feat(llm-client): make Responses state storage injectable

[cpakkamisaac-sae]

What

Adds the first implementation increment for #832: an injectable, asynchronous storage boundary for Responses continuation state.

• ResponseStateStore defines async load and atomic response/conversation alias storage.
• StoredResponseState carries the serving model plus optional canonical history for cross-format continuation.
• InMemoryResponseStateStore preserves the current bounded process-local behavior as the default.
• ClientRouter::with_response_state_store lets independently constructed routers use one host-provided store without changing existing constructors.
• State lookups and writes now await the configured store on buffered and completed streaming paths.
• Store lookup failures stop before routing, so an unavailable shared store cannot silently send a continuation to another provider.

Why

Responses state ownership and materialized history currently live inside each ClientRouter. A restart loses them, and replicas cannot share them. In the issue reproduction, a response ID created through provider A on one server instance reached another instance, was reclassified to provider B, and failed with state_not_found.

This PR establishes the host-injection seam while keeping current deployments unchanged. It intentionally does not select a database, add deployment TOML, or claim to complete durable multi-replica support; those remain follow-up work after the contract is reviewed.

Notes for reviewers

• Start with ResponseStateStore, StoredResponseState, and ClientRouter::with_response_state_store in crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs.
• shared_response_state_resolves_across_independent_routers covers provider-owned affinity and cross-format canonical history through two separately constructed routers.
• unavailable_response_state_store_stops_before_routing verifies that a lookup failure does not run the routing algorithm or call a model.
• Existing constructors still allocate the same bounded in-memory store and retain the existing capacity and conflict semantics.

Test plan

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test --workspace
• uv run ruff check .
• uv run pytest tests/ -q --ignore=tests/e2e/test_closed_book_proxy_integration.py — 135 passed, 2 subtests passed
• The excluded integration test requires a running Docker daemon; Docker was installed locally but its daemon was unavailable.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Responses continuation state can now be shared across client routers using a configurable state store. The default store retains continuation state in process memory with a bounded capacity.
  • New public interfaces let developers provide a custom store and access stored model and conversation history.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on how continuation state is stored and how to share it across routers.

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Walkthrough

ClientRouter now uses an asynchronous ResponseStateStore for provider ownership and cross-format canonical history. Routers use a bounded in-memory store by default, or can share an injected store. Routing and streaming paths await state operations and propagate applicable store errors.

Changes

Responses continuation state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store contract and router setup crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/src/lib.rs, crates/libsy-llm-client/README.md	Adds the public state types and asynchronous store contract. Adds the bounded in-memory implementation and router configuration for an injected store. Exports and documents the new API.
Routing and streaming state flow crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs	Routing and streaming paths asynchronously load continuation state and record provider ownership or canonical history through the configured store.
Shared-store and continuation tests crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs	Tests shared state across routers, store errors, continuation history, stream behavior, store: false, and capacity limits.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3ed9e

Routers can now share an injectable state store, and the default in-memory behavior is unchanged. Two follow-ups remain. The store interface docs do not yet describe the overwrite and error rules that custom stores must follow. Every Responses request also performs an extra state lookup, which adds latency and a failure point when a remote store is used. The change is mergeable with these small fixes or an explicit follow-up.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs (1)

877-885: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Defer canonical history loading until canonical history is recorded.

canonical_input loads previous_response_id before the upstream call, even though native Responses output does not use the result. This adds a second state-store load when routing already loaded the same previous_response_id.

Move the load into the non-native Agg path and the stream-completion path, immediately before remember_canonical_response. This also prevents a pre-call state-store failure from stopping the upstream request. A post-call recording failure can still fail the returned operation, but it does not discard a provider call that has not yet run.

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In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs` around lines 877 - 885, Defer the
canonical_input call in the request flow until canonical history is actually
recorded: remove the eager pre-call load, and load it in the non-native Agg path
and stream-completion path immediately before remember_canonical_response.
Preserve error mapping for recording failures and allow the upstream request to
run before those loads.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs`:
- Around line 533-553: Update the public documentation on ResponseStateStore,
including its trait and load/store methods, to describe the actual contract:
provider-owned states without history cannot replace another model’s record and
must return ResponseStateConflict; materialized states with history replace the
response-ID record, while conversation aliases are inserted only when absent.
Document that load errors stop routing, store errors of
ResponseStateLimitExceeded are logged while routing continues, and all other
store errors fail the response.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs`:
- Around line 877-885: Defer the canonical_input call in the request flow until
canonical history is actually recorded: remove the eager pre-call load, and load
it in the non-native Agg path and stream-completion path immediately before
remember_canonical_response. Preserve error mapping for recording failures and
allow the upstream request to run before those loads.

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[afourniernv]

@cpakkamisaac-sae thanks for putting this together. I think this needs to go back to the design discussion in #832 for now.

This is a fairly large behavior and API change. It moves Responses state behind an async store across the buffered and streaming paths, and adds several new public Rust APIs. I do not think we should lock that shape in until the problem, ownership boundary, and failure behavior are easier to review.

I am going to close this PR for now. Once we agree on the shape in #832, we can come back to the implementation.

[cpakkamisaac-sae]

Thanks @afourniernv for the review and feedback. I’ll tighten up #832 and hold off on implementation until we agree on the design.