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MVP vertical slice of the second-tier guardrail (api7/AISIX-Cloud#1331): prove that a local CPU embedding model can sit inside the guardrail chain, produce a span-level judgement, and drive a real in-place rewrite on /v1/chat/completions. One hardcoded category (EDA software version numbers), one prototype vector encoded at load from a Chinese category description, hardcoded *** replacement. Nothing else from the full design is included on purpose.

What it proves (the four hard requirements)

  1. In-process inference: ort 2.0.0-rc.13 + tokenizers 0.23 statically link ONNX Runtime into the data plane behind a new default-off local-model feature. Model deliverables are model.onnx + tokenizer.json only — the official int8 export of ibm-granite/granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 (onnx/model_quint8_avx2.onnx, standard ai.onnx opset; the q4/q4f16/bnb4 variants carry private ops and are excluded). Offline builds are supported through ORT_OFFLINE=1 + ORT_LIB_PATH (verified in ort-sys build/vars.rs).
  2. Bounded, spin-free execution: inference runs in spawn_blocking behind a Semaphore(1) sized to the session count, with one intra-op thread and intra/inter-op spinning explicitly disabled (the ONNX Runtime default spin burns ~9.4% of a core while idle).
  3. The model decision drives a real rewrite: candidate spans come from a regex with exact byte offsets; a ±50-char context window is embedded (CLS pooling + L2 norm) and compared against the prototype by cosine; above-threshold spans are rewritten in place through the existing segment-moderation mask write-back channel (moderate_input_segments / moderate_output_segments) — no proxy pipeline changes. Verdict is always Allow (rewrite, never block); per-pass model-call cap of 8 degrades to fewer masks, never to blocking.
  4. Real HTTP end to end: the opt-in e2e sends a request whose user text carries the sensitive sentence; the reply reaches the caller with the version number rewritten to *** and the mock upstream's received body shows the masked prompt (the value never left the gateway). Verified against both debug and release binaries.

Measured on a 12-core avx2+vnni host (release)

Metric Value
Single inference (~35-token window) p50 19.0 ms (min 18.5 / max 20.7, n=20); ~7 ms at 7 tokens
Resident memory increment +216 MiB (30.8 → 246.7 MiB after load + prototype inference; load 906 ms)
Release binary increment +28.5 MiB (52.1 → 80.6 MiB) with the feature ON; default builds unchanged

Threshold calibration (and the headline negative result)

Default cosine gate 0.80: the acceptance-style positive scores ~0.90, every probed negative (compile-log timings, memory sizes, IPs, plain numbers) ≤0.76. Harder positives (升级到 2022.4, Virtuoso IC6.1.8) score 0.75–0.79 and are NOT masked — a deliberate precision-leaning default, since a mask false-positive corrupts user content. The negative result worth recording: across 5 prototype phrasings × 7 probe windows, single-prototype zero-shot cosine had negative margin over the hard negatives in every case. Closing that gap is the design issue's rule-scoring layer + real-sample prototypes, not threshold tuning.

Configuration surface (deliberately minimal)

Activation is env-only on a feature build: GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR (switch + path) and optional GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_THRESHOLD. The prefix is intentionally outside the AISIX_* namespace — the config loader maps every AISIX_* env var onto a config field and strictly rejects unknown ones. Feature on + env set + broken model dir is boot-fatal (a masking guardrail the operator asked for that silently isn't there would leak the very content it exists to rewrite). Feature off + env set logs a warning.

Design notes per the repo research rule

  • The window-around-candidate approach follows the keyword-proximity window pattern mainstream DLP engines use (typical proximity windows of 50–300 chars); the window size sits at the low end of that range.
  • The full chain "anchor regex → window cut → model judgement → in-window second-pass locate and replace" has no public precedent we could find (the design issue reached the same conclusion); it is a custom contract surface and is flagged as such here explicitly.
  • Upstream contracts pinned in the module docs: model repo pooling/normalization config (1_Pooling/config.json, modules.json), ONNX graph inputs/outputs, and the ort-sys offline-build variables.

