feat(llm): add shadow tap for mirrored request and response streams

[ryanolson]

Overview:

Summary

Why. Today a change to routing, scheduling, KV cache policy, or an engine version is judged on synthetic load, or on a trace that was converted after the fact. Neither method shows how the change behaves under the traffic that the deployment serves now. A shadow deployment receives a live copy of production requests and serves them on separate workers. Its results do not reach a client, so a wrong or slow result costs users nothing. The frontend had no tap that supplies this copy in the form that the workers see.

Details:

What. This PR adds a shadow tap: a pipeline Operator in dynamo-llm (not the Kubernetes operator). The tap is linked immediately before migration.forward_edge() in PreprocessedRouting::build_pipeline and build_preprocessed_pipeline. The in-process token pipeline (common::build_pipeline) links it between the preprocessor and the backend operator. At this position it sees each request as a PreprocessedRequest, for all public APIs and for the Python chat processors. Migration retries occur below the tap, so one client request gives one record.

Two capture modes show the two uses:

Tap in lib/bench/shadow/taps.yaml	Mode	Consumer need
kv-history-tracker	capture: request, filter tokens-only	Prompt tokens, when they arrive
shadow-replay	capture: request_response, emit: joined	Request, primary response, arrival time, and outcome, to replay the same load and compare

Design points:

• DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG names a YAML file. If the variable is not set, the operator is not linked, and the frontend pays nothing. An invalid config stops the frontend at startup.
• Named filters run on &PreprocessedRequest before the copy. project() destructures the struct without .., so a new field does not compile until someone decides how the tap treats it. strip-worker-pins is on by default, because worker ids of the primary deployment are wrong for a shadow.
• The request id comes from the pipeline Context. No field is added to PreprocessedRequest, so the worker wire format does not change.
• Each tap has a bounded queue (default 1024 records, never unbounded) and one publisher task on the secondary runtime. The request path calls try_send. A full queue drops the record and increments shadow_tap_dropped_total{reason="full"}; a gone publisher task counts as reason="closed". The tap holds the recorded output tokens of every in-flight request until its stream ends; response.max_tokens caps that for each choice, and the config doc states the bound when it is unset.
• The client stream flag does not change the tap. Inside the pipeline a response is always a stream of chunks. The tap accumulates the chunks and publishes one consolidated ShadowResponse. It does not forward chunks to a shadow. A request with n > 1 gives one ShadowChoice for each index, with its own tokens and finish reason. The outcome is complete only when each requested choice finished and no choice failed. A stream that ends with no error and no cancel, but without a finish reason for each requested choice, gives incomplete.
• A joined record is published one time: at stream end, on an error, or when the stream is dropped. If the request context is stopped or killed, the outcome is cancelled. The outcomes are complete, incomplete, cancelled, and error.
• shadow_consumer (feature shadow-consumer of dynamo-bench) reads one topic and keeps totals. It counts records that the tap dropped and records that the transport lost.

Validation

Unit tests (cargo test -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features shadow::, 32 pass, and 2 in entrypoint::input::grpc; the full dynamo-llm lib suite passes, 2787 tests): filters, config, pass-through, stalled consumer under a timeout, joined record, cancel, error, engine error, shared copy, MessagePack round trip, publisher drain, and a linked pipeline with the tap above Migration where a retried request gives one record of each kind.

cargo fmt --all -- --check and cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean for dynamo-llm, dynamo-runtime, and dynamo-bench.

CI (pre-merge.yml) now compiles, lints, and runs the tests of the shadow_consumer binary with the shadow-consumer feature.

Demo (lib/bench/shadow/demo.sh): frontend with two taps, 2 mocker workers, AIPerf, one consumer per tap. File discovery, ZMQ event plane, TCP request plane. No etcd and no NATS.

