feat(llm): add opt-in direct provider SDK transports

[furgalep]

Summary

Resurrects #337 as a selective, explicit opt-in SDK transport on main 03f51e33, replacing the former broad transport/tracing refactor.

• LiteLLM remains the default. Existing registry entries and constructors continue through LiteLLM unless explicitly configured with the strict boolean direct: true / direct=True. No environment transport selector; saved Connect transport / api_style metadata does not enable direct mode.
• Both CompletionClient(..., direct=True) and ResponsesClient(..., direct=True) support official SDK dispatch. Registry settings and explicit overrides share the construction path.
• OpenAI SDK handles Chat Completions, Responses and explicit compatible endpoints. Anthropic SDK handles native anthropic/ Messages routes. Unsupported native protocols fail rather than falling back.
• Current shared request preparation, immutable replay, token APIs/calibration, reasoning settings and default tracing are retained. SDK retries are disabled; NOOA owns retry policy, including native Messages overload 529 and main's HTTP408 behavior.
• Preserves current cache fixes: fix(llm): stabilize wire shape under explicit cache marking #404 stable wire shapes/endpoint-sensitive reasoning, fix(llm): retain historical Responses cache breakpoints #410 latest80 eligible Responses checkpoints, Send prompt_cache_key as the x-session-affinity header #411 session affinity, and Keep the cell-context stub stable across library re-imports #415 stable cell-context imports. Adds actual SDK HTTP regressions for tool cache markers/TTL, signed replay, growing prefixes, structured output/settings, sync/async and header override semantics.

Documentation: direct-provider-sdks.md.

Explicit opt-in

from nooa.unifiedllm import CompletionClient, ResponsesClient

legacy = CompletionClient("openai/gpt-4o-mini")  # LiteLLM, unchanged default
chat = CompletionClient("openai/gpt-4o-mini", direct=True)
responses = ResponsesClient("openai/gpt-5", direct=True)
messages = CompletionClient("anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5", direct=True, max_tokens=4096)

models:
  sdk-model:
    model_name: openai/gpt-5
    client_type: responses
    direct: true

get_llm_client("sdk-model", direct=False) explicitly restores LiteLLM.

Verification

Against the published source tree (tree SHA verified equal to the tested local checkout):

• Full default offline suite: 9,877 passed, 7 skipped, 334 deselected, 3 xfailed.
• Direct SDK suite: 557 passed, using real OpenAI 2.44.0 / Anthropic 0.122.0 serializers with mocked HTTP and no-network guards.
• Focused Ruff lint and formatting checks, uv lock --check, SPDX checks and git diff --check: passed.
• Changed-source Pyright comparison before the latest main merge: no introduced diagnostics; existing 11 baseline diagnostics remain. This is not a claim of a clean whole-project type check.
• No paid inference or live provider cache-hit validation performed. HTTP request equivalence establishes serialization behavior, not actual cache hits.

Known limitations / follow-up

Ready for review at the author's request. Live endpoint acceptance and cache-hit validation remain outstanding; the offline results do not establish cache hits.

• Direct requests do not emit LiteLLM provider spans or request/response journals, or estimate provider cost. Outer agent tracing and existing usage/calibration remain. Default LiteLLM telemetry is unchanged.
• Native Anthropic replies use the existing grouped Chat representation: signed thinking survives, but original cross-kind block ordering, separate text boundaries/citations and tool-use extensions do not. Documentation and characterization tests make this limitation explicit; full native block fidelity is not claimed.
• Gemini-compatible tool signatures require the explicit gemini/ protocol prefix and a trusted compatible endpoint. This is not native Gemini/Vertex SDK support.
• Streaming, server-managed Anthropic continuations and unsupported native provider protocols remain out of scope. Direct requests require final nonredirecting endpoints.

The former head 7e8968f is preserved at backup/pr337-before-resurrection-20261002. This replaces that implementation, not the upper PR stack; dependent PRs will need separate reconciliation.

