headroom/tests/test_route_advice.py
Tejas Chopra c07da992dd
Per-request backend selection for routing extensions (#2809)
## The gap

Headroom picks its egress backend **once**, at startup:
`create_proxy_backend` returns a single `Backend` (or `None` for the
direct Anthropic path) and every request goes through it. That is the
right shape for *"run this whole proxy against Bedrock instead of
Anthropic"* and the wrong shape for *"this request is cheaper on a
different provider than the last one."*

`ModelRouter` already lets an extension change `body["model"]` per
request — but only within the protocol the request arrived in, because a
model id alone cannot move a request to another provider.

So an extension can currently **decide** something Headroom has no way
to **carry out**. This adds the missing half.

## The seam

An extension publishes a decision on the request state:

```python
request.state.headroom_route = SimpleNamespace(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k2",   # required
    provider="moonshot",        # optional; inferred from the model id if absent
    reason="cheaper at this prefix length",
)
```

Headroom resolves a `LiteLLMBackend` for that provider — which is where
translation already lives — and serves **that one request** from it.
Nothing in core names any particular extension; the field is duck-typed,
so an extension does not import Headroom to talk to Headroom.

## Absent means unchanged

This is the property the tests are built around, and the reason this
should be safe to merge.

With nothing published, every path is what it was before. Advice that is
**absent, malformed, names an unknown provider, names a native provider,
or fails to build** all resolve to `self.anthropic_backend` — including
when that is `None`, which is the direct-API path and must survive. A
routing preference can never take traffic down.

## Coverage

| path | |
|---|---|
| `/v1/messages` | non-streaming + streaming |
| `/v1/chat/completions` | non-streaming + streaming |
| Responses API | untouched — does not use the backend abstraction |

Streaming is the one that matters. The resolver rewrites
`body["model"]`, so had `_stream_response_bedrock` kept reading
`self.anthropic_backend`, every streamed routed request would have sent
a foreign model id to Anthropic. Both streaming helpers now take an
optional `backend`, defaulting to the configured one.

## Details worth review

- **Validate the provider name before building.** `LiteLLMBackend`
accepts *any* provider string — the registry falls through to a generic
pass-through config — so a typo silently builds a backend that only
fails later, at request time, with an error pointing nowhere near the
typo. `_known_provider()` checks against `litellm.provider_list` first.
- **Cache per provider, and cache the failures too**, or a broken
provider name costs a construction attempt on every request. (Bedrock
construction calls out to AWS to enumerate inference profiles — it is
not free.)
- **`backend_owns_translation` now asks the per-request backend.** It
decides whether Headroom or the backend owns the `max_tokens` /
`max_completion_tokens` spelling; asking `self.anthropic_backend` would
answer "Headroom does" for a request about to be served by a translating
backend that does.
- **`_route_resolver` lives in `route_advice.py`, not on a handler
mixin.** Two mixins need it, and reaching across sibling mixins only
works by accident of how `HeadroomProxy` composes them.

## Tests

`tests/test_route_advice.py` — 20 tests, most of them asserting the
absent-means-unchanged property from a different angle.

Local runs: 20/20 on the new file; **1102 passed, 1 failed** on `-k
"openai or chat_completions or ccr"`, and **414 passed, 0 failed** on
`-k "stream or bedrock or route_advice"`. The single failure is
`test_realignment_live_multi_turn::test_ccr_marker_round_trip_live`,
which fails identically on this branch's merge-base — verified by
checking out `59314cff~1` and re-running it.

Note for anyone reproducing: `pytest-asyncio` is a declared dev
dependency but was missing from my venv, which made every `async def
test_` in the repo fail. Worth checking before diagnosing a large
failure count.

## Docs

`docs/content/docs/pipeline-extensions.mdx` gains a section on the
contract, next to the existing `x-headroom-base-url` one.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 17:01:32 -07:00

