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The strict/lenient validator split from #871 only opens the document root. The lenient set is the strict producers minus the close_unknown_fields pass, and that pass closes the root and the top-level definitions — nothing else. Two other kinds of closure survived into the read set:

  • closures a producer injects by hand (the observability_exporter kind branches, the guardrail tagged sub-enums, the untagged ConditionNode / OnEmbeddingFailure variants);
  • additionalProperties: false that schemars emits from a nested #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)] struct.

And a third gate was invisible in the schema entirely: deny_unknown_fields on the guardrail and exporter per-kind config structs sits in the type, which the loader deserializes too, so it applied to the read path with no way to opt out.

Net effect: an additive optional field inside a nested config object was not the "ignored and reported" case the compatibility contract calls technique (a) — it was row-fatal one release back. custom_patterns[].replacement (#1007) does exactly this to a v0.10.0 data plane: the whole guardrail row is dropped, so a masking policy silently stops enforcing. The same shape takes an exporter row down and puts telemetry dark for the window.

Verified inventory of closures that stood in the read set: guardrail (PiiCustomPattern, PiiDetectorConfig, PresidioEntityConfig, KeywordPattern ×2, BedrockLatencyMode ×2, BedrockAWSCredentials), observability_exporter (all four kind branches), rate_limit_policy (PolicyCondition, ConditionGroup), model (OnEmbeddingFailure's object branch) — plus the guardrail and exporter roots, closed by serde rather than by schema.

Implementation

  • open_unknown_fields strips additionalProperties: false at every depth and runs on the lenient path, so the read set is free of closures by construction. The write path is untouched.
  • The strictness the guardrail config structs carried in their types moves into guardrail_root_schema: every struct-shaped definition is closed, and every kind branch is closed after the flattened parent's properties are copied in (a closed branch lists only its own kind's fields, while the document also carries name/enabled/hook_point/…). Allowed = root fields ∪ kind ∪ that kind's fields, which is exactly what serde enforced. Same for the exporter, whose branches were already closed by hand.
  • #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)] is removed from the 13 guardrail and 4 exporter config structs, with the reason recorded on GuardrailKind / ExporterKind.
  • unknown_field_paths supplies the report serde_ignored cannot. serde_ignored never fires inside serde-buffered content, and a oneOf failure collapses to a single root-level error that names no field — so for the four resources with buffered regions the loader reads the unknown-field paths off the strict schema and merges them into the existing partial-compat channel. It is conservative: a key is reported only when no branch applicable at that position declares it, so cross-kind leakage stays out of the report (the write path is what rejects that).
  • Same function fixes the write-path message that the oneOf was swallowing: a typo in a guardrail or exporter now names the field instead of reporting "not valid under any of the schemas", under the same probe discipline validate_model uses for dead knobs (the names replace the message only when they are the whole story).

None of the opened unions discriminates by closure — every one is kind-tagged with a const, and the two untagged ones (ConditionNode, OnEmbeddingFailure) are anyOf with disjoint required sets — so nothing is left closed on the read path.

Behavior change

before after
unknown field in a nested config object, read path whole row skipped (RED) row loads, field ignored and named in the partial-compat report (YELLOW)
unknown field at a guardrail/exporter root, read path whole row skipped same as above
unknown field, write path (aisix validate, resources file) rejected, message named no field rejected, message names the field

A smuggled plaintext credential on an exporter (access_key_id, dd_api_key, …) is still rejected on the write path; on the read path it is ignored rather than consumed, and the field name surfaces in the report.

Compatibility

schemas/resources/guardrail.schema.json is the only published schema that changes, and only to state what serde already enforced: the ten kind branches gain the eight shared root properties and additionalProperties: false. No resource's write contract loosens, and no other schema file changes.

This is a cross-plane signal for the control plane's compat floor. internal/dpfloor models the DP's strict→lenient difference as "the strict pass closed the root and top-level definitions; the guardrail/exporter producer closures hold in both sets" with a KeepClosed list. That model stays correct for the current v0.10.0 floor — a released binary keeps the old behavior forever — but the next floor refresh must re-derive it: the relaxation becomes "open every closure at every depth", KeepClosed goes away, and guardrail.schema.json acquires a strict-only difference it did not have. The dpCompatGate entry for custom_patterns[].replacement stays row_rejected against v0.10.0 and cites a DP test that this PR renames.

Tests

  • formerly_closed_nested_objects_load_on_read_and_are_reported walks every formerly-closed site (plus the two serde-closed roots) and asserts the write path still rejects, the read path loads, and the field is named.
  • lenient_set_carries_no_closure_at_any_depth pins the mechanical guarantee for every resource.
  • opening_the_read_set_does_not_disturb_one_of_selection covers the case the safety check turned on: a document whose extra field is exactly a sibling branch's field still resolves to the branch its kind names.
  • write_rejection_names_the_unknown_field_behind_the_one_of, including the case where another violation must keep the original error.
  • The accepted corpora (resource_schema_characterization, model_schema_characterization) now double as a false-positive guard: a document the write contract accepts must report no unknown fields, since the report runs on every row of those kinds.
  • Loader tests for the guardrail and exporter YELLOW paths, and an end-to-end test in aisix-server that takes a raw etcd guardrail carrying an unknown nested field through the loader into a built chain and asserts it still masks. That test fails on main (the row is skipped as SchemaFailed) and passes here.
  • The three tests that pinned the old contract are rewritten to pin the new one rather than deleted.

