feat(client): serve System One decision calls

[nachiketb-nvidia]

What

Serve Decision Model calls through TypeSafe's System One API from both run and decide.

Why

The HTTP host currently rejects decision calls. This connects the existing decision step and capability classifier to Jev.

Closes SWITCH-1686.

How

• Add RoutedDecisionClient and SystemOneClient, registered by target during ClientRouter construction.
• Store the decision-client map inside the existing shared ClientRouting. Keep its LLM routing, prompt policy, and conversation state unchanged.
• Keep System One mappings private to the client: context becomes state; Boolean, Choice, and Score questions map to their provider forms. Preserve returned probabilities, confidence, model identity, and available usage.
• Pass JSON content through for provider validation; reject duplicate option IDs that would be lost when converted to a map.
• Require matching question and answer keys; reject mismatched kinds, undeclared choices, or scores outside the requested rubric.
• Dispatch through the existing serve callback. Accept a parsed Url, reject malformed bearer headers at setup, and use a configured timeout and one HTTP attempt. Return failures to the algorithm for its fallback policy.
• Record decision-call latency, outcome, and usage through existing observers, server stats, and Relay metrics. Reuse the shared upstream-attempt counter for HTTP responses and transport failures.

Notes for reviewers

Start with system_one.rs, then decision dispatch in run.rs. Runner configuration and Python bindings are separate work.

Rust API changes: ModelCallObservation replaces LlmCallObservation; RunObservation gains DecisionCall. External Rust integrations must update old imports and exhaustive matches. Supply decision clients during construction with new_with_decision_clients or single_with_decision_clients. Existing LLM constructors and the run, decide, and drive signatures stay unchanged.

let clients = ClientRouter::single_with_decision_clients(llm, decisions);

One mock-server test covers all three question types, invalid answers and malformed JSON at the client boundary, and successful routing plus HTTP 503 fallback through run and decide. One existing observation test is adapted to the shared event buffer.

Validation

• All 18 client routing tests passed after the latest simplification. Workspace Clippy, formatting, and diff checks passed.
• Focused classifier (27), server stats (1), Relay observations (1), runner construction (1), and strict client Rustdoc checks also passed during this PR's validation.
• Temporary local HTTP probes verified one upstream-attempt counter increment per success or failure, and confirmed JSON content passes through unchanged while the provider's HTTP rejection reaches the caller. The probes are not committed.
• Four live calls passed on head 26077b7aa against https://api.typesafe.ai/v1/systemone, using jev-latest (reported model: jev-1.13.0). All answer keys matched the requested question keys; the shared upstream-attempt counter recorded exactly four successful attempts. Measured request times: 70–128 ms.

Check	Result
Mixed Boolean / Choice / Score	All decoded; ordered score probabilities and usage preserved
run, cutoff 0.0	Advantage probability 0.95 → capable
run, cutoff 1.0	Advantage probability 0.96 → efficient
decide, cutoff 0.4	Advantage probability 0.96 → capable; no final LLM call

Live checks used synthetic input, disabled fail-open behavior, and mocked final LLM responses. Response usage and decision observations were preserved; decide made no final LLM call. They verify the integration, not classifier accuracy. Only focused tests were run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for System One as a decision-making service, including translation of decision requests and responses.
  • Decision requests can be routed to separately configured services, with missing configurations and service failures reported.
• Improvements
  • Decision-call activity is now recorded separately from other model calls, including model, outcome, duration, and usage details.
  • Decision calls are included in run statistics and routing logs.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a System One client for typed decision requests, routes decision calls through ClientRouter, and records decision-call observations in relay events and server statistics.

Changes

Typed Decision Calls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
System One decision client crates/protocol/src/client.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/Cargo.toml, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/client.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/lib.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/system_one.rs	Adds the RoutedDecisionClient contract and SystemOneClient. The client encodes typed requests, sends authenticated HTTP calls, and translates responses and errors. The crate exports SystemOneClient and ModelCallObservation.
Decision routing and observations crates/libsy-llm-client/src/observation.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs	Adds decision-client registration and routing to ClientRouter. Decision calls produce typed observations. Integration tests cover successful responses and invalid-response or upstream failures.
Decision-call event and statistics handling crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs	The relay plugin emits decision calls with a distinct mark name. The server records decision-call results and usage in classifier statistics and routing logs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 00e9f

Invalid provider answers can be recorded as successful decision calls. Validate them before returning a response; the established impact is bounded, so this does not appear to block merging.

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- Around line 68-128: In the answer translation closure in
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[afourniernv]

Just curious about a couple of the public API choices:

• Does route_decision need to be public? I only see serve_decision calling it. Keeping it private would also avoid exposing the router’s Arc storage.
• Why rename LlmCallObservation to ModelCallObservation and alias the old name? DecisionCall seems to carry the same fields, so could it keep using LlmCallObservation?

For context, I’m looking at using this as the base for the semantic classifier in some privacy-routing work, so I’m trying to understand the public surface before stacking on it.

[nachiketb-nvidia]

Just curious about a couple of the public API choices:

* Does `route_decision` need to be public? I only see `serve_decision` calling it. Keeping it private would also avoid exposing the router’s `Arc` storage.

* Why rename `LlmCallObservation` to `ModelCallObservation` and alias the old name? `DecisionCall` seems to carry the same fields, so could it keep using `LlmCallObservation`?

For context, I’m looking at using this as the base for the semantic classifier in some privacy-routing work, so I’m trying to understand the public surface before stacking on it.

@afourniernv good point, its kinda just glue code, the client that is. The pub was probably because LLMCloent also calls it public, but I privated it for now.

The observation name change is primarily because we are increasing the tent from just LLMs to "Decision" models as well, so this would make semantic sense

[ayushag-nv]

Reviewed head 6f2f84c. The Rust workspace tests, formatting, and Clippy pass. The inline comments cover the remaining validation and compatibility concerns; the configuration and metrics suggestions are non-blocking.

[ayushag-nv]

Thanks, Great Work