Run	Frontend metrics	kv-history-tracker	shadow-replay
200 requests, ISL 512, OSL 32	200 requests, 104000 input tokens, 6400 output tokens	200 records, 104000 prompt tokens, 0 gaps	200 records, 6400 output tokens, 200 complete, 0 gaps
200 requests, non-streaming (STREAMING=)	200 unary success, 6400 output tokens	200 records, 0 gaps	200 records, 6400 output tokens, 200 complete, 0 gaps
200 requests, 25% cancelled by the client	148 success, 52 cancelled, 12431 output tokens	200 records, 0 gaps	200 records, 12431 output tokens, 148 complete, 52 cancelled, 0 incomplete, 0 error, 0 gaps

Cost (release build, 4 mocker workers at speedup 1000, AIPerf concurrency 64, 3000 requests, ISL 2048, OSL 16, two rounds). In the stalled case the two consumers are stopped with SIGSTOP during the measured run.

Case	Requests/s	TTFT p50 ms	TTFT p99 ms	Frontend RSS MB
no tap	1245 / 1259	8.09 / 7.54	52.2 / 50.1	317 / 318
2 taps, consumers read	1196 / 1249	9.94 / 7.94	55.6 / 51.1	296 / 290
2 taps, consumers stalled	1242 / 1247	8.26 / 8.04	51.9 / 52.6	337 / 345

The three cases are within the noise of the two rounds. This test does not prove that the frontend was the bottleneck, so it sets an upper limit on the cost at this load and not a precise cost. All 3300 records arrived in each tap run, with 0 gaps, after the stalled consumers continued.

Stalled shadow. Each tap sets the ZMQ send high-water mark of its publisher to the tap capacity (EventPublisher::for_namespace_with_zmq_send_hwm, new in this PR). The default mark is 100,000 messages for each stalled subscriber, which can hold gigabytes of long prompts in the frontend. With two consumers stopped by SIGSTOP and 12,300 requests of 2048 tokens, the consumers later received 4096 and 2048 records (the tap capacities are 4096 and 1024), and the frontend RSS was 22 MB more than with active consumers. ZMQ drops the other records without a count. The tap counters do not show this loss, and a consumer cannot see a loss at the end of its sequence range.

Runtime scope. Taps are registered for each DistributedRuntime and end with its shutdown token. A second runtime in the same process gets its own taps. shadow::taps starts the taps on first lookup, so an entry point that skips the startup call, such as a direct call of grpc::run, still links its taps. grpc::run and prepare_engine read the taps before they start the model watcher, so a bad config stops startup on those paths too. An in-process text engine has no PreprocessedRequest to mirror, so a tap config with that engine is a startup error. The registry drops the taps of a runtime when the runtime stops.

Not done here. The tap counters are registered on the runtime metrics registry. This PR did not examine whether the frontend /metrics endpoint shows them. No test or live run exercises the tap in the in-process token pipeline; it is compiled and linted only. No test builds the full PreprocessedRouting builders with a tap; the link order is tested on a smaller pipeline with the real Migration operator.

Where should the reviewer start?

• lib/llm/src/shadow/tap.rs: the operator, the joined-record Recorder, and the tests. The outcome rules in Recorder::emit and the drop path are the parts that need the closest read.
• lib/llm/src/shadow/filter.rs: project(). It lists each PreprocessedRequest field and decides whether a shadow receives it.
• lib/llm/src/entrypoint/input/common.rs: the two link sites. The link chain is split so that the tap is optional.
• lib/llm/src/entrypoint/input.rs: initialize_input now returns a Result, so an invalid tap config stops the frontend.

Related Issues

• Relates to [FEATURE]: Shadow tap that mirrors requests and responses for shadow deployments #14986

#14986 is the design record for this PR. It is closed as completed, because this PR implements all of its acceptance criteria. The close comment maps each criterion to a test or a demo result.

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Walkthrough

Added configurable shadow taps for request and response capture, filtering, asynchronous publication, frontend pipeline integration, ZMQ send-HWM control, and benchmark tooling.