Docs

CLAUDE.md (= AGENTS.md): the upgrade window is re-sized from "arbitrarily long" to minutes-but-must-be-survived; a new rule sizes the mitigation to what the window costs (run-once migrations, security controls, and core carrier rows keep the heavy technique — everything else self-heals and gets the save-time warning); and the unknown-field wording is corrected to say that nested tolerance holds only from the release that ships this, with 0.10.0 and older binaries strict forever.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added stricter schema validation for newly written guardrail, exporter, and related resource configurations.
    • Added clear reporting of unknown fields, including fields nested within configurations.
    • Expanded guardrail schemas with lifecycle, enforcement, direction, and operator-facing name settings.
    • Schema exports now automatically include all registered resources.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved compatibility when loading older configurations containing unknown fields.
    • Preserved valid guardrail and exporter behavior while identifying partially compatible configurations.
    • Prevented plaintext credentials from being retained during configuration loading.

…epth

The strict/lenient split (#871) only ever opened the document ROOT: the
lenient set is the strict producers minus the `close_unknown_fields` pass,
and that pass closes the root and the top-level definitions. Every other
closure — the ones a producer injects by hand, and the ones `schemars`
emits from a nested `#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]` struct — stood in both
validator sets, and the config structs' `deny_unknown_fields` stood in the
type itself, where the loader deserializes the same types and cannot opt
out.

So an additive optional field inside a nested config object was not the
ignored-and-reported case the compat contract promises: it was row-fatal
one release back. For a guardrail that means the content policy stops
enforcing (`custom_patterns[].replacement` does exactly this to a v0.10.0
data plane); for an exporter, telemetry goes dark.

The read set now strips `additionalProperties: false` at every depth
(`open_unknown_fields`), and the write contract that used to live in the
structs moves into the strict schema: the guardrail producer closes its
struct-shaped definitions and its kind branches, with the flattened
parent's properties copied into each branch first, so the allowed set is
exactly what serde enforced.

Tolerated is not silent. `serde_ignored` never fires inside serde-buffered
content — the flattened tagged config of a guardrail or exporter, an
untagged `ConditionNode`/`OnEmbeddingFailure` — and a `oneOf` failure
collapses to one root-level error naming no field, so the loader takes the
unknown-field paths for those four resources from `unknown_field_paths`,
which reads them off the strict schema.

Published schemas: only `guardrail.schema.json` changes, and only by
stating what serde already enforced (the ten kind branches gain the shared
root properties and `additionalProperties: false`). No resource's write
contract loosens.
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The PR separates strict write validation from lenient reads. It adds recursive unknown-field reporting, updates guardrail and exporter deserialization, centralizes resource coverage, expands guardrail schemas, and adds loader, characterization, and end-to-end compatibility tests.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Strict and lenient schema contracts
crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs, crates/aisix-core/src/models/mod.rs
The schema system centralizes resource coverage, closes write schemas, recursively opens read schemas, and reports nested unknown-field paths.
Guardrail schema closure and shared fields
schemas/resources/guardrail.schema.json, crates/aisix-core/src/bin/dump-schema.rs
Guardrail provider schemas reject unspecified properties and define shared lifecycle, enforcement, failure, hook-point, and operator fields. Schema dumping now uses the centralized resource registry.
Permissive model deserialization
crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs, crates/aisix-core/src/models/observability_exporter.rs
Guardrail and exporter configurations tolerate unknown fields during loading. Strict validation remains on writes. Credential tests verify that plaintext secrets are rejected by strict validation and omitted during loading.
Compatibility reporting and validation coverage
crates/aisix-etcd/src/loader.rs, crates/aisix-core/tests/*, crates/aisix-server/tests/guardrail_read_path_forward_compat.rs, CLAUDE.md
The loader supplements serde_ignored with schema-derived paths for buffered content. Tests cover nested compatibility, retained rows, partial-compatibility reporting, guardrail-chain inclusion, and masking behavior. The compatibility guidance documents these rules.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d02b1

The PR makes nested unknown fields load without dropping guardrail or exporter rows, preserving behavior across forward-compatible configuration changes. Merge readiness is low risk, with follow-up needed for inconsistent compatibility-report paths and incorrect published endpoint defaults that could confuse users or schema consumers.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EtcdLoader
  participant SerdeIgnored
  participant SchemaReporter
  participant GuardrailChain
  EtcdLoader->>SerdeIgnored: load resource row
  EtcdLoader->>SchemaReporter: inspect buffered unknown fields
  SchemaReporter-->>EtcdLoader: return unknown field paths
  EtcdLoader->>GuardrailChain: include accepted guardrail
  GuardrailChain-->>EtcdLoader: apply masking
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A `oneOf` failure collapses to one root-level "not valid under any of the
schemas", so the most ordinary write-path error on a guardrail or exporter
— a typo in a resources file — arrived naming no field. The strict schema
knows every field name, which is what `unknown_field_paths` reads, so the
names replace the message when they are the whole story (same probe
discipline as `validate_model`'s dead-knob case).
Every document the write contract accepts is one this build fully
understands, so it must report nothing. The report runs on every row of
these kinds, where a false positive would be a permanent partial-compat
warning on a healthy fleet — the resource and model corpora now assert it
across every accepted case.
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crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs (1)

319-351: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add cycle protection to expand_applicable.

