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fix(chat): apply the Fast capability gate to the native passthrough (#1886) - #2075

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The last known bug from the FastWire umbrella (#1886): the native /v1/chat/completions passthrough decided service-tier forwarding with one provider-level check and bypassed the policy layer entirely.

if (provider.chatServiceTier && rawBody.service_tier !== undefined) {
  body.service_tier = rawBody.service_tier;
}

The worst consequence is not the one A0 recorded. A0 locked this as "exact-model false is ignored", but the same line also ignored an explicit supportsServiceTier: false — the fail-closed declaration that means this upstream is documented not to accept the field. Whenever chatServiceTier happened to be true, a caller tier still reached that upstream. B1's split between capability-authorized canonical Fast and CallerTierForward-authorized foreign tiers never reached this surface either.

The fix

Both Chat surfaces now call one shared gate, so they cannot drift apart by construction rather than by convention — a stronger guarantee than parallel implementations kept honest by tests. The passthrough resolves its policy in chat-native.ts, where the route and config already live, and the key-rotation rebuild path resolves it too.

Configuration Before After
supportsServiceTier: false + chatServiceTier: true, caller sends a tier forwarded stripped (fail-closed restored)
exact-model false, caller sends a tier forwarded stripped
exact-model true, no chatServiceTier, caller sends canonical Fast forwarded forwarded (capability authorizes it)
exact-model true, no chatServiceTier, caller sends flex forwarded stripped (foreign tiers need CallerTierForward)
unclassified, no chatServiceTier forwarded stripped

One difference that stays, on purpose

The Responses surface normalizes a caller's "fast" spelling to the provider's canonical wire value; this passthrough forwards the caller's exact bytes. That is this builder's documented contract — caller fields retain their exact wire representation while capability gates stay centralized — and the two halves map cleanly onto this change: the gate is now shared, the bytes are still the caller's.

The distinction is defensible beyond the doc comment: on the Responses path a "fast" spelling originates in Codex's own configuration vocabulary, so normalizing it is right; on this surface an OpenAI-compatible client chose that literal value. A test asserts the divergence and the call site explains it, so a future reader does not mistake it for a missed translation.

Known gap, deliberately left for its own unit

The passthrough neither runs through the adapter registry decorator nor calls recordAdapterTier, so it produces no AttemptTierOutcome — a stripped tier is not yet visible as callerTierDropped in the logs. Building half of that pipeline inside a bug fix would have been worse than naming it here.

Tests

  • The A0 characterization cell for this bug is flipped and annotated, per the protocol fix(chat): forward caller service_tier through the chat-to-responses conversion (#1886) #1904 established. Every other A0 cell passes untouched.
  • New: both fail-closed levels, canonical-vs-foreign authorization separation, unclassified with and without the opt-in, and a case asserting "FAST" survives verbatim on this surface.
  • New: a parity block asserting both Chat paths reach the same forward/strip decision for identical configuration and input.
  • tests/openrouter-provider-routing.test.ts updated for the signature change; its assertions are unchanged.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of Chat service tiers across standard and passthrough requests.
    • Unsupported or unauthorized tiers are now removed, while valid Fast tiers are forwarded consistently.
    • Native Chat requests and key-failover retries now apply the same service-tier rules as regular Chat requests.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for service-tier authorization, forwarding, fail-closed behavior, forced Fast mode, retries, and consistency across request paths.

The native /v1/chat/completions passthrough decided service-tier forwarding
with a single provider-level check:

    if (provider.chatServiceTier && rawBody.service_tier !== undefined)

That bypassed the FastWire policy layer entirely, and the worst consequence was
not the one A0 recorded. An explicit supportsServiceTier: false — the fail-closed
declaration meaning "this upstream is documented not to accept the field" — was
ignored here, so a caller tier still reached that upstream whenever
chatServiceTier happened to be true. Exact-model false was likewise ignored (the
bug A0 locked), and B1's split between capability-authorized canonical Fast and
CallerTierForward-authorized foreign tiers never reached this surface.

Both Chat surfaces now call one shared gate, so they cannot drift apart by
construction rather than by convention. The passthrough resolves its policy in
chat-native.ts, where the route and config already live, and the key-rotation
rebuild path resolves it too.

What deliberately still differs: the Responses surface normalizes a caller's
"fast" spelling to the provider's canonical wire value, while the passthrough
forwards the caller's exact bytes. That is this builder's documented contract —
caller fields retain their exact wire representation while capability gates stay
centralized — and the difference is now asserted by a test and explained at the
call site, so a future reader does not mistake it for a missed translation.

Known gap, left for its own unit: the passthrough neither runs through the
adapter registry decorator nor calls recordAdapterTier, so it produces no
AttemptTierOutcome and a stripped tier is not yet visible as callerTierDropped.
Building half of that pipeline here would have been worse than naming it.