Connect transport selection

nooa connect defaults to official SDKs and persists direct: true. Use nooa connect --litellm for the LiteLLM path and direct: false. This applies to wizard setup/edits and staged inference. Ordinary client/registry defaults remain LiteLLM. Staged save preserves the checked input path; switching tested input requires fresh checks. Transport changes invalidate stale probe/session certification.

Connect/CLI focused suite: 599 passed; full default offline suite: 9,877 passed. Lint/format/whitespace checks passed. Changed-source type comparison adds no diagnostics (38 pre-existing Connect baseline diagnostics remain). The final exception-metadata-only adjustment was verified with the 599-test focused suite.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added opt-in routing through the official OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs for supported request types. LiteLLM remains the default for regular clients; nooa connect uses direct SDK routing by default, with --litellm available to select LiteLLM.
  • Connection checks now record which transport they used and include captured request evidence. Saved transport choices are preserved, and checks are not reused when the selected transport differs.
• Documentation
  • Added a guide to direct SDK routing and updated connection documentation to explain transport selection, compatibility, and limitations.

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Walkthrough

The change adds direct OpenAI and Anthropic SDK dispatch alongside LiteLLM, with direct routing enabled explicitly for library clients and by default in Connect. Connect records the selected transport, captures probe evidence, and filters evidence when transport changes.

Changes

Direct SDK routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SDK transport and request adapters src/nooa/unifiedllm/direct.py, src/nooa/unifiedllm/errors.py, pyproject.toml	Adds synchronous and asynchronous SDK requests for Chat, Responses, and Anthropic Messages. The transport validates and translates requests, normalizes supported responses, manages HTTP pools, and reports unsupported Anthropic stop reasons. Adds OpenAI and Anthropic SDK dependencies.
Client dispatch, replay, and SDK verification src/nooa/unifiedllm/unifiedllm.py, src/nooa/unifiedllm/registry.py, src/nooa/unifiedllm/replay_state.py, src/nooa/unifiedllm/reasoning.py, tests/unifiedllm/test_direct_*.py, tests/unifiedllm/test_direct_history.py, docs/direct-provider-sdks.md, docs/README.md	Adds the constructor-only direct option to clients and registry configuration. Direct calls use SDK dispatch and direct-mode replay validation; the SDK and history tests cover request serialization, validation, retries, and replay behavior. The guide documents routing configuration and supported request behavior.
Routing and Connect documentation docs/model-connect.md	Updates documented defaults, transport selection, probe reuse, evidence, and observability for Connect.
Connect transport provenance and probe evidence src/nooa/unifiedllm/connect/*, tests/unifiedllm/connect/*	Connect plans and checks carry a direct or LiteLLM selection. Probe and session records include transport-related evidence, and transport changes invalidate mismatched evidence. Tests cover transport persistence, probe behavior, and invalidation.
Connect CLI and wizard transport selection packages/nooa-cli/src/nooa_cli/commands/*connect*, packages/nooa-cli/tests/test_connect_*.py	Adds --litellm and passes the selection through stages and the wizard. Edited entries store the selected transport, while saves reject transport changes when existing evidence would be relabeled. CLI tests exercise both transports.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client as UnifiedLLM client
  participant Transport as DirectTransport
  participant SDK as Provider SDK
  participant Endpoint as Provider endpoint
  Client->>Transport: Send prepared request
  Transport->>SDK: Build translated SDK request
  SDK->>Endpoint: Send HTTP request
  Endpoint-->>SDK: Return provider response
  SDK-->>Transport: Return SDK response
  Transport-->>Client: Return normalized response

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bb058

Copyable diagnostic prompts from failed Connect wizard runs do not state whether the official SDK or LiteLLM was used, which makes troubleshooting harder. The fix is a small allow-list update. No other merge-blocking issues were established, though live provider acceptance of SDK requests has not been validated.

