feat(fastwire): B0 — per-attempt tier outcomes and per-attempt pricing (#1886)

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Summary

Phase B0 of the FastWire umbrella (#1886): per-attempt tier observability. Upstream wire bytes are unchanged — this unit changes what gets recorded and how cost reads it, not what gets sent.

Stacked on the A1 refactor PR #1893; its commits appear here too, so review this PR by its own commits (66813eb6d plus the dev merge).

The bug this fixes

estimateComboCost took one top-level service tier and applied it to every attempt. Combo, fallback, and retry rows priced attempts that never carried that tier — and a request with Fast enabled whose route could not express Fast still billed at the Fast multiplier, because the top-level configuredServiceTier survived the strip.

Each attempt now carries an AttemptTierOutcome produced by the adapter that actually serialized the request (never inferred from the route): canonical tier, the emitted wire kind/value, fastOutcome, confirmation, and the upstream echo. Cost reads that per attempt and falls back to the old top-level tier for pre-B0 rows.

Correctness details worth reviewing

• fastOutcome applies the tier-decision precedence, so it cannot misreport a downgrade: force-default is always not-requested (a user choosing default is not a downgrade — recorded separately as callerFastSuppressedByConfig); an unclassified route's passthrough stays unknown without inferring demand or suppression; a dropped foreign caller tier only sets callerTierDropped and never touches fastOutcome.
• Confirmation reverse-maps the upstream echo through canonicalToWire (generic, so Groq's performance works when it lands), giving confirmed / assumed / downgraded / unknown. An upstream that declines Fast prices at the tier it actually served — which matches how vendors document this: xAI bills the priority rate only when the response confirms "priority".
• Persistence is additive and fails closed: tierOutcome is optional, pre-B0 rows price exactly as before, and a malformed outcome is dropped without losing its attempt.
• The tier gate is value-aware now, but the drop branch has no provider today, so the outbound body is byte-identical — the A0 characterization suites pass untouched.

Also adds the bounded, secret-redacted callerServiceTier raw-evidence field (the existing requestedServiceTier is mixed-semantics and A0 locked it, so it cannot serve as raw evidence), and projects responses.fastWireKind / responses.fastWireValue into the compatibility fingerprint. The fingerprint gains two keys, which intentionally changes subject digests.

Verification

• Full suite at this head (dev tip 9eb3a101a merged in): 13,053 pass / 10 skip / 1 fail.
• The single failure is the pre-existing dev-side tests/key-login-live-update.test.ts regression flagged on refactor(fastwire): A1 — FastWire policy resolution, byte-identical behavior (#1886) #1893 and fix(chat): forward caller service_tier through the chat-to-responses conversion (#1886) #1904; it reproduces on pristine upstream/dev with none of these changes applied.
• tests/fastwire-observability.test.ts: 14 new cases. A0's characterization files are untouched.
• bun x tsc --noEmit, bun run privacy:scan, git diff --check all clean.

Part of #1886 (Phase B0). This is the prerequisite for B2's per-provider pricing work: filling a price matrix on top of attempt-level tier facts is only safe once those facts exist.

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• New Features

  • Added FastWire configuration for provider-specific wire mappings, caller tiers, and optional beta settings.
  • Improved fast-mode and service-tier handling, including tier forwarding, downgrades, compatibility checks, and response observation.
  • Added tier outcomes and caller-tier details to request logs and usage records.
  • Added per-attempt tier-aware cost calculations.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved configured wire settings while preventing unsupported or conflicting combinations.
  • Added safe metadata redaction and bounded warnings for provider and model information.

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Walkthrough

FastWire support resolves provider and model tier policies, validates declarations, applies tier decisions during adapter serialization, observes response outcomes, persists sanitized metadata, and uses per-attempt outcomes for pricing and behavior fingerprints.

Changes

FastWire tier handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
FastWire contracts and policy resolution src/types.ts, src/providers/fastwire.ts, src/providers/service-tier.ts, src/codex/catalog/provider-fetch.ts, tests/fastwire-policy.test.ts	Adds FastWire declarations, authority snapshots, policy resolution, tier decisions, outcome tracking, validation, and service-tier compatibility projections.
Provider configuration and routing integration src/config.ts, src/providers/registry.ts, src/providers/derive.ts, src/router.ts, src/routing/compatibility/behavior.ts, src/lab/subject/behavior-fingerprint.ts, tests/config.test.ts	Validates FastWire metadata, backfills registry declarations, reports fastWire: null conflicts, and exposes resolved FastWire behavior fields.
Adapter serialization and request routing src/adapters/*, src/server/responses/core.ts, tests/fastwire-characterization-wire.test.ts	Applies tier decisions to outbound bodies, preserves caller-owned raw bodies, generates adapter tier metadata, and records metadata across request construction paths.
Tier observation, persistence, and accounting src/server/request-log.ts, src/usage/log.ts, src/usage/cost.ts, src/server/management/shared.ts, src/lib/redact.ts, tests/fastwire-observability.test.ts	Records and sanitizes caller tiers, persists per-attempt outcomes, observes response tiers, handles unparseable responses, updates management metrics, and applies outcome-specific pricing.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f4d43