Explicitly deferred (tracked on api7/AISIX-Cloud#1331 — this PR is the DP half of a cross-plane feature)

  • Sibling endpoint families are NOT wired: /v1/messages, /v1/responses, legacy completions, and MCP (the MCP mask write-back channel itself is blocked on AISIX-Cloud#1330). Chat-only is the MVP scope pin, stated here per the handler-family rule.
  • No control-plane surface: no cp-admin.yaml resource, no dashboard, no attachment scoping — the prototype library as a first-class hot-reloadable resource (etcd stores category text; DP encodes vectors with its own model and atomically swaps on a watch tick) is the next-dimension design, recorded in the module docs.
  • No rule-scoring layer (hotword co-occurrence), no standard risk categories, no multi-category, no capture-group replacements, no evaluation set. Streaming output rides the default BufferFull hold-back plus the same segment pass but has no dedicated e2e.
  • Throughput is one lane (~50 inferences/s): scaling is N sessions behind Semaphore(N); ort's run(&mut self) currently forbids the shared-weights concurrent-run form the ONNX Runtime C API allows, so each lane costs its own ~190 MiB weight copy (details in the module docs).

Test plan

  • cargo test -p aisix-guardrails --features local-model (253 passed; model-backed probes run with the model dir env + --include-ignored).
  • cargo test -p aisix-proxy (957 passed) — chain composition touched chat.rs.
  • Existing mask-channel e2e regression: guardrail-pii-redaction + bedrock-anonymize-mask (11 tests) green against a feature-built binary with the env unset (proves inertness).
  • New opt-in e2e guardrail-local-model-e2e.test.ts green against debug and release binaries.
  • clippy clean on the touched crates (with and without the feature); default builds unaffected.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an opt-in local CPU model guardrail for chat requests and responses.
    • Supports environment-based configuration for the model location, detection threshold, and processing lanes.
    • The guardrail masks detected sensitive content without blocking requests and is enabled through the server’s local-model feature.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of invalid thresholds, oversized candidates, tokenizer limits, and streaming output.
    • Invalid configuration now fails safely or reports startup errors when the feature is enabled.

…d#1331)

Vertical-slice proof that an in-process ONNX embedding model can sit in
the guardrail chain, judge a candidate span, and drive a real in-place
rewrite on /v1/chat/completions. One hardcoded category (EDA software
version numbers), one prototype vector encoded at load from a Chinese
category description, hardcoded *** replacement.

- new `local-model` feature on aisix-guardrails (off by default): ort
  2.0.0-rc.13 + tokenizers 0.23 statically linking ONNX Runtime; model
  deliverables are model.onnx + tokenizer.json only
  (granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 official int8 export, standard
  ai.onnx opset; q4/q4f16/bnb4 variants excluded for their private ops)
- pipeline per text segment: regex candidates with byte offsets -> +/-50
  char context window -> CLS-pooled, L2-normalized embedding vs the
  prototype by cosine -> in-window replace; always-Allow verdict
  (rewrite, never block), per-pass model-call cap of 8 with degrade-to-
  fewer-masks semantics
- rides the existing segment-moderation mask write-back channel
  (moderate_input_segments / moderate_output_segments), so the proxy
  walkers apply the rewrite with no pipeline changes; inference runs in
  spawn_blocking behind a bounded semaphore with one intra-op thread and
  intra/inter-op spinning disabled (the ONNX Runtime default spin burns
  ~9.4% of a core while idle)
- activation is env-only (GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR [+ _THRESHOLD]) on a
  binary built with aisix-server's `local-model-guardrail` feature; the
  prefix is deliberately outside the AISIX_* config-env namespace, whose
  loader strictly rejects unknown fields; no control-plane surface yet
- threshold default 0.80 from a measured probe matrix: acceptance-style
  positive ~0.90, all probed negatives <=0.76; harder positives are a
  known recall gap at this precision-leaning default (single-prototype
  zero-shot cosine showed no margin over hard negatives in any phrasing
  swept)
- e2e (opt-in via model-dir env): a request carrying the sensitive
  sentence gets *** in the reply AND the mock upstream receives the
  masked prompt; ort-sys supports offline builds via ORT_OFFLINE=1 +
  ORT_LIB_PATH
…review