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Added a full Anthropic summarizer-fork wire regression in 1547c68e.

The test invokes the installed budget summarizer through the real middleware chain with both transports. It covers adaptive thinking and high effort, a captured assistant turn containing signed thinking and a tool call, its tool result, the stable cache boundary and changing context, and the actual appended compaction instruction. Eight cases cover implicit/explicit automatic tool choice, system/history cache markers, and plain-text/return_result summary replies. Tool replies are read as data and never executed.

Every parsed request field and value matches across transports. Raw HTTP bytes are not identical: the SDKs serialize JSON object keys in different orders. The comparison does not reorder arrays, discard fields, or normalize text/signatures.

Validation: 307 tests passed, 2 skipped across agent, direct-transport, history-contract and tracing-boundary suites; ruff clean. No production code changed and no live calls were made for this change. This closes the tested request-body parity gap; it does not by itself establish live summary quality or explain a prior missing-facts outcome.

[furgalep]

Addressed the integrated review at 91df8f98, keeping the existing client/transport boundaries rather than adding another routing framework. This remains a draft pending fresh review and live evidence.

Findings	Change / qualification
1, 7	Shared Anthropic route policy for cache markers and dummy tools. api_style: chat does not suppress markers for Anthropic behind a gateway; bare native Messages models get the same tool-history rule.
2	Replacing a registry route clears inherited format/replay metadata and context-window attachment as well as reasoning choices. Transport remains explicit. Cross-format per-call model switches reject before dispatch and request a new client.
3, 4	Unrecognized slash routes require an explicit endpoint rather than defaulting to OpenAI. Native Azure is explicitly unsupported and rejected, not emulated with the wrong SDK. Compatible gateways retain the explicit openai/<wire-model> route.
5	The existing emergency local path can run without the private alias wheel, with a warning and a missing-evidence note in its draft. Supplying the wheel runs the provider gate. CI still mandates the private wheel and provider gate. No new skip flag.
6	Playground converts captured Anthropic thinking/tool blocks to portable LLMResponse parts. It retains readable text, not journal/redacted signatures. The core raw-native-history guard stays intact.
8	Explicit registry context_window already worked; the actual defect was the fallback metadata shape. Both transports now share the existing model-info fallback.
9, 10	Unknown legacy resolution no longer fails in the readable-history helper. Unsupported native Bedrock/Vertex opaque scopes are disabled; readable reasoning uses portable projection rather than being silently stripped.
11	Temporary legacy overrides allocate only the sync or async resources used. The shielded provider operation owns async cleanup, so caller cancellation cannot close an in-flight pool.
12–14	Reject empty Anthropic conversation turns explicitly. Treat num_retries=None and an empty transport environment variable as unset.
15–18	Omit unknown cost from spans (preserve explicitly reported zero); exclude Gemini history from invocation parameters; expose thinking blocks to the empty-reply check; visibly label and warn when an adapter bypasses wire capture. Arbitrary LiteLLM adapters still do not have guaranteed wire capture—we do not manufacture request evidence.
19, 20	Replace the exact OpenAI requirement with >=2.44.0,<3 and retain the tested lock version; correct SDK license notices and remove the obsolete instrumentor notice. No optional-dependency framework added.
21–23	Isolate offline matrices from ambient soak overrides while retaining live fail-fast guards. Test gate startup behavior rather than a fixture's stubbed value. Exercise request guards through actual dispatch, not just the body builder.

Regression evidence: the initial focused runs reproduced the routing/cache/default failures, then the cancellation, reasoning-only, telemetry, and Playground failures. The fixed focused runs pass.

Final broad offline selection: 2,552 passed, 2 skipped, 7 deselected. The two skips are optional Slack-dependent agent imports; live checks are not claimed.