The PR records per-attempt tier outcomes and changes tier-gating behavior; an eligible chat-family request may silently omit Fast mode and use the wrong upstream tier if the parsed service tier is cleared after force-fast selection. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ResponsesCore
  participant FastPolicy
  participant Adapter
  participant Provider
  participant RequestLog
  participant UsageCost
  Client->>ResponsesCore: request with fast mode and caller tier
  ResponsesCore->>FastPolicy: resolve policy and decide tier
  FastPolicy-->>ResponsesCore: outbound TierDecision
  ResponsesCore->>Adapter: build serialized request
  Adapter->>Provider: send request with selected service tier
  Provider-->>Adapter: response with service-tier observation
  Adapter-->>ResponsesCore: response and AdapterTierMetadata
  ResponsesCore->>RequestLog: record attempt outcome
  RequestLog->>UsageCost: estimate cost from tierOutcome

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Actionable comments posted: 8

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src/server/responses/core.ts (1)

1188-1216: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the force-fast tier when dropping a foreign caller tier.

For an eligible service-tier policy with foreignCallerTiers: "drop", caller tier "flex", and fastMode: true, decideTier returns { kind: "set", value: "priority" }. applyServiceTierGate then clears options.serviceTier because dropForeignCallerTier is true. The chat adapter therefore omits service_tier and loses Fast mode. Delete the foreign raw tier without clearing options.serviceTier when tierDecision.kind === "set".

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In `@src/server/responses/core.ts` around lines 1188 - 1216, Update
applyServiceTierGate so dropping a foreign caller tier removes only the foreign
raw tier when options.tierDecision.kind is "set"; preserve options.serviceTier
in that case so the forced Fast tier remains available. Keep the existing
clearing behavior for decisions that do not set a replacement tier.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/config.ts`:
- Around line 2567-2577: Update validateConfigCandidate so inherited FastWire
conflicts do not reject whole-document management writes that leave the
conflicting fastWire value unchanged. Normalize stale inherited fastWire: null
values during successful validation, or otherwise scope rejection to providers
whose fastWire was explicitly supplied by the current request; preserve
rejection for caller-supplied conflicts and the existing provider-level
superRefine behavior.

In `@src/providers/derive.ts`:
- Around line 462-468: Extract and export one shared FastWire deep-clone helper,
reusing or relocating the existing cloneFastWire logic from
src/providers/service-tier.ts lines 51-59, and use it at every
registry-inheritance site. In src/providers/derive.ts lines 462-468, replace the
inline clone while preserving the undefined fill-only guard and null
passthrough; in src/router.ts lines 336-344, replace the resolved-spread clone
while preserving the provider.fastWire undefined guard. Ensure the helper clones
all nested FastWire members without aliasing registry state.

In `@src/providers/fastwire.ts`:
- Around line 213-238: In createAdapterTierMetadata, remove the redundant
force-default clause from the fastIntent/unclassified logic and remove the
unreachable deletion of outcome.callerFastSuppressedByConfig in the unclassified
branch; preserve all other tier metadata behavior.

In `@src/providers/service-tier.ts`:
- Around line 94-102: Update captureFastPolicyAuthority and the related
authorityForProvider caching logic so mutable providers are never cached; only
store authorities when the provider is frozen, while preserving authority
creation and lookup for mutable providers through rebuilding. Ensure the
invariant is enforced in code rather than relying on caller ordering.
- Around line 175-184: Update canSerializeServiceTierForChatModel to delegate to
the shared legacyChatEligibility implementation instead of duplicating the
provider and exact-model checks. Add legacyChatEligibility to the existing
fastwire import and pass the required provider capabilities and modelId so
serialization uses the same chat eligibility result as policy resolution.

In `@src/routing/compatibility/behavior.ts`:
- Line 96: Update resolverVersion in buildBehaviorFingerprintV1 to a new version
whenever the normalized behavior keys change, including responses.fastWireKind
and responses.fastWireValue. Compare resolveProviderAuthTransport with the prior
authTransportFor mapping for all supported inputs and preserve the existing
auth.transport results; adjust the shared mapping only if discrepancies are
found.

