dispatcher: retire Tier-4 legacy resolve_slot + add public SlotManager.state()

[thinmintdev]

Closes #624

Summary

• Delete dispatcher/proxy.py and the legacy Tier-4 resolution block from Dispatcher.dispatch(). Tiers 1-3 (registry → passthrough → cold-cache prefetch) now raise NoRouteFound directly when all miss. Image-gen and embed models must have explicit registry bindings (the seed haloai_models.json already has them).
• Add SlotManager.state(name) -> SlotState as a public method; switch both Dispatcher call sites off the private _current_state() leak (router.py:669,704).
• Document the two orthogonal routing axes in ARCHITECTURE.md: Dispatcher = model-id→URL transport; route_for_request = capability→slot selection. Clarify that omni_router/route_for_request are untouched and load-bearing.
• Update all SlotManager stubs in tests to expose .state() matching the new public API.

Files changed

File	Change
src/hal0/dispatcher/proxy.py	Deleted — 132 lines of legacy heuristics
src/hal0/dispatcher/router.py	Remove Tier-4 block + import; update docstring; switch _current_state → state at both call sites
src/hal0/slots/manager.py	Add public state() method (delegates to _current_state)
ARCHITECTURE.md	Two-axes routing note; fix stale MoonshineProvider/KokoroProvider refs
tests/dispatcher/test_image_routing.py	Deleted — tested resolve_slot directly, now gone
tests/dispatcher/test_router.py	Rewrite 3 legacy-fallback tests → NoRouteFound assertions; add state() to _FakeSlotManager
tests/dispatcher/test_serving_integration.py	Add state() to _RecordingSlotManager
tests/dispatcher/test_composite_dispatch.py	Add state() to _OfflineSlotManager
tests/slots/test_manager.py	Add 3 targeted tests for SlotManager.state()
tests/api/test_v1_chat_slot_alias.py	Remove test that called the now-deleted resolve_slot

Test results

tests/dispatcher/ + tests/slots/ → 233 passed, 0 failed
tests/capabilities/             → 34 passed

Rebase note

This branch is independent of #647 (voice provider retirement) in code — both touch ARCHITECTURE.md, so a rebase conflict will land only there if #647 merges first. No dispatcher or manager.py overlap between the two branches.

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[thinmintdev]

REVIEWER VERDICT: APPROVE — conditional on green CI (python checks pending; the rewritten dispatcher/integration tests are what validate this — certify on green). Sharp correctness read below; this is a clean Tier-1 refactor.

SPEC (#624): Deletes dispatcher/proxy.py (Tier-4 resolve_slot + LegacyResolutionFailed); adds public SlotManager.state(); 3-tier docstring rewrite; ARCHITECTURE two-axes note (transport vs capability). The proxy.py "do not delete until post-v0.2" caveat is now satisfied (v0.3 shipped; #624 sanctions it).

(a) No live importers — VERIFIED. Zero references to dispatcher.proxy/resolve_slot/LegacyResolutionFailed in src/ except the explanatory comment at router.py:548. proxy.py fully deleted, import removed from router.py.

(b) NoRouteFound preserves behavior — no silent route-drop. VERIFIED, and it is STRICTLY LOUDER than before. Old Tier-4 rule-7 silently routed any unmatched model → primary (a silent misroute: unknown/embed/image requests got misdelivered to the chat slot). New code raises NoRouteFound when Tiers 1-3 miss. So the deleted path WAS the silent drop; removing it eliminates the misroute. Two load-bearing confirmations:

• Capability axis intact: omni_router/route_for_request untouched by this PR (only documented); live wiring in api/__init__.py:1086-1115 unchanged.
• Image-gen unaffected: /v1/images/generations (v1.py:995) calls get_provider("comfyui").infer() directly — it does NOT pass through Dispatcher.dispatch() tier resolution, so the deleted /images/* path-pins were redundant for the live flow. No image regression.
• New operator-facing contract (note for merge-gate): bare-slot-name + path-pin addressing is gone — image/embed models must have explicit registry bindings. The rewritten test_router.py asserts exactly this (/embeddings no-binding → NoRouteFound). The integration tests (test_serving_integration, test_composite_dispatch) confirm the runtime binding path — hence the on-green condition.

(c) SlotManager.state() delegation + coverage — VERIFIED. state() is a correct one-line delegate to _current_state (manager.py:317). Dispatcher now calls .state() EXCLUSIVELY (router.py:630, 665); every remaining _current_state caller is internal to manager.py — decoupling is complete. 3 new tests: offline-unknown, post-transition, agrees-with-private.

(d) Rewritten legacy-fallback tests assert correct new behavior — VERIFIED. The 3 router tests flip from resolution_path == "legacy_slot:*" to pytest.raises(NoRouteFound) + dispatch.no_route; the __cause__ is LegacyResolutionFailed assertion is removed; the legacy-only test_image_routing.py + the proxy non-regression test in test_v1_chat_slot_alias.py are deleted. Mock SlotManagers across 3 test files gained state() alongside _current_state. Coherent.

Merge-ready on green. ARCHITECTURE.md overlaps #647 — see merge-order flag in report.

[thinmintdev]

Converted to draft — blocked: the audit premise (#624 “Tier-4 is legacy”) does not survive the test suite.

Removing Tier-4 resolve_slot turns audio/image happy-paths red: tests/api/test_v1_audio.py + test_v1_images.py now return dispatch.no_route for moonshine-small-streaming-en / sdxl-turbo (main was green). That proves Tier-4 was the capability-model→slot resolver for audio/image dispatch — load-bearing, not legacy.

Retiring it requires migrating that resolution into tiers 1–3 first (a routing feature), not deleting it. The happy-path assertions are the spec and must stay 200 — do not weaken them. Holding for a maintainer decision on the migration path.