LITELLM_LOCAL_MODEL_COST_MAP=True PYTHONPATH=src:packages/nooa-cli/src:. \
UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=/tmp/nooa-release-provider-venv \
uv run --no-sync --with anthropic --with openai==2.44.0 --with prompt-toolkit --with msgpack pytest \
  tests/unifiedllm tests/tracing tests/viewer tests/trace_explorer \
  tests/test_make_release.py tests/agents tests/integration/test_gate_probe_contract.py -q --tb=short

An additional run with ambient NOOA_LLM_TRANSPORT=direct passed 139 direct/legacy, review-regression, trace-export and release-gate contract tests. Ruff and git diff --check pass.

Connect's requested transport: direct default is unchanged. No claim that prior live approvals cover this revision. Fresh offline review and bounded live verification are next.

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Simplification follow-up: 30d17b95 (on top of 91df8f98).

This is a small ownership refactor, not another transport abstraction: net 51 fewer production lines, no new public settings or dependencies.

• One shielded task owns legacy async dispatch, response collection, and temporary-pool cleanup. Removed the nested cancellation helper and the separate normal-call collection path.
• HTTP pools are the sole resource owners. Removed the SDK-wrapper cleanup list and duplicate closes; the wrappers borrow the same pools.
• Removed unused pool-constructor arguments, duplicate replay-vendor validation, and direct transport's dummy legacy-client attributes. Responses explicitly attaches legacy wrappers only on the legacy path.
• Kept route resolution stateless and all existing route/cache guards intact; no route cache or new routing layer.
• Removed the remaining obsolete openinference-instrumentation-litellm notice.

Test-first evidence: new tests reproduced double-closing of OpenAI pools and interrupted response collection on normal-call cancellation. Both now pass. The existing provider-handoff cancellation regression is exercised through dispatch rather than the removed helper. Removing dummy attributes also exposed a Connect test that claimed to exercise legacy fallback while selecting direct; it now explicitly selects and asserts LiteLLM.

Verification (offline, from this checkout):

LITELLM_LOCAL_MODEL_COST_MAP=True \
PYTHONPATH=src:packages/nooa-cli/src:. \
UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=/tmp/nooa-release-provider-venv \
uv run --no-sync --with anthropic --with openai==2.44.0 --with prompt-toolkit --with msgpack pytest \
  tests/unifiedllm tests/tracing tests/viewer tests/trace_explorer \
  tests/test_make_release.py tests/agents tests/integration/test_gate_probe_contract.py -q --tb=short
# 2555 passed, 2 skipped, 7 deselected

NOOA_LLM_TRANSPORT=direct LITELLM_LOCAL_MODEL_COST_MAP=True \
PYTHONPATH=src:packages/nooa-cli/src:. \
UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=/tmp/nooa-release-provider-venv \
uv run --no-sync --with anthropic --with openai==2.44.0 pytest \
  tests/unifiedllm/test_direct_transport.py tests/unifiedllm/test_direct_review_contracts.py \
  tests/unifiedllm/test_review_regressions.py tests/trace_explorer/test_unifiedllm_spans.py \
  tests/test_release_gate_transports.py -q --tb=short
# 139 passed

Ruff lint/format checks and git diff --check pass. No paid calls in this pass; requesting focused offline re-verification before the held live checks. PR remains draft.

[furgalep]

Implemented the three approved simplifications in 7e8968f87716c6688c129899196288a1ff520f6f, on the rebased PR head 55ad6155. Native Gemini is explicitly out of scope; no dependencies added.

