fix: fail over tool-calling passthrough across model providers

[seonghobae]

Problem

Strix sends OpenAI-compatible tool-calling requests. Those requests intentionally use proxy_completion so tool calls and the full provider response shape survive unchanged. Unlike ordinary orchestration steps, that passthrough path selected one agent and called it directly, so an NVIDIA NIM 429 exhausted same-provider retries and never reached another configured provider.

This is the first causal boundary behind the long-running .github Strix job 32194513591 / 95895669053.

Change

• Add a resilient TaskOrchestrator entrypoint that applies the existing ranked-agent, circuit-breaker, and cross-agent failover contract to full-shape passthrough requests.
• Preserve tools, response_format, Responses API fields, and every other upstream parameter while replacing only the provider-specific model and forcing the existing non-streamed passthrough contract.
• Keep request objects immutable from the caller's perspective.
• Fail closed with the final provider error as the cause when every eligible candidate fails.
• Make both package imports and the CLI/server entrypoint use the resilient orchestrator.
• Add an Unreleased changelog.

Test-first evidence

RED on protected main@6841b71935e0b7cb98fb52bcb4709cc5100c8d87:

2 failed
- primary 429 propagated immediately
- expected all-candidate failure, received first-provider failure

GREEN on this change:

2 passed

The regression asserts:

1. primary rate-limit failure calls the fallback agent;
2. tool definitions and other upstream fields are preserved;
3. the model is rewritten for each candidate;
4. orchestration-only fields are stripped;
5. the caller request remains unchanged;
6. all-candidate failure remains fail-closed and chains the final cause.

Scope

This PR only repairs Contextual-Orchestrator's passthrough reliability contract. The central .github Strix workflow integration will be a separate PR pinned to the merged exact commit, so repository ownership and review evidence remain isolated.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• 새 기능

  • OpenAI 호환 요청에서 기본 모델이 제한되면 다음 사용 가능한 모델로 자동 전환됩니다.
  • 도구 호출과 Responses API 요청을 포함한 요청 내용 및 제공자 응답 형식이 유지됩니다.
  • 여러 후보 제공자에 순차적으로 요청하고, 모든 후보 실패 시 오류 원인을 확인할 수 있습니다.

• 버그 수정

  • 제공자 rate limit 발생 시 요청이 중단되지 않고 자동으로 failover됩니다.

• 문서

  • 초기 부트스트랩 이후 변경 사항을 변경 로그에 기록했습니다.

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Walkthrough

OpenAI 호환 passthrough 요청에 cross-agent provider failover를 추가했습니다. TaskOrchestrator는 후보 agent를 순회하고, 실패 시 다음 후보를 사용합니다. 공개 import 경로와 회귀 테스트도 갱신했습니다.

Changes

Passthrough provider failover

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Failover orchestration and wiring contextual_orchestrator/resilient_orchestrator.py, contextual_orchestrator/__init__.py, contextual_orchestrator/__main__.py	TaskOrchestrator가 요청 내용을 보존하고 ranked 후보에 stream=False로 전달합니다. 실패한 후보를 건너뛰고 성공 응답을 반환합니다. 공개 import 경로는 resilient_orchestrator로 변경되었습니다.
Failover regression coverage tests/test_passthrough_failover.py, CHANGELOG.md	rate limit 후 대체 provider 호출, 도구와 요청 본문 보존, 호출 순서, 전체 후보 실패 시 예외 원인을 검증합니다. 변경 로그에 동작을 기록합니다.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f77b9

The PR adds provider failover for tool-calling passthrough while preserving caller fields; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains, with only minor documentation wording and optional test coverage follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TaskOrchestrator
  participant ModelAgent
  participant ModelClient
  TaskOrchestrator->>ModelAgent: ranked candidate selection
  TaskOrchestrator->>ModelClient: passthrough request with candidate model
  ModelClient-->>TaskOrchestrator: provider response or error
  TaskOrchestrator->>ModelClient: retry with next candidate after error

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Possibly related PRs

• ContextualWisdomLab/contextual-orchestrator#569: TaskOrchestrator의 도구 실행 실패 분류와 재시도를 변경합니다.
• ContextualWisdomLab/contextual-orchestrator#658: TaskOrchestrator의 routing 및 failover 동작을 변경합니다.
• ContextualWisdomLab/contextual-orchestrator#744: 공개 import와 startup orchestration을 변경합니다.

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Title check	✅ Passed	제목은 모델 제공자 간 tool-calling passthrough failover라는 변경의 주요 목적을 정확하고 간결하게 설명합니다.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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tests/test_passthrough_failover.py (1)

52-81: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Responses API 및 non-streaming 계약을 검증하는 테스트를 추가하십시오.

현재 테스트는 messages 기반 요청만 사용합니다. 이 테스트는 input과 endpoint="responses"를 사용하는 요청의 failover 및 필드 보존을 검증하지 않습니다. 또한 caller가 "stream": true를 보낸 경우 candidate 요청이 반드시 False가 되는지 검증하지 않습니다.

이 두 사례를 추가하면 _coerce_input_text() 경로와 non-streamed passthrough 계약의 회귀를 탐지할 수 있습니다.

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In `@tests/test_passthrough_failover.py` around lines 52 - 81, 테스트에 Responses API
failover 사례를 추가하여 proxy_completion이 input 요청과 endpoint="responses"를 fallback에
전달하고 _coerce_input_text() 경로를 보존하는지 검증하세요. Caller가 stream=true를 보낸 경우에도 fallback
candidate 요청의 stream이 false가 되는지 확인하고, 기존처럼 입력 필드와 원본 body가 변경되지 않는 계약을 유지하세요.

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Inline comments:
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 9: Update the changelog entry to remove the claim that fallback forwards
an unchanged request. Describe that upstream request fields are preserved while
each fallback candidate receives its own model and streaming is forced off.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/test_passthrough_failover.py`:
- Around line 52-81: 테스트에 Responses API failover 사례를 추가하여 proxy_completion이
input 요청과 endpoint="responses"를 fallback에 전달하고 _coerce_input_text() 경로를 보존하는지
검증하세요. Caller가 stream=true를 보낸 경우에도 fallback candidate 요청의 stream이 false가 되는지
확인하고, 기존처럼 입력 필드와 원본 body가 변경되지 않는 계약을 유지하세요.

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[seonghobae]

Superseded by #744 current head 16a2448ab109feceb9113eb0c990c7c51a83a04a. #744 contains the same package/CLI resilient passthrough entrypoint plus a stricter one-attempt-per-candidate implementation, transient-error circuit opening, tool/structured-response preservation, immutable caller payload, and all-candidate fail-closed behavior. Keeping one landing vehicle avoids duplicate provider-failover ownership.