feat(relay): report routing outcome evidence

[afourniernv]

What

• Forward existing libsy OutcomeMetadata through the LLM client's run observer.
• Add outcome_id and bounded, nested evidence to the existing Relay routing decision and route-execution error marks.
• Document the new fields in the Relay plugin's version-1 mark contract.

Why

#647, #655, and #658 attach an outcome ID and bounded decision evidence to RoutingOutcome and the native libsy.run span. The Relay plugin does not export Switchyard's native spans, and the LLM client currently consumes that metadata before the plugin builds its marks.

As a result, Relay and Phoenix can show the selected and served models from #612, but not why the route was chosen. If every answer candidate fails, the routing outcome is also missing from the terminal error mark.

This passes the existing metadata through Relay's existing observation callback. It does not change routing, retries, fallback, responses, metrics, configuration, or mark names.

How

• Add RunObservation::Outcome(OutcomeMetadata) and emit it once routing succeeds, before answer candidates run.
• Move the outcome ID and supported evidence fields into switchyard.routing.decision on success or switchyard.routing.error when all answer candidates fail.
• Keep evidence under an evidence object. Only known string fields (source, verdict, trigger, and reason_code) and numeric fields (score, confidence, and threshold) are retained.
• Ignore the new observation in switchyard-server, where the native libsy.run span already records the same metadata.

Live Phoenix result

Before, the decision mark showed which model was selected and served, but not why:

After, a scored Stage decision includes the outcome ID and its bounded evidence:

When both answer candidates fail, the terminal error mark retains the route's outcome ID and evidence:

Notes for reviewers

Start with RunObservation::Outcome in crates/libsy-llm-client/src/observation.rs and its emission in run.rs. The Relay projection is in crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs.

RunObservation gains one public enum variant, so an external exhaustive match against current main must handle it. This is source-breaking for git consumers tracking main, but not a published API break: the latest released switchyard-llm-client is 0.2.0 and does not contain RunObservation. No existing function signatures change, and there are no new public methods or structs.

The route-execution regression makes both Stage answer candidates return HTTP 503 with retries disabled, then checks that the error mark retains the outcome ID and evidence.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all --check
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test --workspace
• uv run --only-group docs mkdocs build --strict
• git diff --check
• Live Relay to Switchyard to Phoenix check with both answer candidates failing

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added structured routing outcome metadata to run observations.
  • Routing telemetry now includes outcome identifiers and supported evidence fields for decisions and execution errors.
  • Evidence fields are filtered to documented string and numeric values.

• Documentation

  • Updated integration and plugin documentation to describe routing outcome metadata, evidence, and error fields.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved existing statistics behavior while supporting the new routing outcome observation.

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Walkthrough

The client now emits routing outcome metadata through RunObservation::Outcome. The relay plugin filters and propagates this metadata into decision and route-error telemetry marks. Tests and documentation cover the new observation and telemetry fields.

Changes

Routing outcome observability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Observation contract and emission crates/libsy-llm-client/src/observation.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/tests/observability.rs, crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs	The client adds and emits RunObservation::Outcome. Tests validate event ordering and metadata. Server statistics ignore the new event.
Relay telemetry propagation crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs	Routing outcome identifiers and supported typed evidence flow into successful decision marks and route-error marks. Tests cover propagation and evidence filtering.
Telemetry contract documentation crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/README.md, docs/integrations/nemo_relay.md	Documentation describes outcome identifiers, evidence fields, and route-error metadata.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4949e

Late stream failures lose routing outcome evidence in error telemetry, making affected failures harder to diagnose. Correct the propagation before merge.

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New outcome crumbs began to show
Evidence hopped through filtered gates
Errors carried updated traits
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crates/libsy-llm-client/tests/observability.rs (1)

1186-1186: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the observation-order invariant.

This test now verifies an important event-order contract. Add a concise comment that states the required Outcome, AnswerCall, and RoutingOverhead sequence.

Proposed fix

+    // A successful routed call emits outcome metadata before answer and overhead observations.
 async fn observed_run_reports_one_successful_routed_call() -> switchyard_libsy::Result<()> {

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In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/tests/observability.rs` at line 1186, Add a concise
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/observation.rs`:
- Line 27: Add a concise enum-level documentation comment immediately above the
public RunObservation enum, describing its purpose and observation-delivery
invariant without changing the enum variants or behavior.

In `@crates/switchyard-nemo-relay-plugin/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 378-388: Add concise Rust comments at all three specified
locations in runtime.rs: document in evidence_for_mark that unsupported or
incorrectly typed evidence is removed before telemetry export; document near the
terminal answer failure tests or logic that routing outcome fields are retained;
and document near the evidence-filter tests that only documented, correctly
typed fields are retained.
- Line 469: Update execute and execute_stream so the collected outcome_id and
filtered evidence from execute are preserved in the execution result and
propagated into returned_events. Replace the empty Map::new() at the
returned_events construction with the preserved routing outcome fields,
including them for in-band and transport failures handled by
route_execution_error_events.

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In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/tests/observability.rs`:
- Line 1186: Add a concise comment in
observed_run_reports_one_successful_routed_call documenting the required
observation order: Outcome, followed by AnswerCall, followed by RoutingOverhead.

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[bbednarski9]

streaming terminal errors still lose these fields. The PR passes Map::new() when returned_events creates the later switchyard.routing.error mark for an in-stream failure (runtime change). At that point Route::execute already succeeded and the outcome observation has been consumed, so the streaming error mark cannot contain outcome_id/evidence. The new regression only tests the buffered “both candidates return 503” case.

[bbednarski9]

I think we should try to get this into RC 2 for 0.3.0 because its an API change to public RunObservation - adding an enum variant breaks exhaustive matches for direct libsy-llm-client consumers.

[bbednarski9]

just come comment from me and existing CR feedback

[bbednarski9]

1. Evidence is allowlisted, but not actually bounded.
   evidence_for_mark restricts keys and JSON types, but it accepts arbitrary-length strings for source, verdict, trigger, and reason_code. OutcomeMetadata::new accepts caller-provided JSON, so a custom algorithm could emit a very large string—or sensitive text under an allowed key—and Relay would export it.
   That conflicts with the PR description’s “bounded evidence” claim and weakens the apparent PII safeguard in the test. I’d request either:

• explicit length limits plus truncation/rejection, or
• a contract that these are controlled enum-like values, enforced at the producer side and documented clearly.

[bbednarski9]

2. The documented outcome_id looks mandatory, but code makes it conditional.
   The plugin emits it only for Some(outcome.metadata), while RoutingOutcome permits metadata to be absent. Built-in routes may always supply it now, but custom/external algorithms need not. The Relay README and integration docs should say outcome_id is optional, or the underlying outcome contract must guarantee metadata for every successful routed outcome.

[afourniernv]

Thanks @bbednarski9 — fixed these in 698482b:

• late stream failures now keep outcome_id and evidence
• evidence strings over 64 bytes are dropped
• the docs now say outcome_id is optional

Also covered the related CodeRabbit comments and tests. Focused tests, clippy, rustfmt, and the docs build pass locally. Agreed this should land before RC2 because of the RunObservation change.