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run_standalone_non_stream already resolves the serving provider, the settled cost, and (when a routing policy fired) how many earlier candidates it fell over before this one, but none of it reaches the caller today: only Otari-Request-ID exists. This adds Otari-Backend, Otari-Response-Cost, and Otari-Attempted-Fallbacks to the standalone-mode non-streaming response, right next to the rate-limit headers that are already set there.

Otari-Attempted-Fallbacks is always present (0 when no policy routed the request, since that's a true, known answer, not an unknown one). Otari-Backend is present unless the caller named an alias, which hides its target (a policy does not hide its candidates). Otari-Response-Cost carries the same string as usage.cost_usd, under the same rule, so an unpriced request carries none. An idempotent replay repeats all three. Documented in docs/api-reference.md.

Scoped down from the full issue on purpose: hybrid/platform-mode headers and the streaming path are a different code path with different settlement timing, and the attempted-retries header has no data behind it yet (_platform.py's 5xx retry predicate doesn't record anything queryable, per your own comment on this issue). All three are left for follow-up PRs rather than guessed at here.

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uv run pytest tests/unit/test_pipeline_settlement.py -v
make lint && make typecheck

Three new tests in test_pipeline_settlement.py, next to the existing test_standalone_non_stream_applies_rate_limit_headers: the three headers on a normal call, the cost header absent when nothing settled, and the fallback count read from RoutingAttribution.position.

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Refs #401

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Standalone non-streaming responses now include backend, attempted-fallback, and settled-cost information in response headers. Cost values preserve exact Decimal precision.

Unit tests cover backend identity, unsettled costs, and fallback counts.

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The standalone non-streaming route now sets backend, attempted-fallback, and exact settled-cost response headers. Unit tests cover populated headers, omitted cost, and fallback attribution.

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Response header generation
src/gateway/api/routes/_pipeline.py
The route sets x-otari-backend and x-otari-attempted-fallbacks. When a cost settles, it sets x-otari-response-cost from the exact Decimal string.
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tests/unit/test_pipeline_settlement.py
The test helpers accept compiled routing plans. Tests verify backend, cost, omitted cost, and fallback-count headers.

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This has been sitting a week with CI green and no review yet. Anything blocking it, or should I look at splitting it differently?

run_standalone_non_stream already resolves the serving provider, the
settled cost, and (when a routing policy fired) how many earlier
candidates it fell over before this one, but none of it reached the
caller: only X-Otari-Request-ID and X-Correlation-ID exist today.

Add x-otari-backend, x-otari-response-cost, and x-otari-attempted-fallbacks
to the standalone non-streaming response, right where rate-limit headers
are already set. Backend and fallback-count are always known (0 fallbacks
when no policy routed the request); the cost header is set only when
log_usage actually settled one.

Scoped to standalone-mode, non-streaming: hybrid/platform-mode headers,
the streaming path, and attempted-retries (no retry counter exists
anywhere in the codebase yet) are left for follow-up PRs.

Refs mozilla-ai#401
str(as_float(actual_cost)) narrows through a float before serializing to
the header, which can round large valid costs. Serialize the settled
Decimal directly.
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AGENTS.md requires Otari-defined headers to skip the X- prefix per RFC
6648; these are our own new headers with nothing external depending on
the old names yet, so renaming is the whole fix.
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# Conflicts:
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…t, and replay them

Name the three headers Otari-Backend, Otari-Attempted-Fallbacks and
Otari-Response-Cost, as constants beside Otari-Request-ID. The cost header
now carries the same six-decimal string as usage.cost_usd under the same
rule, so an unpriced estimate no longer shows up as a cost. An alias hides
its target, so Otari-Backend is withheld behind one; a routing policy does
not hide its candidates and still names the backend. An idempotent replay
repeats all three, since they describe the request. Documented in
docs/api-reference.md.

Refs mozilla-ai#401
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PR Walkthrough — what this change does, how it works, and what it influences

Complexity: normal — Diff touches five source files across config, pipeline, idempotency, docs and tests, adding conditional header logic and new test paths.

What this change does

The change adds three response headers (Otari-Backend, Otari-Attempted-Fallbacks, Otari-Response-Cost) to non-streaming responses produced by run_standalone_non_stream in standalone mode. Constants for the headers are defined in config.py and added to the _REPLAYED_HEADERS tuple. In _pipeline.py the headers are populated after the provider call using provider identity, attribution.position, and standalone_settlement cost_usd when conditions are met. Documentation is extended in api-reference.md, idempotency replay tests and settlement unit tests are updated to cover the new headers.

How it works

  1. Define BACKEND_HEADER, ATTEMPTED_FALLBACKS_HEADER and RESPONSE_COST_HEADER constants next to existing Otari-* headers.
  2. After the provider call in the non-stream path, conditionally write BACKEND_HEADER when a provider exists and no alias hides it, write ATTEMPTED_FALLBACKS_HEADER as attribution.position-1 or 0, and write RESPONSE_COST_HEADER from settlement.cost_usd when present.
  3. Append the three header names to _REPLAYED_HEADERS so idempotent replays copy them.
  4. Update docs/api-reference.md to describe the three headers and their visibility rules.
  5. Extend existing test helpers (_ctx, _run_standalone) with plan and display_model parameters and add four new test functions that assert header presence, absence, and values.

Where it sits

Entry points: run_standalone_non_stream called from chat/completions, messages and responses routes
Changed here: gateway.core.config (header constants) · gateway.api.routes._pipeline (header emission after settlement) · gateway.api.routes._idempotency (replay list)
Feeds into: idempotency replay path · clients or proxies reading Otari-* response headers

What this influences

  • Otari-Request-ID and rate-limit headers already set in the same response
  • usage.cost_usd field in the JSON body
  • RoutingAttribution.position and alias display_model logic
  • standalone_settlement helper

File by file

  • src/gateway/api/routes/_pipeline.py — Adds the three header writes after rate-limit headers using provider, attribution and settlement objects.
  • src/gateway/core/config.py — Introduces the three Otari-* header name constants with comments describing their rules.
  • src/gateway/api/routes/_idempotency.py — Extends _REPLAYED_HEADERS tuple to include the three new headers.
  • docs/api-reference.md — Documents the three headers, their conditions for presence, and notes that streaming and hybrid paths do not emit them.
  • tests/unit/test_pipeline_settlement.py — Adds four test cases exercising backend, fallback count, cost presence/absence and alias withholding.
  • tests/integration/test_idempotency_keys.py — Asserts that the three headers are replayed identically on idempotent requests.

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Thanks for this, @AmirF194, and sorry it sat so long without a review. The scoping was careful, and the tests read well.

We're closing it along with #401. Since you opened it, the gateway has started returning cost in the response body (usage.cost_usd, streamed or not) and saving routing attempts on usage rows, so these headers would repeat the same data without a client that needs them. For the record, I had merged main into the branch and fixed a few things it would have needed: Otari-* capitalization, the cost header matching usage.cost_usd, the backend name withheld behind an alias, and the headers repeated on an idempotent retry. If a header-only client does turn up, that branch is a good starting point.

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