Changes

Shadow tap pipeline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration, envelopes, and filtering lib/llm/src/shadow/config.rs, lib/llm/src/shadow/envelope.rs, lib/llm/src/shadow/filter.rs	Added strict YAML configuration, envelope schemas, request projections, selection filters, validation, and tests.
Event-plane send HWM configuration lib/runtime/src/transports/event_plane/*	Added explicit ZMQ publisher send high-water mark APIs. Existing constructors retain default behavior.
Tap capture and publishing lib/llm/src/shadow/*	Added bounded queues, request and joined response capture, sequence tracking, asynchronous publishing, shutdown draining, and lifecycle tests.
Frontend initialization and pipeline wiring lib/llm/src/entrypoint/*, lib/llm/src/lib.rs, lib/runtime/src/config/environment_names.rs	Added environment-driven shadow initialization, request-origin mapping, pipeline operators, and initialization error propagation.
Consumer benchmark and demo lib/bench/Cargo.toml, lib/bench/shadow_consumer.rs, lib/bench/shadow/*, lib/bench/README.md, lib/bench/AGENTS.md	Added the shadow consumer, example taps, end-to-end demo script, feature wiring, documentation, aggregate counters, and gap-tracking tests.

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[dynamo-review-agent]

Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: A naturally ended response stream with fewer terminal choices than requested is still emitted as complete at the reviewed head, so truncated responses are falsely reported as successful.
• Original discussion: The redundant shadow_taps comment remains at lib/llm/src/entrypoint/input/common.rs:449 despite the thread's prescribed removal.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: Recorder::emit classifies a normally ended stream with fewer terminal choices than requested as Complete (lines 380-391). A truncated stream with no finish reason is therefore published as successful.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: start_taps registers all three metric families before creating every publisher and spawns publishers within the same loop (lines 116-165). A mid-loop publisher setup failure leaves collectors registered and earlier tasks alive, so retrying initialization on the runtime fails on duplicate metric registration.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: start_taps registers the shadow metric collectors before all publisher setup succeeds, so a failed initialization can leave duplicate collectors and prevent retrying on the same runtime.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: a clean EOF with fewer finished choices than requested falls through to ShadowOutcome::Complete in Recorder::emit, so truncated responses are recorded as successful.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: the shadow_consumer test remains behind its required feature and this PR does not add the described CI job to compile, lint, and run it.
• Original discussion: reordered_sequence_numbers_are_not_gaps is still inside the shadow_consumer binary target, which has required-features = ["shadow-consumer"]; the current pre-merge feature-gated benchmark steps compile and lint other dynamo-bench targets but still do not select this binary or feature, so the test remains deselected from its intended CI coverage.
• Original discussion: start_taps still registers metrics and spawns publishers while iterating. A later publisher-creation failure leaves registered collectors and earlier tasks behind, preventing a retry on the same runtime.

[ryanolson]

Re: the review summary of 8c72356 ("Previously reported defects still present"). That review ran before 752f5a4. All four findings are fixed there, and I checked them again at ddfacc3:

• Truncated stream recorded as complete: now incomplete (Recorder::emit), with a test.
• start_taps order: all publishers are created first, then metrics, then tasks.
• shadow_consumer not in CI: pre-merge.yml now compiles, lints, and tests it.
• Redundant shadow_taps comment: removed.

No further change. All 16 inline threads are resolved.

[dynamo-review-agent]

Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: Verified still present: input::grpc::run is public and can be called directly, but only run_input invokes initialize_input. Direct gRPC users with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG therefore build pipelines with taps_for(...) == None and silently emit no shadow records.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Shadow tap: verified by execution

I checked the six things a mirror has to get right by running each one with a control, on x86_64 Linux at ceb8d6f6ae. The result is one P2 and one P3, both inline. Neither blocks the merge.

Head at review time: ceb8d6f6ae3a9bcfb91af8154af78e8c66497a89. Merge base with main: 6744faa5284de95351994aebc4f2de6323ea7062. The branch only adds commits. The issue timeline holds 13 committed events and no head_ref_force_pushed event.

Back pressure, failure isolation and shutdown: measured, with controls

The probe ran in a module appended to tap.rs and removed afterward. The restored file matched the baseline checksum 162f33c7573bc6a0298867315aada3ed99f00d17ff76193b21356c516e00b312.