1. One context-to-message conversion. Removed all four provider-formatter classes/exports, RenderConfig.provider_formatter, render_context(provider_formatter=...), and the actor's provider selector. context_blocks.formatter.to_messages preserves the old canonical conversion, including unchanged LLMResponse and CacheBoundary carriers. UnifiedLLM alone projects onto provider APIs. Updated callers and retained wire/replay/cache tests; removed tests of the deleted, unused Anthropic renderer.
2. Cached model identity, not cached request validation. DirectTransport resolves its constructor model/vendor tuple once and reuses it for the common path. A different per-call model is resolved independently without mutating the cached default. Endpoint/client guards still run on every route lookup, so cached identity cannot bypass native-Azure rejection or the explicit-endpoint requirement. Real SDK wire tests cover sync/async model, endpoint and key overrides followed by a return to the original configuration.
3. Derived wire format. Removed the public constructor and registry api_style option. ResponsesClient selects Responses; otherwise a leading anthropic/ selects native Messages and other names select Chat. openai/anthropic/... remains a Chat gateway route. Runtime and Connect use the same derivation. Connect retains its interface-selection CLI flag but saves only the model prefix and client type, removing matching old metadata. Conflicting old metadata raises an actionable migration error instead of silently changing protocols. No new routing knob replaces it.

Net production change: 151 added / 280 removed = 129 fewer lines across src/packages. CHANGELOG and model/direct configuration docs describe the public API removals and migration.

Test-first evidence: the new canonical-conversion/API-surface tests, route-cache tests, Connect saved-shape tests, removed-constructor-option tests and conflicting-metadata tests failed before their implementations and pass afterward.

Final offline verification on the rebased candidate:

LITELLM_LOCAL_MODEL_COST_MAP=True \
PYTHONPATH=src:packages/nooa-cli/src:packages/nooa-bench/src:. \
UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=/tmp/nooa-release-provider-venv \
uv run --no-sync --with anthropic --with openai==2.44.0 --with prompt-toolkit --with msgpack pytest \
  tests/unifiedllm tests/context_blocks tests/runtime src/nooa/runtime/tests \
  tests/tracing tests/viewer tests/trace_explorer tests/test_make_release.py tests/agents \
  tests/test_provider_image_rendering.py tests/test_cross_session_tool_call_visibility.py \
  tests/test_event_backend_roundtrip.py tests/integration/test_gate_probe_contract.py \
  tests/integration/test_truncation_e2e.py tests/integration/test_l4_eviction_e2e.py \
  packages/nooa-cli/tests/test_connect_entrypoint.py tests/unit/test_util_and_sqlite.py -q --tb=short
# 4410 passed, 4 skipped, 77 deselected

NOOA_LLM_TRANSPORT=direct LITELLM_LOCAL_MODEL_COST_MAP=True \
PYTHONPATH=src:packages/nooa-cli/src:. \
UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=/tmp/nooa-release-provider-venv \
uv run --no-sync --with anthropic --with openai==2.44.0 pytest \
  tests/unifiedllm/test_derived_routing.py tests/unifiedllm/test_direct_transport.py \
  tests/unifiedllm/test_direct_review_contracts.py tests/unifiedllm/test_review_regressions.py \
  tests/unifiedllm/test_history_wire_contract.py tests/trace_explorer/test_unifiedllm_spans.py \
  tests/test_release_gate_transports.py tests/context_blocks/test_canonical_messages.py -q --tb=short
# 312 passed

Changed Python files pass Ruff lint and format checks; git diff --check is clean. Live provider checks remain held pending the combined candidate's review. No new live-pass claim; PR remains draft.

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Add the new transport keys to the diagnostic_prompt run-context allow-list.

Lines 158-162 add direct and requested_transport to the run context. connect.diagnostic_prompt (src/nooa/unifiedllm/connect/__init__.py, lines 1331-1355) keeps only an allow-listed set of run-context keys. That set contains transport_override but not direct or requested_transport, so both new keys are dropped from the copyable handoff.

The transport then disappears in two wizard failure paths:

• Interface failures: _connect_wizard.check_interfaces passes an entry with only model_name, api_base and api_key_env.
• Setup failures: run_wizard passes an empty entry {}.

In both cases the diagnostic prompt does not say whether the official SDK or LiteLLM was used. Only the interface rerun command shows it, through --litellm. transport_override is now always None, so that key carries no information.

Add the new keys to the allow-list in src/nooa/unifiedllm/connect/__init__.py:

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                         "approved_budget_tokens",

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