If a schema definition recursively references itself through $ref or a combinator, unknown_field_paths can loop indefinitely and block resource loading. Track visited nodes before processing them.

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In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs` around lines 319 - 351, The
expand_applicable traversal must prevent recursive schema references from being
processed indefinitely. Track each node as visited before expanding its $ref or
allOf/oneOf/anyOf members, skip nodes already seen, and preserve the existing
applicable-node collection behavior.
crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs (1)

727-734: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Complete the public API documentation for guardrail and exporter kinds.

The current documentation includes internal generation rationale, while the aliyun_ai_guardrail branch has no kind description. Replace the implementation details with public API reference text, add the missing description, and regenerate the published resource schema.

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In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs` around lines 727 - 734, Update the
Rustdoc for GuardrailKind in crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs:727-734
and ExporterKind in crates/aisix-core/src/models/observability_exporter.rs:38-44
to describe their public enum APIs, removing etcd-loader and schema
implementation rationale; preserve that rationale only in private comments or
design documentation if needed.

Apply the same fix in `@schemas/resources/guardrail.schema.json` around lines 851
- 926: The generated schema is missing the aliyun_ai_guardrail kind description.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/aisix-etcd/src/loader.rs`:
- Around line 533-538: Update normalize_ignored_path so array markers attach
directly to the preceding segment, converting paths such as
custom_patterns.0.future_knob to custom_patterns[].future_knob in accordance
with the PartialCompatRow contract. Adjust the affected expectations to assert
the separator-free array-path format.

In `@schemas/resources/guardrail.schema.json`:
- Around line 735-740: Update the four endpoint configuration fields’ serde
attributes to include skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none" alongside
#[serde(default)], remove invalid null defaults from the generated schema, and
regenerate it. Set Lakera and OpenAI endpoint schema defaults to
https://api.lakera.ai and https://api.openai.com/v1 respectively, while leaving
Aliyun without an endpoint default.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs`:
- Around line 727-734: Update the Rustdoc for GuardrailKind in
crates/aisix-core/src/models/guardrail.rs:727-734 and ExporterKind in
crates/aisix-core/src/models/observability_exporter.rs:38-44 to describe their
public enum APIs, removing etcd-loader and schema implementation rationale;
preserve that rationale only in private comments or design documentation if
needed.

Apply the same fix in `@schemas/resources/guardrail.schema.json` around lines 851
- 926: The generated schema is missing the aliyun_ai_guardrail kind description.

In `@crates/aisix-core/src/models/schema.rs`:
- Around line 319-351: The expand_applicable traversal must prevent recursive
schema references from being processed indefinitely. Track each node as visited
before expanding its $ref or allOf/oneOf/anyOf members, skip nodes already seen,
and preserve the existing applicable-node collection behavior.
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…loor

The compat-debt gate's only category of subject was cross-plane
compatibility code, and under the support-floor model that lives entirely
in the control plane: the data plane carries no time-boxed compatibility
code, so there is nothing left for a marker to date. The repository has had
no live marker since 0.11.0. Delete `crates/aisix-core/tests/compat_debt.rs`
and the `COMPAT-SINCE:` section of `CLAUDE.md`, and drop the `fetch-tags`
checkout option the gate was the only consumer of. `tempfile` stays — other
tests in `aisix-core` use it.

A retired client-facing path is now an ordinary deprecation, handled like
any other API change, and the projection rule says so.

Three corrections to text the rewrite made inconsistent or left stale:

- The control plane filtering its own deliberately written old key out of
  the partial-compat report is stated as its obligation, not as an existing
  mechanism, and the metric caveat no longer implies a filter exists.
- The rename bullet's `#[serde(alias = "…")]` guidance is scoped to the
  write surface (Admin API, resources file); a field in a projected
  document is answered by the projection rule instead, which bans an
  in-place reshape.
- `CONTRIBUTING.md` still carried the pre-#1014 model: a `guardrail` /
  `observability_exporter` exemption that no release at or above the floor
  has, and a three-option enum rollout menu whose options are no longer the
  contributor's to choose now that the control plane refuses an unloadable
  projection at save time.

Also: a new resource kind is free of data-plane work but is a `rejected[]`
entry on every release below the one that added it, and the vendored
lenient schemas are a verbatim copy of `schemas/resources-lenient/` only
from the first release that carries that directory.
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