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"""Per-request backend selection published by an extension.
The property under test throughout is the one that makes this safe to merge:
with nothing published, every path is exactly what it was before.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
from types import SimpleNamespace
import pytest
from headroom.proxy.route_advice import (
BackendResolver,
RouteAdvice,
advice_from,
)
class _Req:
def __init__(self, **state):
self.state = SimpleNamespace(**state)
DEFAULT = object() # stands in for the configured backend
# --- reading what an extension published ------------------------------------
def test_no_extension_means_no_advice():
assert advice_from(_Req()) is None
assert advice_from(object()) is None # no .state at all
assert advice_from(None) is None
def test_advice_is_duck_typed_so_extensions_need_not_import_us():
a = advice_from(
_Req(
headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(
model="moonshot/kimi-k2", provider="moonshot", reason="cheaper"
)
)
)
assert a == RouteAdvice("moonshot/kimi-k2", "moonshot", "cheaper")
def test_an_extension_may_omit_everything_but_the_model():
a = advice_from(_Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="gpt-5-mini")))
assert a.model == "gpt-5-mini" and a.provider == ""
def test_malformed_advice_is_ignored_rather_than_raised():
for bad in (
SimpleNamespace(),
SimpleNamespace(model=""),
SimpleNamespace(model=123),
"not an object",
):
assert advice_from(_Req(headroom_route=bad)) is None
def test_advice_needs_a_model():
with pytest.raises(ValueError):
RouteAdvice("")
# --- absent means unchanged, which is the whole safety argument -------------
def test_no_advice_returns_the_configured_backend():
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
assert r.for_request(_Req()) is DEFAULT
def test_no_advice_and_no_configured_backend_stays_none():
"""None is not "no backend", it is the direct-API path. It must survive."""
assert BackendResolver(None).for_request(_Req()) is None
def test_a_native_provider_does_not_switch_backends():
"""Anthropic is the shape the proxy already holds, so a model rewrite is
enough and the extension has already done it."""
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="claude-haiku-4-5", provider="anthropic"))
assert r.for_request(req) is DEFAULT
def test_a_bare_anthropic_model_resolves_its_provider_and_stays_put():
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="claude-haiku-4-5"))
assert r.for_request(req) is DEFAULT
# --- switching, and refusing to switch --------------------------------------
def test_a_foreign_provider_gets_its_own_backend(monkeypatch):
built = []
class FakeBackend:
def __init__(self, provider):
built.append(provider)
self.provider = provider
monkeypatch.setattr(BackendResolver, "_build", lambda self, p: FakeBackend(p))
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
body = {"model": "claude-opus-5"}
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="moonshot/kimi-k2", provider="moonshot"))
got = r.for_request(req, body=body)
assert isinstance(got, FakeBackend) and got.provider == "moonshot"
# The extension could not safely write a foreign model id; we do it.
assert body["model"] == "moonshot/kimi-k2"
def test_backends_are_built_once_per_provider(monkeypatch):
built = []
monkeypatch.setattr(BackendResolver, "_build", lambda self, p: built.append(p) or object())
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="x", provider="moonshot"))
for _ in range(5):
r.for_request(req)
assert built == ["moonshot"], "construction is expensive; cache it"
def test_a_backend_that_will_not_build_falls_back_and_stops_retrying(monkeypatch):
calls = []
monkeypatch.setattr(BackendResolver, "_build", lambda self, p: calls.append(p) or None)
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="x", provider="nope"))
for _ in range(5):
assert r.for_request(req) is DEFAULT
assert calls == ["nope"], "a broken provider must not be retried per request"
def test_a_routing_preference_can_never_take_traffic_down(monkeypatch):
"""Missing credentials, missing optional dependency -- whatever the reason,
the request still has to be served."""
def boom(self, provider):
raise RuntimeError("no credentials")
monkeypatch.setattr(BackendResolver, "_build", boom)
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="x", provider="moonshot"))
assert r.for_request(req) is DEFAULT
def test_an_unknown_provider_is_rejected_at_resolve_time():
"""LiteLLMBackend accepts ANY provider string -- the registry falls through
to a generic pass-through -- so a typo silently builds a backend that only
fails later, at request time, with an error pointing nowhere near the typo.
Validate the name up front instead."""
r = BackendResolver(DEFAULT)
assert r._build("definitely-not-a-provider-name") is None
req = _Req(headroom_route=SimpleNamespace(model="x", provider="definitely-not-a-provider-name"))
assert r.for_request(req) is DEFAULT
def test_a_real_provider_name_is_accepted():
assert BackendResolver(DEFAULT)._build("moonshot") is not None
# --- streaming, which is the path agents actually take ----------------------
class _Backend:
"""Records that it, and not some other backend, served the request."""
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
self.served = False
async def stream_message(self, body, headers):
self.served = True
return
yield # pragma: no cover -- makes this an async generator
async def stream_openai_message(self, body, headers):
self.served = True
return
yield # pragma: no cover
async def _drive(handler, **kw):
from headroom.proxy.handlers.streaming import StreamingMixin
resp = await StreamingMixin._stream_response_bedrock(
handler,
{"messages": []},
{},
"anthropic",
"m",
"rid",
0,
0,
0,
[],
{},
0.0,
**kw,
)
async for _ in resp.body_iterator:
pass
class _Config:
"""Every proxy flag off. Named individually the list would rot; the test
is about which backend served the request, not about config."""
def __getattr__(self, name):
return False
def _handler(default):
return SimpleNamespace(
anthropic_backend=default,
config=_Config(),
_record_request_outcome=lambda outcome: _noop(),
)
async def _noop():
return None
def test_streaming_honours_the_routed_backend():
"""The non-streaming branch was the easy half. body["model"] has already
been rewritten to a foreign id by the time we get here, so streaming to
the configured backend would send e.g. moonshot/kimi-k2 to Anthropic."""
configured, routed = _Backend("anthropic"), _Backend("moonshot")
asyncio.run(_drive(_handler(configured), backend=routed))
assert routed.served and not configured.served
def test_streaming_without_a_route_uses_the_configured_backend():
configured = _Backend("anthropic")
asyncio.run(_drive(_handler(configured)))
assert configured.served
async def _drive_openai(handler, **kw):
from headroom.proxy.handlers.streaming import StreamingMixin
resp = await StreamingMixin._stream_openai_via_backend(
handler,
{"messages": []},
{},
"m",
"rid",
0.0,
0,
0,
0,
[],
{},
0.0,
**kw,
)
async for _ in resp.body_iterator:
pass
def test_openai_streaming_honours_the_routed_backend():
"""opencode and pi can speak either protocol, so the OpenAI chat path
needs the same treatment as the Anthropic one."""
configured, routed = _Backend("openai"), _Backend("moonshot")
asyncio.run(_drive_openai(_handler(configured), backend=routed))
assert routed.served and not configured.served
def test_openai_streaming_without_a_route_uses_the_configured_backend():
configured = _Backend("openai")
asyncio.run(_drive_openai(_handler(configured)))
assert configured.served
def test_the_resolver_follows_a_reassigned_default():
class H:
anthropic_backend = None
h = H()
from headroom.proxy.route_advice import BackendResolver as BR
first = BR(h.anthropic_backend)
assert first.default is None
h.anthropic_backend = DEFAULT
assert BR(h.anthropic_backend).default is DEFAULT