[doc] Agent network docs update (#7020)

* [docs] Update agent-network docs for management-owned pricing

  The docs still described the retired proxy-side pricing: pricing.Loader,
  pricing_path, MiddlewareDataDir, embedded defaults_pricing.yaml, and the
  symlink-safe Unix loader. Rewrite them for the current design — management
  synthesizes the whole table and ships it in cost_meter's ConfigJSON, so the
  proxy carries no price list and has nothing to reload.
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Misha Bragin
2026-08-15 19:31:49 +02:00
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LLM request. The two highest-blast-radius areas are the **capture-pointer
semantics** and the **limit_check ⇒ limit_record** record-once invariant.
Sibling module: [32-proxy-llm-parsers.md](./32-proxy-llm-parsers.md) — the SDK
adapters + pricing catalog this chain delegates to.
adapters + pricing table and cost formula this chain delegates to.
---
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ rewrites.
| `llm_identity_inject` | OnRequest | `llm.{resolved_provider_id,authorising_groups}`, `Input.{UserEmail,UserID,UserGroups,UserGroupNames}` | none | header strip/inject + optional body rewrite |
| `llm_guardrail` | OnRequest | `llm.{model,request_prompt_raw}` | `llm_policy.{decision,reason}`, `llm.request_prompt` | none (model allowlist deny) |
| `llm_response_parser` | OnResponse | `llm.provider`, `Input.{RespHeaders,RespBody,Status}` | `llm.{input,output,total,cached_input,cache_creation}_tokens`, `llm.response_completion` | none |
| `cost_meter` | OnResponse | `llm.{provider,model}`, token buckets | `cost.usd_total` or `cost.skipped` | pricing lookup |
| `cost_meter` | OnResponse | `llm.{provider,model,resolved_provider_id}`, token buckets | `cost.usd_{input,cached_input,cache_creation,output,total,cache}` or `cost.skipped` | none (in-memory pricing lookup) |
| `llm_limit_record` | OnResponse | `llm.{attribution_group_id,attribution_window_seconds,input_tokens,output_tokens}`, `cost.usd_total` | none | gRPC `RecordLLMUsage` |
[all_test.go:26–40](../../../proxy/internal/middleware/builtin/all_test.go)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ locks the ID set; adding or removing one is a conscious extension.
| File | LOC | Notes |
|---|---:|---|
| `builtin.go` | 86 | Registry + `FactoryContext` (ctx, data dir, meter, logger, mgmt client) |
| `builtin.go` | 90 | Registry + `FactoryContext` (ctx, meter, logger, mgmt client) |
| `all_test.go` | 41 | Locks the 8-ID registry surface |
| `agentnetwork_chain_integration_test.go` | 319 | Live sqlite + real gRPC bufconn; gate→recorder wire path |
| `llm_request_parser/*` | 162 / 66 / 356 | Provider detection, body parse, prompt extraction with capture-pointer gating |
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ locks the ID set; adding or removing one is a conscious extension.
| `llm_identity_inject/*` | 440 / 108 / 666 | HeaderPair (LiteLLM) + JSONMetadata (Portkey) + ExtraHeaders |
| `llm_guardrail/*` | 176 / 82 / 75 / 219 / 217 | Model allowlist + optional prompt capture with PII redaction |
| `llm_response_parser/*` | 258 / 222 / 43 / 433 / 169 / 111 | Buffered + SSE accumulation; AWS event-stream accumulator (`streaming_bedrock.go`) for Bedrock; capture-pointer gates completion emit |
| `cost_meter/*` | 181 / 84 / 439 | Token → USD via `proxy/internal/llm/pricing` |
| `cost_meter/*` | 236 / 98 / 586 | Token → USD via `proxy/internal/llm/pricing`; both pricing tiers arrive in the middleware config |
| `llm_limit_record/*` | 144 / 35 / 191 | Post-flight `RecordLLMUsage` (5s, debug-on-error) |
## Per-middleware
@@ -168,12 +168,46 @@ token schema.
### cost_meter
Reads `llm.provider` + `llm.model` + token buckets, looks up per-1k rate via
`pricing.Loader`, emits `cost.usd_total` or a closed-set `cost.skipped`
reason (`missing_provider/model/tokens`, `unparseable_tokens`, `zero_tokens`,
`unknown_model`). Loader's hot-reload goroutine is bound to proxy-lifetime
context via `startReloader`. **Key invariant:** provider-shape switch lives
in `pricing.Table.Cost` (sibling doc) — `cost_meter` stays provider-agnostic.
Reads `llm.provider` + `llm.model` + token buckets, looks up the per-1k rates,
and emits the full `cost.usd_*` breakdown (four per-bucket values plus the
`_total` and `_cache` aggregates) or a closed-set `cost.skipped` reason
(`missing_provider/model/tokens`, `unparseable_tokens`, `zero_tokens`,
`unknown_model`).
**Management owns pricing.** The proxy carries no embedded price list: the whole
table arrives in this middleware's `ConfigJSON` as
`{pricing: {defaults, providers}}`, synthesized by management from the catalog
plus the operator's stored per-provider prices
([factory.go:13–34](../../../proxy/internal/middleware/builtin/cost_meter/factory.go)).
