feat(multimodal): allow env override of per-request media count limits

[FC-Li]

Summary

Each model spec hardcodes its per-request modality limits (e.g. 10 images for Qwen-VL / Qwen3-VL / Kimi, 8 for Llama4, 4 for LLaVA / Phi-3-V) via modality_limits(), with no way to adjust them per deployment.

This adds three environment variables that override the declared limit at validation time:

• SMG_IMAGE_MAX_COUNT
• SMG_VIDEO_MAX_COUNT
• SMG_AUDIO_MAX_COUNT

They follow the existing SMG_*_MAX_INPUT_BYTES pattern in media.rs: read once and cached in a OnceLock; unset, non-numeric, or zero values are ignored and the spec default applies.

Design notes

• The override replaces the spec's declared limit (it can raise or lower it), but it never enables a modality the spec does not declare — an image-only model still rejects video with UnsupportedModality regardless of SMG_VIDEO_MAX_COUNT.
• Count checking is extracted from the validate_media_request trait default method into a free function check_media_counts with the override lookup injected as a parameter, so no individual spec needs changes and the logic is unit-testable without touching process env.
• Operators raising the image count should also raise the downstream engine's limit (e.g. vLLM limit_mm_per_prompt) to match.

Testing

• cargo test -p llm-multimodal --lib registry:: — 48 passed, including 4 new tests covering: override raises the effective limit, override does not enable undeclared modalities, and env parsing ignores unset/invalid/zero values.

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• New Features

  • Added support for configuring per-request image, video, and audio media limits through environment settings.
  • Valid positive limits can raise existing media restrictions.

• Bug Fixes

  • Invalid, zero, or unset configuration values are safely ignored.
  • Media validation continues to reject unsupported or undeclared modalities and duplicate entries.
  • Consistent validation is now applied across supported media types.

Walkthrough

The change adds cached environment-variable overrides for image, video, and audio limits. It centralizes media-count validation and tests valid, invalid, zero, unset, and undeclared modality overrides.

Changes

Media limit overrides

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Override parsing and shared validation crates/multimodal/src/registry/traits.rs	Cached positive environment values replace declared modality limits. Invalid, zero, and unset values are ignored. Undeclared modalities remain rejected.
Validation integration and coverage crates/multimodal/src/registry/traits.rs	validate_media_request delegates to check_media_counts. Tests cover valid, ignored, and undeclared overrides.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a94cd

This PR adds bounded environment-based media count overrides while preserving declared-modality checks. No actionable merge-blocking risk is evidenced, so it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

• smg-project/smg#593: Both changes modify multimodal/src/registry/traits.rs and its media-limit validation logic.

Suggested reviewers: catherinesue, slin1237

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: environment-variable overrides for multimodal per-request media count limits.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the new environment variables, override behavior, validation rules, design, and tests.
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In `@crates/multimodal/src/registry/traits.rs`:
- Around line 393-409: Extend the limit_override_raises_declared_limit test with
a lower-override case: use a declared limit of 5, an override of 2, and a
request of 3, asserting ModalityLimitExceeded with limit 2. Keep the existing
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LGTM
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