feat(python): align libsy streaming contracts

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What

• Align the Python run_stream surface with Rust's Step::CallModel and Step::Done(RoutingOutcome) contract.
• Add matchable LlmResponse.Agg and LlmResponse.Stream variants while keeping normalized requests, aggregates, and stream events as Python dictionaries.
• Support Python async iterators as routing-call responses and preserve Rust response streams as Python async iterators without buffering them.
• Update the standalone and experimental LiteLLM examples to consume RoutingOutcome directly.

Why

The Rust RoutingOutcome refactor removed decision steps and moved the final model call to the host. The Python binding exposed the new outcome fields, but it still forced existing response streams into aggregates, accepted only buffered routing-call responses, and left checked-in examples on the removed Step.Decision shape.

How

async for step in algorithm.run_stream(request):
    match step:
        case Step.CallModel(call):
            call.respond(LlmResponse.Agg(await client.call(call.request)))
            # Streaming clients may instead use:
            # call.respond(LlmResponse.Stream(client.stream(call.request)))
        case Step.Done(outcome):
            match outcome.response:
                case LlmResponse.Agg(response):
                    print(response)
                case LlmResponse.Stream(stream):
                    async for event in stream:
                        print(event)
                case None:
                    print(await client.call(outcome.request))

The Python-to-Rust adapter retains the originating Python task's event loop and context while Tokio polls each event. The Rust-to-Python adapter yields normalized LlmResponseStreamEvent dictionaries in order. Provider-specific error classification remains the Python caller's responsibility; an already-classified ContextWindowExceededError remains typed when raised by a response stream, while other Python exceptions use the existing FFI client error path.

What to review

• The LlmResponse.Agg/Stream match-case API and type annotations.
• Async iterator ownership, event ordering, termination, and error propagation across PyO3.
• The examples' direct handling of RoutingOutcome.response and host-owned terminal calls.

Validation

• cargo test -p switchyard-py
• cargo clippy -p switchyard-py --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• uv run maturin develop
• uv run pytest tests/test_libsy_minimal_bindings.py -q (17 passed)
• uv run --project examples/experimental/litellm pytest examples/experimental/litellm/tests/test_stage_routing.py -q (1 passed)
• uv run python examples/libsy.py ("stream": True response events)
• uv run ruff check on the changed Python files
• uv run mypy switchyard switchyard_rust/libsy.py

The only new test is a streaming sanity test that sends three ordered Python events through a routing classifier and verifies the non-default target selected from their accumulated payload.

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Walkthrough

Changes

The PR adds LlmResponse.Agg and LlmResponse.Stream to the Rust and Python APIs. Python bindings convert streamed events through asynchronous iteration. Examples and tests now use Step.Done outcomes and validate aggregate and streamed responses.

LLM response flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Response contract and exports switchyard_rust/libsy.py, switchyard/libsy/__init__.py	Defines and exports aggregate and streamed response variants. Updates ModelCall.respond and RoutingOutcome.response.
Python response conversion crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs	Adds Python response wrappers, stream iteration, event conversion, error handling, and routing outcome conversion.
Example routing protocol updates examples/libsy.py, examples/experimental/litellm/example.py, examples/experimental/litellm/README.md	Updates model-call handling to wrap aggregate responses and process completed outcomes with aggregate, streamed, or absent responses.
Aggregate and streamed response tests tests/test_libsy_minimal_bindings.py, examples/experimental/litellm/tests/*	Tests aggregate wrapping, streamed routing events, selected model IDs, and unsupported streamed outcomes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 978cb

The PR changes Python streaming behavior, but streamed context-window errors can bypass fallback handling, and completed streams are not explicitly protected from repeated polling. These bounded runtime issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Poem

I’m a rabbit with responses in flight,
Aggregate by day, streamed by night.
Events hop through the async queue,
Step.Done tells what to do.
Model-b stays in sight—
Squeak, the routes are right!

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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

525-547: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make __anext__ safe after stream completion.

Because __aiter__ returns the same object, Python can call __anext__ again after StopAsyncIteration. Wrap stream with StreamExt::fuse() in response_to_python to prevent polling the underlying stream after it returns None.

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In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs` around lines 525 - 547, Update
response_to_python and the PyLlmResponseStream stream setup to wrap the
underlying stream with StreamExt::fuse(), ensuring repeated __anext__ calls
after StopAsyncIteration do not poll the completed stream. Preserve the existing
event, error, and completion handling.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs`:
- Around line 361-399: Update python_response_stream to accept the target
ModelId and classify exceptions from __anext__ using the existing
Python-exception classification logic, converting ContextWindowExceededError
into LlmClientError::ContextWindowExceeded instead of routing it through
ffi_error. Preserve the existing handling for PyStopAsyncIteration and other
errors, and update callers to pass the model identifier.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs`:
- Around line 525-547: Update response_to_python and the PyLlmResponseStream
stream setup to wrap the underlying stream with StreamExt::fuse(), ensuring
repeated __anext__ calls after StopAsyncIteration do not poll the completed
stream. Preserve the existing event, error, and completion handling.

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• crates/switchyard-py/src/libsy_bindings.rs
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• examples/experimental/litellm/tests/test_stage_routing.py
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• switchyard/libsy/__init__.py
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