feat: add pi and Oh My Pi support for switchyard-server

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What

Let pi (0.84.3) and Oh My Pi (omp, 18.1.21) send their model calls through switchyard-server. Three commits:

1. Each GET /v1/models entry now reports the route's declared context_window as a top-level context_length field (null when the route declares none) instead of under capabilities.context_window. OpenAI-compatible clients read context_length when they build a model list from this endpoint; omp's discovery does, and so do clients that follow OpenRouter's format. This change removes capabilities.context_window, which the server has published since 0.2.0. Nothing in this repo read it. capabilities.tool_calling and capabilities.vision are unchanged.
2. New pages docs/integrations/pi.md and docs/integrations/oh_my_pi.md give the models.json and models.yml entries, explain what each field does, show how to check the routing, and say which request API to use. README step 5 and the docs index link to them.
3. benchmark/run-baseline.sh --agent pi runs Terminal-Bench tasks with pi. Harbor 0.6.4 ships a pi agent, but that agent installs pi from the old npm package @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent and cannot point pi at a proxy, because pi does not read OPENAI_BASE_URL. The Harbor patch adds a pi.py hunk that does three things: it skips the install when the image already has pi, it installs the @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package, and, for the model label switchyard/<route>, it writes a ~/.pi/agent/models.json with a switchyard provider whose baseUrl is OPENAI_BASE_URL. The agent environment variables PI_CONTEXT_WINDOW and PI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS, passed through the existing --harbor-extra --ae option, set contextWindow and maxTokens on that entry. run-baseline.sh pins PI_VERSION=0.84.3 and passes --reasoning-effort to pi as --thinking. prepare_harbor_dataset.py installs pi in the prebaked task images.

Claude Code and Codex setup and the three request endpoints are unchanged. Harbor has no Oh My Pi agent, so the benchmark change covers pi only.

Why

Both agents need a provider entry rather than an environment variable. Two details decide whether routing works as expected:

• pi must not use the Anthropic Messages API through Switchyard. Switchyard returns the served target's id in the response model field, and pi's Anthropic client stores that id on the assistant message (anthropic-messages.js:393). When the router picks another target on the next turn, pi treats the change as a model switch: it drops thinking signatures and turns off overflow compaction. pi's OpenAI clients keep the local id switchyard. Observed: pi stored azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 on the Anthropic API and switchyard on Chat Completions and Responses. omp kept switchyard on both APIs I ran.
• Session ids. With compat.sendSessionAffinityHeaders: true and sessionAffinityFormat: "openrouter", pi sends an x-session-id header, which Switchyard reads as the session id. omp sends X-Claude-Code-Session-Id on the Anthropic API and no session header on the OpenAI APIs for a custom provider. The two pages list which routes depend on the session id.

Notes for reviewers

I ran both agents live against this branch. The server had a stage_router route switchyard with context_window = 200000 and the targets azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 and claude-opus-4-8 behind an openai_chat client. Each agent ran ls through its bash tool and reported the file names.

pi on Chat Completions. The --routing-log-file records below carry the session id from pi's x-session-id header:

{"route_id":"switchyard","algorithm":"stage_router","model":"azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5","session_id":"01a0caac-e421-7328-adaf-79d3440c0406","prompt_tokens":2659,"completion_tokens":97}
{"route_id":"switchyard","algorithm":"stage_router","model":"azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5","session_id":"01a0caac-e421-7328-adaf-79d3440c0406","prompt_tokens":2723,"completion_tokens":41}

omp on Chat Completions with auth: none. omp's input, cacheWrite, and cacheRead token counts matched the server's /v1/stats counters (21433 written, then 21017 read):

{"route_id":"switchyard","model":"azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5","session_id":null,"prompt_tokens":21443,"completion_tokens":133}

omp discovery with discovery.type: openai-models-list, after the server change:

$ omp models find switchyard
│ switchyard           │    200K │     33K │ -        │ no     │
│ switchyard-efficient │    128K │     33K │ -        │ no     │

Benchmark: the updated Harbor patch applies to a pristine Harbor v0.6.4 clone (331dcba, the commit that uv.lock pins) with both patch --fuzz=0 and git apply --check. A dry run of the patched agent with --model switchyard/tb-lite-random-routing writes the expected models.json and runs pi --print --mode json --no-session --provider switchyard --model tb-lite-random-routing --thinking high. I have not run a full Terminal-Bench job with pi yet.

The three touched Python files also drop their unneeded from __future__ import annotations lines and keyword-only * markers. Every call site already passes those parameters by keyword.

Written with Claude Code; I ran the commands above myself.

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Changes

The pull request adds pi and Oh My Pi integration. It pins and prebakes pi, adds benchmark execution options, extends Harbor agent patches, exposes route context limits through /v1/models, and adds integration documentation.