Full suite: 13332 pass / 10 skip / 2 fail — the pre-existing dev-side
key-login-live-update regression, and one load-sensitive codex-shim timeout that
passes in isolation (69 pass).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change applies resolved FastWire policy to native OpenAI Chat passthrough requests, including key failover. It centralizes service-tier serialization checks and adds coverage for authorization, forced decisions, fail-closed behavior, routing, characterization, and parity with the regular Chat path.

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Chat service-tier policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared service-tier serialization gate
src/adapters/openai-chat.ts
buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest accepts resolved policy and optional fast mode. Passthrough and regular Chat requests use canSerializeOpenAIChatServiceTier to decide whether to forward, rewrite, or omit service_tier.
Native handler policy propagation
src/server/chat-native.ts, tests/openrouter-provider-routing.test.ts
The native handler resolves model-specific policy for initial requests and key-failover retries. OpenRouter routing tests pass the resolved policy into passthrough construction.
Policy behavior and parity coverage
tests/openai-chat-native-policy.test.ts, tests/fastwire-characterization-wire.test.ts
Tests cover provider and model authorization, canonical and foreign tiers, fail-closed behavior, forced Fast and default handling, key failover, exact-model stripping, and parity with the regular Chat path.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 01c82

The forwarding change is otherwise mergeable, but a failover test leaves the process-wide fetch mock installed, which can contaminate later tests and make CI results unreliable; restore the original fetch as a bounded follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatHandler
  participant fastPolicyForModel
  participant buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest
  participant canSerializeOpenAIChatServiceTier
  ChatHandler->>fastPolicyForModel: resolve policy for active provider and route model
  fastPolicyForModel-->>ChatHandler: return ResolvedFastPolicy
  ChatHandler->>buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest: construct native request with policy
  buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest->>canSerializeOpenAIChatServiceTier: evaluate service_tier
  canSerializeOpenAIChatServiceTier-->>buildOpenAIChatPassthroughRequest: forward or omit service_tier
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Gate evidence at the merged head (bdd114dc0, dev tip 0cd85fbcd merged in): 13,341 pass / 10 skip / 5 fail.

Every failure was checked individually rather than assumed, and none implicates this diff:

Failure Verdict
key-login-live-update — modelCosts overlay The pre-existing dev-side regression flagged on #1893/#1904/#1956/#2072. Reproduces on pristine dev.
usage-log — byte-prefix truncation (115s) Timeout under load. Isolated: 35/35 with lab-automation-final-coderabbit-regressions, 3.8s total.
codex-shim — child invocation (2.0s) Timeout under load. Isolated: 69/69.
lab-automation-final-coderabbit-regressions — CL-08 backoff (7.6s) Timeout under load. Isolated: passes (above).
cli-headless-parity — combo set (81ms) The one non-timeout shape, so worth naming: the spawned CLI returned exit 4 instead of 0 — a subprocess that failed to start under contention, not an assertion about behavior. Isolated: 23/23 in 156ms.

This machine is currently running other agents' workloads alongside the suite, and scripts/test.ts only serializes full-suite runs against each other — its own comment records the failure mode ("four concurrent suites drove load average to 10 and turned a ~210s suite into a 13-minute one"). Across four runs of this branch the flake set was different every time (codex-shimcombo-management-apicodex-retained-root-serialization → this set), while the constant failure stayed the pre-existing dev one.

Focused verification of the suites this change actually touches: 206 pass / 0 fail (openai-chat-native-policy, fastwire-characterization-wire, openrouter-provider-routing, chat-completions-endpoint, openai-chat-hardening), plus bun x tsc --noEmit clean.

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Independent review before merge found two correctness blockers, so this is held as needs-work now that #2042 (c472ad0) is on dev:

  1. Contradicts the exact-ID contract fix(chat): keep the structured-output opt-out exact on the native chat wire #2042 just landed. The native-passthrough gate still matches noStructuredOutputModels through modelInList (prefix-before-: matching, src/types.ts:263), so ["gpt-oss"] strips response_format from gpt-oss:120b — exactly the bleed fix(chat): keep the structured-output opt-out exact on the native chat wire #2042 removed with includes(modelId) (src/adapters/openai-chat.ts:123 on dev). Please rebase onto current dev and align the matching.

  2. Fast-policy parity is incomplete. The shared helper consumes only capability from ResolvedFastPolicy and bypasses the decideTier branch that applies fastWire.foreignCallerTiers === "drop" (src/providers/fastwire.ts:338). With supportsServiceTier:true + chatServiceTier:true + foreignCallerTiers:"drop", main Chat drops a foreign tier while the native passthrough forwards it; the parity table only exercises the default verbatim so the divergence is untested.

Also: no Cross-platform CI on the current head. Happy to re-review once rebased with both fixed.

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Addressed the independent review in 01c823e after merging dev 63bfd14. Native passthrough now uses exact noStructuredOutputModels matching and the shared tier decision semantics, including foreignCallerTiers drop; forced Fast uses the policy wire value and failover preserves the decision. Verification: focused native-chat suite 449 pass / 0 fail; typecheck, privacy scan, and diff check pass; full root suite 13,416 pass / 10 skip / 0 fail across 853 files. Please re-review the updated head.

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