In `@src/types.ts`:
- Around line 1807-1812: Protect prototype-bearing lookups with own-property
checks across src/types.ts lines 1807-1812, src/providers/fastwire.ts lines
93-103, and src/providers/fastwire.ts lines 105-125. In
captureWireAdapterHardPins, ensure providerName cannot resolve an inherited
value before iterating; in the defaults lookup, validate the normalized model
key before dereferencing declared.inbound; and in the authority lookup, guard
hardPins and modelAdapters while accepting hard pins only when they are strings.
Preserve exact-key semantics and do not add model-ID normalization.

In `@tests/fastwire-policy.test.ts`:
- Around line 192-204: Add a test alongside the existing incompatible hard-pin
case that sets fastWireDeclaration to null, applies the same hard pin, and
asserts resolveFastPolicy returns eligibility "wire-unavailable" rather than
"pin-unavailable".

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In `@src/server/responses/core.ts`:
- Around line 1188-1216: Update applyServiceTierGate so dropping a foreign
caller tier removes only the foreign raw tier when options.tierDecision.kind is
"set"; preserve options.serviceTier in that case so the forced Fast tier remains
available. Keep the existing clearing behavior for decisions that do not set a
replacement tier.

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All eight findings are addressed in 330350d7c (plus the dev merges since). Per-finding disposition, including the two I resolved differently than proposed:

Fixed as reported

• captureFastPolicyAuthority cached mutable providers — real, and the comment above it already promised the opposite. The WeakMap now keys on frozen providers only, on both the write and read sides. One consequence worth naming: the catalog path relies on that cache to keep its "capture before the flight, never re-read the registry mid-flight" guarantee, so recursivelyFreeze moved ahead of the capture call there. tests/codex-gather-authority.test.ts still passes, which is what enforces that guarantee.
• Behavior resolver version — bumped to 2. This is the better fix than what the unit originally did (treat the digest change as merely intentional): without the bump, new fingerprints are silently incomparable to recorded ones. No test or doc pinned the old value; the separate protocol resolver version is untouched.
• Prototype-bearing lookups — hard pins, modelAdapters, and registryWireDefaults now use own-property guards in the repo's existing Object.hasOwn style, and a hard pin additionally requires a string value. Provider names and model ids are operator-controlled, so this was reachable.
• Three copies of the FastWire clone — collapsed into one exported helper; the authority path takes a frozen snapshot while registry inheritance keeps a mutable detached clone.
• Unreachable force-default condition — removed; fastIntent already implies it. The defensive delete in the unclassified branch stays, since the function accepts externally-constructed contexts.
• Hard-pin + null declaration test — added, asserting wire-unavailable rather than pin-unavailable.

Resolved with a narrower scope than proposed

• Write path vs load path — this was the most valuable finding: an operator whose config predates a registry gaining capability could load fine but never save again. Rather than making the load path strict, validateConfigCandidate now stops rejecting inherited conflicts, matching loadConfig's warn-and-preserve contract (and the reason recorded in its comment). Direct contradictions within one provider row — the thing the author actually wrote — remain schema errors via providerConfigSchema, so the original intent is kept where it belongs.
• Duplicate Chat eligibility rule — converged minimally (delegation, not a rewrite) on purpose: the stacked B1 unit (feat(fastwire): B1 — separate Fast capability from caller-tier forwarding (#1886) #1965) retires legacyChatEligibility entirely and replaces this path with the capability/CallerTierForward split, so a structural rewrite here would have been thrown away one PR later. In the merged stack the delegation is gone and the duplication is resolved by construction.

Local full-suite at the fixed head: 13,059 pass / 10 skip / 1 fail — the one failure is the pre-existing dev-side tests/key-login-live-update.test.ts regression that reproduces on pristine upstream/dev.

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src/lab/subject/behavior-fingerprint.ts (1)

8-8: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add resolver-version fingerprint coverage.

FastWire kind and value changes are covered in tests/fastwire-observability.test.ts:414-449. Add a fixed-fixture assertion that locks resolverVersion: 2 in src/lab/subject/behavior-fingerprint.ts:75.

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In `@src/lab/subject/behavior-fingerprint.ts` at line 8, Add resolver-version
fingerprint coverage in the behavior fingerprint fixture around the existing
fast-wire fields: include resolverVersion and add a fixed-fixture assertion that
expects resolverVersion to remain 2. Preserve the existing fingerprint fields
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