Pin the conclusions of the MVP design review in the module docs and the
e2e spec so they survive beyond the review thread:

- threading: the async worker never blocks (awaits the JoinHandle); the
  blocking inference thread is not core-pinned, so hard business/model
  core partitioning needs a dedicated pinned pool
- scaling: ~50 inferences/s per lane measured; lanes scale as N sessions
  behind Semaphore(N) because ort's run(&mut self) forbids the
  shared-weights concurrent-Run form the C API allows (each lane pays a
  ~190 MiB weight copy until an upstream &self run, an unsafe shim
  crate, or the sidecar form lands); an ORT Session is a stateless
  loaded-model instance, not a conversation
- cost model: per-audit ~= windows x inference + prototypes x 384-dim
  dot; window embeddings are category-agnostic (one embed per span
  serves every category), so prototype count is latency-noise up to
  ~1e5 vectors; the candidate-regex layer is the all-traffic cost and
  must merge to one multi-pattern automaton compiled at library-build
  time (non-backtracking engine, so operator patterns cannot ReDoS)
- prototype library target form: etcd stores category text only, the DP
  encodes vectors with its own model and atomically swaps the compiled
  library on a watch tick; swapping the model itself stays cold
- e2e: mark the single-happy-path / non-streaming / chat-only scope as
  deliberate MVP pins rather than accidental gaps
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Adds an optional ONNX local-model guardrail. The server loads it from environment configuration, injects it into chat guardrail chains, and masks matching EDA version spans in input and output text. Unit, calibration, latency, and opt-in end-to-end tests are included.

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Local model guardrail

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guardrail feature and inference core
Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-guardrails/Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-guardrails/src/lib.rs, crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs
Adds optional ONNX Runtime and tokenizer dependencies. Defines environment configuration, model loading, embedding inference, candidate detection, similarity masking, guardrail hooks, and tests.
Deployment-wide proxy integration
crates/aisix-proxy/src/state.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs
Adds optional local-model guardrail state and appends it after the attachment-resolved chain during chat dispatch.
Server feature and startup loading
crates/aisix-server/Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs
Adds the server feature and loads the configured guardrail during startup. Non-feature builds warn when the activation variable is set.
End-to-end masking validation
tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-local-model-e2e.test.ts
Adds an opt-in test that verifies masked prompts reach the upstream and masked text returns to the caller.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b0418

The PR adds an opt-in local embedding guardrail that rewrites matching chat-completion prompts. It is mergeable with owner follow-up because non-finite threshold values could disable masking or mask every candidate, while normal test execution does not cover model-backed correctness or two-lane concurrency.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Environment
  participant aisix-server
  participant ProxyState
  participant GuardrailChain
  participant LocalModelGuardrail
  participant OpenAIUpstream
  Environment->>aisix-server: provide GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR
  aisix-server->>LocalModelGuardrail: load configured model
  aisix-server->>ProxyState: attach guardrail
  ProxyState->>GuardrailChain: append local model guardrail
  GuardrailChain->>LocalModelGuardrail: moderate chat segments
  LocalModelGuardrail->>GuardrailChain: return masked segments
  GuardrailChain->>OpenAIUpstream: forward masked prompt
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In `@crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs`:
- Around line 183-188: Update LocalModel::from_env to accept a parsed threshold
only when it is finite and within [-1.0, 1.0], otherwise falling back to
DEFAULT_THRESHOLD. Add the corresponding CP resource configuration so model_dir
and threshold are accepted and persisted alongside LocalModelConfig.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs` around lines
159 - 177.