Both tiers are validated by `pricing.NewTable` / `pricing.NewEntries` at
construction, so a non-finite or negative rate fails the chain build. A price
change is an ordinary mapping push — the chain rebuild yields a fresh instance
over a fresh immutable table, so there is no data dir, no pricing file, no
reload goroutine, and nothing to invalidate.
**Two-tier lookup**
([middleware.go:165–183](../../../proxy/internal/middleware/builtin/cost_meter/middleware.go)):
1. **Per-provider-record** — the operator's stored price for the route that
actually served the request, keyed by the `llm.resolved_provider_id` that
`llm_router` stamped on the allow path, then by normalized model id. Entries
arrive fully materialized (management folds default cache rates in at synth
time), so there is no merging here. Absent metadata — no router in the chain
— skips this tier.
2. **Surface defaults** — the catalog-derived table keyed by `llm.provider`
(`openai`/`anthropic`/`bedrock`). This is also what prices gateway-style
providers, which enumerate no models and therefore get no per-record entry.
**Backward compatibility:** a config with no `pricing` block means management
predates config-delivered pricing. The factory logs one warning at build time
and the instance records `cost.skipped=unknown_model` ($0) for every request
rather than falling back to a stale built-in price list
([factory.go:55–60](../../../proxy/internal/middleware/builtin/cost_meter/factory.go)).
**Key invariant:** the provider-shape switch lives in `pricing.EntryCosts`
(sibling doc) and is selected by the **surface**, not by which tier the entry
came from — `cost_meter` stays provider-agnostic, and a per-record override on
an Anthropic route still bills its cache buckets additively.
### llm_limit_record
@@ -246,12 +280,14 @@ no mocks. Tests: `TestChain_AllowPath_StampsAttributionAndRecordsCounter`
| `llm_identity_inject` | `{providers: [{provider_id, header_pair?|json_metadata?, extra_headers?}]}` |
| `llm_guardrail` | `{provider_allowlists: {providerID: []string}, prompt_capture: {enabled, redact_pii}}` — allowlist keyed by resolved provider id; a provider absent from the map is unrestricted (fail-closed backstop; authoritative per-policy/group check is management's `CheckLLMPolicyLimits`) |
| `llm_response_parser` | `{redact_pii?, capture_completion?: *bool}` |
| `cost_meter` | `{pricing_path?}` (basename inside data-dir; defaults `pricing.yaml`) |
| `cost_meter` | `{pricing: {defaults: {surface: {model: rates}}, providers: {providerRecordID: {model: rates}}}}` — rates are `{input_per_1k, output_per_1k, cached_input_per_1k?, cache_read_per_1k?, cache_creation_per_1k?}`. A missing `pricing` key means "management predates config-delivered pricing": every request records `cost.skipped=unknown_model` |
| `llm_limit_record` | `{}` — same pattern as `llm_limit_check` |
All factories accept empty / null / `{}` / whitespace as zero-value config;
only structurally invalid JSON is rejected so misconfig surfaces at chain
build time.
build time. `cost_meter` adds a semantic check on top of that: a `pricing`
block carrying a negative or non-finite rate fails the build too, rather than
mispricing live traffic.
## Invariants
@@ -320,10 +356,11 @@ non-object `metadata` field
— header path still attributes, but body-level tag-budget enforcement
doesn't run for that request.
**Concurrency.** `cost_meter` shares a `pricing.Loader` via
`atomic.Pointer[Table]`; readers always see a consistent table. Every
middleware is a stateless value receiver. Integration test uses real bufconn
gRPC — race detector is the meaningful bar.
**Concurrency.** `cost_meter`'s two pricing tables are built once from the
middleware config and never mutated, so the lookup path needs no lock or atomic
swap — a price change replaces the whole instance. Every middleware is
otherwise a stateless value receiver. Integration test uses real bufconn gRPC —
race detector is the meaningful bar.
**Perf.** Hot path is `lookupKV` linear scan over <10 KVs; `cost_meter.Cost`
is O(1); SSE accumulation is single-pass. No map allocation per call.
@@ -349,13 +386,13 @@ counter accuracy.
| `llm_guardrail/redact_test.go` | 15 | Email, SSN, phone (E.164 + NA), bearer, IPv4; fixture-driven |
| `llm_response_parser/middleware_test.go` | 18 | Buffered OAI+Anthro, capture-pointer, redact, truncation |
| `llm_response_parser/streaming_test.go` | 7 | OAI usage frame, Anthro message_delta, truncated body best-effort |
| `cost_meter/middleware_test.go` | 17 | Each skip reason, provider-shape, pricing loader integration |
| `cost_meter/middleware_test.go` | 22 | Each skip reason, provider-shape formulas, config-delivered defaults, per-record-beats-defaults + miss-falls-back, per-record uses surface formula, nil-pricing skips everything, invalid-rate rejection |
| `llm_limit_record/middleware_test.go` | 7 | Skip-on-no-signal, skip-on-missing-attribution, RPC failure swallowed |
## Cross-references
- Sibling: [32-proxy-llm-parsers.md](./32-proxy-llm-parsers.md) — SDK adapters
+ SSE framer + pricing loader.
+ SSE framer + pricing table and cost formula.
- Path-routed providers (Vertex AI + Bedrock), `keyfile::` credential, GCP
token minting, `/bedrock` prefix:
[50-path-routed-providers.md](./50-path-routed-providers.md).