A stopped shadow destination does not slow the primary. 400 requests through a tap whose publisher never returns from publish:

case	time per request	records
no tap (control)	18.846µs	none
tap, consumer reads (control)	36.343µs	400 published, 0 dropped
tap, consumer stopped	12.934µs	9 queued, 391 dropped

Every one of the 400 requests in the stopped case returned all 8 chunks and all 512 tokens. These are debug builds, so read them as a shape, not as a cost.

A shadow failure never reaches the caller. A sink that returns Err on every record left 20 of 20 primary streams intact and raised publish_errors to 20. A sink that panics killed the publisher task, and still left 20 of 20 primary streams intact with 0 errors to the caller.

On shutdown the publisher drains what is queued, then stops. With a sink that takes 250 ms per record and 40 records queued, the task exited 2.252705395s after the cancel, against the 2 second deadline in publisher.rs:19. Requests that arrive after that are counted as drops and the primary is unaffected.

Test selection and mutation results, with the lane named

The new tests do run. In rust-tests (.) of .github/workflows/pre-merge.yml, step Run Unit Tests, cargo test --locked --all-targets, I read 30 test shadow:: lines and 30 ... ok lines in the job log, plus entrypoint::input::grpc::tests::bad_shadow_tap_config_stops_a_dynamic_frontend_at_startup, entrypoint::input::grpc::tests::shadow_tap_config_is_an_error_for_a_text_engine, and test tests::reordered_sequence_numbers_are_not_gaps ... ok from the new shadow_consumer step. The same 30 also ran in dynamo-runtime / rust-gpu. I re-ran them myself with cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features shadow::, and 30 passed.

Three mutations, each with a control that had to stay green:

mutation	subject	control
dropped_early gives Incomplete	dropped_stream_publishes_a_cancelled_record FAILED	joined_record_is_published_once_when_the_stream_ends ok
finished no longer checks saw_error	a_finished_choice_does_not_hide_a_failed_choice FAILED	a_stream_that_ends_without_a_finish_reason_is_incomplete ok
queue built at spec.capacity * 100	stalled_consumer_drops_and_counts_without_blocking FAILED	request_passes_through_unchanged_and_is_mirrored_projected ok

Each mutated file had a checksum different from the baseline, and each restore matched the baseline again.

What the tap copies, how it is switched on, and what no lane covers

With the default filter list the tap copies the tokenized prompt and the passthrough arguments. I put a made-up key string into extra_args to see whether it survives the copy. It does. One record, capture: request and filters: []:

filters=["strip-worker-pins"] token_ids=[101, 102, 103] extra_args={"api_key":"sk-SECRET-0123456789"}

filters: [tokens-only] removes extra_args and keeps the prompt. That is the design, and filter.rs names each field it drops. No log line carries request content: publisher.rs:43 logs only the tap name, the sequence number and the transport error, and mod.rs:197 logs only the configuration.

The tap is off unless DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG names a file. The only place in the whole tree that sets it is lib/bench/shadow/demo.sh:49, which a person runs by hand. No workflow, pytest test, recipe, chart, container file or example sets it. So the tap module compiles and its unit tests run in CI, but no lane starts a frontend with a tap and no lane exercises the ZMQ publish path against a live consumer. You already say as much in the description, and I am recording it rather than raising it.

I also checked the 32 commits main gained since the merge base. Only 99875cbf86 touches a file this branch touches in a way that matters, and it changes host resolution in event_plane/mod.rs, not the publisher constructors this branch adds a parameter to. git merge-tree against current main produced a tree with no conflict. Every caller of the two contracts this branch moves is updated: initialize_input now returns Result, and both call sites handle it, and all four build_pipeline call sites pass the new argument.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving at ceb8d6f6ae3a9bcfb91af8154af78e8c66497a89. I authored none of the commits here.

What I ran, on x86_64 Linux at that commit, each case with a control: a stopped shadow destination against a reading one and against no tap at all, a sink that returns Err and a sink that panics, memory held per in-flight request with tokens on and off, and a shutdown with a sink slower than the drain deadline. The primary stream survived every one of them. cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features shadow:: gives 30 passed, and the CI log for rust-tests (.) shows the same 30 plus the two gRPC startup tests and the new shadow_consumer test. Three mutations each killed their target test while a named control stayed green.