In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs`:
- Around line 1251-1264: Extend the local guardrail composition used in the chat
handler to the sibling /v1/messages and /v1/responses handlers, covering both
streaming and non-streaming branches. Reuse the existing resolved-chain and
state.local_model_guardrail wiring so each endpoint applies the same masking
behavior before forwarding upstream, and add endpoint-specific E2E coverage for
every wired path.

In `@crates/aisix-server/Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 72-75: Update the activation documentation near the
local-model-guardrail feature to reference the runtime-read environment variable
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Comment on lines +183 to +188
pub fn from_env() -> Option<Self> {
let model_dir = PathBuf::from(std::env::var_os(MODEL_DIR_ENV)?);
let threshold = std::env::var(THRESHOLD_ENV)
.ok()
.and_then(|s| s.parse::<f32>().ok())
.unwrap_or(DEFAULT_THRESHOLD);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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    }
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            score >= threshold
        );
    }
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Reject invalid thresholds and add the paired CP configuration.

  • f32::parse accepts NaN, inf, and -inf. Since masking uses score >= self.threshold, NaN masks nothing and -inf masks every finite score. Accept only finite thresholds in [-1.0, 1.0], then fall back to DEFAULT_THRESHOLD.
  • LocalModelConfig adds deployment-facing configuration, but no CP resource accepts or persists model_dir and threshold. Add the paired CP configuration.
Proposed fix
         let threshold = std::env::var(THRESHOLD_ENV)
             .ok()
             .and_then(|s| s.parse::<f32>().ok())
+            .filter(|value| value.is_finite() && (-1.0..=1.0).contains(value))
             .unwrap_or(DEFAULT_THRESHOLD);

f32 documentation

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In `@crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs` around lines 183 - 188, Update
LocalModel::from_env to accept a parsed threshold only when it is finite and
within [-1.0, 1.0], otherwise falling back to DEFAULT_THRESHOLD. Add the
corresponding CP resource configuration so model_dir and threshold are accepted
and persisted alongside LocalModelConfig.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs` around lines
159 - 177.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment on lines +1251 to +1264
// AISIX-Cloud#1331 MVP: the env-injected local-model guardrail joins
// AFTER the attachment-resolved chain (its segment masks compose on
// the chain's output; nested-chain folds filter their own members, so
// wrapping is safe). Deployment-wide + mask-only, not a row: it has no
// `applied()` entry and never blocks. MVP wiring is chat-only; the
// sibling endpoint families are a tracked gap on the design issue.
let resolved_chain: std::sync::Arc<dyn aisix_guardrails::Guardrail> =
match state.local_model_guardrail.as_ref() {
Some(local) => std::sync::Arc::new(aisix_guardrails::GuardrailChain::new(vec![
std::sync::Arc::clone(&resolved_chain),
std::sync::Arc::clone(local),
])),
None => resolved_chain,
};

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Wire the local guardrail into sibling endpoint handlers.

This change composes the local guardrail only for /v1/chat/completions. The same input sent through /v1/messages or /v1/responses bypasses this masking control and can reach the upstream unchanged.

Apply the guardrail composition to every supported sibling path, including streaming and non-streaming branches. Add endpoint-specific E2E coverage for each wired handler.

As per coding guidelines: “wire every sibling path in the same PR — both streaming and non-streaming branches” and “Test coverage must include each wired endpoint, not just chat.”

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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs` around lines 1251 - 1264, Extend the local
guardrail composition used in the chat handler to the sibling /v1/messages and
/v1/responses handlers, covering both streaming and non-streaming branches.
Reuse the existing resolved-chain and state.local_model_guardrail wiring so each
endpoint applies the same masking behavior before forwarding upstream, and add
endpoint-specific E2E coverage for every wired path.