Pi and Switchyard integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Model capability metadata crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs, crates/switchyard-server/tests/server.rs, crates/switchyard-server/README.md, docs/core_concepts.md	Model listings now expose declared context_window values as top-level context_length. Tests cover declared, restricted, and undeclared routes.
Pi agent image preparation benchmark/agent-versions.env, benchmark/prepare_harbor_dataset.py, tests/test_prepare_harbor_dataset.py	The image build installs and verifies pi 0.84.3, records its version, and updates pin-related fixtures and assertions.
Pi benchmark execution benchmark/run-baseline.sh, benchmark/README.md, tests/test_run_baseline_script.py, benchmark/DATASETS.md	The runner adds pi defaults, Switchyard model labels, context and output-token options, validation, thinking forwarding, and manifest metadata.
Harbor agent patch updates benchmark/patches/harbor-agent-patches.diff	Agent installation reuse, fallbacks, endpoint configuration, Pi provider generation, output truncation, trial naming, and patch version updates are included.
Pi and Oh My Pi documentation README.md, docs/index.md, docs/integrations/pi.md, docs/integrations/oh_my_pi.md, mkdocs.yml	The documentation adds setup, provider configuration, request API, routing verification, session behavior, model discovery, and benchmark guidance.

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Document the expanded prepare_dataset contract.

prepare_dataset is a public function without a docstring. It now requires the PI_VERSION pin and raises ValueError when that pin is missing. Add a concise docstring that documents the required pin input and error behavior.

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+    """Prepare a Harbor dataset and require all configured package pins.
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+        ValueError: If a required package pin, including ``PI_VERSION``, is missing.
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Before-and-after runs for the two code changes in this PR, with the same config on the same machine.

1. GET /v1/models context_length (Oh My Pi discovery)

Config: three routes. switchyard declares context_window = 200000, switchyard-small declares context_window = 32000, and switchyard-efficient declares no context window. omp 18.1.21 has a provider that points at the server with discovery.type: openai-models-list and no hand-written model list.

Before, on origin/main (699c7c0a0): the server does not report the context window in context_length, the field omp reads, so omp gives every route its 128K default. switchyard-small really has a 32K window, so omp would send it prompts of up to 128K tokens.

$ curl -s localhost:4321/v1/models | jq '.data[] | select(.id=="switchyard-small") | {id, context_length, cw: .capabilities.context_window}'
{"id":"switchyard-small","context_length":null,"cw":32000}

$ omp models find switchyard
│ switchyard           │    128K │     33K │
│ switchyard-efficient │    128K │     33K │
│ switchyard-small     │    128K │     33K │

After, on this branch: each route gets its declared window, and the route without one keeps the 128K default.

$ curl -s localhost:4321/v1/models | jq '.data[] | select(.id=="switchyard-small") | {id, context_length, cw: .capabilities.context_window}'
{"id":"switchyard-small","context_length":32000,"cw":32000}

$ omp models find switchyard
│ switchyard           │    200K │     33K │
│ switchyard-efficient │    128K │     33K │
│ switchyard-small     │     32K │     32K │

Then I ran one task through the discovered route with omp -p --model switchyard/switchyard-small "Use the bash tool to run ls ...". omp called its bash tool, read the result, and answered. The routing log shows that both model calls went through the route:

{"route_id":"switchyard-small","model":"azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5","prompt_tokens":21419,"completion_tokens":92}
{"route_id":"switchyard-small","model":"azure/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5","prompt_tokens":21586,"completion_tokens":44}

2. Harbor --agent pi (benchmark patch)

I ran Harbor 0.6.4's Pi.run() for the label switchyard/tb-lite-random-routing with OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://switchyard:4000/v1 in the agent environment. I ran it once with the pristine pi.py and once with the patched pi.py, and recorded the shell commands instead of executing them.

Before: the agent rejects the label with a ValueError, so run-baseline.sh --agent pi --model <route> cannot start.

run() raised ValueError: Unknown provider 'switchyard'. If you believe this provider should be supported, please contact the maintainers.

After: the agent writes ~/.pi/agent/models.json and runs pi against the route.

mkdir -p "$HOME/.pi/agent" && echo '{"providers": {"switchyard": {"baseUrl": "http://switchyard:4000/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "$OPENAI_API_KEY", "compat": {"supportsDeveloperRole": false}, "models": [{"id": "tb-lite-random-routing", "name": "tb-lite-random-routing (Switchyard)", "reasoning": true, "contextWindow": 200000, "maxTokens": 32000}]}}}' > "$HOME/.pi/agent/models.json"
[ -s "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"; pi --print --mode json --no-session --provider switchyard --model tb-lite-random-routing 'do the task' 2>&1 </dev/null | stdbuf -oL tee /logs/agent/pi.txt

The full patch applies to a pristine Harbor v0.6.4 checkout (331dcba) with both patch --fuzz=0 and git apply --check. I have not yet run a full Terminal-Bench job with pi.