Two items stay open, both inline and neither blocking:

1. P2, lib/llm/src/shadow/tap.rs:356. The recorded output tokens of an in-flight request have no cap. capacity bounds the queue, not this.
2. P3, lib/llm/src/shadow/mod.rs:187. shadow_tap_dropped_total counts a closed receiver the same way it counts a full queue.

Deferred on purpose: no lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set, so the ZMQ publish path is covered by unit tests and by your demo run, not by CI. You state this in the description, and I agree it is the right trade for a feature that is off by default.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving at 9b735f339c09b437bf5d0f47078d1edb64ee37f5. I authored none of the commits here. The two fixes answer my own findings from the last round, so part of this round checks my own asks.

What I verified, on x86_64 Linux with ceb8d6f6ae and this head side by side: response.max_tokens caps the recorded tokens (1864 KB against 17768 KB for 200 open streams of 20000 tokens), and shadow_tap_dropped_total counts a gone publisher as closed and a full queue as full, in the counters and in the scrape. A mutation that undoes each fix fails its new test, and a named control stays green. The merge of main differs from a clean redo only in the conflicted grpc.rs, and there it keeps both sides. This head also merges cleanly with the current main (a83ba19b4e). On that merge, the 32 shadow:: tests and the 2 gRPC startup tests pass.

Open, not blocking: one P3, inline at lib/llm/src/shadow/config.rs:71. The new bound doc leaves out n and the chunk_timing offsets.

Deferred on purpose, as in the last round: no CI lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving at fc20a667315aaa7bcd3570eb2aa2a0b65568285b. The only change since my approval at 9b735f339c is the doc comment at lib/llm/src/shadow/config.rs:71-76. That text is my own suggestion from the last round, applied word for word, so this round partly checks my own words. I authored none of the commits.

What I verified, on x86_64 Linux: the new text matches what the tap holds. With 200 open streams, RSS grew within 5% of the new text in the n = 2 case and in the chunk_timing case. On the same runs, the old text was 2 times and 43 times too low. Exact counts on finished records match each term of the new text. The numbers are in the thread on config.rs. The commit changes no code. This head also merges cleanly with main at 7472c23abf. On that merge, the three lock files pass --locked, and the 32 shadow:: tests and the 2 gRPC startup tests pass.

Open: nothing.

Deferred on purpose, as in the last round: no CI lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

I approve this head, cf49e3e9378543d83cc7eb0178a08597baa9f0c3. The merge of main resolves both conflicts correctly. One new P3 is inline, and it does not block.

1. P3, lib/llm/src/shadow/filter.rs:203. With strip-agent-context, the agent session id still reaches the shadow in image_cache_scope. Please drop it under that filter too, or document that it stays.

I authored none of the commits.

What I checked in the merge, with controls.

I did the merge of main at 86d68a4856 again with git merge-tree. It conflicts in event_plane/mod.rs and zmq_transport.rs. Both resolutions keep the IPv6 bind address and set_ipv6(true) from #15324, and the send high-water mark from this PR. The only other change is the image_cache_scope field in filter.rs, which the P3 is about.

On x86_64 Linux at this head, these suites pass:

suite	result
dynamo-llm lib, no default features	2809 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored
dynamo-runtime lib	829 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored
shadow_consumer	1 passed, 0 failed

The dynamo-llm run includes the 32 shadow:: tests and the 2 gRPC startup tests.

Each mutation of a resolved line fails a test, and a named control passes:

mutation	fails	control, passes
.set_sndhwm(ZMQ_SNDHWM) at zmq_transport.rs:137	publisher_applies_explicit_send_hwm	test_zmq_pubsub_basic
"tcp://0.0.0.0:0" for bind_endpoint at event_plane/mod.rs:517	direct_zmq_publisher_serves_advertised_endpoint::case_2, IPv6	case_1, IPv4
no .set_ipv6(true) at zmq_transport.rs:136	case_2 and dynamic_sub_socket_adds_and_removes_publishers::case_3	case_1

Each mutated test binary had a new checksum. Each restored file matched its checksum from before the mutation.