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Comment thread crates/aisix-server/Cargo.toml
Close the audit's HIGH and code-fixable MEDIUM/LOW findings:

- cap candidate spans at 64 bytes (dropped before budget accounting) and
  force 512-token truncation at tokenizer load instead of trusting the
  operator's tokenizer.json: without both bounds a crafted 1.1.1... run
  turned each model call into a max-length inference and stalled the
  single inference lane for every request (HIGH)
- move the semaphore permit into the spawn_blocking closure so request
  cancellation cannot release it while the session is still busy, which
  let blocked threads accumulate in the blocking pool under repeated
  disconnects (MEDIUM)
- override stream_output_policy with a fail-OPEN buffer overflow: the
  inherited fail-closed default made a streamed response past 256 KiB
  fail with content_filter from a guardrail whose contract is rewrite,
  never block; past-cap now degrades to unmasked release, same as the
  other fail-open arms (MEDIUM)
- recover a poisoned session mutex instead of panicking on every later
  inference (run is stateless), which would have silently disabled
  masking until restart (LOW)
- validate the threshold env into [0, 1] and finite: "NaN" parsed as a
  valid f32 and made score >= threshold always false (LOW)
- fix the aisix-server feature comment naming the harness's opt-in env
  var instead of the binary's GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR (LOW)
- guard window_bounds(ctx == 0) so the latent one-leading-char edge dies
  before the constant is ever parameterized (LOW)

Adds a unit test pinning the span cap; model-backed probes and the
acceptance e2e re-run green.
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Independent audit outcome (merge-gate record)

A cold independent audit reviewed this PR against the six-angle checklist (correctness, reliability, security, leakage, breaking changes, e2e coverage). Core contract held up: chain-composition semantics, mask/UTF-8 correctness, feature-off/env-unset inertness, no matched-value leakage in any log/error/count, and independently falsifiable e2e assertions. Findings and their resolutions:

Fixed in 162c4f0:

  • HIGH — unbounded candidate span: \d+(?:\.\d+)+ matched an arbitrarily long 1.1.1… run as one span, turning each model call into a max-truncation inference and stalling the single inference lane deployment-wide. Now double-bounded: spans over 64 bytes are dropped before budget accounting, and the tokenizer is forced to 512-token truncation at load instead of trusting the operator's tokenizer.json. Unit test pins the cap.
  • MEDIUM — semaphore permit vs cancellation: the permit lived in the async scope, so a client disconnect released it while the blocking inference still held the session, letting blocked threads accumulate under repeated cancels. The permit now moves into the spawn_blocking closure and releases only when inference actually finishes.
  • MEDIUM — streamed overflow was fail-closed: the inherited BufferFull default emitted a content_filter block when a streamed response crossed 256 KiB — contradicting this guardrail's rewrite-never-block contract. stream_output_policy now overrides to fail-open on overflow (past-cap degrades to unmasked release, same as the other fail-open arms); a stricter chain member still wins the fold.
  • LOW ×4: poisoned session mutex now recovers instead of silently disabling masking until restart; the threshold env is validated finite and in [0, 1] ("NaN" previously parsed and made the gate never fire); the aisix-server feature comment named the e2e harness's opt-in var instead of the binary's GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR; window_bounds(ctx == 0) latent edge guarded.

Explicitly justified (accepted, not code-changed):

  • MEDIUM — coverage CI now compiles the feature: the --all-features coverage job builds local-model, so ort-sys downloads the prebuilt ONNX Runtime in CI. Accepted: the download is SHA256-pinned inside the crate (verified against its manifest), all new deps are MIT/Apache-2.0, and this makes the coverage job the one place CI compiles and unit-tests the feature code (the pure-function tests need no model files). If CDN flakiness shows up, the mitigation is pre-caching via ORT_LIB_PATH.
  • MEDIUM — acceptance e2e does not run in CI: it needs the 119 MiB model files, so it is opt-in via AISIX_LOCAL_GUARDRAIL_MODEL_DIR and skips in CI by design; this PR's acceptance evidence is the recorded local runs against both debug and release binaries. A cached-model CI job belongs to the productization pass tracked on api7/AISIX-Cloud#1331, alongside the control-plane surface this experimental env-gated slice deliberately lacks.

