths check it before minting an
exchange id, computing the request digest, or looking up the served-model
descriptor — a mesh with a plugin loaded that doesn't declare
openai.exchange.v1 now pays none of that per-request cost, matching
broadcast_channel_message's own per-plugin filter instead of gating on
"a plugin manager exists at all." (84171c89a is a same-behavior follow-up:
pulling the mint-and-publish step out into its own function after the added
branch tripped clippy::cognitive_complexity on try_route_plugin_model.)

7. Test coverage. Fixed in 8dd35d1bb. Seven new tests call
publish_raw_proxy_terminal directly through a RecordingChannel — the same
double you pointed at, now shared crate-wide via a
plugin::openai_exchange::test_support module instead of being private to
that module's own tests, which required changing
publish_raw_proxy_terminal's second parameter from the concrete
PluginManager to &dyn OpenAiExchangeChannel so it's injectable. Covers: a
full served-2xx (provenance + usage + request digest all populated with real
values, not just Some(x)/skip_serializing_if tautologies); the 503/
Failed/Dropped triad above; the plugin-path whole-block omission above; a
served-model-descriptor miss (real hardware fields present, every
model-identity field None); and advertised_memory.total_bytes == 0
omitting vram_bytes.

One thing I did NOT do: wire these through the full handle_api_proxy_ connection TCP harness durable_artifacts.rs's existing tests use. That
would need a real plugin subprocess declaring openai.exchange.v1 in its
manifest to exercise the subscriber gate end to end (item 6 above), and this
crate's test infra doesn't have a lightweight in-process fixture for that —
channel_broadcast.rs's own tests only cover the no-plugins-loaded case for
the same reason. Calling publish_raw_proxy_terminal directly gets the same
envelope-correctness coverage without a real subprocess. Flagging in case
there's an existing fixture pattern I missed that would make the full
end-to-end version cheap.

Each of these seven, plus the new any_plugin_declares_mesh_channel test for
item 6, was shown failing with its guard reverted and passing restored
(reverting the 2xx gate, the served_locally gate, the descriptor name
match, the vram_bytes == 0 guard, the usage attachment, and stubbing
any_plugin_declares_mesh_channel to always return true, one at a time).
One of them — the descriptor-miss test — didn't bite on the first pass: the
test node had no descriptor registered at all, so a "wrong descriptor"
regression and an "empty list" case looked identical to it. Fixed in
cde2a39df by registering a descriptor for a different model instead, then
re-verified it fails against a broken name match.

8. Float-stringify digest collision. Doc note added in 7467996a7, on
stringify_floats itself: because a float and its stringified form both
become JSON strings before JCS runs, {"temperature": 0.7} and
{"temperature": "0.7"} digest identically. As I said in my last reply,
this is a property of the digest context inherited unchanged from the
reference (agent_action_capsule.canonical/capsule_sidecar.digest_json),
not something this port introduces. It's currently declared as a PoC-only
property via capsule-emit-mesh's x-mesh-poc-v1 extension block in
capsule_sidecar.py (a namespaced, non-registered-spec-field extension,
per that file's own docstring) — registering it as a real profile-level
property is a separate spec-lane item, not this PR's to file.

9. CI not green at head. Rebased onto current main; local gate
(rustfmt, the three xtask repo-consistency checks, clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime) is green at cde2a39df, and CI is running on the
pushed head.


Separately, the float-repr port (your inline comment on
openai_exchange.rs:332): fixed in 8285a41a1. Ported the actual rule —
shortest round-trip digits (still sourced from Rust's own Display), fixed
vs. exponent form chosen on the decimal exponent (exp < -4 || exp >= 16),
exponent written e+NN/e-NN with a required sign and at least two digits.
The dead contains('e')/contains('E') branch is gone, and so is the
.expect(...) panic site you flagged (now if let Some(f) — provably
unreachable given the guard above, per your own note, but no reason to leave
a panic site over attacker-supplied JSON when the guard costs nothing).
Added the vectors from your table (1e-5, 1e-7, 1e16, 1e20) plus the
boundary your table didn't cover (1e-4 stays fixed), -0.0, 1e-9 (the
determinism trick you called out), 0.1 + 0.2, a nested array, a non-object
top level, a non-BMP key, and a control character in a string — every vector
cross-checked against a live capsule_sidecar.digest_json run, values
recorded in the test comments.

On the large-integer case: a JSON integer literal outside the reference's
safe range (±(2^53−1), agent_action_capsule.canonical §5.1, where the
reference raises UnsafeIntegerError rather than digest something it can't
represent losslessly) now makes request_body_digest return None instead
of silently round-tripping through f64 — never a digest of a body the
reference would refuse.

Tests: float_repr_matches_python_repr_at_and_around_the_exponent_boundaries,
request_body_digest_matches_python_reference_for_float_edge_cases,
request_body_digest_omits_when_body_has_an_unsafe_integer,
request_body_digest_matches_python_reference_for_structural_edge_cases
(all now living in plugin/openai_exchange/canonical_digest.rs per item 5).


Head: cde2a39df, rebased onto current main, force-pushed over eeb362ed6.
Re-requesting review.

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I am ok with this - I think is reasonable

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