Deferred on purpose, as in the last rounds: no CI lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

I approve this head, 1167d6e0e6d9970e3689f11f3f06f1cac7cf04e8. The new commit fixes my P3 at lib/llm/src/shadow/filter.rs:203, and I found no new defect. No finding is open.

The fix line is my own suggestion, so I partly reviewed my own code. The code comment and the test changes are yours. My reply on the P3 thread has the evidence: the probe from my last review, and the test failures with the fix reverted.

Deferred on purpose, as in the last rounds: no CI lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

I approve this head, 67b034194d15171408ac18e43f19739f2188fbd8. It merges main at 9949fea5a8 into 1167d6e0e6, which I approved. Both conflict resolutions keep the two sides, and the merge changes no other file. One P3 is open, and it does not block.

1. P3, lib/llm/src/shadow/filter.rs:215. If strip-agent-context keeps agent_context in the copy, no test fails. Since #15367 on main, that field also carries raw coding-agent request headers, such as x-claude-code-* and x-codex-*. This line is older than the merge, and I did not test it in my earlier rounds. Please add a test for it. The details have a diff that I ran.

Lines 204 to 206 of filter.rs are still my suggestion from the last round, so I partly review my own code.

What I measured at this head, with controls.

The merge. I did the merge again with git merge-tree --write-tree 1167d6e0e6 9949fea5a8. It conflicts in event_plane/mod.rs and zmq_transport.rs, as the commit message says. The committed tree differs from my merge only in these two files. In mod.rs, the resolution keeps bind_with_sndhwm(bind_endpoint, &topic, zmq_send_hwm) from this PR and the with_context from #15383. In zmq_transport.rs, it keeps the ensure! and .set_sndhwm(sndhwm) from this PR. It drops .set_ipv6(true), as #15383 does. bind_tmq_socket and connect_tmq_socket now set IPv6 for each endpoint, and the new publisher paths of this PR call both.

The lines of this PR. I compared the sorted added and removed lines of the three-dot diff against main, at 1167d6e0e6 and at this head. 24 of the 25 files are the same. In zmq_transport.rs, three added lines became one line, because the chain lost .set_ipv6(true). The totals are 3167 and 3165 lines, and 3165 equals the +3097/-68 of the files API. As a negative control, the same comparison of cf49e3e937 with 1167d6e0e6 differs, and only in filter.rs.

The P3. #15367 puts the raw coding-agent headers into agent_context.agent_headers. My probe sends one request with three such headers through attach_request_context_metadata and project(). Then it counts the header values in the JSON and MessagePack encodings of the copy. The two encodings gave the same counts. A value that I never sent counted 0 in every case.

filters	session id	the 2 other header values	agent_context in the copy
none	3	2	yes, with 3 headers
strip-agent-context	0	0	no
strip-multimodal	2	2	yes, with 3 headers
strip-agent-context, strip-multimodal	0	0	no
tokens-only	0	0	no

Then I changed line 215 to copy agent_context under every filter. The 32 shadow:: tests still pass, and the copy keeps the 2 header values under strip-agent-context and under tokens-only. With the diff below, the same change fails each_strip_filter_leaves_other_fields_alone at the new line 396. On this head, the diff passes the 32 tests and rustfmt --check.

@@ -299,6 +299,10 @@ mod tests {
         request.mm_processor_kwargs = Some(serde_json::json!({"fps": 1}));
         request.annotations = vec!["a".to_string()];
         request.image_cache_scope = Some("sess-1".to_string());
+        let mut headers = axum::http::HeaderMap::new();
+        headers.insert("x-claude-code-session-id", "sess-1".parse().unwrap());
+        request.agent_context =
+            crate::protocols::common::extensions::agent_context_from_headers(&headers);
         request.mdc_sum = Some("sum".to_string());
         request.bootstrap_info = None;
         request.encoder_result = Some(serde_json::json!({"x": 1}));
@@ -337,6 +341,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(copy.extra_args, source.extra_args);
         assert_eq!(copy.mdc_sum.as_deref(), Some("sum"));
         assert_eq!(copy.image_cache_scope.as_deref(), Some("sess-1"));
+        assert!(copy.agent_context.is_some());
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -388,6 +393,7 @@ mod tests {
         let agent = FilterSet::resolve(&names(&[STRIP_AGENT_CONTEXT]), &[]).unwrap();
         let copy = project(&source, agent.projection);
         assert!(copy.annotations.is_empty());
+        assert!(copy.agent_context.is_none());
         // The image cache scope carries the agent session id.
         assert!(copy.image_cache_scope.is_none());
         assert!(copy.prompt_embeds.is_some());