With the HIGH and both code-relevant MEDIUMs fixed and the remaining two MEDIUMs justified above, the merge gate is satisfied.

Record the lane-dispatch decision (centralized free-list, deliberately
no worker-to-session binding) next to the scaling notes and point at
#1001, which carries the full design and acceptance criteria.
…rail (#1001)

Scale guardrail inference throughput by lanes: GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_LANES
(default 1, clamped to 32) builds N ONNX sessions behind a Semaphore(N).
Dispatch is a centralized free-list — an admitted task takes whichever
session is idle via try_lock (permits == sessions guarantees one exists,
with a defensive blocking fallback) — deliberately NO worker-to-session
binding: sessions are stateless loaded-model instances, and a central
queue load-balances the uneven per-worker accept distribution.

The tokenizer is shared across lanes (encode takes &self); each session
keeps one intra-op thread and disabled spinning, so N lanes = at most N
cores of demand and zero idle burn. Poison recovery and the
permit-inside-closure cancellation semantics from the PR #999 audit are
preserved per lane. Default (lanes unset/1) behaves exactly as before;
zero or malformed values fall back to 1 (disabling stays the model-dir
env, not a zero lane count).

Measured (release, 12-core avx2+vnni, 64-inference saturating batch):
1 lane 52.0 inf/s, 2 lanes 103.8 (2.00x), 4 lanes 194.1 (3.73x, 93%
efficiency). Each lane pays its own ~190 MiB weight copy until the
shared-weights concurrent-Run form is expressible (see module docs).

Tests: parse/clamp unit test; a 2-lane 8-way concurrency probe asserting
lanes agree; an env-driven throughput probe behind --ignored; the e2e now
runs the acceptance path against a 2-lane pool.
RSS probes with the release binary: one lane 222.9 MiB resident, four
lanes 529.4 MiB — the first lane costs ~192 MiB (weights + tokenizer +
arena), each additional lane ~102 MiB (its own weight copy + arena),
lower than the pre-measurement ~190 MiB/lane estimate which double
counted the one-time overhead. Lane loads add ~290 ms each at boot.
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Addition: multi-lane inference pool (#1001), implemented in 77ad1b9 + b04186e

GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_LANES (default 1, clamp 32) builds N sessions behind Semaphore(N) with centralized free-list dispatch — deliberately no worker↔session binding (sessions are stateless loaded-model instances; the central queue load-balances the uneven per-worker accept distribution). Tokenizer is shared; each lane keeps one intra-op thread + disabled spinning; the audit-driven cancellation semantics (permit inside the blocking closure) and poison recovery are preserved per lane. Default (unset/1) is behavior-identical to before.

Measured on the 12-core avx2+vnni host (release):

Lanes Throughput (64-inference saturating batch) Scaling Resident memory Load
1 52.0 inf/s 1.00× 222.9 MiB 868 ms
2 103.8 inf/s 2.00×
4 194.1 inf/s 3.73× (93%) 529.4 MiB 1744 ms

Per additional lane: ~102 MiB resident (its weight copy + arena; the first lane's ~192 MiB includes the shared tokenizer and one-time overhead) and ~290 ms boot. Tests: lanes parse/clamp unit test, a 2-lane 8-way concurrency probe asserting lanes agree, an env-driven throughput probe (--ignored), and the acceptance e2e now runs against a 2-lane pool.

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684-685: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Run model-backed correctness tests in CI.

The normal test suite does not validate model loading, similarity classification, masking, or multi-lane correctness because these tests are ignored. Provide a pinned model fixture in CI and remove #[ignore] from correctness tests. Move manual throughput and latency probes to a benchmark target if they must remain opt-in.

  • crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs#L684-L685: run the similarity assertions with the CI model fixture.
  • crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs#L732-L733: run the masking acceptance test with the CI model fixture.
  • crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs#L748-L750: run the concurrent-lane correctness test with the CI model fixture.
  • crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs#L779-L780: move the throughput probe to a benchmark target.
  • crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs#L812-L813: move the latency probe to a benchmark target.

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In `@crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs` around lines 684 - 685, Provide a
pinned model fixture and CI configuration for model-backed tests, then remove
the ignored status from the similarity assertions at
crates/aisix-guardrails/src/local_model.rs:684-685, masking acceptance test at
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In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-local-model-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 88-94: Update the acceptance flow in
guardrail-local-model-e2e.test.ts to issue at least two independent
non-streaming chat requests concurrently, then assert each request’s
corresponding response. Preserve the GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_LANES="2" setup so
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acceptance test at :732-733, and concurrent-lane correctness test at :748-750.
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Comment on lines +88 to +94
// 2 lanes so the acceptance path exercises the session POOL
// dispatch (api7/aisix#1001), not just the single-lane degenerate
// case; behavior must be identical (lanes are stateless).
extraEnv: {
GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_DIR: MODEL_DIR,
GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_LANES: "2",
},

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add concurrent requests to verify the two-lane path.

GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_LANES is set to "2", but the acceptance flow sends one non-streaming request. A single request can use only one inference lane at a time. It does not verify concurrent lane allocation or centralized free-list behavior. Send at least two independent chat requests concurrently and assert both request/response pairs.

As per coding guidelines, tests must cover extreme cases such as high load and failures. Based on the supplied change details, this acceptance test sends one non-streaming request.

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In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-local-model-e2e.test.ts` around lines 88 - 94,
Update the acceptance flow in guardrail-local-model-e2e.test.ts to issue at
least two independent non-streaming chat requests concurrently, then assert each
request’s corresponding response. Preserve the GUARDRAIL_LOCAL_MODEL_LANES="2"
setup so the test exercises concurrent lane allocation and the shared free-list.

Source: Coding guidelines

parse_lanes never yields zero, but LocalModelConfig's fields are pub
and a future programmatic constructor (the control-plane integration)
could hand-build a zero-lane config; an empty session pool would panic
at the boot-time prototype embed with a confusing error instead of
just working. Delta-audit LOW finding on PR #999.
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Delta audit outcome (lane-pool commits 162c4f0 / 77ad1b9 / b04186e)

A second independent audit pass covered the post-audit hardening and the multi-lane pool. No HIGH, no MEDIUM — nothing merge-blocking. Verified clean: all seven prior-audit fixes survive the pool rework (permit-inside-closure ordering is session-freed-before-permit-freed, which is what makes the pool invariant sound); the shared tokenizer's concurrent encode(&self) is the upstream-intended use (checked against the locked tokenizers source — the encode-path cache is a contention-skipping RwLock, non-serializing); defaults are behavior-identical with lanes unset; no new log carries matched content.

Three LOW findings, dispositions:

  • Taken (6c0e709): Embedder::load now clamps lanes.max(1)parse_lanes can't produce zero, but the config fields are pub and the future control-plane integration will construct configs programmatically; an empty pool would have panicked at the boot-time prototype embed with a confusing error.
  • Kept as designed — try_lock scan-miss under churn: a full scan can miss while releases refill behind the cursor, briefly serializing on the sessions[0] fallback. Bounded (bargers capped by the semaphore, ~19 ms holds, no deadlock, self-correcting), and the code already labels the fallback defensive. The race-free index free-list is the hardening if MAX_LANES ever grows materially.
  • Kept as designed — a usize-overflowing lanes value parses as malformed and lands on 1, not the 32 clamp; consistent with the documented "malformed → 1" rule (disabling stays the model-dir env, minimum-surprise for garbage input).

Merge gate remains satisfied.

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