feat(python): add native host driver

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What

Adds a small switchyard.libsy.drive(...) entry point for Python hosts. It runs the existing Rust routing driver and gives the host one callback for each model call. The outcome carries the served model and host receipt, and native streams are cleaned up safely.

Why this is useful

This helps when a Python integration already owns the provider client, retries, deadlines, and accounting, but still wants Switchyard to own routing and concurrency. Without this entry point, each integration has to repeat the same run_stream loop and carefully manage cancellation and stream cleanup.

The provider adapter belongs to the host application. It wraps whatever client the application already uses and returns a normalized Switchyard response:

from switchyard.libsy import LlmResponse, drive

# The host supplies this adapter around its existing model client.
async def provider(request, *, model):
    raw = await my_client.complete(request, model=model)
    return LlmResponse.Agg(raw)

async def serve(call):
    response = await provider(call.request, model=call.models[0])
    call.respond(response, served_model=call.models[0], source_id="provider-receipt")

outcome = await drive(algorithm, request, serve)

This is most helpful for embedded Python services and adapters that need to keep their existing provider behavior. Route-only outcomes still work as before, and accepted responses are available on outcome.response with their source fields.

Notes for reviewers

Existing run_stream callers remain supported. The main pieces are switchyard_rust/libsy.py and crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs. The focused binding tests cover routing, response source tracking, callback failures, cancellation, and native stream cleanup.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added drive() for running algorithms with host callbacks, cancellation, and optional headers.
  • Added support for streamed responses with improved lifecycle and cleanup handling.
  • Routing outcomes now include optional served-model and source metadata.
  • Added cancellation handling for pending stream operations and callback-driven runs.
  • Exposed drive through the public library interface.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved error propagation and validation when callbacks fail or model calls remain incomplete.
  • Ensured streamed responses remain available after callback cleanup.

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Walkthrough

The change adds drive() for callback-driven native execution, centralizes Python request conversion, preserves response-source metadata, and adds owned stream lifecycle management. Tests cover routing, callback errors, cancellation, cleanup, and streamed response retention.

Changes

Python-hosted execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Response contracts and metadata crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs, switchyard_rust/libsy.py	Responses and routing outcomes now expose served-model and source identifiers. ModelCall.respond() validates and propagates this metadata.
Stream ownership and closure crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs, switchyard_rust/libsy.py	Input and response streams retain Python objects, cancel pending reads, and support explicit closure.
Callback-driven execution crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs, switchyard_rust/libsy.py, switchyard/libsy/__init__.py	The native _drive binding and public drive() API connect host callbacks to native runs and preserve distinct error and cancellation paths.
Execution and cleanup validation tests/test_libsy_minimal_bindings.py	Tests cover routing stages, metadata, callback failures, incomplete calls, cancellation cleanup, and retained streamed responses.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 50e42

This change adds callback-driven Python execution with response metadata and stream cleanup. The supplied tests cover the principal success and failure paths, and no concrete merge-blocking behavior issue is established.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs (1)

408-410: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add comments for the new stream-lifecycle items.

Three new items carry non-obvious behavior and no comment.

• PythonStreamGuard (Lines 408-416): state that dropping the guard calls the Python _release method, which marks the wrapper released so the host closes it.
• _is_completed (Lines 565-567): state that it reports whether the call was already fulfilled, and that the Python driver uses it to detect a callback that returned without responding.
• aclose (Line 699): state that it stops iteration, drops the native stream, and then closes released host streams. Also state that repeated calls are safe.

The same rule applies to the new private helpers request_from_python, step_to_python, outcome_to_python, and response_to_python.

As per coding guidelines: "For Rust changes, add concise comments for module/file intent, public structs/enums, public methods, private helpers with non-obvious behavior" and "Add docstrings for public functions, classes, methods, and API entry points."

Also applies to: 565-567, 699-699

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In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs` around lines 408 - 410, Add
concise comments documenting the non-obvious lifecycle behavior of
PythonStreamGuard and its Drop implementation, _is_completed, and aclose:
explain release-on-drop, completion detection for callbacks without responses,
and aclose’s stop/drop/host-close sequence plus idempotence. Also document the
private helpers request_from_python, step_to_python, outcome_to_python, and
response_to_python according to the Rust documentation guidelines.

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In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs`:
- Around line 408-410: Add concise comments documenting the non-obvious
lifecycle behavior of PythonStreamGuard and its Drop implementation,
_is_completed, and aclose: explain release-on-drop, completion detection for
callbacks without responses, and aclose’s stop/drop/host-close sequence plus
idempotence. Also document the private helpers request_from_python,
step_to_python, outcome_to_python, and response_to_python according to the Rust
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