Other changes on main. #15266 and #14355 change environment_names.rs and lib/bench/Cargo.toml next to lines of this PR, and the merge keeps both sides. #15202 changes KvRouter and ModelManager functions that this PR does not call. The 5 commits on main after 9949fea5a8 change none of the 25 files, and a merge with df8ad66921 has no conflict.

Build and tests on x86_64 Linux, at this head:

check	result
cargo check --locked --workspace --all-targets	exit 0
cargo tree --locked in lib/bindings/python and lib/bindings/kvbm	exit 0 in each. In lib/bindings/python, exit 101 with the new serde_yaml line removed.
dynamo-llm lib, no default features	2818 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored
dynamo-runtime lib	836 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored
shadow_consumer	1 passed, 0 failed

The host has IPv6 loopback, so no IPv6 test of #15383 skipped. Two changes to the resolved builder line in zmq_transport.rs show what the tests pin:

change	result
.set_sndhwm(ZMQ_SNDHWM)	publisher_applies_explicit_send_hwm fails, with 100000 for 41
.set_ipv6(true) kept	the 52 event_plane tests pass, because the setting for each endpoint comes later

Pre Merge tested 61a2f4a, which has the tree of this head. Its rust-tests (.) job passed 7750 tests with 0 failures.

Deferred on purpose, as in the last rounds: no CI lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set.

[devin-ai-integration]

❌ Dynamo PR CI failed — run 37339974483 (attempt 1) on 194ae815cd

Gate checks: ✅ backend-status-check · ✅ deploy-status-check · ❌ dynamo-status-check

Other	Jobs
dynamo-runtime	❌ 2 ✅ 6

Failure details

2 jobs failed (arm64 and amd64) with the same 2 tests: both test_drained_stream_* tests in tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py time out after 30s waiting for the HTTP response. No jobs were cancelled.

❌ dynamo-runtime / test / parallel cuda13.0, arm64: 2 cancellation drained-stream tests time out (requests Timeout 30s)

Job: dynamo-runtime / test / parallel cuda13.0, arm64 · Failed step: Run CPU-only tests (parallelized) · Logs: gh run view --job 111874594752 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed

FAILED tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py::test_drained_stream_can_require_generated_content - requests.exceptions.Timeout: Timed out after 30.0s waiting for the HTTP response
FAILED tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py::test_drained_stream_accepts_generated_content - requests.exceptions.Timeout: Timed out after 30.0s waiting for the HTTP response

tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py:50: in test_drained_stream_can_require_generated_content
    read_streaming_responses(
tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py:309: in read_streaming_responses
    response_raw = cancellable_req.get_response()
tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py:188: in get_response
    raise requests.exceptions.Timeout(
E   requests.exceptions.Timeout: Timed out after 30.0s waiting for the HTTP response
=== 2 failed, 789 passed, 23 skipped, 5390 deselected in 1437.57s (0:23:57) ===

Stage pre_merge_cpu: test_drained_stream_can_require_generated_content and test_drained_stream_accepts_generated_content failed after 3 auto-retries each. Both raise requests.exceptions.Timeout from CancellableRequest.get_response (tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py:188) because no HTTP response arrived within 30s while draining the stream. All other 789 tests passed. A later artifact-upload error (a log file path containing *) is a side issue and did not cause the failure.

❌ dynamo-runtime / test / parallel cuda13.0, amd64: 2 cancellation drained-stream tests time out (requests Timeout 30s)

Job: dynamo-runtime / test / parallel cuda13.0, amd64 · Failed step: Run CPU-only tests (parallelized) · Logs: gh run view --job 111874594762 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed

FAILED tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py::test_drained_stream_can_require_generated_content - requests.exceptions.Timeout: Timed out after 30.0s waiting for the HTTP response
FAILED tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py::test_drained_stream_accepts_generated_content - requests.exceptions.Timeout: Timed out after 30.0s waiting for the HTTP response

tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py:50: in test_drained_stream_can_require_generated_content
    read_streaming_responses(
tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py:309: in read_streaming_responses
    response_raw = cancellable_req.get_response()
tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py:188: in get_response
    raise requests.exceptions.Timeout(
E   requests.exceptions.Timeout: Timed out after 30.0s waiting for the HTTP response
=== 2 failed, 789 passed, 23 skipped, 5390 deselected in 1437.57s (0:23:57) ===

Stage pre_merge_cpu: test_drained_stream_can_require_generated_content and test_drained_stream_accepts_generated_content failed after 3 auto-retries each. Both raise requests.exceptions.Timeout from CancellableRequest.get_response (tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py:188) because no HTTP response arrived within 30s while draining the stream. All other 789 tests passed. A later artifact-upload error (a log file path containing *) is a side issue and did not cause the failure.

For agents

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_{Posted automatically by Devin for run 37339974483. Updated on every full-CI run of this PR.}

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

I approve this head, 194ae815cd555823e2be8b21dc9b0307546a2e4c. It merges main at 8889eb36f5 into 67b034194d, which I approved, and the conflict resolution keeps both sides. One P3 from my last review is still open, and it does not block.

1. P3, lib/llm/src/shadow/filter.rs:215. If strip-agent-context keeps agent_context in the copy, no test fails. The merge does not change filter.rs, and the test diff in my review of 2026-09-30 still catches this change. Please add it.

Lines 204 to 206 of filter.rs are still my suggestion from an earlier round, so I partly review my own code.

What I measured, with controls.

The merge. I did the merge again with git merge-tree --write-tree 67b034194d 8889eb36f5. It conflicts only in lib/bench/Cargo.toml, and the committed tree differs from my merge only in that file. The resolution keeps the shadow_consumer entry from this PR and the codex_trace_export entry from #15601, with no conflict markers. The file defines both features, shadow-consumer and codex-trace-export.

The lines of this PR. I compared the sorted added and removed lines of the diff against the merge base with main, at 67b034194d and at this head. All 25 files are the same, and the totals equal the +3097/-68 of the files API. As a negative control, a diff from the old merge base 9949fea5a8 to this head differs.

Build and tests on x86_64 Linux. The last column is this head merged with main at 1f7a233393. That merge has no conflict.

check	this head	merged with 1f7a233393
cargo build -p dynamo-bench --no-default-features --features shadow-consumer --bin shadow_consumer	exit 0	exit 0
cargo build -p dynamo-bench --no-default-features --features codex-trace-export --bin codex_trace_export	exit 0	exit 0
the same two lines without --features (negative control)	exit 101, "requires the features"	not run
shadow_consumer test	1 passed	1 passed
dynamo-runtime lib	860 passed, 0 failed	873 passed, 0 failed
dynamo-llm lib, no default features	2863 passed, 0 failed	2878 passed, 0 failed

Pre Merge tested 7e175b7, which has the tree of this head. Its rust-tests (.) job passed 8134 tests with 0 failures, and the 36 tests that this PR adds are among them.

The P3. I changed line 215 to copy agent_context under every filter. The 32 shadow:: tests still pass, and no test outside shadow:: calls project. With the test diff from my last review, the same change fails each_strip_filter_leaves_other_fields_alone. Without the change, that diff passes the 32 tests, also on the merge with 1f7a233393.

The red dynamo-status-check does not come from this PR. This PR changes no file under tests/, and that folder has the same tree at this head and at 8889eb36f5. The 2 failed tests in tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_utils.py time out at this head. #13878 on main made get_response wait for a ready signal, and the mock in that file never sets it. #15677 on main sets it. On the merge with 1f7a233393, both tests pass.

Deferred on purpose, as in the last rounds: no CI lane starts a frontend with DYN_SHADOW_TAP_CONFIG set.